Litsy

I‘ve given it WAY too much thought, and come up with this for my #booketlist @RaeLovesToRead

It‘s a mixture of books that have been on my shelves FOREVER, but I haven‘t read because I‘m saving them for best (!?), some non-fiction that I‘ve always wanted to read, but had to go out and buy first (thank you 🙃) a couple (or 4) that i‘d started/loved, but disappeared into my overwhelm and disorganisation, and Armorel of Lyonesse because why not?

RaeLovesToRead Aww, lovely! I also keep saving books "for best" ? I'm going to try and just read them ? 2y

rockpools @RaeLovesToRead It seems to be a very unhelpful habit I‘ve fallen into over the years. If I can get all 10 done by next April, I‘ll be v happy! (edited) 2y

RaeLovesToRead That's the beauty of the Booket list! Makes you think about which books you truly want to read! 🥰🥰 2y

45 likes3 comments

jenniferw88

The Hemlock Cure | JOANNE. BURN

A few days late but here's my #booketlist @RaeLovesToRead . I'm still working on my apocalypse list!

1. The Sun over the Mountains
2. Oh Miriam!
3. Bleeding Heart Yard
4. Tagged
5. The Book of Form and Emptiness
6. The Marriage Portrait
7. The Great Passion
8. Rivers of London
9. Assassin's Apprentice
10. The Escape Artist

Some of these have been recommended several times over the years/on the tbr forever, so using this to finally read them!

RaeLovesToRead Fab list!!! Assassin's Apprentice is one of my all time faves 😊 2y

48 likes1 comment

Cupcake12

Untitled | Untitled

#booketlist
📕It starts with us by Colleen Hoover
📕The Retreat by Sarah Pearse
📕Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
📕The House in the cerulean sea by TJ Klune
📕If he had been with me by Laura Nowlin
📕The Cat lady by Dawn O Porter
📕Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer
📕The Treehouse Library by Anna James
📕None of this is true by Lisa Jewell
📕The Selection by Kiera Cass
Thank you for the tag @dabbe

dabbe I put a lot of these on my TBR: thanks! 💚🤗💚 2y

28 likes1 comment

Larkken

System Collapse | Martha Wells

Since the tagged is, sadly, not out yet, here‘s a running #booketlist of 1) books on my shelf that are literally calling to me + 2) books to library hold.
Lists = ❤️ and since I already have monthly lists of Shame (#roll100‘s reminder to Read the Books I Own😅) and whimsy (#bookspin), I love the idea of using this quarterly to remind myself of books I put on my tbr (or *cough*bought*cough*) bc something about them really grabbed me!
#booket001

RaeLovesToRead

RaeLovesToRead I've got 3 & 4 on my shelf too! Particularly excited about 4! Anything by Emily St. John Mandel is pretty special. My fave being the Glass Hotel. I will definitely be repeating this when I've read my priority picks 😁😁😁 It has been a big reminder to READ THE SECRET HISTORY!!!!! And to find out what happens to Fitz and the Fool. 2y

Larkken @RaeLovesToRead St. John Mandel has been excellent! I have been working my way through her backlist and found this at the used bookstore like half a year ago… so of course it has been glaring at me from my bookshelf ever since rather than me just reading it already lol. This is a good exercise!! 2y

21 likes2 comments

Ruthiella

Untitled | Untitled

1. The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
2. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Chatten
3. Sugar Money by Jane Harris
4. Shrines of Gaity by Kate Atkinson
5. War and Peace by Tolstoy
6. John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope
7. The Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong‘o
8. Tombland by C.J. Samson
9. The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
10. The Road through the Wall by Shirley Jackson

Based on books I own IRL. Tough choices! 😅 Glad it‘s all hypothetical. #booketlist

RaeLovesToRead

BarbaraBB I‘ve read the first two and they are perfect choices! 2y

BarbaraBB Oh and the Tolstoj. Also a good one to end the world with! (edited) 2y

Ruthiella @BarbaraBB I tried to pick long ones! 😂 Sadly, many have been on my shelf for years and I still have not read them. 2y

See All 6 Comments

RaeLovesToRead 🥰🥰🥰 2y

Larkken The wizard of the crow has been on my list for a long time too eep 2y

Ruthiella @Larkken I bought my copy in 2010! 😳 2y

53 likes6 comments

dabbe

Untitled | Untitled

@RaeLovesToRead 🤗
#booketlist
1. All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr
2. Cosmos: Carl Sagan
3. Complete Works of William Shakespeare
4. 100 Years of Solitude: GM Garcia
5. The Pillars of the Earth: Ken Follett
6. The Princess Bride: William Goldman
7. To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf
8. The Wind in the Willows: Kenneth Grahame
9. Don Quixote: M de Cervantes
10. A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawkings
#whewagain #somechunkstershere

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks This will be difficult!! Lol 😆 2y

dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks It was! I chose some serious chunksters, too! I will get to these, I hope ... someday! 🤣 2y

RaeLovesToRead 1, 5 and 7 on my TBR too! 2y

See All 15 Comments

RaeLovesToRead And 4! The Princess Bride is really good, but A Brief History of Time I pored over for ages and was still no closer to understanding quantum physics or the space-time continuum 😅😅 2y

TheBookHippie The wind in the willows is such fun! Don Quixote is very good as well. 2y

TheBookHippie Oh and Woolf!!! So good! 2y

Cupcake12 Great question! This could take some time for me to work out! 2y

batsy Ooh, great list. Shakespeare, Woolf, Sagan! And I adore The Wind in the Willows. 2y

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead 🥰💚🤗 2y

dabbe @batsy 😊💚🤗 2y

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead I haven't even tried. Now I'm scared! 🤣 2y

dabbe @TheBookHippie 😊💚🤗 2y

dabbe @Cupcake12 Can't wait to see what you post! 🤗 2y

JuniperWilde Excellent list 📚 2y

dabbe @JuniperWilde 🥰 2y

57 likes15 comments

RaeLovesToRead

Untitled | Unknown

Just as you are all pondering your booket lists... THE APOCALYPSE HAPPENS and you've got to be pretty quick in selecting which books to take on the dystopian adventure / journey / Triffid-avoiding hike you're about to go on...

Which books get thrown in the rucksack?!

#ihavequestions

(Disclaimer: No books were harmed in the making of this thought experiment ❤)

UPDATE: OK you can have 15. It's a big rucksack...🤣🤣

RaeLovesToRead Fancy playing? @dabbe @Branwen @IndoorDame @Ruthiella @batsy @TheBookHippie @Larkken @DaveGreen7777 @jenniferw88 @Susanita @CBee @AvidReader25 @Clare-Dragonfly @julesG 2y

RaeLovesToRead @The_Penniless_Author meant to tag you too! 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 2y

dabbe I'm still pondering! Guess I wouldn't last long in the apocalypse! 🤣 I promise to post today! 🤗 2y

See All 18 Comments

The_Penniless_Author Sure you did, Rae. Sure you did 😑 2y

RaeLovesToRead @dabbe This is for books you want to save, whereas #booketlist is for books you want to read (probably new books!) 😀 Feel free to answer both, either or neither! 2y

dabbe Wow! I've got some homework to do! #loveit 💚 2y

RaeLovesToRead @dabbe Hehe... Actually, I will allow 15 for this one... and this definitely has nothing to do with the fact that I just ran around my room gathering apocalypse books and realised I couldn't choose. Nope. Definitely wasn't that 🤭😶😏 2y

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead 🤣🤣🤣 2y

julesG Well.... I have 6 Kindle. So, six Kindle filled to bursting, three solar charging units, one large powerbank. Cables fit in my trouser pocket. Bam!!! 😈🤣🤣🤣 2y

jenniferw88 Are you counting series as one or individually? 2y

RaeLovesToRead @julesG It's the end of the world!!! No electricity! No sunshine!!!!! Think The Road by Cormac McCarthy... (nice try, though 😉) 2y

RaeLovesToRead @jenniferw88 For this one, just actual physical books! (For #booketlist I count non-standalone series as one) Feel free to interpret however you like though 😁 2y

CBee Ooooo now this one I think I can do! 2y

AvidReader25 This is the hardest question!!! 2y

batsy Aaaargh (the sound of me screaming as I try to chuck only 15 books into the rucksack...) 2y

Branwen This is an absolute nightmare scenario! 😱😂 2y

Larkken @julesG this was my immediate thought… and now I have to actually pick physical books that are in my possession? oof 2y

RaeLovesToRead @Larkken Bwah ha haaaaaa 😈😁🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿don't mind me sitting here with the popcorn! (Although I keep remembering other books that I can't cope without!!) 2y

52 likes18 comments

RaeLovesToRead

Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy | Robin Hobb

#booketlist

1) The rest of Fitz & The Fool
2) The Secret History
3) A Day of Fallen Night
4) The Chemickal Marriage
5) Sovereign
6) Death on the Nile
7) Babel
8) Pillars of the Earth
9) Moonflower Murders
10) The Mirror & the Light

Ok. Yes. That's it.

JamieArc The Secret History wouldn‘t be on mine as well. And perhaps Babel. 2y

RaeLovesToRead @JamieArc I'm so excited for some dark academia! 😁 2y

JamieArc @RaeLovesToRead Me too! 2y

43 likes3 comments

The_Penniless_Author

Book Lovers Bucket List | Caroline Taggart

#booketlist Ok, @RaeLovesToRead , you asked for it. A very unscientific list, in no particular order:

1. My Phantoms- Gwendoline Riley
2. Perdido Street Station- China Mieville
3. White Noise - Don Delillo
4. The Lady Killer- Masako Togawa
5. Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury
6. Turtle Diary- Russell Hoban
7. A Drinking Life- Pete Hamill
8. Escape Velocity- Charles Portis
9. Jailbird- Kurt Vonnegut
10. Piranesi- Susanna Clarke

RaeLovesToRead Yes! These are your to-readables, yeah?? Let me process.... I am also planning on read the Togawa and the Mieville (have them on my shelves now!) 2y

RaeLovesToRead Have 1 on my Kindle and also want to read 3 & 5 2y

RaeLovesToRead Have read Piranesi. It's good, but not as good as, say, buying a book on actual Piranesi and looking through his gorgeous drawings. It was OK, but not booketlist material 2y

See All 8 Comments

RaeLovesToRead If the world is ending, grab something else is what I'm saying! 2y

The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead I mean, if the world were ending I would read my ten favorite books over again, not something new. These are just ten books I'm planning on reading in the near future. 2y

monalyisha I absolutely adore Dandelion Wine! White Noise is one of the few books I‘ve read (voluntarily) more than once. It‘s been awhile now but it‘s one that digs its claws into you. Both Piranesi & Turtle Diary are on my TBR. Great list! 2y

The_Penniless_Author @monalyisha Dandelion Wine has been my wife's favorite book (or at least one of her favorites) for years. It's one of those books I've been meaning to read forever, but every time it creeps up to the top of my TBR something else comes along to distract me. I'm making finishing it one of my 2023 resolutions! 2y

monalyisha @The_Penniless_Author I think late summer is a pretty perfect time to read it…but really, whenever you can! 2y

32 likes8 comments

RaeLovesToRead

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution | R. F. Kuang

Fickle Rae has decided that she needs these two on her #booketlist

But which to oust in favour?

Bye bye Captain Corelli... and... oh no! I'm stuck!

Why do I set these challenges 😭😅

Branwen Okay, Babel is SO SO GOOD! You NEED to keep that one! 2y

RaeLovesToRead @Branwen I saw the map of Babel and nearly swooned 🥰🥰 2y

65 likes2 comments

Welcome to Litsy!

Trending Hashtags

Trending Books