I had a good time with my first clean-up post and to keep my books in order and focus on the ones I really want to read, I’ve decided to do a little housekeeping every three months.
Changes to my books since last update:
- Keep, high priority to read: In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park, Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
- Keep, high priority to DNF: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (I will make a DNF post in the next couple of months but basically, this book is more history than anthropology and evolution as I thought it was)
- Kept, medium priority to read: Room by Emma Donoghue, Ready Player One by Ernest Kline
- Kept, low priority to read: Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King
Check out my reviews of the books I’ve read in my wrap-ups posts (vol. I and vol. II)
A few changes I’m going to make to my sorting:
- I am going to get rid of my medium priority shelf. If it’s not high priority, it won’t be on my immediate radar
- I am also going to get rid of my library book shelves (books available at the different libraries I’m a part of) because virtually all of them are
I have also added a lot of classics to my list but as I’ve read a few consecutive ones, I’m taking a little break for February I think. Without further ado, here are some highlights of my most recent GoodRead adds as I sort through them:
Kept (classics): I kept the 10 or so most interesting classics to me on my list, in order of likelihood of getting to them anytime soon
- Animal Farm by George Orwell: currently reading
- Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman: one of my all-time favorite movies
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Kept, high priority
- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin and Minus 148 Degrees by Art Davidson: Into Thin Air got me hungry for more non-fiction survival/ adventure books
- I Robot by Isaac Asimov
- The Firm by John Grisham: I’ve never read his work and I’m a sucker for a legal thriller
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: I bought this book and am really looking forward to it!
Binned
- Travel memoirs
- Series I am not crazy about (e.g. His Dark Materials)
- The surplus domestic thrillers I’ve added because let’s face it, Gone Girl is the best one that has ever been made
- Non-fiction that isn’t science (e.g. Prisoners of Geography)
- Anything below 4.0 rating
Other miscellaneous adds
- Re-read The Art of Racing in the Rain and the Percy Jackson books
- I went kind of H.A.M. in the historical fiction lists for potential reads
- Biographies (Michelle Obama, David Attenborough and more)
- Popular books recommended by multiple book YouTubers and bloggers (Circe, Children of Blood and Bone, Simon vs. the Homo sapien Agenda)
Are there any books I should un-bin? Move up in priority? Forget about? Let me know if you see one of your favorite books!
Photo by Florencia Viadana.
So glad to see Gone With the Wind on your list. I believe it was written in the ’30s. It is definitely one of the “all time best” books EVER written. The movie was great too!
Love,
AC
Animal Farm is such a good book! I stole it from school as a teenager and, funnily enough, the reason I stole it was so I could avoid reading Pride & Prejudice. The Color Purple is also wonderful but takes a while to get into because of the dialect. Room is very good as well!
The one I’d suggest you unbin is Prisoners of Geography – it’s a very easy read and has totally shaped how I view and understand geopolitics and the news we see every day.
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I just finished Animal Farm yesterday and loved it! One of my favorite classics, I think. Interesting, I’ll consider unbinning Prisoners… but I might not get around to it for a while as I strongly prefer biology and biography non-fiction!
I highly recommend Leaving Time, Animal Farm, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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I’ve already read Leaving Time and Animal Farm. I thought Leaving Time was okay, but I LOVED Animal Farm! I just bought One Flew… a couple of days ago!
Love this post!!
Gone Girl is definitely one of the best thrillers and I keep looking for ones that give me that same sort of thrill and it is definitely a rarity. What do you do with the binned books? Donate them to libraries or charities? I’m just curious lol
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These are just books in my GoodReads to-be-read list, I don’t actually own any of them, haha! My “binned” books are just taken off my digital list. But if I have to get rid of my physical books (I don’t own many), I donate them to the library.
You have so many classics. I used to work in a bookshop many years ago and I read so many but I don’t have them in my collection!
Yiota
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I’m not too fussy about owning books, I actually prefer not having the clutter! These are just books to read!