Confessions of a book hoarder…
Having far too much time on my hands, I decided to see if I could find a book on my TBR for every letter of my blog name: my TBR being books I already own but haven’t yet read. I’m sure I’ve seen this as a tag around the blogosphere but don’t know where it originated, so apologies for not name-checking whoever created it. It’s a fun way of reminding myself of some of the many great-sounding books lingering unread on my Kindle or bookshelves…
Let’s go then!
F Fell Murder by ECR Lorac
I I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
C Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
T Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
I In Diamond Square by Merce Rodoreda
O On the Road by Jack Kerouac
N Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
F Ford County by John Grisham
A At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarçon
N No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
S Sula by Toni Morrison
B Braised Pork by An Yu
O The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
O The Old Buzzard Had It Coming by Donis Casey
K Knock, Murderer, Knock! by Harriet Rutland
R Rupture by Ragnar Jonasson
E Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
V The Vegetarian by Han Kang
I In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
E Execution by SJ Parris
W We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
S The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The ease with which I could do this proves that I own way too many unread books! Of course the real challenge would be if I said I’d read them all in 2020… hmm…
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I would do this but…numbers are a problem 🙂
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You could always spell the numbers out – with your TBR it should be a doddle… 😉
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I’m too busy, I’m too distracted and I only have a wannabe blog and …. I can’t resist this one – it fits my flitting brain!
So here goes:
Sadness is a White Bird – Muriel Rothman-Zecher
Trolls – Stefan Spjut
On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons – Laura Cumming
(The) River of Consciousness – Oliver Sacks
You Will Be Safe Here – Damian Barr
This Mortal Boy – Fiona Kidman
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
(The) Kingfisher’s Debt – Kura Carpenter
I try and keep a leaner book shelf and Kindle load these days but I do have a very active list of books to be borrowed from the library, which most of these came from. Because my title is shorter than yours, I will hopefully get through many/most of them over the next year 🙄
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Ooh, interesting list – I’ve only heard of a couple of them so you know I’ll be popping off to investigate the others now. Trolls!! You’ve reminded me of how much I enjoyed that one – such an odd book that by all rights shouldn’t have worked, but did. Hope you enjoy it when you get to it. 😀
I remember really struggling to do things like this in the early days of blogging but now my TBR is so ridiculous I found I was spoilt for choice. And I’ve been working so hard to bring it down too… 😉
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Nicely done!
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From your list I’ve only read the Gaiman, which I enjoyed, and own a copy of No Country which our son passed on to me (though despite watching and being impressed by the film I have hesitated picking up).
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I’ve had that Gaiman one lingering around for ages now – really must read it! I loved the film of No Country which surprised me because it didn’t seem at all as if it would be my kind of thing. I also loved the book of The Road, so I’m hoping this one will work as well…
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And of yours, I have read Sula, The Ocean at the End of the Lane and The Siege, with Kerouac having been on my shelf for a very long time. Best title for me is The Old Buzzard Had it Coming!
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The Kerouac doesn’t appeal to me much in truth, but it’s a hangover from the GAN Quest so I’ll get to it sometime. Hahaha – I can’t remember now which blog tempted me to get The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, but I do remember that it was the title that made it appeal… really must read it!
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Haven’t got any of those books…but I’ll see if I can do the tag 😁
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Oh, yes, do! Like me you’ve got quite a lot of duplicate letters in your title – but then you’ve also got a humungous TBR so it should be a doddle… 😂📚
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This is true 😂 I’ll link back to you on the post
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Nice to see Friday Frippery back, and this is a fun tag. I attempted to try it with my own name, but I ran out of books beginning with O after the second one, and I couldn’t find a Y at all. On the plus side, I found quite a few starting with A, L, S and W. It was worth a shot.
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Ah, now that clearly proves that your TBR isn’t nearly big enough! You should promptly acquire the following: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, Agatha Christie’s One, Two, Buckle My Shoe and a fab crime book called You by Zoran Drvenkar which blew me away a few years ago (it’s very dark though, and I’m not sure how dark you like to go, so I’ll give you an alternative because I’m so kind… You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott.). Then report back… 😉
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Oh, this is so clever, FIctionFan!! What a brilliant way to have some fun and to remind yourself of books you’d like to read. And some of the books you’ve used make me hope you’ll get to them soon, if for no other reason than that I’d like to know what you think of them.
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Haha – thank you! I did something similar to this several years ago and remember really struggling to find books that fitted. This time there were so many books on my TBR I was actually spoilt for choice! It’s ridiculous, because I really would love to read most of these so why do I keep adding more??? 😂
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My hat is off to you! Wonderful!
Okay will give it a shot:
Eternals by Neil Gaiman
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Art of Avatar by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emma by Jane Austen
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Pickwick and Crime and Punishment are on my TBR!!! One day!!
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I recommend both!
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Ooh, well done! Pickwick Papers is such fun, and you can’t go wrong with Austen, of course, even if Knightley will never compete with my Darcy! I haven’t read the rest, and am very impressed that Crime and Punishment is on there… one day, maybe, I’ll read it… 😉
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I had to read Crime an Punishment for a class in college. Also I had Pride and Prejudice on the list at first, but didn’t want to include two Jane Austen novels, so I replaced one with Dickens. 😀
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Darcy won’t be happy to have been thrown over for Mr Pickwick, I fear… 😉
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Well done! I like Ragnar Jonasson’s series 🙂 I don’t think I can do it, with 1/4 of my TBR in London and the rest in France!!!
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Ha! You mean you don’t keep a spreadsheet of your TBR for instant reference? You can’t be a real bookaholic then… 😉 I’ve read a few of the Jonasson series and loved them too so I don’t know why that one keeps lingering on my list…
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Hahaha. This is hilarious but I can relate. I’d challenge myself to try this selecting books from my classics shelf & perhaps historical fiction books. But I won’t hold myself to that.
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Oh, do! It’s so much fun to do and reminded me of lots of books I’d sort of forgotten I had! Haha – I did something similar to this a few years ago when I’d just started blogging and really struggled to find enough books to fit. This time I was spoilt for choice! Somehow I must stop adding to my TBR… 😂
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Impossible!!! 😍 😂 I’ll give it a go. I found at least one or two from a browse of the books I can see on shelves
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Have fun! I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with – maybe you’ll tempt me to add a few more… 😉
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I was surprised to see Cloudstreet by Tim Winton! I read that back in 2011 for a Global Reading Challenge. I don’t remember a lot of details, but do remember I liked it.
I recognize many others, but don’t think I’ve read any of them…except maybe the Mary Stewart. I read a lot of hers when I was a young thing. I’ve been thinking of re-reading (gasp!) her Arthurian books.
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Oh, good, I’m glad you liked Cloudstreet since I’m hoping it won’t be too long before I get to it. It’s on my list because of Rose at RoseReadsNovels, who’s Australian and thinks he’s a very Australian writer. Haha – and the Mary Stewart is on there because of Helen at SheReadsNovels! All of which proves that it’s not my fault my TBR is so big – it’s all these blogging book-pushers… 😂
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Haha, well maybe I need to start thinking of how I can influence you. Lord knows you’ve done your share of damage to my TBR! 😬
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Hahaha – nooooooooooooooooo!!!!! How could you be so cruel?? You know I’m easily tempted… 😂
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I did this one some time ago – then promptly forgot about reading any of the books. From your list I really liked Mary Stewart’s Nine Coaches Waiting.
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Haha – I bet if I do it again in three years time at least half of these books will still be on my TBR! 😂 I’ve never read any Mary Stewart but it’s because so many other bloggers have said how much they like her that I decided I had to find out for myself… 😀
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I don’t think I can do this, but what a super idea! Kind of makes one realize just how many books are on the old TBR (and how long they’ve been sitting there!)
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Haha – I know! Some of these books have been on my TBR for literally years! And it’s crazy because they all still sound so good – why do I keep adding new books instead of reading the ones I already have??? No willpower… 😂
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I’ve always been so curious about We Need to Talk About Kevin. I’d love to read your review of that!!! 2020 is looking mighty promising already 🙂
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I’ve been meaning to read it for years – I don’t know why it never makes it to the top of my list! Maybe next year… 😀
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The Vegetarian is a wild book. I’d love to see what you make of it.
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Ha! I don’t know whether I’m looking forward to it or not – on the one hand it sounds great and on the other hand it sounds as if it could be awful… 😉 Maybe next year… 😀
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