My favorite challenge and with this being the eighth year and me hiking every year, I’ve definitely made a dent in my stacks. Because of some changes to my life last year, I barely made my usual goal of 48 books and the top of Mt. Ararat. I literally squeaked in during the last week, so to cut down on my stress level this year, I set my sights on 36 books and the top of Mt. Vancouver. But things change and I actually exceeded my goal by two peaks and read 60 for the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro!
Here’s my list:
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove #3), Larry McMurtry
- Alex and Eliza (Alex & Eliza #1), Melissa de la Cruz
- The Eagle Catcher (Wind River Reservation #1), Margaret Coel
- Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties, Richard N. Goodwin
- Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy (Villains #4), Serena Valentino
- The Woman on the Orient Express, Lindsay Jayne Ashford
- The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland, Jim DeFede
- Last Bus to Wisdom, (Two Medicine Country #12), Ivan Doig
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star (Darling Dahlias #4), Susan Wittig Albert
- The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush (Darling Dahlias #5), Susan Wittig Albert
- Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation, Brad Ricca
- Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, Kate Clifford Larson
- Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik
- Weeping on Wednesday (Lois Meade #3), Ann Purser
- A Forgotten Place (Bess Crawford #10), Charles Todd
- He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody #12), Elizabeth Peters
- The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover (Darling Dahlias #7), Susan Wittig Albert
- American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee, Karen Abbott
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #10), Agatha Christie
- Maggie’s Door (Nory Ryan #2), Patricia Reilly Giff
- Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, Ann Shen
- Lord of the Silent (Amelia Peabody #13), Elizabeth Peters
- Time’s Convert, Deborah Harkness
- The Family Under the Bridge, Natalie Savage Carlson
- Getting Near to Baby, Audrey Couloumbis
- The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway #1), Elly Griffiths
- M.C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton
- The Winter Room, Gary Paulsen
- Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes
- His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire #1), Naomi Novik
- The Golden One (Amelia Peabody #14), Elizabeth Peters
- Children of the Storm (Amelia Peabody #15), Elizabeth Peters
- Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
- My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
- The Serpent on the Crown (Amelia Peabody #17), Elizabeth Peters
- Tomb of the Golden Bird (Amelia Peabody #18), Elizabeth Peters
- A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle #1), Libba Bray
- Rebel Angels (Gemma Doyle #2), Libba Bray
- A Cold Treachery (Inspector Rutledge #7), Charles Todd
- A Long Shadow (Inspector Rutledge #8), Charles Todd
- A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox #1), Charles Finch
- Buried in a Bog (County Cork #1), Sheila Connolly
- The Atomic City Girls, Janet Beard
- The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway #2), Elly Griffiths
- Guardian of the Horizon (Amelia Peabody #16), Elizabeth Peters
- Treacherous is the Night (Verity Kent #2), Anna Lee Huber
- Aunt Dimity’s Good Deed (Aunt Dimity #3), Nancy Atherton
- A River in the Sky (Amelia Peabody #19), Elizabeth Peters
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona Quimby #6), Beverly Cleary
- Homesick: My Own Story, Jean Fritz
- Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa, Francis Kalnay
- King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
- Scandal in Skibbereen (County Cork #2), Sheila Connelly
- The Double Cross (Someday Quilts #3), Clare O’Donohue
- I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
- The Celtic Riddle (Lara McClintoch #4), Lyn Hamilton
- Aunt Dimity’s Christmas (Aunt DImity #5), Nancy Atherton
Congrats on a terrific climb!