MizB is also hosting this challenge again. I’ve had fun this year reading books but I’m still not finished. I will need to think about this years books and post a
** Pick 12 books – one for each month of the year – that you’ve been wanting to read (that have been on your “To Be Read” list) for 6 months or longer, but haven’t gotten around to.
** OPTIONAL: Create a list of 12 “Alternates” (books you could substitute for your challenge books, given that a particular one doesn’t grab you at the time)
** Then, starting January 1, read one of these books from your list each month, ending December 31. )
My List:
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – finished May 27, 2010
- Blonde
- Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver – finished December 31, 2010
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote – finished Oct 10, 2010
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – finished Nov 7, 2010
- Crime and Punishment
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – finished NOV 21, 10
- Four Past Midnight
- It
- House of Mirth
- Interview With the Vampire
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Alternatives:
- Godfather by Mario Puzo – finished Sept 30, 2010
- Grapes of Wrath
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – finished Oct 8, 2010
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – finished Dec 20, 2010
- A Mighty Heart
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Pretty Little Mistakes
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates – finished Feb 20, 2010
- Sail by James Patterson – finished June 12, 2010
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl by Anonymous – finished Nov 30, 2010
- Son of a Witch
- Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley – finished June 20, 2010