2016 TBR Challenge

Happy almost 2016! It’s time to set the stage for our 2016 TBR Challenge. We didn’t quite finish our 2015 lists, but we’re ready to give it a go again this year.

Last year’s challenge was officially sanctioned, but that’s been discontinued, so we’re tracking our own progress along with Eva, The Paperback Princess. In keeping with the rules from last year’s challenge, these are all books published in 2014 or earlier.

Holly

2016 List

1. Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple (2012) – Finished 3/21/2016
2. Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott (1886)
3. Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt (2012)
4. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (2008) – Finished 3/19/16
5. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (2006)
6. Name All the Animals by Alison Smith (2005)
7. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817)
8. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson (2014)
9. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman (2009)
10. Sister  by Rosamund Lupton (2010) – Finished 3/1/16
11. Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson (2011)
12. A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman (2014)

Alternates

1. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (2010) – Finished 4/26/16
2. We the Animals by Justin Torres (2011)

2015 TBR Carryovers

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)
2. The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
3. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman (2006)
4. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins (2009) – Finished 1/24/16
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (2001) – Finished 1/8/2016

Amanda

2016 List

1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817)
2. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Sussan (1966) – Look out book club!
3. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson (2014)
4. Cinder by Marissa Meyer (2012)
5. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2006)
6. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed (2012)
7. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan (2013)
8. Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood (2012)
9. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996)
10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)
11. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie
12. The Spellman Files: Document #1 by Lisa Lutz (2007)

Alternates

1. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)
2. The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) by Scott Lynch (2006)

2015 Holdovers:

1. Primary Colors by Anonymous (1996) [this has been sitting on my bookshelf taunting me for like 10 years]
2. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
3. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (1997) [What was I thinking buying this on my honeymoon all those years ago? Not light beach reading]
4. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (2013)
5. Lipstick Jihad A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni (2005)

Some of these even cover Estella’s Revenge‘s #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Challenge which is exciting!  Link up if you want to challenge yourself with us!