Aussie Readers discussion

I wasn't sure what challenge to set myself but I've decided to try to read at least 2 books a month that have been sitting on my TBR shelf forever. So in order of the longest time shelved, I hope to get through the following:
Books Read 50/50 75/75

✔1. Memoirs of a Geisha (Audio Library)
✔2. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Audio Kindle)
✔3. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
✔4. Magic Hour
✔5. Now You See Me (Owned Kindle)
✔6. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Audio Library)
✔7. Fortune's Rocks (Owned)
✔8. Me & Emma (Library)
✔9. Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child (Owned)
✔10. Beachcombers (Audio Owned)
✔11. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
✔12. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Owned Kindle)
X13. Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
✔14. Growing Up Amish (Owned)
✔15. The Murderer's Daughters (Owned Kindle)
✔16. Goodnight, Beautiful (Library)
✔17. The Last Song (Owned)
✔18. Clara's War (Owned Kindle)
✔19. The Guardian (Audio Owned)
✔20. Life is But a Dream
✔21. 84, Charing Cross Road (Owned) X22. Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
✔23. The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

✔️24. When Rabbit Howls (Owned)
X25. They Cage the Animals at Night
✔26. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder (Owned)
✔27. The Kitchen Daughter
✔28. Rules of Prey
X29. All Gone
✔30. Auschwitz
X31.One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found
✔32.The Berlin Boxing Club
✔33. Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
✔34. P.S. I Love You
✔35. The History of Love
✔36. Little Black Dress
✔37.As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labour Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom
✔38.Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
✔39.From This Moment On
✔️40.All But My Life: A Memoir
✔41.My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)
✔42.The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
✔️ 43.Save Me
X44.Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
✔45.Atonement
✔46.Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It
✔47.Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
X48.Sylvia
✔49.Fishing for Stars
✔50.Stillwater Creek
✔51.Empty Chairs
✔52.Whisper My Secret
✔️53.Sworn to Silence
✔54.White Oleander
✔55.Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
✔56.A Fortunate Life
✔57.Half Broke Horses
✔58.A Story Like the Wind
✔59.Shantaram
✔️60.Scared Yet?
✔61.Cold Grave
✔62.Ten Beach Road
✔63.The First Prophet
✔64.Killing Floor
✔65.The Prey
✔66.Someone Knows My Name
X67.The Seamstress
✔68.From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
✔69.Terms of Endearment
✔70.Sleepyhead
✔71.The Knife of Never Letting Go
X72.Slammed
✔73.The First Last Kiss
✔74.Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir
✔75.Damaged

Great challenge, Kerri. Good luck :)

Kerri, you have a few gems on that list - enjoy!

I had A Tree Grows in Brooklyn on my list this year and never got around to it! Maybe this year...! You should onjoy 84, Charing Cross Road :-)

Kerri must be as time challenged as I am!!! I only joined Good Reads in October 2015, and set myself the modest and achievable goal of reading a book every 2 weeks in 2016 (25 minimum). Succeeded.

So I'm upping it to 40+ for 2017 and promise myself to try a few new genres. Done with police procedurals for a while, but still veer towards the 'noir' end of the scale with nothing "sooky".

Great challenge Kerri! Some really good reads on your list too :) Good luck with it :)

It looks like a very organised list, good luck! There are a couple on there I like and I hope, if you read Beachcombers you review it, I have wondered about that one.

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. I have to be honest, some of these titles have left me scratching my head wondering exactly why they are on my TBR in the first place? They have been there since 2012, but I plan to get them off my shelf one way or another, I wonder how many will end up on the DNF shelf.

Kerri that's what's happened to me! Don't our tastes change as the years pass....

Good luck, Kerri. My TBR is crazily out of control. Haha.

Good luck! this is something I should consider. Reading what I own not buying or borrowing more

I'm reading my last book for this challenge now and I'm pretty happy with having knocked so many old books off my TBR shelf. Only 8/75 I either couldn't locate or changed my mind about reading.

Congratulations Kerri! Great effort 😊

Thanks Brenda, now time to start thinking about my 2018 challenge.

Great job, Kerri! Have fun thinking about next year!