Mount TBR 2018 discussion

Oh yes, I am definitely in for next year, from the beginning!

I will pledge 100 books to read on Goodreads, as usual (and will probably exceed that number by a few), but since I'll be accounting for a few new releases that I will read during the year (so they will not be eligible for the Mount TBR challenge) I'm only pledging 75 from my TBR pile as it will stand on 1 January 2018. Will post the full list then. At the moment, I'm still happily decimating the current one.

good luck with both challenges :D

Welcome back!

So this is my current TBR pile ... there shouldn't be too many new additions until next week, seeing as Christmas presents have already been taken into account^^ If anything, a few will be taken out.
Since I am sharing a huge collection of e-books with a few friends, it might be possible that a title will pop up in my reading reports that is not on the initial list, but in that collection, which is essentially a TBR list on its own. But it's too big to post here. Trust me when I say I'm not cheating. If I read a book in 2018 that was neither on my shelf nor on my Kindle or in that collection by 1 January 2018, I will say so and not count it towards the goal.
I am also participating in the 2018 PopSugar Reading Challenge and the Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge 2018 and will add the corresponding prompts here as well.

Unread books owned before 1/1/2018 (including books I may have read years ago, but not in the last five years, and have not read since I've gotten them for myself)

Toni Anderson: “Cold Light of Day”
Richard Bachman: “The Regulators”
David Baldacci (Ed.): "Face/Off"
Jeremy Bates: “Helltown” (World’s Scariest Places #3)
Jeremy Bates: “Island of the Dolls” (World’s Scariest Places #4)
Jeremy Bates: “The Taste of Fear”
Jeremy Bates: “White Lies”
Katja Bergmann: “Der Mephisto-Deal”
Sharon Bolton: “Here Be Dragons” (Lacey Flint #4.5)
P. S. Brown: “Hide and Seek”
John le Carré: “The Constant Gardener”
Chris Carter: “The Death Sculptor” (Robert Hunter #4)
Harlan Coben: “In seinen Händen”
Harlan Coben: “Von meinem Blut”
Harlan Coben: “Das Grab im Wald”
Robin Cook: “Crisis” (Montgomery & Stapleton #6)
Robin Cook: “Die Seuche Gottes” (Montgomery & Stapleton #7)
Robin Cook: “Die Hand des Bösen” (Montgomery & Stapleton #8)
Robin Cook: “Obduktion” (Montgomery & Stapleton #9)
Robin Cook: “Testphase” (Montgomery & Stapleton #10)
James S. A. Corey: “Caliban’s War” (The Expanse #2)
James S. A. Corey: “Abbadon’s Gates” (The Expanse #3)
James S. A. Corey: “Cibola Burn” (The Expanse #4)
James S. A. Corey: “Nemesis Games” (The Expanse #5)
James S. A. Corey: “Babylon’s Ashes” (The Expanse #6)
Colin Dexter: “Morse’s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories”
Leighann Dobbs: “Bake, Battle & Roll” (Lexy Baker #6)
Leighann Dobbs: “Dead & Buried” (Blackmoore Sisters Mystery #2)
Fyodor Dostoyevski: "Schuld und Sühne"
Alexandre Dumas: “Der Graf von Monte Christo” (unabridged!)
Carola Dunn: “Rattle His Bones” (Daisy Dalrymple #8)
Janet Evanovich: “Einmal ist keinmal” (Stephanie Plum #1)
Alex Flinn: “Towering”
Ken Follett: “World Without End”
Katia Fox: "Der goldene Thron" (Das kupferne Zeichen #3)
Michelle Frances: “The Girlfriend”
Tanja Frei: "Das Wispern der Angst"
Tess Gerritsen: “Die Again” (Rizzoli & Isles #11)
Mario Giordano: “Apocalypsis I”
Mario Giordano: “Apocalypsis II”
Carol Goodman: "River Road"
Kerry Greenwood: "Murder on the Ballarat Train" (Miss Phryne Fisher #3)
Elly Griffiths: “A Dying Fall” (Ruth Galloway #5)
Elly Griffiths: “The Outcast Dead” (Ruth Galloway #6)
Sophie Hannah: “The Other Half Lives” (Culver Valley Crime #4)
Charlaine Harris: “Drei Zimmer, Leiche, Bad” (Aurora Teagarden #3)
Charlaine Harris: “Das Julius-Haus” (Aurora Teagarden #4)
Charlaine Harris: “Aus heiterem Himmel” (Aurora Teagarden #5)
Charlaine Harris: “Der Narr und der Tod” (Aurora Teagarden #6)
Markus Heitz: “Ritus” (Die Bestie #1)
Markus Heitz: “Sanctum” (Die Bestie #2)
David Hewson: "The Seventh Sacrament" (Nic Costa #5)
Joe Hill: “Teufelszeug”
Joe Hill: “Black Box”
Wolfgang Hohlbein: “Das Teufelsloch”
Dot Hutchison: “The Butterfly Garden”
John Irving: “Until I Find You”
Peter James: “Dead Man’s Time” (Roy Grace #9)
Peter James: “The Perfect Murder”
Peter James: “Dead Letter Drop”
Graham Joyce: "Requiem"
Erin Kelly: “The Sick Rose”
Marian Keyes: "The Woman Who Stole My Life"
Stephen King: "Die Augen des Drachen"
Stephen King: “Bag of Bones”
Stehen King: “The Dead Zone”
Stephen King: “Nightmares and Dreamscapes”
Dawn Kurtagich: “The Dead House”
Sophie Lang: “Begnadet”
David Leadbeater: “The Bones of Odin”
John Ajvide Lindkvist: "Wolfskinder"
Sarah Lotz: “The Three”
H.P. Lovecraft: “The Complete Collection”
Alex Marwood: “The Killer Next Door”
Andy McDermott: “Murder on the Orient Excess: The Curious Case Files of Leviticus Gold”
Richard Montanari: “Shutter Man” (Byrne & Balzano #9)
Adam Neville: “The Ritual”
Anita Oh: “The Complete Freshman Year” (Werewolf High 1–3)
Michael Peinkofer: "Das Licht von Shambala" (Sarah Kincaid #4)
Morgan Rice: “Hjältars Väg” (Trollkarlens Ring #1)
Karen Rose: “Das Lächeln deines Mörders” (Romantic Suspense #2)
Karen Rose: “Des Todes liebste Beute” (Romantic Suspense #3/Chicago #2)
Karen Rose: “Der Rache süßer Klang” (Romantic Suspense #4/Chicago #3)
Karen Rose: “Nie wirst du entkommen” (Romantic Suspense #5/Chicago #4)
Karen Rose: “Heiß glüht mein Hass” (Romantic Suspense #6/Chicago #5)
Karen Rose: “Todesschrei” (Romantic Suspense #7/Daniel Vartanian #1)
Karen Rose: “Todesbräute” (Romantic Suspense #8/Daniel Vartanian #2)
Karen Rose: “Todesspiele” (Romantic Suspense #9/Daniel Vartanian #3)
Karen Rose: “Schsch!” (Romantic Suspense #14,5/Baltimore #3,5)
J. K. Rowling: “Hogwarts: Von Macht, Politik und nervtötenden Poltergeistern”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón: “Der Gefangene des Himmels” (Friedhof der vergessenen Bücher #3)
Frank Schätzing: “Tod und Teufel”
Kory M. Shrum: “Dying by the Hour” (Jesse Sullivan #2)
Kory M. Shrum: “Dying for Her” (Jesse Sullivan #3)
Josephine Siebe: “Kasperles Abenteuer in der Stadt” (Kasperle #3)
Josephine Siebe: “Kasperles Schweizerreise” (Kasperle #4)
Josephine Siebe: “Kasperle im Kasperland” (Kasperle #5)
Josephine Siebe: “Kasperle ist wieder da” (Kasperle #6)
Josephine Siebe: “Kasperles Spiele und Streiche” (Kasperle #7)
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir: “Todesschiff” (Dóra Gudmundsdóttir #6)
Dan Simmons: “Kinder der Nacht” (Seasons of Horror/Elm Haven #2)
Dan Simmons: “A Winter Haunting” (Seasons of Horror/Elm Haven #3)
Dan Simmons: “Kraft des Bösen”
Dan Simmons: “Terror”
Chevy Stevens: "Still Missing"
Chevy Stevens: "Never Knowing"
Anette Strohmeyer: “Totenernte” (Ondragon #2)
Johan Theorin: “The Quarry” (Öland Quartet #3)
Manfred Wieninger: “Falsches Spiel mit Marek Miert” (Marek Miert #2)
Manfred Wieninger: “Der Engel der letzten Stunde” (Marek Miert #3)

Reserved for the 2018 PopSugar Reading Challenge:

Neil Gaiman: “Stardust”
Bob Brier: “Der Mordfall Tutanchamun”
Charlaine Harris: “Knochenerbe” (Aurora Teagarden #2)
Jonathan Stroud: “Das Amulett von Samarkand” (Bartimäus #1)
Jussi Adler-Olsen: “Selfies” (Dezernat Q #7)
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir: “Feuernacht” (Dóra Gudmundsdóttir #5)
C.S. Mahrendorff: "Das dunkle Spiel"
Erin Morgenstern: “Der Nachtzirkus”
Salman Rushdie: “The Satanic Verses”
Belinda Bauer: “Blacklands”
Robert Galbraith: “Lethal White” (Cormoran Strike #4) (provided it comes out this year)
Kory M. Shrum: “Dying for a Living” (Jesse Sullivan #1)
Alexandre Dumas: “Die drei Musketiere”
Haruki Murakami: “Kafka am Strand”
Laurell K. Hamilton: “Affliction” (Anita Blake #22)
Mark Haddon: “The Curious Incident with the Dog in the Night-Time”
Karin Slaughter: “Pretty Girls”
Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child: “Das Relikt” (Agent Pendergast #1)
Kerry Greenwood: "Flying Too High" (Miss Phryne Fisher #2)
Katia Fox: "Der silberne Falke" (Das kupferne Zeichen #2)
J. K. Rowling: “Hogwarts: Heldentum, Härtefälle und hanebüchene Hobbys”
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir: “Nebelmord”
Sarah Lotz: “Day Four”
Arthur Gordon Wolf: "Katzendämmerung"
James S. A. Corey: “Leviathan Wakes” (The Expanse #1)
Joe Hill: “Blind” (“Heart-Shaped Box”)
V. J. Chambers: “The Twin Game”
J.R.R. Tolkien: “Der kleine Hobbit”
Noah Hawley: “Before the Fall”
Frances Hodgson Burnett: “Little Lord Fauntleroy”
John Ajvide Lindkvist: "So finster die Nacht"
Manfred Wieninger: “Der dreizehnte Mann” (Marek Miert #1)
Genevieve Cogman: “The Burning Page” (The Invisible Library #2)
The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2)
Nadine Erdmann: “Cyberworld 1.0: Mind Ripper”
C.S. Lewis: “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” (The Narnia Chronicles #1)
Cornelia Funke: “Tintenblut” (Tintenherz #2)
Karen Rose: “Eiskalt ist die Zärtlichkeit” (Romantic Suspense #1/Chicago #1)
Stephen King & Owen King: “Sleeping Beauties”
Ursula Poznanski: “Die Verlorenen” (Eleria-Trilogie #1)
Ursula Poznanski: “Die Verratenen” (Eleria-Trilogie #2)
Ursula Poznanski: “Die Vernichteten” (Eleria-Trilogie #3)
Andreas Eschbach: “Das Jesus-Video”
Arthur Conan Doyle: “The Five Orange Pips” (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #5)
Amy Engel: “The Roanoke Girls”
Cameron Dokey: “Der Geist mit der Maske” (Charmed #6)
Charlotte Link: “Die Entscheidung”
Rick Riordan: "The Ship of the Dead" (Magnus Chase #3)
Stephen King: “The Shining”

Reserved for the Around the Year in 52 Books Chellenge 2018

Genevieve Cogman: “The Masked City” (“The Invisible Library #3)
Jasper Fforde: “The Last Dragonslayer” (The Chronicles of Kazam #1)
Jeremy Bates: “Catacombs” (World’s Scariest Places #2)
Andrea Maria Schenkel: “Tannöd”
Giorgio Faletti: “Ich töte”
Daphne du Maurier: "Gasthaus Jamaica"
Dagmar Sieberichs: “Identifiziert”
Donna Tartt: “The Goldfinch”
Michael Peinkofer: “Die Erben der schwarzen Flagge”
Nicole Böhm: “Auf tödlichen Sohlen” (Ein MORDs-Team #2)
Simon Beckett: “Kalte Asche” (David Hunter #2)
David Mitchell: “Der Wolkenatlas”
Josephine Siebe: “Kasperle auf Burg Himmelhoch” (Kasperle #2)
Paul Tremblay: “Disappearance at Devil’s Rock”
Stephen King: "Night Shift"
Jasper Fforde: “The Song of the Quarkbeast” (The Chronicles of Kazam #2)
Kerstin Gier: “Wolkenschloss”
Robin Cook: “Labor des Teufels” (Montgomery & Stapleton #5)
Kate Mosse: "Die achte Karte" (Languedoc #2)
Anne Rice: "Hexenstunde"
Cecelia Ahern: “Ein Moment fürs Leben”
Jojo Moyes: “The Ship of Brides”
Michael Peinkofer: "Am Ufer des Styx" (Sarah Kincaid #3)
Andreas Suchanek: “Der lautlose Schrei” (Ein MORDs-Team #1)
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir: “Die eisblaue Spur” (Dóra Gudmundsdóttir #4)
Michael Crichton: "Die vergessene Welt" (Jurassic Park #2)
Arno Strobel: “Schlusstakt”
Leighann Dobbs: “A Zen for Murder” (Moosamuck Island #1)
Nicole Neubauer: “Moorfeuer” (Kommissar Waechter #2)
Pascal Schaefer: “Alien Job – Die Trilogie”
Peter James: "Dead Man's Grip" (Roy Grace #7)
Charles Dickens: “Great Expectations”
Rick Riordan: “Der Hammer des Thor” (Magnus Chase #2)
Mats Strandberg: "Die Überfahrt"
Linus Geschke: “Und am Morgen waren sie tot” (Jan Römer #2)
F.G. Cottam: “The House of Lost Souls”
John Ajvide Lindkvist: "Menschenhafen"
Dorothy L. Sayers: “Clouds of Witness” (Lord Peter Wimsey #2)
Markus Heitz: “Judastöchter” (Kinder des Judas #3)
Gavin Extence: "The Universe Versus Alex Woods"
Mitch Albom: "Dienstags bei Morrie"
Stephen King: “Just After Sunset”

CHALLENGE WEEK #1 (1/1–1/7/2018)

[PS] A book with alliteration in the title:
Kurzgeschichten aus Hogwarts: Heldentum, Härtefälle und hanebüchene Hobbys
No challenge category:
Kurzgeschichten aus Hogwarts: Macht, Politik und nervtötenden Poltergeistern
[PS] A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift:
Pretty Girls
[PS] A book by a local author
Die Entscheidung
[PS] A book about feminism:
Sleeping Beauties currently reading

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 4, on the 5th
Eligible books read altogether: 4, on the 5th

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
4 (no peak yet)

CHALLENGE WEEK #2 (1/8–1/14/2018)

[PS] A book about feminism:
Sleeping Beauties currently reading

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 0, on the 1st
Eligible books read altogether: 4, on the 5th

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
4 (no peak yet)

CHALLENGE WEEK #3 (1/15–1/21/2018)

[PS] A book about feminism:
Sleeping Beauties

[ATY] A short book
Der lautlose Schrei

[PS] A book set on or about Halloween
Der Geist mit der Maske ("The Ghost in the Mask"; Haunted by Desire)

[ATY] A book with a plot centered around a secret
Auf tödlichen Sohlen

[ATY] A book about or inspired by real events
Tannöd (The Murder Farm)

[PS] The next book in a series you started
Knochenerbe (A Bone to Pick) currently reading

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 5, on the 6th
Eligible books read altogether: 9, on the 10th

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
9 (no peak yet)

CHALLENGE WEEK #4 (1/22–1/28/2018)

[PS] The next book in a series you started
Knochenerbe (A Bone to Pick)

[PS]: A book by two authors
Das Relikt: Museum der Angst (Relic)

[ATY]: A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
The Last Dragonslayer

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 3
Eligible books read altogether: 12

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
Pike's Peak (12)

CHALLENGE WEEK #5 (1/29–2/4/2018)

[ATY]: A book written in first person perspective
The Song of the Quarkbeast

Not eligible for challenge
[ATY]: A book with a body part in the title
The Eye of Zoltar

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1
Eligible books read altogether: 13

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
13/75
Pike's Peak √

CHALLENGE WEEK #6 (2/5–2/11/2018)

[PS]: A book about a problem facing society today
Eiskalt ist die Zärtlichkeit (Don't Tell)

[PS]: Nordic Noir
Selfies (The Scarred Woman)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 15

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
15/75
Pike's Peak √

CHALLENGE WEEK #7 (2/12–2/18/2018)

[ATY]: A book with the letters A, T and Y in the title
The Masked City

[PS]: Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016 or 2017 PS reading challenge
A trilogy
#1 Die Verratenen ("The Betrayed", not published in English)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 16, on the 17th

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
16/75
Pike's Peak √

CHALLENGE WEEK #8 (2/19–2/25/2018)

[PS]: Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016 or 2017 PS reading challenge
A trilogy
#1 Die Verratenen ("The Betrayed", not published in English)
#2 Die Verschworenen ("The Conspirators", not published in English)
#3 Die Vernichteten ("The Annihilated", not published in English)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 3
Eligible books read altogether: 19

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
19/75
Pike's Peak √

CHALLENGE WEEK #9 (2/26–3/4/2018)

[ATY]: An alternate history novel
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CHALLENGE
The Mirage

currently reading
[ATY]: A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you
Vergessene Welt (The Lost World)
[The word is "T. rex", coined in the year I as born]

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 0
Eligible books read altogether: 19

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
19/75
Pike's Peak √

CHALLENGE WEEK #10 (3/5–3/11/2018)

[ATY]: A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you
Vergessene Welt (The Lost World)

currently reading
[PS]: A book set at sea
Day Four

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 20

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
20/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24)
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #11 (3/12–3/18/2018)

[PS]: A book set at sea
Day Four

[PS]: A novel based on a real person
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CHALLENGE
Das dunkle Spiel ("The Dark Game"; not published in English)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1
Eligible books read altogether: 21

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
21/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24)
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #12 (3/19–3/25/2018)

[ATY] A book that you expect to make you laugh
Kasperle auf Burg Himmelhoch ("Kasperle at Sky-High Castle", not published in English)

[ATY] A book you have high expectations or hopes for
Wolkenschloss ("Cloud Castle"; not (yet) published in English)

[ATY] A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call: A book related to music (on the cover, in the title, or the subject)
Schlusstakt ("Closing Chord"; not published in English)

[PS] A book with characters who are twins
The Twin Game

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 4
Eligible books read altogether: 25

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
25/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #13 (3/26–4/1/2018)

currently reading
[PS] A microhistory
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CHALLENGE
The Complete Jack the Ripper

[PS] A book that's published in 2018
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CHALLENGE
Invisible

[ATY] A book with a title that's a whole sentence
Und am Morgen waren sie tot ("And in the Morning, They Were Dead")

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1
Eligible books read altogether: 26

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
26/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #14 (4/2–4/8/2018)

[PS] A book recommended by someone else taking the PopSugar Reading Challenge
The Roanoke Girls

[ATY] A book by an author with the same first and last initials
The Hammer of Thor

[PS] A book involving a heist
Bartimäus: Das Amulett von Samarkand

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 3
Eligible books read altogether: 29

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
29/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #15 (4/9–4/15/2018)

[ATY] A legal or medical thriller
Labor des Teufels (Marker)

started reading
[ATY] 4 books linked by the 4 elements. Book #4: AIR
Clouds of Witness

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 30

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
30/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #16 (4/16–4/22/2018)

[ATY] 4 books linked by the 4 elements. Book #4: AIR
Clouds of Witness

[ATY] A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
Moorfeuer

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 32

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
32/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #17 (4/23–4/29/2018)

[ATY] A book with a map
Die achte Karte (Sepulchre; literally, "The Eighth Card")

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1
Eligible books read altogether: 32

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
32/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #18 (4/30–5/6/2018)

[PS] A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist
Dying for a Living

Not eligible for challenge, because it was only one story in a whole collection:
[PS] A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title
The Five Orange Pips

[ATY] 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
Here Be Dragons

[PS] A book with an ugly cover
Der dreizehnte Mann: Roman

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 3
Eligible books read altogether: 35

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
35/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36)
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #19 (5/7–5/13/2018)

[ATY] A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
Affliction

[ATY] A book originally written in a language other than English
Ich Töte (I Kill/Io uccido)


PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 36

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
36/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #20 (5/14–5/20/2018)

[ATY] A book originally written in a language other than English
Ich Töte

[PS] A book about or involving a sport
Flying Too High

[PS] A book with a time of day in the title
Der Nachtzirkus (The Night Circus)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 3
Eligible books read altogether: 39

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
39/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #21 (5/21–5/27/2018)

[PS] A book by an author with the same first or last name as you
Tintenblut ("Ink Blood"; Inkspell)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1
Eligible books read altogether: 40

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
40/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #22 (5/28–6/3/2018)

[ATY] An award-winning short story or short story collection
Just After Sunset

[ATY] A book with a warm atmosphere
Towering

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 42

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
42/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #23 (6/4–6/10)

[PS] A book about time travel
Das Jesus-Video

[ATY] 4 books liked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth
The Catacombs

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 44

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
44/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #24 (6/11–6/17)

[ATY] 4 books liked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
Am Ufer des Styx

[ATY] A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
The Dead House

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 45

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
45/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #25 (6/18–6/24)

[ATY] A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
The Dead House

[PS] A book with a weather element in the title
Nebelmord (Why Did You Lie?)

[PS] A book that involves a bookstore or library
The Burning Page

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2, on the 3rd
Eligible books read altogether: 47

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
47/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #26 (6/25–7/1)

[PS] A book that involves a bookstore or library
The Burning Page

[PS] A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
The Shining

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 48

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
48/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #27 (7/2–7/8)

[PS] A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
The Shining

[PS] A cyberpunk book
CyberWorld 1.0: Mind Ripper

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 50

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
50/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #28 (7/9–7/15)

[ATY] A book with a text-only cover
Kalte Asche

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 0, on the 1st
Eligible books read altogether: 50

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
50/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #30 (7/23–7/29)

[PS] A book that is set on a different planet
Leviathan Wakes

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 0, on the 1st
Eligible books read altogether: 51

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
51/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #31 (7/30–8/5)

[PS] A book that is set on a different planet
Leviathan Wakes

[PS] A book about mental health
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 52

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
52/75

Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #32 (8/6–8/12)

[PS] A book about mental health
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

[ATY] An author's debut book
Identifiziert

[ATY] A narrative nonfiction
Dienstags bei Morrie (Tuesdays with Morrie)

[PS] A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to
Die Again

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 3, on the 4th
Eligible books read altogether: 55

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
55/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #33 (8/13–8/19)

[PS]A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to
Die Again

Not eligible for challenge:
[ATY] A book with a location in the title
Die Frau im Orient-Express (The Woman on the Orient Express)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1
Eligible books read altogether: 56

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
56/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #34 (8/20–8/26)

[PS]A book with song lyrics in the title
Blind (Heart-Shaped Box)

[ATY] A book set in Africa or South America
Die Erben der Schwarzen Flagge ("Heirs of the Black Flag", not available in English)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 58

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
58/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #35 (8/27–9/2)

[ATY] A ghost story
The House of Lost Souls

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 0, on the 1st
Eligible books read altogether: 58

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
58/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60)
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

Conny
CHALLENGE WEEK #36 (9/3–9/9)

[ATY] A ghost story
The House of Lost Souls

[PS] A childhood classic you've never read
Little Lord Fauntleroy

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 60

REACHED MOUNT KILIMANJARO

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
60/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #37 (9/10–9/16)

[ATY] A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
Night Shift

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1
Eligible books read altogether: 61

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
61/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #38 (9/17–9/23)

[ATY] A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover
Drei Zimmer, Leiche, Bad (Three Bedrooms, One Corpse)

[PS] A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
The Arctic Incident

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 63

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
63/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #39 (9/24–9/30)

[PS] A book set in the decade you were born
So finster die Nacht (Let the Right One In)

[PS] A book with an animal in the title
Katzendämmerung ("Dawn of Cats", not translated into English)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 64

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
64/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #40 (10/1–10/7)

[PS] A book with an animal in the title
Katzendämmerung ("Dawn of Cats", not translated into English)

[PS] A book from a celebrity book club
Before the Fall

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 65

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
65/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #41 (10/8–10/14)

[PS] A book from a celebrity book club
Before the Fall

[PS] A book made into a movie you've already seen
Stardust

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2
Eligible books read altogether: 67

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
67/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #42 (10/15–10/21)

[PS] A book set in a country that fascinates you
Die eisblaue Spur (The Day is Dark)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 0, on the 1st
Eligible books read altogether: 67

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
67/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #43 (10/22–10/28)

[PS] A book with your favorite color in the title
Der silberne Falke (The Silver Falcon)

[PS] An allegory
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

[PS] True Crime
Der Mordfall Tutanchamun (The Murder of Tutankhamen)

[PS] A book that is mentioned in another book
Der kleine Hobbit

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 3, on the 4th
Eligible books read altogether: 71

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
71/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #44 (10/29–11/04)

[PS] A book that is mentioned in another book
Der kleine Hobbit

[PS] A book about a villain or anti-hero
The Satanic Verses

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 72

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
72/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #45 (11/05–11/11)

[PS] A book about a villain or anti-hero
The Satanic Verses

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 0, on the 1st
Eligible books read altogether: 72

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
72/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #46 (11/12–11/18)

[PS] A book about a villain or anti-hero
The Satanic Verses

[PS] A book that is also a stage play or musical
Die drei Musketiere (The Three Musketeers)

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 1, on the 2nd
Eligible books read altogether: 73

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
73/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75)

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)

CHALLENGE WEEK #47 (11/19–11/25)

[PS] A book that is also a stage play or musical
Die drei Musketiere (The Three Musketeers)

[PS] A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you
Kafka am Strand (Kafka on the Shore)

+++ FINISHED +++ FINISHED +++ FINISHED +++

[ATY] A book related to one of the seven deadly sins
Shutter Man

PROGRESS:
Eligible books read this week: 2, on the 3rd
Eligible books read altogether: 75

PROGRESS TOWARDS EL TORO:
75/75
Pike's Peak (12) √
Mount Blanc (24) √
Mt. Vancouver (36) √
Mt. Ararat (48) √
Mt. Kilimanjaro (60) √
El Toro (75) √

Mt. Everest (100)
Mt. Olympus (150+)