Top 5 Tuesday is created by the always prolific Shanah, the Bionic Book Worm, and this week we’re looking at books we DIDN’T get to in 2019.
This is a tough one. Not just because of the crushing guilt I’ll be feeling when I list books that I said I would ABSOLUTELY read this year. There’s also the fact that there are 3 weeks left of 2019. And when it comes to saying I’m going to read something, I may not be very accurate, but I’m an optimist! So even the books that do end up on this list may end up getting read.
To compensate for my delusion that I’m going to read a whole bunch in the next 3 weeks, I’ll list a few extra books and the entire list from LEAST LIKELY to be read before the end of year to MOST LIKELY. How about that? Enough excuses! ON WITH THE SHAME PARADE!!
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
I fell in love with this concept and cover when it was originally published, but lukewarm reviews have kept it from being the very best book on my TBR…
SCYTHE
by Neal Shusterman
No specific reason why this one doesn’t make it to the top of the pile. I’m interested. There are just so many other books that are perhaps a little more interesting.
SEA OF RUST
by C. Robert Cargill
No illusions. I keep this one around because of how in love I am with the cover. It’s always in the conversation, but something else always steps in front.
INVICTUS
by Ryan Graudin
I’ve been sold on this one since the author tweeted ‘DOCTOR WHO X FIREFLY.’
WARCROSS
by Marie Lu
It’s getting to the part of my list where I no longer can think of any excuses.
CROOKED KINGDOM
by Leigh Bardugo
I read Bardugo’s Ninth House this year, which makes me feel a little better about this one being left unread. But only a little.
VICIOUS
by V.E. Schwab
I’ve liked superheroes forever. Why no read this?
IRON GOLD
by Pierce Brown
Absolutely no comment.
DARKDAWN
by Jay Kristoff
I really thought I would have cracked this one open the day it arrived in the mail. I haven’t. There’s seriously something wrong with me.
Great list! I’m currently reading Darkdawn right now and my soul is being crushed (and I don’t think I’m even being the least bit dramatic saying that 😂 Kristoff knows how to slay me)! Haha. Hope you enjoy these reads when you get to them 😃
All I have to say is that if all these books show up on your “read” folder in Goodreads for 2020 then you’re in for a good reading year!!!
If I can convince you in anyway, you must move Scythe up on your early reads list for 2020. I LOVED the series (I am currently 3/4 of the way through the final book and absolutely on the edge of my seat). Plus, then we could discuss it! It’s perfectly unique, and political and just very well done if I do say so myself.
A lot of messages about Scythe! All right, consider it moved up!
I really need to get to Scythe, too.
Ooh I love the Arc of a scythe series, it is just so good!
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I’m reading Crooked Kingdom right now!!! Its great so far 😀 and I still need to read Darkdawn, so you aren’t alone there
Yay!
What???????? You haven’t read the latest Pierce Brown??? Unbelievable!
I know, I know… lol
I actually read Vicious this year!! I mean, I agreed to buddy read it, and then said buddy actually forced me to start. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would (which is odd because I own so many Schwab books, but this was the first one I actually read).
Speaking of DD I think I want to re-rate it lower. Everytime I think about it I get slightly crankier. But I also know other people who loved it. So, don’t take my disappointment as anything more than a grain of salt.
Also, really? You haven’t read the latest Brown? Aren’t you usually badgering people like me who haven’t read Red Rising yet?!!
Yes… that’s me. But to be fair, I’ve read the first trilogy, and the second one is like a “10 years later” scenario, so they’re almost free-standing!!