Mount TBR 2018 discussion

Starting off pretty easy here, hope to make it to Kilimanjaro during the year.

1. Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week (started in 2017, finished 2nd January)
2. Beneath the Sugar Sky (preordered at end of Dec)
3. No Name
4. A Dog's Purpose (ebook)
5. Home Fire (ebook)
6. Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up
7. The Gracekeepers
8. Virginia Woolf
9. The Night Brother
10. The Complete Maus
11. The Thing Around Your Neck
12. Queer: A Graphic History
13. Anne of Green Gables / Anne of Avonlea (only read the Green Gables portion)
14. The Grapes of Wrath
15. A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
16. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary (ebook)
17. Black Venus
18. Orlando
19. The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
20. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
21. The Winter's Tale
22. Literary London
23. Familiar Things
24. Cheer Up Love: Adventures in depression with the Crab of Hate
25. Two Boys Kissing
26. Station Eleven
27. Bluebeard's Egg
28. The Little Stranger
29. Lud-In-The-Mist
30. Tales from Outer Suburbia
31. Macbeth
32. The Well of Loneliness
33. 12 Years a Slave
34. The One Hundred Nights of Hero
35. Provenance
36. Vanity Fair
37. Raptor: A Journey Through Birds
38. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
39. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
40. Frogkisser!
41. The Wonder
42. The Sundial
43. Sandlands
44. Wives and Daughters
45. Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
46. Peace: The Biography of a Symbol
47. The Diary of a Bookseller
48. Norse Mythology

Great start!

First 10 down! :)

12 down, so I guess I'm a quarter of the way up the mountain. yay!

I've never figured out how exactly these threads are supposed to work. I've just been editing the first post. Does everyone else update with fresh posts as they go along, or...?

18th book down - Orlando by Virginia Woolf.

I can almost see the halfway point...

19th down - The Things I Would Tell You, collection edited by Sabrina Mahfouz.

20th - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy.

21st - The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare.

22 - Literary London by Eloise Millar and Sam Jordison.

Seem to have been on a new-book binge for a while there.

23 - Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-Yong

24 - Cheer Up Love by Susan Calman

Finally halfway! 🎉

Inch by painstaking inch I'm making it up this mountain...

25 - Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

26 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

27 - Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood

28 - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

29 - Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

30 - Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

31 - Macbeth by William Shakespeare

32 - The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

33 - 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

34 - The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

35 - Provenance by Ann Leckie

36 - Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

37 - Raptor: A Journey Through Birds by James Macdonald Lockhart

38 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

39 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

40 - Frogkisser! by Garth Nix

41 - The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

42 - The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

43 - Sandlands by Rosy Thornton

44 - Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

45 - Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli

46 - Peace: The Biography of a Symbol by Ken Kolsbun

I hope I can finish this challenge, be kind of embarrassing if I didn't manage it...

47 - The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

48 - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Challenge completed! 🎉

Hope I can do better on this front next year - slightly shameful that books I already owned have composed less than a third of my 2018 reading.