2012 TBR Pile Challenge

You’d think I’d have been able to finish reading twelve books in 2011 that I’ve been meaning to read for a year or more, but… maybe in 2012.

Even if I didn’t actually finish the 2011 challenge, I was able to knock a few books off of my “To Be Read” pile. I guess that’s what matters–I made more headway on my TBR pile this year than I have for a long, long time. Honestly, those books really just would have continued collecting dust if I hadn’t joined the challenge in the first place. And, even more importantly, the challenge got me following Adam on Twitter, Facebook and his blog. You should check him out. He blogs at roofbeamreader.net and I think he’s pretty darn cool.

Oh, well. Putting my loss behind me. Onward and upward! Or downward, I suppose, as my TBR pile decreases! I’m going to try again with the 2012 TBR Pile Challenge.

An upside to my failure to finish the 2011 TBR Pile Challenge is that I should have a pretty easy time choosing most of my books for the 2012 TBR Pile Challenge.

In the year 2012 I (and Roof Beam Reader) challenge myself to read:

1. Candide, by Voltaire
2. The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
3. Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
4. Reservation Blues, by Sherman Alexie
5. Into the Forest, by Jean Hegland
5. Nineteen Eighty-four, by George Orwell
6. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
7. The Broom of the System, by David Foster Wallace
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Steig Larsson
9. Dune, by Fank Herbert
10.  Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan
11. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
12. Faith of the Fallen, by Terry Goodkind

Alternates:
1. Bucking the Sun, by Ivan Doig
2. The Heartsong of Charging Elk, by James Welch

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