2011 TBR Pile Challenge

So, in an effort to find more time to read (and quit reading the same books over and over), I am joining a second book challenge.

You can find more details about it here, but the general idea is to choose 12 books that you have been meaning to read (i.e., your "To Be Read" pile) and read them by the end of 2011. You can also choose two alternates, in case some of the books you choose end up on the "I can't make it through this book" pile.

Accordingly, here is my list (as mismatched and bizarre as one might expect):

01. Trotsky by Robert Service

02. Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg

03. Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

04. The Hellfire Conspiracy by Will Thomas

05. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

06. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown (Completed 1/19/11)

07. Time and Again by Jack Finney

08. And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

09. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

10. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan (Completed 1/21/11)

11. American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis

12. Sone of a Witch by Gregory Maguire

Alternates:

1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (a book I am ashamed to admit I haven't read)

2. Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I must admit that I am looking forward to this. I'm hoping at least one of these books will prove to be good vacation reading for next week! (Maybe I can get one for free as an iBook? That would be extra excellent.)