Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2020

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2020
Host: Bev @ My Reader's Block

Guidelines

• You may sign up at any time — no matter when you see this challenge. All qualifying books read after January 1st count.
• Choose a level of participation. Once you choose, you're locked in for at least that many books. You can increase your level; all books counted for lower levels carry over towards the new level.
• Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2020. No library books. (The ONLY exception to the library rule: If you own the book in any form and have a reason to check out a version from the library instead, then you may count it.)
• Books can be counted for other challenges.
• Reviews aren't required, and a blog isn't necessary.
• Any reread may count, regardless of how long you've owned it, provided you have not counted it for a previous Mount TBR Challenge.
• Audiobooks and E-books may count provided they are yours prior to January 1.
• You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1– provided that you had 50% or more of the book left to finish in 2020.
• "Did Not Finish" books can be counted, under some circumstances (see challenge announcement page for details).
• You can submit a list in advance, or add your books as you read them.
• There will be a year-end check-in.
• There will be a GoodReads group for the challenge.
• There will be a challenge headquarters page which will offer links to monthly review pages, and the final wrap-up.

Challenge Levels:

1. Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
2. Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
3. Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
4. Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
5. Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
6. El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
7. Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
8. Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

✸ I'm signing up at the first level (Pike's Peak), so I'll be trying for at least 12 books from my TBR pile.

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See the challenge announcement page HERE.
● See the challenge headquarters page HERE.
● See the list of challenge participants HERE.
● See the GoodReads Group HERE.
● See the year-end check-in page HERE.


MY READING LIST (Books I've read, with links to reviews):

1. In the Last Analysis (Kate Fansler Mysteries #1). Amanda Cross
2. And Be a Villain (Nero Wolfe #13). Rex Stout
3. Bitter End (The First Nero Wolfe Novella). Rex Stout
4. Still Life (Inspector Armand Gamache #1). Louise Penny
5. Kill Your Darlings (Mallory #3). Max Allan Collins
6. The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1). Agatha Christie
7. An Artist of the Floating World. Kazuo Ishiguro
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POSSIBLE  READS:
Here are just some of the books I'd like to read in 2020 (many of these have been on the shelves for a LONG time):

• Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell 
• American Eve. Paula Uruburu 
• The Art of Mending. Elizabeth Berg 
• The Bell. Iris Murdoch 
• The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath 
• The Berlin Stories. Christopher Isherwood 
• The Black Prince. Iris Murdoch 
• Black Sun. Geoffrey Wolff 
• The Book of the Dead. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Busman's Honeymoon. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Cabinet of Curiosities. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Cast, In Order of Disappearance (Charles Paris #1). Simon Brett 
• The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt 
• Cutwork (Needlecraft Mysteries #7). Monica Ferris 
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 
• The Enchanted April. Elizabeth von Arnim 
• The Europeans. Henry James 
• Family Album. Penelope Lively 
• The Fencing Master. Arturo Pérez-Reverte 
• Five Red Herrings. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Flaubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes 
• Foundation. Isaac Asimov 
• Framed in Lace (Needlecraft Mysteries #2). Monica Ferris 
• The Ghost Writer. Philip Roth 
• The Glass Room. Simon Mawer 
• Hanging By a Thread (Needlecraft Mysteries #6). Monica Ferris
• The Haunted Bookshop. Christopher Morley 
• High Rising (Barsetshire #1). Angela Thirkell 
• How It All Began. Penelope Lively 
• Identity. Milan Kundera 
• Invitation to the Waltz. Rosamond Lehmann 
• Istanbul Passage. Joseph Kanon 
• Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte 
• July and August. Nancy Clark 
• Jumping the Queue. Mary Wesley 
• The Lake House. Kate Morton 
• Let the Devil Sleep (Dave Gurney #3). John Verdon 
• Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon 
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Eric Hodgins 
• Mrs. Malory and a Death in the Family. Hazel Holt
• Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End. Hazel Holt
• The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins 
• Murder At the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1). Agatha Christie 
• Murder Must Advertise. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Mystery of Lewis Carroll. Jenny Woolf 
• The Nine Tailors. Dorothy L. Sayers  
• Oracle Night. Paul Auster 
• The Pale Horse. Agatha Christie 
• Prater Violet. Christopher Isherwood 
• Prophecy. S.J. Parris 
• Providence. Anita Brookner 
• Relic. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• The Road to Lichfield. Penelope Lively 
• The Secret Keeper. Kate Morton 
• The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse, #3). Colin Dexter
• Silver on the Tree (The Dark Is Rising series, final book). Susan Cooper 
• The Sisters: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters. David Grafton 
• The Spoils of Poynton. Henry James
• The Takeover. Muriel Spark
• The Talented Mr. Ripley. Patricia Highsmith 
• Time and Again. Clifford D. Simak 
• Two Serious Ladies. Jane Bowles 
• The Unicorn. Iris Murdoch 
• Unnatural Death. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• When the Music's Over (DCI Banks #23). Peter Robinson
• A Wreath of Roses. Elizabeth Taylor 
• The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion 

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2019

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2019
Host: Bev @ My Reader's Block

Guidelines

• Sign-up anytime before November 1, 2019.
• Choose a level of participation. Once you choose, you're locked in for at least that many books. You can increase your level; all books counted for lower levels carry over towards the new level.
• Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2019. No library books.
• Books can be counted for other challenges.
• Reviews aren't required, and a blog isn't necessary.
• Rereads may count (see challenge announcement page for details).
• Audiobooks and E-books may count if they are yours and they are one of your primary sources of backlogged books.
• You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1– provided that you had 50% or more of the book left to finish in 2019.
• "Did Not Finish" books can be counted, under some circumstances (see challenge announcement page for details).
• You can submit a list in advance, or add your books as you read them.
• There will be a year-end check-in.
• There will be a GoodReads group for the challenge.
• There will be a challenge headquarters page which will offer links to monthly review pages, and the final wrap-up.

Challenge Levels:

1. Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
2. Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
3. Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
4. Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
5. Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
6. El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
7. Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
8. Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

✸ I'm signing up at the first level (Pike's Peak), so I'll be trying for at least 12 books from my TBR pile.

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See my wrap-up post HERE.
● See the challenge announcement page HERE.
● See the challenge headquarters page HERE.
● See the review pages:

JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC.

● See the year-end check-in page HERE.


MY READING LIST (Books I've read, with links to reviews):

1. The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin #1). M.C. Beaton (1992) [Review linked 1/23/2019] 
2. The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin #2). M.C. Beaton (1993) 
3. The Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin #3). M.C. Beaton (1994) 
4. The Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin #4). M.C. Beaton (1995)
5. O Pioneers! Willa Cather (1913)
6. The Magic Bedknob. Mary Norton (1943)
7. The Uninvited. Dorothy Macardle (1942) 
8. The Appleton Case (Markham Sisters #1). Diana Xarissa (2015)
9. Who Goes There? John W. Campbell, Jr. (1938)

Books I'd Like to Read in 2019 (many of these have been on the shelves for a LONG time):

• Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell 
• American Eve. Paula Uruburu 
• The Art of Mending. Elizabeth Berg 
• The Bell. Iris Murdoch 
• The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath 
• The Berlin Stories. Christopher Isherwood 
• The Black Prince. Iris Murdoch 
• Black Sun. Geoffrey Wolff 
• The Book of the Dead. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Busman's Honeymoon. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Cabinet of Curiosities. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Cast, In Order of Disappearance (Charles Paris #1). Simon Brett 
• The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt 
• Cutwork (Needlecraft Mysteries #7). Monica Ferris 
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 
• The Enchanted April. Elizabeth von Arnim 
• The Europeans. Henry James 
• Family Album. Penelope Lively 
• The Fencing Master. Arturo Pérez-Reverte 
• Five Red Herrings. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Flaubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes 
• Foundation. Isaac Asimov 
• Framed in Lace (Needlecraft Mysteries #2). Monica Ferris 
• The Ghost Writer. Philip Roth 
• The Glass Room. Simon Mawer 
• Hanging By a Thread (Needlecraft Mysteries #6). Monica Ferris
• The Haunted Bookshop. Christopher Morley 
• High Rising (Barsetshire #1). Angela Thirkell 
• How It All Began. Penelope Lively 
• Identity. Milan Kundera 
• Invitation to the Waltz. Rosamond Lehmann 
• Istanbul Passage. Joseph Kanon 
• Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte 
• July and August. Nancy Clark 
• Jumping the Queue. Mary Wesley 
• The Lake House. Kate Morton 
• Let the Devil Sleep (Dave Gurney #3). John Verdon 
• Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon 
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Eric Hodgins 
• Mrs. Malory and a Death in the Family. Hazel Holt
• Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End. Hazel Holt
• The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins 
• Murder At the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1). Agatha Christie 
• Murder Must Advertise. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Mystery of Lewis Carroll. Jenny Woolf 
• The Nine Tailors. Dorothy L. Sayers  
• Oracle Night. Paul Auster 
• The Pale Horse. Agatha Christie 
• Prater Violet. Christopher Isherwood 
• Prophecy. S.J. Parris 
• Providence. Anita Brookner 
• Relic. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• The Road to Lichfield. Penelope Lively 
• The Secret Keeper. Kate Morton 
• The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse, #3). Colin Dexter
• Silver on the Tree (The Dark Is Rising series, final book). Susan Cooper 
• The Sisters: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters. David Grafton 
• The Talented Mr. Ripley. Patricia Highsmith 
• The Takeover. Muriel Spark
• Time and Again. Clifford D. Simak 
• Two Serious Ladies. Jane Bowles 
• The Spoils of Poynton. Henry James 
• The Unicorn. Iris Murdoch 
• Unnatural Death. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• When the Music's Over (DCI Banks #23). Peter Robinson
• A Wreath of Roses. Elizabeth Taylor 
• The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion 

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2018

**Challenge Complete. See my wrap-up post HERE.**

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2018
Host: Bev @ MY READER'S BLOCK

Guidelines

• Sign-up anytime before November 1, 2018.
• Choose a level of participation. Once you choose, you're locked in for at least that many books. You can increase your level; all books counted for lower levels carry over towards the new level.
• Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2018. No library books.
• Books can be counted for other challenges.
• Reviews aren't required, and a blog isn't necessary.
• Rereads may count (see challenge announcement page for details).
• Audiobooks and E-books may count if they are yours and they are one of your primary sources of backlogged books.
• You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1– provided that you had 50% or more of the book left to finish in 2017.
• "Did Not Finish" books can be counted, under some circumstances (see challenge announcement page for details).
• You can submit a list in advance, or add your books as you read them.
• There will be quarterly check-ins.

Challenge Levels:

1. Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
2. Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
3. Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
4. Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
5. Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
6. El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
7. Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
8. Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

✸ I'm signing up at the first level (Pike's Peak), so I'll be trying for 12 books from my TBR pile.

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See my challenge wrap-up post HERE.
● See the challenge announcement page HERE.
● See the challenge headquarters page HERE.
● See the review pages:

JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC.

● See the quarterly check-in pages:

• Check Point #1 (March) [See my #1 Check-in post HERE.]
• Check Point #2 (July) . [I forgot about checking in during July. Bummer.]
• Check Point #3 (October) . 
• Check Point #4 (December) 

MY READING LIST (Books I've read, with links to reviews):

1. Five Children and It. E. Nesbit (pub. 1902; read in March) 
2. Just Kids. Patti Smith (pub. 2010; read in February) 
3. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple #5). Agatha Christie (pub. June 1950; read in January) 
4. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn #5). Ngaio Marsh (pub. 1937; read in January) 
5. Time Out of Joint. Philip K. Dick (pub. 1959; read in April)
6. The Cottingley Secret. Hazel Gaynor (pub. 2017; read in April)
7. The Quiet American. Graham Greene (pub. 1955; read in May) 
8. Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels. Katherine Anne Porter (first pub. 1939; read in May)
9. At the Mountains of Madness. H.P. Lovecraft (first pub. 1936; read in May)
10. When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead (pub. 2009; read in June)
11. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6). Agatha Christie (first pub. 1928; read in July)
12. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael #1). Ellis Peters (first pub. 1977; read in September) 
13. The Night She Died (Inspector Thanet #1). Dorothy Simpson (first pub. 1980; read in October) 
14. Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse #1). Colin Dexter (first pub. 1975; read in October) 
15. Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse #2). Colin Dexter (first pub. 1976; read in October) 
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Books I'd Like to Read in 2018 (many of these have been on the shelves for a LONG time):

• Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell 
• American Eve. Paula Uruburu 
• The Art of Mending. Elizabeth Berg 
• The Bell. Iris Murdoch 
• The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath 
• The Berlin Stories. Christopher Isherwood 
• The Black Prince. Iris Murdoch 
• Black Sun. Geoffrey Wolff 
• The Book of the Dead. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Busman's Honeymoon. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Cabinet of Curiosities. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Cast, In Order of Disappearance (Charles Paris #1). Simon Brett 
• The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt 
• The Cottingley Secret. Hazel Gaynor 
• Cutwork (Needlecraft Mysteries #7). Monica Ferris 
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 
• The Enchanted April. Elizabeth von Arnim 
• The Europeans. Henry James 
• Family Album. Penelope Lively 
• The Fencing Master. Arturo Pérez-Reverte 
• Five Red Herrings. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Flaubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes 
• Foundation. Isaac Asimov 
• Framed in Lace (Needlecraft Mysteries #2). Monica Ferris 
• The Ghost Writer. Philip Roth 
• The Glass Room. Simon Mawer 
• Hanging By a Thread (Needlecraft Mysteries #6). Monica Ferris
• The Haunted Bookshop. Christopher Morley 
• High Rising (Barsetshire #1). Angela Thirkell 
• How It All Began. Penelope Lively 
• How to Be Human. Paula Cocozza 
• Identity. Milan Kundera 
• Invitation to the Waltz. Rosamond Lehmann 
• Istanbul Passage. Joseph Kanon 
• Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte 
• July and August. Nancy Clark 
• Jumping the Queue. Mary Wesley 
• Just Kids. Patti Smith 
• The Lake House. Kate Morton 
• Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse #1). Colin Dexter 
• Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse #2). Colin Dexter 
• Let the Devil Sleep (Dave Gurney #3). John Verdon 
• Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon 
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Eric Hodgins 
• Mrs. Malory and a Death in the Family. Hazel Holt
• Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End. Hazel Holt
• The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins 
• Murder At the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1). Agatha Christie 
• A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple #5). Agatha Christie 
• Murder Must Advertise. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• My Sister's Bones. Nuala Ellwood 
• The Mystery of Lewis Carroll. Jenny Woolf 
• The Night She Died (Inspector Thanet #1). Dorothy Simpson 
• The Nine Tailors. Dorothy L. Sayers  
• Oracle Night. Paul Auster 
• The Pale Horse. Agatha Christie 
• Prater Violet. Christopher Isherwood 
• Prophecy. S.J. Parris 
• Providence. Anita Brookner 
• Relic. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• The Road to Lichfield. Penelope Lively 
• The Secret Keeper. Kate Morton 
• The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse, #3). Colin Dexter
• Silver on the Tree (The Dark Is Rising series, final book). Susan Cooper 
• The Sisters: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters. David Grafton 
• The Talented Mr. Ripley. Patricia Highsmith 
• The Takeover. Muriel Spark
• Time and Again. Clifford D. Simak 
• Two Serious Ladies. Jane Bowles 
• The Spoils of Poynton. Henry James 
• The Unicorn. Iris Murdoch 
• Unnatural Death. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• When the Music's Over (DCI Banks #23). Peter Robinson
• When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead 
• A Wreath of Roses. Elizabeth Taylor 
• The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion 
• The Young Widower's Handbook. Tom McAllister 

2016 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

Link to Challenge Announcement Post

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2016
Host: Bev @ MY READER'S BLOCK

Guidelines

• Sign-up anytime before November 1, 2016.
• Choose a level of participation. Once you choose, you're locked in for at least that many books. You can increase your level; all books counted for lower levels carry over towards the new level.
• Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2016. No library books.
• Books can be counted for other challenges.
• Reviews aren't required, and a blog isn't necessary.
• Rereads may count (see challenge announcement page for details).
• Audiobooks and E-books may count if they are yours and they are one of your primary sources of backlogged books.
• You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1--provided that you had 50% or more of the book left to finish in 2015.
• "Did Not Finish" books can be counted, under some circumstances (see challenge announcement page for details).
• You can submit a list in advance, or add your books as you read them.
• There will be quarterly check-ins.

Challenge Levels:

1. Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
2. Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
3. Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
4. Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
5. Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
6. El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
7. Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
8. Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

✸ I'm signing up at the first level (Pike's Peak), so I'll be reading at least 12 books from my TBR pile.

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See the challenge announcement page HERE.
● See the review pages: JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC.
● See the quarterly check-in pages:

• Check Point #1 (March)
• Check Point #2 (July)
• Check Point #3 (October)
• Check Point #4 (December) 

MY READING LIST (Books I've read, with links to reviews):

1. Mrs. Malory and the Lilies That Fester (Sheila Malory series #11). Hazel Holt (2001)
2. Daisy Miller. Henry James (first published 1878)  [linked to review page 7/14/2016]
3. To Have and Have Not. Ernest Hemingway (first published 1937)  [linked to review page 7/14/2016]
4. Inkheart. Cornelia Funke (first published 2003)  [linked to review page 7/14/2016]
5. The Vanishment. Jonathan Aycliffe (1994) 
6. The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #34). Agatha Christie (1963)
7. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Hercule Poirot #39). Agatha Christie (1975) 
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Books I'd Like to Read in 2016 (all long-time TBR titles):

• Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell
• The Art of Mending. Elizabeth Berg
• The Berlin Stories. Christopher Isherwood
• The Book of the Dead. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Busman's Honeymoon. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt 
• Daisy Miller. Henry James 
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 
• The Enchanted April. Elizabeth von Arnim 
• The Europeans. Henry James 
• The Fencing Master. Arturo Pérez-Reverte 
• Five Red Herrings. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Flaubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes 
• Foundation. Isaac Asimov 
• The Glass Room. Simon Mawer 
• Identity. Milan Kundera 
• Inkheart. Cornelia Funke
• Invitation to the Waltz. Rosamond Lehmann 
• Istanbul Passage. Joseph Kanon 
• Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte 
• July and August. Nancy Clark 
• Jumping the Queue. Mary Wesley 
• Just Kids. Patti Smith 
• Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon 
• Mrs. Malory and a Death in the Family. Hazel Holt
• Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End. Hazel Holt
• Mrs. Malory and the Lilies That Fester. Hazel Holt
• The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins 
• Murder At the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1). Agatha Christie 
• Murder Must Advertise. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Nine Tailors. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Prater Violet. Christopher Isherwood 
• Prophecy. S.J. Parris 
• Providence. Anita Brookner 
• Relic. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• The Road to Lichfield. Penelope Lively 
• The Secret Keeper. Kate Morton 
• Silver on the Tree. Susan Cooper 
• Time and Again. Clifford D. Simak 
• Two Serious Ladies. Jane Bowles 
• The Spoils of Poynton. Henry James 
• Unnatural Death. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• A Wreath of Roses. Elizabeth Taylor 
• The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2014

**See my wrap-up post HERE**

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2014
Hosted by: Bev @ MY READER'S BLOCK

Guidelines (quoted from the challenge announcement page):

• Challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2014. 
• You may sign up anytime from now until November 30th, 2014. 
• Once you choose your challenge level, you are locked in for at least that many books. If you find that you're on a mountain-climbing roll and want to tackle a taller mountain, then you are certainly welcome to upgrade. All books counted for lower mountains may carry over towards the new peak.
• Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2014. 
• No ARCs (none), no library books. 
• No rereads. 
• Audiobooks and E-books may count if they are yours and they are one of your primary sources of backlogged books. 
• Books may be used to count for other challenges as well. 
• Feel free to submit your list in advance (as incentive to really get those books taken care of) or to tally them as you climb. 
• There will be quarterly check-ins and prize drawings! A blog and reviews are not necessary to participate. 
• There will be a GoodReads group for the challenge, and a site for reviews. 

Levels:

1. Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
2. Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
3. Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
4. Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
5. Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
6. El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
7. Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
8. Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

❋ I'm signing up at the "Pike's Peak" level, so I'll be trying for twelve books.  

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See my wrap-up post HERE.
● See the challenge announcement/sign-up page HERE.

~ See the Mount TBR Challenge Review Headquarters HERE.
~ See the March Checkpoint Page HERE.
~ See Checkpoint Number Two HERE.
~ See Checkpoint Number Three HERE. 

MY READING LIST (books I've read, with links to reviews):

1. The Only Problem. Muriel Spark 
2. The Lady in the Lake. Raymond Chandler
3. The High Window. Raymond Chandler
4. The Quilter's Apprentice. Jennifer Chiaverini
5. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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POSSIBILITIES:

1. Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell 
2. The Art of Mending. Elizabeth Berg  
3. The Cabinet of Curiosities. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
4. The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt 
5. The Chrysalids. John Wyndham 
6. The Conjurer's Bird. Martin Davies 
7. The Crystal Cave. Mary Stewart 
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 
9. Appointment in Samara. John O'Hara 
10. The Dud Avocado. Elaine Dundy 
11. The Family Man. Elinor Lipman
12. Flaubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes 
13. Framed in Lace. Monica Ferris
14. The Ghost Writer. Philip Roth
15. The Glass Room. Simon Mawer
16. Invitation to the Waltz. Rosamond Lehmann 
17. July and August. Nancy Clark 
18. Just Kids. Patti Smith 
19. Labyrinth. Kate Mosse 
20. Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon 
21. The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot. Angus Wilson 
22. The Mists of Avalon. Marion Zimmer Bradley 
23. The Nautical Chart. Arturo Pérez-Reverte
24. Patterns in the Carpet. Margaret Drabble
25. The Public Image. Muriel Spark
26. The Rector of Justin. Louis Auchincloss
27. The Road to Lichfield. Penelope Lively
28. The Sea. John Banville
29. The Sign of the Book. John Dunning 
30. Silver on the Tree. Susan Cooper 
31. The Wapshot Chronicle. John Cheever
32. The Winthrop Covenant. Louis Auchincloss

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2012

***Challenge completed***

Hosted by: Bev @ My Reader's Block
Dates: 1 January - 31 December, 2012

Guidelines:

• Choose your level. Once you choose, you must complete at least that many books (more is OK, too).
• Sign up anytime from now until 30 November 2012.
• Books read must be books owned by you prior to 1 January 2012. No books acquired after that date; no ARCs; no library books; no re-reads.
• Books may overlap with other challenges.
• You can make a book list in advance, or just list them as you read them.
• A blog is not required to participate.
• There will be a quarterly check-in post for reviews.

Challenge Levels:

1. Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
2. Mt. Vancouver: Read 25 books from your TBR pile/s
3. Mt. Ararat: Read 40 books from your TBR piles/s
4. Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 50 books from your TBR pile/s
5. El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
6. Mt. Everest: Read 100+ books from your TBR pile/s

✸ I'm signing up at the Pike's Peak level, and will be reading at least 12 books from my TBR pile.

See my original post about the challenge here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See my challenge wrap-up post here.

MY READING LIST (books read):

1. Spiderweb. Penelope Lively
2. The Players Come Again. Amanda Cross
3. The Inn at Lake Devine. Elinor Lipman
4. Liberty. Garrison Keillor
5. A Month in the Country. J.L. Carr
6. The Horned Man. James Lasdun
7. Seven-Day Magic. Edward Eager
8. Tyrannosaur Canyon. Douglas Preston
9. The Warden. Anthony Trollope
10. Right Ho, Jeeves. P.G. Wodehouse
11. Dead Man's Folly. Agatha Christie
12. The House at Riverton. Kate Morton

POSSIBLE CHOICES (Fiction):

Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell
The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler
Buddenbrooks. Thomas Mann
The Circular Staircase. Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cranford. Elizabeth Gaskell
Death of a Hollow Man. Caroline Graham
The Debut. Anita Brookner
English Music. Peter Ackroyd
Flaubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes
The Forgery of Venus. Michael Gruber
The Geographer's Library. Jon Fasman
Heroic Measures. Jill Ciment
If on a winter's night a traveler. Italo Calvino
Inkheart. Cornelia Funke
The Inn at Lake Devine. Elinor Lipman
Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte
July and August. Nancy Clark
Lethal Legacy. Linda Fairstein
Liberty. Garrison Keillor
Loop Group. Larry McMurtry
Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon
The Mists of Avalon. Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins
The Pale Horse. Agatha Christie
Providence. Anita Brookner
The Saint Bids Diamonds. Leslie Charteris
The Secret Adversary. Agatha Christie
The Sign of the Book. John Dunning
Silver on the Tree. Susan Cooper
Three Junes. Julia Glass
Travels with My Aunt. Graham Greene
The Warden. Anthony Trollope
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag. Alan Bradley

POSSIBLE CHOICES (non-fiction):

Books: A Memoir. Larry McMurtry
A Gentle Madness. Nicholas A. Basbanes
In Cold Blood. Truman Capote
Just Kids. Patti Smith
Manhattan '45. Jan Morris
The Pattern in the Carpet. Margaret Drabble
The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion