It’s Tuesday! Which means it’s time for another top ten Tuesday. We haven’t done of these in a long time…in fact we haven’t really done ANY posting in a long time…sorry! We’ve just been quite busy with school and stuff, but as the summer holidays are nearing we can hopefully get back to our normal posting routine.
Today’s TTT is a freebie one, which means we can write about a topic of our own choice. Last week’s topic, which we missed, was ‘Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases For The Second Half Of The Year’. I think that was quite an important post to write about, so I might catch up and do that another time, as it’s always exciting to see which books we have in store for the next few months!
For my freebie topic, I decided to choose ‘Top Ten Popular Books I Haven’t Read Yet’…there’s lots I need to read, and most of the ones in the list below are part of my Summer TBR so let’s hope that by the end of summer I’ll have read these!
Anyways on to the TTT!
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis
It’s kinda sad because I’m pretty sure everyone read this book when they were 8 and I still haven’t read it. Everyone tells me to read it seeing as I’m obsessed with Harry Potter and this is a fantasy classic just like HP, but if I’m honest it actually doesn’t look that interesting….I think I might read it SOMETIME just to see why it’s so popular, but you know…
2. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
This is another one that’s always recommended to me because of Harry Potter…I’ve tried reading it twice but the first chapter is soooo boring, I just can’t seem to get into it! It’s like, a 50 page description of Middle Earth or whatever and I just feel it’s kinda confusing.
3. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
This is such a popular book but I’ve just never been able to get round to it! It’s been sitting on my shelf for quite a long time, and three months ago I vowed I would read it ‘next week’ but here I am, it’s June, no progress has been made…hopefully I will get round to it in Summer.
4. The Selection by Kiera Cass
The Selection is such a popular book, I swear EVERYBODY has read it but me…I will get round to it though, hopefully by the end of this month (I just realised it was 28th June but let’s assume it’s July). It does look quite interesting although there has been reviews that it sorta makes women seem weak, but I’ll have to see.
5. Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
This is another book which so many people have read, and when it came out there was so much buzz, almost every blog was talking about this. I’ve got the book so I will read it over my summer holidays, and I’m excited to see what all the hype was about. It’ll also be my first Alexandra Bracken book and she’s apparently a very good author, so maybe this will give me a good taste on her books.
6. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
I’ve been wanting to read this book for sooo long, you don’t even know. I love fairy tale retellings and I feel like I haven’t read enough of them, so I really want to read this book but I just cannot seem to get hold of it!
7. A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab
I started reading a chapter of this a little while back but I stopped to read Illuminae, as I was in a huge slump and Illuminae seemed like a quick read. The little that I read of ADSOM seemed great, so I can’t wait to restart it!
8. Landline and Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
I love Rainbow Rowell’s writing and Carry On, Fangirl and Eleanor and Park are definitely some of my favourite books. I’m hoping Landline and Attachments will provide the same funny writing style as her other books did!
9. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
This is another one that has received a lot of hype, and even has a movie adaptation that seems quite action packed and thrilling. I haven’t read a dystopia in a while, and I’m hoping I will be able to read The 5th Wave over summer (gosh, I’ll have a lot of reading) too.
10. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Again, so much hype. It also looks super interesting, and has been recommended to me quite a few times, so I’d really like to read it!
Hope you enjoyed this post!
-V
I’ve read The Chronicles of Narnia & LOTR, but the only other one I’ve read is The Selection and I didn’t like it.
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Hm, The Selection does seem to be one of those books which people either love or hate. Thanks for reading, I’ll take a look at your TTT!
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I only read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe of the Chronicles of Narnia series, I could never get into the rest of the series! I just started reading A Darker Shade of Magic today, hopefully I enjoy it. I liked Throne of Glass but it was a little hard to get into, stick with the series though, the second book is better!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/top-ten-tuesday-63/
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🙂 Hope you enjoy A Darker Shade of Magic! I’ll try to stick with the ToG series. Thanks for reading, I’ll take a look at your post too!
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I hope so too! No problem!
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Oh man! I’m with you on a lot of those: Throne of Glass, Shatter Me, The 5th Wave, LOTR, The Wrath and The Dawn and not because I don’t own a few of these (I do), but rather because I find other things to read first. *sigh* Really needs to stop doing that.
Though, to be honest, I can’t really recommend ‘The Selection’. It’s a ‘cute’ read, but not really a ‘good’ read in my opinion. Granted, I’m more of a darker genre sort of reader, but this book just had too much fluff. Maybe that’s just me because there were a lot of people who liked it. Guess it depends on what you like.
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Haha, I’m with you – I also own so many books that I just haven’t read yet! I like darker fantasy/mystery kinda books more, and I didn’t realise the Selection was a fluffy type of read. I think I’ll give it a go just to see what all the hype is about, but if I don’t like it I’ll probably stop reading the rest of them. I’ll take a look at your TTT too!
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Yeah, the Selection is definitely not your dark grit, if that’s what you’re into. I made it through the original three, but didn’t go on to read the novellas or anything after ‘The One.’ (I also hate not finishing series, so… :p)
Thanks for visiting! ^.^
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Great topic. I have read a few of these. I didn’t like The Wrath & The Dawn or Lord of the Rings. I really liked A Darker Shade of Magic and all of Rainbow Rowell’s books. Happy reading!
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The only one of these I’ve read is A Darker Shade of Magic (which is AMAZING I defs recommend that) so don’t worry you’re not alone 😂 I’m the same with Throne of Glass. I keep putting it off because I’m kinda intimidated by the hype and I wasn’t a fan of ACOTAR haha.
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I’ll definitely be reading ADSOM soon…I’m also kinda cautious about Throne of Glass because it’s just such an overhyped book! I haven’t read ACOTAR, but I might if I like ToG, although I hear they’re both pretty different so maybe you might like ToG?
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I haven’t read many of these either — particularly TOG and The Selection — but I reason with myself that I probably get my Bachelor/ette fix in the show itself so it removes any want of the latter book haha.
Cheers,
Joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts.
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Haha I hope you will be able to read them soon! Thanks for reading my post! 🙂
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I absolutely loved Attachments and thought Landline was cute! I hope you like it as well. Throne of Glass is such an amazing series
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I’m really looking forward to read those book. Thanks for reading!
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Of course!
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I read the Rainbow Rowell books and loved them. The Selection was okay, but I never felt like finishing the rest of the series. Great topic!
My TTT: http://www.anovelglimpse.com/2016/06/28/top-ten-tuesday-freebie-top-ten-books-that-broke-my-heart-a-little/
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Thanks! I’ll take a look at your TTT too 🙂
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There are so many of these that I haven’t read, but have heard good things about. I can vouch for The Wrath and The Dawn, though, because I was pleasantly surprised by it! On the other hand, I can’t get through Chronicles of Narnia– I just couldn’t hold my attention.
My TTT: https://brownbooksandgreentea.com/2016/06/28/what-am-i-reading-next/
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Awesome! I will definitely read The Wrath and The Dawn without doubt as I’ve heard so many great things about it. I’ll take a look at your TTT too 🙂
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Landline and Attachments are on my list of books to read too. I am not usually a fan of overhyped books but I loved the audiobook of Eleanor & Park.
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I haven’t listened to the audiobook yet! I usually stick with well known authors as it usually feels ‘safer’, but I’m always cautious around overhyped books as they do tend to let me down often..
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I know the feeling. It does suck when that happens. The audiobook is pretty awesome and I am glad I actually came to her work that way. Mostly because the voice performances are so well done.
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Wow! I haven’t listened to ANY audiobooks actually, but I really want to as so many people have told me that the words actually being read out loud makes the book so much more intriguing.
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It really can. Sometime it is much more of a performance that anything else. I’ve been reviewing what I am listening to because I feel like audiobooks can open up a world and it’s really just another way to digest a story. We did read-a-louds in school and I actually always like it when a teacher read, particularly if they were a good speaker.
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That sounds awesome! I’ll take a look at your reviews as this seems super interesting!
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You can. I actually have a page under “reading challenges” that lists all my audiobook reviews. It’s not very pretty at the moment but I am working on it
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Also I am a fellow Slytherin. 🙂
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Awesome! 🐍
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