One of my biggest reading resolutions for 2021 (aside from not buying every shiny new release that catches my eye) is to read more of the books that I already own. I have so many books on my bookshelf that I purchased, intended to read, and just… never did. To keep myself motivated and accountable, I’m joining a reading challenge!
The Beat the Backlist Challenge is hosted by NovelKnight and challenges readers to read books that were published in 2020 or earlier. When I participated last year, I read 27 backlist titles that had been on my TBR. This year, I’m aiming to read 20 backlist titles that I haven’t already read.
I’m not going to make a defined TBR for this since I already know I’ll deviate from it, but I will track the books that I read for the challenge below once the challenge officially starts.
- Beach Read by Emily Henry (pub: 2020; my review)
- The Burning God by R.F. Kuang (pub: 2020)
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (pub: 2020; my review)
- The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole (pub: 2020)
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (pub: 2020; my review)
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (pub: 2020; my review)
- Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch (pub: 2020)
- Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (pub: 2010; reread; my review)
- Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare (pub: 2011; reread; my review)
- Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare (pub: 2013; reread; my review)
- Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare (pub: 2020; my review)
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (pub: 2020)
- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (pub: 2020)
- In Five Years by Rebecca Serle (pub: 2020)
- Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo (pub: 2013; reread; my review)
- Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (pub: 2014; reread; my review)
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (pub: 2015; reread)
- The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (pub: 2000; my review)
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (pub: 2011; reread)
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (pub: 2011)
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (pub: 2020)
- People Like Us by Dana Mele (pub: 2018)
- This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (pub: 2016; my review)
- A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (pub: 2019)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (pub: 2020)
- The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn (pub: 2000)
- How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black (pub: 2020; my review)
- An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn (pub: 2000)
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (pub: 2015; reread; my review)
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (pub: 2020; my review)
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener (pub: 2020)
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt (pub: 1992)
- Severance by Ling Ma (pub: 2018)
- Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman (pub: 2016)
- Sadie by Courtney Summers (pub: 2018)
- Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman (pub: 2019)
- Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman (pub: 2020)
- Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay (pub: 2018)
I haven’t planned to participatw in any but this seems like a good idea as I have a few books that I’ve still not got to!
Reading challenges are perfect for that – they’re such good motivators!
Hopefully I’ll get round to doing one next year!
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