Top Ten Tuesday: Top of the Spring TBR

So, Top Ten Tuesday is again brought to you by the brains over at The Broke and the Bookish. What a marvelous thing this link up is! Lists! Books! Book lists! Sigh, it's just a wonderful way to think about all things bookish in your life. 

And this week? This week we're being asked to list the Top Ten Books on our TBR List. As in, those books that you know you need to read but somehow they keep their prized spot as the Top of the TBR. One of my best friends, Katie/Tonks, is going to consider this list as being my "Oh my word Courtney/Bean! These are the books I've been telling you to read for AGES!" list.

And you know what? I have a feeling a lot of you will agree with her.

So, let's get this list of books I should have read ages ago over with:

1. The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling - I guess part of me still thinks that maybe I still need a little bit of time to come to terms with the fact that Harry Potter is over. And that this book? In no way mentions or touches on anything Harry Potter for that matter. And that it's an adult book. I just miss Hogwarts.

2. A Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss - This is a case of my classic But-if-I-finish-this-book-I-will-have-to-wait-forever-for-the-next-one-to-come-out-and-what-if-it's-a-cliffhanger syndrome. It's self diagnosed. So it could also be a case of I-don't-want-to-not-be-able-to-read-this-book-for-the-first-time-again syndrome. Either way, that's why I've been putting this one off forever.

3. Looking for Alaska - John Green - I have no logical excise to make for not reading this one (or any John Green, for that matter) yet. So, I'm not going to try to come up with one. Know I'll be reading this soon.

4. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin - Another epic fantasy series to add to my list? Sigh. It has to happen. And I really want to watch the TV show. And since I'm one of those people. You know what I'm talking about. I can't watch till I've read the book. So, there's my incentive. Oh, and it's on my TBR Challenge for 2013.

5. Atonement - Ian McEwan - I put this one in the middle of my list so maybe no one would notice it. Moving on...

6. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee - I was never assigned this as a child. And I need to read it. No, I want to read it. So, I'm gonna make that happen this year. Because, really? I have no good reason why to keep putting it off.

7. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac - My favorite professor in college recommended this to me. He waxed on about all the reasons why I, in particular, would love it. And reading this book is one of those connections I still have to him (and to Carolina in a way). I know reading it would only give me something new to email him about, but reading it seems kind of final. Like the closing of the last page of the book would somehow symbolically close a chapter in my life.

8. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett - Not having read this yet makes me feel like the worst History Student in the world. Seriously. I have a MA in this stuff! It's high time I finally read this. And it's also on my TBR list, so there's extra incentive.

9. The Last Dragonslayer - Jasper Fforde - I love all things Jasper Fforde. And Fforde writing a YA book about dragons? It just seems too good to be true. And it's a series. But the second book is only available in the UK right now. And I have horrible patience.

10. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien - I know it's going to be a hard book to get into, as much as I know I'm going to love it, so I just keep putting it off. It's gonna get done though. I've hit the point that I want to read it, so, Tolkien has that going for him.

How about you? What's on your Spring TBR list? What can you not believe you've put off for so long?