TBR Pile Challenge 2012
The challenges to read my TBR pile just keep, well – ‘piling’ up! This TBR Pile Challenge, hosted by Adam at Roof Beam Reader requires me to list in advance the 12 books from my shelves that I pledge to read.
Each of these 12 books must have been on my bookshelf or “To Be Read” list for AT LEAST one full year. This means the book cannot have a publication date of 1/1/2010 or later.
You’ll no doubt recognize some of these titles as crossovers from other challenges I’ve entered, but I’m assuming that’s okay with Adam.
1. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Completed Apr 2012
2. London: The Novel
by Edward Rutherford
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Completed Jul 2012
4. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler Completed Sep 2012
5. A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence Completed Sep 2012
6. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock Completed Feb 2012
7. Memoirs by Pierre Elliott Trudeau Completed Nov 2012
8. The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881
by Pierre Berton
9. Walden by Henry David Thoreau Completed Mar 2012
10. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck Completed Sep 2012
11. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Completed Sep 2012
12. The Museum of Dr. Moses by Joyce Carol Oates Completed Oct 2012
Two (2) alternates are allowed, just in case one or two of the books end up in the “can’t get through” pile. I’m choosing two super-easy ones, just in case.
1. Murder at Hazelmoor by Agatha Christie Completed Jun 2012
2. Halfway House by Ellery Queen Completed Dec 2012
Jane Eyre and Walden are fantastic! And I’ve had A Suitable Boy and Travels with Charley (Steinbeck is a favorite of mine) on my list for a while!
I haven’t heard of some of the others, but London: A Novel sounds very interesting. I’m adding it to my TBR list… but at 1152 pages, I know I won’t get to it next year. I already have too many planned chunksters. =/
Glad you’re joining us this year – good luck and I look forward to reading your reviews!
Thank you, Adam. I know I’m probably crazy for tackling London AND A Suitable Boy in the same year, especially since I’ve committed to read 150 books in 2012. Oh, well, I’ll just do what I can…. :0)
You have a more challenging list than I do. Anything with Steinbeck on it is a challenge for me. Walden is on my to read list but I don’t own a copy. I read Jane Eyre years and years ago. I was a quite ambitious reader as a teen! Good luck with the challenge.
Yes, Leslie, for some reason I’m feeling very ambitious right now. Come January, when it’s taking me three weeks to get through A Suitable Boy, I’ll probably regret it big time.
As for Steinbeck – I didn’t like East of Eden at all but I remember not disliking the Red Pony too much. Travels with Charley, I’m reading mostly for the dog lol