As a part of my 2017 Birthday goals, I decided to clean my TBR. I’m sure I can’t clean all of them, but atleast I could get through half of them. When I’m in my hoarding mood (especially during pay day) when I love the sypnosis, I just haphazardly add them to my TBR. I didn’t really have any problem with that before, until my kindle started to act weird. It keeps on hanging up! Then I checked my books and my! It’s A LOT, haha. And not just that, I have some unread paperbacks too that I need to take care of, lol.
Old habits die hard, so I made a compromise and instead of buying them right away, I decided to add them to my “to-read” books in Goodreads so I can keep track of what I’ll be buying soon when I reach my goal, *wink. And mind you, it was really hard. Well, I confess, I wasn’t really 100% loyal with my goal because I still bought some new books, including these new books from the Hidden Legacy series from Ilona Andrews which I am saving to read on my next Holiday. Overall, I guess I’ve purchased more than 20 books already, haha, but I’m stopping now…really.
There are times that I want to be organized and keep things in their proper place, and this day is one of those. So I’ve checked out my to-read books in Goodreads and I’m confronted with 200+ books. It wasn’t even a year yet but I managed to get it that high lol. So I decided to get through them one by one and weed out those that I just accidentally added…like as if I did lol.
So after the 200+, it’s now down to 161. Well, not bad.
Since I’m already talking about to-read books, I decided to share some of the best of the best in my list that is making it hard for me to resist not to get a copy ASAP.
- The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong (Darkest Powers, #1)
- Bound By Your Love series by Blakely Bennett
- Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett
- Big Rock series by Lauren Blakely
- Tangled series by Emma Chase
- Scarlet Scares series by J.M. Darhower
- Clearwater Witches series by Madeline Freeman
- After the Cure series by Deirdre Gould
- Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant
- Anything You Can Do by R.S. Grey
- Before I Ever Met You by Karina Halle
- A Thousand Letters by Staci Hart
- Better Date Than Never Series by Susan Hatler
- The Bad Boy Bargain by Kendra C. Highley
- Bleeding Stars by A.L. Jackson
- Egomaniac by Vi Keeland
- Off-Campus series by Elle Kennedy
- Thank You For Holding by Julia Kent and Elisa Reed
- Random series by Julia Kent
- Only One You by Tia Lewis and Penelope Marshall
- Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
- The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
- Logan by Jay McLean
- Highlander series by Karen Marie Moning
- Bet Me by Lila Monroe
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan
- White Trash Zombie series by Diana Rowland
- Buttons series by Penelope Sky
- Truth and Lies Duet by Pepper Winters
- All in Pieces by Suzanne Young
- The Lily Singer Adventures series by Lydia Sherrer
- Stuck-up Suit by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward
- One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry
- Deklan by Shay Savage
- Lady Eleanor’s Seventh Suitor by Anna Bradley
Imagine if I buy all of them in one go, I’ll probably have nothing to eat for a month or maybe a year? Haha. How about you? How’s your pile going?
I meant to do that with my ebooks but amazon makes it so damn hard
Hehe, true. Especially if there’s some free books and it sounds really good too or when there’s a .99 sale hehe
after the cure first book is currently free on amazon, if you have not nabbed it yet. There is a lot up there that I would still love to read myself
I’ve read the first book and I got it free too in amazon and since then, I can’t wait to get a copy of the other books as well 🙂
My pile is ridiculous. I know I will never be able to read everything that I want to so I just try not to look. Good luck!
Hehe. I had that same problem before too, but I could be a little clean freak sometimes so even if it’s tedious to do, I’ve been slowly cleaning my pile every once in a while. And now, I finally able to clean it and hopefully I could read atleast half of them 🙂
I have waaaay too many books in my TBR! Glad that you’re able to make a dent in yours. LOL. Keep it up.
I used to hate how a clean freak I am sometimes, but in this case, I think I’m thankful because I’m finally free with my pile which is kind of stressful to look at. Atleast now I’m confident that only those books that I really like are in my list 🙂 Thanks Aleen
I don’t really use Goodreads that way. I just use it mostly to track what I’ve read but I noticed that it was adding books to my list when I only look at a book or link to it for the blog O_0 – so now i have to go remove 100 books lol
Good luck!
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When I first signed up with Goodreads a few years ago, that’s what in my mind too on how I could use it. And then I found out about the to-read feature so I come up with the idea on how I could utilize it. Thank god for Goodreads indeed hehe. Removing 50 books alone is a tedious task, and a 100 is too much. Goodluck Karen 🙂
I don’t use goodreads but that’s an interesting idea.
It’s a very helpful tool Mary, it can help you keep track of all the books you’ve read and it’s easier to search some new books there too 🙂
Hehe, true. I actually spent like four hours just checking those 200+ list, how much more if there like 500 or a 1000 😉
I need to go through my list and cut out a bunch 🙂
Hehe, I bet there’s a bunch too 🙂
I go through the big purge every so often too Vanessa. I think the more we read, our tastes change too so I like to delete books after a year if I really don’t have an interest in anymore. So many great books on your list! Moxie is one I recently read and loved as well.
That’s absolutely true Kelly. I’m glad you’re working so well with your list 🙂 I actually discovered Moxie through your review hehe
Oh man. I totally understand. I culled my GR list a while ago and was a bit overwhelmed by it. I didn’t do my “to read” but rather my “own” list. I had a ton of freebie books I randomly got when I first got my ereader. So I not only went through my GR list but I deleted them from my ereader also. I still need to go through my to read list and get rid of a bunch of those. A lot are books that you have to add to your list when you enter a giveaway. Ones that sounded good at the time but either aren’t for me anymore or I’m not overly serious about.
I did the exact same thing too when I first got my ereader thus I’m stuck with too many ebooks to read, haha. But I’m glad you worked on your pile too Kristin 🙂