COMPLETED!
2X15: A PERSONAL TBR CHALLENGE
2X15: A PERSONAL TBR CHALLENGE
This formulaic selection process yielded a random assortment of books. There are a couple of prize winners on the list, a few classics, some pop fiction, and a bunch of crazy stuff that tells me I either have diverse and wide-ranging taste or I need to clean out my TBR shelves! I like this goofy method of picking the books for my TBR challenge because it gets be reading the books that have sat on my shelves for too long.
These are the books in alphabetical order by author. I was planning on reading them in this order, but decided to mix them all up instead.
I also swapped a couple from the original list. Instead of Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which I found impossible, I read The View from Castle Rock and became a late but stalwart Alice Munro fan. Instead of The Mansion, which I didn't realize was the final book in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, I am going to read The Marriage Plot.
THE 2X15 LIST
Difficulties with Girls by Kingsley Amis FINISHED
Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius by Barbara Belford FINISHED
A Bromfield Galaxy by Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn, The Green Bay Tree, A Good Woman) FINISHED
Getting It Right by William F. Buckley Jr. FINISHED
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens FINISHED
I was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley FINISHED
Oh. Play that Thing by Roddy Doyle FINISHED
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides FINISHED
The Book of Jonah by Joshua Max Feldman FINISHED
The Whole World Over by Julia Glass FINISHED
The New York Stories by Elizabeth Hardwick FINISHED
Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month is Enchanted by Annie Hawes FINISHED
Fling: Short Stories by John Hersey FINISHED
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala FINISHED
Southern Ladies & Gentlemen by Florence King FINISHED
Nice Work by David Lodge FINISHED
Wickford Point by Marquand FINISHED
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious FINISHED
A Writer’s House in Wales by Jan Morris FINISHED
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro FINISHED
Collected Stories by Dorothy Parker FINISHED
Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (Edgar winner) FINISHED
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman FINISHED
A Thousand Bells at Noon: A Roman Reveals the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native City by G. Franco Romagnoli FINISHED
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth FINISHED
Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley FINISHED
Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor FINISHED (Costa BOTY)
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall FINISHED
Things Invisible to See by Nancy Willard FINISHED (reviewed here)
On Writing Well by William Zinsser FINISHED
I hope to get through many more TBR books, but hit or miss, whatever catches my fancy. I’ll list those here as I go along.
OTHER MT. TBR BOOKS
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (chunkster)
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance, edited by Victoria Zackheim (2014 TBR Challenge)
Portrait of a Woman in White by Susan Winkler (reviewed here)
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (chunkster; 2014 TBR Challenge)
Skios by Michael Frayn
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (chunkster)
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (chunkster; Erica Jong)
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Night Fall by Nelson DeMille (chunkster)
The Untouchable by John Banville
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
Comeback by Dick Francis
The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving by Randy Alcorn
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry (Edgar winner)
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
Cat Chaser by Elmore Leonard
A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
The Charm School by Nelson DeMille (chunkster)
Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
The Spire by William Golding
Big Money by P. G. Wodehouse
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
UPDATED: December 26, 2015
