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This challenge is designed to help clean up your To Be Read pile. If you're anything like me you have quite a pile of books you keep meaning to get to.

Post 12 books that you want to read this year and see how many you can finish by December 31st!

You don't have to read them in the order that you post them. Also, just because you have them doesn't mean that you are going to like the book so you can post some alternatives if you want or just post that you tried reading the book and it wasn't for you.

If you would like a little bit more of a challenge can you find 12 books from all different genres or at least different subgenre of books if they are in the same genre?

Here are my books for this year

1. Smash Cut
2. Her Mother's Hope
3. An Inconvenient Woman skipping, couldn't get into
4. The Faraday Girls
5. Relic
6. The Homing
7. Suite Française
8. The Killing Hour
9. Mirror Image
10. The Boy Who Dared
11. The Cobra Event
12 The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941

Alternate:
1. Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga
2. Double strike;: The epic air raids on Regensburg-Schweinfurt, August 17, 1943

Setting up my 2016 list because I really like this challenge even though I've never actually finished one. The books with asterisks are carried over from 2015.

2016 12+2 Challenge

1. A Tale of Two Cities *(this WAS the year) Jan. 26
2. Pilate's Wife *
3. The House of Mirth *
4. Motherland *
5. Things Fall Apart *
6. Up from Slavery *
7. The Reader *
8. She Is Me *
9. Wool
10. Bat 6
11. Speak Feb. 9
12. Local Girls

Alternates:
1. The Red Pony
2. Sons and Lovers

2016 12+2 Challenge

1. A Tale of Two Cities (carried over from 2015 challenge)
2. The Da Vinci Code
3. Paradise/Tender Triumph
4. Jane Eyre
5. 11/22/63
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Joy Luck Club
8. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
9. A Christmas Star
10. Mary's Land
11. Little Women
12. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Alternates:
1. Anna Karenina
2. The Three Musketeers

One book down! Its a good start!

Woot!

Karin wrote: "2016 12+2 Challenge

1. A Tale of Two Cities (carried over from 2015 challenge)
2. The Da Vinci Code
3. Paradise/Tender Triumph
4. Jane Eyre
5. [bo..."

Karen, you and I are in the same boat with Dickens here. lol

I finished A Tale of Two Cities!!!

Karen listed 12 books that I'd either like to read, or have already read, and for the most part enjoyed.

I'm going to start slowly, with the book I'm already reading for the group, and add to it as the books occur to me or when I have a chance to go through my TBR list, which is heavy on fluff.

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Who?
2. Lizzy and Jane by K Reay
3. My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
4. The Last Midwife by Sandra Dallas
5. Maybe The Red Tent

Just finished reading . This book was recommended to me by one of my students and is SUCH a compelling story. Best book I've read in a while!

Lea wrote: "I finished A Tale of Two Cities!!!"

Look at you go! I know you have been reading that for a while.

Second book off the list finally, Her Mother's Hopean emotional story about a mother/daughter relationship.

I need to start working on this one.

I couldn't get into An Inconvenient Woman so I am moving on to my next one.

I am slowly working my way through 11/22/63 and started The Three Musketeers today.

I need to read something off this list.

Three books down, Finished The Faraday Girls

Finished another one on my list, I'll make room on my bookshelf for new books in no time at this rate!