Read all the books on My 2008 TBR Challenge

Read all the books on My 2008 TBR Challenge

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One of the reading challenges I participate in each year is to read at least 12 books (one per month) that I designate in January, because they have been in my To Be Read pile for at least six months. Last year I failed miserably, only reading six of them. I think my problem is that I picked books that I really didn't have a lot of hopes of reading because I didn't care about them one way or another. This year I'm picking 12 that I REALLY want to read. I have the added pressure (in a good way) that I have added or will add them to a virtual book box that I trade with friends who all want to read the books from Dr. Peter Boxall's "1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" list. (red text indicates I've finished the book.)

1. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman
2. Persuasion by Jane Austen
3. Saturday by Ian McEwan
4. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
5. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
6. Howards End by E. M. Forester
7. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
9. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
10. Unless by Carol Shields
11. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
12. The Once and Future King by T.H. White

© Susan K. Barton 2008