Tag: TBR additions

It’s getting a bit absurd at this point to keep making TBR posts- there’s no way I’m going to encounter all these books in my lifetime, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t have time to read them all! But I guess I just like making lists of books. So, here’s another thing to add to this madness: I found that LibraryThing, where I keep track of my collection, automatically gives me recommendations. These is just based on books I have in my library already. I keep getting suggestions for books of types I don’t really read: political commentaries, steamy romances, mysteries (so I must find and try and cull the titles that are triggering those recommendations out of my library, ha)

In spite of that, surprised that I actually found a lot in the recommendation list that I wanted to make note of (after striking off all the ones that were obviously not to my interest, ones I’ve already read, or tried and didn’t like, etc.) Anyway, here’s the first lot. There’s a ton of backlog I can go through- it saves them all grouped by date, until I clear things out. I’m just going to go through and dismiss/make my own lists from those recommendations, whenever the fancy strikes me!

found at my public library:

Jennifer Murdley’s Toad by Bruce Coville
Colibri by Ann Cameron
The Hotel Cat by Esther Holden Averill
The Transfigured Hart by Jane Yolen (in Unicorn Anthology compiled by Peter S. Beagle)

not at the library:

The Stonor Eagles by William Horwood
Yellow Eyes by Rutherford Montgomery
The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh
The Great Dane Thor by Walter Farley
The Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton-Porter
A Horse of Her Own by Selma Hudnut
A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett
Somebody’s Horse by Dorothy Morrison
A Patch of Blue by Elizabeth Kata
The Kingdom and the Cave by Joan Aiken
Flambards by K.M. Peyton
Hoofbeats by John Taintor Foote
Ghost Fox by James Houston
Dark Sunshine by Dorothy Lyons
Fire-Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard
A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
The White by Deborah Larsen
Golden Mare by William Corbin
One is One by Barbara Leonie Picard
The Lark and the Laurel by Barbara Willard
Skywater by Melina Worth Popham
Algonquin by Dion Henderson
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
Confessions of an Igloo Dweller by James Houston
Boomerang Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard
The White Dawn by James Houston
The Island Keeper Harry Mazer
Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth
Out of Nowhere by Ouida Sebestyen
Lyrico : The Only Horse of His Kind Elizabeth Vincent Foster

not at the library either- these are books by authors I already know and like, or titles that are so familiar I think I must have read them in my childhood. I know I read Tin Can Tucker, and I’m pretty sure I once read Savage Sam, maybe also Snowbird and Kazan. It might well be enjoyable to read them again! If found by chance, of course.

Tin Can Tucker by Lynn Hall
Cornelli by Johanna Spyri
Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
Snowbird by Patricia Calvert
The House of Thirty Cats by Mary Calhoun
Savage Sam by Fred Gipson
A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
A Kindle of Kittens by Rumer Godden
Season of Ponies by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Dragonfield and Other Stories by Jane Yolen
At Paddy the Beaver’s Pond by Thornton Burgess
Vinzi by Johanna Spyri

books at my public library:

An Immense World by Ed Young
Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino
Sentient by Jackie Higgins
Return by Niki Bañados
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait
Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin from Lark Writes
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses by Ashley Ward
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
The Perfect Predator by Steffanie Strathdee from Lark Writes
The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
The Book of Eels by Patrick Svensson
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan- from Read Warbler
The Foundling by Ann Leary from Opinions of a Wolf
Stormrise by Jillian Boehme from Thistle Chaser
Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly from A Bookish Type
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler from Curiosity Killed the Bookworm

not at my local library:

A Thousand Days of Wonder by Charles Fernyhough
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire from A Bookish Type
The Willows in Winter by William Horwood from Read Warbler
Secret of the Dragon Egg by N.A. Davenport from Thistle Chaser
Father by Elizabeth von Arnim from Indextrious Reader
Farming on the Wild Side by Nancy and John Hayden from Sustainable Market Farming
Dragon’s Bait by Vivian Vande Velde from Thistle Chaser
Pied Piper by Nevil Shute from Bookfoolery
Fear the Wolf by Andrew Butcher from Thistle Chaser

This TBR makes me feel sad. Two reasons: I’ve been adding to it for six months and it’s not even that long. Used to be I’d have a much longer list of book recommendations for myself after just a month or two. Also: more than half the books are titles I came across via other reading, not from my fellow book bloggers. I thought I was just imagining it, but really, the book blogs have gone quiet over the past few months. At least, the ones in my feed. People have gone on to other things, I suppose. Or other platforms.

Whelp, here’s what’s new on my list. I guess if adding to this slows down, I might actually catch up some day!

Found at my library:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
She and Her Cat by Shinkai and Nagakawa from Opinions of a Wolf
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
Self Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Potwatka
The Dog, Ray by Linda Coggin from Snips and Snails
Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean from A Bookish Type
No One is Alone by Rachel Vincent
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson from A Bookish Type
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
Natural Acts by David Quammen
All the Living and the Dead by Campbell Hayley
Maggie a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane from Lark Writes
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Monster of God by David Quammen

Not at my library:

Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen
Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
American Hippo by Sarah Gailey- Thistle Chaser
Hindsight: In Search of Lost Wilderness by Jenna Watt
Tyger by SF Said
What We Leave Behind by Stanislaw Lubienski
Beasts of the Earth by James Wade- A Bookish Type
Duet by Phillip Hoose-
Evie and the Animals by Matt Haig- Bookfoolery
Red Wolf  by Jennifer Dance- Thistle Chaser
Away with the Penguins by Hazel Prior- Read Warbler
Manikanetish by Naomi Fontaine- Indextrious Reader
The Seed Detective by Adam Alexander- A Bookish Type
Behavioral Ecology of the Komodo Dragon by Auffenberg
Some Maintenance Required by Marie-Renée Lavoie- Indextrious Reader

Found at my public library

An Immense World by Ed Young- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
The Search by Nora Roberts- Read Warbler
Breathe and Count Back from Ten by Natalia Sylvester
The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery- Indextrious Reader
Pat of Silver Bush by L.M. Mongomery- ditto
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez – Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Skrypuch- Indextrious Reader
Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera- Opinions of a Wolf
The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson- Shelf Love
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Flamer by Mike Curato
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm

and Not

Lost Magic by Berthe Amoss
Overdue by Amanda Oliver- Captive Reader
The House of Marvellous Books by Fiona Vigo Marshall- A Bookish Type
Needle by Patrice Lawrence – Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Coward: Why We Get Anxious by Tim Clare – Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Memory Speaks by Julie Sedivy- Captive Reader
Jellyfish Age Backwards by Nicklas Brendborg – Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Spring Tides by Fiona Gell – Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Solo Dance by Li Kotomi- Opinions of a Wolf
Undercurrent by Natasha Carthew – Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
The Ponies at the Edge of the World by Catherine Munro – Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Book of Minds by Phillip Dal- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Where the Wild Flowers Grow by Leif Bersweden- ditto
Wonderdog by Jules Howard – Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Into the Tangled Bank by Lev Parikian- Read Warbler
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn – (Sandy Nawrot)
Outlandish by Nick Hunt
When the Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

I found through Annie of A Bookish Type, an article at Tor about books readers love, that they feel nobody else has ever heard of (much less read). The richness is in the comments, where other readers chimed in with all their beloved, unknown favorites. I myself left an embarrassingly long comment. And wrote down a long list of titles that have now caught my interest. To my happy surprise, the first two are even in my public library’s catalog!

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
My Teacher is An Alien by Bruce Coville

of course, most of them are not found at my library:

Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O’Shea
Ludo and the Star Horse by Mary Stewart
The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman
Prince Ombra by Roderick MacLeish
Rude Tales and Glorious by Nicholas Seare
The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir
The Beginning of Unbelief  by Robin Jones
Terror Wears a Feathered Cloak by Thelmar Crawford
Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly
The Hunting of Wilberforce Pike by Molly Lefebure
David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd
Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliffe
Spirit Gate by Kate Elliot
Two Thumb Thomas by Barbara Freeman
I Will Go Barefoot All Summer for You by Katie Lyle
The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan

The Vision of Stephen by Lolah Burford
The Light Maze by Joan North
Lydia, Queen of Palestine by Uri Orlev
Silver Chief  by Jack O’Brien
The Long Afternoon of Earth by Brian Aldiss
Land of the Lord High Tiger by Roger Green
The Blind Knight by Gail van Asten

I really feel like I might have read My Teacher is An Alien and Silver Chief when I was a kid, but I have almost no recollection so a re-read would feel like new. Happy news: of all the books not available at my public library, I found two on Project Gutenberg, and many many more at Internet Archive- except those I can’t download for keeps, just for a two-week borrowing period. So will have to plan when to access them, but I’m thrilled that I can!

Books I someday want to read!    Found at my public library:

Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey
All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie
The Gilded Girl by Alyssa Colman
The Tarnished Garden by Alyssa Colman
A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus- Captive Reader
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Kim Jiyoung, born 1982– Indextrious Reader
The Girl From the Sea by Molly Ostertag from The Last Book I Read
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin- It’s All About Books
Frankie and Amelia by Cammie McGovern
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez- Indextrious Reader
Funny Farm by Laurie Zaleski
Bad Sister by Charise Harper from The Last Book I Read
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich- Shelf Love
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman- It’s All About Books
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk- A Bookish Type
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm

not at my library:

Exotic Vetting by Romain Pizzi
Dragon Storm by Lindsay Buroker- Thistle Chaser
Bitch by Lucy Cooke
The White Girl by Tony Birch- A Bookish Type
The Lark by E. Nesbit- Read Warbler
Celiac and the Beast by Erica Durmer
The Sleep of Stone by Louise Cooper
The Ecological Gardener by Matt Rees-Warren- Sustainable Market Farming
vN by Madeline Ashby- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson- Indextrious Reader
The Runaways by Holly Webb- Bookfoolery
Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham
Our Wild Farming Life by Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer- Reading the End
Eternal Boy the Life of Kenneth Grahame by Matthew Dennison – Captive Reader
Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of Dragons– Quenby Olson
100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul- Captive Reader

The usual TBR posting, with a note: I’ve discovered my public library’s website has a feature where you can create your own list (or multiple lists!) of titles. So when I happen across something on the shelf or in the catalog that I want to read someday (always far more books than I can bring home at any one time) I just add them to my list there now. Which means they won’t show up here until I actually read them!

Also, I belong to a group on LibraryThing where people ask readers to help them remember book titles they’ve forgotten. I’ve used this feature myself and most of the books I was looking for, people knew- so helpful! Mostly it’s fun to go on there and see if I know any of the titles other people are looking for. And there are soooo many books out there I never heard of in my life. I’ve been in this group for years now and can still only count on one hand, the number of times I knew a title. Far more often is that I jot down books that sound interesting too add to my own list.

books found at my public library:

Blue Moon Rising by Simon Green
No One Like You by Kate Angell- Lark Writes
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The Reign of Wolf 21 by Rick McIntyre- Rhapsody in Books
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden- Lark Writes
The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson from Lark Writes
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald- A Work in Progress
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
The Old Way by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
Girl A by Abigail Dean- A Bookish Type
Beyond Words by Carl Safina- Book Chase
Deep by James Nestor- Read Warbler
Horse by Talley English
I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel- Book Chase
The Disaster Tourist by Ko Un Yun- Indextrious Reader
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge- Indextrious Reader
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri- Bookfoolery
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang- Rhapsody in Books

Tamed and Untamed by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde- Shelf Love
Klawde by Johnny Marciano- Bookfoolery
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams- Book Chase
Dog Man by Martha Sherrill
The Dust That Falls From Dreams by Louis de Bernières- Bookfoolery
The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir- Book Chase and others
The Cat Who Saved Books by Natsukawa- Bookfoolery
The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh- Book Chase
Your Life Has Been Delayed by Michelle I. Mason – The Last Book I Read

not at the library:

Green Rising by Lauren James
Wildwing by Phoebe Erickson
Crawling Horror edited Butcher and Leaf- Read Warbler
Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri – Rhapsody in Books
The Rest of the Robots by Isaac Asimov- Opinions of a Wolf
In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing– Captive Reader
Lone Seal Pup by Arthur Catherall
Featherhood by Jim Jenner
Were- edited by Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier
Prairie Chicken Dance Tour by Dawn Dumont- Indextrious Reader
Hemi: a Mule by Barbara Brenner
A Horse Called Mystery by Marjorie Reynolds
Jill’s Gymkhana by Ruby Ferguson- Jane Badger Books
Minor Mage by T. King Fisher- Thistle Chaser
Bookworm by Patricia Craig- Captive Reader
Bear by Marian Engel- Opinions of a Wolf
Magpie by Elizabeth Day- A Little Blog of Books
Finding My Voice by Nadiya Hussain- Read Warbler
Give Me Your Answer Do by Peter Marchant- Neglected Books Page
September Moon by John Moore- Bookfoolery
The Only Gaijin in the Village by Ian Maloney- Captive Reader
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D.G. Compton- Opinions of a Wolf

(at my library)
The Perfect Distance by Kim Ablon Whitney
The Island of Horses by Eilis Dillon

(not at the library)

My Horsey Life by Janet Rising
Snow Cloud, Stallion by Gerald Raftery
We Couldn’t Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold
The Brumby by Mary Elwyn Patchett
Come Home, Brumby by Mary Elwyn Patchett
The Boundary Riders by Joan Phipson
The Horse in the House by William Corbin
Wild Pony by Lucy Rees
The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell
Shasta and Rogue a Coyote Story by Robert Behme
Death in the Long Grass by Peter Hathaway Capstick
My Wild Animal Guests by Ernest Harold Baynes
The Voice of the Coyote by Frank J. Dobie
Catfantastic edited by Andre Norton and Martin Greenberg
True Cat Toons by Roberta Gregory
I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
The Moon in the Cloud by Rosemary Harris
Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
Song of the Wild by Alan Eckert
The Great Auk by Alan Eckert
The Crossbreed by Alan Eckert
The King Snake by Alan Eckert
Savage Journey by Alan Eckert
The Dreaming Tree by Alan Eckert
The Silent Sky by Alan Eckert

good chance I can read ’em someday- these found at my library:

Fox 8 by George Saunders- Bookfoolery
Fuzz by Mary Roach- A Bookish Type
The Wartime Sisters by  Lynda C Loigman- Bookfoolery
Displacement by Lucy Knisley
They Called Us Emeny by George Takei- It’s All About Books
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan by Aram Haykaz
The Writer’s Library by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager- Book Chase
The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun – Indextrious Reader
Last Chance Books by Kelsey Rodkey- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm

not at my local library:

A Dog’s World by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff
The Origins of Iris by Beth Lewis- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
The Past is Red by Catherynne Valente- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Beyond the Rain Forest by Vanne Morris Goodall
White African by Louis Leakey
Radiator Days by Lucy Knisley
Chasing the Dream by Alyson Sheldrake- Read Warbler
Behind the Dolphin Smile by Richard O’Barry
Walking with the Great Apes by Sy Montgomery
Woman in the Mists by Farley Mowat
Orangutan Odyssey by Birute Galdikas
Great Ape Odyssey by Birute Galdikas
How to Examine a Wolverine by Philipp Schott- A Bookish Type
Solo: the Story of an African Wild Dog by Hugo van Lawick
Made in China by Anna Qu- Opinions of a Wolf
Variations on the Body by María Ospina- Indextrious Reader
Music in the Listening Place by Gloria Rawlinson- Neglected Books
The King of Infinite Space by Lindsay Faye- A Bookish Type

This post is long overdue. I honestly forgot I was making it. Noticed a few days ago there was one post in my dashboard marked draft and I couldn’t think what I had written unfinished? Oh yeah, a list of books I want to read someday. So it’s up-to-date now but very long thus I didn’t feel like compiling a montage of cover images (which is usually the fun part). Instead to make it a little visually interesting, I arranged the lines by length. Hm. Not sure I’ll do it that way again. Well, here’s the list- links go to those who brought these books to my attention. Hope someday I’ll get to them!

First half: titles available at my public library:

What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter- It’s All About Books and Rhapsody in Books
Take our advice- gardening in Northern Virginia by Margaret Fisher
Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons- Last Book I Read
The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Katie the Catsitter by Colleen Venable from Musings of a Bookish Kitty
The Elephant’s Girl by Celesta Rimington- It’s All About Books
A Bookshop in Berlin by Françoise Frenkel- Captive Reader
King of Infinite Space by Lindsay Faye- A Bookish Type
The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys- Bookfoolery
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor- Rhapsody in Books
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue- It’s All About Books
A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus- Semicolon
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford- A Bookish Type
My Life as a Cat by Carlie Sorosiak- Snips and Snails
Convenience Store Woman by Sayakja Murata from Book Chase
Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar- Book Chase
Woman 99 by Greer Macallister from Small World Reads
How Stella Learned to Talk by Christina Hunger
The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin- Book Chase
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani- Captive Reader
Things I Learned From Falling by C. Nelson
The Hummingbirds’ Gift by Sy Montgomery
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser- Semicolon
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata- Book Chase
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell- Bookfoolery
Summerwater by Sarah Moss- Shelf Love
Admissions by Henry Marsh- Dear Author
Ridgeline by Michael Punke- Book Chase
List of Ten by Halli Gomez- Bookfoolery
Tracks by Robyn Davidson- Book Chase
The Glitter in the Green by Jon Dunn
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Ice Lion by Kathleen O’Neal Gear
Blue Mountain by Leavitt, Martine
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry

Second half not available at my library:

A Herd of Red Deer by F.F. Darling
Ghosting by Jennie Erdal- Captive Reader
Summerwater by Sarah Moss- Book Chase
Cuttings by Christopher Lloyd- Captive Reader
Forager’s Pantry by Ellen Zachos- Garden Rant
Moutain Sheep: a study in behavior by V. Geist
A House in Sicily by Daphne Phelps- Read Warbler
The Council of Animals by Nick McDonell- Book Chase
The Reading Cure by Laura Freeman- Indextrious Reader
Written in Bone by Sue Black- Musings of a Bookish Kitty
Gardening Notes from a Late Bloomer by Clare Hastings
Rhapsody in Green by Charlotte Mendelson- Captive Reader
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell- Bookfoolery
Plum, Courgette and Green Bean Tart by Lisa Rose Wright
Fat Dogs and French Estates by Beth Haslam- Read Warbler
Of Gryphons and Other Monsters by Shannon McGee- Thistle
Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast by Clausen and Tepper
A Cat’s Guide to Bonding with Dragons by Chris Behrsin- Musings of a Bookish Kitty
Dragon of Ash and Stars by H. Leighton Dickson- Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales
Comic Book Guide to Growing Food by Joseph Tychonievich- Sustainable Market Farming