Hi and welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post! The year is well on its way already, but we haven’t looked at the old titles yet. This week’s original topic is 2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To (will you be prioritizing these this year?), but I can’t remember much of last year’s releases, let alone which ones I was excited for. So I gave this topic a little spin and transformed it into Backlist books I hope to read in 2025. Focussing on the backlog is one of my bookish goals for the year, so this topic is very suitable. Let’s hope I’ll do better on this than previous years!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
- The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi – This book made it onto several TBR posts already and I’m planning on reading it as soon as possible.
- Tokyo Dreaming by Emiko Jean – This book will definitely be read this year as it’s high on my “Up Next” queue on The Storygraph. In fact, this will be my next read by the looks of it.
- Wildfire by Hannah Grace – I only bought this book last year, but I hope to read it later in 2025 as I really hope I will enjoy it more than Icebreaker.
- The Pearl that Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi – One I took with me from last year, but I finally have a copy so I’m sure I’ll be reading this one eventually.
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender – A book I’ve been wanting to read since 2020 and it’s about time.
- The Woman in Me by Britney Spears – This book was so hyped upon its release and I also got myself the audiobook back then. But guess what? I haven’t read it yet.
- The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel – A book I accidentally found and sounded really interesting. I bought it, but never read it.
- For Fallon by Soraya Naomi – I have never read mafia romance before, but I have the first two books of the “Chicago Syndicate” series on my digital shelf for years now. I hope I will enjoy this type of romance!
- The Survivors by Alex Schulman – And this is a book that sounded very intriguing, but that I haven’t read once again. I don’t know why honestly.
- Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu – This is on my “Up Next” queue on The Storygraph as well, but I think I have to remove it for now as I’ve already read way too many dragons books the past few weeks. I will be reading it in 2025 though.
Have you read any of these books? What backlist books are you planning on reading in 2025?
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