My Kindle TBRs

My last post was photos of books I physically own, but have not yet read; this post is books I have downloaded for my kindle and not yet read.

In total there are 48, so I won't list them all - here are some that I am most looking forward to reading (hopefully in the near future):

A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
The fifth book (in two volumes) of the A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series. Initially I wanted to finish all of the currently-released books in this series by Christmas, as I started them last Christmas so that seemed reasonable. But now I'm waiting until I have a little more time available to get into these, because the writing is so dense that I need to set aside a good two hours at a time to really keep up with the story. Also, I think I skimmed a lot of A Feast for Crows (book 4) because I just can't possibly care about all of the characters, and a lot of my favourites weren't in it. Which I know means they'll be in A Dance with Dragons because the two books happen in parallel (strange concept, by the way), but there are just SO MANY PAGES! We'll see when I get around to this. Perhaps it'll be next week, you never know, but it'll take me at least a month to finish it!

Not a Drop to Drink, Mindy McGinnis

I think I bought this because it was a kindle daily deal not too long ago, and it looks interesting. The main character lives by a pond, which - I believe - is one of very few sources of fresh water left. Other people want her water, and so she has to protect it at all costs. From what I've heard, it's a well-written, exciting debut novel and I'm excited to get into it.

 

 

Just One Day, Gayle Forman

I read If I Stay and Where She Went, and loved them. So I figured I should read some of Gayle's other work, too. Just One Day was another kindle daily deal, I think so I couldn't pass it up.

The Selection, The Elite, The One, Kiera Cass

I bought the entire series (the first two were on offer) so that I could marathon it, but haven't got around to it yet. I've heard great things though so I am looking forward to it.

Solitaire, Alice Oseman

A book about British teenagers, written by a British teenager - not one I was likely to pass up. I really like UKYA (even if I don't read enough of it), so this one went straight on my list when I heard about it.

Before We Met, Lucie Whitehouse

Another kindle daily deal (let's be honest, most of them are; what's the point in paying almost as much for a kindle book as I would for a physical copy?!). I know loads of people who have read and loved this. I bought it instead of Gone Girl because I've heard it's actually the better of the two books. But in general I don't really like thrillers, so we'll see how I get on with this one.

My TBR pile

Over the summer, I got back into reading in a BIG way. I bought way more books than I had time to read and although I'm trying not to buy so many books now, I still have a lot of catching up to do. So today I thought I would tally up all of the books on my shelves that I have yet to read. (These are only the shelves actually in my bedroom. Various others (including my old English Lit books) are probably dotted around the family bookshelves downstairs. No doubt there are plenty there that I haven't read, but I probably never will and this list is already huge, so I'm ignoring those.) I tried to put all of the unread books onto one shelf, but they didn't quite fit... In total, there are 33:

I don't really want to write an entire list (and I doubt anyone would want to read that, either!), so here are a few close up photos in case you would like to know exactly which books are on my TBR list:

  

 I have plans to read a few of them -- City of Heavenly Fire will be started on Saturday while I'm on my way to Texas (!!), I'll read Afterworlds as soon as I get back, and My True Love Gave to Me I plan to read one story per day in the run up to Christmas -- but for the most part, they are just there for when I get around to them. I have a TBR jar with most of these titles in, but usually I'm in the mood for a particular kind of book, so the jar tends to just sit on my shelf looking pretty:

Tomorrow, I might make a list of the books on my kindle that haven't been looked at yet, so come back if you're interested in seeing that!

Bye for now,
Amanda :)