ratcreature | picking at my TBR pile

With a new year approaching I once again nurse hopes that I might shrink my TBR pile rather than just constantly grow it. (I wish savings were growing like that, no worries about inflation then...)

Anyway, I thought I could crowdsource help what to pick via a ticky box poll. The order is vaguely reverse by date in my ebook collection, and a smaller final section of unread paper books that are unsorted in front of my shelves to nudge me. (I.e. physical books still in an actual pile, rather than sorted properly into a shelf despite being unread)

Poll #26485 Tell me which books you liked from (part of) my TBR pile

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

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Books I started in the last three months, but somehow got stuck:

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The Love Con by Seressia Park
0 (0.0%)

The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
0 (0.0%)

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes
0 (0.0%)

Rare Vigilance by M.A. Grant
1 (100.0%)

Out of Character by Annabeth Albert (True Colors #2)
0 (0.0%)

Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera
0 (0.0%)

Books that I started reading this year longer than three months ago, but didn't finish:

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The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
0 (0.0%)

Stonewing Guardian by Zoe Chant
1 (25.0%)

Melissa and the Vicar by S.M. LaViolette
0 (0.0%)

His Valet by S.M. LaViolette (Victorian Decadence #2)
0 (0.0%)

Death at the Crystal Palace by Jennifer Ashley (Kat Holloway #5)
0 (0.0%)

The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant(The Darkest Court #2)
0 (0.0%)

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
4 (100.0%)

The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert
0 (0.0%)

The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
0 (0.0%)

The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
0 (0.0%)

Dalliances & Devotion by Felicia Grossman
0 (0.0%)

The Vicar and the Rake by Annabelle Greene (Society of Beasts #1)
0 (0.0%)

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller
0 (0.0%)

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft
0 (0.0%)

Whiteout by Adriana Anders (Survival Instincts, #1)
0 (0.0%)

Honor Reclaimed by Tonya Burrows
0 (0.0%)

Puppy Love by Lucy Gilmore
0 (0.0%)

Books that I bought this year with the genuine intention to read them soonish:

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Proper Scoundrels by Allie Therin (the newest addition, only just came out)
0 (0.0%)

Unseen by Jordan L. Hawk (Rath and Rune #2)
0 (0.0%)

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
1 (20.0%)

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
2 (40.0%)

The Larks Still Bravely Singing by Aster Glenn Gray
1 (20.0%)

Big Bad Wolf by Suleikha Snyder
0 (0.0%)

Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch
2 (40.0%)

Petty Treasons by Victoria Goddard
0 (0.0%)

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
2 (40.0%)

Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore
0 (0.0%)

You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
0 (0.0%)

Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta
0 (0.0%)

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
1 (20.0%)

The Lawrence Brown Affair by Cat Sebastian
0 (0.0%)

The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan
0 (0.0%)

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
1 (20.0%)

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
0 (0.0%)

Books that I picked up because they were on sale/free and sounded interesting:

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The Curse of Lord Stanstead by Mia Marlowe (Order of the M.U.S.E. #1)
0 (0.0%)

A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews
0 (0.0%)

A Lady's Formula for Love by Elizabeth Everett
0 (0.0%)

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
2 (100.0%)

Loving the Secret Billionaire by Adriana Anders
0 (0.0%)

Sailor Proof by Annabeth Albert
0 (0.0%)

From Duke Till Dawn by Eva Leigh (London Underground #1)
0 (0.0%)

My Fake Rake (Union of the Rakes #1)
0 (0.0%)

Boyfriend. A Moo U Hockey Romance by Sarina Bowen
0 (0.0%)

The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith
0 (0.0%)

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw (Dr. Greta Helsing)
0 (0.0%)

Slouch Witch by Helen Harper
0 (0.0%)

Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
0 (0.0%)

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
0 (0.0%)

A Bride for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath
0 (0.0%)

The Stormbringer by Isabel Cooper
0 (0.0%)

Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long (Palace of Rogues #1)
0 (0.0%)

Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
0 (0.0%)

Only When It's Us by Chloe Liese (Bergman Brothers #1)
0 (0.0%)

The Blacksmith Queen by G.A. Aiken
0 (0.0%)

The Intimacy Experiment by Rosie Danan
0 (0.0%)

The Nature of a Lady by Roseanna M. White (The Secrets of the Isles #1)
0 (0.0%)

The much smaller pile of unread actual paper books:

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Turning Darkness Into Light by Maries Brennan
1 (25.0%)

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files #17)
0 (0.0%)

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files #16)
1 (25.0%)

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
3 (75.0%)

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