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This is the place where we will--hopefully--make a dent in those overflowing TBR piles and shelves. Books you already own (sometimes for years!) will count towards this challenge. The goal is to finally get to some books you meant to read, before all those new ones started piling on top of them.

You can sign up for the challenge here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Good luck cutting down those piles!

I will join this challenge for the first time this year, my spot is here. I really wish to read all my physical books populating my shelves at home, so I made a separate tbr shelf for that and want to tackle that here! Good luck everyone!
My books:
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1. The Hunger - Alma Katsu
2. The San Veneficio Canon - Michael Cisco
3. Experimental Film - Gemma Files
4. Exhalation- Ted Chiang
5. Last Days - Brian Evenson
6. The Will to Battle - Ada Palmer
7. Jawbone - Mónica Ojeda
8. Danse Macabre - Stephen King
9. Wounds - Nathan Ballungrad
10. Radicalized - Cory Doctorow
11. Nightingale - Amy Lukavics
12. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms - Amy Stewart
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Kimberly, is there an age-limit for the books? For example, they need to have been purchased in 2021 or earlier?

Netanella wrote: "Kimberly, is there an age-limit for the books? For example, they need to have been purchased in 2021 or earlier?"

The purpose of this is to cut down on the books you already own, not new ones purchased. Whatever the date, if it's been sitting around, unread ( I usually go for at least a year, but that's just me) works. It's not a competition, just a personal challenge to help get to some of those books you "forget" you have. :)

I usually choose books that have been sitting for over a year as well.
I'm in and I'm challeging myself to read at least 20. (Even at only 20 I usually fail this challenge every damn year!)

I just made a new shelf for this challenge and added the 17 books from this year's failed challenge, so I get to choose 3 more:

1. The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein (Feb-March)
2. The Uninvited by Dorothy MaCardle
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Char wrote: "I usually choose books that have been sitting for over a year as well.
I'm in and I'm challeging myself to read at least 20. (Even at only 20 I usually fail this challenge every damn year!)"

Same here! LOL!

Way to go you all for getting the new thread up for 2023! 😊

My spot is here. Setting my goal low. Only 7 for me.

I am making this a challenge within a challenge. :) Will list them out as I read them with a read date. I literally have over 5000+ books stuck in the cloud so I should be able to find something to complete this challenge. lol

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Books I have owned seven years:

1) Ghost Town - read - 1/21/2023 - 5 stars.
2) Child's Play - read - 4/22/2023 - 5 stars.


Books I have owned six years:

1) Hollow House - read - 2/2/23 - 1 star.
2) In the Murder House - read 4/14/23 - 5 stars


Books I have owned five years:

1) The School of Revenge - read 4/12/23 - 4 stars

Books I have owned four years:

1) Witching Hour Theatre - read 4/12/23 - 4 stars
2) Pine Lakes - read 5/14/23 - 4 stars

Im so terrible at challenges yet really yearn to finally do well on one, maybe this will be the year!

I've challenged myself to knock out 1 a month. Surely I can to that, right?

Thanks for the quick reply, guys! I think I'm going to go for books that I've acquired in 2021 or prior.

Kim wrote: "I've challenged myself to knock out 1 a month. Surely I can to that, right?"

That's my hope too, Kim. One TBR that I already own a month. We got this! :)

Kim wrote: "I've challenged myself to knock out 1 a month. Surely I can to that, right?"

That's good thinking, Kim, not too much, but you can still see some progress. I was thinking of something between 15 and 20, but maybe I'll start with 12 too.

I ended up making my a baker's dozen - 13! :) And we'll see if I can top that.

I think we could all meet our challenge for this if authors just stopped writing incredible books for a bit!

I'll stick with one a month as well. :)

I'll take this spot, and shoot for 50.
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1. -- CINEMA SPECULATION by Quentin Tarantino (January 13)
2. - - I AM QUIET: A STORY FOR THE INTROVERT IN ALL OF US children's book by Andie Powers and Betsy Petersen (January 25)
3. - - THE MAID by Nita Prose (February 02)
4. - - THE EXORCIST'S HOUSE by Nick Roberts (February 11)
5. - - MY DARKEST PRAYER by S.A. Cosby (February 15)
6. - - DON'T FEAR THE REAPER by Stephen Graham Jones (February 25)
7. - - DESERT STAR by Michael Connelly (March 03)
8. - - CHURN THE SOIL by Steve Stred (March 07)
9. - - RACING THE LIGHT by Robert Crais (March 15)
10. - - RIGHTEOUS PREY by John Sandford (March 22)
11. - - THE PASSENGER by Cormac McCarthy (March 27)
12. - - SHE RIDE SHOTGUN by Jordan Harper (March 28)
13. - - THE DONUT LEGION by Joe R. Lansdale (April 01)
14. - - THE BURNING GIRLS by C.J. Tudor (April 10)
15. - - IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS by T.J. Klune (April 25)
16. - - CITY OF DREAMS by Don Winslow (May 11)
17. - - PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir (May 27)
18. - - MONSTERS UNLEASHED monster-sized hardcover graphic novel by Cullen Bunn and various artists (May 28)
19. -- RAMPAGE ON THE REEF Dead Seas, Volume IV: An Anthology of Aquatic Horror edited by Jay Alexander (June 16)
20. -- ALLERGIC graphic novel by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter (July 16)
21. -- THE DRAGON PATH graphic novel by Ethan Young (July 20)
22. - - SQUISHED graphic novel by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter (July 25)
23. - - BEWARE THE WOMAN by Megan Abbott (August 30)
24. - - FIXIT by Joe Ide (September 05)
25. - - NO PLAN B by Andrew Child and Lee Child (September 12)
26. - - THE OUTSIDER by Stephen King, audiobook narrated by Will Patton (September 30)
27. - - HOLLY by Stephen King (October 05)
28. - - SILVER NITRATE by Silvio Moreno-Garcia (October 14)
29. - - HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE by Grady Hendrix (November 08)
30. - - CRIME BEAT by Michael Connelly (November 13)
31. - - ZOE'S TALE by John Scalzi (November 18)
32. - - - STARTER VILLAIN by John Scalzi (December 8)
33. - - - THE SEPTEMBER HOUSE by Carissa Orlando (December 18)
34 - - - NOT FOREVER, BUT FOR NOW by Chuck Palahniuk (December 21)

I am in! My usual 45 books.


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1. The Peripheral
2. Widow's Point
3. The Darkest Winter
4. The Bandit Queens
5. The Nightmare Man
6. Sundial
7. How to Sell a Haunted House
8. The Last
9. The Mittleider Gardening Course
10. The Pallbearers Club
11. The Drift
12. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
13. Where Darkness Blooms
14. 1Q84
15. The Strange
16. Replay
17. The Scarlet Plague
18. Your Heart Belongs to Me
19. The Marigold
20. The Ferryman
21. Sea of Rust
22. Arcadia
23. Early Riser
24. White Noise
25. The One
26. Klara and the Sun
27. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
28. The Last Magician
29. The Everything Box
30. The Cartographers
31. Rendezvous with Rama
32. Gwendy's Final Task
33. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
34. Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
35. Unearthed
36. Naked Moon
37. The Girl on the Porch
38. Portals
39. The Pinnacle: a short story
40. My Evil Mother
41. Leave the World Behind
42. The Book of Baby Names
43. Trick or Death
44. Slip: A Short Story
45. Anthem

Netanella wrote: "I think we could all meet our challenge for this if authors just stopped writing incredible books for a bit!

I'll stick with one a month as well. :)"

Boy howdy, truer words were never spoken! :)

welp, I hit my goal of 30 books last year. I'm gonna try it again!

I just missed my goal--I'm thinking 25 might be a good one to start off--any more will be a bonus!

My problem with reading older books like a year or more old is that I end up reading newer stuff that has come out. lol Going to really try and dig deep next year and read stuff that has been on my kindle for at least five years as I do have tons of books that have been stuck in the Amazon cloud for that long. Actually I am going to do a challenge within this challenge on here up there in my spot to make myself read the older kindle books. :)

Marie wrote: "My problem with reading older books like a year or more old is that I end up reading newer stuff that has come out. lol Going to really try and dig deep next year and read stuff that has been on my..."

Exactly Marie, me too. I took a look at the most anticipated horror for 2023 and saw the new Catriona Ward, Victor Lavalle and a ton of new authors and I started drooling all over my tbr-list, I can't control myself.
That's why I ended up here, I want to tidy up a little but I'm starting with my physical shelf. There are still the invisible tbr's on my kindle and on my kobo but those are a whole different thing. I feel so dirty writing all this 😅

inciminci wrote: "Marie wrote: "My problem with reading older books like a year or more old is that I end up reading newer stuff that has come out. lol Going to really try and dig deep next year and read stuff that ..

Exactly Marie, me too. I took a look at the most anticipated horror for 2023 and saw the new Catriona Ward, Victor Lavalle and a ton of new authors and I started drooling all over my tbr-list, I can't control myself.
That's why I ended up here, I want to tidy up a little but I'm starting with my physical shelf. There are still the invisible tbr's on my kindle and on my kobo but those are a whole different thing. I feel so dirty writing all this 😅."

Totally 100% agree! It is like I block out what I already own and just want to read the new stuff! lol Then at the end of the year I am like - where did the time go - I never did get to those books that have been locked up for years on my kindle! lol

Blow the dust off the physical books and have fun! lol :) More reading power to you, Inciminci! :)

Haha, thank you, to you too!

Marie wrote: "My problem with reading older books like a year or more old is that I end up reading newer stuff that has come out. lol Going to really try and dig deep next year and read stuff that has been on my..."

True confession time. The oldest unread book on my Kindle is Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard, which I downloaded in 2012. That's some deep reading that it's taken me nearly 11 years to undertake. Maybe this is my year?? 😂

I am in! It was very helpful last year. I got to donate a ton of old books.

inciminci wrote: "Haha, thank you, to you too!"

Thank you! :)

TheresaW wrote: "Marie wrote: "My problem with reading older books like a year or more old is that I end up reading newer stuff that has come out. lol Going to really try and dig deep next year and read stuff that

True confession time. The oldest unread book on my Kindle is Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard, which I downloaded in 2012. That's some deep reading that it's taken me nearly 11 years to undertake. Maybe this is my year?? 😂 ..."

Maybe it is, Theresa! :)

The oldest for me is 2016 on kindle - it is looking like I have around 216 books that I haven't read from that year. I don't even want to look at 2017 - probably near 500 there. lol

My spot. I typed in the wrong number on the entry, haha, so I'm reading 27 apparently!

Good luck all!

1) The Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition
2) The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
3) Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
4)Passage to Dawn
5) Red Ruin
6) The Slob
7) The Pallbearers Club
8) The Fervor
9) What Moves the Dead
10) Gallows Hill
11) 1:35AM
12) As The Shadows Grow
13) Thinner
14) House of Leaves
15) Skeleton Crew
16) Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
17) Blood on the Tracks, Vol. 1
18) I Hear the Clattering of the Keys
19) Neuromancer
20) Black Swan Green
21) Our Wives Under the Sea
22) 囮物語 Otorimonogatari
23) The Devil Takes You Home
24) It
25) Off Season
26) Plastic Monsters
27) The Miracle Sin

Woo! I've completed by goal but I'll keep going

I've got a ton of backlist, so I'll try for 35

I’m here for this challenge. I hope to read ten books.

Ok didn't do to well last year, only 5 out of 20 or 25, so I have some carry overs! Maybe I will do what others are starting off with which is one a month. My goal is 15.

1. Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

2. The Borgias

3.The Night Circus

4.Big Stone Gap

5. Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

6. The Gone World


7. Iron Gold


8. Haven

9. The Samurai's Garden

10. Iced

11. Burned

12. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

13. The Terminal List

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I'm so down for this! I think for me it'll be to try and clear out what I have in my "Want to read" shelf here since I've read most of the books I have at home (or they belong to my boyfriend and I don't like his books). Aiming for 50 books this year but we'll see!! Good luck everyone!!

1. Survive the Night
2. The Whispering Dead
3. The Honjin Murders
4. Ring
5. Haunted
6. Final Girls
7. Ghost Eaters
8. My Best Friend's Exorcism
9. Nothing But Blackened Teeth
10. Anathema
11.Woom
12.Animal Farm
13.Lapvona

I will hopefully read 50 books next year. I barely made any progress for 2022.

1. The Darkest Part of the Forest
2. Unsolved Conspiracies by Bill Price
3. The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West
4. Terrier
5. The Shining
6. The Julius House
7. Vampire Kisses
8. Into the Wild
9. My Heart Is a Chainsaw
10. Clap When You Land
11.Scary Stories Treasury
12.Glory in Death
13.Hidden Pictures
14.The Twisted Ones
15.How to Sell a Haunted House
16.The Proposal
17.Monsters of the Midwest: True Tales of Bigfoot, Werewolves, and Other Legendary Creatures
18.My Brother's Keeper
19.We Knew All Along
20.Nora Goes Off Script
21.Immortal in Death
22.Daughters Unto Devils
23.A Princess of Mars
24.Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763
25.The UFO Hotspot Compendium: All the Places to Visit Before You Die or Are Abducted
26.A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases
27.The Luminous Dead
28.Lost Souls
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Oh well...I never give up hope to do better than last year :)
1. Dark Lake ***
2. Licht und Schatten *****
3. Die Gottesmaschine *****
4. Die souveräne Leserin ****
5. Wiener Blut *****
6. Hades ****
7. Julius Winsome *****
8. The Bottoms *****
9. Underground Railroad *****
10. Der Freund der Toten ****
11. Draußen im Moor ***
12. Nachtbeeren **
13. Bergsalz ****
14. Die Schattensammlerin - Dichter und Dämonen *****
15. Seelenspiel **
16. Der Duft von Zimt

2023 Mount TBR Challenge
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✅The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 29/12/22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅Death by Shelly Kagan 01/01/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie 03/01/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅ Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 04/01/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅ Sundial by Catriona Ward 05/01/23 ⭐⭐⭐
✅ Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates 05/01/23 ⭐⭐
✅ The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman 06/01/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅ Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith 06/01/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅ Some Choose Darkness by Charlie Donlea 08/01/23 ⭐⭐
✅ Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian 10/01/23 ⭐⭐
✅ The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman 12/01/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅ The Godfather by Mario Puzo 12/01/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📙📘📗📕2023 Mount TBR Challenge 📙📘📗📕
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inciminci wrote: "Marie wrote: "My problem with reading older books like a year or more old is that I end up reading newer stuff that has come out. lol Going to really try and dig deep next year and read stuff that ..."

This has been the story of my life for the last 5-10 years. I'm focused on reading some books I've owned for years and then:

Char wrote: "inciminci wrote: "Marie wrote: "My problem with reading older books like a year or more old is that I end up reading newer stuff that has come out. lol Going to really try and dig deep next year an..."

Yes 😄 !
Looks like we're all in the same boat, helps to know I'm not alone lol!

Char wrote: "inciminci wrote: "Marie wrote: "My problem with reading older books like a year or more old is that I end up reading newer stuff that has come out. lol Going to really try and dig deep next year an..."

Yep! Totally understand! Love that gif, Char! Made me giggle. :)

Oh hell yeah this is my type of challenge :)
My goal is to at least get through 12 of my books!

1. The Shining by Stephen King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Book of Dreams by Kevin Craig ⭐️⭐️✨
3. Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. The Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
5. The Gentleman's Book of Vices by Jess Everlee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr ⭐️⭐️✨
7. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
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After scaling some of the heights of my TBR every year, I find that I am nowhere near the top. Like most people, the TBR summit keeps getting higher and further away no matter how many books I check off. Some of my 2023 personal challenges will be:

Stephen King challenge (catching up on the King books I haven't read):

If It Bleeds by Stephen King
The Outsider by Stephen King
The Institute by Stephen King
Billy Summers by Stephen King
Elevation by Stephen King
Later by Stephen King

Miscellaneous horror:
The Best of Cemetery Dance II by various

Series I want to get read: Kane, The Mystic Warrior

Bloodstone by Karl Edward Wagner
Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner
Darkness Weaves by Karl Edward Wagner
Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner
Death Angel's Shadow by Karl Edward Wagner

Goodreads Authors (don't know how many):

Heraclix & Pomp by Forrest Aguirre

And my annual doorstop challenge (1000 pages; at least 3, shooting for 5):

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Centennial by James A. Michener
The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake

I'm going to do this one as well. My spot :)
Going to start light with 12 of my books and possibly add more if I find I'm on a roll!

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Paradoxysm wrote: "Oh hell yeah this is my type of challenge :)
My goal is to at least get through 12 of my books!"

Is this your first time joining one of our challenges? Welcome, and best of luck!

Squire wrote: "After scaling some of the heights of my TBR every year, I find that I am nowhere near the top. Like most people, the TBR summit keeps getting higher and further away no matter how many books I chec..."

I want to read the Kane stories too!

Sally's Spot Here :)
I'm going for at least 30 books from my "Paperbacks From Hell" collection.

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•Evil•Eye•Reviews• wrote: "Sally's Spot Here :)
I'm going for at least 30 books from my "Paperbacks From Hell" collection.

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I LOVE that collection!!! I need to take some of mine off the TBR pile....

Count me into the squirrel boat as well 😂 I always have good intentions, and then new books and group reads distract me. In 2022 I set out for 10 and only did 3 (yikes). So this next year I'm trying to be reasonable at 5. I put them up on paperbackswap when I'm done so I'm going to hope the de-cluttering is a motivator this year.


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I was able to complete 15 last year, so I’ll up the number to 20 for this year! My list will be saved to this spot.

Progress: 17/20

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (finished 3/26/23)
Chasing the Boogeyman (finished 4/21/23)
The Exorcist's House (finished 2/26/23)
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (finished 1/23/23)
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead (finished 2/3/23)
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (finished 2/20/23)
Horrorstör (finished 3/26/23)
In a Dark, Dark Wood (finished 3/26/23)
Jawbone (finished 4/9/23)
Love in the Time of Serial Killers (finished 3/26/23)
Moon of the Crusted Snow (finished 3/26/23)
The Night Swim (finished 5/9/23)
The Shuddering (finished 1/23/23)
Turtles All the Way Down (finished 9/16/23
Sundial (finished 1/2/23)
The Tea Dragon Society (finished 3/26/23)
We Need to Do Something (finished 3/26/23)

I'm not going to set up a challenge this year. I've got so many books to rnr and many new ones that don't fit into the horror genre, so maybe next year.

Omg I had 18 on TBR list before Christmas, then was given 6 Stephen King books as a gift…24 books, my goal for 2023 is to finish a book every week and I’m banning myself from buying anymore books until I’ve chipped away at my TBR list.