Mt. TBR

As everybody on Bookcrossing can tell you Mt. TBR is the official (or not) term for the mountain of unread books (Mount To-Be-Read) we all have on our bookshelves. For some people it is more of a mountain range, and for some people it gets totally out of control because they keep acquiring books faster than they can read them.

I belong to this last group, which is why I decided to keep a list of all my TBR books here.

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Books acquired 2006:

• P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus 08.05.08
• Harry Thompson - This Thing of Darkness 25.04.08
• Laurie Gerald - The Coming Plaque (not finished) 13.03.08
• Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
• Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell (not finished) 04.02.08
• Connie Willis - Impossible Things 25.11.07
• Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl 13.10.07
• Connie Willis - Lincoln’s Dreams 27.08.07
• Robert Harris - Fatherland Aug. 07
• Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin 26.04.07
• Jon Fasman - The Geographer’s Library 12.04.07
• Martin Davies - The Conjuror’s Bird 17.03.07
• Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus 10.07.07
• Stephen Fry - Der Lügner 22.05.07 (not finished)
• Jodi Picoult - The Pact 08.07.07
• Jodi Picoult - Vanishing Acts 21.04.07
• Ian Rankin - Die Tore der Finsternis wild released, unread, 02.05.07
• Erik Durschmied - The Hinge Factor 29.07.07
• David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas 05.05.07
• Mark Mills - The Whaleboat House 21.03.07
• Vesna Goldsworthy - Chernobyl Strawberries 23.06.07
• Nathaniel Philbrick - In the Heart of the Sea 06.06.07
• Will Davenport - The Painter Mid June 07
• Philip Pullman - The Tiger in the Well 01.04.07
• Rudyard Kipling - Kim given away unread
• Amy Tan - Töchter des Himmels (given away unread)
• Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions 01.07.07
• Rita Mae Brown - Dolley given away unread, 09.06.07
• Jasper Fforde - Lost in a Good Book 14.03.07
• Theo Colborn - Die bedrohte Zukunft 28.02.07

Books acquired 2007:

• Stephen Fry - Paperweight 15.08.07
• Michael Marshall Smith - Spares 25.10.07
• Jodi Picoult - Keeping Faith 13.08.07
• Stephen King - Cell 28.04.07
• Connie Willis - Fire Watch 10.06.07
• Joanne Harris - Sleep, Pale Sister 19.07.07
• Robin M. Henig - A Dancing Matrix 07.06.07
• Donna Tartt - The Secret History 25.04.07
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 16.04.07
• John Wyndham - The Chrysalids 22.02.08
• John Marsden - The Other Side of Dawn

As of today (26.02.2007) these are all the books on my bookshelves I haven’t read yet. I count 39. Well, that’s not half as bad as I feared. Every new book that arrives here after today will be listed below and every book I read will be printed in italics and show up on my list of books read on my BC bookshelf.

Also, since I know I’m gonna buy and trade and mooch new books all the time anyway, I have amended my New Years resolution a bit: I will try to read at least all the books I acquired last year until the end of this year. We’ll see how far I get with this one.

March 07:

• Julia Cameron - The Right to Write 13.03.07
• Anthony Bourdain - Mord nach Rezept 16.04.07
• John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat 07.05.07
• Dorothea Brande - Becoming a Writer 20.04.07
• John Marsden - The Dead of the Night 22.08.07
• Ian Caldwell - The Rule of Four 28.08.07
• James A. Michener - Alaska
• Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time

April 07:

• David R. Palmer - Emergence 30.04.07
• Kaye Kelly - Cross the River to Home 09.05.07
• Connie Willis - Bellwether 01.05.07
• Sheri S. Tepper - The Gate To Women’s Country 06.07.07
• Margaret Forster - The Memory Box 12.08.07
• John Marsden - The Third Day, The Frost 24.08.07
• John Marsden - Darkness, Be My Friend 27.08.07
• John Marsden - Burning For Revenge

02.05.07:
Well, during the last 4 weeks or so I have actually made some headway with my Mt. TBR. I have read 10 of my books in April, if I haven’t miscounted. Largely thanks to the fact that I had no bookrings coming my way. I’m pretty sure this will change again soon.
And I’m certain, my visit to London in June will bring me a whole new mountain range of unread books…

May 07:

• Markus Zusak - The Book Thief 08.03.08
• Bryce Courtenay - The Power of One Aug. 07
• Julian Barnes - A history of the world in 10.5 chapters 02.05.08

June 07:

• Sebastian Faulks - Human Traces (not finished) 02.04.08
• Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!
• Mary Lawson - Crow Lake 02.08.07
• Steph Swainston - The Year of Our War 30.10.07

The following books I bought on my recent trip to London:

• Mary Roach - Six Feet Over 27.06.07
• Sena Jeter Naslund - Ahab’s Wife (nf) 27.05.08
• W. Hodding Carter - A Viking Voyage 12.07.07
• John Wyndham - The Kraken Wakes 25.06.07
• Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate 19.08.07
• Eric Zencey - Panama 27.08.07 (not finished)
• Elizabeth Berg - The Pull Of The Moon 30.08.07
• Richard Russo - Empire Falls 05.09.07
• Michael Marshall Smith - What You Make It 27.08.07
• Andrew Taylor - The American Boy 30.11.07 (not finished)
• Michael Faber - The Crimson Petal and The White 15.07.08
• Terry Pratchett - Soul Music
• Terry Pratchett - Mort
• Terry Pratchett - Sourcery 07.06.08
• Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures

July 07:

• George R. Stewart - Earth Abides 17.07.07
• Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust 04.08.07
• John Christopher - The White Mountains (Tripods) 06.08.07
• Jean Ure - Plague 22.07.07
• Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon 01.08.07
• Scott Westerfield - Uglies 31.12.07
• Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men 10.10.07
• S.M. Stirling - Dies the Fire 05.10.07
• Iris Murdoch - The Flight From the Enchanter 24.10.07

August 07:

• John Marsden - Tomorrow when the war begun 15.08.07
• Leder, Heffron - The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing 31.12.07
• Michael Marshall Smith - One of us

October 07:

• Alan Weisman - The World Without Us 30.10.07
• Michel Onfray - Wir brauchen keinen Gott 30.11.07
• Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion 28.11.07

December ‘07:

• Paul Davies - The Goldilocks Enigma 26.03.08 (not finished)
• Tony Horwitz - Into the Blue 15.06.08

Books aquired in 2008:

January ‘08:

• Richard Preston - The Demon in the Freezer 06.02.08
• Garth Nix - Shade’s Children 17.02.08
• John Christopher - The Pool of Fire
• John Marsden - The Night is for Hunting
• Robert O’Brian - Z for Zachariah 29.02.08
• John Sutherland - How To Read a Novel 18.02.08

February ‘08:

• Michael Marshall (Smith) - The Straw Men 24.04.08
• Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forward
• Richard Matheson - I Am Legend 19.02.08
• Margaret Atwood - Surfacing 01.06.08 (not finished)
• Elizabeth George - Write Away 27.02.08
• Margaret Atood - Oryx and Crake 12.02.08

March ‘08:

• Carl Hiaasen - Lucky You 11.04.08
• Carl Hiaasen - Sick Puppy
• Myla Goldberg - Wickett’s Remedy 01.05.08
• Carl Hiaasen - Skinny Dip

April 08:

• Carl Hiaasen - Hoot
• Orson Scott Card - How to write Science Fiction & Fantasy 11.05.08
• The Creative Writing Coursebook 03.06.08
• Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
• Holm Friebe - Wir nennen es Arbeit 28.04.08
• Carl Hiaasen - Stormy Weather
• Carl Hiaasen - Strip Tease
• Carl Hiaasen - Native Tongue
• Carl Hiaasen - Nature Girl 06.06.08
• Tim Ferriss - The Four Hour Workweek (audio) 15.05.08

May 08:

• Robert A. Heinlein - I will fear no evil 03.06.08
• Elizabeth Berg - Never Change 25.05.08

June 08:

• Thomas N. Burg (edt.) - BlogTalks
• Thomas N. Burg - BlogTalks 2.0
• Hans-Peter Zimmermann - Großerfolg im Kleinbetrieb
• Terry Pratchett - Bromeliad Trilogy (audio)
• Sam Harris - The End of Faith (audio)
• Joe Hill - Heart Shaped Box (audio)
• Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God (audio)
• Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation (audio)
• Christopher Hitchens - God is Not Great (audio)
• David Allen - Getting Things Done (audio) 21.06.08
• Nevil Shute - On The Beach 24.06.08

July ‘08:

• Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things
• Michael Marshall - The Lonely Dead 09.07.08
• Michael Marshall - Blood of Angels
• S.M. Stirling - The Protector’s War
• S.M.Stirling - A Meeting at Corvallis
• Scott Westerfeld - Pretties
• Scott Westerfeld - Specials
• Dervla Murphy - Eight Feet in the Andes
• Joyce Carol Oates - the Faith of a Writer