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I am using my Goodreads TBR for this, and it looks like the first book I added was The Wanderers. Not a bad pick considering the next several are dense history books!
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay has been on my Goodreads TBR since August 2007. Guess it's time to finally read it.
I re-did my Goodreads TBR the summer of 2017 and deleted everything and started fresh. Mine will be the next book in the Harry Bosch series for me... Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
According to Goodreads, Ruta Sepetys Out of the Easy has been on my TBR the longest - since 2015 which I think is when I started using it - and I’ve been hoping to use it to fill a prompt, check!! Love this author so much.
My oldest is Cathy Lamb's The Last Time I was Me. I added it 5/10/2015.
I added them en masse to Goodreads last November, so I'll go with the first alphabetically from that group:A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
I have multiple TBRs including print books on my shelves going back to the 1980s. I might end up making this oldest on my Good Reads Want to Read simply because I can pinpoint the oldest.
Lady Parts has been on my TBR list for close to six years. I love Andrea Martin, this should be fun to read.
The oldest addition to my TBR was Ender's Game, because I guess I made my goodreads account when I was obsessed with dystopian stories, but I remember at some point hearing Orson Scott Card was a dick and deciding not to read him after all. So after deleting that one, that leaves Animal Farm as the oldest which I am very okay with.
67 books tie for the one on my goodreads list the longest. I might go with The Tao of Pooh, I also have it on audio, or one of the myriad Gorey books.
Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir. I picked it up from the proofs/no-returns stack in the staffroom of Waterstones when I worked there...15 years ago!
The book that's been on my gr tbr the longest (that I haven't read yet) is The Fault in Our Stars. Well that's embarrassing 🙈
The oldest book on my Goodreads TBR is The Great Railway Bazaar, which I added in June 2009, so basically the day I joined. That said, I'm not entirely sure I'm so keen to read this anymore (though, was I ever? heh) so I might take this one off my list and go with the next-oldest, Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams.
For 2020, I really focused on curating my TBR list by truly examining the older titles on the list and either committing to reading them or deleting them. I read all the books that had been lingering for years or deleted them, which makes my oldest book Oryx and Crake added in April 2019. I'm so excited that the advanced categories for the challenge focus on the TBR list because it will help me keep going in the right direction with that.
For me, this is The Fellowship of the Ring. I've been meaning to read TLOTR forever. I've read The Hobbit more than once and have The Silmarillion on my TBR.
I have 17 books that I added to my TBR on the first day I started using it, so looks like I get to choose!
ugh the book that has been on my TBR the longest is A Natural History of Dragons. Hopefully I like it *fingers crossed*.
@Mahi that's so good! glad you have options. I literally only have just the one book. it's so weird that I added just one book the day I made my GR account.
Finally I have read the book that has been on my TBR forever, In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing, and I really enjoyed it.
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King, The Other Queen by Phillipa Gregory,
and several "Dirk Pitt" titles by Clive Cussler have been on my list since 08/04/2011! those are the oldest dates, but sadly not the only titles on my TBR list
I finally got around to reading City of the Gods this weekend after owning it for literally a decade. I enjoyed the book and marking it as read after all these years on my to-read shelf.
The oldest book on my TBR is Bridget Jones' Diary. Started it this morning and am about 1 hour into the audiobook and really not liking it. If I DNF this, do I still consider the challenge prompt completed or move to the next oldest book on the list?
Courtney wrote: "The oldest book on my TBR is Bridget Jones' Diary. Started it this morning and am about 1 hour into the audiobook and really not liking it. If I DNF this, do I still consider the challenge prompt c..."If you don't finish, I would move on to the next on the list. I don't think you can call a DNF book a completed category.
I read that book for a book my bf would like. We saw the movie and liekd it, but the book sucked. I don't think it's going to get any better for you, so if you're thinking of DNFing, I would cut and run now.
I would consider the prompt completed if you made a good faith effort but the book let you down. Once you have at least attempted all 40 or 50 prompts, consider how much time is left in the year and what alternative are out there for books that you have DNF'ed. What is your motive for participating in the challenge? If you are succeeding with regards to your own motive, then it does not matter if you do not approach the challenge exactly the same way as someone else. There is no police force, judge, or jury involved here.
I'm having to qualify a lot of these "on your TBR" prompts, as I was born with a TBR shelf. Seriously, I have books that are older than I am that I have had my entire life.So for this one, I decided to go with the first AudioFile SYNC download that I haven't listened to yet, and that was Swing.
I added Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller in 2016. This prompt made me finally borrow it from the library. It's sadder than I expected, so I'm still working on it after several months (and it's not a big book).
I used The Third Man by Graham Greene. It has been on my TBR list since 2/11/2015. 3 stars.
The lemonade war is the longest amount of time...
has been on my TBR since 2010. I've enjoyed other books by this author. I don't know why I never got to this one. But I will read it this year.
I read "Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop" by Ben Westhoff
Christina wrote: "The book that's been on my gr tbr the longest (that I haven't read yet) is The Fault in Our Stars. Well that's embarrassing 🙈"I haven't read it either, although I do not believe it is on my TBR. However, my sister did buy me the movie after it came out and I still haven't watched it!
I'm using Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin. I originally read it for the Nato prompt on ATY, but it is a book that I have been meaning to read for years. Despite some sensual writing, I found it disappointing overall.
I threw Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage on my Goodreads TBR shelf years ago because an artist I enjoy took their online name from it, and boy did this prompt make me regret that decision!
Fudoki (by Kij Johnson) has been on my goodreads shelf since September 30, 2011. Almost 10 years! I don't know why I didn't get to it sooner except that you never get to everything you want to read.I recommend it! It's a Japanese fantasy/myth retelling, and the author is excellent.
I can't remember the exact book that is on my mental TBR since I was very young, but the book I have on my Goodreads tbr for the longest is Linger by Maggie Stiefvater.
The very first book I added to my TBR list was Reading in the Wild. That was several years ago! This challenge encouraged me to buy it on Audible and finish it already. Glad I did! Lots of useful information I'll use in my classroom this year.
The oldest book on my TBR list was Dracula. October seemed like the perfect month to finally read it.
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We all have those stragglers that we've been meaning to get to for ages. For me, that's either Girl with a Pearl Earring or The Knight & The Wizard duology.
Since TBRs are unique to each reader, I did not create a Listopia for this.