TBR: Books I Want to Read in 2022

Another year, another list of books that I may or may not get to. Like usual, this TBR list is tentative, and probably superfluous, since I have so many books not listed here that are already on my bookshelf and that I need to read. Besides, my TBR list is “more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.” (If you get that reference, way to go, Cap). If I decide to read books that are nowhere near my TBR, fine and expected. 

Below, I have a list of carry-over books that I didn’t get to last year, because I read other books on impulse. All but the top two books, I would have to buy, and I need to stop buying books. At least until I’ve read the ones I already have. So those are probably long-term TBR.

The new additions are books I currently have and are at the top of my TBR. And of course they are all classics except for one. I have some contemporary books I was gifted from a friend who was un-hauling her books, so I’ll probably read those this year. And those books from my Halloween haul that I still haven’t read. I’ve included pictures of those books if you’re curious. I’ve had bad luck with nearly all of the contemporary books I’ve read in 2021, so I can’t say I’m particularly excited, but fingers crossed for 2022. 

Carry-overs from last year’s TBR:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Normal People and Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

New additions: 

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Scarlett: The Sequel by Alexandra Ripley

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I wanna try some John Grisham, since he’s always on NYT’s Bestsellers List, and I’ve been gifted a lot of his books recently for some reason.