My physical 2023 TBR – aka all the unread books on my shelves

Last year, I started the year with 23 unread physical books. And I’ve read 130 books in 2022, so you would probably think, this list has grown a lot shorter… but Dear Reader, it has not! 😅

Most of these I have bought, found or received during 2022, but a couple are still from the previous year(s). Apparently now that I have a room with plenty of bookshelves, I am more willing to get new (to me) books. My rules are still the same though. If I don’t want to reread the book, it has to go! I have a special shelve and a moving box, filled with books that won’t stay.

I haven’t made any other bookish resolutions this year. I’m setting my goal the same as last year, 100 books and 33.500 pages. Even though I have surpassed both of these goals, I don’t really need to read more. I also want to have time for other activities, like my watercolor painting, hiking, and just in general spending time with my people.

I do however, seem to have got a knack for readathons recently, and am willing to explore this more. But only when they fit my usual reading. I am willing to look outside of my reading comfort zone, but I don’t want to read too many books “to fill a prompt” when I don’t enjoy them. I also don’t want to lower my average rating which usually hovers about 3.8 stars.

But now the question is, which one of these backlist reads are going to be my first read? And will I indeed have tackled them by the end of the year?

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1. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
2. House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
3. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
4. Berlin Noir Trilogy by Philip Kerr
5. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
6. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
7. Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
8. Dracula by Bram Stoker
9. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
10. Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North
11. The It Girl by Ruth Ware
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
13. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

DNF

14. The Institute by Stephen King
15. The Ministry Of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
16. Threadwalkers by Joanna Volavka
17. The Ultimate Discworld Companion by Stephen Briggs and Terry Pratchett with Paul Kidby
18. The English Spy by Daniel Silva
19. The Golden Scales by Parker Bilal
20. The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
21. The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
22. The Watcher by Charlotte Link
23. Seduction by Catherine Gildiner
24. Marcus and Eneides by Marianne Fredriksson
25. Sacrilege by S.J. Parris

DNF

26. Lisey’s Storey by Stephen King
27. Misery by Stephen King
28. Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
29. Veritas by Monaldi&Sorti

DNF

30. The Last Day by Glenn Kleier
31. Dying Gasp by Leighton Gage
32. A Life With the Radio by Willem Vogt
33. The Clinic by Jonathan Kellerman
34. The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff and Ernest H. Shepard
35. The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine