Remember when I signed up for the 2017 Beat the Backlist challenge? Yep, me neither! It turns out I got swept away by ARCs and read approximately… 3 books from my TBR! So, big failure!
But as I am not one to stay on a bad note, I am trying again! And with a TBR that is even BIGGER than before, it should be doable… Right??
So, what are the rules?
The challenge will run from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018. You have an ENTIRE YEAR to complete your goal!
Books must be released prior to 2018 to count for this challenge. Although we love new releases too, this isn’t the challenge for them.
Sounds easy, right?
I solemnly swear to try and do my best to give love to the poor books waiting for me!
I won’t make a list because there would be around two hundred books but I’ll give you a snippet…
Let’s see how it goes! I’d be grateful if publishers wouldn’t tempt me too much with new releases :p
Are you taking part in this challenge? Any other challenges you’ve started?
Meggy's Bookish Corner 
YAY! I am doing this challenge as well, best of luck, we can do this! It’s hard not to let ourselves be tempted by new releases only, ahah 🙂 which team are you on, by the way? i’m team Novel Knights 😀
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I am already failing :p I’m on the Book Bards team!!
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Well… we’re still in January, it’s okay 😛
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Ooh good luck with your challenge. I loved Behind Closed Door and Close To Me was good too.
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I’m already behind, stuck with lots of ARCS, haha, and adding more every day! But I’m not losing hope!
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I’m taking part as well and hope to read at least one a month, but we’ll see! 😃
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Is it surprising that I’m already late on this challenge? :p
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You did better than me. I only managed 2 😂
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Haha, I guess Bookouture and Orenda happened :p
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Them. And Netgalley 🤣
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xD
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I’m doing this one too! Started my first backlist read yesterday, even if I read one a month I’ll be happy! Good luck
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Good luck to you, too!! It should be quite an easy challenge but I always find myself getting new books, haha!
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A very good idea! Good luck with it x
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Thank you so much, Lindsay! 🙂
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sounds a good challenge, what about 1 a month? that way you’ve read 12. my 2018 books are ebooks so this will be easy for me.
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It always depends on my ARCs and my mood, but I will definitely go for one a month!
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I love when I go to my ‘back list’ pile because you always find a surprise that you had forgotten about.
I like that you have The Death of Anyone in there. I have also read FutureSpan which was good too.
Good luck with it, though I know it will be a challenge with all the new books you will get this year too.
Happy reading Meggy.
Amanda xx
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I completely agree! I made a new list with my old books and I am so happy to re-discover titles I had been very excited about! I’m already drowning in a sea of new releases, so we’ll see how it goes! Happy reading to you! xxx
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All the best! I haven’t participated in any challenges this year except Goodreads yearly challenge! I have the list of Bookriot’s Read Harder Challenge and I’ll see if i can do that this year.
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Good luck!!
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Good luck with your challenge! I’m trying Mount TBR pile which is a similar idea! So many books to read but looking forward to reading the ones that have sat waiting so patiently! Look forward to watching your progress! Xxxx
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Thank you and good luck with your TBR! I love this challenge but I haven’t started reading my own books yet, haha!
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I probably need to participate…lol You should read I Found You (a good one) I’ve also read Behind Closed Doors and Close To Me.
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Haha, I’ve enrolled but I’m failing!!!!
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haha
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I failed at this challenge last year too!! I decided not to do it again this year.
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I am already failing :p
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It’s only the beginning of the year so you have plenty of time to catch up.
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Good luck with your challenge! I did the Mount TBR challenge on Goodreads last year and managed to read quite a lot of books off my TBR but I found it a struggle as the year went on and I wanted to focus on the shiny new books. I haven’t signed up yet this year but I might look at doing the Beat the Backlist Challenge instead. I need to do something to focus my mind on reading my TBR! Haha!
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“The Mine” is also on my backlist – wether or not I get to it this year is a different matter! 🙂
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Goof luck 😀 I am sure we’ll love it!
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Oh I hope you manage to get through all the books on your Beat the Backlist challenge Meggy! 🙂 I’ve heard good things about Behind Closed Doors from so many of the people I work with who’ve read it so I’m sure you’ll love that one as well.
I really feel like one year I should join this challenge because there are so so so many books I still need to get around to! 😀
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Hey Meggy! I just signed up. Which team are you on?
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Book Bards! 😀
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I loved Tall Oaks and I Found You!! Good luck on the challenge
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Thank you! Failing at the moment but hoping I can stop myself from getting new books :p
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Lovely titles, several of these covers/titles I’ve seen before too! Behind Closed Doors is on my readlist as well. I’m actually joining but not joining the backlist. I haven’t actually signed up for this but I do plan on reading more of my own titles and I started off really good because I already have read 2 and am reading nr. 3 right now. Happy reading Waffles!
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Good luck, Meggy! I am also working through my NetGalley backlog.
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Let’s do this! 😀
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Ah, I am thrilled to see you found a challenge!! This one was tempting. I have a lot of older titles I need to read still. I do hope you have fun. I may attempt this one next year 🙂
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I am hoping to have fun with my books but so far I haven’t started picking anything else than ARCs :p
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I am really enjoying my little spreadsheet for my challenge haha. I am such a nerd 😉 It is fun picking out titles.
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Lots of luck! I do this with the TBT weekly post, more or less… it’s a good idea too 😛
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Yay you signed up! I saw we aren’t in the same team though… Boo. 😦
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😦 That’s too bad!!!!
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Happy New Year, Meggy 🌸
Good luck with this challenge, I’m still debating whether or not I’ll be participating in this challenge! It does look like so much fun xxx
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Happy New Year!!
I’m doing it and… failing hahaha
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I am sort of doing this one too because I want to reduce the number of ARCs that I read and focus more on my TBR this year. I have over a hundred books just collecting dust on my shelf 🙂 I really enjoyed Behind Closed Doors and I Found You. I hope that you will too. Enjoy all your books. Happy reading 🙂
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I had the same idea… And I’m adding ARCs almost daily to my diary –‘ Total fail!
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I ABSOLUTELY LOOVEE THIS CHALLENGE 😀 Will try to be a part of it myself 🙂 Thank you for sharing Meggy!
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I love the idea of this challenge but so far I’ve been failing big time xD
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Hey Meggy,
this sounds interesting.. As the year just started I am kind of rouding up list of challenges I will be doing in 2018..
Can you please give me a brief of what BackList Challenge is ?
As far as I am understanding, its reading the older books we already have on our TBR ? Is it ?
Thanks in advance and All the best for your Backlist Challenge 2018
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Hey! That’s it 🙂 you just count into the challenge the reading and reviewing of books you’ve gotten before 2018! 🙂
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Great !! thanks dear 🙂
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Hey! I just gave you a follow 🙂 I’m a Book Bard too! Good luck with your TBR!
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Thank you! 🙂
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