I have a bit of a problem: I love books. I mean obviously. But the problem is also that the rest of my family loves books too, so we have a ton of books. And we have similar tastes, so there’s a ton of books I want to read that aren’t even mine. So I recently I went through our shelves and took just the ones I want to read immediately. There are so many more that I want to read eventually (my mom has most of Margaret Attwood’s books, and we have some classics I want to read) but it was already overwhelming.
So these are mainly the books I got for Christmas or received recently.
Format
Hardbacks
- The Shoe on the Roof by Will Ferguson
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- Open Heart, Open Mind by Clara Hughes
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- X by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
Paperbacks
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The White Masai by Corinne Hoffman
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- The Measure of my Powers by Jackie Kai Ellis
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Source
Gifts
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake
- Open Heart, Open Mind by Clara Hughes
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
- The White Masai by Corinne Hoffman
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Bought
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- X by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
- Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
- Night by Elie Wiesel
Sent from Publisher
- The Measure of My Powers by Jackie Kai Ellis
From our shelves
- The Shoe on the Roof by Will Ferguson
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
That’s 23 books! I’m thinking some will be fairly easy to get through. I have about 150 pages left in American Gods, and I’m about 10% of the way through 1Q84 (but the book is 1157 pages long so that’s not really saying much), and I’ve read the first bit of the Measure of My Powers (which is probably done by the time this post is going up. Update: at the time of posting this, I’ve read The Measure of My Powers AND Salt to the Sea!). So we’ll see how much reading I get done this summer!
Also there were some lovely aesthetics happening, so please enjoy these pictures of my colour-coded books.
Which of these should I read first? Let me know!
Wow that’s huge !!!!!
Why don’t you try Moxie..?? It’s on my TBR too and I’m excited to read it soon…
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I’m hoping to get to Moxie soon! I’ve heard such good things about it 🙂
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Me too… and I also met the author at the Novateen book festival… so it’s even more exciting to read 😊😊
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Of your list, I’ve only read Ready Player One, so I’m not a great judge of what you should read next. However, I will say that I found Ready Player One to be a very quick read, since it was more fun than substance. It read (to me) like a movie instead of a book.
It sounds like you’ve got a lot of fun reading ahead of you, though, and I completely feel your pain. I was looking at my bookshelves the other day and noting that I have many more TBR books sitting there, waiting, than I thought I did. O.O Not sure how that happens…
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I’m super excited! I’ve heard so many good things about all the books, so hopefully I enjoy them!
I totally get that! I went through our shelves and there were so many books I’d forgotten about
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I hope you enjoy them!
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Wow a lot of these are so amazing and you have loads to look forward to! I really enjoyed Artemis and Ready Player One! And Salt to the Sea, Strange the Dreamer and Homegoing were amazing!!
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I just recently finished Salt to the Sea and it was amazing!! And I’ve read the first two chapters of Strange the Dreamer, and I’ve been really enjoying it so far!
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Ah fantastic!! That’s great!!
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Don’t feel bad, I recently sorted my collection into TBR ASAP and just general TBR. My TBR ASAP book pile is an entire 5-shelf bookcase.
LOL!
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Ahahaha I guess you have a lot of reading ahead of you!
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Hahaha yep
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