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Book Wishlists Poll

I need to make my annual wishlist for books that I want for Christmas. So, I'm going to troll you all for ideas.

1) Read anything amazing lately that hasn't been mentioned much on the boards?

2) What would be on YOUR wishlist?
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Re: Book Wishlists Poll

  • I'm having the same issue :/.
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  • booknerd226booknerd226 member
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    edited November 2014
    I'm having the same issue! Plus I just sold my old textbooks back and have a ton of Amazon cash to spend, so I'm having to edit my list over and over.

    #firstworldproblems

    On my wish list:

    The Winter Sea
    The Firebird
    Anna and the French Kiss
    Mockingjay (read it, don't own it)
    Lola and the Boy Next Door
    The Golem and the Jinni
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (loaned my copy, never got it back)
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (same person borrowed, grrr)
    Isla and the Happy Ever After
    Landline
    The Exiled Queen (book 2 in Seven Realms)
    The Crimson Crown (Seven Realms)
    The Gray Wolf Throne (Seven Realms)
    Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy)
    Wonder
    Neverwhere
    Insurgent
    The Raven Boys

    And then several books for work.
    I'm obviously behind on a lot books.

    (And for fun, I just ordered: Mariana, Letters from Home, Lighthouse Bay, Attachments, The Last Camellia, and Make You Remember)
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  • Also, I'm just so happy to be done with grad school. Look at that list! Look at it! That's not even all of my TBR that I already own!!! FREE TIME!!

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  • MenrandesMenrandes member
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    edited November 2014
    Most of what I have been reading has been free kindle books...so nothing amazing here! 
    On my wishlist....

    Unsouled
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    The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive)
    Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive)
    The Boleyn King
    Wool
    Where She Went
    Enders (Starters)
    Feed
    Landline
    Eleanor and Park


    my read shelf:
    Miranda's book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
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    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland


  • Invention of Wings, it was amazing!!!
  • Most of the books I've loved lately have also been talked about a lot on here, but here are some that I haven't heard mentioned as much: 
    Irregular Creatures by Chuck Wendig
    Indexing by Seanan Maguire (sp?)
    My True Love Gave to Me edited by Stephanie Perkins
    The Arcana Chronicles series by Kresley Cole
    Girl of Fire and Thorns series by Rae Carson
    The Curiosities by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton and Brenna Yovanoff

    My own wishlist: 
    All of the Raven boys books in hard cover or paperback
    The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
    Station Eleven 
    In the Shadows by Kiersten White and Jim DiBartolo (aka Mr. Laini Taylor)
    Revival by Stephen King
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  • Things I've read lately and highly recommend:

    - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (I think this should be required reading for every US citizen)
    - Prescription for Disaster (tofumonkey's hilarious medical memoir)
    - Anathem (a fantastic mash-up of philosophy, religion, and science fiction)
    - The Selection trilogy (the Disney princesses of YA lit. If you get excited by the pretty dresses on the covers, you'll probably like the books)

    Recent additions to my wishlist:

    - What If? by Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd)
    - Choose Your Own Autobiography by NPH 
    - As You Wish by Cary Elwes et.al.
    - Veronica Mars: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (audiobook) by Rob Thomas, read by Kristen Bell



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  • Read lately and loved:

     Station Eleven by Emily St. John Manzel
    The Martian by Andy Weir
    Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey
    Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
    Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

    Wish List: 

    Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
    The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
    Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss (so conflicted)
    Bird Box by Josh Malerman
    Yes Please by Amy Poehler
    NPH's autobiography
    The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
    How we got to now by Stephen Johnson
    Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty



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    My read shelf:
    Jessica Ninneman's book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
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