TBR Shelf Slaying in Action

I didn’t set myself any challenges or goals (apart from my annual Goodreads one) at the beginning of this year like so many of us do, because every year I have I’ve failed miserably. I do know however, that this year I NEED to start reading all of the (real) books that have been gathering dust on my to-be-read shelves.

Some of the books below have been sitting there for over five years, and some a matter of months, and this is why I’m nearly always on a book-buying ban!

Well, 2016 is the year My Friends. In an attempt to keep me motivated to pick these books up instead of buying new ones or requesting too many ARCs, I’ll be incorporating a TBR Shelf Slaying update on my monthly round-up posts.

I’ve told myself that at the end of the year, anything over 30 books on this shelf are going to a charity shop (I’ve already taken 30!). Seriously, this book thing is like a sickness. They’re harder to get rid of than vampires. Help!

I will also do a monthly(ish) vote on which books I should choose, so please let me know if you loved or hated any of these!

1. Only Ever Yours: Louise O’Neill
2. Snow Queen: Hans Christian Andersen
3. Half a King: Joe Abercrombie
4. The Merciless: Danielle Vega
5. Angel of Vengeance: Trevor Munson
6. Amber Fury: Natalie Haynes
7. Fairy Tales: Carol Anne Duffy
8. Blood Storm: Sam Millar
9. The Saint of Dragons: Jason Hightman
10. Rover Saves Christmas: Roddy Doyle
11. The Meanwhile Adventures: Roddy Doyle
12. The Letter for the King: Tonke Dragt
13. Beautiful Creatures: Kami Garcia
14. Don’t Look Back: Erica Spindler
15. Alice in Zombieland: Gena Showalter
16. Iron knight: Julie Kagawa
17. Red Bones: Anne Cleeves
18. In Your Face: Scarlett Thomas
19. Afterworlds: Scott Westerfeld
20. Matched: Aly Conde
21. The Red House: Mark Haddon
22. Daughter: Jane Shemilt
23. Amber: Amy Keen
24. I Capture the Castle: Dodie Smith
25. The Shadow of the Wind: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
26. The Prisoner of Heaven: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
27. The Fault in our Stars: John Green
28. The Immortal Rules: Julie Kagawa
29. The Sealed Letter: Emma Donoghue
30. Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Laini Taylor
31. No Time for Goodbye: Linwood Barclay
32. Red Riding Hood: Blakely-Cartwright & Johnson
33. Extras: Scott Westerfeld
34. Being: Kevin Brooks
35. Snow White and the Seven Samurai: Tom Holt
36. The Ruby and the Smoke: Philip Pullman
37. Sorry: Zoran Drvenkar
38. The Historian: Elizabeth Kostova
39. The Tiger in the Well: Philip Pullman
40. House of Many Ways: Diana Wynne Jones
41. The Story Sisters – Alice Hoffman
42. Tipping the Velvet: Sarah Waters
43. Middlesex: Jeffrey Eugenides
44. Wizard’s Ward: Deborah Hale
45. Arthur, the Seeing Stone: Kevin Crossley-Holland
46. Trainspotting: Irvine Welsh
47. Hand me Down World: Lloyd Jones
48. The Book of Skulls: Robert Silverberg
49. Deadkidsongs: Toby Litt
50. Divine by Mistake: P.C Cast
51. The Little White Horse: Elizabeth Goudge
52. Magician: Raymond E. Feist
53. Witch & Wizard: James Patterson
54. Battle Royale: Koushun Takami
55. The Unicorn Quest: John Lee
56. The Unicorn Dilemma: John Lee
57. Storm Glass: Maria V. Snyder
58. Tempest Rising: Nicole Peeler
59. That Hideous Strength: C.S Lewis
60. The Colour of Magic: Terry Pratchett
61. The Stolen Child: Keith Donohue
62. Ice Orchids: Elena Yates Eulo
63. Shadows: Amy Meredith
64. Aralorn: Patricia Briggs
65. Dublin Express: Colin Bateman
66. Heaven Eyes: David Almond
67. Jamrach’s Menagerie: Carol Birch
68. The Forgotten Garden: Kate Morton
69. Banquet of the Damned: Adam L.G. Nevile
70. Fountain Society: Wes Craven
71. The Dovekeepers: Alice Hoffman
72. The Fire-eaters: David Almond
73. Odin’s Voice: Susan Price
74. An Arthurian Reader: John Matthews (editor)
75. The Demonologist: Andrew Pyper
76. The Trade Mission: Andrew Pyper
77. Monkeys with Typewriters: Scarlett Thomas
78. The Foreshadowing: Marcus Sedgwick
79. The Sirens of Titan: Kurt Vonnegut
80. Two Women: Martina Cole
81. The Star’s Tennis Balls: Stephen Fry