The Official TBR Challenge 2015

This challenge is taking place over at Roof Beam Reader  and it is a specific kind of TBR challenge.

Hop on over to Roof Beam Reader for the full details.  Mainly it is to read 12 books from your TBR pile and they must have been on your TBR pile for at least one year.  So no 2014 books. Write the list before you sign up and you are allowed to list two alternates in case one or two happen to be complete duds that you can't get through.

My List

 Beach Girls                                Luanne Rice               Read January - linked February

The Last Time I Was Me           Cathy Lamb                Read March - 

Family Affair                             Caprice Crane

The Flamenco Academy            Sarah Bird

All Night Long                          Jayne Ann Krentz   Read November

Crazy For You                           Jennifer Crusie          Read in January - Linked February

Thief with No Shadow               Emily Gee                Read in March -

By Bread Alone                          Sarah-Kate Lynch

Family Baggage                          Monica McInerney

The Summer I Dared                 Barbara Delinsky  Read November

Flight Lessons                            Patricia Gaffney  read in November

The Ravenscar Dynasty             Barbara Taylor Bradford read in August

Two Alternates

My progress

9/12

The Eclectic Reader Challenge 2015

I am joining up again for 2015 for The Eclectic Reader Challenge.  

You can read the full details over at Book'd Out blog.  Here are  a list of the kind of books for the challenge with some of the ones I might read for it added in.

1.   Retelling (of fairytale, myth or legend)                  

Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

2.   A book set in a country starting with S       Scotland.

                                                  My Very Best Friend  Cathy Lamb

3.   PI Crime                                                  

Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman

4.   A novel published before you were born      

West of Pecos    Zane Grey

5.   Contemporary romance   

Jilted.   Rachael Johns                  

6.   Fiction for foodies                              

Secret of Everything   Barbara O'Neal

7.   Microhistory                       (non-fiction)

                                                           Clean  Katherine Ashenburg

8.   SF set in space                                  

 The Martian   Andy Weir

9.  Sports (fiction or non fiction)            

Raw - Martin Crowe

10. Featuring Diversity               Passing Through Perfect.   Bette Lee Crosby

11.  Epistolary Fiction                            

Where'd You Go Bernadette   Maria Semple

12.  Middle Grade/YA Adventure  

Sidekick     Auralee Wallace