My Entire Physical TBR | 2024 Edition

Hey hi hello friends, and happy new year! 

This is probably my favorite blog post that I make: I go through my shelves and pick out every book on my physical TBR. 

Now, according to Goodreads, there are 88 books on my "own TBR" shelf. But I won't be including the manga in this post just because we would be here forever. So excluding my unread manga, I have 55 books on my TBR. I think that's pretty reasonable, considering I own nearly 600 books. I always want to keep my TBR around 50 (or below) because having more stresses me out. 

Another thing I thought would be interesting to mention: of the 55 books, 37 of them were purchased last year. I don't know if you would consider this a good thing or not, but I think it's an improvement since one of my goals last year was to decrease my TBR (as of Jan 2023), and I definitely accomplished that. The total number might not have changed very much, but the books mentioned varied widely. I will also point out the 18 books that have been transferred over from last year's TBR.

I will go alphabetically by author, and I will do my best to separate between standalones and series. 

Alright, let's get into the books!

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Standalones

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (This is from last year)

When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East by Quan Barry

The Zahir by Paulo Coelho

Brida by Paulo Coelho

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Silence by Shusaku Endo

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    (I know I'm crazy to have bought four GGM novels this year, don't ask me why I did this)

Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton (This is from last year)

The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (This is from last year)

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (This is from last year)

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (This is from last year)

After Dark by Haruki Murakami (This is from last year)

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield (This is from last year)

The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien (This is from last year)

The Fall of Numenor by J.R.R. Tolkien

Cassandra by Christa Wolf

Series

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi

Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik (This is from last year)

Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik (This is from last year)

League of Dragons by Naomi Novik (This is from last year)

The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (This is from last year)

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Poetry

The Song of Kieu by Du Nguyen

The Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe

Rilke's Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Complete Poetry of Christina Rosetti by Christina Rosetti (This is from last year)

The Essential Rumi by Rumi

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head by Warsan Shire

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith

Nonfiction

Tragedy, The Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley (This is from last year)

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (This is from last year)

Dead Wake by Erik Larson (This is from last year)

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (This is from last year)

Madhouse at the End of the Year by Julian Sancton (This is from last year)

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Okay, that's all of my physical TBR! I know I said last year that there were some books on this list that definitely should not be here...but let's be real, 2023 was a pretty shitty year, and I need that slack. We never know how the year is going to go when we make goals and plans.

Anyway, next time I'll be talking about my 2024 goals, and I think they're slightly less ambitious than last year's.

See you there!