TBR Challenge 2023

The TBR challenge is 10 years old, thank you RoofBeamReader!

It’s a simple challenge to read 12 books that you’ve owned for a year at least, in any order over the coming year. Last year I read A Time of Gifts the first part of Paddy Leigh Fermor’s memoir of travelling across Europe in the 1930’s and loved it so much I bought the second part straight away so that’s the newest copy on my list. Birdsong though, has been sitting on my shelf for years and has even appeared on a TBR challenge list before and still not been read, that’s why it’s here at number 1!

Here’s my list To Be Read in any order (apart from Birdsong):

1. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
2. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
3. Between the Woods and the Water by Paddy Leigh Fermor
4. Quicksand & Passing by Nella Larsen
5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
6. Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
7. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
8. Maman, What Are We Called Now by Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar
9. Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
10. Norah Webster by Colm Toibin
11. Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac
12. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

And two more just in case:

13. The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
14. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Like Birdsong, The Goldfinch has been looking at me for years without inspiring me to pick it up (I don’t know why), I’m tempted to say now that if I don’t read it this year it’s going straight to charity, hmm I’m not sure, but everything else looks great!