Take Control of your TBR pile!

It's time for the Take Control of your TBR Pile challenge, hosted by Kimberley at Caffeinated Book Reviewer - visit there to find out all about it and to sign up

I haven't set myself a certain number of books to read, nor have I specified which books I will read, because I am almost certain to change my mind anyway even if I did that. But I would like to get through a few, certainly into double figures would be great. And it will be interesting to discover, I hope, some treasures that have been hiding on the shelves unread for far too long.

I'll list here the books from my to be read pile that I manage to read in March...

TBR Pile - books read March 2015...

1 - Disgrace - Jussi Adler-Olsen

2 - Anya's Ghost - Vera Brosgol
3 - How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
4 - The Last Anniversary - Liane Moriarty
5 - The Auschwitz Violin - Maria Angels Anglada
6 - Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
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Good luck to everyone doing the challenge, and thanks to all for visiting. 

Tackling the TBR pile

Happy New Year! So. I am really committed to tackling my ridiculous number of books 'to be read' this year. I plan to spend time reading those books that have been sitting ever so patiently on my shelves waiting and hoping to be read. I'm consciously devoting reading time to pleasurably choosing and reading these books, many owned for years, many that I longed to read and then have left languishing. I'm not ruling out reading any new books; I envisage that I'll read one here and there too. Anyway, let's see how it goes, but that's the plan. I've also been looking through my books to be read and passing on any that I don't think I want to read anymore to charity. 

I noticed a couple of challenges that I thought could help with my tbr pile. 

Take Control of your TBR Pile is hosted by Kimberley at Caffeinated Book Reviewer, and it focusses on March 2015, but I am starting my TBR tackling right now. Still, I think it'll give me a bit of added encouragement as the year goes on. 

The Chunkster Challenge hosted by Vasilly at 1330V is for tackling books over 450 pages long, fiction or non-fiction. Find out more about the challenge here.  This one particularly appeals to me because I think I read fairly slowly and I tend to put off reading big thick novels, even when I've been really looking forward to them, because I am wary about how long they will take me to read. Yet I know that I will love many of them once I get started - this happened with several books I read in 2014, such as American Wife, Fingersmith, Gillespie and I, and 11.22.63. 

I already have a few in mind for this challenge, and indeed as I write this I have even already finished one of them, hooray!

The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton - read in January.

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Joel Dicker

I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes

The Distant Hours - Kate Morton

The Golem and the Djinni - Helene Wecker - read in January.

Disgrace - Jussi Adler-Olsen read

Are you planning to really tackle your TBR this year? Do you have any tips for not being distracted too much by brand new books? Are you doing any challenges? Are there other TBR challenges you'd recommend?

If so good luck, and either way, happy reading!