2013 TBR CHALLENGE

I don’t know why it is so hard for me to read books which are sitting on my bookshelves.  They stare at me as if begging me to read them.  I am continually reminded of their presence.  Almost all of them are well-written classics or near-classics, yet I often choose a book that I don’t own.  Enter the TBR challenge.

Last year I read 34 books from my shelves; this year I have no idea how many I’ve read so I thought it would be a good idea to check in with myself!  This is the list so far:

  1.  The Divine Comedy – Dante
  2.  Cautionary Tales for Children – Hillaire Belloc
  3.  Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
  4.  Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  5.  At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald
  6.  Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
  7.  Anne of Avonlea – L.M. Montgomery
  8.  I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
  9.  Middlemarch – George Eliot
10.  Moonfleet – John Meade Faulkner
11.  Anne of the Island – L.M. Montgomery
12.  Anne of the Windy Poplars – L.M. Montgomery
13.  Anne’s House of Dreams – L.M. Montgomery
14.  Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
15.  Anne of Ingleside – L.M. Montgomery
16.  The Black Tulip – Alexandre Dumas
17.  Rainbow Valley – L.M. Montgomery
18.  Dombey and Son – Charles Dickens
19.  Beowulf

Hmmmm ……….. not quite the same pace as last year but I am glad I’m getting through all the “Anne” books, of which previously, I had only read the first two.  In any case, it’s a much better pace than the approximately 4 per year which I used to cover.  I’m impressed!