One of my goals for this year is to read some of the books that have been hanging out on my shelves and/or TBR for a while. To make that goal a little more concrete, I’m signing up for the 2019 TBR Pile Challenge hosted by RoofBeamReader.com. The challenge is to post a list of 12 books that have been on your shelf and/or TBR for at least a year. Finish all 12 books by the end of the year (2 alternates allowed in case there are a couple you just can’t get through) and you are entered in a $50 Amazon gift card drawing.
To knock even more books off the TBR, I decided not to “double dip” with the books that I’ll be reading for the Back to the Classic Challenge, so none of the books on here are classics (other than some genre fiction old enough to be considered classic). Without further ado, here’s the list:
Main TBR
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Baby in the Icebox and Other Short Fiction by James M. Cain
- The Case of the Velvet Claws (Perry Mason: Book 1) by Erle Stanley Gardner
- Corum: The Coming of Chaos (Eternal Champion Sequence: Volume 7) by Michael Moorcock
- Ever by Gail Carson Levine
- King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
- The Little Drummer Girl by John LeCarré
- Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South by Christopher Dickey
- The Roads Between the Worlds (Eternal Champion Sequence: Volume 6) by Michael Moorcock
- Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
- The Tyranny of the Night (The Instrumentalities of the Night: Book 1) by Glen Cook
Alternates:
- Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng
- Unusual Uses of Olive Oil by Alexander McCall Smith
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Corum, cool. I like his 6 stories a lot.
Do you know what character is involved in “The Roads between Worlds”? I’m only familiar with Moorcock’s Eternal Champion sequence through the various characters, not so much by story…
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Just checked and it’s three novels featuring three different versions: Professor Faustaff, Alan Powys, and Clovis Becker. I don’t recognize any of them (though I’m guessing Faustaff riffs on Faust and Fallstaff, and maybe Becker is connected to the VonBeck’s)
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Thanks for checking. I don’t recognize any of them either.
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Unusual Uses of Olive Oil?! That sounds fun, I haven’t heard of it but have read a lot of AMcSmith and loved them all. Good Luck with your challenge!
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It’s book #4 in the “Portuguese Irregular Verbs” series
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I’ll have to check them out, haven’t read any of those! Thanks
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I find them hilarious…they focus on an arrogant German professor and his self-important misadventures. They are especially funny if you have spent any amount of time in/around academia
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Good luck with your challenge!
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Great idea! I can already tell you that Atonement and Song of Kali will be very good. Good luck with your challenge!
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