This reading challenge, hosted by Austine & Katie @ NovelKnight, is all about knocking off those older books from your to-read list. Any genre, any format, any length. I participate in several group reads of older series so this fits my reading habits oh so well. And, I got seriously behind in 2019. My pledge is to read 80 books for this challenge.
Guidelines
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- The book must have been published in 2019 or earlier to count. It can be in any format (including an ARC/eARC) as long as the release date is 2019 or earlier (i.e. 2020 releases are not allowed).
- You have to start and finish the book in 2020 to count it. Any books started in 2019 and finished in 2020 do not count. Any books started in 2020 and finished in 2021 also do not count.
- The challenge runs from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020
How to Join- POST your backlist TBR for the year somewhere online! This can be in the form of a blog post, instagram photo caption, Twitter thread, Goodreads shelf, YouTube video, whatever works for you! You are NOT locked into these books, it’s just something to get you started! Make sure to share a link to this page somewhere in your post so others can find the challenge!
- SIGN UP using the form below! Sign-ups will stay open all year long so you can join at any time.
- READ backlist books and knock them off your TBR!
- SHARE your updates on social media!
Official Challenge Tags#BeatTheBacklist #BeatTheBacklist2020 #BTB2020
My TBR Backlist(In alpha order)
✔3 Truths and a Lie by Lisa Gardner
✔The 7th Month by Lisa Gardner
✔All the Possibilities by Nora Roberts
✔The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
✔The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
✔Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
✔Catch Me by Lisa Gardner
✔A Dark and Stormy Knight by Kerrigan Byrne
✔Dear Wife by Kimberly Bell
The Disappeared by Sibel Hodge
✔The Duke by Kerrigan Byrne
✔The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo by Kerrigan Byrne
✔The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
✔Evil Games by Angela Marsons
✔Fatal Accusation by Marie Force
✔Fatal Secrets by Allison Brennan
✔Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner
✔Find Her by Lisa Gardner
✔The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
✔Guarded by Kaylea Cross
✔The Guy Who Died Twice by Lisa Gardner
✔Hard Asset by Pamela Clare
✔Hard Justice by Pamela Clare
✔Hidden Riches by Nora Roberts
✔High Noon by Nora Roberts
✔The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne
✔The Highlander’s Christmas Quest by Anna Campbell
✔Hot to Touch by Jaci Burton
✔Hour of Need by Melinda Leigh
✔If I Should Die by Allison Brennan
✔Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
✔Kiss Me, Kill Me by Allison Brennan
✔The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
✔The Lies We Tell by Debra Webb
✔Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
✔Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
✔Look For Me by Lisa Gardner
✔Lost Girls by Angela Marsons
✔Love Is Murder by Allison Brennan
✔Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan
✔Love You More by Lisa Gardner
✔A Merciful Death by Kendra Elliot
✔A Merciful Fate by Kendra Elliot
✔A Merciful Truth by Kendra Elliot
✔A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot
✔A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot
✔The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner
✔Never Tell by Lisa Gardner
✔No Exit by Taylor Adams
✔Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
✔One Man’s Art by Nora Roberts
✔The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney
✔Playing Dead by Allison Brennan
✔Playing the Odds by Nora Roberts
✔Reckless by Allison Brennan
✔Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
✔The River by Peter Heller
✔Say You’re Sorry by Melinda Leigh
✔The Scot Beds His Wife by Kerrigan Byrne
✔Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
✔The Secrets We Bury by Debra Webb
✔Shattered by Kaylea Cross
✔Silenced by Allison Brennan
✔The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
✔Some Choose Darkness by Charlie Donlea
✔Stalked by Allison Brennan
✔Stolen by Allison Brennan
✔Sudden Death by Allison Brennan
✔Tempting Fate by Nora Roberts
✔Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
✔This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
✔Three Little Lies by Laura Marshall
✔Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna
✔The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
✔Vacation Interrupted by Allison Brennan
✔Vanished by Kendra Elliot
✔When You See Me by Lisa Gardner
✔The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
Blue Mood Café 
You have some great titles!
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Thank you, Carol💜
I inadvertently deleted this post today when I was attempting to update it. Had to get help scraping together this from 2019!
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Oh no…those glitches are time consuming and frustrating! Glad you were able to retrieve it!
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Thanks, Carol! I dodged a bullet.
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You did a great job on that backlist, Jo. A lot got knocked off. I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to put together a post this detailed, then to lose it. Glad it all worked out.
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WordPress Support was a big help! They found a Google cached version from a few days ago that I was able to copy into a new post. Took a little work but not anything like it would have been to do all over.
Word to the wise…never delete from trash until you verify. I inadvertently saved it to draft instead of just updating. When I saw the saved version live, I thought it was okay to then delete the draft. BIG no-no.
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Lesson learned, thanks for sharing that with me.
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I could do with doing this challenge myself, given how many books I now have on two TBar piles!
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Alexandra, my TBR is outrageous!
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Oh, I hear you. And yet, we continue to add quicker than we can read them all! 😉
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Hasn’t stopped me yet😏
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