Mount TBR 2022 discussion

Started this challenge last year but couldn't succeed. Coming back with more determination this year.

Already finished 1 book and started my second. Will pledge a list so that I commit to the goal :-)

All the best, fellow climbers!

These are my 36 titles for the year.

Finished:
1. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
2. A Woman in a Million – Monica Wood
3. The Cleaners – Ken Liu
4. Keeping in Touch – Anjali Joseph
5. The Parrot Green Saree - Nabaneeta Dev Sen
6. The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
7. A Silent Voice - Yoshitoki Oima
8. The Nature of Witches - Rachel Griffin
9. The Nine-Chambered Heart - Janice Pariat
10. Upstream – Mary Oliver
11. A Town Called Solace - Mary Lawson
12. The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
13. The Whisper Man - Alex North
14. The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories – Nisha Susan
15. The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart - Margarita Montimore
16. Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri

In Progress:
1. A Room Made of Leaves – Kate Grenville

Pending:
1. XOXO - Axie Oh
2. Obsidio - Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
3. Extraordinary Insects - Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4. The Story of Silence - Alex Myers
5. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
6. Day and Dastan - Intizar Hussain
7. The Dreamers - Karen Thompson Walker
8. The Beautiful Ones - Sylvia Moreno Garcia
9. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
10. A Vow So Bold And Deadly - Brigid Kemmerer
11. A Heart So Fierce and Broken - Brigid Kemmerer
12. A Curse So Dark and Lonely - Brigid Kemmerer
13. The Authenticity Project - Clare Pooley
14. The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue
15. There's A Carnival Today - Indra Bahadur Rai
16. Magic Lessons - Alice Hoffman
17. Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
18. The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
19. The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste

You've made a great start! Good luck with the rest of your climb.

Logging a progress update just for keeping a track of my goals: Finished 11/36 books and currently reading No.12 I'm going to pause this for a few months as I read through my new stack of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 long list.

Quick update 14th May: I'm clearly not sticking to the list I pledged at the start of the year :-D so long as I'm knocking books off my TBR. I'm done with 13 books and so now 23 more to go this year. I'm only using the 'pending' list as a guide to pick next titles as of now.

Thanks for the continued inspiration :)

Update 9th June:
Finished:
1. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
2. A Woman in a Million – Monica Wood
3. The Cleaners – Ken Liu
4. Keeping in Touch – Anjali Joseph
5. The Parrot Green Saree - Nabaneeta Dev Sen
6. The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
7. A Silent Voice - Yoshitoki Oima
8. The Nature of Witches - Rachel Griffin
9. The Nine-Chambered Heart - Janice Pariat
10. Upstream – Mary Oliver
11. A Town Called Solace - Mary Lawson
12. The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
13. The Whisper Man - Alex North
14. The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories – Nisha Susan
15. The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart - Margarita Montimore
16. Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri
17. XOXO - Axie Oh
18. The Path Made Clear - Oprah Winfrey

I have been unhauling a lot of my books this last month, so my TBR has shrunk quite a bit. I'm updating my pending titles as follows:

Pending:
1. The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
2. Obsidio - Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
3. Extraordinary Insects - Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4. The Story of Silence - Alex Myers
5. Thirteen - Steve Cavanagh
6. Day and Dastan - Intizar Hussain
7. The Dreamers - Karen Thompson Walker
8. The Beautiful Ones - Sylvia Moreno Garcia
9. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
10. There's A Carnival Today - Indra Bahadur Rai
11. Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
12. These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong
13. Malibu Rising - Toylor Jenkins Reid
14. Rebel Spy - Veronica Rossi
15. A Room Made of Leaves - Kate Grenville
16. Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
17. The Kingdom of Back - Marie Lu
18. Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Finished one more:
19. The Liberation of Sita - Volga

17 more to go!

Finished one more:
20. Weather - Jenny Offill

16 more to go!

Lineup changed significantly from the titles I'd pegged as pending :-)

Nevertheless, finished a few more:
21. The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo - Zen Cho
22. Too Good To Be True - Ann Cleeves
23. Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
24. Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
25. Second First Impressions - Sally Thorne
26. The Handmaid's Tale (graphic novel) - Margaret Atwood
27. The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness
28. Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
29. Blind Spot - Paula Hawkins
30. Finna - Nino Cipri

Only 6 more to go!

31. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

32. The Story of a Long-Distance Marriage - Siddhesh Inamdar

33. A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum

Really excited to see the finish line so close. I'm planning my last 3 reads to be:
34. A Room Made of Leaves - Kate Grenville (currently reading)
35. The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
36. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

That last one is likely to change, but I know I should stick with it as it has been on my wish list for so long :-)

34. When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut

35. The Body is not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor
36. The Clothing of Books - Jhumpa Lahiri