TBR Challenge 2011

I completed the TBR Challenge in 2009 and enjoyed it very much. So, I decided to do another round.

What is the TBR Challenge?

** Pick 12 books – one for each month of the year - that you’ve been wanting to read (that have been on your “To Be Read” list) for 6 months or longer, but haven’t gotten around to.

** OPTIONAL: Create a list of 12 “Alternates” (books you could substitute for your challenge books, given that a particular one doesn’t grab you at the time)

** Then, starting January 1, read one of these books from your list each month, ending December 31. )

Planned Books:

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Witching Hour by Ann Rice

Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair

Ain't Gonna Be The Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair

Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas

The Color of Family by Patrica Jones

The Hand That's Dealt by Rosalind Coats

The Fifth Vial by Michael Palmer

The Warmest December by Bernice L. McFadden

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pulman

Alternates: (9 with room to put 3 more)

The Amber Spy Glass by Philip Pulman

26a by Diana Evens

Memiors of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The King of Colored Town by Darryl Wimberley

The Isis Papers: The Keys To The Color by Frances Cress Welsing

The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B DuBois

Mississippi in Africa by Alan Huffman

The Naked Truth: Young Beautiful and (HIV) Positive by Marvelyn Brown

Kinky Gapach: Life, Love and Spain by Lori Tharps