2009 TBR Challenge

I didn't do particularly well with the 2008 TBR Challenge. I read just three books from my main list and four from my alternates list, for a total of seven of the twelve required. That's not going to dissuade me from signing up for the 2009 TBR Challenge though. Maybe this year I can make a dent in my massive TBR pile!

Basic Idea of the Challenge

• Pick 12 books - one for each month of 2009 - that I've been wanting to read (that have been on my "To Be Read" list) for six months or longer.


• Create a list of 12 "alternates" (books I could substitute for my challenge books, given that a particular one doesn't grab me at the time). (Optional.)


• Then, starting January 1, 2009, read twelve books from my lists, ending December 31, 2008.

Additional information and a sign-up Mr. Linky
can be found at the challenge blog.

My Main List
(alphabetical by title)

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood


• Bellwether by Connie Willis


• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale


• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray


• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer


• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd


• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld


• Playing for Pizza by John Grisham


• Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan


• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See


• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen


• Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian

My Alternates List
(alphabetical by title)

• The Birth House by Ami Mckay


• Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood


• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser


• Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson


• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke


• Life of Pi by Yann Martel


• Light from Heaven by Jan Karon


• Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis


• Loser by Jerry Spinelli


• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster


• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson


• The Woods by Harlan Coben