Beat the Backlist 2022: 01/01/22

Hosted by Austine of Novel Knight.

I'm starting off the new year by thinking about my reading goals. My speed of reading has dropped off in recent months. I have other projects keeping me busy. So on Goodreads, I'm setting my goal to 250, down from previous years where I've set and met a goal of 300.

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 125 books.

My focus, though, will be on the remaining books purchased in 2021, 2020 and 2019 as well as older books acquired last year either through purchase or through Paperback Swap. .

My 2021 purchases weren't as numerous as 2020 or 2019, but I still have some left overs. I will continue to pair down my purchases. I have boxes of books still in storage that need to be read or donated. COVID precautions have stalled those plans.

Below is my list of unread books from 2021, 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 2021

1. Coached in the Act by Victoria Laurie
2. She's Fleeing a Byronic Hero by Lady Alana Smithee
3. Doggone Deadly by Deborah Blake and Laura Jennings (Narrator)
4. Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
5. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
6. These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
7. Tik-Tok by Candace Robinson and Amber R. Duell
8. You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith
9. Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
10. An Eggnog to Die for Amy Pershing
11. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder by Maria DiRico
12. Death by Hot Apple Cider by Alex Erikson
13. This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Katherine Locke
14. Well Matched by Jen DeLuca
15. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara
16. Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling
17. Along the Saltwise Sea by A. Deborah Baker
18. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
19. The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes by Rick Riordan
20. Deadly Summer Nights by Vicki Delany
21. Room to Dream by Kelly Yang
22. The Vanderbeekers Make A Wish by Karina Yan Glaser
23. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
24. What Lives in the Woods by Lindsay Currie
25. Shadowghast by Thomas Taylor
26. The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley
27. Murder by the Bookend by Laura Gail Black
28. Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens
29. Reading Between the Crimes by Kate Young
30. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
31. Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero by E. Lockhart and Manuel Preitano (Illustrator)
32. Be My Ghost by Carol J. Perry and C.S.E Cooney (Narrator)
33. Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron
34. The Heart Principal by Helen Hoang
35. Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares by Tehlor Kay Mejia
36. Seven-Year Witch by Angela M. Sanders
37. Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders
38. Phantoms by J.A. White
39. Clash by Kayla Miller
40. Much Ado about Nauticaling by Gabby Allan
41. Ballgowns & Butterflies by Kelley Armstrong
42. Linked by Gordon Korman
43. Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis
44. Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
45. Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil
46. Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton
47. Invisible Kingdom, Volume 3: In Other Worlds by G. Willow Wilson
48. The Marvelous by Claire Kann
49. Of Princes and Promises by Sandhya Menon
50. Reserved for Murder by Victoria Gilbert
51. Castle Shade by Laurie R. King
52. The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O'Neill
53. Night Owl by Sarah Mlynowski, Emily Jenkins, and Lauren Myracle
54. The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle

TBR from 2020

1. Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez
2. The Princess in Black and the Giant Problem by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and LeUyen Pham (illustrator)
3. Really Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
4. Sugar and Vice by Eve Calder and Christa Lewis (Narrator)

TBR from 2019

1. A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh
2. Reverie by Ryan La Sala
3. Color Outside the Lines by Sangu Mandanna
4. A Constellation of Roses by Miranda Asebedo
5. Coral by Sara Ella
6. The Burning Queen by Kathryn Lasky
7. The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
8. Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire
9. The Babysitters Coven by Kate Williams
10. Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
11. How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
12. No Judgments by Meg Cabot
13. Spy x Family, Volume 2 by Tatsuya Endo and Casey Loe (Translator)
14. And Then There Were Crumbs by Eve Calder and Christa Lewis (Narrator)
15. Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
16. Killer in the Carriage House by Sheila Connolly, Emily Durante (Narrator)
17. Spy x Family, Volume 1 by Tatsuya Endo and Casey Loe (Translator)
18. Strangled Eggs and Ham by Maddie Day and Laural Merlington (Narrator)
19. No Country for Old Gnomes by Delilah S. Dawson