Books and Things | April TBR | TBR Clear Out Readathon @katiejlumsden | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
#TBRClearOut
In which I plan my TBR for April . . .

The TBR Clear Out Readathon runs from 1st to 30th April 2024.
Announcement video: youtu.be/pElOO3PrFkU
Goodreads group: goodreads.com/group/show/1076238-tbr-clear-out-readathon

Also mentioned: the 24-hour Tackle Your TBR Readathon on 6th April, hosted by Kirsten @ReadingNymph. Announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=siZFwjFnvN4

*The Challenges for the TBR Clear Our Readathon*

The only thing you have to do is read some books from your long-term TBR, but there are 7 optional challenges:

1. Set your own TBR clear out goal

2. Read a book that has been on your TBR for a very long time
3. Read a book that has been on your TBR for a very short time

4. Read one of the longest books on your TBR
5. Read one of shortest books on your TBR

6. Read a book from your TBR that you fear you have lost interest in
7. Read a book from your TBR that you are very excited to get to

*Books Mentioned*

The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie: goodreads.com/book/show/12781.

Little, Edward Carey: goodreads.com/book/show/38649806

The Mars House, Natasha Pulley: goodreads.com/book/show/150277127

The Premonition, Banana Yoshimoto: goodreads.com/book/show/90564433

The Story of the Stone Volume II, Cao Xueqin: goodreads.com/book/show/60441549

Nettleblack, Nat Reeve: goodreads.com/book/show/59581205

Jagua Nana, Cyprian Ekwensi: goodreads.com/book/show/566585

Here Be Icebergs, Katya Adaui, translated by Rosalind Harvey: goodreads.com/book/show/60117652

Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev: goodreads.com/book/show/19117

The Hollow Sea, Annie Kirby: goodreads.com/book/show/60041471

More Than You’ll Ever Know, Katie Gutterrez: goodreads.com/book/show/58984701

The Heroines, Laura Shepperson: goodreads.com/book/show/60864054

The Revels, Stacey Thomas: goodreads.com/book/show/122752527

Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart: goodreads.com/book/show/52741293

A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute: goodreads.com/book/show/107301.

Once Upon a Tome, Oliver Darkshire: goodreads.com/book/show/61089547

The Persephone Book of Short Stories: goodreads.com/book/show/16091662

Eight Detectives, Alex Pavesi: goodreads.com/book/show/53913929

Conclave, Robert Harris: goodreads.com/book/show/29397486

Home, Cailean Steed: goodreads.com/book/show/61067734

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