Joining the Official 2018 TBR Pile Challenge!

I cannot express just how grateful I am that my friend Adam at RoofBeamReader.com has decided to revive his TBR Pile Challenge.  He took a two year hiatus as he was writing his doctoral thesis, and now that he has earned his doctorate and is a professor at a university – Yay Adam! – he feels like he’s in a good place to run this year-long challenge again.

So, in case you need a refresher, here are the basic details:  When joining this challenge, you are pledging to read 12 books that have been sitting on your TBR shelf for at least a year.  It doesn’t matter the subject, if it is an audio or graphic novel, it just needs to have been on your shelf waiting patiently for you for a year.  You have to actually name the 12 books you are going to read before January 15, 2018.  I will be naming my list here in this post, but I will update on my 2018 Reading Challenges page.  You also get to select 2 alternates, in case one of the choices ends up being a DNF (did not finish).

Normally, I wouldn’t be signing up for a challenge quite this early, but I was able to walk over to my shelf and easily pick out at least 20 books that I really need to get to, but haven’t yet.  I narrowed it down to these:

1. Sula by Toni Morrison

   

   Yes, the photo is not in the same order as the list. You can handle it. It will all be okay, I promise.

2. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
4. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
5. Finnikin of the Rock by Marlena Marchetta
6. Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway
7. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
8. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
9. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
10. Jackaby by William Ritter
11. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
12. The Color of Water by James McBride

The Alternates:

1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

If you are interested in joining in the fun – because it is fun, the sense of accomplishment for finally reading these books is fulfilling, and Adam even offers up prizes throughout the year to help keep motivation up – just go to the official sign up post by CLICKING HERE and go for it!  You won’t be sorry!