EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

This challenge was started by the EHRTBM Group's original moderator, Kasey, and we are bringing it back for its second year!

The goal of this Challenge:
Read the 5 oldest books on your To-Be-Read (TBR)

HOW TO PLAY:
1. How to find your 5 oldest TBR books:
Go to your personal bookshelf (using "My Books" link at the top of the page) and then your "Want-to-Read" shelf - this is your TBR shelf.
Once there, click on the column header "date added" in order to sort by date you added to your TBR shelf (you may need to click twice to sort oldest-to-newest).
Once you have sorted, note the top 5 books on this list - these are the books you will aim to read this year!
2. Keeping Score
Comment on this thread with the 5 oldest books on your TBR list.
When you've finished a book from your list check it off by adding the date you finished reading next to the title. (see below for an example).
3. To edit your challenge score/edit your comment:
a. Find your comment in the challenge thread. [Tip: Take note of the message number in the upper left corner when you first post your list]
b. On the bottom right of your comment, there should be four hyperlinks: "reply | edit | delete | flag". Select "edit".
c. Add your book read date per above instructions.
d. Click "edit post" once you are done.
4. Challenge dates:
This challenge runs from February 7, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
Feel free to JOIN AT ANY TIME.

F.A.Q:
What if I have multiple TBR Shelves?
Some of you may have created multiple TBR lists, so choose whichever one you think is most appropriate, or take a book from each one!

What if I begin a book, and don't want to finish it?
What you wanted to read 10 years ago isn't what you want to read now? That is fine! Just take it off your list and add a different book in its place.

The purpose of this challenge is to read the books you've been putting off and clean up your TBR a little bit, so do whatever you want or feel like to accomplish that!

Thank you everyone for your patience in getting these yearly challenges up and running. The Around the World and Alphabet Soup Challenges will be open soon!

Reserved

Books Read - 3/5


✔1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare June 20
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
X3. The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger October 27
✔4.Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty March 1
✔5. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien April 1

These are among the books that I've hauled around on moves the longest, and the ones I seem to have the most trouble getting around to reading:

Year's Best SF 9 Feb 24
Year's Best SF 10
Bone Dance
Falcon Feb 10
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

Thanks for getting this started Tori!

1. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
2. Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
4. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
5. The Martian by Andy Weir

Books read 0/5

Left for Dead
The Spellman Files
This Pen for Hire
Dead Is the New Black
Invisible Armies

My goal is to do one a month this year!

7/12

1. Misery - Added August 19, 2013 – Finished January 19
2. Pet Sematary - Added August 19, 2013 - Finished April 9
3. 'Salem's Lot - Added August 19, 2013 – Finished June 1
4. Cujo - Added August 19, 2013 - Finished July 26
5. Under the Dome - Added August 19, 2013 - Finished February 12
6. Christine – Added August 19, 2013 - Finished June 10
7. Bag of Bones – Added August 19, 2013
8. The Talisman – Added August 19, 2013
9. Dolores Claiborne – Added August 19,2013 - Finished July 8
10. Desperation – Added August 19, 2013
11. The Tommyknockers – Added August 19, 2013
12. Nightmares and Dreamscapes – Added August 19, 2013

Books Read 0/5

1) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (241p) 7/18/13
XX2) Blindness by Jose Saramago (326p) 7/18/13- READ:05/08/19
3) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (607p) 7/18/13
4) The Second Death Of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley (480p) 2/3/14
5) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (671p) 2/24/14

BONUS BOOK: Been waiting since 3/19/14 for The Winds of Winter

Books Read 2/5

1) A Farewell to Arms-June 19
2) The Circle
3) Peter Pan
4) Ready Player One
5) First Comes Love-March 19th

Books Read: 0/5
1). Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
2). The Phantom Tollbooth
3). I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
4). Henna House
5). I'll Give You the Sun

Five books chosen from my join date (April 5, 2017):
5/5
✔1. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway January 29
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy DNF'd - will try again next year
✔2. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides August 2
✔3. Watership Down by Richard Adams May 24
✔4. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare March 30
✔5. Doubt by John Patrick Shanley May 7

Bonus reads shelved April 2017:
✔6. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman July 21
✔7. For One More Day by Mitch Albom July 28
✔8. Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring August 16
✔9. The Martian by Andy Weir September 27
✔10. The Monarch of the Glen by Neil Gaiman October 17
✔11. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens October 18
✔12. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley October 30
✔13. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen November 6
✔14. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd November 8
✔15. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry November 12

Books Read: 0/5

1) Letters to Erik: The Ghost's Love Story
2)A Green and Ancient Light
3) Katherine
4) The Geisha with the Green Eyes
5)Abendlied

I don't like that it has to be the oldest books, it wasn't like that last year...:-(

Zeljka, you can choose any books you like off your TBR. They said "oldest" last year too, but it's just to encourage people to get to books that have been hanging around for awhile.

Tori said: "The purpose of this challenge is to read the books you've been putting off and clean up your TBR a little bit, so do whatever you want or feel like to accomplish that! :)

Books read: 4/5
I'm going to declare myself done with this challenge. I rigorously weeded my "to read" shelf before beginning and finished/abandoned everything left that I added prior to 2019. Glad to now have a much more manageable shelf of things I truly want to read!

Walking with Spring - Added 2/24/11; Finished 3/29/19
Shooting the Moon - Added 4/17/11; Finished 4/18/19
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Added 12/20/11; Abandoned 10/4/2019
The Trees - Added 2/5/12; Finished 9/9/19
Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts - Added 6/11/12; Finished 6/16/19

Kerri wrote: "Zeljka, you can choose any books you like off your TBR. They said "oldest" last year too, but it's just to encourage people to get to books that have been hanging around for awhile.

Tori said: "Th..."

That suits me much better👍🏼

Ok I am a little late to this but would like to join.

The Stars My Destination
The Windup Girl
Soulless
Under Heaven
Candide 10/2012
The first four were added when I started my Goodreads page, 4/2012.

Kerri wrote: "Zeljka, you can choose any books you like off your TBR. They said "oldest" last year too, but it's just to encourage people to get to books that have been hanging around for awhile.

Tori said: "Th..."

Thanks Kerri, that is exactly right!

This challenge is not strict at all. :)

I'm repeating what I did last year with 30 books from my TBR, though some of them are actually series so...in the end it will be more than 30 if I read everything planned. We'll see which ones actually get read, and which get swapped out!

44/30

★ 1. The Lace Reader - 8/10
★ 2. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - 10/31
★ 3. Inkheart series - 3/3: 1/9, 1/15, 1/20
4. The Return of the Native
★ 5. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - 8/11
6. Sea Glass
★ 7. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - 4/30
8. X in Flight series: 0/3
9. The Girl Who Owned a City
10. House of Leaves
★ 11. Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot series: 3/3 - 9/13, 9/26, 9/30
★ 12. How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities - 8/22
★ 13. North and South - 4/21
★ 14. Scarlet Feather - 10/18
15. Bluest Eyes
★ 16. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - 5/20
★ 17. The Pocket Pema Chodron - 10/18
★ 18. War and Peace Eugene Onegin: 4/9
19. A book I own that I'm too lazy to hunt down in Goodreads right now bc it's a weird one
★ 20. The Muffin Child - 5/25
★ 21. The Witch of Blackbird Pond: 2/22
22. Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight
★ 23. Legion series: 3/3 - 5/5, 5/6, 5/8
24. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
★ 25. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - 5/5
26. Atonement
27. David Copperfield
★ 28. Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo series - 4/5: 2/27, 2/28, 3/5, 3/16
29. The Red and the Black
30. Bleak House

★ 31. Three Act Tragedy - 5/25
★ 32. Hadji Murat - 5/29
★ 33. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times - 6/3
★ 34. Anne of Avonlea - 6/12
★ 35. The Forgotten Garden - 7/10
★ 36. The Master and Margarita - 8/6
★ 37. Girls in White Dresses - 8/23
★ 38. The Tiger Rising - 8/23
★ 39. A Darker Shade of Magic series (3/3) - 9/4, 9/6, 9/9
★ 40. The Cat Who Played Brahms - 9/11
★ 41. The Woman in the Window - 10/14
42. Janitors (1/5) - 10/20
★ 43. The Kept - 10/23
★ 44. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - 10/26
★ 45. The Universe Versus Alex Woods - 10/30

I have a feeling I won't get to some of these but that's ok. They are usually overtaken by other TBR's so I'm using it as more of a guide for when I get stuck on what to read next :)

I'm in. I hate that my TBR is so huge. These first 5 brings me up to 2/2/2013. My stretch goal is to read 20. I would think this is very possible but may not be realistic.

1. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - READ 3/28/19; 5 STARS
2. The Shadow of the Wind - READ 4/8/19; 5 STARS
3. Out of My Mind - READ 4/19/19; 5 STARS
4. Bring Up the Bodies - READ 4/26/19; 4 STARS
5. Heft - READ 5/25/19; 5 STARS
6. When You Are Engulfed in Flames - READ 5/8/19; 4 STARS
7. She Matters: A Life in Friendships
8. Planet of the Apes - READ 5/28/19; 4 STARS
9. The Demolished Man - READ 5/16/19; 2 STARS
10. The Far Pavillions
11. The Mirrored World
12. Lark & Termite
13. Watership Down

1. And the Mountains Echoed
2. The Girl You Left Behind
3. The White Princess
4. The Painted Girls
5. The Last Runaway

Karen - your list just caught my eye. I read The Stars My Destination a few years ago and ended up Loving it!! It is completely wacky and there are moments of complete insanity, but in the end I was really impressed! I hope you enjoy it! :)

1/5

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
5. Me dijeron que habría pastel by Sloane Crosley Read February 2

Kerri wrote: "Karen - your list just caught my eye. I read The Stars My Destination a few years ago and ended up Loving it!! It is completely wacky and there are moments of complete insanity, but in the end I wa..."
Thanks for the thumbs up, I have been wanting to read it for a long time but it got lost in Mt TBR.

Colleen wrote: "1. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
2. The Shadow of the Wind
3. Out of My Mind
4. Bring Up the Bodies
5. Heft "

The Shadow of the Wind is one of my favorite books and I also enjoyed Bring Up the Bodies

1/5
I have been wanting to read these books for years (they are mainly some that I had to read at university - but I didn't =P), but I end up giving priority to other new books that I am more interested in at the particular moment in which I have to choose.

Maybe this challenge can help me!

1.Luces de bohemia: Esperpento 18th March 2012
2.Cartas marruecas 18th March 2012
3.El mapa del cielo 18th March 2012
4.La Regenta11th May 2012
5.Brisingr24th June 2012

Books read: 2/5

1. The Secret Garden - Read June 19
2. Little Women - Read February 9
3. Graceling
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. A Darker Shade of Magic

Hopefully I'll do better this year!

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Little Women (25 Mar)
3. Great Expectations (6 Nov)
4. Lord of the Flies
5. Crime and Punishment

Update at the end of 2019: Well, at least I did better than last year. Keeping this pace, I can expect to complete the challenge in another three years!

I wasn't successful last year, hoping to complete it this time.

Completed: 0/5

1. ألس في بلاد الواق واق! رواية ليست للصغار - Added on May 16, 2012
2. رجل تحت الصفر - Added on Dec 30, 2012
3. فنجان من التخطيط - Added on Aug 26, 2013
4. Lord of the Flies - Added on Oct 09, 2013
5. The Brothers Karamazov - Added on Jun 12, 2014

9/1/15 TBR List
Completed: 7/10

1. American Gods - January 10
2. The Girl on the Train - February 26
3. The 100 - September 14
4. Steelheart - October 10
5. Gone Girl - November 4
6. The Hunger Games - December 22
7. Child 44 - December 30
8. The House Girl -
9. The Thief -
10. Shiver -

The first eleven books on my TBR are:

The Scent of Rain and Lightning
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Time Traveler's Wife
Sense and Sensibility
Good in Bed
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Lovely Bones
A Tale of Two Cities
Middlesex
Cutting for Stone

Most of these books are chunksters! No wonder they languish on the shelf while I read shorter books for other challenges.

Books Read:

Monique wrote: "Hopefully I'll do better this year!

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
..."

To Kill a Mockingbird is my all time favorite book! I reread it every few years. After the most recent reread, I finished the book and thought THIS is why I love to read!!

4/5

The Tao of Pooh - March 5
Hook's Tale: Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself
Baba Yaga's Assistant - Feb 27
The Song of Achilles - Jun 13
Awful End - Mar 10

Here is my list:
5/6
1. Inspector of the Dead Dec 6/19
2. Wenjack March 13/19
3. Our Endless Numbered Days Oct 17/19
4. The Break May 23/19
5. The Elephants in My Backyard: A Memoir Sept 9/19
6. Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD

Several of you have Sense and Sensibility to read. I think you will be in for a treat, I do love that story. I am working on Jane Eyre and I find it a bit slower going, Austen has a lighter flow IMHO.

Books read 2/5

1. And I Darken by Kiersten White - Feb 23
2. I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down: A Memoir About Depression and Discovering Art by David Sandum
3. Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road by Kazuo Koike
4. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
5. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison - Feb 23

Books Read - 5/5

b>✔1. God Don't Like Ugly BY Mary Monroe03/03
b>✔2. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance BY Barack Obama08/15
✔3. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever BY Bill O'Reilly 02/24
b>✔4. Midnight's Children BY Salman Rushdie 06/11
✔5. Things Fall Apart BY Chinua Achebe 02/28

Books read: 0/5

1. The Reader
2. For One More Day
3. Salavation of a Saint
4. Pariah
5. The Bee's Kiss

Books read: 0/5

1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
2. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
3. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
4. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
5. The Lost and the Chosen by Ivy Asher

Nell wrote: "Most of these books are chunksters! No wonder they languish on the shelf while I read shorter books for other challenges."

Lol, I know exactly what you mean! I was really into the 1001 Before You Die list when I joined this site. Some of these books are super long...

Kristin Lavransdatter (>1,000 pages)
The Wings of the Dove (>700 pages)

There are some graphic novels I added in that first batch, so I guess it'll balance out somewhat. And it is supposed to be a challenge, so we'll see...

EHRTBM TBR Challenge
Duration: February 7, 2019 - December 31, 2019

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

All added on March 19, 2011

2/11 Completed

1) Absolutely, Positively 4/2 DNF
2) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Retreat
3) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Twilight
4) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Last Gleaming
5) The Wings of the Dove
6) Memoirs of a Geisha
7) Jane Eyre
8) Kristin Lavransdatter
9) Kushiel's Dart
10) Hotel Iris 5/18 ★★
11) Annabel

Great idea!

Books read: 0/5

1) The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Carrie Ryan)
2) Changeling (Leigh Teale)
3) Alice (Christina Henry)
4) Angelefall (Susan Ee)
5) Uprooted (Naomi Novik)

TBR Revival Challenge 2019

1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2) Thyme Out by Katie Fforde
3) Two Women by Martina Cole
4) World Without End by Ken Follett
5) Past Secrets by Cathy Kelly

Books read: 0/5

1. 1Q84
2. The Marriage Plot
3. When She Woke
4. Tell the Wolves I'm Home
5. Me Before You

Books read: 1/5

1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. My Life on the Road
3. The Tales of Beedle the Bard 13-10-19
4. The Martian
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Books read: 11/11

1. Atlas Shrugged (Apr 12)
2. Crime and Punishment (Nov 1)
3. Moby-Dick, or, the Whale (Jul 26)
4. On the Road (Nov 26)
5. Walden (Oct 4)
6. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Apr 30)
7. Babbitt (Jul 3)
8. Gulliver's Travels (Oct 10
9. War and Peace (Mar 27)
10. The Devil's Arithmetic (Apr 14)
11. Pride and Prejudice (May 16)

What a great challenge idea. I have 11 left in my list from 2011, so I'm going to try and get to those this year. :)

I have ten books that have been haunting my TBR so hopefully I can finish them!
Books Read: 7/10
1. The Hobbit or There and Back Again
2. The Raven Boys
3. Winter
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Dumplin'
6. The Great Gatsby
7. Frozen Tides
8. An Ember in the Ashes
9. City of Stairs
10. North and South

Books read: 0/5

1) The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
2) And the Mountains Echoed
3) What Alice Forgot
4) All the Light We Cannot See
5) The Language of Flowers

Okay, I'll join this for sure. Here's my list:

1. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
2. Dragons Return
3. Green Bay Packers: Trials, Triumphs, and Tradition
4. Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
5.Una casa per Jeffrey Magee

Satrina wrote: "Colleen wrote: "1. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
2. The Shadow of the Wind
3. Out of My Mind
4. Bring Up the Bodies
5. Heft "

The Shadow of the Wind is one of my favorite books and I also enjoyed Br..."

Just finished Shadow and cannot believe I put it off for so long. Wonderfully amazing book. I hope Bring Up is just as good. ;)