And Yet Another Reading Challenge for 2012!

For several weeks we’ve (Evan) been pondering the ramifications of joining the Mount TBR Reading Challenge for next year.  The rules of this challenge state that all books must only come from a participants own personal library.  This is problematic considering most of the books on our 2012 TBR list physically reside at our local library.  Hopefully you can now see our conundrum, nay quagmire.

However, during our aforementioned pondering, the research wing of Two Bibliomaniacs brought to light that our current percentage of books completed from our personal library is right around 54.7%.  This will not do, sir! 

We have hence decided to set out on a monumental climb of Mt. Ararat, which requires us (Evan) to read 40 books from our personally owed TBR pile. *gulp* Our planned checkpoints are listed below:    

1.       Thursday Next: First Among Sequels – Jasper Fforde

2.       Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse

3.       The Little Friend – Donna Tartt

4.       The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana – Umberto Eco

5.       White Oleander – Janet Fitch

6.       I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb

7.       Redeeming Love – Francine Rivers

8.       The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski

9.       Sea Glass – Anita Shreve

10.   Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

11.   The Smoke Jumper – Nicholas Evans

12.   Sons of Fortune – Jeffrey Archer

13.   Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt

14.   The Girl who Stopped Swimming – Joshilyn Jackson

15.   Insomnia – Stephen King

16.   Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

17.   Every Breath You Take – Judith McNaught

18.   The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve

19.   The Sands of Time – Michael Hoeye

20.   A Separate Peace – John Knowles

21.   The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy

22.   Code to Zero – Ken Follett

23.   Away Laughing on a Fast Camel – Louise Rennison

24.   Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants – Louise Rennison

25.   Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas – Louise Rennison

26.   Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers – Louise Rennison

27.   The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo

28.   A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court – Mark Twain

29.   The Awakening – Kate Chopin

30.   End of the Spear – Steve Saint

31.   Adelé – Emma Tennant

32.   Pirate – Ted Bell

33.   Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

34.   For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

35.   Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

36.   The Hours – Michael Cunningham

37.   The Adventures of Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes

38.   A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

39.   The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton

40.   The Little Balloonist – Linda Donn

If we can accomplish this admirable feat our percentage read will climb to 61.4%.  Now, if only we knew how to Yodel!  Thanks to My Reader’s Block for hosting this exciting challenge!