Books I Must Read in 2013

After posting about my ridiculously large sized TBR pile here (which doesn't obviously include all my ebooks as well!!) I decided to make a list of the books I already own that I vow to read before the end of 2013.

Here is my list:




1) Fallen by Lauren Kate
2) Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3) The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
4) Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
5) The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
6) Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
7) Seriously, I'm Kidding by Ellen Degeneres
8) Life of Pi by Yann Martel

These are all books that I remember getting so excited about when they came out or when I first discovered them and then they promptly got lost in my ever growing TBR pile to never see the light of day again.

Well, not anymore! I'm going to try very, very hard to include at least one of these in my reading pile every month until I get them all done.

Has anyone else made a bit of a 'must-do' reading list or am I the only hopeful one?

Michelle

My Personal 'Mt TBR'

The other day I got this crazy idea to pull out from my bookshelves all of the physical books that I own which I haven't read yet.

Seriously, why do we do these things to ourselves??

Anyway, here is what my official 'Mt TBR' looks like:

In one way it's not as bad as I imagined it would be, but on the other hand it's still a pretty daunting pile of books (some are serious chunksters!) When they were all in their little spots on the shelves (I arrange mine in a weird order of favourite authors from top to bottom) it didn't seem so bad, but now I know exactly what I have to get through I'm feeling very daunted.

The thing is, there are so many titles here that I have been dying to get to but other stuff just keeps getting in the way. I really need to start making a monthly reading plan to include some of these now in between my review books I think.

Unfortunately this isn't all of my TBR books either. I have 30-ish ebooks on my Kindle too which I need to get through one day. I've been surprisingly good with resisting a lot of the free kindle deals lately so I can keep the numbers I have on there down to a semi-decent level.

So, one of my New years resolutions is to not buy any more books until I get through at least 5 of these first. I think that's reasonable enough. I'd love to try and enforce a total book buying ban on myself until I have these babies all finished but who would I be kidding??

I wonder if there is a Obsessive Book Buyer Anonymous group or something I can join to manage my little problem?

Does anyone else like to shock themselves now and then like me? Do you also have a ridiculously large pile of books to read but just keep buying more??

Michelle