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Detailed starting stats:Total TBR: 1041
Number of books over a certain length (cumulative):
>1000: 2
>900: 3
>800: 10
>700: 23
>600: 44
>500: 87
>400: 210
>300: 406
which leaves 635 books that are under 300 pages.
When books were added to my TBR shelf:
2009: 297 (the year I joined Goodreads and added my existing collection)
2010: 90
2011: 41
2012: 115
2013: 39
2014: 43
2015: 86
2016: 37
2017: 49
2018: 52
2019: 38
2020: 28
2021: 14
2022: 22
2023: 45
2024: 45
These are the 23 books on my TBR that are over 700 pages:
1) Shōgun (1152 pages)
2) Under the Dome (1074 pages)
3) The Golden Book of Faerie (946 pages)
4) Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales (880 pages)
5) The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (878 pages)
6) Gone with the Wind (862 pages)
7) Inheritance (849 pages)*
8) 11/22/63 (849 pages)
9) The War of the Flowers (828 pages)
10) Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (819 pages)
11) The Light Bearer (788 pages)
12) The Triumph of the Dwarves (784 pages)*
13) City of Golden Shadow (780 pages)
14) The Machine Crusade (779 pages)*
15) Brisingr (748 pages)*
16) The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh (736 pages)
17) House Harkonnen (733 pages)*
18) The Sword of Shannara (726 pages)
19) Weaveworld (721 pages)
20) Lirael (705 pages)*
21) The Book of the Dead: The Hieroglyphic Transcript and Translation into English of the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus of Ani (704 pages)
22) Eldest (704 pages)*
23) House Atreides (704 pages)*
* = There is prerequisite reading for this, e.g. earlier books in the series.
Unread R.L. Stine books: 280 (oldest: January 1994)
For my easy reference, I'm gonna list my upcoming R.L. Stine books here. I have lists elsewhere but this is a convenient spot!1994 R.L. Stine releases:
1)
2) The New Boy
3)
4) Call Waiting
5) The Dare
6) Why I'm Afraid of Bees
7) Bad Dreams
8) Monster Blood II
9) Double Date
10) Deep Trouble
11) The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
12) The Thrill Club
13) The Beast
14) The Dead Lifeguard
15) Go Eat Worms!
16) One Evil Summer
17) I Saw You That Night!
18) Ghost Beach
19) The First Horror
20) Return of the Mummy
21) Halloween Night II
22) The Second Horror
23) The Third Horror
24) Phantom of the Auditorium
25) Tales To Give You Goosebumps: 10 Spooky Stories
26) Attack of the Mutant
27) The Mind Reader
28) My Hairiest Adventure
29) The New Evil
1.
Leech by Hiron Ennes (bought in October 2024)Well that took me about two weeks longer than I expected lol. I started this on January 1st, intending to go to a book club meeting discussing it, but didn't finish it in time. Then I got into a bit of a slump that was less a reading slump and more a lack of energy that led to me only reading half a page at a time. Anyway, my ascent up Mount TBR has finally begun!
2.
You Can't Scare Me! (Goosebumps #15) by R.L. Stine (owned since childhood)There is an episode of the 90s TV series based on this one, but I have almost no memory of it! I have all the episodes on VHS tapes (my dad taped them all for me) but I used to always start at the beginning of a tape, and wouldn't always finish it, so I watched some episodes a lot more than others. I bet this one's at the end of a tape! Anyway, this one was just OK. It would have been better if the monsters were in the story for more than the last few pages!
So, remember that book suggestion box I set up at work? Where kids get to suggest books for me to read and I read whatever I pull out of the box? Well, yesterday I pulled Eragon. *laughs nervously* I was actually planning to read that series soon anyway (the first one is a reread), but I had actually already planned my next few TBR reads and this sort of threw a wrench in that, lol! Hopefully it's a quicker read than most 500+ page books are for me. At least this sets me up to knock a few of those 700+ page books off my list!It was actually the fourth slip I pulled from the box. The first had some nonsense written on it, the second said "a Fortnite book" (we don't actually have any Fortnite books), and the third was Baby-Sitters Little Sister. The first book of that series was out so I put it on hold and tried again. And that's how I ended up here lol.
I guess because I've been failing so hard at this challenge, I forgot to even come here to do the monthly updates lol. Anyway these'll be quick because I didn't start actually buying books until today. XDBooks Acquired in January
None!
TBR books read in January: 2
Books acquired in January: 0
Difference: -2
Total spent in January: $0
Books Acquired in FebruaryNone!
TBR books read in February: 0
Books acquired in February: 0
Difference: 0
Total spent in February: $0
TBR books read in 2025: 2
Books acquired in 2025: 0
Difference: -2
Total spent in 2025: $0
Books Acquired in MarchNone!
TBR books read in March: 0
Books acquired in March: 0
Difference: 0
Total spent in March: $0
TBR books read in 2025: 2
Books acquired in 2025: 0
Difference: -2
Total spent in 2025: $0
Wow, thrilling content, I know. Anyway I just hit the Friends of the Library Book Sale and bought myself 9 books, so the April update will be a little more interesting lol. I will DEFINITELY FOR SURE finish Eragon this month and also there's a read-a-thon!! So I will actually have something to post about!!
I promise lol I've just been reading a long library book. I waited for ages to get An Academy for Liars so I gotta focus on that (it's already overdue) but I'm almost done!
Finally, a little bit of progress! Thanks to Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon, I read these TBR books:3.
The Absolute (Animorphs #51) by K.A. Applegate (bought in May 2010)4.
The Ghost Comes Calling by Betty Ren Wright (bought in September 2024)5.
Monsters Don't Scuba Dive (Bailey School Kids #14) by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones (owned since childhood, reread)6.
Straight by Chuck Tingle (bought in September 2024)And I started one more that I just haven't quite finished yet!
Oh man, my April summary is gonna be nuts, because I also bought SO MANY books this month.
7.
One Day at Horrorland (Goosebumps #16) by R.L. Stine (owned since childhood)Finished this last night, so I managed to squeeze one more TBR book into April! Monthly summary coming tonight.
OK, I guess by "tonight" I meant "in 8 days" lol.Books Acquired in April
The Secret Garden $0.50
The Once and Future King $1.50
So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Traveler's Guide to Time Travel $1.50
Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies $1.50
The Summoning $1.50
Remembrance of Things Past: Vol 1 $2.50
The Portal Keeper $2.50
The Sleeping Giant $2.50
A Midsummer Tights Dream $2.00
The Handmaid's Tale free (gift from friend)
Camp Nowhere $1.50
Scare School $1.50
Visitors $1.50
No Survivors $1.50
Ninjas Don't Bake Pumpkin Pies $2.00
Dracula Doesn't Play Kickball $1.50
Mrs. Jeepers Is Missing! $1.50
Mrs. Jeepers' Secret Cave $1.50
Mrs. Jeeper's Creepy Christmas $1.50
Spooky Spells $1.50
Snow Monster Mystery $1.50
Don't Go to the Principal's Office $1.50
We Wish You a Scary Christmas $1.50
Lizard People $1.50
Fog $1.00
The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula $3.00
Vanity Fair $2.00
The Lost World $1.50
The Sign of Four $1.50
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes $3.00
A Study In Scarlet: A Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery $2.00
Blood & Water $4.00
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones $1.50
TBR books read in April: 5 (actually removed from shelf: 4)
Books acquired in April: 33
Difference: 29
Total spent in April: $57.00
TBR books read in 2025: 7 (actually removed from shelf: 6)
Books acquired in 2025: 33
Difference: 27
Total spent in 2025: $57.00
Soooooo, that happened lol. In my defense, two really good sales happened in the same month!! The first nine books are from the Friends of the Library book sale, which I went to for the first time since Covid, and which has such good deals and such good quality books!! Then I mentioned not having read A Handmaid's Tale and a coworker gave me her copy she was gonna donate. Then the Children's Hospital Book Market happened. Basically I can't be held responsible for this list!
8.
Eragon (Inheritance Cycle #1) by Christopher Paolini (owned since high school, reread)I finally finished!! This took me four months (albeit with one month of not reading it because I was focused on a library book). I have words for all the people who've told me I should read the Inheritance Cycle to easily knock some long books off my TBR lmao.
OK, gotta catch up on the monthly posts since I spent the summer with no computer lol.Books Acquired in May
None!
TBR books read in May: 1 (actually removed from shelf: 0)
Books acquired in May: 0
Difference: -1
Total spent in May: $0
TBR books read in 2025: 8 (actually removed from shelf: 6)
Books acquired in 2025: 33
Difference: 27
Total spent in 2025: $57.00
Books Acquired in JuneNone!
TBR books read in June: 0
Books acquired in June: 0
Difference: 0
Total spent in June: $0
TBR books read in 2025: 8 (actually removed from shelf: 6)
Books acquired in 2025: 33
Difference: 27
Total spent in 2025: $57.00
(Gotta update this one tomorrow after I check the prices of these books at home.)Books Acquired in July
Moon of the Crusted Snow
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
TBR books read in July: 0
Books acquired in July: 2
Difference: 2
Total spent in July: $0
TBR books read in 2025: 8 (actually removed from shelf: 6)
Books acquired in 2025: 35
Difference: 29
Total spent in 2025: $57.00
(Gotta update this one tomorrow after I check the prices of the July books at home.)Books Acquired in August
Dragonfell $2.00
TBR books read in August: 0
Books acquired in August: 1
Difference: 1
Total spent in August: $2
TBR books read in 2025: 8 (actually removed from shelf: 6)
Books acquired in 2025: 36
Difference: 30
Total spent in 2025: $59.00
Mount TBR Challenge 2025
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Sub-goal #1: Read one 500+ page book off my TBR each quarter.
Winter: none :( (but I did reread Eragon in preparation for some long sequels!)
Spring: none :(
Summer:
Autumn:
Sub-goal #2: Read one non-fiction book off my TBR each quarter.
Winter: none :(
Spring: none :(
Summer:
Autumn:
Sub-goal #3: Knock some of the oldest books off my TBR. I've been on Goodreads since 2009, and when I joined I added my whole collection as of that time, so a huge chunk of my TBR list is from that year.
2009 TBR at start of year: 297
2009 TBR at end of year:
Relevant links:
Last year's challenge
This year's Virtual Mount TBR challenge