Well, I started the year with 122 books on Mount TBR so more than last January – not good!! At the moment I have 116 TBR which doesn’t seem like much progress, but I have been in 3 book exchanges so far this year which brought in over 40 books between them, so actually I’m doing ok! My aim is to get this down to 50 by the end of the year – well I can dream can’t I!
1. Rhoda Stories – Ellen Gilchrist
2. N is for Noose – Sue Grafton
3. True Blue – Luanne Rice
4. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
5. Emma – Jane Austen
6. Surrender The Pink – Carrie Fisher
7. Girls Night Out – Kathy Lette
8. An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
9. The Accidental Bride – Jane Feather
10. City Girl – Patricia Scanlan
11. Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
12. Memoirs of an Unfit Mother – Anne Robinson
13. The Entrepreneur – I G Broat
14. Outer Banks – Anne Rivers Seddon
15. The Thing About Men – Elizabeth Bevarly
16. She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
17. M is for Malice – Sue Grafton
18. Boyfriend In A Dress – Louise Kean
19. Selling Out – Amanda Lees
20. The Dead Past – Tom Piccirilli
21. A Share In Death – Deborah Crombie
22. Exclusive – Sandra Brown
23. Fortune’s Rocks – Anita Shreve
24. How Stella Got Her Groove Back – Terry McMillan
25. Code Name Nanny – Christina Skye
26. Never Too Late – Cathy Kelly
27. Shadows On The Coast Of Maine – Lea Wait
28. Playing The Bones – Louise Redd
29. For Better, For Worse – Carole Matthews
30. Life In Dance – Darcey Bussell
31. The Kalahari Typing School For Men – Alexander McCall Smith
32. My Legendary Girlfriend – Mike Gayle
33. Faking It – Jennifer Crusie
34. The Firm – John Grisham
35. Bachelorette #1 – Jennifer O’Connell
36. A Little Learning – Caro Fraser
37. Time For Bed – David Baddiel
38. Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason – Helen Fielding
39. Olivia Jules and the Overactive Imagination – Helen Fielding
40. Baggage – Emily Barr
41. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
42. The Last Year of Being Single – Sarah Tucker
43. Undressed – Stef Ann Holm
44. Chloe – Freya North
45. See Jane Score – Rachel Gibson
46. Far From Over – Sheila O’Flanagan
47. Fat Chance – Deborah Blumenthal
48. Marrying Up – Jackie Rose
49. Pip – Freya North
50. The Farmer Wants A Wife – Maeve Haran
51. Second Glance – Jodi Picoult
52. 31 Songs – Nick Hornby
53. Ten Big Ones – Janet Evanovich
54. Vinegar Hill – A Manette Ansay
55. Private Pleasures – Beatrice Small
56. The Star Of The Sea – Joseph O’Connor
57. Tuesday’s Child – Louise Bagshawe
58. Name And Address Withheld – Jane Sigaloff
59. High Maintainence – Jennifer Belle
60. An Inconvenient Woman – Dominick Dunne
61. The Saving Graces – Patricia Gaffney
62. The Pact – Jodi Picoult
63. Eleven On Top – Janet Evanovich
64. 3rd Degree – James Patterson
65. 2nd Chance – James Patterson
66. 1st To Die – James Patterson
67. Black and Blue – Anna Quindlan
68. The Rebel Fairy – Deborah Wright
69. Bergdorf Blondes – Plum Sykes
70. Lipstick Jungle – Candace Bushall
71. Otherwise Engaged – Suzanne Finnemore
72. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
73. Bride Needs Groom – Wendy Markham
74. The Nine Month Plan – Wendy Markham
75. The Midnight Club – James Patterson
76. Living Dangerously – Katie Fforde
77. The Family Way – Tony Parsons
78. Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld
79. Sally – Freya North
80. The Fat Ladies Club – Hilary Gardner
81. Girl Meets Ape – Chris Manby
82. Daisy’s Back In Town – Rachel Gibson
83. 3 Brides For 3 Bad Boys – Lucy Monroe
84. The Lost Art Of keeping Secrets – Eva Rice
85. Wild Enough For Willa – Ann Major
86. Time For A Change – Erica James
87. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
88. Velvet, leather and Lace – Suzanne Forster
89. Heat Wave – Jennifer Archer
90. Mumbo Jumbo – Francis Wheen
91. Nerd In Shining Armour – Vicki Lewis Thompson
92. Simply Sinful – Carly Phillips
93. Sink Reflections – Marla Cilley
94. Girls Poker Night – Jill Davis
95. March – Geraldine Brooks
96. The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants – Ann Brasheres
97. Seven Week Itch – Victoria Corby
98. After Ever After – Rowan Coleman
99. Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff – Richard Carlson
100. Gone With The Nerd – Vicki Lewis Thompson
101. Handbags And Gladrags – Maggie Alderson
102. The Rise And Fall Of A Yummy Mummy – Polly Williams
103. Good Wives – Margaret Forster
104. Baby On Board – Stephanie Zia
Those in red I still need to read or remove from my To Be Read pile.
Just had a quick count up and I’m halfway there. Unlikely to achieve by the end of the year, but I’m making progress! If I can start next year with less in total than I started this year (ie, adding in those received this year) then I’ll be a happy bunny!
Still 60 left on the list!! I am passing some on unread, but I think this is going to be neverending! I seem to be reading lots of newer books rather than the old ones, which is not what I should be doing!!
Just had a count up and I’ve got 73 left on my list still to read – I’m not doing as well as I thought! Oh well, I’ll keep plodding on.
Taz wonders why there only 24 hours in a day
This goal is just not going to happen so time to move it over and give myself a break :D
tiggsybabes is on half term
I will never achieve this, so will not try & fool myself that I’ll manage it. I get new books & bookcrossing books all the time.
Read 8 books from my list in January, which is good! Only read 2 books that were’t on the list and they were for a release challenge.
I may wild release some from the list that I don’t think I’ll ever get round to reading, which will reduce it some more!
my oldest TBR received from another BCer ( Does that sentence make sense?) and scarily I recived it on 13th May 2005 from Pennywhistler.
It is The Mirror Crack’d by Agatha Christie. Now why haven’t I read it yet? It’s short, it’s fun, I know who did it – ahh, perhaps that’s why!
I thought I’d be brave and try to see how many books we are actually talking about here and it’s looking like over 200 !
So I’m really trying to sort out the ones I don’t think I’ll read – so if you get an RABCK in the next couple of weeks you’ll know why!!!!
