2009 TBR Challenge

Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanza! Happy Hanakkah! Feliz Navidad! Buon Feste Natalizie! Joyeux Noel! Mele Kalikimaka! Merry Keshmish!

Since I had so much fun with my own reading challenge in 2008 I have decided to play along with some of the others I have found online. This one is the 2009 TBR (To Be Read) Challenge. Thanks to Kristi over at Passion for the Page for the challenge link to the TBR hosted by MizB.

Here are the rules:

• The challenge is to read 12 TBR books in 12 months. You can read them all in one month or one per month for the next 12 months - totally up to you.
  
• You need to have a list posted somewhere for others to see.
  
• You cannot change the list after 1/1/2009.


• You can create an alternate list of 12 books max to choose from in order to have more options.


• Audio books and e-books are NOT allowed.


• Re-reads are NOT allowed as they are not true TBR books.
  
• You CAN overlap books with other challenges.


• OPTIONAL - You can join the Yahoo Group created for the participants of the TBR challenge if you want to have a place to keep your list or just to share with other participants how you are doing.

So here is my list (made up totally of books that are already in my house):

1. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
2. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
3. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
4. Testimony by Anita Shreve
5. The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
6. Walking on Eggshells by Jane Ishay
7. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
8. The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
9. Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
10. The Cure for Anything is Salt Water by Mary South
11. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
12. Fool by Christpher Moore
    
    My alternate list (also made up entirely of books already in my house):

1. The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
2. Pepper Pike by Les Roberts
3. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
4. Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown
5. Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
6. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
7. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
8. The Alibi Man by Tami Hoag
9. Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
10. Black Wave by John and Jean Silverwood
11. Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard
12. The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey

Stay tuned for reviews as I update how I am progressing.