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| Top Ten… Books I Still Haven’t Read |
Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! This week we’re looking at the books which have been gathering dust on your TBR the longest.
If you’re anything like me, then your to read list is dominated with series that you’ve started and left incomplete. Before you know it, you’ve got a mountain of books tumbling off your shelves in need of reading as you struggle to claw your way out from under them. Such is the life of a fantasy addict.
After rifling through said mountain, I bring to you my Top Ten… Books I Still Haven’t Read – a list comprising some of my all time favourite authors whose work I shame myself in neglecting. Realising you have a problem, they say, is the first step to recovery… so here’s to catching up in 2018!
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Book Six of The Wheel of Time
by Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos, Book Six of The Wheel of Time, has been on my to read list for years. Years. Four whole years and six semi-whole months if we’re being exact and open to the full weight of judgement. I even have the next three books in the series sitting on the shelf next to their predecessor! But, with a list as long as my arm and a mind ever prone to distraction, I still haven’t got round to reading them… 2018 will be the year! I’m sure of it. Honest.
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Book Two of Shattered Sea
by Joe Abercrombie
I’ve been to see Joe Abercrombie more times than I can count on my hands and have more signed books than is entirely right from an author who has published ten books. This hasn’t stopped me however from relegating Half the World and its successor, Half a War, to the metaphorical mountain of doom! Having read half the book and finding myself moving house in June 2017, it was left behind with so many book friends to keep my parents company until I could furnish my library with bookcases. Eight months later and the problem has only just been rectified. Little steps.
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Book Eight of Shadows of the Apt
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Shadows of the Apt series is one of my fantasy favourites and Adrian Tchaikovsky has only gone from strength to strength since its publication. But even with a love as great as this, actually making my way round to reading The Air War has taken considerably longer than expected. With only three books remaining in the series, and with numerous additional offerings from its author, it’s about time Book Eight was dusted off.
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Book Two of the Stormlight Archives
No matter how big a Brandon Sanderson tome is, it’s never quite big enough to satisfy my cravings for more. Yet even with an addictive master storyteller like Sanderson I stay true to form; leaving Words of Radiance, the second book in what might be my favourite Sanderson series, gathering cobwebs on my bookshelf. And with Oathbringer now providing familial company to its predecessor, it’s high time Words of Radiance got the attention, and the dust off, it deserves.
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Book Two of Raven’s Shadow
by Anthony Ryan
The first book in the Raven’s Shadow series, Blood Song, was a tour de force in the fantasy genre and one of my favourite books of 2015 (yes, it came out in 2012 but I neglected to read it for several years – why change the habit of a lifetime). However, with Tower Lord and Queen of Fire still on my book mountain, and several intermediate short stories, the adventures of Vaelin Al Sorna are, for me, still very much in their infancy.
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Book Two of the Powder Mage Trilogy
by Brian McClellan
Promise of Blood was undoubtedly one of my favourite books of 2016 – to say it blew me away would be an understatement, this series opener was phenomenal. In spite of this unwavering praise and the bloody pedestal upon which Mr. McClellan has now been raised, The Crimson Campaign still remains unopened, unread and appears only as ornament on my overcrowded shelves.
Book Two of The Broken Empire
by Mark Lawrence
King of Thorn, the sequel to Prince of Thorns, has been abandoned to shelfdom for far too long. The excitement following the completion of its predecessor soon gave way to forgetfulness and King of Thorns was doomed to spend year upon year as a top shelf dust collector. But no more! The vacuum has been enlisted, the shelves have been cleaned and the second novel in The Broken Empire trilogy is in sight once more.
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Book Four of the Demon Cycle
by Peter V. Brett
The Daylight War, the third book in Peter V. Brett’s Demon Cycle left us on more than a metaphorical cliffhanger and, following its completion, The Skull Throne took very little time winging its way to me. But this signed hardback has become little more than a decoration as book upon book put it to the back of my mind, if not the back of my shelf. But with the release of The Core last year, The Skull Throne has made it to the head of the queue.
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Book Three of The Reckoners
by Brandon Sanderson
After reading the first two Reckoners novels, I was lucky enough to win a hardcover copy of Calamity through Goodreads; but this fortune still didn’t exempt Calamity from an early life on a pile of books. Now restored to the illustrious rank of the shelved, the third book in The Reckoners series has more than a little chance of being read this year.
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Book Two of Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
My natural aversion to Young Adult fiction was overcome by the glowing reviews received by Red Rising. They didn’t exaggerate, I was not disappointed – Red Rising is incredible. But all incredible books should have a successor that remains unread for far too long and Golden Son has no problems in assuming this position. Recommended to friends long before I even remembered to read it, Golden Son is definitely earmarked for 2018.
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I read and thought Promise of Blood was great. Read all the novellas leading up book 2, and thought were great as well. But, I still haven’t read Crimson Campaign yet either XD
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I need to read the novellas too!!! My book mountain just got a whole lot bigger!
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I have not read any Sanderson or Abercrombie yet, sadly…
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I haven’t read these authors, but these covers look epic!
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They’re all from my stockpile of favourite authors so I definitely recommend! And you’re right, the covers really are gorgeous! 😀
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The cover for Golden Sun is very pretty. I hope you like it when you do get a chance to read it.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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Thank you! I can’t wait to get started on it! 😀
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I have had the first three Red Rising books on my Kindle for what seems like forever. I think this might be the year to get one read. ☺
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Red Rising was brilliant! I really hope you enjoy it 😀
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I’m actually relatively good at keeping up with series, most of the books on my TBR that I haven’t read yet are series starters!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/top-ten-tuesday-145/
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I think my problem is the majority of my books come from series so inevitably sit on my shelf too long!!! 😀
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Fair enough! I still have a few series to finish/catch up on myself.
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I think our taste in books is very similar! Although I never got far in ‘The Wheel of Time’ 😀 i just started the ‘Shadows of the Apt’ series this year and ‘Promise of Blood’ was one of my highlights from last year. I just started ‘Oathbringer’ as well but am a little bit in a reading slump and not very far..
Hope you get to all of those books soon! We poor Fantasy readers can’t help starting so many series – there’s not much else!! 😀
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Thanks! – I think we do! 😀 I just bought Oathbringer in hopes that I find my way to Words of Radiance soon! I absolutely love Sanderson so I feel a bit guilty for not reading it yet… reader’s guilt! It’s definitely a thing, I’m sure!
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Hmm, I’m not familiar with most of these, although I’ve heard that I should check out The Reckoners. I do have a bunch of series that I need to make progress with… it never ends!
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Lol! Lord of Chaos has been on my TBR for almost as long. I’ve tried again and again to drum up interest to continue with the series, since I have the book, but it’s hard. The characters are so annoying that I find it hard to continue though I’m really interested to find out how things will play out and learn more about that world.
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I definitely have to give a shout out for Mark Lawrence and Brandon Sanderson. Happy reading.
Lynn 😀
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Thank you! 😀
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