And, meanwhile, December has descended, like it or not, and I've begun to wrap up my reading goals for 2017 and have begun looking ahead to upcoming challenges for 2018. Since my biggest need/want/concern is to lessen the number of books I have on hand to read, I've chosen the NovelKnight's Beat the Backlist Challenge to take front seat for the new year. With 183 books TBR, I honestly cannot justify buying any new books without putting some serious dents into what's already overcrowding my shelves.
I've started a 2018 Beat the Backlist shelf on my Goodreads page. It's only got the first four titles of what I'm planning to scratch off my current on hand list but I will update it as I shelve more books as I go along next year. I'm also intending to do another A to Z challenge, both titles and authors again, since that was a fun extra twist to this year. Not great pics, but these are the bookmarks I made for tracking my reading this year--I'll have to make more for 2018 (in all that extra free time I have!!)
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L to R: back of A to Z, back of Books I've Read 2017, and More for 2017 My current TBR (actual on hand...and why I can't buy any new books) List:
1.
Abolition
of Man-Lewis
3.
Amber
Spyglass-Pullman
5.
Anthem-Rand
6.
Awakening-Chopin
7.
Barkskins-Proulx
8.
Beloved-Toni
Morrison
9.
Barnaby
Ridge-Dickens
10.
Beautiful and the
Damned-Fitzgerald
11.
Bell
Jar-Platt
12.
Big
Little Lies-Moriarty
13.
Black
Earth-Snyder
14.
Blade
Itself-Abercrombie
16.
Blinding
Knife-Weeks
17.
Blood
of Flowers-Amirrezani
18.
Blood
Mirror-Weeks
19.
Book
of Laughter and Forgetting-Kundera
20.
Booth’s Sister-Singer
21.
Born
on a Blue Day-Tammet
22.
Bridget
Jones’ Diary-Fielding
23.
Broken
Eye-Weeks
24.
Broken
Sword-Anderson
25.
Brothers
Karamazov-Dostoyevsky
26.
Caliban’s
War-Corey
28.
Canterbury
Tales-Chaucer
29.
Catch 22-Heller
31.
Columbine-Cullen
32.
Corelli’s Mandolin-de Bernieres
33.
Count of Monte
Christo-Dumas
34.
Crime and
Punishment-Dostoyevsky
36.
Dark
Elf Trilogy-Salvatore
37.
David
Copperfield-Dickens
38.
Dawn of the Dragons-Owen
39.
Deathnote
2-Ohba
40.
Divine
Comedy-Aligheri
41.
Don Quioxte-Cervantes
42.
Dornby
& Son-Dickens
43.
Dracula-Stoker
44.
Dragon’s
Path-Abraham
45.
Dreams
of Distant Shores-McKillip
46.
Dreamsongs-Martin
47.
Dr
Jeckyll and Mr Hyde-Stevenson
48.
Eat
Pray Love-Gilbert
49.
Edgar and Lucy-Lodato
50.
Empire
Falls-Russo
51. English
Patient-Ondaatje
52.
Etched
In Sand-Calcaterra
53.
A
Fine Balance-Mistry
54.
First
They Killed My Father-Ung
55.
Five
Days at Memorial-Fink
56.
Four
Loves-Lewis
57.
Game
of Thrones-Martin
58.
Germinal-Zola
59.
Gilded Cage-James
60.
Girl
with a Pearl Earring-Chevalier
61.
Giselle’s Bucket List-Watt
63.
Go
Tell it on the Mountain-Baldwin
65.
Great
Divorce-Lewis
66.
Great
Expectations-Dickens
67.
Grief
Observed-Lewis
68.
Hamilton-Chernow
69.
Hamlet-Shakespeare
70.
Hard
Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World-Murakami
71.
Hard
Times-Dickens
72.
Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
73.
Head Full of
Ghosts-Tremblay
74.
Heart of
Darkness-Conrad
75.
Hero of the Empire-Millard
76.
Homegoing-Gyasi
77.
Horns-Hill
78.
Hotel
on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet
80.
Invisible
Man-Ellison
81.
In Search
of Lost Time-Proust
82.
Joy
Luck Club-Tan
83.
Jude
the Obscure-Hardy
84.
Kiterunner-Hosseini
85.
Kushiel’s
Dart-Carey
86.
Leonardo da Vinci-Isaacson
87.
Little
Dorit-Dickens
88.
Lincoln in the Bardo-Saunders
89.
Little
Prince-St Exupery
90.
Little
Women-Alcott
91. Lord of the
Flies-Golding
92. Love-Morrison
93. Love in the Time
of Cholera-Marquez
95. A Man Called
Ove-Backman
96. Man in the High
Castle-Dick
97. March-Doctorow
98.
Martin
Chuzzlewit-Dickens
99. Memoirs of a
Geisha-Golden
100. Mere
Christianity-Lewis
101.
Metamorphosis-Kafka
102.
Middlemarch-Eliot
104. Miracles-Lewis
105. Mistborn-Sanderson
106.
Moon
and Sixpence-Maugham
107.
Mystery
of Edwin Drood-Dickens
108. Name of the
Rose-Eco
110.
Native
Son-Wright
111.
Nicholas
Nickleby-Dickens
112.
Night
Angel-Weeks
113.
Old
Curiosity Shop-Dickens
114.
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Kesey
115.
One
Hundred Years of Solitude-Marquez
116.
Orphan
Train-Kline
117.
Oryx
and Crake-Atwood
118.
Our
Mutual Friend-Dickens
119.
Paper
Menagerie-Liu
120.
Pickwick
Papers-Dickens
121.
Picture of Dorian
Gray-Wilde
122.
Pillars
of the Earth-Follett
123.
Possession-Byatt
124.
Prayer
for Owen Meany-Irving
125.
The
Prince-Machiavelli
126.
Princes
of Ireland-Rutherford
127.
Problem
of Pain-Lewis
128.
Rainbow-Lawrence
129.
Ravensbruck-Helm
130.
Reader-Schlink
131.
Regeneration-Barker
132. Rise
and Fall of Adam and Eve-Greenblatt
133.
Romeo
and Juliet-Shakespeare
134.
Road
to Jonestown-Guinn
135.
Robinson
Crusoe-DeFoe
136.
Sarum-Rutherford
137.
Scarlet
Letter-Hawthorne
138.
Schindler’s
List-Keneally
139.
Screwtape
Letters-Lewis
141.
A Separate
Peace-Knowles
142.
Septimus Heap-Sage
143. Setting
Free the Kites-George
144.
Shadow
of the Wind-Zafon
145.
Shipping
News-Proulx
146.
Siddhartha-Hesse
147. Silent
Corner-Koontz
148. Sing,
Unburied Sing-Ward
149.
Sisi-Pataki
150.
Sister
Carrie-Dreiser
152. Sons
and Soldiers-Henderson
153.
Strangeness
in my Mind-Pamuk
154.
The
Stranger-Camus
155.
A
Stranger in a Strange Land-Heinlein
156. Strange
Weather-Hill
157.
Subtle
Knife-Pullman
158.
A
Suitable Boy-Vikram
159.
Summer
Before the War-Simonson
160.
Sun
Also Rises-Hemingway
161.
Sybil-Disraeli
162.
Tale of Two Cities-Dickens
163.
Tenant
of Wildfell Hall-Bronte
165.
Things
They Carried-OBrien
166.
Thirty-Nine
Steps-Buchanan
167.
Three Men in a
Boat-Jerome
168.
Three
Muskateers-Dumas
169. Tiger’s
Daugher-Rivera
170.
Tom
Jones-Fielding
171.
A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Smith
172.
Turn
of the Screw-James
173.
Turning
Angels-Isles
174.
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin-Stowe
175.
Up From
Slavery-Washington
177.
Vinegar
Hill-Ansay
178.
Warded
Man-Brett #1
179.
Warmth
of Other Suns-Wilkerson
181.
Weird-Martin
182.
World
Without End-Follett
183.
Zola-McColum
Whew! Crazy, no? Lots of great stuff on there to read and I know it's gonna be a great year ahead, so--I'm gearing up! Let's do this!! What's on your list to read for 2018?
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That's an epic list and those bookmarks are so cool!!
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ReplyDeleteI LOVE those bookmarks! So cool!