Mount TBR 2017 discussion

I don’t think I’ll make the summit of Mt Everest, but let’s see how much further I can go, As Robert Browning said: “Ah, but a [wo]man's reach should exceed his [her] grasp,
Or what's a heaven for? Books 1-60 listed under Mt Kilimanjaro and 61-75 on Mt Toro...

Decided I’d like to have a complete list here so here are all miles climbed in 2017 in one place. Mount Everest climbing started with #76.

1) The Second Chance Dog, Jon Katz
2) Breakdown, Jonathan Kellerman
3). Silk Parachute, John McPhee
4). So, Anyway...., John Cleese (audiobook)
5). Bloody Kin, Margaret Maron
6). Chomp, Carl Hiaasen (audiobook)
7). Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story, Leonie Swann
8). Brewing Up a Storm, Emma Lathen
9). The Big Cat Nap, Rita Mae Brown
10) The World of Odysseus, Moses Finley
11) The Queen of Katwe, Tim Crothers
12) Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Sorensen
13) Ford County, John Grisham
14) Great American Music: Broadway Musicals, Bill Messenger (audiobook)
15) The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault
16) Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
17) The Tales of Max Carrados, Ernest Bramah (audiobook)
18) The Arrival, Shaun Tan
19) A Low Country Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life, Pat Conroy
20) Arabesk, Barbara Nadel
21) Irish Miles, Frank O'Connor
22) The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, Alexander McCall Smith
23) Murder on the Ballarat Train, Kerry Greenwood
24) The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
25) Violet Clay, Gail Godwin (long time TBR, hooray!)
26) The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir (audiobook)
27) Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories, H.E. Bates
28) The Giver, Lois Lowry
29) Peril at End House, Agatha Christie
30) Notes from Walnut Tree Farm, Roger Deakin
31) Good Behavior, Donald Westlake (audiobook)
32) The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks, James Anderson
33) Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler
34) Pastors and Masters, Ivy Compton-Burnett
35) Why I Wake Early, Mary Oliver
36) Back Roads to Far Towns, Basho
37) Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne (audiobook)
38) The Foxes Come At Night, Cees Nooteboom
39) Irish Fairy Tales, ed. W. B. Yeats (Kindle)
40) The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt
41) Essential Welty, Eudora Welty (audiobook)
42) Broken Harbor, Tana French
43) The Island of Horses, Eilis Dillon
44) The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
45) Missing History, Kathryn Kramer
46) Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Kindle)
47) The Ophelia Cut, John Lescroart
48) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
49) The Fortnight in September, R. C. Sherriff (Kindle)
50) Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred D. Taylor
51) Italian Journey, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
52) A Great Reckoning, Louise Penny
53) The Brimstone Wedding, Barbara Vine (Kindle)
54) Poem in Your Pocket: 200 Poems to Read and Carry, ed. Elaine Bleakney
55) The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes, Kenneth W. Harl (audiobook)
56) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (reread in beautiful annotated edition bought a few years ago)
57) Keep Quiet, Lisa Scottoline
58) Aunts Up the Cross, Robin Dalton
59) An Unmarked Grave, Charles Todd
60) Terrapin: Poems by Wendell Berry
61) More All-of-a-Kind Family, Sydney Taylor
62) The Chessmen, Peter May
63) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M. R. James (Kindle)
64) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
65) More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M. R. James (Kindle)
66) Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson
67) Jane Austen: A Life, Claire Tomalin
68) Cheating at Canasta, William Trevor
69) The Litter of the Law, Rita Mae Brown
70) Ten Years in the Tub, Nick Hornsby
71) Are You My Mother?, Alison Bechdel
72) Longbourn, Jo Baker
73) The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien
74) Lost Classics, ed. Ondaatje, Redhill, Spalding and Spalding
75) What W.H. Auden Can Do For You, Alexander McCall Smith
76) The Biography of Saki (H. H. Munro), Ethel Munro
77) Gardener’s Nightcap, Muriel Stuart
78) Heather, Oak, and Olive, Rosemary Sutcliff
79) Lincoln’s Dreams, Connie Willis
80) The Moor, Laurie R. King
81) The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen (audiobook)
82) H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
83) Christmas Days, Jeanette Winterson
84) The Chimes, Charles Dickens (audiobook)
85) The Last Detective, Peter Lovesey (Kindle)
86) Voltaire in Love, Nancy Mitford
87) Death Comes to Pemberley, P. D. James

Even though I didn’t make the summit of Mount Everest, I read more from my TBR piles than I originally planned and am pleased to have come so far. Maybe next year, I’ll make it to the top....