2017 Beat The Backlist: Official Update Post

The 2017 Beat The Backlist challenge is hosted over at Novelknight AND also includes a Harry Potter themed mini challenge. Of course I have joined that one as well, proudly trying to win the Hogwarts House Cup along with my fellow Ravenclaws. GO RAVENCLAW!!!

Find my sign up post here and my TBR here.

My challenge name is OakSickle.

This post will be my official update post where I will keep track of the books I’ve read that qualify for the challenge. Remember my goals?

read 50 books published before 2016
read 20 books published before 2013
review each book
update challenge post monthly

Since the challenge includes books published in 2016, I will add these in yellow to the list below for extra Ravenclaw points. 😉 Books that fit in with my personal challenge are either green for books published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 or orange for books published before that. Only books that have a link to the review have already been added to the official challenge page for points.

>>> Last updated December 31st 2017 <<<

BOOKS READ IN 2017:

# JANUARY #

Witness by Caroline Mitchell (338 pages) (published in 2016) 4,5/5 stars
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (384 pages) (published in 2016) 4,5/5 stars
Americosis Vol. 3 by Haydn Wilks (60 pages) (published in 2016) 3,5/5 stars
Mosquitoland by David Arnold (336 pages) (published in 2015) 5/5 stars
You by Caroline Kepnes (433 pages; DNF at 5%/21 pages) (published in 2014) 0/5 stars
The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon (348 pages) (published in 2016) 4,5/5 stars
The Thankful by Jamie Campbell (132 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken (499 pages (published in 2012) 4/5 stars
Unhooked by Lisa Maxwell (352 pages) (published in 2016) 3/5 stars
Stake-out by Lily Luchesi (128 pages) (published in 2015) 3,5/5 stars
Making Faces by Amy Harmon (405 pages) (published in 2013) 5/5 stars
The Wrong Side Of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne (400 pages) (published in 2015) 3/5 stars

Total for this month: 6 books read published in 2016, 5 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 1 books read published before 2013.

# FEBRUARY #

Missing by Monty Marsden (266 pages) (published in 2016) 2,5/5 stars
The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (343 pages) (published in 2015) 3,5/5 stars
Rebel Of The Sands by Alwyn Hamilton (320 pages) (published in 2016) 4,5/5 stars
The Five Stages Of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson (297 pages) (published in 2015) 3,5/5 stars
The Truth Will Out by Brian Cleary (220 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
The Light That Gets Lost by Natasha Carthew (320 pages) (published in 2015) 1,5/5 stars
The Paris Mysteries by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (320 pages) (published in 2014) 2/5 stars
The Killing Game by J.S. Carol (380 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles (462 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
The Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller (352 pages) (published in 2011) 4,5/5 stars

Total for this month: 5 books read published in 2016, 4 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 1 books read published before 2013.

# MARCH #

I Found You by Lisa Jewell (448 pages) (published in 2016) 4,5/5 stars
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (337 pages) (published in 2015) 3/5 stars
The Last Gods of Indochine by Samuel Ferrer (422 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
Silence Under Screams by Collin Henderson (108 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars

Total for this month: 3 books read published in 2016, 1 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 0 books read published before 2013.

# APRIL #

Blood Moon by John David Bethel (355 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (304 pages) (published in 1982) 3/5 stars
Miranda’s Rights by Lily Luchesi (128 pages) (published in 2016) 3/5 stars
Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken (507 pages) (published in 2013) 3/5 stars
The Start Of Me And You by Emery Lord (376 pages) (published in 2015) 3,5/5 stars
Life Sentence by Lily Luchesi (100? pages) (published in 2016) 3,5/5 stars
Among Friends by Heather Murray (298 pages) (published in 2016) 3,5/5 stars
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (470 pages) (published in 2016) 4,5/5 stars
The Car Bomb by T.V. LoCicero (220 pages) (published in 2013) 2/5 stars
Riven by Belinda Crawford (250 pages) (published in 2016) 3,5/5 stars

Total for this month: 6 books read published in 2016, 3 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 1 books read published before 2013.

# MAY #

Anything For Her by Jack Jordan (370 pages) (published in 2015) 4,5/5 stars
The Murder Of An Angel by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (304 pages) (published in 2015) 2/5 stars
Room by Emma Donoghue (321 pages) (published in 2010) 5/5 stars
Manipulated Lives by H.A. Leuschel (274 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
Stardust by Neil Gaiman (266 pages) (published in 1999) 3,5/5 stars
Heartborn by Terry Maggert (238 pages) (published in 2016) 2,5/5 stars
Sherlock Holmes And The Nine-Dragon Sigil by Tim Symonds (233 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars

Total for this month: 3 books read published in 2016, 2 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 2 books read published before 2013.

# JUNE #

Molly Bell And The Wishing Well by Bridget Geraghty (101 pages) (published in 2016) 3,5/5 stars
And I Darken by Kiersten White (498 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
The Book Of Whispers by Kimberley Starr (382 pages) (published in 2016) 2/5 stars
Can’t Buy Forever by Susan Laffoon (218 pages) (published in 2015) 1,5/5 stars
Four Days by Jamie Campbell (135 pages) (published in 2015) 3/5 stars
The Merchant’s Pearl by Amie O’Brien (466 pages) (published in 2016) 3,5/5 stars
Quirky Essays For Quirky People by Barbara Venkataraman (71 pages) (published in 2014) 4/5 stars
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (284 pages) (published in 1868) 2,5/5 stars

Total for this month: 4 books read published in 2016, 3 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 1 books read published before 2013.

# JULY #

Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (359 pages) (published in 2012) 4/5 stars
Slip by David Estes (416 pages) (published in 2014) 3/5 stars
Confess by Colleen Hoover (320 pages) (published in 2015) 2/5 stars
Bookishly Ever After by Isabel Bandeira (378 pages) (published in 2016) DNF; 121 pages read
Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton (400 pages) (published in 2011) 3,5/5 stars
Americosis Vol. 4 by Haydn Wilks (56 pages) (published in 2016) 3/5 stars
Love May Fail by Matthew Quick (419 pages) (published in 2015) 3/5 stars

Total for this month: 2 books read published in 2016, 3 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 2 books read published before 2013.

# AUGUST #

Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard (322 pages) (published in 2016) 2,5/5 stars
Zusje by Rosamund Lupton (352 pages) (published in 2010) 2,5/5 stars
The Ask And The Answer by Patrick Ness (536 pages) (published in 2009) 4/5 stars
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (248 pages) (published in 1894) 3,5/5 stars
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (216 pages) (published in 2011) 5/5 stars
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson (312 pages) (published in 2015) 4,5/5 stars
The Secret Of Heaven by Felix Alexander (311 pages) (published in 2016) 2/5 stars
Monsters Of Men by Patrick Ness (602 pages) (published in 2010) 3/5 stars
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (160 pages) (published in 1865) 4/5 stars
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (288 pages) (published in 2005) 2,5/5 stars

Total for this month: 2 books read published in 2016, 1 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 7 books read published before 2013.

# SEPTEMBER #

This Savage Song REREAD by Victoria Schwab (464 pages) (published in 2016) 5/5 stars
A Different Blue by Amy Harmon (322 pages) (published in 2013) 4/5 stars
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes (311 pages) (published in 1966) 4,5/5 stars
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (340 pages) (published in 2012) 3/5 stars
Heartless by Marissa Meyer (453 pages) (published in 2016) 3/5 stars
Bentwhistle The Dragon by Paul Cude (486 pages; DNF 49% or 238 pages) (published in 2011) 2/5 stars
The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank (283 pages) (published in 1947) 4,5/5 stars

Total for this month: 2 books read published in 2016, 1 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 4 books read published before 2013.

# OCTOBER-NOVEMBER-DECEMBER #

Hide And Seek by M.J. Arlidge (416 pages) (published in 2016) 4/5 stars
Bird Box by Josh Malerman (262 pages) (published in 2014) 4/5 stars
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (208 pages) (published in 1897) 3,5/5 stars
Armada by Ernest Cline (384 pages) (published in 2015) 3/5 stars
IT by Stephen King (1478 pages) (published in 1986) 3/5 stars
Still Life With Tornado by A.S. King (295 pages) (published in 2016) 2/5 stars
We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson (146 pages) (published in 1962) 3/5 stars
The Marble Collector by Cecelia Ahern (304 pages) (published in 2015) 3/5 stars
Our Numbered Days by Neil Hilborn (72 pages) (published in 2015) 2,5/5 stars
Still Alice by Lisa Genova (353 pages) (published in 2007) 4/5 stars
Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (242 pages) (published in 1996) 2/5 stars
Utopia by Thomas More (135 pages) (published in 1516) 3/5 stars

Total for these months: 2 books read published in 2016, 4 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 6 books read published before 2013.

FINAL NUMBERS: 35 books read published in 2016, 27/50 books read published in 2015, 2014 or 2013 and 25/20 books read published before 2013.

DONE! A total of 52 books read published before 2016 and 25 books read published before 2013.