Mount TBR 2017 discussion

Again, I'm combining this with topical challenges to push myself to revisit those books outside my comfort-reading arena that I thought were interesting enough to buy.

Goals:
• Short story collection
> Stranger Things Happen
> After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed
> Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence
> Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea
> Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans
> The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
> Cathedral
> Moral Disorder
> Nocturnes
> Bradbury Stories
> The Bloody Chamber
> Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
> Heartbeats and Other Stories

• Women in war
> The Zookeeper's Wife
> Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler
> City of Women
> The Soldier's Wife
> Out of the Hitler Time
> Somewhere in France
> Prisoner of Night and Fog
> Black Dove, White Raven
>The Bronze Horseman — DONE May 28
> The Ship of Brides — DONE March 24

• Graphic novel
> El Deafo — DONE March 10
> Habibi

• An immigrant or refugee living in the U.S.
> The Joy Luck Club — DONE Oct. 4
> The Lowland
> When the Emperor Was Divine

• A translated book
> Suite Francaise
> Kristin Lavransdatter
> Crime and Punishment
> The Three Musketeers

• A biography (not a memoir)
> Invincible Louisa
> Capote: A Biography
> L.M. Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
> Looking for Anne of Green Gables
> The Big House
> The Zookeeper's Wife
> These Guys Have all the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
> Cleopatra: A Life
> To Marry an English Lord
> Empty Mansions
> Half Broke Horses

• Published in the 1980s
> Homecoming
> The Cider House Rules
> Taming the Forest King
> Cat's Eye
> The Changeling Sea — DONE May 7
> Loitering With Intent
> The House of the Spirits
> Walking Up a Rainbow
> A Tale of Time City

• Set in the Middle East
> Habibi (both)
> A Thousand Splendid Suns
> Sister of My Heart
> The Space Between Us

• Poetry
> Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems
> Sinners Welcome
> Words Under Words

• Received as a gift
> Pegasus
> Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast — DONE Jan. 15
> The Asylum — DONE Oct. 24
> To a God Unknown
> In Patagonia
> Queen Lucia
> Unspoken

• Children's book
> The Witch Family
> Unread Ruth Chew books
> Five Children and It
> Strawberry Girl
> Whittington

• Penguin Drop Cap Series
> See list

• Dystopian written before 2000
> House of Stairs

> Alas, Babylon — DONE Dec. 7 (though not really a dystopian
> Z for Zachariah

• Turned into a movie pre-2000
> Mrs. Miniver
> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

• Finally finish the series
> The Trouble With May Amelia
> The Amber Spyglass
> Many Waters, An Acceptable Time
> The Starlight Barking
> Fever
> Boy Trouble
> Shadow Scale
> The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp
> The Kestrel
> Shimmer
> The Shadow Throne
> The Perilous Sea
> The Cracks in the Kingdom — DONE Jan. 26
> Dreams of Gods and Monsters
> The Forgotten Sisters — DONE Aug. 21
> Monsters of Men

• Play
> The Mousetrap and Other Plays

• Bought because of Goodreads
> Tryst
> Unsticky — DONE June 11
> Six Impossible Things
> Savannah Purchase — DONE May 14
> Moonraker's Bride — DONE Sept. 4
> The Almost Truth — DONE Aug. 14

• Blue cover
> Five Children and It
> Loitering With Intent
> Beautiful Ruins
> Shadow Scale
> The Assassin's Curse
> The Elegance of the Hedgehog
> The Last Time We Say Goodbye
> The Lifeboat
> Touching Earth Lightly
> The Shadow Cabinet
> Love Always
> The Lowland
> Renni the Rescuer
> No and Me
> Assassination Vacation
> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — DONE Dec. 15
> Empty Mansions
> Burial Rites
> Cat's Cradle
> In Cold Blood
> The Shadow Prince
> Sorrow's Knot
> Star of the Morning
> Trouble
> Better off Friends
> Haroun and the Sea of Stories
> The Greek Coffin Mystery
> Butterfield 8
> The Ship of Brides — DONE March 24
> The Shadow Society
> The Lantern
> The Opposite of Me
> The Art of Racing in the Rain
> The Hypnotist's Love Story — DONE Dec. 18
> The Luminaries
> Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe — DONE Jan. 10

• Read-along with Hayley
> The Basic Eight
> The Painted Girls
> A Prayer for Owen Meany
> The Yiddish Policeman's Union
> The Uninvited Guests — DONE Aug. 26 (but not with Hayley)
> Beautiful Ruins
> The One Plus One
> Truth & Beauty
> These Shallow Graves
> Night
> Nothing Daunted
> The Female Brain
> Stiff
> The Thirteenth Tale
> Suite Francais

• Borrowed
> The Time in Between
> The Lake House
> The Luckiest Girl Alive
> Siege & Storm
> The Lovely Reckless
> Love, Lies and Spies
> Living Dead Girl — DONE May 7

Jessika wrote: "I LOVE Joy Luck Club. If that subject matter interests you, I highly recommend Girl in Translation. I read it in 2014 and it was one of my fav..."

Thanks Jessika! I read that a couple years ago too and really enjoyed it. I REALLY need to read Joy Luck Club — I've had it in various editions for a long time.

Progress — 22 so far!
Named of the Dragon
Ship of Magic
Aristotle and Dante Discover Secrets of the Universe
Belle
Death in Kenya
The Cracks in the Kingdom
Peacock Emporium
Rush
I Was Here
Fortune and Fate
The Dark Days Club
You Had Me at Hello
Catching Jordan
El Deafo
Mariana
The Ship of Brides
The Killer Next Door
The Hating Game
Servant of the Crown
The New Guy and Other Senior Year Distractions
The Amazing Chance
Living Dead Girl

The Changeling Sea
His Road Home
Miss Silver Comes to Stay

Savannah Purchase
Virgin or Vamp
The Bronze Horseman

-- I need to up my game if I'm going to meet this goal. On the bright side, I've stopped buying so many books and almost never buy books on a whim anymore, now that realize just how long it'll take to get through all the books on my shelves.

Unsticky
Small Sacrifices
The Fingerprint
Death in Zanzibar
A Shilling for Candles
The Grand Sophy

71/75. I might actually do this! Although I've also been buying a lot of new books ...

Everything I Never Told You
The Almost Truth
The Forgotten Sisters
The Uninvited Guests
The Winds of War
Moonraker’s Bride
Gypsy and the Moonstone Stallion
Peril at End House
Rachel’s Holiday
The Egg and I
Before the Fall: Arrival
The Chinese Shawl
Running Back
The Joy Luck Club
Hamilton: The Revolution
The Asylum
A Thousand Nights
The Woman on the Orient Express
Dear Mr. Knightley
The Making of Outlander
Catching Air
The Masqueraders
Alas, Babylon
Stormy Petrel
Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil
The Shadowy Horses
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Hypnotist’s Love Story
Wolf by Wolf
The Sea of Tranquility
Romance Is a Wonderful Thing
Meg and the Secret of the Witch’s Stairway