At the beginning of last year, I signed up for the 2014 TBR Pile Challenge at Bookish, which asked participants to read books they owned prior to the beginning of 2014. The challenge itself kind of petered out, but I continued to document the books I read from my own shelves. I had originally aimed for 21-30 books, so I’m happy I managed to surpass that goal! Here’s what I read from my TBR pile in 2014, along with the date I acquired each book:
1. Mary Miley — The Impersonator (11/10/13)
2. Julia Quinn — Just Like Heaven (1/1/13)
3. Chris Wooding — Retribution Falls (9/3/11)
4. Emma Newman — Between Two Thorns (4/1/13)
5. Susanna Kearsley — The Shadowy Horses (1/20/13)
6. Charlotte Mosley, ed. — The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (10/22/11)
7. Sarra Manning — Unsticky (12/16/13)
8. Lois McMaster Bujold — Young Miles (12/4/13)
9. Georgette Heyer — The Spanish Bride (4/12/08)
10. P.G. Wodehouse — The World of Jeeves (4/23/10)
11. Caprice Crane — With a Little Luck (8/20/11)
12. Hannah March — The Complaint of the Dove (10/9/13)
13. Frank Baker — Miss Hargreaves (4/8/11)
14. Polly Shulman — The Grimm Legacy (4/20/13)
15. Anne Sexton — Transformations (9/3/11)
16. Sharon Kay Penman — The Sunne in Splendour (8/8/06)
17. Juliet Marillier — Blade of Fortriu (4/28/13)
18. Michael Innes — Death at the President’s Lodging (9/29/13)
19. Elizabeth Wein — Rose Under Fire (9/21/13)
20. E.F. Benson — Mrs. Ames (8/6/13)
21. Ben Macintyre — Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies (6/15/13)
22. M.M. Kaye — Death in the Andamans (6/24/13)
23. Tana French — In the Woods (8/16/10)
24. Georgette Heyer — A Blunt Instrument (4/21/11)
25. Julie James — Love Irresistibly (4/8/13)
26. Richard Stark — The Hunter (9/29/12)
27. Christopher Morley — The Haunted Bookshop (4/28/13)
28. D.E. Stevenson — The Young Clementina (7/4/13)
29. Charlotte Mosley, ed. — In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (4/28/13)
30. A.A. Milne — The Red House Mystery (4/13/13)
31. Sara Gruen — Water for Elephants (3/16/11)
32. Karin Lowachee — The Gaslight Dogs (5/30/10)
33. Carlos Ruiz Zafón — The Shadow of the Wind (10/2/10)
34. Ada Leverson — Love’s Shadow (9/25/11)
35. Shusaku Endo — Silence (4/28/13)
36. Kate Lord Brown — The Beauty Chorus (4/2/12)
37. Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett — Good Omens (1/14/10)
38. Norton Juster — The Phantom Tollbooth (7/28/11)
39. Rachel Ferguson — The Brontës Went to Woolworths (10/2/10)
40. Ben H. Winters — The Last Policeman (9/28/13)
41. D.E. Stevenson — Mrs. Tim of the Regiment (3/16/11)
42. Kate Ross — The Devil in Music (4/23/10)
43. Connie Willis — Miracle and Other Christmas Stories (3/14/12)
For more information about any of the books, check out the Review Index page! Did anyone else do this or a similar challenge? How many of your own books did you manage to read this year?