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Top Ten Tuesday -- I Had to Buy But Neglected

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers’ answers. Everyone is welcome to join.  If you can’t come up with ten, don’t worry about it—post as many as you can!

I am so bad at this!  I have to buy all these fancy books and then they languish on my shelves for years.  Thankfully for all those books, I have put myself on a book buying ban for the year.  And I'm doing awesome!  I've only bought two books so far, but both were book club selections that I didn't own.  Here's a list of some of those neglected books that I hope to get to this year:

1. The Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig -- really the entire series

2. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

3. Ireland by Frank Delaney

4. The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming -- supposed to read this last December, obviously didn't get to it

5. Cotillion by Georgette Heyer -- Actually on my TBR list for this year

6. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest -- Another set book for this year

7. Vanity Fairy by William Makepeace Thackeray -- Ditto

8. Neferitit by Michelle Moran

9. Graceling by Kristin Cashore

10. Alexander Hamilton by Richard Brookhiser

Just for fun, I did this topic two years ago (March 1, 2011 specifically).  Let's revisit and see how many of those I have read:

  • Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
  • Wideacre by Philippa Gregory
  • Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez

Not very good.  Only 50% read.  I really need to add that other 50% to my TBR pile.