TBR Challenge 2009

I’m joining the To Be Read Challenge this year, reading those 12 pesky books on my TBR pile that I manage not to get to year-after-year finally in 2009.

Main list:

1. The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker *
2. Pleasure of Ruins by Rose Macaulay *
3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
4. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence*
5. On the Damned Human Race by Mark Twain
6. The Book of the New Sun (vol 1) by Gene Wolfe
7. The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke*
8. Real Boys: Rescuing our sons from the myths of Boyhood by William Pollack, PhD.
9. A God Who Looks Like Me: Discovering a Woman Affirming Spirituality by Patricia Lynn Reily*
10. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692*
11. The Chronicles of Amber (vol 1) by Roger Zelazny
12. Queen’s Own Fool: a novel of Mary, Queen of Scots by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris

Alternates:

1. The Book of the New Sun (vol 1) by Gene Wolfe
2. The Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams – Special Topics in Calamity Physics
3. Mind Siege by Tim Lahaye*
4. Boyhood and Beyond by Bob Schultz
5. The Brontes by Rebecca Fraser
6. The Cat’s Pajamas by Ray Bradbury
7. The Weighers of Souls by Andre Maurois
8. Laughing Dog by Dick Lochte*
9. Babbit by Sinclair Lewis*
10. Loud & Clear by Anna Quindlen
11. More Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy & Science Fiction*
12. The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski

So now I just have to decide where to start. 🙂

(Books crossed out are read, books with stars were started, but not finished, books with new titles next to them mysteriously disappeared during the year & had to be replaced with other books)