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The original topic for this week was Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf, but I’m tweaking it a little bit as nearly everything I read comes from my local library.
Here are ten books with long waitlists that I hope to request from the library once the demand for them isn’t quite so high. Yes, I know I did this same topic a while ago, but might as well recycle it every now and again.
Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging by Angela Buchdahl
Wait Time: 12 weeks
Why I’m Interested: Earlier this year I met someone who is on the heart transplant list. I continue to think of him and hope he gets his transplant.
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Wait Time: 12 weeks
Why I’m Interested: I generally enjoy her work quite a bit.
On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters by Bonnie Tsui
Wait Time: 15 weeks
Why I’m Interested: The science of fitness is interesting and can change rapidly.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Wait Time: 16 weeks
Why I’m Interested: Terrifying vampires are the best sort of vampires if you ask me.
Wait Time: 16 weeks
Why I’m Interested: I like the idea of memorializing a child who died young a very long time ago (even if a good deal of this is probably fiction). Too often their lives were forgotten.
Ingram: A Novel by Louis C.K.
Wait Time: 2o weeks
Why I’m Interested: It predicts how climate change will affect us all in the coming decades.
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Wait Time: 22 weeks
Why I’m Interested: It appears to be long and character-driven. If I’m going to read a long book, it needs to have excellent character development, so I’m hoping this will fit the bill.
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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Wait Time: 22 weeks
Why I’m Interested: I may or may not have ranted about this phenomenon a few times this year.
Are You Mad at Me? by Meg Josephson
Wait Time: 23 weeks
Why I’m Interested: This is something I struggle with.
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Wait Time: 25 weeks
Why I’m Interested: Climate change, seed banks, and literary fiction sounds like an interesting combination.
If you find out why suddenly everything got worse and if you figure out how to make things better, please let us all know.
I hope you enjoy them all! Happy New Year, Lydia!
Ha! I sure will. Thanks, Deb, and Happy New Year.
Those are some long wait times! I hope you get them earlier than expected <3
Thank you. Fingers crossed.
These waitlists are indeed quite long – I hope you’ll get to them soon though. Enshittification sounds especially intriguing indeed. Already wishing you a Happy New Year!
Thank you. Happy New Year!
Heart of a Stranger sounds interesting!
🙂
nice twist.
wow, still 16 weeks for Hamnet!!
If there’s one you would really want to read NOW, let me know, I can send you the ebook for free.
I went with books added to my TBR
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/30/top-ten-books-most-recently-added-to-my-bookshelf/
Aww, I’d love that. Should I email you about that offer?
Nice twist, Lydia! I would love to read Enshittification. Sounds like a great book. Hope you can secure these sooner than expected.
Thank you. 🙂
The wait list are long. Wow. Happy New Year. Have a great week. Here is my TTT. https://dmhoisington.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/top-ten-tuesday-16-2025-book-haul/
Thank you!
I recently finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and loved it.
The Goodreads blurb mentions “an American Indian revenge story” and that it is. 💚💚💚💚💚
Glad to hear it!
WOW! Some of these wait times are awfully long! I recognize some of the authors so I feel like I see them around on lists a lot which *hopefully* means they are great reads. 🙂 Hope you enjoy them all and thanks so much for visiting my list today!
Thank you, and you’re welcome.
An interesting list Lydia! A lot of variety. I have Enshittification on my TBR list. I hope you get to read these sooner rather than later.
Thank you very much!
It’s a great list, I can understand why wait lists are so long!
Thanks for sharing your #TTT, and wishing you a happy new year
You’re welcome. Happy New Year to you as well!
I love my library. A few times I lucked out and the wait time wasn’t as long as they said it would be. I hope you enjoy these when you get them.
Thank you. Fingers crossed I’ll get lucky in that regard. 🙂
I’d love to read Wild Dark Shore, but haven’t checked out the library hold list yet. (I suspect it’s quite long at my library as well). Angela Buchdahl recently spoke in my area, and I heard it was amazing! I’d like to check out her book too. Good luck with waiting!
Thank you. I hope you get to read that title soon as well.
Wild Dark Shore is a great book. I hope you enjoy all of these when you finally get to read them. Happy New Year!
Thank you. Glad to hear it.
Hamnet was worth the wait. If the gov’t funding that was cut, and which the courts ruled must be given is actually given it will help a little on the wait times, but not much. The nation’s biggest library jobber closed that impacts print book supply as libraries must do all the processing themselves or at a higher priced jobber. For e-books and audios it is the extortionist contracts that impact the supply. That $0.99 Kindle book isn’t that price for libraries–and each can only be borrowed X number of times. Whether the borrower ever opened it or not doesn’t matter. Could you guess I’m a librarian! lol
Yes, I can. There have been funding cuts in Toronto for stuff like the library, so I’m sure that’s a big part of it.
I really like your take on this. Lot of wait time there. I have been thinking about reading Wild Dark Shore.
Thank you. 🙂
Nice post!! It’s very too the point. I’ve read Wild Dark Shore this month and it’s my best fiction read for 2025. My review is here: https://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2025/12/wild-dark-shore-by-charlotte-mcconaghy.html
Very cool, Lisa! Glad to hear it.
Oh, this is a brilliant post. I have so many books that have months of a waitlist. I had Buffalo Buffalo Hunter, but a friend got it for me for Christmas! I hope you have a Happy New Year!
Thank you. 🙂
I hope you enjoy reading all of these when you finally get them from the library.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/anticipated-2025-releases-i-still-havent-read/
Thanks!
I am number #23 for one library hold and it only has one copy, so I think I’ll be waiting for quite some time. I hope these lines dwindle a bit, so you can request them. Happy New Year!
Thank you. Good luck with your hold.
Those are crazy long wait times! Sometimes mine are long, but then I get the book much sooner than expected. I hope you have a great week! Happy New Year!
I hope that happens for me!
Happy New Year.
I love this idea for a list. I’d also love to read Hamnet!
Thanks. 🙂
I read and enjoyed Hamnet a year or so ago. I think it’s become popular again because of the movie. I hope you enjoy all of these Lydia, when your name gets to the top of the list. Happy New Year!
Thank you very much! Happy New Year.
I get a lot of books from the library too. Especially audiobooks since I go through so many. It helps to request several books at a time and then suspend most of the holds so you don’t end up getting 5 books coming through at a time with only enough time to read 2. Then by the time you want to read them you are at the front of the line and you can unsuspend the hold.
Absolutely. I”m glad you enjoy libraries, too.
I got Enshittification for Christmas and I’m definitely looking forward to that one!
Woohoo!
This is a fun post! I’ve heard amazing things about Hamnet, I hope you’ll be able to read all these books this year 😊. Thanks for visiting my blog!
You’re welcome. I hope Hamnet is good.
This is a cool idea for a post. I think the two books I waited for the longest were The Hate U Give and Becoming. The waitlists at my library were 6 months long.
Wow! And thanks.
Wow, those are some long wait times! I hope you get a chance to read these books soon.
I don’t think I’ve read anything by Toni Morrison, but I hope to change that sooner rather than later. I’ve heard great things about her work.
Happy New Year!
I think you might really like Morrison’s work!
And thank you. Happy New Year.
Great twist to the topic! Those are some long waiting times! Happy New Year!
Thank you. 🙂
I think a lot of enshittification has been in Doctrow’s blog / email over the last few years, which means its likely great, I’ve already read it, and I’ll read it again because he is a genius. I love the twist you put on your list with the wait times! Hamnet interests me too. My ttt is here: https://thepart.reviews/recent-additions. Cheers
Thank you. Glad to hear it!
I like your take on this prompt.. and i want to read so many of these books..
Thank you!