Out of the 56 books I picked up this year.. 31 were from my TBR
I loved participating in this challenge.
It was a great motivator for reading more than just the latest releases and did cross off a good handful of my TBR books.. sort of.
You know how it is—for every one you finish, twenty replace it.
But looking at all of the TBR books I’ve managed to read this year, I’m surprisingly pleased. I really didn’t expect to get in as much reading as I did or fall in love with nearly as many as I did so, despite not getting to everything I would have liked, I’m thrilled with the end result.
The Rules:
- The book must be published in the previous year or earlier (for the 2022 challenge, anything published in 2021 or earlier counts)
- You have to start and finish the book in 2022.
- And that’s it!
Enjoy!
First Half of 2022
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1. Woman in Shadow by Carrie Stuart Parks
2. The Gatherer by Colleen Winter
3. You’ll Thank Me For This by Nina Siegal
4. Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion
5. Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight
6. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman DNF
7. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
8. Love, Magic, and Misfortune by Karla Nikole
9. The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
10. The Cousins by Karen McManus
11. The House of Ashes by Stuart Neville
12. After the Woods by Kim Savage
13. The Return by Rachel Harrison
14. Verity by Colleen Hoover
15. The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Second Half of 2022
16. All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
17. Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
18. Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
19. You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle DNF
20. My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
21. The Island House by Amanda Brittany
22. All My Darkest Impulses by Lisa Unger
23. RWBY: The Official Manga Vol 01 by Bunta Kinami DNF
24. The Gravity Inside Us: Poetry and Prose by Chloe Frayne
25. I Call Upon Thee by Ania Ahlborn
26. Fog Descending by Lisa Unger
27. Circling the Drain by Lisa Unger
28. Love the Way You Lie by Lisa Unger
29. The Neighbour’s Cat by J.S Ellis
30. The Girl Who Ruined Christmas by Cindy Callaghan
31. Twelve Days by Paul Williams
32. The Diary of a Serial Killer’s Daughter by L.A. Detwiler
Thank you so much for taking the time to check out my post! Did anything catch your eye?
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Happy reading!
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Congrats! That is awesome 👏
Thank you! It’s a great challenge. 😊
You seem to really like Lisa Unger. Do have a favorite(s)?
Honestly, those were the first books I’ve read by her so they’re the only ones I can really recommend at the moment.. but I do look forward reading more by her.
Have you read any of her books?
You did such a great job! Puts me to shame, I didn’t even read a single backlist book on my tbr this year cry
Thank you!
I hope you don’t take this the wrong way but it blows my mind that you didn’t get to any of your backlist books—You read so much.. how is that possible?
Great job! I don’t think I took a look at what books I read in 2022 that were on the backlist but now I’m curious and may have to do a post! I’ll definitely do this for 2023.
Thank you! And I think you’ll be surprised by how many you find.
Let me know if you do that post, I’d love to see it!