Mount TBR 2021 discussion

After busting down my TBR to zero in 2020, I have an extremely small TBR--but I certainly don't want it to build up again! I currently only have 10 books on the TBR, but Xmas gifts and re-reads will likely push it up a bit, so I'm starting with Pike's Peak.

Okay, actually the total is 26, but those other 16 will have to wait until after Jan 20, minimum

Edit: What on earth was I thinking, of course I've bought a bunch more. Ah, well, not moving up mountains yet.

Unread books:

1. Swordspoint DNF 1/10
2. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature DNF March
3. Three Parts Dead Read 3/2
4. No Man of Woman Born Read 1/1
5. The Curse of Chalion Read 3/11
6. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps Read Dec. 2020
7. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant Read 1/10
8. The Goblin Emperor Read 3/24
9. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Finished 1/31
10. The Smithsonian Book of Books Moving this one to the reference section for the pictures

The much longer lists of books I'd like to reread, in no particular order:

1. The Harp and the Blade
2. A History of Reading Reread Dec. 2020
3. Absolutely on Music Ineligible
4. Here There Be Gerblins Reread Dec. 2020
5. Ancillary Justice
6. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms Ineligible
7. Celtic Myths and Legends
8. Chronicle of a Death Foretold Reread Apr 2
9. The City and the City Ineligible
10. The Geek Feminist Revolution
11. Harry Potter and History.
12. The Haunted Bookshop
13. Hild
14. The Importance of Being Earnest
15. The Killing Moon/The Shadowed Sun
16. The Mabinogion
17. Marriage, a History
18. Much Ado About Nothing
19. Musicophilia
20. The Name of the Rose
21. Stiletto
22. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
23. The View from the Cheap Seats Ineligible
24. Witches
25. Silverlock
26. The Prydain Chronicles
27. Enchantress to the Stars
28. Spindle's End
29. Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes Reread 1/2
30. The Gammage Cup
31. A Room of One's Own
32. Bookshops: A Reader's History
33. Packing My Library
34. How to Be a Tudor
35. The Uncommon Reader Reread Dec. 2020
36. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Reread 3/7
37. A Stranger in Olondria Ineligible

Welcome to the 2021 challenge!

First book down!

1. No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll

2. Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien, Reread

3. St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun

4. Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe

Just finished my first book also!

5. Angel & Faith: Where the River Meets the Sea, text by Victor Gischler

6. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes

And I'm not counting DNFs this year but I DNFed Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity and Swordspoint.

7. Sexual Science: The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood by Cynthia Russett

8. Latin American Folktales, edited by John Bierhorst

9. Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby

10. The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

11.The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

12. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis

13. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, reread

14. Angel & Faith: Lost and Found, text by Victor Gischler

15. The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall, reread

16. Angel & Faith: United, text by Victor Gischler

17. Angel & Faith: A Little More Than Kin, text by Victor Gischler

18. Angel: Season Six, Volume 1

19. Angel: Season Six, Volume 2

20. Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

21. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, reread

22. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

Alanna wrote: "22. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold"

I am a big fan of Bujold's books - is this the first of hers you have read?

Leslie wrote: "Alanna wrote: "22. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold"

I am a big fan of Bujold's books - is this the first of hers you have read?"

Yes and no--it's the first full-length novel of hers I've read, but I've read the first two Penric and Desdemona collections.

23. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

24. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, reread

25. Angel: The End

Not that I haven't been reading, mind you. I just grew my TBR again. Trying to get it back under 50.

Down under 50 now. If I can get it back under 30, I'll call it good.

Congratulations on doing so well!