Mount TBR 2017 Challenge

*Edited on 12/31/17 to add:

Well, I finished this challenge successfully! I reached the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro by reading 60 books that I already had sitting on my shelves! I did end up buying a whole lot of books in 2017 that I haven't read yet though, so there are definitely more mountains to climb in my future!


This post will serve as my record of all the books I have read for my Mount TBR 2017 Challenge. This challenge is all about reading books that you already owned prior to 2017. I have signed up for the Mount Kilimanjaro level, meaning I need to read a total of 60 books from my shelves throughout the year. Books will be added and linked to their review when I have completed them.

1. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (3/5 stars)
2. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (4/5 stars)
3. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (2/5 stars)
4. The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Reader's Edition by Michael Pollan (3/5 stars)
5. Lock In by John Scalzi (3/5 stars)
6. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2/5 stars)
7. Dear White America by Tim Wise (4/5 stars)
8. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (5/5 stars)
9. King Lear by William Shakespeare (4/5 stars)
10. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (4/5 stars)
11. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (3/5 stars)
12. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson by Jacqueline Woodson (5/5 stars)
13. Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet (2/5 stars)
14. Germinal by Émile Zola (4/5 stars)
15. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (3/5 stars)
16. Letters From The Looney Bin by Thatcher C. Nalley (1/5 stars)
17. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (4/5 stars)
18. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs (3/5 stars)
19. Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs (2/5 stars)
20. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (4/5 stars)
21. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (4/5 stars)
22. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (4/5 stars)
23. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (3/5 stars)
24. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling; Illustrations by Jim Kay (5/5 stars)
25. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner (5/5 stars)
26. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (4/5 stars)
27. Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (4/5 stars)
28. Rigorous Reading by Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher (2/5 stars)
29. Trouble by Non Pratt (3/5 stars)
30. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling; Illustrations by Jim Kay (5/5 stars)
31. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina (3/5 stars)
32. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (4/5 stars)
33. The Odyssey by Homer (4/5 stars)
34. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard (4/5 stars)
35. The Girls by Emma Cline (4/5 stars)
36. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (5/5 stars)
37. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2/5 stars)
38. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (abridged) (3/5 stars)
39. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (3/5 stars)
40. Colorblind by Tim Wise (4/5 stars)
41. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2/5 stars)
42. Pax by Sara Pennypacker (3/5 stars)
43. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (5/5 stars)
44. The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson (2/5 stars)
45. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (3/5 stars)
46. Frost by M.P. Kozlowsky (3/5 stars)
47. The Scourge by Jennifer Nielsen (2/5 stars)
48. Dracula by Bram Stoker (3/5 stars)
49. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (5/5 stars)
50. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (4/5 stars)
51. Pointe by Brandy Colbert (4/5 stars)
52. A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall (3/5 stars)
53. Boys Don't Knit by T.S. Easton (3/5 stars)
54. This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales (2/5 stars)
55. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (4/5 stars)
56. The Good Sister by Jamie Kain (4/5 stars)
57. The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider (2/5 stars)
58. The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (3/5 stars)
59. Firecracker by David Iserson (3/5 stars)
60. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (1/5 stars)