TBR Pile Reading Challenge 2022

One of my favourite Reading Challenges that I joined in 2016.

I don't think Evie from the Bookish Blog still carries this on, as I can't find it on her page but her words with which she started this challenge are still true: "We all have those books. We buy them, win them, they're gifted to us. Then we put them up on a bookshelf and there they stay, collecting dust, waiting for the time when we'll finally decide to pick them up."

After six years of participation, my TBR (To Be Read) pile is still a lot longer than it should because I just can't resist buying any new books and going to the library but I have tried to attempt reading more old books than buying new ones.

I could, of course, try to tackle the 50+ challenge but we all know that is not going to happen, instead, I tried to do at least 11-20 old books in addition to the new ones I'm buying and those I get from the library and wished to be pleasantly surprised at the end of the year. That happened, I have reached the 21-30 (First Kiss) and 31-40 (Sweet Summer Fling) in the last years, maybe I can get to 41-50 (Could This Be Love?) one day.

I have read
37 books in 2016,
32 in 2017,
38 in 2018, 

23 in 2019 and 

25 in 2020 

39 in 2021
of the books that had been waiting to be read for more than a year.

I hope I will manage more in 2022.

(I always add the German title in brackets for my German friends)

So far, I have already read these of my "old books" in 2022:
Van Dyke, Henry "The Story of the Other Wise Man" (Der vierte Weise) - 1896
Cather, Willa "Shadows on the Rock" (Schatten auf dem Fels) - 1931
Harari, Yuval Noah "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" (21 Lektionen für das 21. Jahrhundert) - 2018
Enquist, Anna "Mei" [May] (Mai) - 2007
Lodge, David "A Man of Parts" (Ein ganzer Mann) - 2011
Eichendorff, Joseph von "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" (Life of a Good-For-Nothing) - 1826
Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander "Der Reisende" (The Passenger/The Fugitive) - 1939
Chevalier, Tracy "The Last Runaway" (Die englische Freundin) - 2013
Némirovsky, Irène "La Proie" [The Prey/Das Beutetier] - 1938
Fallada, Hans "Every Man Dies Alone" (GE: Jeder stirbt für sich allein) - 1947
Keller, Gottfried "Novellas" (A Village Romeo and Juliet and others) (GE: Novellen - Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe u.a.) - 1855/56
Weiler, Jan  "Mein Leben als Mensch " [My Life as a Human] - 2009
Brontë, Charlotte  "Shirley" (Shirley) - 1849
Mandelstam, Ossip "The Din of Time" (RUS: Шум времени/Shum vremeni/Das Rauschen der Zeit) - 1925
Le Faye, Deirdre "Jane Austen, The World of Her Novels" - 2002

Well, I didn't get rid of more than 15 books from my TBR pile this year. Note to self: Must to better in 2023.