2020 Beat The Backlist: Official Update Post #BTB2020

I had a lot of fun with the previous Beat The Backlist challenges, so of course I signed up again. This challenge is hosted by Novelknight and in 2020 will be all about reading for the second year in a row. No extra complications or extra points for reviews, just getting those backlist titles read and earning brownie points for that. This challenge is all about reading all those poor neglected books on your shelves instead of just new releases. We all love our new releas-es, but those older books deserve our attention too right? 😉 Books have to be published before 2020 to count, and you can set your own goals as you see fit.

I’ve decided to set my goal at a total of 80 books published before 2020, with at least 30 of them published 2017 or before.

Aaaaand I’m on team TBR STACKER this year!!

On to the official update post part… Where I will share the books I’ve read that fit the challenge. Books are either orange for books published in 2019 or 2018 or green for books published before that. Books with a # in the end have been summited for points on the Novelknight BTB challenge page.

>>> Last updated December 1st 2020 <<<

BOOKS READ IN 2020:

# JANUARY #

• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (published in 2019) #
• Nothing To Lose by Victoria Selman (published in 2019) #
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming (published in 1964) #
• Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Kovak (published in 2013) #
• Like This For Ever by Sharon Bolton (published in 2013) #
• Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center (published in 2019) #
• The One by John Marrs (published in 2016) #
• A Dark And Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton (published in 2014) #
• The Home by Sarah Stovell (published in 2019) #
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (published in 2012) #
• How To Be Brave by Louise Beech (published in 2015) #
• Regretting You by Colleen Hoover (published in 2019) #
• Beast by Matt Wesolowski (published in 2019) #
• The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda (published in 2019) #
• The Unlikely Escape Of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry (published in 2019) #
• My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (published in 2017) #
• Keep You Close by Karen Cleveland (published in 2019) #
• When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton (published in 2019) #
• A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (published in 1887) #
• The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald (published in 1922) #

Total for this month: 10 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 10 books read published 2017 or before.

# FEBRUARY #

• Lock Every Door by Riley Sager (published in 2019) #
• Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford (published in 2009) #
• What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler (published in 2015) #
• Perfume by Patrick Süskind (published in 1985) #
• Death Deserved by Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger (published in 2018) #
• Things In Jars by Jess Kidd (published in 2019) #
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (published in 2012) #
• Deep Down Dead by Steph Broadribb (published in 2016) #
• Deep Blue Trouble by Steph Broadribb (published in 2017) #
• Deep Dirty Truth by Steph Broadribb (published in 2018) #
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (published in 1904) #
• I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara (published in 2018) #
• Blue Night by Simone Buchholz (published in 2016) #
• Beton Rouge by Simone Buchholz (published in 2017) #

Total for this month: 5 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 9 books read published 2017 or before.

# MARCH #

• If I Stay by Gayle Forman (published in 2009) #
• Mexico Street by Simone Buchholz (published in 2018) #
• Love And Other Words by Christina Lauren (published in 2018) #
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (published in 1945) #
• Harry Potter Y Las Reliquias De La Muerte by J.K. Rowling (published in 2007) #
• The Storied Life Of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (published in 2014) #
• And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott (published in 2018) #

Total for this month: 3 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 4 books read published 2017 or before.

# APRIL #

• The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (published in 1926) #
• Where She Went by Gayle Forman (published in 2011) #
• Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris (published in 2002) #
• Sister by Kjell Ola Dahl (published in 2018) #
• The Sign Of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (published in 1890) #
• The Curious Charms Of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick (published in 2016) #
• The Apartment by K.L. Slater (published in 2019) #
• Meet Cute by Helena Hunting (published in 2019) #
• VOX by Christina Dalcher (published in 2018) #
• Broken Branches by M. Jonathan Lee (published in 2017) #
• One Summer In Paris by Sarah Morgan (published in 2019) #
• The Girl In The Tree by Sebnem Isiguzel (published in 2016) #
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (published in 2012) #
• From Twinkle With Love by Sandhya Menon (published in 2018) #
• The Creak On The Stairs by Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir (published in 2018) #
• Danny The Champion Of The World by Roald Dahl (published in 1975) #
• The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide (published in 2001) #
• Good Samaritans by Will Carver (published in 2018) #
• The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood (published in 2016) #

Total for this month: 8 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 11 books read published 2017 or before.

# MAY #

• Pet Sematary by Stephen King (published in 1983) #
• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight (published in 2013) #
• The Defence by Steve Cavanagh (published in 2015) #
• The Plea by Steve Cavanagh (published in 2016) #
• The Liar by Steve Cavanagh (published in 2017) #
• Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh (published in 2018) REREAD #
• The Bird And The Sword by Amy Harmon (published in 2016) #
• The Queen And The Cure by Amy Harmon (published in 2017) #
• Moederkruid by Carry Slee (published in 2001) #
• The Accidental Further Adventures Of The Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson (published in 2018) #
• The Child by Sebastian Fitzek (published in 2007) #
• The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon (published in 2003) #
• Evil At Heart by Chelsea Cain (published in 2009) #

Total for this month: 2 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 11 books read published 2017 or before.

# JUNE #

• The Night Season by Chelsea Cain (published in 2011) #
• Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts (published in 2019) #
• Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain (published in 2012) #
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (published in 2018) #
• Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver (published in 2019) #
• Let Me Go by Chelsea Cain (published in 2013) #
• The Ten Thousand Doors Of January by Alix E. Harrow (published in 2019) #
• Good Girl Bad Girl by Michael Robotham (published in 2019) #

Total for this month: 5 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 3 books read published 2017 or before.

# JULY #

• Dear Martin by Nic Stone (published in 2017)
• Entre Senderos De Lavanda by Mariela Gimenez (published in 2019)
• Broken Hearts, Fences And Other Things To Mend by Katie Finn (published in 2014)
• The Silence by Luca Veste (published in 2019)
• Fruit Of The Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (published in 2018)
• The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (published in 2019)
• I Am The Night by Ethan Cross (published in 2011)

Total for this month: 4 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 3 books read published 2017 or before.

# AUGUST #

• Dark Pines by Will Dean (published in 2017)
• The Day We Meet Again by Miranda Dickinson (published in 2019)

Total for this month: 1 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 1 books read published 2017 or before.

# SEPTEMBER #

• The Seven Doors by Agnes Ravatn (published in 2019)
• Remember Me by Mario Escobar (published in 2019)
• Flowers For The Dead by Barbara Copperthwaite (published in 2015)
• A Boy And His Dog At The End Of The World by C.A. Fletcher (published in 2019)

Total for this month: 3 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 1 books read published 2017 or before.

# OCTOBER #

• The Boy On The Bridge by M.R. Carey (published in 2017)
• Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir (published in 2018)
• The Bear And The Nightingale by Katherine Arden (published in 2017)
• The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn (published in 2013)
• Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (published in 2017)
• We Were The Salt Of The Sea by Roxanne Bouchard (published in 2014)
• Maria In The Moon by Louise Beech (published in 2017)
• The Girl In The Tower by Katherine Arden (published in 2017)

Total for this month: 1 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 7 books read published 2017 or before.

# NOVEMBER #

• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (published in 2019)
• Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (published in 2019)
• Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid (published in 2019)
• Dead Girls Don’t Lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf (published in 2013)
• Fallen Angels by Gunnar Staalesen (published in 1989)
• When by Victoria Laurie (published in 2015)
• The Winter Of The Witch by Katherine Arden (published in 2019)

Total for this month: 4 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 3 books read published 2017 or before.

 

FINAL NUMBERS: 46/50 books read published in 2019 or 2018 and 63/30 books read published 2017 or before. A total of 109/80 books.

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