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This week’s Top 5 Wednesday topic is the top five books you want to read before the end of the year. Welcome to yet another installment in the “Ari’s TBR Shame” series! Today, we’ll be doing a bit of New Year’s reading resolution shaming, as I believe that all of these books are off of my “16 in 2016” TBR from the beginning of the year. However, on the positive side of things, I have a fairly good feeling I’ll be able to finish all of these novels by the end of the year (she says with eternal optimism…). 🙂
5. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
This one comes straight off my “been on my TBR for way too long” list from yesterday. Even though I’m sure I’ll love this one, I am so overloaded with books right now, I think I’ve been putting this series off mainly because of the length. I’ve been trying to put a bit more of a dent in my TBR before starting on this one, but I’m going to make sure it gets read before the year is out!
4. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Tying in with yesterday’s Top 10 Tuesday post, this is a book that I’ve had sitting on my TBR for a very long time—definitely since well before I started blogging. In fact, it was one of the first books I added to my Goodreads TBR. I’ve started working on this one already, so my finishing it before the end of the year is pretty certain.
3. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
This is another one that’s a duplicate from yesterday’s list. I’ve owned a copy of this novel since it was first released and have been dying to read it for years—and yet, it’s still siting on my TBR. I started it at one point, got really busy with schoolwork, and unfortunately had to put it aside. But I already know I love the story—or at least what I’ve read—so this is a must read before the end of 2016!
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
As I said before, this was on my list from the beginning of the year, and it’s been a goal of mine to read my first Tolkien novel in 2016. Thus, The Hobbit makes it onto this list. I figure this will be a good one to start off with, and then I can jump into LOTR later on.
1. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
And once again, another one rolling over from yesterday’s list! I’m really determined to get some of these ones that have been sitting on my TBR done soon. Though this has been on my list the least amount of time out of the five I’ve chosen, this is by far the craziest one. Victoria Schwab is one of my favorite authors and it is absolutely insane that I haven’t begun this series yet! This is a top priority!
What books are you guys hoping to eliminate from your TBR before the end of 2016? Let me know in the comments!
-Ariana
The Quirky Book Nerd 
I really enjoyed reading ADSOM and the sequel! I can’t wait for the third book to come out. I hope you like reading it! 🙂
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I’m also planning to read The Final Empire before the end of the year. I bought it last month, so I don’t actually have it on my tbr forever but still… It’s so beautiful and I heard so many good things about this series. But just like you said, it’s huge and this is probably also a reason, why I didn’t read it before 😀 Just like many other books, haha 😉
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The Hobbit has been on my TBR for a while now!!
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