Taking the TBR Challenge

Why not? I'll give it a try. Twelve books that have been on my TBR list for more than six months, to be read over the course of 2008.

The list:

1. The Log From the Sea of Cortez
2. Thin Man
3. Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
4. Ali and Nino: A Love Story
5. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
6. Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella
7. Peak
8. Captains Courageous
9. Once Were Warriors
10. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
11. The Truth-Teller's Tale
12. Bay of Spirits: A Love Story

My alternates:

1. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
2. In the Company of the Courtesan
3. Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
4. Anahita's Woven Riddle
5. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
6. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations... One School at a Time
7. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
8. Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
9. Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
10. The Alibi Club
11. A Higher Geometry
12. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Looking at these lists reminds me what a nerd I am. But in a good way!