THE TBR 26 IN '26 CHALLENGE
THE MT. TBR CHALLENGE
My Sign-Up Post
This is my sign-up post for the TBR 26 in '26 and Mt. TBR Challenges. If you want to join me in the TBR 26 in '26 Challenge (and I hope you do), go to the main challenge page, here. Bev at My Reader's Block hosts the Mt. TBR Challenge. You can find the details for that one here.
My shelves of unread books are groaning under the weight of my TBRs. According to my LibraryThing spreadsheet, I have over 2,800 books on my shelves, waiting to be read. Good thing I’m now (all but) retired. I plan to spend more time with my nose in a book!
Last year, I read the 25 books I picked for the TBR 25 in '25 Challenge, plus another 104 books for the Mt. TBR Challenge, for a total of 129 books read from my TBR library. My goal was to read 100 off my TBR shelves, so I am very pleased with 129. I’d like to exceed that number in 2026.
TBR 26 IN ‘26
You don’t have to pick your TBR 26 in '26 book ahead of time. You can. Or you can pick them as you go. Or you can pick and then change your mind. The only "rule" is that the books have to have been on your shelf before January 1, 2026.
Here are my TBR 26 in '26 picks, in the order they appear in the photo above. I'll read them in any old order. There was no rhyme or reason for how I picked these. I didn’t try to overthink it, I just grabbed what caught my eye.
LEFT STACK: NONFICTION
Hiroshima (1946) by John Hersey
Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter (1982) by Christopher Buckley
Rereadings (1995) by Anne Fadiman
A Walk in the Woods (1998) by Bill Bryson
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor (2009) by Tad Friend
Overdrive: A Personal Tour of American Politics (1983) by William F. Buckley Jr.
Discovering Main Street: Travel Adventures in Small Towns of the Northwest (2010) by Foster Church
Curriculum Vitae (1982) by Muriel Spark
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage (2013) by Nicholas Wapshott
The Merry Heart (1959) by Robertson Davies
A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters (2016) by Penelope Rowlands
A Cook’s Tour of San Francisco (1983) by Doris Muscatine
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard (2017) by John Birdsall
RIGHT STACK: FICTION
A Severed Wasp (1970) by Madeleine L’Engle
Showing the Flag (1999) by Jane Gardam
Homecomings (1956) by C. P. Snow
The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen
The Boss Dog (1949) by M. F. K. Fisher
The New York Trilogy (1985) by Paul Auster
Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream (2005) by John Derbyshire
The Paris Directive (2000) by Gerald Jay
The Food of Love (2001) by Anthony Capella
Chocolat (1999) by Joanne Harris
Women Like Us (1999) by Erica Abeel
The Wonder Worker (2002) by Susan Howatch
My plan is to start strong in January so I have momentum to read these and then move on to my Mt. TBR books.
MT. TBR
I don't know which books I'll read for Bev’s Mt. TBR Challenge. I decided to push myself and signed up for the Mt. Olympus level to read 150 books off my TBR shelves. That means I need 124 in addition to the 26 listed above. I'm ready to climb!
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