Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2012
Bev at My Reader’s Block knows my (not so) secret vice: picking up books everywhere I go. My TBR stack has been growing like sourdough starter (we used to call that ‘monster dough’) and it’s time to cut back on my library holds and lavish some attention on my own books.
I’m going in at the Mt. Kilimanjaro level of 50 books and tame this double-stacked monster in 2012.
1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
2 MacBeth by William Shakespeare
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
4. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock
5. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
6. A Jest of God by Maragaret Laurence
7. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
8. Memoirs by Pierre Elliott Trudeau
9. The Canadian Food Guise by Pierre & Janet Berton
10. Heading Home: On Starting a New Life in a Country Place by Laurence Scanlan
11. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
12. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
13. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
14. Jane Eyre
15. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
16. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
17. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
18. The Museum of Dr. Moses by Joyce Carol Oates
19. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
20. The Mapping of Love & Death by Jacqueline Winspear
21. Murder at Hazelmoor by Agatha Christie
22. Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie
23. At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie
24. Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
25. The Tragedy of ‘Z’ by Ellery Queen
26. Halfway House by Ellery Queen Read December 2012
27. QBI (Queen’s Bureau of Investigation) by Ellery Queen
28. One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane
29. A Prairie Boy’s Winter by William Kurelek
30. The Market Square Dog by James Herriott
31. Coyote Sings to the Moon by Thomas King
32. One Winter Night
UNSUCCESSFUL!
I think this would be a good challenge for me to join. The stack of books on the shelf behind me is getting enormous. Sometimes I worry I won’t live long enough to read all of them!
And why doesn’t the pile get smaller, Leslie? Only bigger & bigger! HAVE to get a handle on it!
It seems to me that for every book I read I manage to acquire at least three (if not more…). I filled out a survey for Goodreads and figured that I brought about 200 new (to me) books into the house last year. I’m looking around and thinking “Where did I put them?”
Bev, I’m afraid to count up the books I bring into the house in a year. Some go out (after being read) to garage sale boxes or donation boxes, a few to Bookcrossing.com, but mostly they just fill more shelves & create higher stacks. Thanks for the chance to focus on tackling the ‘mountain”!
My tbr stack is growing too! I’ve already bought a new bookshelf but promptly ran out of space!
You’re doing great! I picked the Mt. Kilimanjaro level too. So far, I’ve only read six books from my shelves. I plan on dedicating the rest of the summer to my tbr shelves. I think my family will thank me in September.