Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Have Been On My TBR the Longest and I Still Haven’t Read

Beloved readers: it’s bad to have book ADD. I’m on about a dozen publisher and upcoming book mailing lists (Buzzfeed, NetGalley, Kirkus, Electric Lit, Signature) so I get the word on books that are coming out months before they hit the stores. I’m also constantly in the library, looking, searching. The books I don’t pick up on my visits there I often add to my TBR pile to come back and get at a later time. Then there are the books that you come across on your Goodreads recommendations late at night, thinking: damn that sounds interesting, so I add those too. Before you know it, you’re like me and you’ve got 609 books in your queue list. I am also no respecter of order–if I really like a book I read it right then, forget the books in the back that have been stuck there, waiting for years to be read.

So this Tuesday, I’m giving ya’ll a glimpse into the books that have been in my TBR pile the longest. I’ve been on Goodreads since 2008, so we can assume that they’ve been there for at least 10 years (or longer, depending on if the actual copy is sitting on my shelf at home).

1. Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
2. The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
4. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
5. The Age of Shiva, Manil Suri
6. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
7. Dessa Rose, Sherley Anne Williams
8. All Over Creation, Ruth L. Ozeki
9. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
10. You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon

And btw, add me on Goodreads, beloveds. Till next time…