Beat the Backlist 2017 Reading Challenge: My TBR

The Beat the Backlist Challenge is hosted by Austine at NovelKnight.com and its focus is to encourage readers to finally get through some titles that have been on your TBR for a while, or even those that have gotten pushed aside for new releases.  The primary guideline for the challenge is that the books you choose must have been published prior to 2017.  Also, this challenge  runs from January 1st to December 31st, 2017 so you have a whole year to work on that TBR.  Post updates throughout the year with #beatthebacklist.

This will be the first challenge I’ve participated in since I joined the blogging community so I’m pretty excited about it.  My TBR is also out of control so I think this challenge is perfect for me.  I’m forever shoving aside books I still really want to read in favor of newer releases.  It’s time to take control of my TBR!

Below is my tentative (and possibly overly ambitious) list of books that I want to get off my backlist this year. May the force be with me!

1.  A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
2. A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
3. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
4. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
5. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
6. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
7. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
8. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
9. Landline by Rainbow Rowell
10. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
11. A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess
12. Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
13. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
14. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
15. Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
16. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
17. Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
18. Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
19. When We Collided by Emery Lord
20. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
21. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 
22. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
23. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
24. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
25. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

I also signed up for the optional Hogwarts House mini challenge because it sounded like fun.  The house I chose to represent is Gryffindor.  Thanks so much to Austine for hosting such a great challenge and good luck to everyone who is participating!