I happened to hear about the Best Book Reading Challenge Ever: the TBR pile challenge. The rules: pick 12 books (or 14, so you can ditch 2 books that you don’t like) that have been on your To Be Read (TBR) pile for over 12 months, and read one a month throughout 2012. If you enter the official contest, you can win a $50 gift card to Amazon or the Book Depository, but really, the benefit is getting those books off your list.
Here are my choices:
- Virconium, by M. John Harrison
- The Wallet of Kai Lung, by Ernest Bramah
- The Eternal Mercenary, by Barry Sadler
- Tales of Neveryon, by Samuel R. Delaney
- The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
- The Dead Man’s Brother, by Roger Zelazny
- Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
- Tomoe Gozen, by Jessica Salmonson
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
- The Loving Dead, by Amelia Beamer
- Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees
- Ash, by Melinda Lo
- The King in Yellow and Other Stories, by Robert W. Chambers
- A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters
A note on Stiff–I rec’d it at a Christmas gift one year, didn’t know what to expect from it but really, really enjoyed it. Hope you’ll let me know what you think, when you get to it.
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I will, although it will probably be several months.
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