Down The TBR Hole is a meme set up by Lia at LostInAStory & involves deciding whether to keep or remove certain books from your TBR list. The meme works by going to your GoodReads to-read shelf, selecting “ascending” on date added, taking the first 5 (or how many you would like) books, reading their synopsis & then deciding whether to keep them on your TBR or to get rid of them. I’ll be doing this meme using my to-buy list, as my to-read list only includes books that I already own. It’s been ages since I did one of these posts but I definitely need to – at the end of #6 I had 326 books on my to-buy list, I now have 352.

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I’m keeping Girl in Translation because it’s a book that I still want
to read as much as I did the day I added it to my GoodReads… to be honest,
I can’t believe I still haven’t bought it.

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If you know anything about me you know I’ll be keeping this.

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Another book I’m keeping.

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I’m removing this book because I don’t like the white male saves WOC trope.

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Despite this being a book that “should be read by everyone” I’m removing
it because it isn’t something I’d pick up if it weren’t considered a “classic”.

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I’ve read a fiction story about the River Kwai prison camp so I’d
like to read a non-fiction book about it took, so I’m keeping To End All Wars.

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How could I possibly get rid of this? Keep.

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As a psychology graduate with a Doctor Who tattoo
how could I possibly not keep this beauty?

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I’m removing this as the synopsis just doesn’t grab me anymore…
plus, there are other Cindy Pon books I’d rather buy.

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Zoe Marriott wrote my favourite ever book so I will buy everything
she ever writes for so long as I live. Keep.

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I’m obviously keeping this; I can’t believe I’ve not heard more people talk about it.

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I live for books like this so this is a keeper.

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Okay! At the start of this post I had 352 books on my to-buy list – I now have 349; yes I only cleared 3 but there was no way I was going to remove any of the book I decided to keep so it’s okay. I’m going to try my best to do this post at least once a month so I can try & get my to-buy back down to under 200 books.