2015 READING CHALLENGE | BOOKISH TBR PILE CHALLENGE

Because it’s an easy one to do in the normal course of my reading, I’m participating in the Bookish TBR Pile Challenge once again!

The rules for this particular challenge are simple: any book published in or before 2014 is eligible. So, basically, any book not released this year. Piece of cake! Last year I read about 40 books that counted towards this challenge. I don’t have a specific goal this year, but I figure as long as I hit 35 I’ll be pretty happy! Here are the books I think I’ll be reading this year, and I’ll cross them off as I get through them. I’ll also be adding any that fit the criteria but aren’t on this list as I go!

These are books I picked for the Official 2015 TBR Pile Challenge hosted by Roof Beam Reader, but they’ll count towards this one as well: 

1. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
2. Love Is the Higher Law – David Levithan
3. The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
4. Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
5. Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
6. The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
7. Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan
8. Just Kids – Patti Smith
9. Last Night In Montreal – Emily St. John Mandel
10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
11. A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
12. Why New Orleans Matters – Tom Piazza

Alternates:

1. Stories I Only Tell My Friends – Rob Lowe
2. The Ocean At the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman

Other 2014 and before books I plan to read this year:

1. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
2. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
3. The Book of Unknown Americans – Cristina Henriquez
4. The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
5. The Magician’s Assistant – Ann Patchett
6. The Silkworm – J.K. Rowling
7. Redeployment – Phil Klay
8. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – David Shafer
9. The Boston Girl – Anita Diamant
10. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night – Heather O’Neill
11. The Keeper of Lost Causes – Jussi Adler Olsen
12. The Sisters Brothers – Patrick DeWitt
13. My Booky Wook – Russell Brand
14. Hyperbole and a Half – Allie Brosh

2014 and before books I didn’t plan to read, but did anyway:

1. The Drop – Dennis Lehane
2. Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
3. Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
4. The Fever – Megan Abbott
5. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
6. Anne of Avonlea – L.M. Montgomery
7. Anne of the Island – L.M. Montgomery
8. Anne of Windy Poplars – L.M. Montgomery
9. The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
10. We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11. Citizen – Claudia Rankine
12. Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
13. Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
14. The Girl With All the Gifts – M.R. Carey

Total TBR Books Read So Far: 18

Any of you participating? Link me in the comments!