Mount TBR 2018 discussion

This will be my first year attempting Mount TBR. I originally was thinking I'd do 60 books, but I think this is more reasonable and still definitely a challenge. I've never read this many owned books in one year before (I've read 15 so far this year), so we'll see how it goes!
-Amanda

Oh, and I currently have 182 unread physical books. I also have that many plus a few more unread ebooks, but I'm going to focus just on the physical books.

Good luck with your climb!

Forgot I'd signed up for 48 and thought it was 40, whoops! I'd be happy with 40 too, but I'm going to focus on reading all my small books in 2018, so we'll see how it goes. Excited for it to be 2018 already so I can get started!

BOOKS - January

#1 - Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
#2 - Stargazing Dog by Takashi Murakami
#3 - Night by Elie Wisel
#4 - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#5 - A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#6 - The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#7 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

First month over, and it's going well! I'm almost caught up to my goal for February, but since these have been the very shortest books on my shelves, I'm sure I won't be this much ahead the whole year. :)

BOOKS - February

#8 - Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
#9 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
#10 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Only the three for February, but it's still halfway done with March. Plus I'll be reading the 9th Wheel of Time book in March, which I'm borrowing from my brother!

BOOKS - March

#11 - Kindness by Sarah Conover
#12 - The BFG by Roald Dahl
#13 - A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters

BOOKS - April

#14 - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
#15 - Ayat Jamilah by Sarah Conover
#16 - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

BOOKS - May

#17 - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
#18 - Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
#19 - The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
#20 - In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

BOOKS - June

#21 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
#22 - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
#23 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#24 - Nine Stories by JD Salinger

BOOKS - July

#25 - The Art of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
#26 - Matilda by Roald Dahl
#27 - William Shakespeare's The Clone Army Attacketh by Ian Doescher
#28 - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

BOOKS - August

#29 - Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
#30 - Wonder Women by Sam Maggs
#31 - The House on Pooh Corner by AA Milne
#32 - The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

BOOKS - September

#33 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
#34 - Peter Pan by JM Barrie
#35 - Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
#36 - How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

BOOKS - October

#37 - Chocolat by Joanne Harris
#38 - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
#39 - Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
#40 - HP & The Prisoner of Azkaban Illustrated edition (first time reading this edition, so I'm counting it!)

BOOKS - November

#41 - The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace
#42 - Maisie Dobbs by Jaqueline Winspear
#43 - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
#44 - East of the Sun and West of the Moon Folktales

Getting close Amanda. You can do it!

Pamela wrote: "Getting close Amanda. You can do it!"

Thank you! Just barely keeping up!!

BOOKS - December

#45 - Two Histories of England by Austen & Dickens
#46 - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I think this is as close as I’m gonna get - 46 books. I started this goal when I worked part time and was single, now I work full time and have a boyfriend, so I’m surprised I got as far as I did! I feel really pleased about it and am so glad I pushed myself to read so many books from my own shelves, although somehow there still isn’t room for more... hmmmm... XD

Jessika wrote: "Well done!"

Thank you! :)