TBR Challenge Jan 1 - Dec 31 2009

My 4th challenge for 2009:

TBR Challenge

Well, folks, the 2009 year is fast approaching! Sorry that I've been remiss in putting up a new post for the new year! I've not really even thought of it until today -- while realizing there's only really 2 weeks left of the year! Yikes!

So, ARE YOU READY TO SIGN UP FOR 2009??? If so, please add your name to the Mr.Linky below! Please make sure that your blog link is to the actual post where your list is...not just your main blog link. (so, for example, instead of just //tbrchallenge.blogspot.com, it would be something more like //tbrchallenge.blogspot.com/2008/12/18/my-list-here.html --only it'd be YOUR blog addy! LOL). If this is still unclear, feel free to email me and ask more! ;P

To remind you of the rules:
* the challenge is to read 12 TBR books in 12 months -- you can read those all in one month if you want, or one a month, or however you wanna do it.
* you need to have a list posted somewhere for others to see (even if it's in a comment here)
* you CANNOT change your list after January 1st, 2009!!!
* you can create an Alternates list of MAXIMUM 12 books, if you want, in order to have options to choose from (you can read these in place of books on your original list).
* audiobooks and e-books ARE allowed
* re-reads are NOT allowed, as they aren't TRUE "TBRs"
* you CAN overlap with other challenges
* OPTIONAL: you can join the Yahoo! Group created for participants of the TBR Challenge, if you want to have a place to keep your list, or just to share with others about how you're doing! :)

Okay! The countdown is on!!! Get your list(s) ready, and make sure you post the link to it in the Mr. Linky! ;)


So, here are my lists:

Primary:
1. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
2. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
3. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
4. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
5. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
6. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
7. Out by Natsuo Kirino
8. The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge
9. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
10. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
11. A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
12. Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Alternates:
1. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
3. The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
4. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
5. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
6. The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
7. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
8. The Sacrifice: The First Book of the Fey by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
9. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
10. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
11. Candide by Voltaire
12. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle