Goodreads TBR Cleanout: The Remaining TBR

Yesterday, I cleaned out my Goodreads TBR, removing all books I no longer had any interest in and leaving myself with a TBR of under 100 books (~1 year of reading). Today, I want to share the books that made the cut.

There are definitely books I’m more excited about than others and some that very nearly were removed but I’m just not ready to give up on them yet. So I put the list in alphabetical order to easily pull from Goodreads but I have coded it. Books shown in Bold are either owned or currently on loan from the library (I typically have about 20 books out and return about a third unread so no guarantees). Books with a * afterwards are on my 23 Books for 2023 List. Books in italics are not yet released. And finally, books with a ? afterwards are the ones I almost removed and will probably be removed if not read in the next year.

Without further ado, here’s the list:

• Among the Beasts and Briars by Ashly Poston?
• Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz?
• The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu*
• As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
• Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler
• Aurora’s End by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff*
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman*
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
• Blackbringer by Laini Taylor
• The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
• Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller
• The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
• The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart
• The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
• Capture the Sun by Jessie Mihalik
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• City of Brass by SA Chakraborty*
• Crimson Crown by Heather Walter
• Cursed Crowns by Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber
• The Darkness Within Us by Tricia Levenseller
• Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
• A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
• Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor
• Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray*
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness?
• A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen
• Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
• An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir*
• Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik*
• Engines of Empire by Richard S. Ford*
• The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
• The Fifth Season by NK Jemesin*
• The Fifth Timekeeper by Jon and Dayna McConnell
• The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson*
• The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi
• Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor
• Fireborne by Rosaria Munda*
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir?
• The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
• The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh?
• Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
• Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
• The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
• Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
• House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig*
• If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales
• Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
• In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
• Jade City by Fonda Lee
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
• Katherine of Aragon by Alison Weir?
• Knight’s Shadow by Sebastien de Castell*
• Legend by Marie Lu?
• Lesson in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus*
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers*
• The Magic of Found Objects by Maddie Dawson
• Middlegame by Seanan McGuire*
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman?
• The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
• The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He
• Perfect of Paper by Sophie Gonzales
• Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
• The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
• The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman?
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater?
• Renegades by Merissa Meyer
• A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
• The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons*
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft*
• The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne*
• The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan?
• A Sleight of Shadows by Kat Howard
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
• Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
• Star Mother by Charlie Holmberg
• Stardust in Their Veins by Laura Sebastian
• The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah*
• The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
• Strike the Zither by Joan He
• There Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman?
• The Thousand Names by Django Wexler
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• Untitled Amari Book by BB Alston
• Upon a Burning Throne by Ashok K Banker
• The Water Outlaws by SL Huang
• Witch King by Martha Wells
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
• Wolfsong by TJ Klune*