The Mount TBR challenge is designed to get those already-purchased, sitting-on-the-shelf-and-ereader books READ!
It is organised by My Reader’s Block, (Bev Hankins) 🙂 and you can read all the details HERE.
The key is to sign up to a mountain of books you are going to read, and report on your progress quarterly. The books that count are ones you have in your possession at the end of the previous year. As usual with these challenges you can upgrade to a higher level if you find you’re doing well, but you can’t downgrade.
Why not sign up to read your own pile – the basic level is 12, or one a month.
My previous attempts at scaling Mount TBR
- 2016 – aimed at 24 and reached 26
- 2017 – aiming for Mt Vancouver (36 books) Got to 32 and had to push to get there
- 2018 – I stepped onto the summit of Mount Vancouver at 8 pm on 31st Dec!
- 2019 – abject failure, only achieving 2 1/2 mountains (28/36).
- 2020 – thanks to reading a stack of shorter books in December, I made it to Mount Vancouver (36 books)
- 2021 & 22 – scaled Mount Vancouver (36 books)
- 2023 – with so much time spent reading early in the year, I’d scaled Mt Vancouver by September. I scaled back after that and only added two more. In 24 I was in the same situation, but held a few back for other challenges
My Challenge progress for 2025
Again I’m aiming for Mount Vancouver, paying attention to only books in my ownership; not counting library books that get the books off my TBR list. After the first quarter, I’m on schedule.
Books read and covers are listed here.
- The Rosetta Mind (Rosetta #2) by Claire McCague (tbr Aug-22)
- The Ship-Thief by Stephen Potts (tbr Jun-14)
- The Best of Michael Moorcock Ed, Davey & VanderMeyer (tbr Apr-20)
- The Captain Who Broke The Rules (Ptolemy Lane #3) by Cameron Cooper (tbr May-24)
- Madame Matisse by Sophie Haydock (tbr Sep-24)
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (tbr Dec-20)
- Time Travelling With a Hamster by Ross Welford (tbr Dec-20)
- King of Swords (Starfolk #1) by Dave Duncan (tbr Jun-18)
- The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye (tbr Dec-15)
- The Wanderers by Cheryl Mahoney (tbr May-14)
- Sirens ed. by Rhonda Parrish (tbr Jul-24)
- Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me by Abbie Johnson Taylor (tbr Nov-21) (FIRST MOUNTAIN CLIMBED)
