Beat the Backlist 2021: 01/01/21

Hosted by Austine of Novel Knight.
I'm starting off the new year by thinking about my reading goals. Once again I completed by GoodReads reading challenge of reading 300 or more books. I plan to do the same this year.
The Beat the Backlist goal, though, is focused on books published in previous years. My most basic goal for this challenge is to have half my reading be backlist. Numerically that would be a minimum of 150 books. Last year I surpassed that goal with more than 171.
My focus, though, will be on the remaining books purchased in 2020 and 2019 that I've yet to read. While I won't limit myself to these books only, I'm posting my current list of TBR books and their release months for the last two years. I do have older books on hand I'd like to read but they are primarily in storage. Getting them out of storage, read, and weeded is another longer term goal.
My 2020 purchases weren't as numerous as 2019, but I still have some left overs. For 2021, I plan to purchase fewer books. I know now from three years of doing this challenge how many new books I can easily read and review in a timely manner. I will do my best to keep my purchase numbers closer to that ceiling.
Below is my list of unread books from 2020 and 2019. I will cross them out as I read them. I will also add other books to the list as I read them, and will bold them.
TBR from 2020
December
- The Ballad of Ami Miles by Kristy Dallas Alley
- Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez
Tin by Candace Robinson and Amber R. Duell
November
- The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage by Jeff Lemire, Denys Cowan (Illustrator)
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Victor and Nora: A Gotham Love Story by Lauren Myracle and Isaac Goodhart
October
- Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Death by French Roast by Alex Erickson
- Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
- Muffled by Jennifer Gennari
- One Way or Another by Kara McDowell
- Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
- A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong
- Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater and Morgan Beem (illustrator)
- Twins: A Graphic Novel by Varian Johnson, Shannon Wright (Illustrations)
September
The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling
- Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds
- Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
- Hatch by Kenneth Oppel and Sophie Amoss (Narrator)
- Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore
- My Life in the Fish Tank by Barbara Dee
- Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi
- Smash It! by Francina Simone
- Tune It Out by Jamie Sumner
- Turning Point by Paula Chase
- Well Played by Jen DeLuca
- The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jansen
August
- Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim
July
- War Stories by Gordon Korman
- Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
June
Ascender, Volume 2: The Dead Sea by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
- Nightschool: The Weirn Books Collector's Edition, Volume 2 by Svetlana Chmakova
May
- Camp by Lev A.C. Rosen
- Julieta and the Diamond Enigma by Luisana Duarte Armendáriz
- Read or Alive by Nora Page
- This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
April
- This Spell Can't Last by Isabel Sterling
TBR from 2019
December
- A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh
- Reverie by Ryan La Sala
November
- Color Outside the Lines by Sangu Mandanna
- A Constellation of Roses by Miranda Asebedo
- Coral by Sara Ella
- Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
October
- The Burning Queen by Kathryn Lasky
- Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn
- Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
- The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
- The House of Brides by Jane Cockram
- Jackpot by Nic Stone
- Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu (Artist)
September
- The Babysitters Coven by Kate Williams
- Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
The Big Shrink by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins
- How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
- It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories by Katherine Locke
- More to the Story by Hena Khan
- No Judgments by Meg Cabot
- Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
- Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson
- Well Met by Jen DeLuca
August
- Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
- The Killing Tide by Dani Pettrey
July
Blastaway by Melissa Landers
The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess
Older books
Samantha Spinner and the Super Secret Plans by Russell Ginns (2018)
Potions and Pastries by Bailey Cates (2017)
Shopaholic to the Rescue by Sophie Kinsella (2015)
Muffin But Murder by Victoria Hamilton (2014)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (2012)
Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay (2011)
A Crafty Killing by Lorraine Bartlett (2011)
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves (2009)
Rockridge by Robin Wolf and Tom Wolf (2007)
The Ghost and Mrs. McClure by Alice Kimberly (2004)
Made You Look by Diane Roberts (2003)
Bloodroot by Susan Wittig Albert (2001)
This is Munich by Miroslav Sasek (1961)
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller (1945)
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