The 2015 TBR Pile Challenge

This one challenge has proved to be one of the most useful tools in my reading life. As an organized reader, I usually created a reading list each year. Normally I would diligently follow it, but now and then there would be a new published book which is so enticing that I’d be tempted to kick out one or two books from the list to give place for the new comer. And this is why Adam’s TBR Pile Challenge has been very helpful. It helps me to keep on track. It would be hard to neglect a book that is listed in two challenges, as it means I would be failed in both, right?

So, I’m going to do this challenge again next year, and here is my list, complete with the publication date of my copies:

• The Last Dickens – Matthew Pearl (2010)
• True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey (2006) – Ind. translation
• The Bleak House – Charles Dickens (1994)
• The Ringmaster’s Daughter – Jostein Gaarder (2006) – Ind. translation
• The Confessions – St. Augustine Hyppo (2002)
• Empress – Shan Sa (2012) – Ind. translation
• Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (2012)
• Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2001)
• The Fortune of Rougons – Emile Zola (2012)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone (1987)
• The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (2001)
• The Golden Bowl – Henry James (2000)

Alternates:

• The Call of the Wild – Jack London (1992)
• Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (1999)

Will you participate too? Here’s the sign up page of Roof Beam Reader’s Official 2015 TBR Pile Challenge.