Beat the Backlist 2020 Sign Up & Tentative TBR

Going in to 2020, one of my biggest resolutions is to do less challenges since I pretty much bailed on most of the ones I signed up for in 2019.  One challenge I know I still want to do, however, is the Beat the Backlist Challenge, mainly because it ties in with one of my other bookish resolutions for 2020, which is to read more of the older books I own that have been sitting on my shelves neglected in favor of newer releases.  This past year the Beat the Backlist Challenge helped me to knock 36 backlisted titles off my TBR and since, aside from the Goodreads Challenge, it’s the only challenge I plan to do at this point, I’ve decided to increase my goal to 50  for 2020.  Wish me luck!  You can read about the rules for the challenge at www.novelknight.com but the basic gist is that the challenge runs all year long and all of the books you read  for it must have been published in 2019 or earlier.  There are also a fun mini challenge built into BTB and this year I’m planning to take part and represent the Multi-Taskers since I’m the kind of reader who isn’t satisfied with reading just one book at a time.

Team Multi-Taskers!

Below is my tentative 2020 TBR, but as I’m such a mood reader, this list is subject to change.  A few of these are carryovers from last year’s challenge TBR. I will say though that I finally did purge about 10 titles from my overall TBR after putting them on this challenge list for three years in a row and still not reading them. Clearly I had lost interest in them so it was just time for them to go.

1. The Flatshare – Beth O’Leary
2. All Systems Red – Martha Wells
3. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
4. Get a Life, Chloe Brown – Talia Hibbert
5. The Giver of Stars – Jojo Moyes
6. The Tattoist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
7. The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
8. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
9. The Starless Sea – Erin Morganstern
10. Circe – Madeline Miller
11. Summer of ’69 – Erin Hilderbrand
12. Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo
13. An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
14. One Day in December – Josie Silver
15. The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
16. Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
17. The Huntress – Kate Quinn
18. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han
19. A Dance with Dragons – George R.R. Martin
20. Heir of Fire – Sarah J. Maas
21. The Whisper Man – Alex North
22. Never Have I Ever – Joshilyn Jackson
23. Next Year in Havana – Chanel Cleeton
24. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
25. My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
26. The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo
27. The Fountains of Silence – Ruta Sepetys
28. The Queen of Nothing – Holly Black
29. The Dry – Jane Harper
30. Uprooted – Naomi Novik
31. Miracle Creek – Angie Kim
32. To the Bright Edge of the World – Eowyn Ivey
33. Sorcery of Thorns – Margaret Rogerson
34. Girls of Paper and Fire – Natasha Ngan
35. When We Left Cuba – Chanel Cleeton
36. Aurora Rising – Amie Kaufman
37. Godsgrave – Jay Kristoff
38. Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
39. They Both Die at the End – Adam Silvera
40. Torch Against the Night – Sabaa Tahir
41. The Rose and the Dagger – Renee Ahdieh
42. Dating You, Hating You – Christina Lauren
43. City of Glass – Cassandra Clare
44. Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Laini Taylor
45. The City of Brass – S.A. Chakraborty
46. Ellie and the Harpmaker – Hazel Prior
47. The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty
48. The Toll – Neal Shusterman
49. Gods of Jade and Shadow – Silvia Moreno- Garcia
50. How to Walk Away – Katherine Center