**My Bookshelf: A Tour of My TBR Pile**

As I stand here in front of my bookshelf, I'm reminded that I have a staggering number of books to get through. With over 38 titles on my TBR list, it's no wonder that I often find myself struggling to keep up with the reading pace. But despite the daunting task ahead, I'm excited to share with you the various books that make up my TBR shelf.

**Featured Book: The Woman Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction**

One book in particular stands out on my shelf - a classic novel by a woman who is widely regarded as a pioneer in horror and speculative fiction. While I've heard great things about this author's work, I must admit that it's not exactly my usual cup of tea. However, I love featuring it on my shelf for the Halloween season, which serves as a reminder to myself to be more intentional with my reading choices.

**Non-Fiction Books: Not Usually My Forte**

I've also got a few non-fiction books on my TBR list that are causing me some anxiety. One of them is "The Woman Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction", which I'm saving for the fall season, despite not being someone who typically reads non-fiction. There's just something about this particular book that drew me in, and I'd love to learn more about it.

**Favorite Books That Everyone Recommends**

On my TBR list, I've got a number of books that everyone seems to recommend to me. One of them is "My Best Friend's Exorcism" by Grady Hendrix, which I'm excited to read in the fall. Another book that catches my eye is "The Whisper Man" by Alex North, another title that everyone seems to rave about. And then there's "Emma in the Night" by Emma Donoghue, a psychological thriller that I've heard great things about.

**Books That Everyone Else Has Already Read**

While it's always flattering when people recommend books to me, I have to admit that sometimes it can be a bit intimidating. For example, there are several books on my TBR list that everyone else seems to have already read - including "Recursion" by Blake Crouch, which is often cited as one of the best sci-fi novels of recent years.

**Upcoming Releases and Pre-Orders**

As I look at my bookshelf, I'm also excited to see some upcoming releases and pre-orders. One of them is "Chasing Lucky" by Jen Bennett, a romantic comedy that's scheduled for release this fall. Another title I'm looking forward to reading is "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman, which was originally supposed to be released in May but has been pushed back until November.

**The State of My Physical Book Collection**

I've also got a few physical books on my shelf that are worth mentioning. The only physical arcs I have are three titles that are scheduled for release this fall - "Chasing Lucky", "Anxious People", and "Invisible Girl" by Lisa Joel. While I love the idea of reading these new releases, I do feel a bit guilty about neglecting some of my other unread books.

**My TBR Shelf in Numbers**

So, how many books are on my TBR shelf? The answer is 38 - a number that might seem daunting to some, but for me, it's just a manageable goal. After all, I do enjoy moving books in and out of my shelves, which helps me stay organized and intentional with my reading choices.

**Accountability and the Power of YouTube**

One thing that keeps me accountable when it comes to reading is my YouTube channel. When I fill up one of my "TBR" videos, I feel like I'm being held to a standard - and that's exactly what I need to stay motivated. So, if you're looking for some inspiration or just want to see a tour of my TBR shelf in all its glory, be sure to check out one of my upcoming videos!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone today i'm here to do an old tag that i've done before because it's what i do so today's tag is going to be the tbr book tag which like i said i've done before i did it either three or four years ago i'll link it down below but i thought it'd be a great tag to redo because what's one thing that always changes your tbr shelf books get read some books don't they move out they stay in forever so i thought it'd be time to you know compare how my tv shirt how my tbr shelf used to look and then how it looks now and things of that nature let's get into it i'll leave all the links down below first question is how do you keep track of your tbr pile i know a lot of people have documents on their computer with everything me i'm just boring as mess i just have a shelf literally of all of my tv red books that's it and luckily i try to always comprise them into one shelf so i know where they're at at all times so that's how i keep track of them really basic is your tbr print or mostly ebook if you asked me this three years ago i would have said print now it's a mixture honestly with covid obviously i'm not getting a ton of arcs in the mail which i'm not complaining about by any means instead of getting a lot of ebooks or netgalley arcs and things like that so i would say my tbr shelf is mostly physical but i have a lot of ebooks on my tbr shelf so i guess you could say technically i organize it on my shelf and then on my kindle shelf i should probably like do a whole spreadsheet now thinking about it just because of how much like reading tastes have changed for me whether it be ebook or physical book things like that so i would say right now 70 physical 30 ebook i'm gonna guess how do you determine which book from your tbr to read next um the one thing that i always really do is new releases i know i'm just that way i like to even i like to keep opening releases that's just me i'm a very seasonal reader so usually when the fall book comes out i'll read it then or you know things like that i do save them four seasons as well because that's how i am so i'd say my number one pick would be new releases number two is just honestly what i'm in the mood for so like i said if it's still the summer months i'm gonna look at my tbr shelf and say hmm what book looks like a really cute summer read or if i look at my shelf in the fall i'm gonna probably pick a little bit more of a spookier one one that i think that will fit the season same goes for christmas and then around the new year i'm just that's whatever genre really but i would say that's how i mainly pick up my books as new releases then by like season what i'm feeling i'm very much a mood reader these days i will say a book that you recently added to your tbr oh that is a great question one that i actually just ordered that has not come in yet and that is the one by john mars that's the older one a lot of people have told me to check out the one by john mars so i bought it hopefully i'll love it so that's a newly added book on my tb book on your tbr you strictly bought because of its beautiful cover or you added i this is a good question i don't really do that anymore honestly like i'm just not about that i like have to know what it's about i would say one that like i got it in the mail and i didn't know anything about it but it immediately intrigued me what's the cover it's going it's going to be the sullivan sisters by katherine ormsby i was like i've never heard of this book i have heard of this author but i have no clue what this book is about but it went on my tbr because of the cover so i guess that answers the question a book on your tbr shelf that you never plan on reading oh i do have some of those uh i would probably say this one monster she wrote the woman who pioneered horror and speculative fiction not that i don't think it's a good book by any means i do but it's really not in my wheelhouse i don't read a ton of non-fiction um maybe one day i'll read it but honestly i got this from cork books which i love quirk books they always have the most beautiful covers and the most i'd say like spooky ones but i really saved this book because i love featuring it on my shelf for like the halloween season is that vain and horrible probably but i don't know if i ever plan to read it but i'll keep it forever and i'll cherish it forever i even have it in a section for halloween books yeah i'm like that now a book on your tbr that basically is everyone read but you oh my gosh i'm gonna stand up for this one because we got a lot of them and my tbr shelf is up here um probably skyward by brandon sanderson everyone's read that but me here's one that i'm definitely gonna read in the fall but it's not fall yet but everyone's read it my best friend's exorcism by grady hendrix um also another one i'm saving for the fall the whisper man by alex north everyone's read that but me i mean there's so many i could list some emma in the night by emma by wendy walker the broken girls by simone st jane if i never met you by marie mcfarlane a lot of them guys book on your tbr that everyone recommends to you i could probably pick any of those that i just talked about one in particular that a lot of people recommend to me i'm trying to think everyone really talks about recursion by blake crouch i have read his first book oh my gosh what is the name of it i can't even think of the name of the first book i'm horrible but everyone says this book's amazing and recommends it to me especially when i'm like in a sci-fi mood they always talk about that one a book on your tbr that you're dying to read there is a lot i have neglected my tbr shelf like my physical one immensely because of so many ers and things like that we're gonna stand up again um again i could say the whisper man i'm very excited to read that and my best friend's exorcism another one i'm very excited to read is where dreams descend by janella angelos i think this one as well mexican gothic that one sounds really intriguing to me that i'm very excited to read oh awesome these three arcs that i have also these three arcs that i have these are literally the only physical arcs i have on my show but they come out this fall i'm very excited to read them chasing lucky by jen bennett this was actually supposed to come out in may but it got pushed back till november i think um also anxious people by frederick bachman i love him i've done a whole video about his books this one comes out in um september so i'm reading it next month and then invisible girl by lisa joel this one comes out in october and i've read maybe three or four of her books i enjoy them so there's a lot on my shelf that i'm very excited for but i'm neglecting because i'm horrible and the last question is how many books are on your tbr shelf i should have prepared for this i'm gonna count and get right back with you all right so i have 38 books on my tbr shelf which honestly is not that bad like that is where i try to keep it at i'm a very big fan of like moving books out i can probably rest assure you that you're not going to see a single book i talked about today in my old tbr tag video because my rule is if i haven't read it in like a year year and a half i'm obviously not going to read it anytime soon and i will buy it again or borrow it from the library if so that's just how i am because i know i have a whole room for books in my office technically but i only have this shelf and i try to be very practical and realistic about reading so i move things a lot like in and out that's just that's how i am that's it that's the tbr shelf tag if you guys want to see a whole video of all the tbr books that i have including ebooks y'all do that please let me know i would love to do it and as always with those videos whenever i fill them i feel like i'm being held accountable which i need desperately so thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in the next video byehello everyone today i'm here to do an old tag that i've done before because it's what i do so today's tag is going to be the tbr book tag which like i said i've done before i did it either three or four years ago i'll link it down below but i thought it'd be a great tag to redo because what's one thing that always changes your tbr shelf books get read some books don't they move out they stay in forever so i thought it'd be time to you know compare how my tv shirt how my tbr shelf used to look and then how it looks now and things of that nature let's get into it i'll leave all the links down below first question is how do you keep track of your tbr pile i know a lot of people have documents on their computer with everything me i'm just boring as mess i just have a shelf literally of all of my tv red books that's it and luckily i try to always comprise them into one shelf so i know where they're at at all times so that's how i keep track of them really basic is your tbr print or mostly ebook if you asked me this three years ago i would have said print now it's a mixture honestly with covid obviously i'm not getting a ton of arcs in the mail which i'm not complaining about by any means instead of getting a lot of ebooks or netgalley arcs and things like that so i would say my tbr shelf is mostly physical but i have a lot of ebooks on my tbr shelf so i guess you could say technically i organize it on my shelf and then on my kindle shelf i should probably like do a whole spreadsheet now thinking about it just because of how much like reading tastes have changed for me whether it be ebook or physical book things like that so i would say right now 70 physical 30 ebook i'm gonna guess how do you determine which book from your tbr to read next um the one thing that i always really do is new releases i know i'm just that way i like to even i like to keep opening releases that's just me i'm a very seasonal reader so usually when the fall book comes out i'll read it then or you know things like that i do save them four seasons as well because that's how i am so i'd say my number one pick would be new releases number two is just honestly what i'm in the mood for so like i said if it's still the summer months i'm gonna look at my tbr shelf and say hmm what book looks like a really cute summer read or if i look at my shelf in the fall i'm gonna probably pick a little bit more of a spookier one one that i think that will fit the season same goes for christmas and then around the new year i'm just that's whatever genre really but i would say that's how i mainly pick up my books as new releases then by like season what i'm feeling i'm very much a mood reader these days i will say a book that you recently added to your tbr oh that is a great question one that i actually just ordered that has not come in yet and that is the one by john mars that's the older one a lot of people have told me to check out the one by john mars so i bought it hopefully i'll love it so that's a newly added book on my tb book on your tbr you strictly bought because of its beautiful cover or you added i this is a good question i don't really do that anymore honestly like i'm just not about that i like have to know what it's about i would say one that like i got it in the mail and i didn't know anything about it but it immediately intrigued me what's the cover it's going it's going to be the sullivan sisters by katherine ormsby i was like i've never heard of this book i have heard of this author but i have no clue what this book is about but it went on my tbr because of the cover so i guess that answers the question a book on your tbr shelf that you never plan on reading oh i do have some of those uh i would probably say this one monster she wrote the woman who pioneered horror and speculative fiction not that i don't think it's a good book by any means i do but it's really not in my wheelhouse i don't read a ton of non-fiction um maybe one day i'll read it but honestly i got this from cork books which i love quirk books they always have the most beautiful covers and the most i'd say like spooky ones but i really saved this book because i love featuring it on my shelf for like the halloween season is that vain and horrible probably but i don't know if i ever plan to read it but i'll keep it forever and i'll cherish it forever i even have it in a section for halloween books yeah i'm like that now a book on your tbr that basically is everyone read but you oh my gosh i'm gonna stand up for this one because we got a lot of them and my tbr shelf is up here um probably skyward by brandon sanderson everyone's read that but me here's one that i'm definitely gonna read in the fall but it's not fall yet but everyone's read it my best friend's exorcism by grady hendrix um also another one i'm saving for the fall the whisper man by alex north everyone's read that but me i mean there's so many i could list some emma in the night by emma by wendy walker the broken girls by simone st jane if i never met you by marie mcfarlane a lot of them guys book on your tbr that everyone recommends to you i could probably pick any of those that i just talked about one in particular that a lot of people recommend to me i'm trying to think everyone really talks about recursion by blake crouch i have read his first book oh my gosh what is the name of it i can't even think of the name of the first book i'm horrible but everyone says this book's amazing and recommends it to me especially when i'm like in a sci-fi mood they always talk about that one a book on your tbr that you're dying to read there is a lot i have neglected my tbr shelf like my physical one immensely because of so many ers and things like that we're gonna stand up again um again i could say the whisper man i'm very excited to read that and my best friend's exorcism another one i'm very excited to read is where dreams descend by janella angelos i think this one as well mexican gothic that one sounds really intriguing to me that i'm very excited to read oh awesome these three arcs that i have also these three arcs that i have these are literally the only physical arcs i have on my show but they come out this fall i'm very excited to read them chasing lucky by jen bennett this was actually supposed to come out in may but it got pushed back till november i think um also anxious people by frederick bachman i love him i've done a whole video about his books this one comes out in um september so i'm reading it next month and then invisible girl by lisa joel this one comes out in october and i've read maybe three or four of her books i enjoy them so there's a lot on my shelf that i'm very excited for but i'm neglecting because i'm horrible and the last question is how many books are on your tbr shelf i should have prepared for this i'm gonna count and get right back with you all right so i have 38 books on my tbr shelf which honestly is not that bad like that is where i try to keep it at i'm a very big fan of like moving books out i can probably rest assure you that you're not going to see a single book i talked about today in my old tbr tag video because my rule is if i haven't read it in like a year year and a half i'm obviously not going to read it anytime soon and i will buy it again or borrow it from the library if so that's just how i am because i know i have a whole room for books in my office technically but i only have this shelf and i try to be very practical and realistic about reading so i move things a lot like in and out that's just that's how i am that's it that's the tbr shelf tag if you guys want to see a whole video of all the tbr books that i have including ebooks y'all do that please let me know i would love to do it and as always with those videos whenever i fill them i feel like i'm being held accountable which i need desperately so thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in the next video bye\n"