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I am bringing this challenge back this year since it seems to be one people like. It is also a great way to clean off your TBR shelf.

Pick 12 books (plus 2 alternatives) to read this year. You must pick and post them before you start the challenge, then at the end of the year see how many you finished.

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I am going to do this challenge this year, but I am going to wait to post my books until I get my books on the shelves. I think I am going to use this challenge to weed out some books I want to read but won't want to keep after I read them.

1. The Complete Short Stories Vol 1 D,H. Lawrence Finally - Dec. 22 - I have been trying to finish this book for two years!!!
2. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
3. The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith March 18
4. Murder on the Highway: The Viola Liuzzo Story Jan. 30
5. Tales Worth Retelling: 23 Classic Stories from Around the World March 16
6. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Jan. 24
7.Pilate's Wife by Antoinette May Oct. 25
8. The River King by Alice Hoffman Feb. 26
9. Romance of a Lifetime. Carole MortimerJan. 28
10. The Prophet by Kahlil GibranMarch 19
11. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb June 13
12. Lilac Lane by Sherryl Woods March 11

Alternates
13. Aunt Dimity Goes West Jan. 25
14. Gandhi: Fighter without a SwordFeb 19

Already have 3 knocked off my list.

Four in January. Off to a good start.

Sixth one done. These are top priority this year although I did just drag home four more books yesterday from a thrift store.

Book 7 done.

Book 8 done.

#9 done! I've made this list top priority this year.

Lea Ann wrote: "#9 done! I've made this list top priority this year."

You are whizzing through this challenge!

#10 done.

3 more to go and I'll have read all of the selections on my list including alternates. This might be the first year ever!

Okay, I've got 12, now I'm going for the full 14! This might be the first year that I get this accomplished.

I finally finished The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 D.H. Lawrence! This has been on my list for two years, maybe more. So happy to be done with it and overall not enjoyable, but I kept holding out hope that I would like one of the stories. Never really happened.

Setting up my list for 2024 because I'm bored. I'll copy this into the new thread once it is set up.

1. Five Women
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. The Wave
4. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
5. A Christmas to Remember
6. Things Fall Apart (carried over from last year)
7. Maybe Someday
8. Love, Theoretically
9. We Were the Mulvaneys
10. The Lady and the Poet
11. The Luxe
12. Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

Alternates
13. Love and Ruin
14. Summer Rental

Lea Ann wrote: "Setting up my list for 2024 because I'm bored. I'll copy this into the new thread once it is set up.

1. Five Women
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. The Wave
4. [book..."

I have the book Five Women, I have not read it yet. Looking forward to what you think of it.