We are lucky bunnies. We know that. Because most days we hear the pleasing thud of several books for review landing on the door mat. If you’re a book lover, it’s the best sound in the world.

However, after choosing what we have time to review ourselves, then sending books to our BookRabbit reviewers, there is still a whole host of books desperate for a pair of eager eyes and a loving home.

Here is our ‘outta control’ TBR pile at the mo…

Does anything take your fancy?

If you’re drawn to something in our TBR pile and would like to review it for us, then leave a comment below with a link to an example book review on either BookRabbit or elsewhere and we’ll be in touch. We’re also putting this out on the Twittersphere. BookRabbit badge members naturally get first dibs, but after that, it’s GAME ON!

UK only though we’re afraid.

Here’s a long list (wow, it really is long!)

TAKEN – TBR by Lucy Top Tips for Life by Kate Reardon – all the best tips gleaned from her hugely popular website, her first book Top Tips for Girls was a hit.

TAKEN – TBR by Stu Solar by Ian McEwan – does it really need any introduction? We thinks this could be a popular one…

* The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone – this offering from Chatto & Windus looks really interesting. Due for release 8 April. ‘Some call it China’s Wild West – a boom town on the border with Burma. In the new Chinese economy of the late 1980s, the frontier at Wanting is a magnet for outcasts and opportunists. Or the desperates – like Na Ga…’

TAKEN – TBR by Deborah Kiss Like You Mean It by Louise Harwood – set on a Hollywood film-set, this follows the dramas of make-up artist Ella Buchan. The author’s research for the book involved shadowing the Oscar-nominated make-up artist, Jenny Shircore on the set of the Young Victoria. Louise Harwood used to be a publisher at Random House and is the best selling author of five novels.

* The Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein – originally published last year but being re-issued in paperback to coincide with Radio 4 Woman’s Hour serialisation of the book which runs from Monday 15 to Friday 19 March. Set in West Africa in the early 1990s it follows the story of new diplomat Daniel Maddison in his first posting abroad and his rebellion against the confines of diplomatic life.

TAKEN – TBR by Sonia Whoops! by John Lanchester – a witty look at the mad world of contemporary finance and where it all went wrong.

TAKEN – TBR by Dave Titch and Mitch series by Garth Edwards – baby rabbits step forward. We have three Titch and Mitch adventures waiting to be reviewed!

TAKEN – TBR by Karen The Glass Room by Simon Mawer – PB edition of the 2009 Man Booker shortlisted beauty of a book, to be published 22 April by Abacus.

TAKEN – TBR by Karen The Perfect Lie by Emily Barr – an ERC of her ninth novel. A woman with a secret that finally catches up with her escapes to Venice to find the one thing she has been running from is lying in wait for her. Looks like a good bit of travelogue fiction in time for summer.

* Alastair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay: Morocco – anyone going to Morocco soon? Alastair Sawday guides are pure class.

TAKEN – TBR by Jodie Desire by Louise Bagshawe – an uncorrected proof from the author of Passion, Glitz, Career Girls and Glamour). Due for release 15 April. The blurb describes it as: ‘An edge-of-your-seat read combining glamour, thrills and dangerous passion’. Here’s Louise’s website.

TAKEN – TBR by Stu The Passage by Justin Cronin – an uncorrected manuscript proof. So excited about this one. According to The Bookseller it was ‘bought in 2007 after a reported 13-round, nine publisher auction in the UK. This huge (790pp) apocalyptic, near future-set vampire novel skillfully interweaves the stories of, amongst others, a young six-year-old girl abandoned by her mother, rogue FBI agents, a convicted death row murderer, a Harvard professor on a field trip in the jungle and some very, very strange creatures who like to hang upside down… think Stephen King with a dash of X Files. Orion has high hopes.’ Woo hoo, bring it ON! And apparently Ridley Scott has already bought the film rights.

TAKEN – TBR by Beverley Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores by Winifred Foley – this looks totally charming, about a family struggling to make ends meet in 1950s Britain. It’s had a lot of praise already.

TAKEN – TBR by Teresa The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips – we already have one review on the site, but would love another!

TAKEN – TBR by Mike Into Suez by Stevie Davies – described as: ‘A compelling human and political drama set in the run up to the Suez Crisis. Author Stevie Davies is also a literary critic, biographer and historian.

* Death of a Valentine by M. C. Beaton – a 4/5 star review already up there, but we’d love to know what you think.

TAKEN Stolen by Lesley Pearse – massively popular author, just finished this myself (and need to post my review *ahem*). Interviewing the author very soon!

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