09 - A book you meant to read in 2018

[Sara]

The list of books I meant to read is always so long!

There are several classics I didn't get to this year that I may use to fill this prompt. What books didn't make the cut for your 2018 reading?

[Kerry]

Les Misérables and Little Women

[Anabell]

The Throne of glass series. I am trying to fit them in to several prompts so hopefully I will catch up this year. I have plenty to choose from this is not going to be a problem.

[Michelle]

The City & the City

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

I don't specifically plan my reading by year, so I might wait to plan this one and just read something that was high on my list to read 'next' at the end of the year. Otherwise, pretty much any of my already-owned TBR seem fair to count.

[Britany]

Two standouts from my list are:

Force of Nature & Still Me

[Shannon]

I bought a box set of the The Lord of the Rings books recently, but haven't got round to starting. It's been at least a decade since I read them!

[Nadine in NY]

Ugh this prompt. My TBR is enormous - of course I "meant" to read all of them. So which ONE do I pick?

[Tracy]

All of them.....I meant to read all of them .Ugh. I'm actually afraid to print the list and start planning right now, although at a glance I feel like I can just basically overlap my ATY plan.

[Brandyn]

Anabell wrote: "The Throne of glass series. I am trying to fit them in to several prompts so hopefully I will catch up this year. I have plenty to choose from this is not going to be a problem."

Ditto - I'm 4 books behind I think. I swore I'd binge them this year and just didn't get there. 2019 is the year.

[Kelsey]

I have the first two of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer so I'm going to try and fit the rest of the series in somewhere.

[Tracy]

Kelsey wrote: "I have the first two of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer so I'm going to try and fit the rest of the series in somewhere."

I read this last year and REALLY wanted to know what happened but then I just didn't squeeze it in :/

I fit most of what I didn't get to into prompts but there was a middle grade that I had planned with my daughter we didn't get on our list so I put it here. The Tiger Rising.

[Jenny]

This one will be easy, I'll just pick a new release in 2018 that I wanted to read and didn't get to. I have a long list to choose from! Just depends on what I read the rest of this year.

[Lindi]

So my whole TBR lol.

[Ellie]

*shakes off list*

I'll use this prompt to read a book I was excited enough about to pre-order but then never got round to reading. Or maybe a review book I never got round to.

My forgotten 2018 pre-orders as of today:
I Was Born for This
Puddin'
How Do You Like Me Now?
Kingdom of Ash
The One Who Wrote Destiny

[Rachael]

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari is my pick

[Rachelnyc]

Yeah, this is a weird one to try to plan. I guess I will just use the first book I read that I added to my TBR in 2018 that doesn't work for another prompt.

[Brittany]

Lindi wrote: "So my whole TBR lol."

My thoughts exactly. I think I'm going to use this as an opportunity to read a book in a series. Sometimes its hard to fit series into prompts and I just never end up getting a chance to continue on. I'm thinking maybe The Last of August

[Milena]

I think I am going to read a book that I originally planned for Popsugar 2018, but then had to change my plan due to time constraints or library holds coming in or something. Like Middlemarch.

[Tina]

Too many!! So many books unread on my shelves and even a couple review copies that I did not get to this year.

[Milena]

Or a book I only got halfway through in 2018, like Milkman.

[Kenya]

Way too many! Though I bought An Absolutely Remarkable Thing fully intending to read it this year, but it can wait a little longer. Could also work for "debut novel" too.

[SadieReadsAgain]

Man, I could have so many books here... So I'm going to make it easy and just use this prompt to pick up on the audiobook of Bad Feminist that I started and then stalled on during the October Readathon, seeing as I don't think I'm going to get a chance to finish it in 2018.

[Lindi]

Milena wrote: "I think I am going to read a book that I originally planned for Popsugar 2018, but then had to change my plan due to time constraints or library holds coming in or something."

I like that idea! Narrows it down a bit. I think I'll go with The Song of Achilles.

[Serendipity]

I've got three main contenders. I should get to one or maybe two of them before the year ends but I doubt Ill get to all three - especially now I have an incentive not to! So either The Great Believers or The Time in Between or Moloka'i.

[Alice]

I think I'll also go with something that I'd planned for this year's challenge but didn't end up reading, maybe Outlander or Gone with the Wind

[Tracy]

Alice wrote: "I think I'll also go with something that I'd planned for this year's challenge but didn't end up reading, maybe Outlander or Gone with the Wind"

I envy anyone who is reading Outlander or GWTW for the first time.

I was just watching Outlander last night and I want to read it again so badly...for the 4th time. *sigh*

Maybe I'll throw the audio on while I clean today. Good plan. I like it. And the narrator is fabulous. And she doesn't butcher the Gaelic, so thats how I learned how to pronounce all those words ( also google). I mean theres a big difference between how I tried to pronounce Geillis and Laoghrie in my head and how they are REALLY pronounced 😂. Its such a pretty sounding language if you don't butcher it.

[redatt]

Lindi wrote: "So my whole TBR lol."

Yeah, I've just written 'LOL' on my plan for this one :-D

[Trina]

I'm with all you, how to narrow this down haha I think I will just wing it and pick pretty much anything off my shelf when I'm in the mood for a specific genre. Definitely not choosing right now anyway haha that is too overwhelming

[Jessica]

Any/all from my TBR list, but I think this gives me a good reason to go back and Finish Crazy Rich Asians since I started in September, and got too busy with book club books and work to finish it.

[Shelley]

I use prompts like this to either check out the oldest book I have on my library wishlist (Birdsong) or as an excuse to buy the oldest book on my TBR that I haven't been able to find yet (The Portable Door). Not sure which one I'll end up going with.

[Jackie]

I'll probably decide this by saying anything I added to my tbr in 2018 counts. Otherwise, I'd have 400 books to choose from.

[L Y N N]

Jessica wrote: "Any/all from my TBR list, but I think this gives me a good reason to go back and Finish Crazy Rich Asians since I started in September, and got too busy with book club books and wor..."

I really enjoyed that one!

[Tytti]

Tracy wrote: "Alice wrote: "I think I'll also go with something that I'd planned for this year's challenge but didn't end up reading, maybe Outlander or Gone with the Wind"

I envy anyone who is reading Outlander or GWTW for the first time."

I loved GWTW when I read it as a child but thought that Outlander was boring and badly written, especially the second half of it. She would have needed an editor to cut some of it.

[David]

I too have lots to choose from, so it just depends which of them I could use for other prompts. Possibilities include...

The Argonauts (Probably using this for my book with two-word title)
The Beauty Myth (Might be my recommended by a celebrity you admire one)
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The Hate U Give
Rebecca
The Chronicles of Amber
The Inverted World (Though I'm hoping to squeeze this in before the end of the year)

[Ruby]

Just a thought for those of you that have too many to pick from, why not give each book a number and then use a random number generator, or have a friend/ family member pick one for you.

[Ruth]

At least this is better than last year's "a book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't." The lack of "but didn't" means I can simply pick a book I read last year and read it again. Last year I lucked out by having a stack of library books I'd taken out in December that I hadn't gotten to by January.

This prompt SUCKS for those of us who don't plan our reading lists so carefully! I don't really "plan to read" books until I take them out of the library, at which point I generally DO read them within a few weeks.

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Ruthla8 wrote: "At least this is better than last year's "a book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't." The lack of "but didn't" means I can simply pick a book I read last year and read it again. Last year I lucke..."

I don't do a reading plan for the year either, so I just count any book that I've generally been meaning to read, especially if it's high on my list.

[Ellie]

I'm not a big planner, but I make little TBR lists up some months and fail to stick to them. You could always make yourself a December TBR list, not read them all and then you're sorted for this prompt!

[SadieReadsAgain]

It could always just be a book you'd thought I need to read that...but didn't.

[Carolina]

I'm going to go with either O Fio das Missangas or Homens Imprudentemente Poéticos :)

[Rachel]

I kind of naturally assumed this was a book that you meant to read but didn't. It's fine for me because there are several options I had in mind and ended up switching out for something else, but it could also be interpreted as a newer release that you wanted to get to last year but ran out of time for.

[Sara]

I plan to read A Whole New World for this part of this challenge. I check this book out twice from my library but never read it.

[Dessie]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, choosing this one to also combine it with one of the choices from my irl book club.

[Kelly]

I don't think I'm going to get to White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America this year, maybe in 2019??

[Marie]

I'm sitting and looking at All the Light We Cannot See, Just reading the first pages, I know it's a thing of beauty.

[Teri]

I checked out several books from the library last year that I didn't have time to read (I have a bad habit of putting too many things on hold), so I'll pick one from the following:

Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
The Iliad by Homer
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

[Sarah]

For me I'll be choosing from the below;

The Heart's Invisible Furies
Thirteen
Only Child

[Thomas]

The only book i can ise for thos is Memoirs of Giesha

[Lacey (bookishlace)]

Unfortunately I was 8 books short of my 2018 reading challenge so I have a few I could choose for this prompt. I'm considering these:
The Innocent Man, John Grisham
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
No Stone Unturned, Steve Jackson
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara