2011 Off the Shelf Challenge

From BA Reading Challenges

Are your books multiplying like rabbits before you even get a chance to read them? Trying to keep up with them, but can’t stop buying new ones?

Maybe this challenge is for you. I know what it’s like. There’s so many titles and so many beautiful books out there sometimes it’s hard to keep that TBR shelf under control, but if you really want to try why not challenge yourself?

The challenge begins on the 1st of January and ends on the 31st of December 2011

Challenge Levels

1. Tempted–  Choose 5 books to read
2. Trying – Choose 15 books to read
3. Making A Dint – Choose 30 books to read
4. On A Roll – Choose 50 books to read
5. Flying Off – Choose 75 books to read

For extra hard challenges

1. Hoarder – Choose 76-125 books to read
2. Buried – Choose 126-200 books to read

My list:

1. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
2. The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
3. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
4. Fiddler’s Green by A.S. Peterson
5. When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt
6. The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen
7. Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond
8. Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
9. Taliesin by Stephen Lawhead
10. Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
11. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
12. 31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan
13. Merlin by Stephen Lawhead
14. Home to Woefield by Susan Juby
15. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
16. The Tower, the Zoo and The Tortoise by Julia Stuart
17. Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
18. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
19. Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
20. The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones
    
21. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
    
22. The Secret Life of Josephine by Carrolly Erickson 
    
23. Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
24. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
25. A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz
26. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
27. Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
28. Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
29. The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
30. Doc: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell
31. Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
32. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
33. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
34. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
35. Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel
36. Tunnel Vision by Gary Braver
37. The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillips
38. Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
39. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
40. The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
41. The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
42. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
43. Con & Conjure by Lisa Shearin
44. Blessings by Anna Quindlen
45. The Superlative Stream by Kerry Nietz
46. The Forbidden Sea by Sheila Nielson
47. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
48. The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
49. Beauty by Robin McKinley
50. Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley