Monday, December 19, 2022

TBR Reduction Efforts

 Once again I am doing several challenges to help clear the ever growing TBR pile.  

Some of the TBR challenges refer to physical books I own and others have to do with clearing the list of Want to Read and Library borrows that I am always seeming to add to as well.  

First up are 2 hosted by Bev on her MyReadersBlock blog.  

Mount TBR-   #MountTBR2023  books you already own before 1/1/23  Goodreads group

 Challenge Levels:

Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s-  <== Trying this
Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro*: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s (*aka Cerro El Toro in South America)
Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

The Rules:
*Once you choose your challenge level, you are locked in for at least that many books. You are welcome to voyage further and conquer taller mountains after your commitment is met. 

*Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2023

*Audiobooks and E-books may count provided they are yours prior to January 1. ARCs are also fine.


Virtual Mount TBR-  #VirtualMountTBR2023 Clear your want to read list   Goodreads group

 Challenge levels:
Mount Rum Doodle: Read 12 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library
Mount Crumpit: Read 24 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library
Mount Munch: Read 36 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library  
White Plume Mountain: Read 48 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library<== Trying this
Stormness Head: Read 60 books from you Virtual TBR/Wish List Library
Mount Mindolluin: Read 75 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library
Mount Seleya: Read 100 books 
Mount Olympus: Read 150+ books 


~Once you choose your challenge level you are locked in for at least that many books. If you find you are on a mountain-climbing roll and want to tackle a taller mountain, then you are welcome to upgrade. All books counted for lower mountains carry over towards the new peak.

This challenge is only for books you do not own. They may be borrowed from the library, a friend, found on a free e-book site (like Project Gutenberg), or anywhere else that allows you to temporarily "checkout" the book. Also--unlike Mount TBR--there is no date limit on your wish list. If you see a book that strikes your fancy after January 1 and want to grab it from the library, etc. then go for it.




  This is a straightforward challenge to just track books that are on your to read list- whether or not you actually own them.  Only requirement is that it must be published before 2022 and be on your list at the beginning of the challenge.   







TBR Books I've read:

any tbr form:107

books I owned before Jan: 9/12

virtual books/loans: 98/48

Backlist reader:  73

Summited Mount Plume (48) 4/19/23   

Reached Stormness Head (60) 5/24/23


  1.  Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng   Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/1/23
  2.  Anna and Elsa's Hygge Life by Heather Knowles Blog /Goodreads 1/3/23  BKlist
  3. Claws for Alarm (Nick and Nora Mysteries, #2) by T.C. LoTiempo
  4. The Key Lime Crime (Key West Food Critic Mystery, #10) by Lucy Burdette
  5. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
  6.  Murder at the PTA (Maya and Sandra Mystery, #1) by Lee Hollis 
  7. Read and Buried (Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery #2) by Erika Chase 
  8.  A Scone of Contention (Key West Food Critic Mystery, #11) by Lucy Burdette
  9.  Two Wicked Desserts (Kitchen Witch Mysteries, #2) by Lynn Cahoon
  10.  Distant Thunder (Stone Barrington, #63) by Stuart Woods 
  11.  Treble at the Jam Fest (A Food Lovers' Village Mystery, #4) by Leslie Budewitz
  12.   by James Patterson
  13. The Bloodthirsty Bee: a Provence Cozy Mystery by Ana T Drew
  14. Winter Takes All (Seattle Wilderness #1) by ML Erdahl TBR
  15. Cheddar Off Dead by Korina Moss
  16. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
  17.  A Christmas Candy Killing (Killer Chocolate, #1) by Christine Romeril
  18.  West Side Love Story (Queens of Mariachi #1) by Priscilla Oliveras
  19. Parable of the Sower Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler and Damian Duffy
  20. The Ghost and Mrs. Fletcher (Murder She Wrote #44) by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain 
  21. Dead Heat by Dick Francis and Felix Francis  TBR
  22. Through the Liquor Glass (Literary Pub #5)  by Sarah Fox
  23. Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho
  24. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus TBR
  25. Three Shots to the Wind (Chloe Jackson Sea Glass Saloon #3) by Sherry Harris
  26. Murder 101 (Kitchen Witch #1.5) by Lynn Cahoon
  27. A Palette for Murder (Murder, She Wrote, #7) by Jessica Fletcher  TBR
  28.  A Murder for the Books (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries, #1) by Victoria Gilbert
  29. Calypso, Corpses and Cooking ( A Caribbean Kitchen  #2) by Raquel Reyes
  30. Aged For Murder Tuscan Vineyard #1 by Fiona Grace
  31. Murder in an Irish Village  Irish Village #1 by Carlene O'Connor
  32. A Pizza to Die For  Pizza Lovers #3 by Chris Cavender
  33. Just Shoot Me Dead (A Lucy Fong Mystery #1) by Anne R Tan
  34. Dead Before Dinner by Kat Bellemore  TBR
  35.  Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
  36. Beagles Love Steak Secrets by C A Phipps
  37. Guilty as Cinnamon by Leslie Budewitz
  38. A Killing by the Sea by Kathleen Bridge
  39. The Nebula Secret by Trudi Trueit  BKlist
  40. Seniors Sleuth (Winston Wong #1) by JJ Chow
  41. Bread Over Troubled Water (Bread Shop # 8) by Winnie Archer
  42. Death Over Easy (Country Store #5 ) by Maddie Day
  43. The Cracked Spine (Scottish Bookshop #1) by Paige Shelton
  44. A Friend in Knead by Judith Jackson  TBR
  45. Ms Marvel Vol 4 Last Days by G. Willow Wilson
  46. A Proposal They Can't Refuse by Natalie Cana
  47. Larceny in Liverpool by Kal Smagh 
  48. Strawberry Sin (Mission Inn Possible #2) by Rosie A Point
  49. Cocoa Conviction (Mission Inn Possible #3) by Rosie A Point
  50. Criminally Cocoa (Amish Candy Shop #3.5) by Amanda Flower TBR
  51. Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong 
  52. National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry by J. Patrick Lewis
  53. Manor of Dying (Hamptons Home & Garden #4) by Kathleen Bridge
  54. The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson
  55. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
  56. Reading Up A Storm (Lighthouse Library #3) by Eva Gates
  57. Murder at the Lobstah Shack (Cozy Capers Book Group #3) by Maddie Day
  58. Put Out to Pasture (Farm to Table #2) by Amanda Flower
  59. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) by Benjamin Stevenson
  60.  by Laura Bradford
  61. The Crepes of Wrath (Pancake House Mystery, #1) by Sarah Fox
  62. Invitation to Murder (A Card Making Mystery, #1) by Elizabeth Bright
  63. Christmas Candy Corpse (Courtney Archer, #3) by Rosemarie Ross
  64. Better Off Read (Bookmobile Mystery, #1) by Nora Page
  65. Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos  by Peter Allison
  66. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton  
  67. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  68. Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake (A Death by Chocolate Mystery #1) by Sarah Graves
  69. Death in Bloom (Flower House #1)by Jess Dylan
  70. Unicorns Have Bad Manners by Rachel Halpern
  71. A Princess for Christmas by Jenny Holiday
  72. Masking for Trouble (Costume Shop #2) by Diane Vallere
  73. A Murder Like No Author (Main Street Book Club #3) by Amy Lillard
  74. Mai Tai One On (Tiki Goddess #1) by Jill Marie Landis
  75.  A Sprinkling of Murder (Fairy Garden Mystery #1) by Daryl Wood Gerber
  76. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver  DNF
  77. The Mother in Law by Sally Hepworth  TBR
  78. The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler
  79. Death on Cozumel Island  by Cindy Quayle
  80. Sweet Tooth by Cassie Mint
  81. Murder Takes a Bow (Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship Mysteries #1) by Wendy Neugent
  82. A Souffle of Suspicion (French Bistro #2)  by Daryl Wood Gerber
  83. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
  84. Moon Spinners by Sally Goldenbaum
  85. Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns
  86. Near Miss (Stone Barrington #64) by Stuart Woods and Brett Battles
  87.  Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger 
  88. Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder  (Cats and Dogs #1) by Fiona Grace
  89. Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
  90. Hook, Line and Sinker by Marc Jedel
  91. Murder, Simply Stitched by Isabella Alan
  92. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  93. The Plot and the Pendulum by Jenn McKinlay
  94. Gone for Gouda by Korina Moss
  95. Misfortune Cookie by Vivienne Chien
  96. Shelved Under Murder (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries #2)  by Victoria Gilbert
  97. The Last Thing He Told Me by  Laura Dave
  98. Murder Ink (Victoria Square #6) by Lorraine Bartlett  TBR
  99. How the Murder Crumbles (Cookie Shop #1) by  Debra Sennefelder
  100. Bookclubbed to Death (Mystery Bookshop #8) by V.M. Burns
  101. Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reed
  102. While My Pretty One Knits (Black Sheep Knitting #1) by Anne Canadeo
  103. Double Trouble in Iowa (Izzy Lewis #2) by Wendy Byrne
  104.  Meddling and Murder (Singapore Mystery #4) Ovidia Yu
  105.  Fatal Fudge Swirl (Ice Cream Shop #3)  by Meri Allen
  106. Pink Lemonade Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen #29) by Joanne Fluke 
  107. Death of a Country Fried Redneck by Lee Hollis  BKlist

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