If you were ever to find yourself in a situation in which you were obliged to describe me in one word, your answer should come with ease:
Extra.
I have 135 books on my to-read shelf, and I own 92 of them. This means, in other words, that I am “f*cking awesome” and “extremely organized” and “definitely very much in control of my life.”
This should also mean that I don’t really need to purge my shelves that much. I could feasibly read those 134 books in this year alone. BUT SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN ON MY SHELVES FOR A BAJILLION YEARS AND I’M SICK OF IT OKAY.
Also I love reading other people’s Down the TBR Holes and I must take everything I appreciate and/or enjoy for myself. Duh.
So let’s do this. The Down the TBR Hole to RULE THEM ALL.
From oldest book still on my shelves to newest. With, like, author and date added and whether I own it and stuff.
IT’LL BE FUN OKAY. JUST HAVE FUN. PLEASE. God.
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Date added: March 19, 2015 / Owned
Okay. Dismal start, I’ll admit. But I have a sweet ass vintage edition of this and I’m sure as sh*t not unhauling that little number.
KEEP
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Date added: March 20, 2015 / Owned
Well this is just a book I have to read at some point. No use in lying to myself
KEEP
3. Emma by Jane Austen
Date added: March 20, 2015 / Owned
WHAT WAS I UP TO IN MID-TO-LATE MARCH OF 2015? Jesus. Anyway I’m saving this to be my last Austen book. So when I finish Mansfield Park and read Love and Freindship [sic]…I’m on it boi.
KEEP
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4. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Date added: July 1, 2015 / Owned
I’m actually currently reading this one! Look at me! Finally something to say that isn’t an empty promise!
KEEP
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Date added: July 1, 2015 / Owned
Okay. This is a beautiful Penguin Clothbound edition. Seriously. Google Image that sh*t. I cannot not own this book.
KEEP
6. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Date added: July 1, 2015 / Owned
AGAIN. WHAT’S WITH JULY 1. I’m like halfway through this book and have been for six months.
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7. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Date added: December 22, 2015 / Owned
See #1.
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8-9. Silver Shadows and The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines, 5-6) by Richelle Mead
Date added: February 22, 2016 / Owned
I do not remember the first three books of this series, the 4th isn’t even on my Goodreads shelves, and I would have to do a series reread in order to read this books. In a word: NOPE.
REMOVE
10. A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
Date added: May 2, 2016 / Owned
I am actually so mad about the cover redesign of this series that I don’t know if I should even try??? I remember loving An Ember in the Ashes…when I read it three years ago. Kinda not worth it. Yell at me in the comments if violently opposed, but…
REMOVE
11. Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels by Janet Todd
Date added: July 12, 2016 / Owned
SAVING FOR JANE AUSTEN CANON COMPLETION.
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12. Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
Date added: August 4, 2016 / Owned
I read the first fifty pages of this and HATED it. Again, yell at me in the comments if you disagree, buuuuuut:
REMOVE
13. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Date added: August 17, 2016 / Owned
I feel like I would like this? I just never pick it up.
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14. The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
Date added: September 20, 2016 / Owned
Beautiful edition + a classic + shortish.
KEEP
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15. Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
Date added: October 27, 2016 / Owned
I went through a mini Kinsella phase a while back. But that’s over now. SORRY.
REMOVE
16. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Date added: November 3, 2016 / Not owned
I wanted to read this because I liked the show for a bit (I know! Watching the adaptation before reading the book??? Someone just assassinate me for bringing shame on the name of Bookworm), but the Goodreads rating is low. And I don’t even like the show anymore.
REMOVE
17. The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
Date added: November 8, 2016 / Owned
Jojo and I have…a rocky relationship. (Not actually, I met her and she’s the sweetest coolest best person alive, probably. But Me Before You reallyyyy should have been a standalone.) But I’m not really into amnesia things OR half historical fiction/half modern day stuff, so.
REMOVE
18. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Date added: November 8, 2016 / Owned
I will read this eventually. I WILL.
KEEP
19-21. Tortilla Flat, The Moon is Down, & Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Date added: November 8, 2016 / Owned
I love John Steinbeck. This sh*t will happen eventually.
KEEP
22-29. Collected works of Oscar Wilde
Date added: November 8, 2016 / Owned
Somebody went to a used book sale on November 8, 2016. Good lord.
I’ve never read Oscar Wilde! Some of these sound coolio, but not all. Not all at all.
KEEP 4 / REMOVE 4
30. Where the Water Rages by Jacquelyn Sill
Date added: December 17, 2016 / Owned
I won this in a Goodreads giveaway!! I will never let it escape me without being read.
KEEP
31. The Wide Awake Princess by E.D. Baker
Date added: December 19, 2016 / Owned
I tried reading this. I really did.
REMOVE
32. Once and for All by Sarah Dessen
Date added: December 21, 2016 / Owned
I will get to this eventually. I PROMISE I will. But I’ve convinced myself doing a reread of every book Sarah Dessen has ever written before I do is a reasonable thing.
KEEP
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33. Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
Date added: December 21, 2016 / Owned
I now present: my thought process as it comes to Always and Forever Lara Jean.
Ooh how exciting!!! Another To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before book!!!!! (instant preorder)
[months later]
Oh god. It’s here. I forgot. Sh*t. It’s fine I’ll just start my series reread now!!!!
Oh, f*ck. Oh god. That was really bad. Oh, wow, the first book of this series is really, really bad.
[attempts to pick up the second book]
[fails]
[gives up]
[but will try again someday, hopefully, probably]
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34. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Date added: December 27, 2016 / Not owned
I would never ever ever, in a million years, remove this book from my shelves.
KEEP
35. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Screenplay) by JK Rowling
Date added: January 1, 2017 / Owned
I HATE GOODREADS. WHY IS IT SO GLITCHY. I READ THIS BOOK. REVIEWED IT, EVEN. SCREAMED AT JK ROWLING. I’VE DONE EVERYTHING.
REMOVE
because I READ IT
36. Starflight by Melissa Landers
Date added: January 2, 2017 / Owned
I started this and it seems boring, but it’s one of the few books I have in my apartment (as opposed to my home). Beggars can’t be choosers? Is that something?
KEEP
37. The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
Date added: January 6, 2017 / Owned
Another started-this-and-wasn’t-grabbed-but-one-of-the-few-books-I-have-with-me type situation.
KEEP
38. There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
Date added: January 14, 2017 / Not owned
This has a seriously, critically low GR rating and Stephanie Perkins has disappointed me many times…but I’m still going to read it.
Why am I even surprised when I dislike books.
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39. The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart
Date added: January 14, 2017 / Owned
I WILL READ ANY MIDDLE GRADE ADVENTURE STORY WRITTEN BY THIS MAN.
KEEP
40. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli
Date added: January 15, 2017 / Owned (kinda)
I mean. Of course I’m going to read this.
KEEP
41-42. The Creature Vault & The Character Vault (Harry Potter) by Jody Revenson
Date added: January 20, 2017 / Owned
Do I care enough about Harry Potter to read these? Doubtful. But we’ll see??
KEEP
43. The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Date added: February 25, 2017 / Owned
Another Goodreads giveaway, boi.
KEEP
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44. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Date added: February 25, 2017 / Owned
Again, like. I have to read this at some point in my life. No point removing it just to add t back later my friend.
KEEP
45. Harry Potter: The Prequel by J.K. Rowling
Date added: February 25, 2017 / Not owned
I truly, fundamentally do not care about this.
REMOVE
46. A Conjuring of Light by VE Schwab
Date added: March 2, 2017 / Owned
I am going to read this, and I am going to hate it.
KEEP
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47. Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Date added: March 5, 2017 / Owned
I think this will be good???
KEEP
48. Fall Boys & Dizzy in Paradise by Jandy Nelson
Date added: March 23, 2017 / Not owned (or released)
There is zero information on this book but IWANTITMORETHANANYTHINGPLEASEGIVEMEIT.
KEEP
49. Paris for One & Other Stories by Jojo Moyes
Date added: March 24, 2017 / Owned
See #17, and also that DISMAL Goodreads rating. Sorry Jojo!!!
REMOVE
50. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Date added: March 25, 2017 / Owned
I think I’m, like. A third of the way through this? Technically speaking. REMAINING TWO THIRDS, YOU AND I WILL MEET SOMEDAY.
KEEP
51. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Date added: April 12, 2017 / Not owned
Good ol’ Neil hasn’t disappointed me yet! Unless you count American Gods. And like. Why wouldn’t you.
KEEP
52. Love & Freindship by Jane Austen
Date added: April 12, 2017 / Owned
This is, truly, a duh.
KEEP
53. The Disenchantments by Nina Lacour
Date added: May 7, 2017 / Owned
Why did I ever think this would be something I could enjoy.
REMOVE
54. Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Date added: May 7, 2017 / Owned
This is by my almost favorite author, and as low as the rating is and as many pages as it has and as boring as it sounds, I have faith I will read it someday.
KEEP
55. The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson
Date added: May 7, 2017 / Owned
This book is pretty long, pretty low rated, and only interesting to me because of potential The Office inside info. I will probably read The Office bits and then fully, 100% stop caring.
REMOVE
56. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Date added: May 10, 2017 / Owned
This will probably be boring, but my relationship with true crime is that I LOVE IT AND WILL READ IT HOWEVER POSSIBLE.
KEEP
57. Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
Date added: May 30, 2017 / Not owned
This is a contemporary about famous people and nerds and it’s diverse as all get out, so it’s really more of a question of why I haven’t read this yet.
KEEP
58. Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
Date added: May 20, 2017 / Not owned
HAVE YOU SEEN EMMA MILLS’ COVERS. HAVE YOU READ HER BOOKS. God I am hype to read this one.
KEEP
59-60. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street & The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
Date added: June 6, 2017 / Owned
Bloomsbury (best publisher in the world) sent me these and the covers are f*cking BEAUTIFUL DUDE. In my header image and everything.
KEEP
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61. Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney C. Stevens
Date added: June 15, 2017 / Not owned
Synopsis is v love-triangle-y and not like other girls-y and dramatic, so…the sexual fluidity rep would’ve been cool but some trusted reviewers gave this a smooth “non, merci.”
REMOVE
62. Roar by Cora Carmack
Date added: June 15, 2017 / Owned
I just bought this!!! Good reviews!!! Yay!!!
KEEP
63. The Trial by Franz Kafka
Date added: June 21, 2017 / Owned
I was reading this and things were fine and dandy and peachy keen and then I was in a slump and it all came crashing down. Someday we will be reunited.
KEEP
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64. On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Date added: June 25, 2017 / Not owned
May, don’t say I’ve never done anything for you.
KEEP
65. A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland
Date added: June 26, 2017 / Not owned
I’m 25% of the way through a library ebook of this and I do not like it but I may as well push through at this point no???
KEEP
66. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Date added: June 28, 2017 / Not owned
I think someone recommended this to me, but I just…I’m not that interested.
REMOVE
67. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Date added: July 5, 2017 / Owned
Yet another one I’ve started and stopped. What is wrong with me. I WILL FINISH ALL THESE BOOKS SOMEDAY.
KEEP
68. Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
Date added: July 5, 2017 / Not owned
This seems p good…but not let’s-pay-money-for-this good.
REMOVE
69. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Date added: July 10, 2017 / Not owned
Rankin’ pretty low on the interest scale. Another no-thanks-will-not-exchange-money-for-this rating.
REMOVE
70. 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Date added: July 11, 2017 / Owned
This is only so recently added because I removed it and added it back. Thinking “removing” was the right answer.
REMOVE
71. Love May Fail by Matthew Quick
Date added: July 11, 2017 / Owned
Another added-then removed-then re-added book. I have a signed (personalized!) copy of this, but unfortunately that doesn’t change the low rating or uninteresting synopsis.
REMOVE
72. Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Date added: July 13, 2017 / Not owned
It’s Marissa Meyer, you guys. I have to.
KEEP
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73. Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Date added: July 15, 2017 / Not owned (or released)
If I had to guess, I’d say I’ll excitedly buy this the week of release and then not read it for four months.
Exciting!
KEEP
74. 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
Date added: July 19, 2017 / Not owned (or released)
Sally Thorne, author of American classic The Hating Game, just changed the title, removed the synopsis, and pushed back the release date of this book.
But she could punch me in the face and I’d still buy it.
KEEP
75. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Date added: July 24, 2017 / Owned
Yet another book I started but didn’t finish. However, this one is because I didn’t LIIIIIIKE IT.
REMOVE
76. The Best of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl (duh)
Date added: July 24, 2017 / Owned
I love this man.
KEEP
77-78. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami and In the Woods by Tana French
Date added: July 24, 2017 / Owned
Two books I thought I should read, but guess what? I DON’T WANNA.
REMOVE
79. True Colors by Kristin Hannah
Date added: July 24, 2017 / Owned
My GRANDMOTHER GAVE ME THIS and Kristin Hannah was the sh*t in middle school. (Yes, I read chick lit about widows and mourning mothers in middle school. Why, what were you reading?)
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80. Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by a lot of people
Date added: August 4, 2017 / Owned
A lovely person on Goodreads recommended this to me because there’s an Alice story in it. I started it and was thoroughly spooked, which is EXACTLY WHAT I WANT FROM A HORROR ANTHOLOGY.
KEEP
81. We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
Date added: August 4, 2017 / Owned
I own this, and it’s diverse YA sci-fi magical-realism-y, so seems like a safe bet I’ll read it eventually.
KEEP
82. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Date added: August 10, 2017 / Not owned
I WILL FORCE MYSELF TO READ THIS. I WILL. Only to tear it apart.
Shoutout to this review of a book I’ve never even touched being my third most liked on Goodreads.
KEEP
83. The Crowns of Croswald by D.E. Night
Date added: August 13. 2017 / Owned
The author sent me the nicest f*cking book box for this book!!! I’m hype as hell to read it because look how pretty!!!!
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84. Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Date added: August 18, 2017 / Owned
I think I’m obligated by law to read this book.
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85. The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket
Date added: August 31, 2017 / Owned
OF COURSE I AM GOING TO READ THIS BOOK. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS BOOK SCREAMS “read me, emma.” (I guess not “scream,” since I typed that in all lowercase.)
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86. A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall
Date added: August 31, 2017 / Owned
Bloomsbury sent me this and it’s so f*ckin pretty but also I read a third of it and I do not like it one bit.
But…a third.
KEEP
87. King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
Date added: September 26, 2017 / Not owned (or released)
I literally hate the Grisha books but I am excited as hell for this.
KEEP
88. The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
Date added: October 12, 2017 / Owned
I GOT THIS FOR CHRISTMAS. IT IS BEAUTIFUL. I WILL READ IT I WILLLLL.
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89. Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Date added: October 12, 2017 / Owned
Look at all this Leigh Bardugo in here!!!! Keeping ALL OF IT.
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90. A Thousand Perfect Notes by C.G. Drews
Date added: October 22, 2017 / Not owned (or released)
Cait @ Paper Fury is publishing a book and I am going to read the HELL out of it.
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91. Artemis by Andy Weir
Date added: November 10, 2017 / Not owned
I was super excited to read this for a bit because, y’know, The Martian…but honestly the synopsis just doesn’t sound that interesting.
REMOVE
92. Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
Date added: November 17, 2017 / Owned
See #11, baby.
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93-96. Bound to You, Suitors & Sabotage, The Beloved Wild, & In Search of Us
Date added: November 23, 2017 / Owned
Thank you Fierce and Swoon Reads!!!
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97-98. You Don’t Know My Name & You Won’t Know I’m Gone by Kristen Orlando
Date added: November 23, 2017 / Owned
Won the first in a giveaway and received the second from Fierce Reads. WILL EVENTUALLY READ BOTH.
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99-102. Leave Me Alone with the Recipes, Piecing Me Together, A World without “Whom”, & Here is Real Magic
Date added: November 23, 2017 / Owned
Thank you Bloomsbury!!!
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103. Walt’s People, Volume 7 by Didier Ghez
Date added: November 23, 2017 / Owned
Got this to read a single interview from it and that is all.
REMOVE
104. Love, Life, and the List by Kasie West
Date added: November 28, 2017 / Not owned
I like contemporaries. I like bucket lists. This…is me.
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105. Lumberjanes, Volume 1 by Noelle Stevenson
Date added: November 30, 2017 / Not owned
I love Nimona.
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106. Stalking Jack the Ripper
Date added: November 30, 2017 / Not owned
Everybody and their mother loves this book???
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107. All of This is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor
Date added: November 30, 2017 / Not owned (or released)
I don’t remember why I added this.
REMOVE
108. Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton Cohen
Date added: December 4, 2017 / Not owned
I love and am interested in the life of Lewis Carroll, but this baby clocks in at a dry 612 pages and that just…does not seem feasible.
REMOVE
109. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Date added: December 6, 2017 / Not owned
I WILL read this. I will I will I will. (This post is like 99% empty promises that I’m making reallyyyy energetically.)
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110. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
Date added: December 7, 2017 / Not owned
I really do not remember adding this.
REMOVE
111. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Date added: December 22, 2017 / Not owned
Currently reading a library ebook of this rn baby!!!
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112. Brokenly Live On by Lauren Sobka
Date added: December 22, 2017 / Owned
Giveaway win baby!!! Also GORGEOUS cover.
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113. 13 Little Blue Envelopes (lol two 13s) by Maureen Johnson
Date added: December 22, 2017 / Owned
I know this has a low-ass average rating but I LOVE TRAVEL BOOKS. I’M DUMB I’M SORRY.
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114. The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket
Date added: December 22, 2017 / Owned
HOW HAVE I NOT READ THIS ALREADY. I will fix that problem as soon as I finish my current Series of Unfortunate Events reread.
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115. Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
Date added: December 22, 2017 / Owned
THREE CHEERS FOR DIVERSE CONTEMPORARIES.
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116. The Radius of Us by Marie Marquadt
Date added: December 22, 2017 / Owned
Started this. Wasn’t a fan.
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117. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
Date added: December 22, 2017 / Owned
I’m like a third of the way through it and I don’t like it AT ALL but…obviously I’m going to power through because I hate myself.
KEEP
118. The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid by Colin Meloy
Date added: December 12, 2017 / Owned
Thanks Harper Collins Children’s!!! (THIS IS ABOUT A PICKPOCKETING CHILD GANG.)
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119. One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
Date added: December 30, 2017 / Not owned
I am one of 8 people in the mapped universe who liked Three Dark Crowns. So. This will go down for sure.
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120. Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon
Date added: December 30, 2017 / Not owned
I added this on a whim and it’s just…it’s just probably not going to happen. I hate spending money!!!!!
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121. Almost Midnight by Rainbow Rowell
Date added: December 30, 2017 / Not owned
I just realized this is only a collection of two stories I’ve read before? lol nahh.
REMOVE
122. Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
Date added: December 30, 2017
Love & Gelato was fine! Yay travel. Yay Ireland. Whatever.
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123. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable Path Adventure by Ryan North
Date added: January 3, 2018 / Owned
This book seems fun as hell!!!
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124. Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro & Emily Henry
Date added: January 4, 2018 / Not owned (or released)
I will read anything that Emily Henry writes e v e r.
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125. A World without Princes by Soman Chainani
Date added: January 5, 2018 / Not owned
A School for Good and Evil…was…a book. And I guess I’m going to read the sequel?
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126. The Rending and the Nest by Kaethe Schwehn
Date added: January 6, 2018 / Owned
Thanks Bloomsbury!!!
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127. Save the Date by Morgan Matson
Date added: January 8, 2018 / Not owned (or released)
I will read literally anything Queen Morgan deigns to publish.
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128. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
Date added: January 9, 2018 / Not owned
THIS BOOK SOUNDS SO GOOD. Also I am in such a thriller mood right now??
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129. Gone Rogue (Wires and Nerve, Vol. 2) by Marissa Meyer
Date added: January 9, 2018 / Not owned (or released)
Wires and Nerve was bad and also the quickest read of all time?? Uh…
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130. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Date added: January 9, 2018 / Not owned (or released)
Some real negative reviews from some real trusted sources…BUT IT’S ABOUT ALICE.
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131. The Stranger by Albert Camus
Date added: January 11, 2018 / Owned
Another read-in-a-lifetime-may-as-well type book.
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132. Providence by Caroline Kepnes
Date added: January 14, 2018 / Not owned (or released)
YOU IS THE BEST EVER GIVE ME EVERYTHING BY CAROLINE KEPNES EVEN THOUGH HIDDEN BODIES WAS MEDIOCRE TO BAD.
KEEP
133. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Date added: January 15, 2018 / Not owned
I think this auto-added because I entered a giveaway for it…?
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134. As I Am by Patricia Neal
Date added: January 17, 2018 / Not owned
Impulse-added this after reading a sh*t ton of articles on Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl and their children and grandchildren. Fascinating stuff, but…
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I removed, like. 33 of these or something!
Rad.
emma reads 
Sounds like you got rid of a hefty amount. The Wife Between Us is soooo good. I got it from a GR giveaway.
I had a bunch of books I was going to comment on but then I forgot as I scrolled down. lol. But this was hella fun to read.
What will you do with the books that you got rid of on your tbr that you own?
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i sell books i unhaul on amazon during the summer, but i’m also contemplating a giveaway at the beginning of march!!
i am so excited to read the wife between us it sounds AMAZING ty!
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I was just curious. lol. Is Amazon easy to sell on?
I really hope you like it! It was such a ride for me. I loved every minute of it.
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it’s easyish to sell on amazon but you can lose money (#learned by experience) (#i am the worst). so i can’t sell every book i unhaul b/c i’d pay to do that, but i can make a bit o’ cash on some!
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Oh nice! I’ll have to try that sometime with some stuff.
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yeah yeah yeah!!!
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you are so fucking extra. and you might want to read reviews a bit closer because i bet $3000 you hate and tear apart Roar
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FUUUUUUUCK.
shit goddamn.
this is what i get for seeing like 5 good reviews close to the release date and just never questioning.
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read the top one star review it’s an on fire garbage can
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i’m frightened
but i will
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verdict 👀👀
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wait it’s the top one star (the Aentee review)?
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I think it’s still the top one star? but yes it’s their review
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wonderful i only read the beginning of it b/c it says the rest has spoilers but now i am primed for Hell™
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JUST DO NOT READ IT OH MY GOD
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I’M TOO STUBBORN IT’S ONE OF THE ONLY PHYSICAL BOOKS I HAVE IN MY APARTMENT
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trade it in!!!!!!!!!
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an impossible feat
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I do not like this comment this is a bad comment
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but i mean…you still LIKE it actually
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i like this
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that’s like my #1 YA pet peeve so maybe I’m just biased lol
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not a HUGE fan of alpha males and just completed a gender class so i am ready to detest any trace of toxic masculinity fuuuuuck
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bruh I literally just started a gender studies class!! solidarity
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AMAZING
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Hahaha I am extra in every way too!!!! I also bought and read The Disenchantments years ago and immediately regretted it… removing it is definitely the right choice! 🙂
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i feel like i just avoided a tragic accident phew
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wow, this is very impressive! but how long did it take you to make this post? :O
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a reallllllllyyyyy long time. i justified it by saying i was going through my tbr but…..a looooong time.
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haha i can imagine! 😶
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I am so so jealous of how pretty all your books are!
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thank you!!!! although it’s the books that are pretty, i just sit and gaze at them
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I don’t blame you, I would if I owned those! I’m lucky enough to own the same Jane Austen set as you, though 🙂
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they are so beautiful it hurts me!!!
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oh my gosh there ar so many classics!!!!!!!! I ADORE classics ❤ ❤ so I had a moment. 🙂 also, Daughter of Smoke and Bone was the worst book ever for me and I was sad because i wanted to like it. Some things are just not meant to be.
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i love classics but i almost never read them (bc i have no clue of my own interests), so that’s why there’s so many!!
ugh sorry to hear about daughter of smoke and bone 😦 i hate when that happens.
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The Sun Also Rises is my very favorite Hemingway book!! Love love love it
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YAY now i’m excited!!
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Apparently for Sally Thorne’s 99 Percent Mine it is actually a completely different book. The Comfort Zone has indefinitely been scraped. But I’m right with you, I’ll take anything I can get!
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the synopsis of The Comfort Zone didn’t sound that good to me anyway so…win/win i guess?
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She did mention that she is working on a brother’s best friend book this time.
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iiiiinteresting
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You have an amazing bookshelf! and I love it is all sorted by colors!! I love the other pictures from different libraries ❤
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thank you!!!
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Holy… This was the biggest Down the TBR post I’ve ever seen xD I respect your commitment, Emma, and congratulate you for managing to get over so many books at once on your TBR!
I have over a thousand, though, so I will not be trying this anytime soon hahaha
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thank you!!!! omg that’s a lot. at least you’ll never run out of what to read next???
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you’re so extra oh my god
let me know if you ever wanna BR something like Queens of Geek or Jellicoe (stupid May)!!! and also read Renegades with the intention to roast it!!
also I’m excited to see what you thought about DoSaB bc I had some problems with that series,,
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DAMN IT why is every book problematic
i would LOVE to buddy read any of the above oh my god. i can read Queens of Geek or Jellicoe anytime (ebooks baby) but i don’t have a copy of renegades yet
i would love to br maybe i will finally read these books then
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i’ll have to find ebook copies even tho i suck at reading those but i will do it For You and no don’t get Renegades it’s not worth your money
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i will wait for u to get a copy as long as it takes!! even if u must add yourself to a library waitlist a mile long!!
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woah! This must have taken some dedication! This is probably the most impressive down the tbr hole post I’ve ever read.
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THANK YOU if you switch out “impressive” for “extra” i’m inclined to agree ❤
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Extra it is then haha 🙂
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lolol
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IF I DIDNT LOVE YOU WITH EVERY INCH OF MY BEING BEFORE, I TOTALLY DO NOW
but if you roast jellicoe im going to be really really really sad so be careful
how did you even have the energy to make such a big post wow my queen
also im 10/10 sure that you’re going to hate roar, im only 5 chapters in but its quite….let’s just say there are lots of alpha males
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YOU’RE READING ROAR RIGHT NOW? AND IT’S REALLY BAD? oh god just kill me with fire
also i will read jellicoe and i will try not to hate it but i have learned that a) i need a physical copy and b) i need to read it in one sitting or close to it b/c i was Confused
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it’s not like im-going-to-pull-my-eyeballs-out-with-my-fingers kind of bad but its more like so-much-lost-ponential-on-alpha-males type of bad
YES, MAKE SURE ALL THE ELEMENTS ARE IN YOUR FAVOUR and yes it’ll be confusing but like 55% AND IT’LL ALL CLICK AND MAKE SENSE AND BE WOWOWOWOOW
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damn damn damn
OKAY THAT’S THE BEST THING YOU COULD HAVE EVER SAID. at some point perhaps in march and if not then then in the summer (these are times when i have access to a library) i will pick up a physical copy and it will be Amazing
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ooooh so many thoughts!
1) I tried to read Emma last year (out of a somewhat narcissistic desire to read about a name twin) and I just couldn’t get into it :///
2) I read station eleven two years ago and remember it being v strange but v good
3) a thousand splendid suns is fantastic
4) please don’t hate a conjuring of light or nevernight, my heart can’t take it
5) one of my most unpopular opinions is that daughter of smoke and bone is a boring, instalovey piece of shit
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i am definitely going to hate a conjuring of light but i will try not to hate nevernight?? jane austen is my fave ever so if i don’t like emma i’ll die
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hmmm emma was decent-ish? I really liked emma herself but all the other characters were boring and annoying
nevernight is definitely a love it or hate it kinda thing, and I think it mainly comes down to the writing style? it’s super unique so if you aren’t into it it’s prob best to dnf
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got it got it v helpful info tysm!!! will probably start nevernight soonish rather than laterish so i will keep that in mind
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good morning! amzing post and I truly admire your blog and I’ve nominated you for a Blogger Recognition Award ❤ you can check it out here: https://malanielovesfiction.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/blogger-recognition-award/
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ahhh thank you so much!!!!! i’ve done the blogger recognition unfortunately but i’ll definitely check out your post ❤ thank you!!!!
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I’m so glad you’re over the Kinsella phase!
And ohmygod HAHAHA I JUST SAW THAT YOU’VE EDITED THE “leave a comment” WITH “Pls give me attention” HAHAHAH MAN I SERIOUSLY APPRECIATE YOUR EXISTENCE
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hahahahahah THANK YOU may (foreverandeverly may) showed how to change it in one of her wonderful wordpress-tips posts and i had to take advantage
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HEYYYY ME!! I SPY ME. OMG. I’M HONOURED AND WILL FLAP AROUND A BIT NOW. (I’m totally a professional author here yes I fit in just fine with the sensible crowd.) But omg I laughed a lot reading this, you’re hilarious.😂 And like obviously A Thousand Perfect Notes is going to be the most perfect (lmao yes hit me I couldn’t resist) read of the year bUT ALSO I’m excited for ones like The Hazel Wood!! I also didn’t really like Ember in the Ashes so don’t blame you for kicking that one. Also there are so many classics here, well done.😂
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I’M SO EXCITED FOR YOUR BOOK???? the least you could do is develop the ability to control time so the wait is a little shorter plz and thanks. also only reason there are so many classics is because i haven’t read them yet 😳
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Soo many classics! I’m so jealous right now!
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so many to read!!!!!!!!! ah!!!!!!!!
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Wow! Just Wow!
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Did you know Love and Freindship was written as a satire at the age of 14 or something?
I guess they knew ol’ Jane was a genius pretty early on!
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damn that’s crazy!!!
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