2012 TBR challenge
The TBR Pile Challenge 2013 is organized by Adam of Roof Beam Reader. The idea behind this challenge is that you read older books on your shelves, books that have been there for longer than a year. They deserve to be read, too!
The Goal: To finally read 12 books from your “to be read” pile (within 12 months).
1. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
2. Affinity by Sarah Waters
3. The Namesake by Jhumpta Lahiri
4. Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
5. Before Women Had Wings by Connie May Fowler
6. The Bells: A Novel by Richard Harvell
7. Beyond Black: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
8. The Bone People: A Novel by Keri Hulme
9. Symphony by Jude Morgan
10. The Chronicles of the Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones
11. Atonement by Ian McEwan
12. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
2012 Back to Classics Challenge
The Required Categories:
- A 19th Century Classic - Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- A 20th Century Classic - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
- A Pre-18th or 18th Century Classic: - The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
- A Classic that relates to the African-American Experience – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- A Classic Adventure - King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
- A Classic that prominently features an Animal - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Optional Categories:
A. Re-read a Classic - Either The Scarlet Letter or Dracula by Bram Stoker
B. A Russian Classic - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
C. A Classic Non-Fiction title – The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
D. A Classic Children’s/Young Adult title – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
E. Classic Short Stories – Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
Books read:
