2019 Beat the Backlist TBR

First things first: Beat the Backlist is a year long challenge, the focus of which is knocking older books off your to-read list. They can be any genre, any format, any length. There are just a few rules:

* The book must have been published in 2018 or earlier to count. It can be in any format (including an ARC/eARC) as long as the release date is earlier than 2019. 
* You have to start and finish the book in 2019 to count it. Any books started in 2018 and finished in 2019 do not count. Any books started in 2019 and finish in 2020 also do not count. 

* The challenge runs from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019

Sign up here if you're interested. This post also has a lot more info about the challenge and an FAQ and graphics and fun stuff like that. :) 

This year I'm participating in the Hogwarts House mini challenge as part of Hufflepuff house. You can read more about that here. 

I didn't do great in 2018 at the Beat the Backlist challenge, but that's partially because I set all sorts of weird extra perimeters around it for myself, mostly around only counting books I already owned physical copies of before the challenge started. I think my idea was trying to conquer Book Mountain (which is what I call the physical TBR shelves that are taking over my bedroom, which at least count contained 411 books - this is just physical books I own on my TBR and does not include ebooks or rereads... URGH). Not only did I NOT read many books from Book Mountain, the thing managed to GROW AND MUTATE over the year. Like, a LOT. 

ANYHOO. In 2019 I'm doing the challenge *as intended* thankyouverymuch, which is convenient because I'm so behind on ARCs that I have about 50 past due ones for books published in 2017 and 2018 that will also count for this challenge in 2019. SO BONUS, I can also use #BeatTheBacklist2019 to conquer my past due ARCs as well as Book Mountain, MWAHAHAHHAHAHA!

My goal for Beat the Backlist 2019 is 100 books (I know, lofty goals, right?) and to kick things off I put together a super tentative TBR list. This list is comprised almost entirely of past due ARCs (some aren't quite past due yet, but by the time 2019 rolls around they will be!) and books I purchased off Book Outlet and never read. That's right, I am a book dragon, sitting gloriously atop my hoard. ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR! I've created a Goodreads shelf for #2019BeatTheBacklist and my TBR is also below, if you want to see what I'm going to try to knock out. This is more just guidelines than actual rules, of course, and there's no way I'm getting through ALL of these, but the list does give me at least some sort of place to focus. :) 

How about you? Are you going to be a part of the Beat the Backlist challenge for 2019? How about the Hogwarts House mini challenge? If so, what house are you?
(My TBR list is under the cut, so click to read more if you got here on my main page, because it's loooooong.)