Beat the Backlist Challenge 2022

So I’ve seen the Beat the Backlist Challenge but never participated in the challenge because I’m such a mood reader and I didn’t think I could rise up to the challenge with the list of prompts. I’m still debating on whether to do it for 2023 but I was so curious to see how many books I did read from the backlist in 2022 that I used the spreadsheet you can find on the website for the challenge and found out. And here are my results:

Books I Read from the Backlist in 2022:

Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by. Laeken Zea Kemp
This Poison Heart by. Kalynn Baron
The Love Hypothesis by. Ali Hazelwood
Once Upon a Broken Heart by. Stephanie Garber
Heartbreakers and Fakers by. Cameron Lund
House of Wolves (#2) by. Casey L. Bond
The Heart Principle (#3) by. Helen Hoang
Counting Down with You by. Tashie Bhuiyan
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by. Holly Black
A Deadly Education by. Naomi Novik

Monday’s Not Coming by. Tiffany D. Jackson
American Street by. Ibi Zoboi
Dear Martin by. Nic Stone
Well Met (#1) by. Jen De Luca
Jade City (#1) by. Fonda Lee
The Donut Trap by. Julie Tieu
Blade of Secrets (#1) by. Tricia Llevenseller
Lore by. Alexandra Bracken
The Girl From Widow Hills by. Megan Miranda
Dark and Shallow Lies by. Ginny Myers Sain

Our Violent Ends (#2) by. Chloe Gong
Beasts of Prey (#1) by. Ayana Gray
Ace of Spades by. Faridah Abike-Iyimide
The Bone Shard Daughter (#1) by. Andrea Stewart
You’ve Reached Sam by. Dustin Thao
We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by. Rachel Lynn Solomon
It Happened One Summer by. Tessa Bailey
The Guncle by. Steven Rowley
For the Wolf (#1) by. Hannah F. Whitten
Where the Crawdad Sings by. Delia Owens

A Cursed Kiss by. Jenny Hickman
The Last Legacy by. Adrienne Young
Love & Olives by. Jenna Evans Welch
The Hearts We Sold by. Emily Lloyd-Jones
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by. Laura Taylor Namey
Tokyo Ever After (#1) by. Emiko Jean
That Dark Infinity by. Kate Pentecost
The Atlas Six (#2) by Olivie Blake
The River Has Teeth by. Erica Waters
Ledge (#1) by. Stacey McEwan

So it looks like out of the 162 books I’ve read (not counting children’s books that were logged onto my Goodreads) – 40 of them were on the backlist! And I only had 8 of these titles (in bold) on my physical book shelf. Everything else were digital or library hardcover books.

I should really take a look at my physical bookshelf and make a list of books I need to read. 😅 I’m sure it’s going to surprise me!

How did you do on reading your backlist TBR in 2022? Are you going to join the Beating the Backlist Challenge for 2023? You can find the information, rules prompts and everything you need for the challenge here: Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge 2023 . Here’s a graphic of the 24 prompt list which looks more doable for me than the 52 prompt list! But I’m still on the fence lol…my year just gets so busy, I don’t know if I can commit. 😆 But it looks like fun and I really should do just to push myself a little.