TBR Challenges
Is three TBR challenges too many? I guess we'll find out! Adam is back with his Official TBR Challenge, and Deb can always be depended on for the Mount TBR and Virtual Mount TBR (for library books!). Here we go:
The Official TBR Pile Challenge returns at Adam's Roof Beam Reader blog. Adam requires that the list be selected ahead of time, and here it is, 12 titles plus two alternates:
- The Eternal Husband and other stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
- The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus), ed. Nigel Bryant
- We Never Make Mistakes and other essays by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- A Word From Wormingford, by Ronald Blythe
- Needle and Thread: A Tale of Survival from Bialystok to Paris, by Charles Zabuski
- The Leaky Establishment, by David Langford
- Mink River, by Brian Doyle
- Magic Mirrors, by John Bellairs
- Model Children, by Paul Thorez
- Caldecott & Co., by Maurice Sendak
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles McKay
- The Druids, by Peter Berresford Ellis (possibly a new entry in the 'dodgy anthropology' section, don't know yet)
- Mysteries of the Middle Ages, by Thomas Cahill
Bev, on the other hand, only requires that we choose a number of books to read for her Mount TBR Challenge, and as always, I'm going for 24.
Same for the Virtual Mount TBR Challenge -- 24 titles.
Phew, that's a lot! Wish me luck.
From your TBR Pile Challenge I've only read Our Mutual Friend, which I loved but I am a huge Dickens fan so that's not surprising! I haven't heard of that John Bellairs but I loved his early books when I was a kid -- I didn't know he'd written anything for adults, must look for this!
ReplyDeleteI hadn't intended to sign up for any challenges this year but I might not be able to resist this one.
The nice thing about this challenge is that it just makes me read the books that are already there and waiting. :) This Bellairs book is actually a collection of his short works that have often been hard or even impossible to find. Some of it is material I've read before, but much is new, and as a Bellairs super-fan, I'm super-excited. :)
DeleteI've tried to read OMF once or twice, and failed so far, despite being a Thames/London addict. Imma do it this time!
Nice list! I'm interested to see what you think of these Russian titles.
ReplyDeleteHere is my list:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2022/01/03/2022-tbr-pile-reading-challenge/
Thanks, Emma! You have a scarily French-heavy list...
Deletewell, I happen to be French, so...
DeleteJean, you've got an interesting list for Adam's challenge. I haven't read any of them, but I recently started reading John Bellairs so I'm interested to see what you think of that one. good luck with all your challenges!
ReplyDeleteOh Bev, I am such a Bellairs geek it is ridiculous. I hope you love him too!
DeleteGood Luck with your challenges, I haven't read any of them so will look forward to finding out more!
ReplyDeleteI don't think 3 challenges is too many. But I might not be a very good judge of such things, given my own track record. :) Good luck!!
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