Goodreads TBR Purging #1

Hello, lovelies! Recently, I removed 10 popular books from my Goodreads TBR, and it inspired me to do a mass clean-out of my Goodreads TBR shelf! Naturally, if I’m going to spend the time doing it, I figured I might as well blog about it. I plan on removing a lot of books from this shelf, so I’ll probably break this up into a few posts to make it manageable.

If there’s anything in this list that you think I should KEEP on my TBR, please let me know why, and I’ll consider adding it back!

Pre-Purge TBR: 1,536

1. The Disappearance — Bentley Little
   ❌ I like Bentley Little’s books, but this sounds boring.
2. Attachments — Rainbow Rowell
   ❌ The more I think about it, the creepier this sounds.
3. Ever the Hunted — Erin Summerill
4. As Old As Time — Liz Braswell
   ❌ I think I’ve reached the point in life where it’s hard to impress me with B&TB retellings.
5. The Wish Granter — C.J. Redwine
   ❌ These retellings have a neat premise, but I have a hard time feeling like I actually want to commit to reading any of them.
6. The Shadow Queen — C.J. Redwine
7. Passenger — Alexandra Bracken
   ❌ This never particularly interested me and it still doesn’t.
8. Paranormalcy — Kiersten White
   ❌ Honestly, I don’t know if it’s because I’m still so salty over Bright We Burn or what, but I’ve lost interest in almost all of KW’s books.
9. The School for Good and Evil — Soman Chainani
10. What Price Gory? — Terry M. West
11. The Fall — Bethany Griffin
    ❌ I don’t have the heart for what looks like a really poor take on one of my favorite EAP stories.
12. Zodiac — Romina Russell
    ❌ I didn’t even know what this was about. It just had a pretty cover so I added it ages ago, I guess.
13. Crawlspace — Herbert Lieberman
14. The Hundredth Queen — Emily R. King
15. Not Your Sidekick — C.B. Lee
    ❌ I love the idea of this super diverse series, but I’ve tried reading this book twice and couldn’t get into it either time, so I’m not trying again.
16. The Gauntlet — Karuna Riazi
    ❌ A steampunk MG Jumanji retelling… I’m not as interested as I was once, sadly.
17. I’m Traveling Alone — Samuel Bjork
18. Amid Stars and Darkness — Chani Lynn Feener
19. The Glass Spare — Lauren DeStefano
20. The Arsonist — Stephanie Oakes
21. Hunted — Meagan Spooner
22. The Grave Keepers — Elizabeth Byrne
    ❌ Love this cover, but I’m going to trust friends’ reviews and the 3.2 average it has on Goodreads. ?
23. The Daemoniac — Kat Ross
24. Tash Hearts Tolstoy — Kathryn Ormsbee
25. Anne Frank Remembered — Miep Gies
26. The Unremembered Girl — Eliza Maxwell
27. Tempests and Slaughter — Tamora Pierce
    ❌ I didn’t realize until now that this is the 1st in its own specific series, but #8 (according to GR) in the over-arching storyverse.
28. Thug Kitchen
29. Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as F*ck
30. Thug Kitchen Party Grub
    ❌ Honestly, I would’ve removed these a while back if I’d remembered that they were on here, as their whole premise makes me kind of uncomfortable. As one of my friends stated in her review, “It’s a cookbook in blackface.”
31. Tess of the Road — Rachel Hartman
    ❌ I want to read the Seraphina books first.
32. Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales — Kiersten White
33. A Tail of Camelot — Julie Leung
34. The Cellar — Natasha Preston
35. Hoodoo — Ronald L. Smith
    ❌ After reading this author’s newest book, I don’t feel like his writing suits me much.
36. The Bird and the Blade — Megan Bannen
    ❌ A lot of my friends are own-voice reviewers and hated this, which makes me hesitant to support it, plus I was spoiled for the ending and it made me much less interested in reading it.
37. The Sky is Yours — Chandler Klang Smith
38. Blood Rose Rebellion — Rosalyn Eves
39. And She Was — Jessica Verdi
    ❌ I’ve seen MULTIPLE trans reviewers call this book (about a trans family member!) out for being transphobic.
40. Sometime After Midnight — L. Philips
    ❌ Maybe a little too “cutesy rom-com” for me.

Remaining TBR: 1,496

Alright, there we have it — the first batch of purging! There’s a lot more left to go through; at sorting my shelf to show 50 books per page, I only made it to page 8 out of 30 on my TBR shelf. I can’t wait to dive back in soon and wipe out a few dozen more!

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