#MountTBR January reading list
01.01.2022
- The hardest thing you have to change is your mind…..
- I’ve decided to start this most difficult challenge !
- #MountTBR2022
- According to my KINDLE I have 1352 unread books.
- If I want to bring this number down to zero
- …I would have to read 10 books a month for the next 11 years!
- It is time to join Bev’s challenge Mount TBR 2022
- @MyReadersBlock
- You can participate on her blog or via her Goodreads group!
- I think the ONLY challenge I will be joining in 2022 is
- Goodreads Mount TBR 2022
- Challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2022
- The link provides ALL the information you need to…
- Choose a level,
- Open a topic under one of the challenge level folders
- Name your climb.
- Reviews are optional
- When I look at this reading list…my hearts sinks.
- 40 books….bought in 2015….still unread on my Kindle.
- ….and there are many more books to read!
- So, today I start…
January 2022 – TBR
- A Manual For Cleaning Women (43 stories) – Lucia Berlin
- The Housekeeper and the Professor – Y. Ogawa
2. 
by 
Yōko Ogawa
Finish date: 03 January 2022
Genre: novella
- Thomas Becket – John Guy
- The Confessions of Nat Turner – W. Styron
JANUARY
4. 
by 
William Styron
Finish date: 06 January 2022
Genre: historical fiction
- Memoir – Out of Africa – I. Dinesen
JANUARY
5. 
by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (no photo)
Finished date: 07 January 2022
Genre: autobiographical anecdotes
JANUARY
6. 
by Stephen Kern (no photo)
Finish date: 09 January 2022
Genre: cultural history
- The Silence of the Sea – Yrsa Sigurdardottir
JANUARY
7. 
by 
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Finish date: 09 January 2022
Genre: CF
- The Hummingbird – K. Hiekkapelto (16.05.2015)
JANUARY
8. 
by 
Kati Hiekkapelto
Finished: 10 January 2022
Genre: crime fiction
- The Hunting Dogs – J. Lier Horst
JANUARY
9. 
by 
Jørn Lier Horst
Finished date: 11 January 2022
Genre: Nordic noir
- Kolymsky Heights – L. Davidson
10. 
by 
Lionel Davidson
Finish date: 10 January 2022
Genre: CF
- Gaudy Night – D. L. Sayers
- Collected Stories – Isaac Bashevis Singer
JANUARY
12. 
by 
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Finish date: 15 January 2022
Genre: Short stories
- Captains Courageous – R. Kipling
- Dawn of the Belle Epoque – M. McAuliffe
- The Art of Racing in the Rain – G. Stein
- The Collected Short Plays – Thornton Wilder, Volume I
JANUARY
16. 
by 
Thornton Wilder
Finish date: 19 January 2022
Genre: Plays
- Separate Tables – Terence Rattigan
JANUARY
17. 
by 
Terence Rattigan
Finish date: 28 January 2022
Genre: Play
- The Crossroads of Should and Must – E. Luna
NancyElin 
Looks like a great and challenging list!
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Sometimes I ask myself: “Why did I ever buy this book?’ Tastes change in the course of the years! What is your first book this year?
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I started reading Will Storr’s Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us yesterday. Super interesting!
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And I’m the same – sometimes I look at books on my list I was so enthusiastic about when I discovered it and there’s just zero interest left! So weird.
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Storr’s book sounds interesting…I’ll have a look at it on Amazon!
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I did the Mount TBR challenge a few years–but I didn’t quit buying books! So no real progress…
Since I prefer physical books and couldn’t go into bookstores most of last year, that meant I couldn’t buy books. And for the first time in forever (?) I read more books for the first time than I bought. Success!
Still a great looking list. I’m especially curious about the Ntozake Shange–I’ve read a bunch of hers–I had her for an instructor in the 80s–but not that one.
And happy new year!
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My library is 90% Kindle…so book buying remained an ever present temptation. Read 129 books…but bought 160 during 2021. Ouch! So time to make reading planning for each month of 2022, insert short reviews on that post. I want to streamline the reviewing process …all reviews on monthly plan and save time NOT creating a post for every book I read. Time is of the essence when one is trying to reduce the TBR. Happy New Year, Reese!
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Wow! That’s some list. I’m always changing my mind!
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Carol, so good to hear from you ! I never forget celebrating Xmas in December 2014 with you when I listened to and commented on Handel’s Messiah for weeks! It was a great experience. So I see you’ve moved to WordPress…the website looks great. Have you also included a link to your first website..there are a lot of interesting posts still there. Homeschooling…what a journey it has been teaching your children. In these times of the pandemic I wonder how many parents are seriously considering to educate their children at home. I’ll bookmark your blog and visit in 2022. Challenge 2022…yes, I am methodically working on my TBR starting with the books bought in 2015. Yesterday I had my first urge to buy a new book, but stopped myself and put it on a ‘wish-list’.
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Hi Nancy, yes, I really enjoyed that Christmas, too!
I’m still getting used to W/Press & it’s certainly easier to organise posts etc. When I moved from Blogger I imported everything but there were some glitches which I’m slowly fixing. If anyone goes to my old journey-and-destination blogspot they are automatically transferred to the new site. I don’t know if that what the best thing to do but it’s done now.
I was given a few new books for my birthday/Christmas & I’ve told myself I should not buy anymore until I’ve read some that have been on my shelves for too long. I admire your self-control 🙂
I keep finding books that I’d like but I will see if I can find them at the library if it’s a book I’m not sure of.
I’ve heard of quite a few parents who decided to keep homeschooling as it seemed a better option for them after they’d had a taste of it. The problem is that home ed is judged under these conditions of lockdown but it’s not normal for us either as we’ve had to pause many of our activities.
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P.S. I really like your ABC categories for your book reviews & might adopt them if you don’t mind. I just can’t give a number out of 5 for some strange reason all my own.
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Glad to hear you are doing well…..
ABC rating feels like I’m back in school again and I know
how hard it is to get an A! Use any portion of the template on this post or any other thing you see on the blog. 🙂
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