Top Ten Tuesday - I Just HAD to Buy... But are Still Sitting on My Bookshelf

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers’ answers. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND post a comment on our post with a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post to share with us and all those who are participating. If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. If you can't come up with ten, don't worry about it---post as many as you can!

This week's list is pretty difficult for me to write.  For the past year, I've lived mostly out of boxes.  I haven't even seen most of my books that entire time.  I've bought a ton of books in the past few years and most of those are still sitting on "shelf."  I buy books and then check books out from the library.  Sometimes I get back to the ones I own, and sometimes they just stay somewhere.  I have one box of books sitting in my room, so I'll look at those.

1-2. Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager by Diana Gabaldon -- C made me read Outlander (while reenacting, what a trip!) and I fell in love with the story of Claire and Jamie.  I had to get the other books and read the rest of the Outlander series.  So I rushed out to the used book stores and found Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager and what did I do?  Left them on the shelf.  I started Dragonfly a few months back and something happened.  I got distracted or something and didn't finish it.  So I've got these great books sitting here and haven't read them yet.  Thankfully I have joined the Outlander series reading challenge so I am going to read the entire series this year, but it probably won't be until August (to coincide with my Year of Reading challenge).  I promise I will get to them.

3. Wideacre by Philippa Gregory -- I love historical fiction.  I read The Other Boleyn Girl and told myself that I had to read more from Gregory.  So I had to buy this when I saw it on the used book store shelf.  And again, I have let it sit on the shelf.  No matter, historical fiction is another one of my reading challenges.

4-5. Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke -- I watched the movie Inkheart and really liked it, so I just had to read the book right?  Then I found out it was trilogy.  Oh, well, okay I can do that.  So I found Inkheart and Inkspell, but have yet to find a cheap copy of Inkdeath.  I keep telling myself that I haven't read them because I don't have the third, but really I just keep getting distracted by other books.

6. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins -- Another must read after hearing about it for so long.  I found a copy for cheap and snatched it up.  It's only been on my shelf for about two weeks so far. I have high hopes that this one will be read soon.

7. The Magicians by Lev Grossman -- J's said that I had to read this one.  And his description of the book made it really sound like something I would like.  I found a cheap copy at Half Price Books about three weeks ago.  I just need to work it into my crazy reading schedule now.

8. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Up until this year, I read mostly nonfiction or "classics."  This is one of those books that I always considered a "classic," but hadn't read.  So I found a copy sometime last year thinking that I would tackle it in the coming weeks and promptly forgot about the book.  It sat in a box until I unearthed it last night while trying to think of entries for this post.  I'll try to get to it soon, but I know it's one of those books that I'm going to have to devote actually dedicated reading time.  Maybe during a trip or a snow day...

Okay, so I only found eight for this week.  That's not to say I only have eight books in my purchased TBR pile.  These are just the eight books that I was super excited to find and read and then not read for one reason or another.  I am going to try really hard to put these into my must read pile.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm not making any promises.