Today starts my onslaught of reading challenges on my blog! Each of my online challenges (because yes, I do more than just online ones!) will have a specific page I intend to update throughout the year with my progress.
Wish me luck!
This page is for "Beat the Backlist". Essentially, the goal here is to read as many books as possible from previous to the current year. According to the host, this is the challenge:
In short, this is a reading challenge where your goal is to read backlist books (published prior to the current year). For 2018, it means reading any book that was published in 2017 or earlier. You have the entire year to read as many books as you can/want. YOU set your own reading goal and this challenge isn’t just for bloggers. You do NOT need to have a blog to participate. Any online social media account (Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) will work, and if you have a blog you’re welcome to join in too!
Now to add a bit of a competitive edge, when you sign up for the challenge you’ll be randomly placed on a team. These teams will compete to see who can get the most points, and each month one winner will be drawn from the team with the most points to get a book of their choice (open internationally). You get points by reading books! And you can earn extra by posting a review to retail websites (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc).
My reading resolution this year is to chip away at my tbr pile, so I'm excited to be a part of this challenge!
My group is the "story sorcerers". Wish me (and us!) luck!
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1. Mary Green by Melanie Kerr (2016)
2. All is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker (2016)
3. It by Stephen King (1986)
4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (1991)
5. The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (1999)
6. The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff (2008)
7. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad (2016)
8. Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson (2013)
9. The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (2009)
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871)
11. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)
12. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2008)
13. Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead (2007)
14. Kill Shakespeare - Past is Prologue: Juliet by Conor McCreery (2017)
15. Longbourn by Jo Baker (2013)
16. My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park by Cindy Jones (2011)
17. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson (2016)
18. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1997)
19. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
20. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Meyers (1996)
21. The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (2000)
22. Kill Shakespeare (Vol 4): The Mask of Night by Conor McCreery (2014)
23. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom (2012)
24. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (2012)
25. What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World by Taylor Mali (2012)
26. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
27. The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman (2014)
28. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
29. 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (1975)