Currently on my nightstand:
A handful are the second-round Cybils books, but there’s a good assortment of others as well. And only one holdover from last month!
Grandmothers’ Stories (for my in person bookgroup)
Ivanhoe (for my online bookgroup)
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu (Cybils book)
The Friendship Doll (Cybils book)
Words in the Dust (Cybils book, which I’ve read but wanted to revisit.)
Darth Paper Strikes Back (Ditto.)
Warp Speed (Cybils book)
Ghetto Cowboy (Cybils book)
Kat, Incorrigible (I don’t remember where I saw this, but it sounds cute.)
Breadcrumbs (I was made curious by emilyreads; that it made the Cybils shortlist was the clincher.)
Notes from an Accidental Band Geek (C got it for Christmas, and said it was good)
Jefferson’s Sons (this has been getting some Newbery buzz, and I was curious)
Maman’s Homesick Pie (from work; I wanted a good foodie book)
Child of the Prophecy (for a buddy read with Kelly, which I really will get to. Soon!)
The Book Nut 
I keep glancing at Child of the Prophecy and wondering if you are finished and I haven't even started yet. Glad to see that is not the case!
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I spend more time reading graphic novels than conventional books. The two GN's which stand out in my mind the most as “great works” are “I Kill Giants” and “Stitches.” Both of these stories revolve around battles with cancer, (in a creative way, of course). If you enjoy good illustrations and can stand to spend three hours or so reading each of them, I strongly recommend both stories.
Thank you for your reviews. I really enjoy reading them from time to time.
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I just finished Breadcrumbs and it is amazing!
Happy reading. 🙂
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I have a whole stack of books on my TBR pile which are firmly realistic. I needed some real-world stuff after my Cybils stint!
I want to hear what you think of Breadcrumbs. I'm not going to get to it for awhile but I know there's a lot of love for it.
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Forgot to add . . . Kat Incorrigible is coming up pretty soon for me too, and I'm looking forward to it. I'm interested to hear what you think of it.
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Thanks, Scott! My graphic novels are always lacking, so it's good to get some good recommendations…
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If I had that many books literally sitting on my nightstand I'd freak! It looks like there are some good ones, though.
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Choosing what to read next from my ever increasing TBR pile is a reviewer's dilemma (one of the sweetest problems ever). Every time I look at my pile I think “oh god, why haven't I read that one yet” and “that one is definitely next”. It's always a balance though between making sure I'm completely present for the current read and planning for the next one.
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I feel like my whole house is a TBR pile, but top of the coffee table are “Jefferson's Sons” (same reason as you) “Dumpling Days” (just got it) and “Why We Broke Up” (waiting for a Good Reading Day).
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I found your blog on MotherReader as part of the Comment Challenge. WORDS IN THE DUST is a wonderful read! Trent Reedy, a colleague of mine from Vermont College of Fine Arts, is a very talented writer. Hope you enjoyed reading the novel as much as I did.
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Not much left on my TBR; mostly on the Nook, which is not nearly as enthralling. You have an excellent pile, though! Have fun!
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I've got a similar stack of books waiting to be read, but their mostly picture books, and a few adults books. Dragon Castle sounded like an interesting read. Nice reveiw. This is an interesting blog. Am stopping by as part of the Comment Challenge.
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Love love LOVE the “state of the TBR pile” idea. And yours is an actual PILE (as opposed to my overflowing box), so it's very impressive.
Am currently reading both POSSESS by Gretchen McNeil and also CHIME by Franny Billingsley, but my TBR pile is INSANE.
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Lovely to see a tidy TBR pile, mine is collapsing from bedside table to overflow on to the floor. Yet, I'm still happily scribbling down your suggestions for ones I haven't seen yet LOL Incorrigible.
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I agree with the other Annie! It is so nice to see a neat (and safe!) TBR pile. I have been injured by mine on more than one occasion!
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Piling on …
I have five “sections” of books in my house: reference, kid's books/poetry, YA lit, baseball, and adult non-fiction (my wife is my adult fiction filter, but that's always last TBR).
Among them are Uglies and Specials (oddly I read Pretties before I knew it was a sequel), The Lost Boy (Mickey Mantle), Baseball in the Garden of Eden, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, a boxset of Ludwig Von Mises material so that I can decode Ron Paul, and other sundry titles.
How long will it take you to get through your stack? It will probably take me years to catch up on what I already have, partially because I acquire new books all the time.
Now where are those Amazon GCs I got over the holidays …
-Ed D.
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Ed, I usually try to get through all these in a month's time, but sometimes things bleed over. I have a stack (that I don't take pictures of…) of back books — review copies and gifts, mostly — that I have yet to get to. Some of those are several years old.
It's a never ending process, but I love it!
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