10 Books I’ve Not Read By My Favourite Authors

Top Ten Tuesday is currently hosted by Artsy Reader Girl and has weekly topics for bloggers to respond to and share a love of all things books! I love thinking up my responses and the weekly blog hop to see what everyone else wrote!

The prompt this week was to come up with candle smells for books, but I don’t think in smells, or I don’t read the kind of thing that I’d associate with them. At least not without going down the unimaginative route of all the ones you see in the gifts section of bookshops!

Instead, and because I’m off work sick today and just want something easy, I picked an old prompt for books by favourite authors that I’ve not yet read.

This is also a little bit inspired by the imminent release of Mona Awad’s We Love You, Bunny, a follow-up prequel/sequel to Bunny. I am not happy about this! I love (I’m obsessed with) Bunny for its ambiguity, and from the early reviews I read, I think this follow up (who I assume is for the people mad they didn’t get their spelled out answers in the first book) will detract from it. It feels like cheapening, and dare I say a… dumbing down… of the first book to come out with this second one.

So I think that’s going to be an example of a book by my favourite author that I’m probably not going to read, because it’ll only disappoint me.

1. 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat Girl by Mona Awad – this one is very controversial given the subject matter, but I’m interested to find out for myself.
2. Death in Her Hands and McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh – even if I only give her books 3 stars there is always something interesting about them.
3. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin – I really enjoyed Pretend I’m Dead.
4. Boy Parts, a novel, and She’s Always Hungry, a short story collection, by Eliza Clarke – I was blown away by Penance and I need to read more.
5. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry – she’s hit or DNF for me but from reviews I’ve read I think I’ll like this one.
6. I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid – I’ve read two of his books and they were both great.
7. Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata – I don’t know if I’ll love this one, from early reviews, but I’ll still read it.
8. Philip K. Dick wrote 44 novels, 121 short stories and 14 short story collections. I’ve only read 5, I think. Top of the list is The Man in The High Castle or Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
9. Terry Pratchett wrote 41 Discworld novels and I think I’ve read 6 of them! I don’t know I’ll ever read them all, but definitely all the Witches series.
10. Margaret Atwood has written 18 novels, and I’ve read 5 of them. She’s hit and miss for me, but when she’s good she’s excellent. Top of the list is the Robber Bride.