MizB's TBR Challenge is just what I need to get me going on the amazingly large list of books I own but have not yet read. I would tell you the number, but it's too embarrassing. My TBR pile is larger than most people's library.
The Rules:
12 books total at any time: no re-reads
No changing the list after January 1, 2010
Overlap with other challenges is fine
List of 12
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Gravity's Rainboy by Thomas Pynchon
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
List of 12 Alternates
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
- She by H. Rider Haggard
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Dune by Terry Pratchett
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
- Howl by Allen Ginsburg
- Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
I've only read one book in your whole list - The Glass Castle (which is so awesome). I'm doing this challenge too. I did it this year, and loved the structure. It forces me to read what was interesting to me at one moment in time, which is a big feat for me and my fickle heart!
ReplyDeleteGreat lists, Trisha! I sure hope you are asking for an e-book for Christmas. I know you would love having one.
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading Frances Mayes's A Year in the World...lacks the magic of Under the Tuscan Sun.
Sandy - I'm glad to hear it's awesome; maybe I'll start with that one.
ReplyDeleteDeb - I just can not decide on the e-reader. Do you have one?
I'm reading The Awakening right now. It's a favorite of mine.
ReplyDeleteStacy - Excellent! It's great to hear that before reading a book.
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