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. Death on the Shelf by Allison Brook and Mia Gaskin (Narrator)
4. Doggone Deadly by Deborah Blake and Laura Jennings (Narrator)
5. Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
6. A Murder Yule Regret by Winnie Archer and Emile Durante (Narrator)
7. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
8. These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
9. Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds and Raúl the Third
10. Tik-Tok by Candace Robinson and Amber R. Duell
11. You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith
12. Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
13. An Eggnog to Die for Amy Pershing
14. Ascender, Volume 4: Star Seed by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator)
15. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder by Maria DiRico
16. Death by Hot Apple Cider by Alex Erikson
17. Digging Up Trouble by Kitt Crowe
18. This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Katherine Locke
19. Well Matched by Jen DeLuca
20. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara
21. Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling
22. Along the Saltwise Sea by A. Deborah Baker
23. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
24. The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes by Rick Riordan
25. A Calculated Whisk by Victoria Hamilton
26. Deadly Summer Nights by Vicki Delany
27. Room to Dream by Kelly Yang
28. The Vanderbeekers Make A Wish by Karina Yan Glaser
29. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
30. What Lives in the Woods by Lindsay Currie
31. Shadowghast by Thomas Taylor
32. The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley
33. Murder by the Bookend by Laura Gail Black
34. Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens
35. Reading Between the Crimes by Kate Young
36. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
37. Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero by E. Lockhart and Manuel Preitano (Illustrator)
38. Be My Ghost by Carol J. Perry and C.S.E Cooney (Narrator)
39. Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron
40. The Heart Principal by Helen Hoang
41. Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares by Tehlor Kay Mejia
42. Seven-Year Witch by Angela M. Sanders
43. Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders
44. Phantoms by J.A. White
45. Poultrygeist by Eric Geron and Pete Oswald
46. Clash by Kayla Miller
47. Much Ado about Nauticaling by Gabby Allan
48. Ballgowns & Butterflies by Kelley Armstrong
49. Linked by Gordon Korman
50. Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis
51. Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
52. Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil
53. Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton
54. The Chariot at Dusk Swati Teerdhala
55. Invisible Kingdom, Volume 3: In Other Worlds by G. Willow Wilson
56. The Marvelous by Claire Kann
57. Of Princes and Promises by Sandhya Menon
58. Reserved for Murder by Victoria Gilbert
59. Castle Shade by Laurie R. King
60. The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O'Neill
61. Night Owl by Sarah Mlynowski, Emily Jenkins, and Lauren Myracle
62. The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle
63. Pint of No Return by Dana Mentink
64. A Tale of Two Cookies by Eve Calder and Christa Lewis (Narrator)

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. Nacho Average Murder by Maddie Day and Laural Merlington (Narrator)
4. Really Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
5. Spy x Family, Volume 4 by Tatsuya Endo
6. COVID-19 in Three to Five Words by April Murphy
7. Bird & Squirrel All or Nothing by James Burks
8. Sugar and Vice by Eve Calder and Christa Lewis (Narrator)
9. Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman (May 2022)

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 3 by Tatsuya Endo and Casey Loe (Translator)
14. Spy x Family, Volume 2 by Tatsuya Endo and Casey Loe (Translator)
15. And Then There Were Crumbs by Eve Calder and Christa Lewis (Narrator)
16. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman and Emily Rankin (Narrator)
17. Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
18. Killer in the Carriage House by Sheila Connolly, Emily Durante (Narrator)
19. Spy x Family, Volume 1 by Tatsuya Endo and Casey Loe (Translator)
20. Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, Volume 1 by Keigo Maki
21. Strangled Eggs and Ham by Maddie Day and Laural Merlington (Narrator)
22. No Country for Old Gnomes by Delilah S. Dawson