Reading lists from our TBR piles

[Ann]

DonnaJo proposed an idea for a folder to corral posts about lists of books we would like to tackle in 2015 where we could post a personal to be read list similar to previous incarnations as Determination Lists, "stacks of seventeen" from our Jan O'Cat and other "off the to be read stacks" lists.
If you want to participate in making a list or just cheer on the progress for those that do make a list, we'll call the folder "Off the Stacks" and look forward to reducing the backlog of books we keep meaning to get to, someday.
One year I said I wanted to get caught up on my Stephen King books, some may simply want to read a personally owned or digitally acquired book a month. Anything works if you like that sort of list!

[BarryP]

I'm never sure what I am going to read until I reach for the next book. I have reduced the home TBR pile to not much more than 100 books though. The UBS has a bog sale last week of January though, and with paperbacks 70c and hardcovers around $2.80, I fill the shelves back up.

[LizH]

For this "determination list", is there/should there be a limit? I was thinking 5-10, as anything more it just becomes a TBR list, but if we list a few that we would really like to tackle in 2015, that seems more realistic. So should be post our lists and then adjust as we read?

[Ann]

Liz: For many of us the number of books to be listed as a guide of maybe 5-10 sounds good. I think DonnaJo is doing 20, (she reads a lot more than I do!) and I may start with 5 and go from there.

Barry: I have let library availability drive a lot of my reading for years so it is hard for me to let a list of my own books take precedence too.

[Donnajo]

Thanks Ann for posting and starting this thread. I think anything from 5 to 15 would be good. The point is to get books off the stack and the most important thing have fun don't make it undoable. I said my list is 20 just to have freedom with which books so there is extra books I have. The other amt in my other grp that did this was 12 one a month. I will post my books later.

[BarryP]

17 was always a good number, and has historical relevance to the group.

[Donnajo]

Barry that is true.

[Donnajo]

This will be my Off the stacks Challenge books for 2015

1. The Shadow of Time-Lisa Jackson (HC)
2. The book thief-zusak (Trade)
3. Knockout-Catherine Coulter (HC)
4. New Moon-Stephanie Meyer (trade)
5. A Kiss of Shadows-Laurell K. Hamilton (HC)
6. Speak-Laurie halse Anderson (trade)
7. The fault in our stars-john green (trade)
8. Tilt A Whirl-Chris Graberstein (trade)
9. on the Ropes-Tom Shreck (trade)
10. Shooting at midnight-greg rucka (HC)
11. The smoke jumper-Nicoholas evans (HC)
12. An alphabetical life-wendy werris (trade)
13. the lost girls-baggett, corbett (trade?)
14. Tell no one-harlan coben (HC)
15. What we keep-elizabeth berg(HC)
16. Meant to be-the lives and loves of a jersey girl-laurie pizza (HC)
17. Death by cashmere-sally Goldenbaum (trade)
18. White hot-sandra brown (HC)
19. Diet girl- shawna reid (Trade)
20. Lost in Translattion-Nicole Mones (trade)


I even wrote down 4 other books just in case. I was so hard I kept switching books around.
The darkness gathers by lisa unger
Jericho's fall by stephen L. Carter
Scream for me by Karen rose
The other women by Hank Phillipp Ryan

[Donnajo]

oh by the way if anyone wants to do buddy reads or grp reads of any of them just let me know.

[Ann]

DJ: That is quite a list!
Tilt-a-Whirl is on my tbr stack (audio). The Book Thief and The Fault in Our Stars are very good books.

[Carol/Bonadie]

That IS quite a list, DJ!

I've read and recommend:

2. The book thief-zusak (Trade)
4. New Moon-Stephanie Meyer (trade)
5. A Kiss of Shadows-Laurell K. Hamilton (HC)
14. Tell no one-harlan coben (HC) There was also an excellent French film made of this novel, with Harlan getting a cameo.

I think I have someone around, got as a freebie at Bouchercon one year:

8. Tilt A Whirl-Chris Graberstein (trade)

I've read a few of Greg Rucka's but don't recall if I've read Shooting at Midnight. Isn't his MC Atticus somebody?

[Carol/Bonadie]

I will participate by reading some of the books gathering dust in my "stacks". Don't know if I will establish a guideline, like one book a month, or get more specific. Will probably do better if I choose based on my mood, when the time comes.

I am also in the mood to "determine" to read another Charles Dickens this year, but not sure which yet.

[Ann]

Carol: he is Atticus Kodiack! A very good series. Shooting at Midnight is I think, the fourth book, with Bridgett spinning off as mc. It was very good too!
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "That IS quite a list, DJ!
..I've read a few of .Gregg Rucka's but don't recall if I've read Shooting at Midnight. Isn't his MC Atticus somebody?
"

[Carol/Bonadie]

Ann wrote: "Carol: he is Atticus Kodiack! A very good series. Shooting at Midnight is I think, the fourth book, with Bridgett spinning off as mc. It was very good too!
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "That ..."

Oh, okay, Ann, thanks. I definitely didn't read the spin-off.

[Sherry]

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "I will participate by reading some of the books gathering dust in my "stacks". Don't know if I will establish a guideline, like one book a month, or get more specific. Will probably do better if ..."

that's my plan, too. the one book that i definitely will read this year is Written in My Own Heart's Blood.

[Donnajo]

First goal for me is 10 of the books then I will move on. The coulter is the reason I hate reading out of order 1 book after I had a chance to borrow to read and one I did as a arc to review. So once I read this one I'm caught up with series. Speak is a banned used book I bought Hamilton I've had that one forever.

[Donnajo]

New moon I started long ago and it hasn't grabbed me. I think the book thief will be one of the hardest for me.maybe I should have one of you pick my first book up for me from the first 20.

[Donnajo]

Ann maybe we can do tilt a whirl together as a buddy read. Linda loved that series and she asks every once in awhile if I read the first one yet.

[Melodie]

I've read THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, TELL NO ONE and NEW MOON. TFIOS depressed me for days, but I liked TELL NO ONE and NEW MOON. I think I'll try and do this, too. Maybe a book a month. I've got some books in my oldest bookcase that I've been meaning to read forever and maybe I'll finally do that! I think I have TILT-A-WHIRL in The Pile, too.

[Donnajo]

my Novel ladies I'm doing the challenge with but it's only 12 books so I picked 12 off the list from here that I posted. I saw the movie TFIOS on that no longer movie website that I found out about. the last few times I tried to get on that site it either froze the laptop or did something weird so I said no more on that. I know that after tilt a whirl I'll have problems locating the other books in the series. I think My sister got all the other books at the shore main library when she read it. I used to check for her up here (it was during the summer she read it) and I can't remember if our libraries had alot of the book. I guess I should have read it when she did.

[Ann]

I will try to get to Tilt-a-Whirl soon, and would love to do it as a buddy read, Melodie and DJ!

[Donnajo]

Sounds good let me know