TTT: Books I've Read But Never Reviewed

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I've Read but not reviewed (and what I hope to do about it)

This is a timely prompt because I just finished updating my list of reviewed books -- from 2009 to present. (See list here.) And so I am aware of some of the blaring examples of books I haven't reviewed since I started blogging.

A few years ago I made myself a list of Super Past Due Reviews I hoped to write, even if I read the book years before that date. Of the ten books I placed on that list, I managed to ultimately review, sometimes with a reread, nine of them. See that list of Super Past Due Reviews here. 

Perhaps with the little shove this prompt provides I will create a new Super Past Due Reviews list and set about finally giving the books the credit they deserve.

Here are some good ones that deserve a review from me:

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
First read in April of 2007 (pre-blogging) and reread in June 2012.
Of all the books on my list today, this one deserves a review since it is one of my favorite books.

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
According to my records on Goodreads, I read this book three times, the last time in 2015 and I've never reviewed it. What a shame. Guess I'll have to read it again and this time write the review it so obviously deserves.

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
I read this book in 2014. It's about a doctor who travels to the Amazon region to discover some very strange medical phenomenons. It is an oversight that I never reviewed it and will add it to my next Super Past Due Reviews list, if I make one.

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
I love this author so it shocks me to discover I never reviewed this wonderful book. Looking over the books I read for book club in 2014, of which this is one, I didn't review very many of them. I've often thought I'd like to write a review now but the book is a long one, over 500 pages, and I'd need to reread it first.

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The third book read for book club in 2014 which I loved but never reviewed. I wonder what was going on that year?

Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
I read this book in March 2020. Remember that month? No wonder I forgot to review it. After 2020 I made it a yearly goal to review ALL books read for book club but before that time it was hit or miss whether I would review them, now that doesn't happen any more.

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
March by Geraldine Brooks
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
This past year I finished up my personal challenge to read (and review) all the fiction Pulitzer Prize winners for the 21st Century. These four books, all read before I was a blogger, never got a full review, each got a summary review as I was winding down the project. I know no one cares except me, but I would like to give them the respect the other winners got by giving them a full review. For a look at my 21st Century Pulitzer Challenge, click here.

I am not sure if I will get to writing reviews for all these ten books this year, but I will at least try to get to a few of them.

-Anne