Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2017 wrap-up

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2017

I’ve done this challenge every year of its existence so this was year #5. I sign up every year for Mt. Ararat at 48 books and manage to wheeze to the top by December. I stuck with the same level this year and hiked quite steadily up to Mt. Ararat, reaching it in the fall, but my reading stalled out in December. I managed 59 books by finishing a TBR on New Year’s Eve, but missed that elusive Mt. Kilimanjaro level by one book! I’m proud that I got so many books off my shelves, though.

Thanks to the host of this challenge, Bev at My Reader’s Block.

Challenge Levels:
Pike’s Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
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 piles/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

My books read for this challenge:

1. Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon
2. America’s First Daughter, Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
3. Watchers of Time (Inspector Ian Rutledge #5), Charles Todd
4. Battle at Alcatraz: A Desperate Attempt to Escape the Rock, Ernest B. Lageson
5. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle, Fiona Carnarvon
6. Witch Hunt (Ophelia & Abby #4), Shirley Damsgaard
7. The Darling Dahlias & the Naked Ladies, by Susan Wittig Albert
8. Trains and Lovers, Alexander McCall Smith
9. Rose Wilder Lane: Her Story, Rose Wilder Lane
10. Loving Eleanor, Susan Wittig Albert
11. A Shooting Star, Wallace Stegner
12. Little House in the Ozarks: The Rediscovered Writings, Laura Ingalls Wilder
13. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life, Pamela Sue Hill
14. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
15. Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, E.L. Konigsburg
16. The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #2), Rick Riordan
17. Songs of Willow Frost, Jamie Ford
18. A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick
19. A Dilly of a Death (China Bayles #12), Susan Wittig Albert
20. All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou
21. The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
22. The Big Sky, A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
23. The Perilous Road, William O. Steele
24. Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
25. Heartless, Marissa Meyer
26. Aunt Dimity Digs In (Aunt Dimity #4), Nancy Atherton
27. The Way West (Big Sky #2), A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
28. The Book of Three (Prydain #1), Lloyd Alexander
29. The Black Cauldron (Prydain #2), Lloyd Alexander
30. The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate
31. Taran Wanderer (Prydain #4), Lloyd Alexander
32. Swan for the Money (Meg Langslow #11), Donna Andrews
33. While You Were Mine, Ann Howard Creel
34. Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth, #14), M.C. Beaton
35. The Deadly Dance (Agatha Raisin #15), M.C. Beaton
36. The Moor (Mary Russell, #4), Laurie R. King
37. Trouble at the Red Pueblo (Spider Latham Mystery #4), Liz Adair
38. The Darling Dahlias & the Confederate Rose (Dahlias #3), Susan Wittig Albert
39. A Court of Thorns and Roses (Court of T&R #1), Sarah J. Maas
40. The Xibalba Murders (Lara McClintoch Archeological Mystery #1), Lyn Hamilton
41. The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons
42. The Family Greene by Ann Rinaldi
43. A Fearsome Doubt (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #6), Charles Todd
44. Beneath a Marble Sky, John Shors
45. The Perfect Paragon (Agatha Raisin, #16), M.C. Beaton
46. Devonshire Scream (A Tea Shop Mystery #17), Laura Childs
47. My Name is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveira
48. Emma (The Austen Project #3), Alexander McCall Smith
49. King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard
50. The Moorchild, Eloise Jarvis McGraw
51. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, Lisa See
52. The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
53. The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Amelia Peabody #10), Elizabeth Peters
54. The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #1), by Krista Davis
55. The Lover’s Knot (Someday Quilts Mystery, #1), Clare O’Donohue
56. Stork Raving Mad (Meg Langslow #12), Donna Andrews
57. The Water Room (Peculiar Crimes Unit #2), Christopher Fowler
58. Terror on Tuesday (Lois Meade Mystery #2), Ann Purser
59. Sidney Chambers & the Perils of the Night, James Runcie (Grantchester Mysteries #2)