Reading challenge wrapup 2013 - Mount TBR

One of my stated goals for 2013 was to make a serious dent in my To Be Read list. I set myself the goal that at LEAST two of the books I read every month should be from said list, and preferably purchased before 2012 even.

So this reading challenge, where the goal was to read only books written or purchased before 2013, and owned by me (no borrowed books) seemed like the perfect solution. Originally I signed up to complete the Mont Blanc, a modest 24 books over the course of the year. As the months went on, and I kept reading, I kept being able to upgrade my reading goal, until I completed the last of my books on the 28th of December, having read a total of 60 books from my TBR list - so I completed Mount Kilimanjaro. Sadly, I probably added twice that number to my TBR list again just from the various "Best of the year" lists in December, but that's a challenge for next year. My books were as follows:

1. Firelight by Kristen Callihan
2. The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson
3. Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
4. The Snow Queen by Mercedes Lackey
5. The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King
6. The Assassins prequels by Sarah J. Maas
7. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
8. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
9. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
10. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
11. The Mislaid Magician by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
12. Turn Me On, Damn It by Olaug Nilssen
13. The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand
14. One Eye Red by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
15. Seduce Me at Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas
16. Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas
17. Married by Morning by Lisa Kleypas
18. Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas
19. The Figwort Family by Lars Saabye Christensen
20. The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
21. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
22. Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede
23. Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
24. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
26. Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge
27. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
28. First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
29. Little House on the Praire by Laura Ingalls Wilder
30. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
31. The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
32. The Umbrella Academy: Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
33. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
34. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
35. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
36. Little Town on the Praire by Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
38. The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
39. Beauty and the Spy by Julie Anne Long
40. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
41. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
42. Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
43. The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
44. Flowers From the Storm by Laura Kinsale
45. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
46. Where She Went by Gayle Forman
47. Death Masks by Jim Butcher
48. Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar
49. Scoundrel's Kiss by Carrie Lofty
50. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
51. Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
52. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
53. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sarra Manning
54. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
55. Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
56. Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
57. Bigger Than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder
58. Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
59. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
60. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan