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My TBR Challenge 2019

By Jan
 on June 23, 2019

I’ve been reading (ahem…) about book challenges this week and remembering my previous attempts to keep up with them. I’m fairly sure I failed 90 percent of the time. Regardless, I’m ready to take one on again!A Journey Through Texas cover

What’s that you ask? “Why would you do that again, given your track record?” I enjoyed the 2018 Reading Challenge at Goodreads, and I did well, for a change. Maybe I’m flushed with my success and ready to repeat it.

Whatever the reason, I’m doing something a little different—at least, for me.

One of the (many) things I love about reading is actually the acquisition of the books. I love buying books of all kinds and keeping track of them. I have hundreds of unread books in my Kindle Library and quite a few in my Audible library. For 2019, I want to read books I ALREADY OWN. Thus, I’m borrowing the To-Be-Read (TBR) Challenge from other sources for myself.

The following books I have already acquired are on my reading list for 2019:

  1. Quite Ready To Be Sent Somewhere: The Civil War Letters Of Aldace Freeman Walker by Thomas Ledoux [ebook and paperback][COMPLETE]
  2. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah [audiobook] [COMPLETE]
  3. The Forever Life (The Forever Series Book 1) by Craig Robertson [ebook]
  4. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick [audiobook] [COMPLETE]
  5. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt [ebook] [COMPLETE]
  6. A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier (1857) by Frederick Law Olmsted [ebook and paperback][COMPLETE]
  7. Dread Nation by Justina Ireland [audiobook] [COMPLETE]
  8. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel by Robert Dugoni [ebook and audiobook]
  9. Then She Was Gone: A Novel by Lisa Jewell [audiobook] [UNFINISHED]
  10. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Duga [ebook][COMPLETE]
  11. Forsaken Kingdom (The Last Prince Book 1) by J.R. Rasmussen  [ebook]
  12. Crow Hollow by Michael Wallace [audiobook]

Updated 11-23-2019

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My TBR Stack

By Jan
 on April 26, 2011

In no particular order, here are a few books I hope to read in the next few months:

Caveat Emptor by Ruth Downie, a novel of the Roman Empire; 3rd in the series of Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso in Britannia

A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer of the Court of Venice by James Cowan

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

A Trail of Ink: The Third Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon by Mel Starr

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (Wordsworth Classics)

Dark Fire: A Matthew Shardlake novel by C. J. Sansom

Dream West by David Nevin

Any insights for me before I start? I would love to hear from you if you’ve read any of these and can comment, and/or a link to your own review would be terrific! Thanks.

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