Mount TBR 2017 Reading Challenge Wrap-up

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One of the most successful reading challenges I completed in 2017 was the Mount TBR challenge from Bev at My Reader’s Block. I have way too many books that I’ve purchased over the years sitting unread on my bookshelf or in the Kindle cloud. So I’m very happy that I was able to read 36 books from my TBR pile, climbing Mount Vancouver.

Some books I acquired mere months before the challenge started, while others had been languishing on my shelves for decades. The books that went unread the longest were probably the David Eddings Elenium series, the Alfred Hitchcock short story anthologies, and Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove.

As I wrote earlier, next year I plan on climbing to even greater heights by reading 48 books from my TBR shelf, reaching Mount Ararat.

Here are the books I read in 2017 to reach Mount Vancouver, along with links to my reviews:

1. The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux- Finished 1/1/2017
2. To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey – Finished 1/11/2017
3. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell – Finished 1/14/2017
4. The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart – Finished 1/28/2017
5. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Finished 1/29/2017
6. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer – Finished 1/31/2017
7. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Finished 2/8/2017
8. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn – Finished 2/11/2017
9. 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie – Finished 2/13/2017
10. The Diamond Throne by David Eddings – Finished 2/20/2017
11. The Ruby Knight by David Eddings- Finished 2/27/2017
12. The Sapphire Rose by David Eddings – Finished 3/7/2017
13. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy – Finished 4/8/2017
14. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm – Finished 5/22/2017
15. The Trial by Franz Kafka – Finished 5/28/2017
16. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DeFoe – Finished 6/17/2017
17. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry – Finished 7/11/2017
18. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather- Finished 7/16/2017
19. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie – Finished 10/3/2017
20. Romola by George Eliot – Finished 10/22/2017
21. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly – Finished 10/24/2017
22. The Last Queen of England by Steve Robinson – Finished 10/27/2017
23. The Murder in the Vicarage by Agatha Christie – Finished 11/4/2017
24. The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison – Finished 11/15/2017
25. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James – Finished 11/19/2017
26. The Violent Land by Wayne D. Overholser – Finished 11/23/2017
27. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol – Finished 11/25/2017
28. Alfred Hitchcock’s Hard Day at the Scaffold edited by Alfred Hitchcock – Finished 12/3/2017
29. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – Finished 12/06/2017
30. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset – Finished 12/18/2017
31. Hunted Down by Charles Dickens – Finished 12/21/2017
32. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories for Late at Night, edited by Alfred Hitchcock – Finished 12/23/2017
33. The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton – Finished 12/26/2017
34. A Spring Within Us by Richard Rohr – Finished 12/29/2017
35. The Apothecary Rose by Candace Robb – Finished 12/29/2017
36. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV edited by Alfred Hitchcock – Finished 12/30/2017