2018 TBR Reading Challenge

One of the blogs I follow, RoofbeamReader, has an annual challenge (except when he was writing his dissertation, which I totally get) to help people weed out all those books that have been sitting around for more than a year begging to be read. I have participated other years, and decided to opt in again. I am trying to replace fiddling with electronics at bedtime with reading a book instead, and so I am actually dipping back in to my vast supply of books on paper in addition to my audiobooks.

So I have to commit to 12 up front, which is hard, but I’m doing some challenges on goodreads which have given me a bit of a path to follow. Here are my choices (and the alternates in case some are too awful to keep going):

1. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
2. Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
3. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
4. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
5. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
6. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
7. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
8. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Benieres
9. Giants in the Earth by E. O. Rolvang
10. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
11.  The  Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
12. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

And for alternates:

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
2. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

I think I’m most likely to chicken out of #12, but I need it for a Goodreads challenge, so it may last.

Wish me luck!