2026 Mount TBR: My Sign-Up

 

I'm ready to kick off my fourteenth climb up Mount TBR as well as the fourteenth year I've sponsored the challenge. It will come as a surprise to no one that my TBR mountain range is no smaller than when I started. I just seem to trade one mountain for another, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to keep trying to read more than I take in. Once more the goal is to climb Mount Everest (100 of my own books) with the hopes of planting a flag atop Mount Olympus on Mars. I've managed that feat in two of the past years--but it's unlikely that I'll get very far on Mars this year. Grab your hiking boots and come join me on a TBR trek in 2026!

1. Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy [on TBR since 11/5/16] (1/7/26)

2. Death on the Slopes by Norma Schier [on TBR since 10/4/18] (1/9/26)

3. The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson [on TBR since 1/26/19] (1/12/26)

4. Shadows Before by Dorothy Bowers [on TBR since 6/27/12] (1/18/26)

5. Old Bones by Herman Petersen [on TBR since 10/6/16] (1/20/26)

6. High Marks for Murder by Rebecca Kent [on TBR since ] (1/22/26)

7. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie [on TBR since 6/15/10] (1/25/26)

8. Masterpieces of Mystery: Amateurs & Professionals [on TBR since 9/19/25] (1/31/26)

9. Aristotle Detective by Margaret Doody [on TBR since 3/28/15] (2/3/26)

10. Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys [on TBR since 2/24/18] (2/4/26)

11. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Great War by Simon Guerrier [on TBR since 7/9/24] (2/7/26)

12. A Death for a Double by E. X. Giroux [on TBR since 10/9/15] (2/7/26)

Pike's Peak!

13. The Plumley Inheritance by Christopher Bush [on TBR since 6/1/21] (2/13/26)

14. Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives by Sarah Weinman, ed [on TBR since 3/24/15] (2/18/25)

15. Escape While I Can by Melba Marlett [on TBR since 7/1/21] (2/19/26)

16. Frederica by Georgette Heyer [on TBR since 6/17/23] (2/22/26)

17. The Fourth Policeman by Craig Rice [on TBR since 10/18/15] (2/25/26)

18. The Avenging Chance by Anthony Berkeley [on TBR since 10/8/18] (2/28/26)

19. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith [on TBR since 1226/25] (3/2/26)

20. An Affair to Remember by Christopher Andersen [on TBR since 9/27/10] (3/5/26)

21. That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green [on TBR since 1/28/22] (3/11/26)

22. The Gaunt Stranger by Edgar Wallace [on TBR since 12/11/25] (3/16/26)

23. Murder Enters the Picture by Willetta Ann Barber & R. F. Schabelitz pon TBR since 12/25/16] (3/20/26)

24. Consequences of Sin by Clare Langley-Hawthorne [on TBR since 1/7/14] (3/21/26)

Mount Blanc!!

25. Shadow of Madness by Hugh Pentecost [on TBR since 7/17/21] (3/23/26)

26. The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead [on TBR since 10/8/23] (4/1/26)

27. Murder on the Thirty-First Floor by  [on TBR since 3/28/15] (4/6/26)

28. Harriet Farewell by Margaret Erskine [on TBR since 7/13/11] (4/8/28)

29. Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie [on TBR since 9/11/94] (4/11/26)

30. Treasure of Hemlock Mountain by Virginia Frances Voight [on TBR since 7/9/14] (4/11/26)

31. The Methods of Sergeant Cluff by Gil North [on TBR since 8/17/23] (4/13/26)

32. The Body in the Dumb River by George Bellairs [on TBR since 9/12/24] (4/16/26)

33. Murder on Eaton Square by Lee Strauss [on TBR since 10/13/22] (4/20/26)

34. Who Done It? by Jon Scieszka (complier & editor) [on TBR since 12/6/14] (4/25/26)

35. Murder Mayhem Short Stories by Christopher Semtner (foreword) [on TBR since 12/25/19] (5/2/26)

36. Murder in Bright Red by Frances Crane [on TBR since 10/4/13] (5/4/26)

Mount Vancouver!!!

37. The Anatomist's Apprentice by Tessa Harris [on TBR since 2/9/19] (5/5/26)

38. Who Killed Alfred Snowe? by J. S. Fletcher [on TBR since 11/25/23] (5/8/26)

39. These Names Make Clues by E. C. R. Lorac [on TBR since 12/25/23] (5/12/26)

40. Squire of Death by Richard Lockridge [on TBR since at least 2011] (5/17/26)

41. No Peace for the Wicked by E. X. Ferrars [on TBR since 12/25/23] (5/18/26)

42. The Evil That Men Do by Hugh Pentecost [on TBR since 12/25/23] (5/19/26)

43. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun [on TBR since 12/25/23] (5/21/26)

44. The Buttercup Case by Frances Crane [on TBR since 6/4/22] (5/23/26)

45. The Six Iron Spiders by Phoebe Atwood Taylor [on TBR since 10/6/16] (5/30/26)

46. White Orchids by Grace Livingston Hill [on TBR since 4/23/22] (5/31/26)

47. The Man Who Didn't Fly by Margot Bennett [on TBR since 4/8/21] (6/8/26)

48. Spellbound by Francis Beeding [on TBR since 3/18/22] (6/13/26)

Mount Ararat!!!!

49. The Case of Cabin 13 by Sam McCarver [on TBR since 4/14/20] (6/14/26)

50. A Particular Eye for Villainy by Ann Granger [on TBR since 9/11/14] (6/17/26)

51. Murder in the Mystery Suite by Ellery Adams [on TBR since 10/31/15] (6/23/26)

52. A Conspiracy of Poisons by J. G. Jeffreys [on TBR since 5/5/16] (6/28/26)

53. The Eve of the Wedding by Lionel Black [on TBR since 6/30/12] (6/30/26)

54. Winds of Evil by Arthur W. Upfield [on TBR since 10/14/21] (7/7/26)

55. DeKok & the Somber Nude by A. C. Baantjer [on TBR since 10/16/21] (7/10/26)

56. Blotto, Twinks & the Dead Dowager Duchess by Simon Brett [on TBR since 2/24/24] (7/15/26)

57. Two Bronze Pennies by Chris Nickson [on TBR since 3/28/25] (7/20/26)

58. A Dying Fall by Hildegarde Dolson [on TBR since 7/6/22] (7/26/26)

59. The Benson Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine [on TBR since 6/27/12] (8/1/26)

60. Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart [on TBR since 4/25/19] (8/5/26)

Mt. Kilimanjaro!!!!!

61. Dandy Gilver & an Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson [on TBR since 12/19/15] (8/8/26)

62. The Charteris Mystery by A. E. Fielding [on TBR since 2/13/15] (8/18/26)

63. Murder & Sullivan by Sara Hoskinson Frommer [on TBR since 7/5/25] (8/22/26)

64. Murder, Murder, Little Star by Marian Babson [on TBR since 11/25/23] (8/25/26)

65. A Matter of Accent by David Keith [on TBR since 7/27/17] (8/28/26)

66. Death of a Harvard Freshman by Victoria Silver [on TBR since at least 2011--not logged properly] (8/31/26)

67. These Old Shades by Georgett Heyer [on TBR since 8/25/23] (9/2/26)

68. Beverly Gray's Return by Clair Blank [on TBR since 1/5/19] (9/5/26)

69. A Stitch in Crime by Ann Yost [on TBR since 2023] (9/7/26)

70. Who Killed Me? by Joan Allan [on TBR since 12/25/22] (9/9/26)

71. The Property of a Lady by Anthony Oliver [on TBR since 6/11/11] (9/12/26)

72. Murder in Luxury by Hugh Pentecost [on TBR since 12/31/11] (9/15/26)

73. Death Likes It Hot by Edgar Box [on TBR since 3/23/12] (9/17/26)

74.The Man Who Killed Fortescue by Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett (aka John Stephen Strange) [on TBR since 4/14/19] (9/19/26)

75. Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion by Carolyn Keene [on TBR since 1977] (9/23/26)

El Toro!!!!!!

76. Random Killer by Hugh Pentecost [on TBR since 10/14/21] (9/25/26)

77. The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene [on TBR since 1977] (9/25/26)

78. Death Draws the Line by Jack Iams [on TBR since 10/17/15] (10/7/26)

79. The Opening Door by Helen Reilly [on TBR since 12/25/14] (10/18/26)

80. Happy Returns by Manning Coles [on TBR since 12/25/19] (10/24/26)

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