EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

Inspired by the name of one of my favorite bands, Creedence Clearwater Revival, I welcome you to the TBR Revival Challenge of 2018!

The goal of the challenge is very simple:
Find the 5 oldest books on your To-Be-Read (TBR) list and read them!


HOW TO PLAY:
1. How to find your 5 oldest TBR books:
Go to your personal bookshelf (using "My Books" link at the top of the page) and then your "Want-to-Read" shelf - this is your TBR shelf. [Note: some of your may be more organized than me and have multiple TBR lists, so choose whichever one you think is most appropriate, or check them all!]
Once there, click on the column header "date added" in order to sort by date you added to your TBR shelf (you may need to click twice to sort oldest-to-newest).
Once you have sorted, note the top 5 books on this list - these are the books you will aim to read this year!
2. How to score:
Comment on this thread with the 5 oldest books on your TBR list (see below for an example).
As you finish reading a book, check them off the list by adding a "read" date next to the book.
3. To edit your challenge score/edit your comment:
a. Find your comment in the challenge thread.
b. On the bottom right of your comment, there should be four hyperlinks: "reply | edit | delete | flag". Select "edit".
c. Add your book read date per above instructions.
d. Click "edit post" once you are done.
4. If your TBR shelf is reaaaaally old...
I have 350+ books on my TBR shelf... I get it. Sometimes tastes change. If you find you are no longer interested in reading a book, or you begin to read it and it is a clear Did-Not-Finish (DNF), feel free to replace it on your list of 5 and move on. This goal is for YOU so do whatever you want to/need to/feel like doing to clean up your TBR shelf.
5. Challenge dates:
This challenge runs from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.
Feel free to JOIN AT ANY TIME.

Good luck!!!

Reserved.

Kaseadillla's Challenge - 0/5

My 5 oldest TBR books:
1. Added Jun 05, 2014: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. Added Jun 09, 2014: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
3. Added Jun 10, 2014: Night by Elie Wiesel
4. Added Jun 10, 2014: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. Added Jun 10, 2014: Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

I'm in!
And I'm a Creedence fan as well! :-)

My "date added" does not reflect being in the TBR list longer.
So I chose books that really have been there for a looooong time. :-)

1. (since 1986) Risíveis Amores (Risibles Amours) by Milan Kundera
2. (since 1985) O Sono Eterno (The Big Sleep) by Raymond Chandler
3. (since 1985) Safra Vermelha (Red Harvest) by Dashiell Hammett
4. (since 1984) Contos de Aprendiz by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
5. (since 1978) Missa do Galo - Variações Sobre o Mesmo Tema by Machado de Assis et allii

Extra challenge: Beat me in "longest time in TBR list"! :-D

Sounds like a good idea to me.

So these aren't necessarily the earliest 5 on my TBR, as I added a bunch of books to it all on the same day on October 6, 2013. I think that was the day I joined GR. So I'm just picking 5 of the books I added that day.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
2. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
3. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
4. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
5. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Ok! I'm in too. I must have just finished a Denise Grover Swank book and decided I like her! 2-5 are all Denise Grover Swank books.

1 - Added Jan 30, 2013: The Witch's Ladder 4/23/18
2 - Added Feb 01, 2013: HereFinally read one! 4/4/18
3 - Added Feb 01, 2013: Thirty and a Half Excuses
4 -Added Feb 01, 2013: Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons
5 - Added Feb 01, 2013: There

I'm in! And I also love Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was my dad's favorite band.

2/5

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4. La mano de Fátima by Ildefonso Falcones. Read April 5.
5. Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge Read October 30

All of them were added on April 17, 2013.



For this year they'll be:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
5. I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley

This is going to be an interesting one for me. I ported over when Shelfari closed, so a giant chunk of my books have the same "Date Added" date. So, I'm going to pick a bunch of them and just choose five of them to read. : )

All books have a date of January 16th, 2016.

1. Briarpatch
2. Hounded
3. The Nex
4. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
5. Divergent
6. A Discovery of Witches
7. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
8. Clockwork Angel
9. The Maze Runner
10. The Knife of Never Letting Go
11. The Hobbit
12. Coraline
13. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
14. The Alchemyst
15. Hart and Boot and Other Stories

Mine -

1. Kushiel's Dart
2. For Love of Evil
3. And Eternity
4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
5. Austenland

Current Score: 5/5 FINISHED!

1. Added 1/4/15 Hilarity Ensues -Read 3/23/18

2. Added 1/4/15 Assholes Finish First -Read 1/24/18

3. Added 1/6/15 Station Eleven - Read 3/30/18

4. Added 1/11/15 The Fault in Our Stars -Read 2/3/18

5. Added 2/27/15 The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum - Read 4/17/18

Added September 23, 2013

1. Anna Karenina
2. Persuasion April 21, 2018
3. In Cold Blood
4. Ender's Game
5. East of Eden or Of Mice and Men or The Grapes of Wrath

I restarted my goodreads journey a month ago so my oldest tbr's are not that old so I took a look at my actual tbr bookshelf in my room and picked 5 of the oldest ones I know of that I never got around to reading

0/5

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Painted Girls
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
The Night Circus
The Rosie Project

Yay CCR! I love them :)

I keep my TBR list elsewhere and actually have a goal this year of knocking off at least 30 of them - 15 I own but have never read/finished, and 15 I don't own but have been on my TBR list for years (though not as long as yours Marcos! At least one of your books you added the year I was born ;))

5 books that have been on my list for over 10 years (?) though that I am tackling this year:
1. Letters for Emily - 7/14/2018
2. Life and Death in Shanghai -2/10/2018
3. Not Without My Daughter - 10/20/2018
4. Eat, Pray, Love - 6/4/2018
5. A Quiet Heart - 4/11/2018

DONE!! October 20

6. Lady Susan - 1/15/2018
7. All Quiet on the Western Front - 1/20/2018
8. Kai Lung's Golden Hours - 1/13/2018
9. The Wednesday Wars - 2/1/2018
10. With a Name like Love - 2/20/2018
11. The King of Torts - 2/24/2018
12. Varjak Paw - 2/24/2018
13. Ready Player One - 3/26/2018
14. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - 3/28/2018
15. The Secret Life of Bees - 3/31/2018
16. Silence - 5/2/2018
17. All the Light We Cannot See - 5/28/2018
18. Common Sense - 5/30/2018
19. The Girl Who Drank the Moon - 6/6/2018
20. The Glass Castle - 6/18/2018
21. Black Rainbow - 6/24/2018
22. The Darkest Evening of the Year 6/29/2018
23. Fathers and Sons 7/6/2018
24. Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford - 7/8/2018
25. Tara Road - 7/18/2018
26. Utopia - 7/22/2018
27. The Jungle Books - 7/30/2018
28. A Wrinkle in Time - 8/11/2018
29. Little Women - 8/31/2018
30. Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy - 10/1/2018
31. The Scarlet Letter - 10/3/2018
32. The White Fox - 10/7/2018
33. The Scarlet Pimpernel - 10/7/2018
34. Rebecca - 10/27/2018
35. Heart of a Dog - 10/29/2018
36. Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson - 11/06/2018
37. Anna Karenina - 11/21/2018
38. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead - 11/23/2018
39. Blockade Billy - 11/26/2018
40. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - 11/27/2018
41. Mary Poppins - 11/28/2018
42. Tess of D'Ubervilles - 12/12/2018


I don't remember why they are there, where I heard of them, who told me, anything but here we go. (The original 5).

Edit: So you all don't think I have been skimping on my TBR readings, I will also add the books from my own list of 30 as well as any other books I happen to read off my TBR list beyond the original 5 I listed here :)

Kerri wrote: "Yay CCR! I love them :)
... (though not as long as yours Marcos! At least one of your books you added the year I was born ;))"

That's great, Kerri! :-)

And ten years is a great mark as well, silver medal so far!

You know, I know almost everything about 80-90% of my books, why they're here, where I heard of them, where I bought them, etc. Incredible!

1. Cerezos en la oscuridad by Ichiyō Higuchi
2. The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
3. An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
4. Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego by Mariana Enríquez


I'm having trouble choosing the fifth one, so I'll leave the list like this by now.

9/5

1. added May 15 2015-Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children - date read April 14 2018
2. added June 19 2015-Man Who Wanted to be Happy - date read March 13 2018
3. added March 28, 2016 The Bell Jar- date read August 28, 2018
4. added May 18, 2016- The Opposite of Everyone- date read July 14, 2018
5. added July 1 2016 White Oleander - date read June 26 2018
6. added July 28 2016- The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir- date read June 08 2018
7. added February 22 2017- Sh*t My Dad Says- date read August 31 2018
8. added March 13, 2017- Amy i Isabelle- date read August 7, 2018
9. added November 29 2017 -Wonder - date read April 30 2018

1/5

5 oldest on my TBR list:

1. Added 20.05.17: Wolf Hall
2. Added 20.05.17: Bring Up the Bodies
3. Added 13.06.17: High Fidelity
4. Added 19.06.17: Goodbye to All That
5. Added 19.06.17: Fahrenheit 451. Read 02.02.18

This is such a great idea!


1. [] Along Came a Spider by James Patterson (1/8/14)
2. [] All That Remains by Patricia Cornwall (1/8/14)
3. [] A Night of Blacker Darkness by Dan Wells (1/15/14)
4. [] Charisma by Jeanne Ryan (11/1/14)
5. [] Woman with a Gun by Phillip Margolin (11/1/14)

Super excited for this! I need to get these read! These are the last books I added in that year. Then I move onto 2011! (4/5)
1. June 7,2010 The Red Pyramid
2. June 7, 2010 The City of Ember read July 28, 2018 good book!
3. June 7, 2010 The Lost Symbol Read Feb 18! Wahoo!
4. June 7, 2010 The Secret Good Book Read 3/27
5. Aug 1, 2010 The Miracle of Forgiveness learned a lot! Read 5/6

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Added: 04/2013 Lanark by Alasdair Gray

Added: 04/2013 The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Walter Scott

Added: 04/2013 Lady of the Glen: A Novel of 17th-Century Scotland and the Massacre of Glencoe by Jennifer Roberson

Added: 04/2013 Corrag by Susan Fletcher

Added: 04/2013 The Tattered Banner by Duncan M. Hamilton

TBR Revival Challenge

2/5

5 oldest on my TBR list: All added Dec 9 2013

1.) Two Boys Kissing Completed 7/2/18- 5 stars
2.) Anna Karenina
3.) The Poisonwood Bible
4.) The House Next Door
5.) Midwives Completed 3/26/18- 4 stars

0/5

1.Avalude Kadha
2.Balyakalasmaranakal ബാല്യകാലസ്മരണകൾ
3.The Water Babies
4.Go Set a Watchman
5.After Dark

0/5

Added when initially started GR, April 2017

1. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
3. The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
4. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
5. The Nix by Nathan Hill

I'm going to read the DTBs that I bought in used book stores lo' these many years ago... and add them as I'm done with them. Keeping it as simple as possible.

10/5

1. The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle
2. The Best of Jack Williamson by Jack Williamson
3. Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier
4. The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton
5. Over the River and Through the Woods by Clifford D. Simak
6. Project Pope, also by Simak
7. West of the Sun by Edgar Pangborn
8. ... And Now Miguel
9. The Annotated Wind in the Willows
10. The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

Love this idea! All mine were added August 16, 2010, likely when I first started GoodReads.

0/5

1. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
2. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control by Derrick Jensen
5. What We Leave Behind by Derrick Jensen

I have over 30 books dated April 5, 2017, aka the day I joined GR. I decided on 5 I feel I am least likely to otherwise read this year (thanks for the challenge, Kasey!).

5/5

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Read: June 26
2. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Read: September 5
3. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville - Read: October 15
4. Persuasion by Jane Austen - Read: January 21
5. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo - Read: December 20

Bonus 2018 reads shelved April 5, 2017:
6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Read: January 7
7. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - Read: March 1
8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - Read: April 3
9. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis - Read: April 29
10. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Read: July 11

I had to skip a few because they weren't interesting enough to turn into a 2018 reading goal, but here's my list:

4/5

1) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 2/16/18
2) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin 8/17/18
3) Mr. Darcy's Obsession: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Abigail Reynolds 3/6/2018
4) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 2/24/18
5) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

I didn't expect to enjoy reading through everyone else's lists half as much as I did! There are some really great books we all just keep putting off!

5/5

1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 4/29
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 5/26
3. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 8/11
4. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards 10/2
5. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 12/4

Finally Complete! 5/5

LOVE this challenge! My OGs are from my GR Day 1 TBR build as well...9/1/2015.

1. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. -12/23/18
2. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith -3/18/18
3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding -12/3/18
4. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin -9/29/18
5. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik -12/29/18

Great challenge! I would love to get some of those oldies moved to “read”.

0/5

My 5 oldest books added on TBR shelf on April 23, 2014 are:
1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
2. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Happy to see that some of them might be chosen for the group reads :) Let’s do this!

1/5

1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. Intensity by Dean Koontz
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - 26/03/2018

Kerri wrote: "Yay CCR! I love them :)

I keep my TBR list elsewhere and actually have a goal this year of knocking off at least 30 of them - 15 I own but have never read/finished, and 15 I don't own but have bee..."

Kerri, the Not Without My Daughter book is about a woman who went to Iran with her husband and daughter for vacation and the husband would not let them return to the U.S. I read this in the late 1980s and it has stuck with me all these years. (I may reread it, now that you reminded me of the book!) The story was terrifying to know that this could happen. I would recommend reading this one first from your list.

I like doing this; however, I am going to pull some books out of boxes upstairs, add them to my tbr now and read those. They are much older than anything I have listed on Goodreads!

Slight pause while I go get the books..... (think of the Jeopardy theme playing)....

Success! Here they are:

copyright 1970
copyright 1977
copyright 1990
copyright 2002
copyright 2005

What a great idea! Mine are all from October, 2012:

1/5


√ 2/10

I love these challenges, something to work towards! All Added Oct 17th 2014 :D

Immortal
Secrets in the Attic
Jane Eyre
Sensei
And Another Thing...

I enjoy this group so much :) I keep telling everyone i'm in this sweet book club online and I can't get enough! I've got 3 books on the go right now, don't know the last time that happened.

My 1st 2 are book 5 and 7 of the Narnia series so I'm going to leave those for a later date when I have time for the whole series.

Pride and Prejudice
**Sarah's Key - Finished Mar 5th, 2018
The Poisonwood Bible - Finished July 9, 2018
The Color Purple - Finished March 13, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Read : 1/5

Jackie wrote:
"copyright 1970
copyright 1977
copyright 1990
copyright 2002
copyright 2005 ."

Jackie, you haven't beaten me, but you get the silver medal for the time being. :-)

Buuuuut.... Copyright year is not valid, you should mention the year the books entered your TBR list, or you actually bought them! >:-)

TBR Revival Challenge
Dates: January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018

Completed: 0/5

1. All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner - Added 3/10/2016
2. Saint Odd by Dean Koontz - Added 3/10/2016
3. After You by Jojo Moyes - Added 3/10/2016
4. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult - Added 3/11/2016
5. A Long Time Gone by Karen White - Added 3/11/2016

Score 3/5 - Progress! I'm taking this as a goal for the year, not a race.

These are the 5 oldest books on my Goodreads TBR list that are available on CD at my library:

1 - (added 10/08/2012) These is My Words by Nancy Turner - read 04/17/2018
2 - (added 04/23/2013) 1st to Die by James Patterson
3 - (added 04/23/2013) Divergent by Veronica Roth - read 01/17/2018
4 - (added 06/25/2013) If I Stay by Gayle Forman - read 10/03/2018
5 - (added 06/25/2013) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Yikes! The first four are the first in a series, and I've been putting off John Green until I decide to read all of his books. This challenge may actually result in my TBR list getting longer. There is a reason I prefer first books by new authors! ;-)

Completed: 1/5

1 - The Lovely Bones - Added Feb 19, 2015
2 - Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution - Added Mar 01, 2015
3 - The Final Testament of the Holy Bible - Added Apr 06, 2015
4 - We Need to Talk About Kevin - Added Apr 10, 2015
5 - Girl, Stolen - Added Apr 13, 2015 (Read Jan 20)

I am being naughty and stealing other peoples revivals. mwhahahah. I keep seeing books I meant to read and never did. I then request them fro m the library. I think I am cheating. lol

Marcos wrote: "Jackie wrote:
"copyright 1970
copyright 1977
copyright 1990
copyright 2002
copyright 2005 ."

Jackie, you haven't beaten me, but you get the silver medal for the time being. :-)

Buuuuut.... Copyri..."

Hi Marcos, I should have been a bit more clear. I listed the copyright dates because they were purchased then, with the possible exception of Adam's Eden as I don't remember when I bought that one exactly. In any case, that book was in a box of books that had not been opened in 14 years! (Hanging my head in shame.) How do I know the number of years? We moved into this house in 2003 and it was still in a moving box!!! I wish I could say that I only had one box of unopened books-but unfortunately there are many, many more. My house goal is to get a carpenter to build some custom shelves in one of the rooms. Then I will unpack the rest of the boxes and donate whatever doesn't fit to the library.

I'm happy with a silver medal :-).

It was just a funny provocation, but it payed, for you told us a great bookish story! Yes, whoever has moved knows that kind of nightmare...

Wait! Stop press! The olympic anti-doping comittee has found evidence of misconduct!

How can a 2005-copyrighted book be in a box sealed in 2003??

The silver medal is hereby cancelled until the suspect party provides further information.

I'm game!

Current score: 0/5

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Great Gatsby (27 Dec)
3. Little Women
4. Great Expectations
5. Lord of the Flies

Very appropriate for this book club too!

Update: Only managed to read one book this year, will have to do better in 2019!

Oh Marcos, you need to read more carefully. This is what I stated but I am going to bold the part you read through too quickly.

"with the possible exception of Adam's Eden as I don't remember when I bought that one exactly. In any case, THAT book was in a box of books that had not been opened in 14 years! " The copyright for that book was 1997. The other books were not in that box.

I will give you credit for doing the math though. Glad you are keeping us honest. I want my silver medal back now!!

Tally 5/5! Finished 4/27/18 Next 5: 2/5

These are from my Purchased-to-Read Shelf, since I have a bad habit of buying too many books and keeping them around forever.
1. The Clan of the Cave Bear Read 2/24
2. David Copperfield Read 4/27
3. The Bone People Read 4/15
4. Driving with Dead People Read 3/12
5. The Marriage Plot Read 3/20

Since I finished my first 5, I'll post my next 5!
1. Morvern Callar read 5/12
2. Flight Behavior read 7/12
3. White Teeth
4. The Witch of Hebron
5. The Magic Mountain

I can definitely see how my tastes have changed and that I must have been in my Shakespeare class when I joined Goodreads.

1. Dear John
2. A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth
3. Game. Set. Match.
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
5. Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story

Jackie wrote: "I want my silver medal back now!!

OK, the comittee admits to not having read carefully, is satisfied and considers the explanation good enough, so the silver medal is awarded back! :-)

YEAH!!! Thunderous Applause!