Yeah, yeah, yeah, shelves, whatever. The good news is I’ve cleared out everything I bought in 2025! Let’s pretend that’s an achievement.
Tag: tbr
AYFKM?
Authors, I thought we discussed this last week, but somehow today’s is worse; of the three highly anticipated books I got last Tuesday, I’ve finished one of them (The Last Contract of Isako, which I enjoyed but did not, sadly, set my world on fire) and now you’ve hit me with not only a new Dungeon Crawler Carl but also the second Amina al-Sirafi book and the new Bobiverse? Get your shit together, damn it, and come up with a release schedule. This is nonsense. Have you seen my Unread Shelf?
The good news, I suppose, is I don’t have anything else on pre-order until late June, but still. Damn.
Also, I definitely read the first 100 pages of Horribles before posting this.
This isn’t fair
These three books were waiting for me when I got home. That’s Sisters of the Lizard, the sequel to my ninth-favorite book of 2025, She Knows All the Names, the sequel to my twelfth-favorite book of 2025, and The Last Contract of Isako, the first book in a new trilogy by Fonda Lee, whose last trilogy was my favorite book of the year three fucking books in a row. And next week I get a new Dungeon Crawler Carl book, the latest book in a series that was first in my list of favorite books of 2025.
Come on, God damn it. Slow down. I read faster than 95% of the entire human race and that may be an understatement, and I can’t keep up with this shit. I need all the writers to get together and put themselves on a schedule. This is crazy.
Unread Shelves: May 3, 2026
I put the new bookshelves in place today— two full-size Billys from our friends at Ikea– and … sigh:
Sooooo much to read.
Unread Shelf: April 30, 2026
Looks kinda rough, right? Hahaha you have no idea:
And we aren’t fucking done:
Minor milestone: this will be the final Unread Shelf for the bookshelf in the top picture, which has hosted my unread books since I began this series ten thousand years ago. It is being replaced this weekend with something sturdier and just barely wider, and also I can never leave the house again because I have too much to read.
Unread Shelf: March 31, 2026
How long, do you think, will I hold out until I cave and call this post “Unread Shelves”?
Unread Shelf: February 28, 2026
Bought too many books this month and also didn’t read enough. The pile tomorrow is going to be the smallest in quite a while.
Unread Shelf: January 31, 2026
I think this counts as progress, actually.