Top Ten Tuesday

Every week the Broke and the Bookish hosts a fun meme for all of us Book Bloggers called Top Ten Tuesday.  They provide participants a different topic each week, and then we all spend time hopping from blog to blog to check out everyone’s answers! This week’s topic is presented by A Midsummer Night’s Read contributor Erin and this week’s topic is: 

Top Ten Books I HAD to Buy….but are still sitting on my shelf

1. Cary Grant: A Biography by Marc Eliot

2. Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

5. Along Came a Spider by James Patterson

6. Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire

7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

9. The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson


What are some of the books still sitting on your shelf? 

Top Ten Tuesday!

Every week the Broke and the Bookish hosts a literary meme for book bloggers called Top Ten Tuesday.  B&B provides us all with a topic, and we post our answers before we go around hopping through the other participants to see what they put down!

This week’s topic is:

Top Ten Series I’d Like to Start but Haven’t Yet

1. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

2. The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

3. Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

4. The  Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

5. Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

6. Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

7. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

8. Slammed by Colleen Hoover

9. The Queen’s Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

10. Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen


What about you? What series do you want to read, but haven’t started yet?

Top Ten Tuesdays!

Every week The Broke and the Bookish host a meme called Top Ten Tuesdays!  This week’s topic is Top Ten Tuesday Rewind–meaning bloggers get to choose a specific topic from the past and use it.  So I selected:

Top Ten Books I HAD to Buy…But are Still Sitting on my Bookshelf

1. The Innocent Party by Aimee Parkison

Aimee was one of my creative writing professors in my Master’s program.  The Innocent Party is her newest collection of short stories, which was published in April.  Sadly, though I bought it the day it was released, it is still sitting unopened on my bookshelf. 

2. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

After studying a number of Austen novels in my graduate program, I still have a copy of this waiting on my shelf to be cracked. 

3. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

I read Cat’s Eye for one of my classes, and have heard that The Handmaid’s Tale is Atwood’s best.  I still haven’t read it. 

4. 1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm is one of my favorite books, so I ran out and got a copy of 1984…and it has collected dust. 

5. This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

It is no secret as to how much I love Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.  So when I saw Oppel’s novel, I immediately purchased it…and it is still sitting on my shelf.  I will read it soon. 

6.  A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Saw previews for the show on HBO and went out and bought the first book.  It still sits in my TBR pile…and the first season is on my to buy list. 

7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

I read a review of this book in Entertainment Weekly, and it sounded awesome–so I bought it. Still haven’t read it.

8. The Stranger by Albert Camus

One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from this novel…but I’ve never read it. It sits next to my well-worn copy of Wuthering Heights. 

Numbers 9 & 10 are both classics by Truman Capote. I purchased these two books almost 3 years apart, but I still haven’t gotten around to reading either of them. 

In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s 

     

What are some of your books that you have (shamefully) purchased then neglected?