Mount TBR Challenge 2025 discussion

Okay, let's get this party started with a NetGalley ARC (oops)!

1. Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming

2. Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods by Sarah Lohman; really good old NetGalley ARC.

3. Vultures of the World: Essential Ecology and Conservation by Keith L. Bildstein; another overdue NetGalley ARC.

4. Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
5. The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker
More overdue NetGalley ARCs, although WGU was an audiobook.

6. The Klansman's Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism by R. Derek Black; shockingly another old NetGalley ARC

7. Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees by Nalini Moreshwar Nadkarni; an actual physical book! Got a signed copy last May when I saw her speak at a conservation conference.

8. Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman; NetGalley ARC that only got published last month!

9. The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson
10. The Widely Unknown Myth of Apple and Dorthy by Corey Ann Haydu
Two NetGalley ARCs; gave up on TSAB last month at 9% in when the author's writing style just wasn't doing anything for me.

11. Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig
NetGalley ARC that failed to grab me a half hour into the audio book.

12. Now You're in Trouble, Here Comes My Solicitor! by Steven D. Coles
Old NetGalley ARC

13. The Old Guard: Force Multiplied by Greg Rucka
Physical copy that I've had forever.

14. Cat Scratch Fever by Tara K. Harper
Paperback that I picked up from the library book sale pre-COVID. DNF @ 19 pages/2 chapters.
....I am *not* on track to finish on time right now.

15. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debate by Katie Barnes
Another old NetGalley ARC.
Hey look, two book in two weeks!

16. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones
DNF at 26%/2.5 hours into the audio book. Old NetGalley ARC.
I did the math and requested a bunch of NetGalley ARCs on audio book. I've got close to a two hour commute each day, and I need to use it ASAP to reach my goal.

17. The Model Spy by Maryka Biaggio
DNF at 2% due to multiple zoological errors. Old NetGalley ARC.

18. Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
Audio of an old NetGalley ARC. Wow, almost like I can use my commute time to meet my goal *eye roll*

19. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
Another audio of a old NetGalley ARC, but I DNF'd this one after the third chapter.

20. Astonishing and Extinct Professions: 89 Jobs You Will Never Do by Markus Rottmann
Another NetGalley ARC, this one on the Kindle.

21. Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Clearing out the old NetGalley horror ARCs for Halloween!
I think I may be back on track now, with the audio books.

22. Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland; audio book of an old NetGalley ARC, DNF 5 chapters in
23. Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke; audio book of an old NetGalley ARC; fantastic, shame I let it linger so long unread
Okay, 13 books left and about 12 weeks left in the year. I think I've got this back under control. Or at least not as out of control as it was before.

24. Storm: Dawn of a Goddess by Tiffany D. Jackson
Another audio of an old NetGalley ARC.

25. Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
26. Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner
27. Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

All old NetGalley ARCs, with the last being an audio book. I've got 9 books left with about 9 weeks left in the year (I'm sorry, how is that possible?), so I think I got this.

28. VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Old NetGalley ARC on audio. I'm losing audio time since I don't like to listen when driving in the dark, but if I focus on reading during the holidays, I should still be okay.