2011 To Be Read (TBR) Challenge

The 2011 TBR Pile Challenge is hosted by Roof Beam Reader. Here are the full details, but the rules are below.


The Goal:
To finally read 12 books from your "to be read" pile, within 12 months.

Specifics:

1. Each of these 12 books must have been on your 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 (any book published in the year 2009 or earlier qualifies, as long as it has been on your TBR pile - I WILL be checking publication dates). Caveat: Two (2) alternates are allowed, just in case one or two of the books end up in the "can't get through" pile.

2. To be eligible, you must sign-up with Mr. Linky below - link to your list (so create it ahead of time!) and add updated links to each book's review. Every listed book must be completed and must be reviewed in order to count as completed.

3. Your list must be posted by Saturday 15th January 2011

4. Leave comments on this post as you go along, to update us on your status. Come back here if/when you complete this challenge and leave a comment indicating that you CONQUERED YOUR 2011 TBR LIST! Every person who successfully reads his/her 12 books and/or alternates (and who provides a working link to their list, which has links to the review locations) will be entered to win a $50 gift card from either Amazon.com or The Book Depository!

5. There may be mini-challenge "check-ins" throughout 2011, to award and recognize those participants who are progressing through the challenge, such as a "Spring Break Check-In!" or a "6 Month Pit Stop!" Participants who are making equal progress to-date (6 books at the 6 month check-in, for example) could win a prize!

6. Crossovers from other challenges are totally acceptable, as long as you have never read the book before and it was published pre-2010!


My Twelve Chosen:

01. World Without End by Ken Follett
02. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
03. Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
04. The Mapmaker's Opera by Bea Gonzalez
05. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
06. The Thirteenth Apostle by Michel Benoit
07. Winter in Madrid by C.J.Sansom
08. Superfreakonomics by Steven D.Levitt & Stephen J.Dubner
09. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
11. The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte
12. A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall

The Two Alternates:

1. Dead Men's Dust by Matt Hilton
2. The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas


Hopefully, by the end of 2011, I shall have read these, reviewed them and given them their proper place on the bookshelf.