Mount TBR 2018

My reading goals for 2016 and 2017 only involved number of books, because I was trying to get back in the reading habit. Now that I am, I want to focus more on reading the books I own. I've done a lot of purges over the years so Mount TBR isn't as huge as it might be for some people, but I want to get through it anyway. I'm doing the 12 book challenge. My twelve books are:

Three graphic "novels" (what do you call them when they're nonfiction/biography-ish?):

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, by Sonny Liew. A graphic biography about comics and the history of Singapore.
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco. A journalist does a graphic memoir about his time in Gaza.
Red Rosa, by Kate Evans. A biography of Rosa Luxemburg.

One non fiction:

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, by Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh

One memoir:

One Day I Will Write About This Place  (ebook) by Binyavanga Wainaina

Five novels:

White Teeth by Zadie Smith
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (ebook), by Karen Joy Fowler
Orsinian Tales, Always Coming Home,  and The Beginning Place by Ursula K Le Guin. I haven't read two of Le Guin's first three novels, I haven't read her Powers series from ~10 years ago, and I haven't read these. I did start Always Coming Home back in, like...2002? And got bored. But I was working full time and going to school full time back then, so maybe I'll have more patience now.

Two short story collections:

The Compass Rose and The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin. These are the only re-reads on the list. I last read these more than ten years ago, got rid of the books four years ago, and re-purchased them last year. So I reckon it counts. Plus

cahn and luzula were recently discussing them and it really made me want to re-read them.

 

I learned about the challenge from tinny! Apparently this is a thing you can sign up for, but I don't know where (and don't intend to do so myself). ( Rules beneath the cut, copy and pasted from tinny's post )