Polls for Our Souls discussion

So since I'm super indecisive I'm asking people to pick what I read in 2019 from my list of owned books. Anyone in the group want to pick something? This is my shelf of owned unread books I'm going to prioritize things that are suggested more than once.

I don't know what to give.

I think you should read Usborne Puzzle Adventures Series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/7779... Escape from the Blood Castle. This book is one of them. I think you got to read it if you haven't.

Rumell wrote: "I think you should read Usborne Puzzle Adventures Series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/7779... Escape from the Blood Castle. This book is one of them. I t..."

Thanks, but I'm asking people to stick to only books I own. I have wayyy to many of those and I want to get through a good chunk of them this year lol

So what books do you own?

I recommend Ancillary Justice, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Natural History of Dragons. 🙂
Borne, too - haven't read that one but heard positive things.

Try birtching his bride

abraham lincoln: vampire hunter is really good

norse mythology and once upon a curse i thought were just okay but they are standalones so at least you're not getting started on a whole long series

i remember really liking angels and demons and timeline back in the day but it's been ages since i read either of them

and if you're going to read the vampire chronicles i really do not recommend reading past book 3, it's just so not worth it lol. although i get that it's hard to just not finish a series. i've read all 13 of them at this point even though at least half of them are total crap and i KNOW that yet i just keep reading -_-;

I was going to say read Dracula because it's been on your TBR the longest, but no. Read Anne of Green Gables! I read it this year and it really surprised me by how much I loved it.

so this isn't on your shelf, but i've heard good things about it
Girls of Paper and Fire

Hi Nikki :) So I've been through your to read shelf and there are books there by H.P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, Anne Rice, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien that are great.

My personal favorites books from your list are Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankestein by Mary Shelley, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, Lestat the Vampire by Anne Rice (have you read the first book of the Vampire Chronicles, Interview with the Vampire? I recommend to read them in chronological order), A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

I also saw you have the two last books of The Lord of the Rings trilogy here, which means you already read and liked the first book? If so, I'd recommend to finish the series :)

Okay, so I went through your list, looking at books I gave stars to as it was too slow to read every single title :)--this means I may have missed a book I liked or loved.

There are the two on that list that I have given stars that I suggest.

Guards! Guards! (while I gave this 3 stars, I like the next too better and it's funny :) )
Anne of Green Gables

You have a lot of books in yoour TBR shelf!
I like

Rumell wrote: "So what books do you own?"

I have the shelf linking in the first post :)

Cendaquenta wrote: "I recommend Ancillary Justice, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Natural History of Dragons. 🙂
Borne, too - haven't read that one but heard positive things."

Thank you! I've heard a lot of really good things about The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

BADASSBOOKWORM wrote: "Try birtching his bride"

Thanks for the rec!

Devann wrote: "abraham lincoln: vampire hunter is really good

norse mythology and once upon a curse i thought were just okay but they are standalones so at least you're not getting started on a whole long series..."

My boyfriend gushed about how good Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter was. It was actually why I bought it so I'll def try to get to it this year. Thanks for the insight on the others as well. I have already read Interview (I read it in high school). Hoping I enjoy the rest of the series as much as I did that one

Erin wrote: "so this isn't on your shelf, but i've heard good things about it
Girls of Paper and Fire"

I have also heard good things about this one.

Kristen wrote: "I was going to say read Dracula because it's been on your TBR the longest, but no. Read Anne of Green Gables! I read it this year and it really surprised me by how much I loved it."

I think that will be a perfet pick when I'm in the mood for something lighter thank you :)

Karin wrote: "Okay, so I went through your list, looking at books I gave stars to as it was too slow to read every single title :)--this means I may have missed a book I liked or loved.

There are the two on tha..."

Thank you!

Catherine wrote: "My personal favorites books from your list are Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankestein by Mary Shelley, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, Lestat the Vampire by Anne Rice (have you read the first book of the Vampire Chronicles, Interview with the Vampire? I recommend to read them in chronological order), A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

I also saw you have the two last books of The Lord of the Rings trilogy here, which means you already read and liked the first book? If so, I'd recommend to finish the series :) "

Lot's of great suggestions including some classics. And Yes, I read interview when I was in high school (I loved it) I have read fellowship of the ring as well.

Ernesto wrote: "You have a lot of books in yoour TBR shelf!
I like




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Thank you for the picks!

That’s a nice long list but nothing really calls out saying me me me
Cottonwood by R Lee smith believe me you will like it

Here are 3 that are great

(One of my all time favorites)

***The Way of Kings***
Lord of the Rings
Guards! Guards!
Age of Myth
Anne of Green Gables
Alice in Wonderland
Wuthering Heights

UnEnchanted was cute but had the most editing and factual errors of any book I’ve encountered. Almost every sentence had a typo.

Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

I loved Lord of the Rings and really enjoyed Anne of Green Gablesand Murder on the Orient Express and would love to read Lilith's Brood and The Historian

I have to admit I've never heard of about 85 percent of these books, and I consider myself very well read! Wow.

Okay:
The Dune saga by Frank Herbert is amazing. My recommendation is that you don't go beyond book #3, or #5 if you're really into it. After that, it gets super weird, and then Herbert died and his son took over the franchise, and Brian Herbert is a TERRIBLE writer.

Ditto with Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire and the next four books are good, and then they go downhill fast. Ditch Pandora and afterwards, but definitely read the first three to five. And same goes with her Witching Hour series—the first book and the next two are gripping, and after that, pfui!

You have Necromancer, by Lish McBride, but in order to get what's happening in it, you would have to first read Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, which is the first book.

Likewise, you have that book about the Margarets by Sheri Tepper, which is possibly one of her worst three books. But she has written some amazing stuff, try The Gate to Women's Country, or The Family Tree, or The Fresco.

I loved Wuthering Heights as a teenager, but some people really dislike it. But it IS a gothic classic I think everybody should read.

The Michael Crichton book is good.

I personally HATED that Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter thing.

Devil in the White City is amazing.