Mount TBR Challenge 2019

Hosted by Bev at My Reader's Block
This is a favorite challenge of mine, all about reading books you already own.  (FWIW, I'm bolstering my list with a couple of my parents' books.  We share with each other!)  It's crazy, but I'm also choosing a steep challenge this year: 24 books.  Don't know how far I'll get, but I'm pretty excited with the list!

Here it is, in no particular order (and subject to change): 


MOUNT BLANC - 24 BOOKS

Fiction:
  1. ✓ Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
  2. ✓ The Professor - Charlotte Bronte
  3. Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  4. Light in August - William Faulkner
  5. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
  6. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
  7. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
  8. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  9. Moby-Dick (reread) - Herman Melville
  10. Jane Eyre (reread) - Charlotte Bronte
  11. Pilgrim's Progress (reread) - John Bunyan
  12. ✓ The Time Machine (reread) - H. G. Wells
  13. Bonus: Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  14. Bonus: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
  15. Bonus: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
If I read The Professor and Tenant, I will have finally read all of the Bronte sisters' novels.  The completist in me is eager for that milestone!

Non-Fiction:
  1. The Lost City of Z - David Grann
  2. The Emperor's Sea Eagle: A Memoir of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the War in the Pacific - Abe Zenji
  3. Recollections of Japan - Hendrik Doeff
  4. The Boy in the Mask: The Hidden World of Lawrence of Arabia - Dick Benson-Gyles
  5. To Begin the World Over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad - John Hulsman
  6. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy - Eric Metaxas
  7. Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age - W. Bernard Carlson
  8. ✓ AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order - Kai-Fu Lee
  9. ✓ Fear No Evil - Natan Sharansky
  10. Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook - Jane Maxwell
  11. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Caroline Alexander
  12. Shackleton - Roland Huntford
There are a LOT of chunksters here, particularly the biographies.  We'll see how that goes...

Comments

mudpuddle said…
some grrreat selections there... if there's one book i'd like to read next year, it's Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, partly because Dr. Johnson liked it a lot and partly because i'm curious and partly because i have a copy... (how many partly's can i have before i run out?) haha
December 23, 2018 at 3:36 PM
Cleo @ Classical Carousel said…
I'm tempted to join you for The Professor, Cancer Ward, The Pilgrim's Progress, and Bonhoeffer. Where There Is No Doctor sounds fascinating. Good luck with this challenge! I'm considering it but haven't decided yet.
December 23, 2018 at 5:03 PM
Marian H said…
I'm drawn into the Wikipedia article on it now...it sounds really interesting!
December 24, 2018 at 7:17 AM
Marian H said…
That would be fun!! (No pressure! ;))
December 24, 2018 at 7:19 AM
Ruth @ with freedom and books said…
LOVED Bonhoeffer!!!!

I'm doing a lot of rereads this coming year, too, including Moby Dick. : )
December 27, 2018 at 8:20 AM
Marian H said…
Yay, we can compare notes! :)
December 27, 2018 at 8:55 AM
Beth said…
I loved The Tenant of Wildfell Hall! And Bleak House. I think I will reread Bleak House this year.

here is my Mount TBR challenge so far:
https://bethsbookishthoughts.blogspot.com/2018/11/mount-tbr-reading-challenge.html

And my Virtual Mount TBR:
https://bethsbookishthoughts.blogspot.com/2018/12/virtual-mount-tbr-challenge.html
March 26, 2019 at 9:51 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

When We Were Orphans - A Study in "Meh"

Image
It's London in the 1930s, and Christopher Banks has what most people want: his dream job.  After a childhood of playing detective with his best friend Akira, Christopher grew up to be one of England's leading private investigators, highly sought after both professionally and socially.  In spite of his success, he can't forget the life he left behind him in Shanghai, nor the fact that his parents remain missing there and unaccounted for.  Christopher's greatest hope is to go back to Shanghai to find them, even if it means returning to a war zone.  It turns out, however, that new relationships - including his love for a lonely socialite - make committing to his past the hardest case to solve. This book could not have had a more promising premise.  I've raved about the nuances of Empire of the Sun (another story about an English boy in Shanghai), and I know Ishiguro can be incredibly subtle .  I also love a good mystery with a Sherlock Holmesian characte...
Read more

My First Classics Club List

Image
So...contrary to my past practices, I am starting to embrace epic challenges.  Before this enthusiasm leaves me, I've decided to finally join The Classics Club and commit to reading 50 classics within five years. It's a pretty reasonable goal (ten classics a year), since I mostly read classics anyway.  But I'm making it more difficult by including some chunksters and books I've been putting off for years and some that fall under both (*cough* War and Peace ).  I also threw in some rereads that I keep meaning to return to.  The list also came out to 52 instead of 50 (sigh), but I'm only committing to 50.
Read more