Happy Saturday, everyone! Today is the first official instalment of my new Goodreads Bookshelf series! Inspired by Bella @ All Things Annabelle, every other week, I’ll be going through the different shelves I have on Goodreads, explaining what they mean, and some of the books on there. Today I’m going over my owned TBR (to be read) shelf!
This shelf is a combination of books I’ve received as gifts, books others in my family have received as gifts, and books that my family has bought that I also want to read.
Physical books
Gifted to me
- Open Heart, Open Mind by Clara Hughes
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morries
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Gifted to other family members
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
- The Shoe on the Roof by Will Ferguson
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Hum if you Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- Turtles all the way Down by John Green
Books my family owns that we new bought at some point
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (this book has stared at me from our bookshelves literally for as long as I can remember)
- Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
- More Than This by Patrick Ness
- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
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Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Books I’ve bought used
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
E-books
That I bought
- The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
The someone else bought
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
- And the Ocean was Our Sky by Patrick Ness
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
So those are the books that I own that are on my TBR shelf! Have you read any of these? Which should I read first? What books on your TBR do you own? Let me know!
Thanks for reading! xx
Great post Ally!!! I hope you read Adichie soon. I love her so much :)))
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Thanks, Emer! I’ve read Americanah by Adichie and really enjoyed it!
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I can highly recommend Atonement and Station Eleven. I use Goodreads mainly for books that I own – I think there may be a wishlist shelf but I rarely look at it
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Oooh good to know! I’m excited for both of those.
That’s the smart way to use Goodreads lol
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Please please read Station Eleven ASAP! It’s one of my all time favourite books 🙂
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I really want to soon, I’ve heard so many good things!
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I have an owned TBR shelf too, but mine is only books that I personally own. If I were to include Mr. Wyrm’s books too, my shelf would explode.
I’ve read (listened to) both Becoming and Born a Crime, and both were fantastic.
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LOL that’s fair!
I’ve heard really good things about the Born a Crime audiobook! I heard Trevor Noah talking about it on the radio, so I feel like him doing the audiobook would be amazing
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Listening to Born a Crime is the way to go if you can, I feel. In some parts of it, Trevor talks about how he learned different languages as a survival technique, and to hear him actually speak the languages he’s talking about was a really nice addition to the story he was telling.
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