This might be a bad idea.
Yet, we started this tradition last year and can’t go back now.
(We absolutely could go back. We’re just not going to.) Thus, here are our ambitious TBR lists, which will no doubt morph as the year goes on and as more books catch our attention. Here’s to 2022!
Pete’s TBR
- ✔ Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Rift by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Gurihiru
- ✔ Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
- ✔ Cosmoknights vol. 1 by Hannah Templer
- ✔ Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
- ✔ We Only Find Them When They’re Dead by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo
- ✔ The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- ✔ Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol. 1 by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe
- ✔ The Book Tour by Andi Watson
- ✔ Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- ✔ Akira vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo
- ✔ Avatar: The Last Airbender — Smoke and Shadow by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Gurihiru
- ✔ The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- ✔ Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marques
- ✔ Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
- ✔ Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol. 2 by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe
- ✔ The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
- ✔ Monstress Volume 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu
- ✔ Sailing Alone Around the World by Capt. Joshua Slocum
- ✔ Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
- ✔ Yokohama Station SF by Yuba Isukari and Tatsuyuki Tanaka
- ✔ Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
- ✔ Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and South by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Gurihiru
- ✔ Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol. 3 by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe
- ✔ The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
- ✔ The Promised Neverland vol. 1 by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu
- ✔ A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee
- ✔ Fruits Basket Collectors Edition vol. 1 by Natsuke Takaya
- ✔ The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
- ✔ Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- ✔ Drifting Dragons by Taku Kuwabara
- ✔ The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- ✔ Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Lost Adventures by various authors and illustrators
- ✔ A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir
- ✔ What If? by Randall Munroe
- ✔ The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
- ✔ The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
- ✔ Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz
- ✔ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- ✔ Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson
- ✔ Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol. 4 by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe
- ✔ Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol. 5 by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe
- ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #9 by Kamome Shirahama
- ✔ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- ✔ Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- ✔ One Piece vol. 1: Romance Dawn by Eiichiro Oda
- ✔ A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
- ✔ Unsouled by Will Wight
- 5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boys Sun
- 5 Worlds: The Cobalt Prince by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boys Sun
- 5 Worlds: The Red Maze by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boys Sun
- 5 Worlds: Amber Anthem by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boys Sun
- 5 Worlds: The Emerald Gate by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boys Sun
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- Babel by R. F. Kuang
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- Home by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
- The Museum of Rain by Dave Eggers
- Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavić
- Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
- Dictionary for the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Companion Piece by Ali Smith
- The Best Short Stories of John Buchan vol. 1
- The Best Short Stories of John Buchan vol. 2
- Modern Irish Short Stories edited by Ben Forkner
- The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
- The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells
- The Siren Depths by Martha Wells
- SPQR by Mary Beard
- The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Liberation Day by George Saunders
- Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Giles and Joseph Giles
- Life in a Medieval City by Frances Giles and Joseph Giles
- Life in a Medieval Castle by Frances Giles and Joseph Giles
- The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
- God & California by Chris Millis
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
- The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Cosmoknights vol. 2 by Hannah Templer
Indiana’s TBR
- ✔ Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- ✔ The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- ✔ Still Life by Sarah Winman
- Romanov by Nadine Brandes
- ✔ The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- Dava Shastri’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti
- ✔ The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- ✔ The Every by Dave Eggers
- ✔ Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- ✔ The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
- ✔ Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
- ✔ The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
- ✔ The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- ✔ Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
- ✔The Storm of Echoes by Christelle Dabos
- The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell
- How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
- How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
- Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Philip V. Mladenov
- ✔ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
- When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
- Writers & Lovers by Lily King
- ✔ Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon
- Breathless by Jennifer Niven
- The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
- Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
- ✔Lovely War by Julie Berry
- ✔ Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
- After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
- Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger
- Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch by Julie Abe
- Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
- The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
- The Shadows by Alex North
- Jade City by Fonda Lee
- Shiner by Amy Jo Burns
- The Ice Swan by J’Nell Ciesielski
- The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young
- Crossings by Alex Landragin
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
- ✔Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- ✔ The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
- Smoke by Dan Vyleta
- For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
- A Burning by Megha Mejumdar
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
- Emperors of the Deep by William McKeever
- ✔ Fight Night by Miriam Toews
- ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #9 by Kamome Shirahama
- Companion Piece by Ali Smith
- ✔Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
- ✔Maid by Stephanie Land
- ✔Northwind by Gary Paulsen
- ✔ The Maid by Nita Prose
- ✔ Bewilderment by Richard Powers
- These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
- Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
- ✔ The Bright & The Pale by Jessica Rubinkowski
- ✔ All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Great looking lists. I want to read a lot of these as well, but I’m really looking forward to Babel! Good luck!
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Thank you! The cover alone for Babel is just incredible. Good luck with your list too!
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I hope you both find some amazing reads this year!
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