2019 Beat The Backlist Challenge -

I first did this reading challenge last year. Although I did not do very well with following the books I had included with the initial challenge post, I was able to complete the goal I set for myself of reading 50 backlist books! As I did last year, I have some big goals for myself because I am a firm believer in continuing to push oneself and strive for more. There are some books that have been sitting on my shelves unread forever and those books must feel so sad that I have been neglecting them. I stare at my shelves all the time and look at all the books I have such a strong need to read, but with work, life, procrastination, new books being released and the problem of only being able to read so much at one time, I am never able to get to all the books I want to. One of my biggest book goals next year is to read the books I own and definitely catch up on series I am so far behind on or that I need to read. Beat the Backlist hosted by Novel knight is the perfect challenge. (I do better when I am able to mark off a list so challenges work so well for me) Now I cannot make promises that the books I list are going to be the ones I actually read, but iI have really spent a lot of time putting this together with the hopes that I stick to these specific books. Some of these will look very familiar if you have seen my post from last year. I am again setting the goal of 50 backlist books! I haven’t decided what I want my year goal to be, but with the hopes of tackling the books on my shelf I definitely want to focus more on the backlist and older books!

The challenge will run from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
Books must be released prior to 2019 to count for this challenge.

♣ The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
The Looking Glass Wars
Seeing Redd
ArchEnemy
♣ Shattered Sea Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
Half A King
Half the World
Half a War
♣ Lunar Chronicle Series by Marissa Meyer
Cress
Fairest
Winter
♣ Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
♣ The Immortal Series by Tamora Pierce
Emperor Mage
The Realm of the Gods
♣ Sweet Trilogy by Wendy Higgins
Sweet Evil
Sweet Peril
Sweet Reckoning
♣ Legend Trilogy by Marie Lu
Legend
Prodigy
Champion
♣ Misborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
♣ Avalon Duology by Mindee Arnett
Avalon
Polaris
♣ Fire and Thorns Trilogy by Rae Carson
The Crown of Embers
The Bitter Kingdom
♣ Black Dagger Brotherhood Series by JR Ward
Lover Revealed
Lover Unbound
Lover Enshrined
♣ Mercyverse by Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound
Hunting Ground
Iron Kissed
♣ Otherworld Series by Kelley Armstrong
Stolen
Dime Store Magic
Industrial Magic
♣ A Court of Thorns & Roses Series by Sarah J Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury
A Court of Wings and Ruin
♣ Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
♣ Nowhere Near You by Leah Thomas
♣ A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
♣ The Road by Cormac McCarthy
♣ Blood Song by Anthony Ryan
♣ Vicious by VE Schwab
♣ The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
♣ Scythe by Neal Shusterman
♣ Notorious RBG: The Life and Time of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
♣ Americanah by Chimanada Ngozi Adichie
♣ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
♣ Lock in by John Scalzi
♣ Kings of Broken Things by Theodore Wheeler