Mount TBR Challenge 2026 discussion

Re-upping for the 2026 Challenge but aiming for a lower mountain. Falling far short of my 2025 goal, I will end the year marooned halfway up Mt Vancouver! 🧗🏽‍♀️

My 2026 goal is climbing Mt. Blanc - 24 books. More slow reads and more biographies.

Previous challenges:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...#

GR Challenges 2026
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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

This is a TBR Challenge.
Books chosen for this challenge MUST be from a To Be Read list OR on your ereader OR the pile you have at home. It is up to YOU how the books are related to the theme each month. You may not read ahead BUT if you get behind, you may catch up.

Purge That Pile 2026
Duration: January 1, 2026 - December 31, 2026

Object: Read 12 books - one each month

Months

January
📚 Read a book that is a first in a series.
Mom Zone #1: Moving is Murder by Sara Rosett 3/01/26


February
📚 Read a book with a red cover.


March
📚 Read a book with a title that starts with an M.


April
📚 Read a book tagged Humor.

May
📚 Read a book with a MC who is a mother.

June
📚 Read a book with a title that ends in an E.

July
📚 Read a book with a beach on the cover.

August
📚 Read a book by a FAVORITE author.

September
📚 Read a book where the first letter of each title word can be found in LABOUR DAY.

October
📚 Read a book with a pumpkin on the cover.

November
📚 Read a book whose author's FIRST NAME begins with a vowel - A, E, I, O, U and last name begins with a consonant.

December
📚 Read a book tagged Holiday.

New Year - New Climb 🥂🎇

Books read: 6/24

Hdcvr =

Kindle = 1

MMkt = 4

Trade = 1

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Boulders: 2

Backlist: 4

Listopia

2021; Rdrs of Clr
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
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Book Browse
2021
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois k
The Sweetness of Water k
2016
The Mothers k
Behold the Dreamers k
News of the World k
Commonwealth h
Homegoing h
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City k
The Underground Railroad h

GR Readers Recommend Wintertime Books
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1727

Favorite Winter Reads
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1966


When Snow Is Falling
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

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

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake: by Celeste Fletcher McHale



Tangled by Emma Chase

Chopping Spree by Diane Mott Davidson


Feb



Mar

January Jaunt:


1. Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie 1/18/26
2. Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie 1/20/26

Fling in February


3. Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie 2/1/26

March


4. Moving is Murder by Sara Rosett 3/01/26
5. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 3/24/26

Arrivederci in April

6. The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life by Craig Ballantyne 4/09/26




Becoming by Michelle Obama

Bad News Travels Fast by Gar Anthony Haywood