2008 Challenges

I was looking over my stacks of books to be read in order to prepare for some challenges this year and realized that by far the challenge I need the most is the TBR Challenge. With that in mind, I'm only going to officially join the TBR Challenge and the book-a-week group even though there were several other challenges that would neatly fit into my TBR stacks. Oh, I will naturally do Dana's Justforthehellofit challenge. And I'll stick with the Book Awards group.

Challenges in 2008: TBR, Book a week, Booker, Pulitzer, Justforthehellofit, Book Awards

Life & Times of Michael K - Coetzee, Booker, TBR

Martin Dressler - Millhauser, Pulitzer, TBR

The Known World - Jones, Pulitzer, TBR

Echo Maker - Powers,TBR

The Lost - Mendelsohn, TBR

Atonement - McEwan TBR

The Uses of Enchantment - Julavitis, TRB

Water For Elephants - TBR

The Kite Runner - Hosseini TBR

Oppenheimer - Bird & Sherwin, TBR

The Amazing Adventures of Kavaler & Clay - Chabon, Pulitzer, TBR

The Terror - Simmons, TBR

Alternates:
The Heavenly Man - Yun

The American Plague - Crosby

The Traveler - McLarty

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - See

Gold Bug Variations - Powers

The Effects of Living Backwards - Julavitis

Independence Day - Ford

The Bounty - Alexander

English Creek - Doig

Prairie Nocturne - Doig

Ride With Me Mariah Montana - Doig

These Granite Hills - Stonich

The Way the Crow Flies - MacDonald

Tying Down the Wind - Pinder

The Giver - Lowry

Neverwhere - Gaiman

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Haddon

Obernewtyn - Carmody

History - Morante

Their Father's Gods - Rolvaag

Peder Victorious - Rolvaag

Boat of Longing - Rolvaag

The Center of Everything - Moriarty

The Rest of Her Life - Moriarty

Ten Days in the Hills - Smiley

Plus we can add to the alternates the titles in a huge box of mysteries from my father-on-law that I haven't even counted. I need the TBR Challenge and the book-a-week group desperately.