Top Ten Tuesday used to be a weekly post hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, but was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. “It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.” This is definitely something I can understand and want to participate in.
Happy Tuesday y’all! I hope February is treating you well so far. We’ve gotten a little light snow over the weekend, and I had a great time celebrating my birthday with family. Which is also why I’m so late in responding to comments and blog hopping.
This week’s prompt is 2024 releases I was excited to read but still haven’t gotten to. It kind of feels like this prompt is personally calling me out, since I apparently enjoy buying books, putting them on my shelf, and not reading them while they judge me and collect dust. I’m positive that there are more than ten, but here’s my list of 2024 releases I bought because I got excited to read them and promptly ignored them once I owned them. Here goes:
- House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas. I love this series, and there’s such a huge, jaw dropping cliffhanger at the end of the previous book, but they’re massive and until my ARCs are under control, I couldn’t commit to rereading the first two books before this one just yet.
- Magical Meet Cute by Jean Meltzer. I actually preordered a signed copy, but have I read this one yet? Nooooooo.
- The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo. I preordered this the very day that I first heard about it, and it’s just sitting there watching me read ARCs.
- North is the Night by Emily Rath. My brother and sister-in-law got me this for my birthday, and I hadn’t even heard of it, but they got me the prettiest copy with sprayed edges. Bonus points for it being a book that sounds like I’m going to enjoy.
- Wisteria by Adalyn Grace. I loved the first two books in this trilogy, and actually bought it over the summer. Guess what it’s doing? Haha!
- The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black. I got this one on sale at Savers, and didn’t realize it was book 2 in a series that I haven’t started reading yet. But since I really love Black’s writing, I’m actually shocked that I still haven’t read the first book.
- The Moonflowers by Abigail Rose-Marie. I got this on one of Amazon’s kindle sales, and it does sound really interesting. But it is so easy to forget about the books hiding on our kindles, right?
- Cursed by Darkness by C.M. Haines. Cait and I connected on Twitter as she was getting ready to launch her first book. In that time, we’ve become true friends, and I’m literally the worst friend ever for not having read this one yet. Sorry, Cait!
- The Broken Places by Mia Sheridan. I was so excited to get my hands on this one, but just haven’t read it for no apparent reason.
- An Age of Winters by Gemma Liviero. Books about the witch trials are almost always intriguing to me, and I got this one for free on a sale. Now to actually read it.
Have you read any of these?
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LOL, my books judge me and collect dust, too! I own way too many that I was genuinely excited for and have never read. Perhaps that can be a (no pressure) goal of 2025 – read some of the books sitting on my shelf! 🙂 Hope you had an amazing birthday! Sending you all the cheerful belated birthday wishes – and hope you enjoy these all!
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Thank you for the birthday wishes! I had a wonderful birthday with friends and family. I even got A BOOK as a gift! My no-pressure intentions for every year is to read more of the books I own. Clearly I’m not too successful!
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I hope you enjoy reading all of these books when you have the chance.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/ten-2024-releases-i-still-havent-read/
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Thank you!
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I haven’t read any of these books either, but I’ll have to check Cursed by Darkness out, it looks amazing! I love the purple color 🙂 I hope you’ll be able to read these books this year!
If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: https://thebooklorefairy.blogspot.com/2025/02/top-ten-tuesday-high-priority-reads-for-2025.html
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I’m such a big fan of her writing too – I have loved all of her books so far. And the purple cover only helps make it more appealing!
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An Age of Winters sounds really good.
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Doesn’t it? Hopefully I’m going to love it.
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I too have a Holly Black book on my list that I haven’t gotten around to reading yet!
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I really like her writing. Hopefully you enjoy your books!
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I enjoyed House of Flame and Shadow for what it was, but it was over long and complicated. I’m hoping her next ACOTAR book is better. I have The Familiar on my list, as well. I’ll get to it eventually, and I’m sure I’ll like it bc I’ve enjoyed almost all Bardugo’s books. I hope you like all of these once you get around to reading them!
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Thank you! I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t fall head over heels for House of Flame and Shadow, fingers crossed that I like it once I can find the time to recommit to rereading the earlier books. Luckily, I’m starting a buddy read of The Familiar today!
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(Sorry if this double posts, was told my comment wasn’t posted.)
You’re not alone in this! I have books that have been side-eyeing me for years because I brought them home and then ignored them. Hah!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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You’re good – it didn’t post, I think WP has just been glitchy with comments.
Why is it so easy to bring books home and so hard to sit down and read them?
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OMG your #1…. It’s so good!
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/02/04/top-ten-tuesday-backlist-books-i-hope-to-read-in-2025/
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I can’t wait to get into that, but I want to do a quick audiobook reread of the first two books that stay current. You know how complex her stories get!
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Oh wow, there are some really amazing book covers on your list! I’ve read The Familiar and really enjoyed it, I hope you do too!
Haze
https://thebookhaze.com/
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Thank you! I’m starting a buddy read of The Familiar this week, and I’m so excited for it.
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Happy Birthday! I hope that you had a great time.
We haven’t had any snow yet, probably one of the only places in the UK not to!
Fingers crossed you get to read these books soon!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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Thank you! My birthday was a lot of fun. We’ve been getting back to back snow, but not as bad as a lot of places.
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Excellent ☺️
Oh no! I love watching snow fall but the practicality of it is a disaster 😂
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I have to say, the snow removal by local towns isn’t bad around here. But my favorite time to watch snow falling is from inside the house with a cozy blanket!
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Ergh ours is lacking. We just aren’t used to snow. Never prepared 🤣
Agreed 😊
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The places that have a lot of snow do a good job, while places that don’t get much snow just stop at what we call flurries 🤣❄️
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100%. We struggle with ice 😂
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Ugh, that’s the worst.
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It is. I hate it. Luckily I have the pushchair to keep me upright 🤣
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I want to read The Stolen Heir by Holly Black. I loved The Folk of the Air trilogy, so I’m looking forward to reading this duopoly.
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Same! I’ve wanted to read it since I heard of the first one, but just haven’t been able to do it yet. Maybe this year will the one where we read the duology? lol
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I haven’t read any of these. Magical Meet Cute looks, well, cute. I hope you get to read them soon!
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Thank you! It does look like a cute one, so I might have to prioritize that soon.
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Nope
Usually unaware of when a book debuts
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I used to be so much more aware, until I started really getting a lot of ARCs. Now it’s just too much to keep up with.
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I have so many books that I absolutely *needed* to buy but then haven’t got around to reading! I have also got a book that I pre-ordered and then didn’t end up reading… Magical Meet Cute sounds good 🙂
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I wish I knew why it was so hard to actually read the books that I just had to have … only for them to sit on my shelves. Hopefully Magical Meet Cute will get read for sure this year.
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