Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Each week we post our top ten lists on a variety of bookish topics. I love the topic this week!
My List:
1. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia- I have had this in my to-read pile 4-ever!!! Just haven't had a chance to pick it up.
2. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins. This isn't even out yet, but I feel like I'm the only one who hasn't had a chance to read it.
3. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson. This is out today, I'll def. be picking up a copy, the reviews have been wonderful!
4. Looking For Alaska by John Green. I know, I know, How could I have not read this? I own it, I love John Green...what's my problem?
5. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson. Again I have this book buying obsession, I own 13 Little Blue Envelopes, and people have raved- I just haven't made the time.If only there was a way I could take 3 months off work and spend it catching up on my TBR pile.
6.Where She Went by Gayle Forman. Followers of this blog, know my love for If I Stay. I bought Where She Went the day it released, just can't bring myself to read it.......I guess because I loved If I Stay soooooo much.
7.House of Night Series by PC Cast / Kristin Cast. I just have not been interested, but I know many who love this series.
8.Gone by Michael Grant. I have a dear friend who just loves....LOVES this series. Every time we meet for coffee, she asks if I'd read it yet and every time I say "not yet" I feel terribly, horribly guilty.
9. Nearly everything Oprah selected for the book club on her show. I worked in a book store, when Oprahs' Book Club was going strong. The day that she announced her book club choice...the phones rang off the hook. I remember people would ask ....have you read_____________________? and I'd reply "no" and they would say "but...it was on Oprah!!"
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I love Sense and Sensibility. I have 5 different editions, but I've never read or even watched P & P.
Are there any on the list above I just have to read?
8.Gone by Michael Grant. I have a dear friend who just loves....LOVES this series. Every time we meet for coffee, she asks if I'd read it yet and every time I say "not yet" I feel terribly, horribly guilty.
9. Nearly everything Oprah selected for the book club on her show. I worked in a book store, when Oprahs' Book Club was going strong. The day that she announced her book club choice...the phones rang off the hook. I remember people would ask ....have you read_____________________? and I'd reply "no" and they would say "but...it was on Oprah!!"
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I love Sense and Sensibility. I have 5 different editions, but I've never read or even watched P & P.
Are there any on the list above I just have to read?
There are a lot here I haven't read either, if that makes you feel any better! :P Although, I LOVED Where She Went!! :) (Also Lola. I loved Lola)
ReplyDeleteHouse of Night - if you're not interested I would say give it a pass. It just drags on and on in a very annoying way.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Where She Went, 13 Little Blue Envelopes and The Girl of Fire and Thorns were all really great and I highly recommend them.
Oh, and don't worry; I haven't read Lola either OR Anna and the French Kiss!
Happy reading!
You are not alone, I haven't read 'Lola' yet either. I am practically dying for it, I swear. ;)
ReplyDeleteAhh 'Where She Went' ... it's bittersweet and amazing. Gah, love Adam.
I read the first 'Gone' book when it came out and I enjoyed it, but it feels like it's a really slow series. The books are long and they seem to take a long time to come out (at least to me), and I'm not sure if it's worth going through.
I used to like the HON series but it started going really downhill for me to the point where all I did was rant about it. You're now missing out on anything by not reading them.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for Lola and the Boy Next Door!!
I just recently read Pride and Prejudice...I'm not a huge fan, lol. I am happy I read it though, people can stop bothering me about it!
ReplyDeleteTrust me, don't feel bad about not having read The House of Night series, the Gone series, or Beautiful Creatures... I wish I hadn't read them!
ReplyDeleteThe House of Night is sooooo cliched and so far off from the original storyline, whereas Gone is really creepy! Talking monsters and flying snakes and whatnot- I have seriously not been so freaked out by a book since I read the first Harry Potter in grade 4 and the hooded figure was kneeling over top of the unicorn drinking its blood. And Beautiful Creatures? Ugh... I don't even want to touch that one- all around I just thought that it was terrible.
But I am with you with Lola- I wish that I had an ARC of it!
Oh, and P&P... One of my most favourite movies ever (the one with Kiera). I read the books but it was such a bore, just like watching the movie all over again (like with The Da Vinci Code... The movie and the books are almost identical).