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This is the place where we just might 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 of the books you meant to read before all the new and shiny books distracted you. C'mon, you know you're guilty of that. I know I am! :)

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

We'll tackle those book piles THIS year!! Good luck and have fun!

Good idea!
What should we use as shelf name?

a.g.e. montagner wrote: "Good idea!
What should we use as shelf name?"

Whatever works for you. You just need to enter whatever you call it on the challenge page and when you tag books to that shelf they'll count towards the challenge.

Am I the only one who can’t access the challenge page? It just takes me to a blank goodreads page.

Kayla wrote: "Am I the only one who can’t access the challenge page? It just takes me to a blank goodreads page."

Are you on the GR app? Sometimes it acts weird and doesn't go to the page it's supposed to.
You can try looking on the home page of HA. You should see the TBR challenge there.

I’m in! I’ve been trying all of this year to mostly work on my tbr. I did ok but of course there’s still a lot to do. ;-)

Of the hundreds of unread books currently here, surely I can read 30 next year??? LOL!

January 1 - December 31

Completed: 20/20

1. The Haunting of Leigh Harker (finished 1/2/24)
2. Witches (finished 1/6/24)
3. Voices in the Snow (finished 1/11/24)
4. Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft (finished 2/3/24)
5. The Dollhouse Murders (finished 2/3/24)
6. Every Heart a Doorway (finished 2/19/24)
7. Mission 1: All in a Day's Work (finished 3/20/24)
8. Black River Orchard (finished 5/8/24)
9. Lock Every Door (finished 5/13/24)
10. Heart-Shaped Box (finished 5/25/24)
11. The Devil and the Dark Water (finished 6/2/24)
12. The Book of Accidents (finished 6/9/24)
13. Middle of the Night (finished 7/10/24)
14. Incidents Around the House (finished 7/14/24)
15. Misery (finished 7/20/24)
16. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive (finished 8/3/24)
17. The Drawing of the Three (finished 8/6/24)
18. Leech (finished 8/10/24)
19. I Was a Teenage Slasher (finished 8/25/24)
20. The Omen (finished 8/30/24

Kimberly wrote: "Of the hundreds of unread books currently here, surely I can read 30 next year??? LOL!"

Good luck, you optimist! :)
I thought I was being bold with a goal of 25 (btw, this was my goal last year and ...well, I didn't do so good).

So far for 2024:

1. Breathless
2. Flee
3. A Caller's Game
4. Blacktop Wasteland

WendyB wrote: "Kimberly wrote: "Of the hundreds of unread books currently here, surely I can read 30 next year??? LOL!"

Good luck, you optimist! :)
I thought I was being bold with a goal of 25 (btw, this was my ..."

It's all those "shiny new" books that keep coming out--I already have a .... large ... list of those started. LOL!

I only ended up reading 29 this year, hoping it would of been more. I'm being a bit optimistic, but I'm going to shoot for 50.

I'll try again this year. I'm only going for physcial books from before 2022. I'm starting with 12 and see if I do more than that. Cross my fingers for everyone!

1. Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three by Clive Barker
2. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
3. River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
4. The San Veneficio Canon by Michael Cisco
5.My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror by Thomas Ligotti
6. Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
7. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
8. Le Locataire chimérique by Roland Topor
9. Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
10. This Census-Taker by China Miéville
11. Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
12. Eleanor by Jason Gurley


Double down:
Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

I want to participate. I have less than 40 books on my UNREAD SHELF. I signed up to read 10, but I hope for more.

Same goal as the last two years, which I failed to reach. But, I'm going to make more of an effort to get there and pay much more attention to it this year. One TBR book per week, minus a two-book handicap - - - - - 50 !!!
53 of 50 completed
1. - - RESURRECTION WALK by Michael Connelly (January 03)
2. - - SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison (January 08)
3. - - THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by V. E. Schwab
(January 28)
4. - - CHEW, VOLUME ONE: TASTER'S CHOICE graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (January 31)
5. - - VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE by Isabel Canas (February 06)
6. -- CHEW, VOLUME TWO: INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Febru6ry 06)
7. -- CHEW, VOLUME THREE: JUST DESSERTS graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (February 07)
8. - - YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang (February 14)
9. - - CHEW, VOLUME FOUR: FLAMBE graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (February 21)
10. -- PREQUEL by Rachel Maddow (February 24)
11. - - DARK MATTER by Blake Crouch (February 29)
12. - - CHEW, VOLUME FIVE: MAJOR LEAGUE CHEW graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (March 02)
13. - - - BLACK RIVER ORCHARD by Chuck Wendig (March 15)
14. - - - THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride (March 26)
15. - - - INFINITY GATE by M.R. Carey (April 04)
16. - - - THE NEW BAD THING by Michael Ebner (April 09)
17. - - - THE ANGEL OF INDIAN LAKE by Stephen Graham Jones (April 26)
18. - - - CHEW, VOLUME SIX: SPACE CAKES graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (April 30)
19. - - - CHEW, VOLUME SEVEN: BAD APPLES graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (May 04)
20. - - - CHEW, VOLUME EIGHT: FAMILY RECIPES graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (May 09)
21. - - - GENERATIONS: THE REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GEN Z, MILLENNIALS, GEN X, BOOMERS, AND SILENTS - - and WHAT THEY MEAN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE by Jean M. Twenge, PhD (May 10)
22. - - - MISERY by Stephen King (May 19, 2024)
23. - - - PET SEMATARY by Stephen King (May 29, 2024)
24. - - - CHEW, VOLUME NINE: CHICKEN TENDERS graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (June 02)
25. - - - DAISY JONES & THE SIX by Taylor Jenkins Reid (June 14)
26. - - - THE ANXIETY GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt (July 01)
27. - - - THE PUZZLE BOX by Danielle Trussoni (July 07)
28. - - - CHEW, VOLUME 10: BLOOD PUDDIN' graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (July 18)
29. - - - CHEW, VOLUME 11: THE LAST SUPPERS graphic novel by John Layman and Rob Guillory (July 23)
30. THE REFORMATORY by Tanarive Due (July 26)
31. YOU LIKE IT DARKER by Stephen King (July 30)
32. TOXIC PREY by John Sanford (August 01)
33. CITY IN RUINS by Don Winslow (August 06)
34. I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER by Stephen Graham Jones (August 28)
35. INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE by Josh Malerman (September 05)
36. HORROR MOVIE by Paul Tremblay (October 1)
37. THE MERCY OF GODS by James S.A. Corey (October 25)
38. 100 BULLETS, VOLUME ONE: FIRST SHOT, LAST CALL graphic novel by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (October 29)
39. MIDNIGHT AND BLUE by Ian Rankin (November 3)
40. X-MEN '92, VOLUME TWO: LILAPALOOZA graphic novel by Chad Bowers and Alti Firmansyah (November 6)
41. INSEXTS, VOLUME ONE: CHRYSALIS graphic novel by Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina (November 8)
42. INSEXTS, VOLUME TWO: NECROPOLIS graphic novel by Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina (November 11)
43. CUNNING FOLK by Adam Nevill (November 27)
44. 100 BULLETS, VOLUME TWO: SPLIT SECOND CHANCE graphic novel by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (Dec 3)
45. SLIGHTLY EXAGGERATED graphic novel by Curtis Crow and Pius Bak (Dec 5)
46. THE WAITING by Michael Connelly (Dec 12)
47. GODZILLA: OBLIVION graphic novel by Joshua Fialkov and Brian Churilla (December 13)
48. DEATH COMES FOR THE TOYMAKER graphic novel by Dakota Brown and Ryan Cody (December 21)
49. LITTLE BLACK BOOK graphic novel by Jeff McComsey and Felipe Cunha (December 22)
50. RED ZONE graphic novel by Cullen Bunn and Mike Deodata Jr. (December 23)
51. JUSTICE INC graphic novel by Michael Uslan and Giovanni Timpano (December 24)
52. HOW AMERICA WORKS . . . AND WHY IT DOESN'T: A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE U.S. POLITICAL SYSTEM by William Cooper (12/24)
53. THE INCREDIBLE HULK, VOLUME ONE: THE AGE OF MONSTERS graphic novel by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein (December 28)

I am gonna go with 24 for the challenge. I'd like to think I will crush that, but you never know??

1. Memnoch the Devil
2. The Metaframe Adept
3. The Vampire Armand
4. Children of the Dark
5. Lasher
6. Cackle
7. The Troop
8. The Return
9. What Moves the Dead
10. The Handyman Method
11. Taltos
12. Becoming the Boogeyman
13. Merrick
14. Gwendy's Button Box
15. Gwendy's Magic Feather
16. Stolen Tongues
17. Those Across the River
18. The Spite House
19. Crawley Manor Haunting
20. When the Night Falls
21. Mr. Mercedes
22. So Thirsty
23.
24.

Going with 10 this year!

I like the idea of 10! Hopefully that will be 10 I want/have been meaning to read not the ones I know I’ll be dreading in the future of my book club; great idea Wendy!

Going for 20 of reading my bookshelf. Just a few I want to tackle.

1-Elevation-Stephen King-☑️
2-Nestlings-Nat Cassidy-☑️
3-Rootwork-Tracy Cross-☑️
4-Wild spaces-S.L Coney-☑️
5-What Moves the Dead-T. Kingfisher-☑️
6-Nineteen Claws And A Blackbird-Agustina Bazterrica-☑️
7-The Salt Grows Heavy-Cassandra Khaw-☑️
8-Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies-E.M. Roy-☑️
9-The Spite House-Johnny Compton-☑️
10-101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered-Sadie Hartmann-☑️
11-Vampires of El Norte-Isabel Cañas-☑️
12-The Haunting of Velkwood-Gwendolyn Kiste-☑️
13-The Bed Makers-Chad Lutzke & John Boden-☑️
14-You Like It Darker-Stephen King-☑️
15-The Stand-Stephen King-☑️
16-The Ruins-Scott Smith-☑️
17-Jawbone-Monica Ojeda-☑️
18-Such Pretty Flowers--K.L. Cerra-☑️
19-Other Terrors-Editors-Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason-
20-The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor-Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga-☑️
21-Crypt of the Moon Spider-Nathan Ballingrud-☑️
22-The Angel of Indian Lake-Stephen Graham Jones-☑️
23-Stitches-Hirokatsu Kihara & Junji Ito-☑️
24-Along the River of Flesh-Kristopher Triana-☑️
25-Other Terrors-Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason-☑️
26-Human Monsters-Sadie Hartmann & Ashley Saywers-☑️
27-Stargazers-LP Hernandez-☑️
28-Anybody Home?-Michael J. Seidlinger-☑️
29-Cold Snap-Lindy Ryan-☑️

Will do 200 in 2024. Maybe a little more.

I'm going to try for 50 because I like numbers like that. On the one hand that sounds like a lot to me, but on the other hand I HAVE a lot of unread books from years (possibly decades) ago.

Update 3/14: I'm changing it to 25. I'm having so many problems with old Kindle editions of some of these books and trying to get them to count as read for the challenge. It's not a problem with the challenge, it's a Goodreads problem, but I'm too frustrated to bother with it. 50 was probably too many anyway.

My spot. I am only doing 15 for 2024. If it is more than it will be more and will update and add depending how my year looks about mid-year. We will see. :)

15/15

1) Old Fashioned - read 1/2/2024
2) ’Salem’s Lot - read 1/4/2024
3) Bite Force - read 1/13/2024
4) Dead End House - read 1/15/2024
5) Bad Moon Rising - read 1/28/2024
6) Wolf Hunt - read 3/3/2024
7) The Vatican Children - read 3/13/2024
8) Ancient Echoes - read 4/26/2024
9) All Souls Night - read 5/2/2024
10) Dracula in the cinema - read 5/7/2024
11) What Hides Within - read 5/19/2024
12) Endless Night - read 5/25/2024
13) Tortures of the Damned by Hunter Shea - read 6/19/2024
14) A Shadow on the Wall - read 6/21/2024
15) The Invited - read 6/7/2024

Going for 40 this year.

I'm going for 10 20 this year. I've upped my goal as I've really made a concerted effort to read from my shelves and it's working!

Challenge: 2024 Mount TBR Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31
Current Progress: 23/20

☑ Grave Peril by Jim Butcher - shelved Mar 2011
☑ The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold - shelved Nov 2019
☑ The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo - shelved Aug 2020
☑ The Only One Left by Riley Sager - shelved Jun 2023
☑ Sierra Six by Mark Greaney - shelved Feb 2022
☑ The Undefeated by Una McCormack - shelved Jul 2020
☑ Foresight by Ian Hamilton - shelved Feb 2021
☑ Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones - shelved Oct 2020
☑ Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot - shelved Sep 2022
☑ After That Night by Karin Slaughter - shelved Aug 2023
☑ Only One Survives by Hannah Mary McKinnon - shelved Dec 2023
☑ How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix - shelved Jul 2023
☑ The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill - shelved Mar 2023
☑ Fortune by Ian Hamilton - shelved Feb 2021
☑ Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford - shelved Feb 2021
☑ My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due - shelved Jun 2020
☑ The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose - shelved Aug 2023
☑ Change Agent by Daniel Suarez - shelved Aug 2023
☑ The Stranger in the Library by Eva Gates - shelved Nov 2023 (ARC)
☑ The Maidens by Alex Michaelides - shelved Feb 2021
☑ Burner by Mark Greaney - shelved Feb 2023
☑ The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett - shelved Sep 2023
☑ Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson - shelved Oct 2023

Q1 Update
This challenge has been great to ensure that I consistently focus on reading from my TBR. I have learned however, that I am more of a mood reader than I even thought I was. I started both House of Leaves and Bunny but put them aside. Not because I wasn't enjoying them, but because I just wasn't in the mood to read those books. I will get to them this year for sure but I'm parking them for now.

Q2 Update
I continued making progress although I still haven't gone back to my parking lot books yet.

Q3 Update
A much slower quarter of reading for me so not much progress was made on this challenge.

Q4 Update
I finished strong and ended up exceeding my goal of 20 books. 34% of my total books read this year were from my TBR shelves.

Parking Lot
Bunny by Mona Awad - shelved Apr 2020
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle - shelved Jun 2020
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - shelved Oct 2022
The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman - shelved Dec 2017

I will do my usual 45 book.

45/45

1. The Beetle
2. The Night of the Storm
3. Vampire Weekend
4. We Spread
5. An Ocean of Minutes
6. The Tainted Cup
7. Tender is the Flesh
8. Hell Bent
9. The Book of Love
10. Nowhere Like Home
11. Fractal Noise
12. Grey Dog
13. Empire of the Damned
14. A Quantum Love Story
15. Undying
16. The Blacktongue Thief
17. Shakedown
18. Death to Anyone Who Reads This: A Found Novel
19. Echo of Worlds
20.The Future of Another Timeline
21. The Hanging City
22. Sleeping Beauties
23. The Last Astronaut
24. Little Eve
25. Wayward
26. The Broken Room
27. Suffer the Children
28. The City & the City
29. The Day Tripper
30. The Lightest Object in the Universe
31. The House at the End of the World
32. City of Bones
33. Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales
34. The Light Pirate
35. The Border
36. Deathworld
37. BadAsstronauts
38. And the Ocean Was Our Sky
39. The Sundial
40. Book of Night
41. A House at the Bottom of a Lake
42. Down Among the Sticks and Bones
43. Sphere
44. Nightflyers
45. Riot Baby

I'm going for 25 this year! At least half have to be books that I already own
1. Wisdom of King Solomon (Owned)
2. Zothique: The Final Cycle (Owned)
3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Owned)
4. The Blade Itself (Owned - Audible)
5. Reinventing Organisations (Owned)
6. All the Young Dudes
7. The Girl on the Train (Owned - Audible)
8. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Owned)
9. Dungeons and Drama
10. The Bhagavad Gita
11. Sticks, The Bleeding Man and Saturday Night at the White Woman Watching Hole
12. 11/22/63 (Owned - Audible)
13. Thinking Fast and Slow (Owned - I think?)
14. Fourth Wing (Owned)
15. After We Were Stolen (Owned - Audible)
16. The Writing Retreat
17. The Trauma Cleaner (Owned)
18. Original Sin is a Lie
19. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
20. The Psychology of Money (Owned)
21. Farenheit 451
22. Mister Lullaby
23. The Devils Doorbell
24. The World Beyond Your Head
25. A Course in Miracles

This is a great challenge since I tend to overlook my owned books for the new ones. I will give myself a goal of 30 that I own!

I'm in for 18.

I hit it in 2022, but not 2023. Here's to 2024!

Let‘s do it again! One per month is easy - so I start with 12 books. Counting only print books for this challenge, but also tracking TBR ebooks just for fun (curious which list will be larger at the end).

Print:
1. Eisige Schwestern
2. Die Brontës gingen zu Woolworths
3. Abschied auf Italienisch
4. Eine Frage der Chemie
5. Barbara stirbt nicht
6. Die letzten Hexen von Blackbird Castle
7. Dunkel
8. Insel
10. Wie man einen Prinzen tötet
11. Taqawan
12. Projekt 22
13. Das Geheimnis von Shadowbrook
14. Storchenherzen
15. Die Tote im Sturm
16. The Doll Factory
17. Beuteherz
18. Das Gästezimmer
19. One of the Girls
20. Die Unbändigen
21. Die Farbe des Sturms
22. Ohne Spur
23. Die Erfindung des Dosenöffners
24. Gesang der Fledermäuse
25. Der Kanal
26. Engelsmädchen
27. Jacks wundersame Reise mit dem Weihnachtsschwein

Ebook:
1. Alistair Grim's Odditorium
2. Sundial
3. Pedo Island Bloodbath
4. KoboldKroniken 2.
5. Princess Margarita Illegal
6. Die Seele eines Spukhauses
7. Tödlicher Schlaf: Hamburg 1907: Carl-Jakob Melcher ermittelt
8. Das Portal
9. They Stalk the Night
10. Was auf das Ende folgt
11. Signalz
12. Still
13. Vampirische Weihnachten
14. Die Bibliothek im Nebel

WendyB wrote: "This is the place where we just might 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 ..."

Yes I’m in! I need a dedicated horror TBR, so I’ve put a modest 10 for my target in the hopes of smashing it! And added a few bonus extras as I’d like to get through all of these I’ve listed here this year! Here’s hoping! 🤞🏻

Good luck to everyone with their targets in the coming year! 😁

1.Hex
2.The Book of Accidents
3.The Cartoon Life and Loves of a Stupid Man
4.The Workshop of Filthy Creation
5.How to Sell a Haunted House
6.Our Share of Night
7.Earthlings ✅ ⭐️⭐️ weird AF 😆
8.The Grip of It ✅ ⭐️ Yikes 🙃
9.The Book Collector ✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ gorgeously dark and gothic! 🖤
10.The Dangers of Smoking in Bed ❌ DNF

Bonus books (if I’m smashing it) -
• The Watchers
• The Discomfort of Evening
• To the Devil a Daughter (Molly Fountain, #1)
• The Haunting of Toby Jugg
• The Collected Ghost Stories
• James Herbert's Dark Places: Locations and Legends ✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Educational & spooky!

26 books this year. Lower than 2023 as I'm doing another challenge too.

Good luck all! Let's tackle those mountains of books!!

1) Pine
2) Anterior Skies, Vol. 1: A Genre-Bending Anthology of the Weird and Cosmic¹
3) Burnt Offerings
4) The Sisters Brothers
5) Servant of the Shard
6) Five Minds
7) The Haar
8) Bunny Call
9)Gone to See the River Man
10) The Pale House Devil
11) Wizard's First Rule
12) Tender Is the Flesh
13) The Silence of the Lambs
14) Black Paradox
15) The Satanic Bible
16) ONIMONOGATARI: Demon Tale
17) Koimonogatari
18) TSUKIMONOGATARI: Possession Tale
19) KOYOMIMONOGATARI, Part 1: Calendar Tale
20) Catch-22
21) Koyomimonogatari, Part 2: Calendar Tale
22) Owarimonogatari: End Tale, Part 1
23) Owarimonogatari: End Tale, Part 2
24) Owarimonogatari: End Tale, Part 3
25) ZOKU OWARIMONOGATARI: End Tale
26) Acts of Violence: Twelve Tales of Terror
27) Vanilla

My challenge is for my TBR list to be 24 books shorter by this time in 2024, which means I will need to read at least 24 more books than I add to my TBR list. Hey, I like a challenge!

2024 TBR Read LIst
01/01/2024: Current TBR List 1355


1. The Blood of the Lamb - Thomas F. Monteleone Bram Stoker winner 1992 (05/2022)
2. Wolf Hunt - Jeff Strand (01/2023)
3. I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls - Ben Farthing (12/2023)
4. The Wanderers by Carlos Sisi- Carlos Sisí (01/2021)
5. Phantoms - Dean Koontz (12/2023)
6. Cave 13 - Jonathan Maberry (03/2023)
7. All You Need is Love and a Strong Electric Current - Mackenzie Kiera (04/2022)
8. Un Lun Dun - China Miéville (01/2016)
9. Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World - Brian Keene (05/2022)
10. Episode Thirteen - Craig DiLouie (03/2023)
11. Trampled Crown - Kirby Kellogg (04/2022)
12. Chihuahuas of the Zombie Apocalypse - Steven L. Hawk (02/2024)
13. Ash - M. Van (11/2023)
14. Bubba Ho-Tep - Joe R. Lansdale (12/2023)
15. Starter Villain - John Scalzi (01/09/2024)
16. Cackle - Rachel Harrison (11/2021)
17. Usher's Passing - Robert McCammon (9/2016)
18. The Howling - Gary Brandner (12/2023, but purchased 02/2023)
19. A Murderous Relation - Deanna Raybourn (12/2023)
20. Zombie, Illinois - Scott Kenemore (07/2023)
21. My Life as a White Trash Zombie - Diana Rowland (08/2015)
22. Love And The Undead: A Zombie Apocalypse Romance Novel - Chelsea Luna (11/2013)
23. Fire & Ash - Jonathan Maberry (12/2016)
24. White Flag of The Dead - Joseph Talluto (01/2024)
25. 2389 - Iain Rob Wright (12/2023)
26. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann (10/2017)
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12/31/2024 Current TBR LIst:

Must reads for 2024:
1. The Devil Takes You Home: A Novel - Bram Stoker winner 2022
2. Blood Kin - Bram Stoker winner 2014
3. The Drowning Girl - Bram Stoker winner 2012
4. The Keeper -
5. The Missing - Bram Stoker winner 2007
6. Dread in the Beast - Bram Stoker winner 2005
7. Lost Boy Lost Girl - Bram Stoker winner 2003
8. Children of the Dusk - Bram Stoker winner 1997
9. Zombie Joyce Carol Oates Bram Stoker winner 1995
10. Dead in the Water - Bram Stoker winner 1994
11. The Throat - Bram Stoker winner 1993

Badseedgirl wrote: "My challenge is for my TBR list to be 24 books shorter by this time in 2024, which means I will need to read at least 24 more books than I add to my TBR list. Hey, I like a challenge!

2024 TBR Rea..."
That's an incredible challenge. Best of luck with that one. I must add 5-10 books a week to my TBR list. The only way to avoid that is to just stay off of Goodreads. (Not a chance). That means I would have to read and remove 5-10 books a week from my TBR shelves. Looks like I'm hopeless case.

I want to read fifty off my own shelf

I'm aiming for 40 for 2024, started off my shelf with the carryovers I didn't get to this year. Good luck everyone!

 

Canavan’s 2024 Horror Aficionados Mount TBR Challenge



The goal is to read at least 10 books from my personal TBR pile during 2024.

Legend
💝 = entries rated 4 stars or above

1. The Green Room , Walter de la Mare (Author) & Gregory Gallant (as by Seth) (Illustrator) (1925/2018 ed.) ✭✭✭
2. Lord of Light , Roger Zelazny (1967) ✭✭✭✭½ 💝
3. Creatures of Light and Darkness , Roger Zelazny (1969) ✭✭✭✭½ 💝
4. My Name Is Legion , Roger Zelazny (1976) ✭✭✭✭ 💝
5. Unicorn Variations , Roger Zelazny (1983) ✭✭✭
6. After the People Lights Have Gone Off , Stephen Graham Jones (2014) ✭✭✭
7. Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories , Rowan Routh (Ed.) (2017) ✭✭✭
8. Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn , Jeff Lemire (Author), Andrea Sorrentino (Artist), & Dave Stewart (Colorist) (2018/2018) ✭✭✭✭ 💝
9. Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins , Jeff Lemire (Author), Andrea Sorrentino (Artist), & Dave Stewart (Colorist) (2018-2019/2019) ✭✭✭✭ 💝
10. Gideon Falls, Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross , Jeff Lemire (Author), Andrea Sorrentino (Artist), & Dave Stewart (Colorist) (2019/2019) ✭✭✭✭ 💝
11. Gideon Falls, Vol. 4: The Pentoculus , Jeff Lemire (Author), Andrea Sorrentino (Artist), & Dave Stewart (Colorist) (2019-2020/2020) ✭✭✭✭ 💝
12. Gideon Falls, Vol. 5: Wicked Worlds , Jeff Lemire (Author), Andrea Sorrentino (Artist), & Dave Stewart (Colorist) (2020/2020) ✭✭✭✭ 💝
13. Gideon Falls, Vol. 6: The End , Jeff Lemire (Author), Andrea Sorrentino (Artist), & Dave Stewart (Colorist) (2020/2021) ✭✭✭½
14. The Mysteries , Bill Watterson (Author & Illustrator) & John Kascht (Illustrator) (2023) ✭✭✭

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Kelly wrote: "I'm going for 10 this year.


Challenge: 2024 Mount TBR Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31
Current Progress: 0/10

1. Bunny by Mona Awad
2. [book:The Balla..."

Omg Good luck with House of Leaves!! That’s my nemesis book! 😅 It drove me insane and after about 100 pages I had to give up 🙃

I've challenged myself to 20 for the past ten years and not once have I done it. This year, I'm going for 10.

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Lisa - OwlBeSatReading wrote: "Kelly wrote: "I'm going for 10 this year.


Challenge: 2024 Mount TBR Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31
Current Progress: 0/10

1. Bunny by Mona Awad
2. [..."

Thanks for the encouragement @Lisa! That book has intimidated me ever since I picked it up. My husband actually bought it for me and I've remained partly excited/partly in fear ever since!!

Great idea!

TBR Mount Challenge 2024 Shelf Has Been Created!

Digital TBR pile sneaks up on you for sure.

sonya wrote: "I want to read fifty off my own shelf"

Me too!

This will be my first challenge like this and I'm going to aim for 10. Good luck to everyone!

Going to shoot for 30!

1. Ararat - Christopher Golden
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. Maniacal - C.M. Sutter
4. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
5. Sex, Lies & Lipstick - Kris Calvert
6. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror - H.P. Lovecraft
7. Donners of the Dead - Karina Halle
8. A Dirty Shame - Liliana Hart
9. Devil's Lake - Aaron Paul Lazar
10. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
11. The Rain - Joseph Turkot
12. The Woman - David Bishop
13. The Killing Game - Toni Anderson
14. Twisted Vine - Toby Neal
15. Vampire Miami - Phil Tucker
16. Stranded with the SEAL - Amy Gamet
17. Here to Stay - Kristine Raymond
18. The Lost Village - Camilla Sten
19. Eyes of the Predator - Glenn Trust
20. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II - Liza Mundy
21. Death on the Danube: A New Year's Murder in Budapest - Jennifer S. Alderson
22. Obsidian - Jennifer L. Armentrout
23. The Lost Man - Jane Harper
24. Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant
25. Peek A Boo, I See You - Willow Rose
26. Mistaken Trust: a crime suspense thriller
27. Seven Unholy Days - Jerry Hatchett
28. Amber and Blue - K.R. Rowe
29. Ignite - Kaitlyn Davis
30. Jerked - B.B. Hamel
31. Is It Just Me? - Miranda Hart
32. Too Rough For Love - Adair Rymer
33. No One Gets Out Alive - Adam Nevill
34. Deadly Stillwater - Roger Stelljes
35. Searching for Glory - Hunter J. Keane
36. The Puppet Queen: A Tale of the Sleeping Beauty - Mira Zamin
37. Summer on the Mountain - Rosemarie Naramore
38. Cherry Cobbler - JoHannah Reardon
39. Treasure of Saint-Lazare - John Pearce

Met my goal of 15 for 2023. Will try for 18 in 2024! My TBR list is massive haha

So excited for this one again this year! Will be going for 10 but hopefully I can get to more!

Good luck, everyone!

I just signed up and my goal is 100. I don't have too many unread physical books, they're mostly eBooks so I should be able to crush it. I do want to ask why the challenge has already started, shouldn't it begin January 1st?

Jessica wondered: shouldn't it begin January 1st?

That’s when it does begin. A few participants have started listing books, but I’m pretty sure that those are books that they intend to read as part of the challenge.

little question, hope it's not bothersome to ask here but: do they have to be only horror books or can they also be generally speculative fiction books?