Hello, everyone, my name is Olivia, and today I'm going to show you every single book in my book
collection that I have not read yet. I don't have a big TBR pile, which is a to be read pile. I only
have 41 books out of this entire collection in my room that I have not read yet, but I do love doing
this video every year. I think I've done it for the past two or three years where I show you every
single book that I have not read because, not only does it show you all the books that I'm hoping to
read in the future, but it also really invigorates me and makes me excited to read again and I love
doing this at the beginning of the year to compare and contrast which books stay on my TBR,
which ones I am getting through quickly, and which one has been there for the longest amount of time.
I have it somewhat organized by genre, and we actually have a pile that's pretty big behind me
as well. And if there is a book that you think I should get to immediately, please comment it down
below because I would love to put the higher on my priority list. And one thing that I'm going to try
and do in 2023 is really focused on this TBR. I do tend to take a lot of books out of my library,
through the app Libby, and I do read a lot of books through there, and that makes me not really
focus on the books that I already own. So, this year, I'm really trying to focus on completing
this TBR pile. I read around 70 to 100 books a year. It's getting more around 70 books a year,
and if I read all of these books, that is doable this year. I don't think I will,
though. Now let's get into it. So let's start with some romance novels that are on my TBR. Here we
have Seoulmates by Susan Lee, a YA romance that I'm excited to read because I think it's going
to be right up my alley. Then we have Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade. This is a fandom romance
that a lot of people told me I would really enjoy. Then we have Written in the Stars by Alexandria
Bellefleur, and it says it is a nod to Bridget Jones’ Diary and Pride and Prejudice. I have not
seen Bridget Jones' Diary. I don't– don't really know what it's about, but I have seen Pride and
Prejudice so that makes me excited. And then we have Six Days in Rome by Francesca Giacco,
and I am so excited to read this. I love book set in Italy, and this is about a woman who goes
to Italy after being heartbroken, and she finds new love there, and I think this is going to be a
favorite read of mine. I have not seen anyone else talk about it, but I'm very excited about it. Now
I have a few classics that I want to read. One is If on a Winter Night a Traveler by Italio Galvino,
and this book is very intimidating to me because I think it's like a story within a
story and there's a lot of narratives in this entire book, and I don't know if I'm going to
understand it but it really intrigues me and I've seen a lot of beautiful quotes about it, so I am
excited to read it but I'm also very scared about it. Then we have Excellent Women by Barbara Pym,
and then I have two Shakespeare plays. One is King Lear. I actually got this because I heard that he
wrote King Lear during the plague, during his time, and I got this at the beginning of covid
because I thought it would be really interesting to read this during the same type of situation
that William Shakespeare was going through, but I have not gotten around to reading it yet. And then
we have Hamlet. I have read Hamlet maybe three times, but my favorite edition of Shakespeare
plays is from Barnes & Noble. I think they're really accessible to read because you have the
text here and then, on this page, you always have the definition of words that you may not know. So
I think it's really easy to read and I wanted to get a new copy of Hamlet because all the other
editions that I have, I'm not the biggest fan of. So I have read this before, but I do want
to reread it and annotate it. And if you've been watching my channel for a while now, you know I'm
getting into non-fiction. So I have a very big pile of non-fictions that I am so excited to read
throughout this year. One of my reading challenges for 2023 is to read one non-fiction a month, so
I am going to get through all of these this this year, hopefully. Maybe not the last one that I'm
going to show you because it's a pretty big book, but the first one that we have here is The Lonely
City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. It says it is a dazzling work of biography memoir and
cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of iconic artists by the
acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Springs. Then we have Meditations by Marcus Aurelius because
I'm really interested in stoicism. Then we have Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors
Believe in Women's Pain because I do have chronic illnesses and I'm still trying to get diagnoses
for that, so I think this one's going to be a really insightful read. Then we have All About
Love by bell hooks. I've heard nothing but good things about this and cannot wait to dive into it.
Then we have What Happened to You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D
Perry and Oprah Winfrey. Then we have Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni
Eddo-Lodge, and the last nonfiction that really intimidates me because it is pretty big is The
Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. My best friend got this for me for Christmas because she knows I really
enjoy reading letters from people in the past, and I love J.R.R. Tolkien because he wrote The Lord
of the Rings but the font is so small and it's a pretty chunky book. It is much chunkier than The
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, and I do want to read this after I read the Lord of the Rings,
so this is kind of a treat that I'm going to get to once I finally read the Lord of the
Rings trilogy so I will not get to this until I complete that challenge. That is that entire
book stack and now let's get to the one that's right behind me that you can't really see but is
almost as tall as me sitting down. This stack is for literary fictions that I'm very excited to get
to because that's one of my favorite genres. The first one we have is The Idiot by Elif Batuman.
What is happening??? I would like to set a record for the core that I had to wait
like a solid 10 minutes for the train to go by for me to continue on with this video,
and I think that was very rude. The next book on my TBR is You Made a Fool of Death with Your
Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. Then we have Pure Color by Sheila Heti. This is a very polarizing book.
People either love it or hate it, and I'm a little scared about it. Then we have a book that I never
said I would read because this author doesn't use quotation marks, but a wonderful bookseller– my
dad told her about my channel— she was like, “I have to recommend you a book.” And I was like,
“Okay, recommend me a book. I'm gonna get whatever you recommend.” And she's hold me I have to read
Normal People by Sally Rooney, and she's the only person on this planet who could convince me to
read this book. I'm doing it for her because she was the nicest person in the entire world. Then
we have Cult Classic by Sloane Crossley. A friend recently read this and I was watching them update
their reading on Goodreads and they shared so many quotes that they loved and so many updates, and
it made me really excited to read this. Then we have How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale,
and those are all the literary fictions that I'm hoping to read in the future. Nnow let's
get into the historical fictions that I want to read. Can you tell the historical fiction is one
of my favorite genres? I actually don't know if this book is historical fiction. I don't know if
it's magical realism. I haven't read it yet, so I don't know, and I haven't really read the synopsis
because this is a book that I want to go into a little bit unknowing. So the first one is The Last
True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake. I feel like someone said this is inspired by a Shakespearean
play/ I think um. Oh my goodness– what is that one? The Tempest! I have no idea. Am I spreading
rumors? I have no idea, but I want to read this. Then we have a book that has been on my TBR,
I think, since high school that I have not gotten to. I read the first two books in the trilogy. I'm
not really that interested in anymore, but I'm also just curious and it is The Summer Garden by
Paulina Simons, and yeah, I still haven't gotten around to it. It's a very big book and the font
is so incredibly small. Maybe I'll DNF it, but I do want to give it a shot because why not? Then we
have Our Last Days in Barcelona by Chanel Cleeton. Then we have At the Wolves Table by Rosella
Postorino, and this is a historical fiction set during World War II that I still haven't gotten
around to reading. It's pretty short, and I don't know why I added this to my TBR. I thought that a
friend recommended this book to me, and I texted them, telling them that I got it, and they were
like, “I've never recommended that book to you.” So I don't remember who recommended this to me,
but it says it's an international bestseller, so we'll see. We'll see if I like it. Then we have We
are Not Free by Traci Chee. This was recommended to me by, I think, Alexandra over at Twirling
Pages and Monica Kim over at Monica Kim, and they said that this was a beautiful novel, so I'm very
excited to get to this as well. This deals with the Japanese internment in America. There's like
so much dust flying around, and I feel like I feel like I'm getting mesmerized by it because that's
all I can stare at. I could just like see it right in front of me. Another historical fiction that I
wanted to read is The Time in Between by Maria Dueñas, and this was given to me by my pen pal
and friend, Leah, and she always recommends the greatest books, and I think this is also a show.
I remember someone commenting, telling me this is a show, so I do want to read it and then watch the
show, but, boy, is this a big book. Maybe they have an audiobook for it. I'll try and see if
they have an audiobook for it because I think that will help me get through it because we all know I
don't do well with long books. Then we have A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. Then we have
The Fortunes of Jaded Women By Carolyn Huynh. I'm actually going to read this on audiobook. It's on
my audiobook TBR. And the last historical fiction on my TBR, people tell me it destroyed them,
it's an amazing book but it will make you cry, and it is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini,
and I am so scared to read this but I love books that make me cry, but I don't know if
I'm emotionally ready for this. Either way it is on my TBR, and that is that entire pile behind me,
and now we have one more pile to get through my entire TBR. So the last section are fantasy
novels that I hope to get to. I don't read fantasy often. It does intimidate me, and I don't really
have a good relationship with it because I don't find myself truly enamored by it, but I do still
want to try a couple of fantasy books out because I do think I should give it a try. So the first
trilogy that we have here is The Lord of the Rings trilogy. We have the Fellowship of the Ring, The
Two Towers, and the Return of the King. The thing that intimidates me about this series is that
it's mass market paperback. The font is incredibly tiny, and I do want to annotate it but there's not
a lot of room to annotate a mass-market paperback. I do know they have paperback editions of The Lord
of the Rings trilogy with these covers, because I do enjoy these covers, which a lot of people seem
to hate but I enjoy them. But I'm not going to go out and get another edition of this series when
I already own it, so I am going to read the mass market paperbacks and suffer. I'm going to enjoy
the book, but I'm going to suffer reading a mass market paperback. They are not my favorite type
of book. Then we have These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong, I'm actually not that excited about
this book anymore, but I do want to give it a shot to say that I did. And then we have Jade City by
Fonda Lee. I've seen so many people tweet about this series and tell me that they fell in love
with it immediately. This is like a fantasy, mobster story, and you got me with the word
‘mobster’ because I love Peaky Blinders. It's one of my favorite shows of all time– my favorite show
of all time, actually. So I think if I love Peaky Blinders. I should definitely give this a shot
because I do want to read a fantasy mobster story. Now we're diving into Big Book Territory, and this
is when it gets intimidating for me. So, the first book that we have here that's probably going to
take me a couple of months, maybe even the whole year to read is the Fire and Blood book by George
RR Martin. This is the fictional historical textbook about the Targaryen family and their
eventual fall from the throne, and I love House of the Dragon. I became obsessed with it and I really
wanted to read it to kind of know more about where the show is going to go in the future, but this
book is so big. The font is really good! It's a– it's a decent font, and it's really cool because
we have illustrations in here. Let me try and find like a pretty one. Oh look at those dragons!
I love a book with pictures! We should do that more often, Intimidating but excited for it. Then
we have a book that I'm not that intimidated by it's just a pretty big book and it is Legendborn
by Tracey Deonn, and so many people told me this would be right up my alley. It's a dark academia
with some fantasy elements woven into it, and it just seems really fun, and I want to give it a try
because so many people rant and rave about it, and I want to be included. I'm a Leo. I always
want to be included. Another book that I want to feel included in is Children of Blood and Bone by
Tomi Adeyemi, and so many people, again, love this novel and they ranted and raved about it,
and I did not read it when it first came out but, I do want to give it a shot. And the next book
that I wanted to read, I will probably listen to on audiobook because I think reading it physically
would just slow me down so much and I just don't enjoy spending that much time with a novel because
I'm just– I'm a quick paced person. I'm from the East Coast. We're very fast-paced and we
just can't– we can't ruminate. I can't ruminate on things, and that book is Jonathan Strange and
Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark. This book is so big. The audiobook is way too long, but I want to give
it a try. And the last book on my TBR is The Rise of the Dragon: The Targaryen Dynasty Volume One.
This is taking the story from the Fire and Blood book but putting it into a beautifully illustrated
book and it is just absolutely beautiful with its drawings. I don't really want to open up the book
too much and mess up the spine, and it is signed bye George RR Martin himself. I went to a George R
Martin event, and it just was the most fun thing ever. I haven't been to an author event since
2019, so it was just so special and so amazing to be in a room with such a prolific author
because I never imagined being in the same room as George R Martin, and I was so excited when Parker,
one of my friends, gave me their copy of The Rise of the Dragon. Thank you so much, Parker, because
this made my entire year. I am so excited to read this. That is my entire physical TBR. I'm really
hoping I can focus on reading a lot of these books in 2023. I don't think I'll be able to get through
all of them, but it is a nice challenge to be able to focus on all the books that I physically own.
Let me know which book I should bump up to the top of my TBR, and let me know which are some of your
favorite reads that I have featured here. If you want to follow me anywhere else on social media,
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post about what I'm currently reading there. And if you've made it this far in the video,
leave a book stack emoji so we can see who stays for the longest in all my videos. If you do,
thank you so much, and I will see you in another video very soon. ~bye [Music]