My Entire Physical TBR | 2023 Edition

Hey hi hello friends, and happy 2023! 

Another year is here! I'm hoping and praying with all my might that 2023 is better than 2022. I need it to be, seriously. 

Anyway, today I want to show you all the books on my physical TBR. These are books that I own, but haven't read yet. I try to always keep my TBR under 50 books, just because I don't really have the funds to buy a ton of books that I'm not guaranteed to love. I'd rather only have amazing (to me) books on my limited shelf space, you know what I mean? 

So according to Goodreads, there are 52 books on my "own-tbr" shelf. However, this also includes the unread manga I have, which I won't be counting on this list since I don't collect manga in order and therefore it seems silly to point out that I have volumes 3 and 4 of one series but not the first two, because obviously I can't read the volumes I have until I read the volumes I don't. So no manga will be on this list, but if you're desperate to know what manga volumes I haven't read yet, feel free to check out my Goodreads shelf.

Without the manga, I have 34 books on my physical TBR. That's probably the lowest it's ever been since I've started blogging. Also, in case you're wondering, I have a grand total of 501 books on my physical shelves. So only 7% of my books are unread, that's so low! I'm feeling very good about that (again, not including manga). 

This will just be a list of all of my TBR books. I will of course be separating them between standalones and series, and they'll also be in alphabetical order by author, because that's how I sort them on my shelves. I will also be putting my nonfiction TBR in its own section, because I do have a lot of nonfiction books waiting to be read.

Alright, let's just get into it!

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Standalones

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus 

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko

Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton (this is technically a companion novel, but it's still its own story)

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy 

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield 

The Poetry of Christina Rossetti by Christina Rossetti

The Book of Dragons edited by Jonathan Strahan 

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien 

Series

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah - Book 1

Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson - Book 5 (I'm currently reading this)

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu - Book 1

The Shattered City by Lisa Maxwell - Book 4

Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik - Book 7

Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik - Book 8

League of Dragons by Naomi Novik - Book 9

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - Book 1

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson - Book 1

Nonfiction

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley 

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainier Maria Rilke

Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

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Alright, those are all the books on my physical TBR! I know there are a decent number that are leftovers from last year (or multiple years...I'm looking at you, Jonathan Strange. This is the year you will be read, mark my words!) but most of them are actually pretty new to my TBR, so I'm not too mad about this. 

Do you think I'll be able to read all of these this year? That's my goal, anyway. I hope I can!

How many books do you have on your physical TBR? Let me know in the comments below, or DM on Instagram. 

Until next time, friends!