Check my previous posts to see how my 2011 TBR (“To Be Read”) went. This year I will be doing essentially the same thing. I have chosen twelve books (plus two alternates) that I have wanted to read for at least a year. My goal is to ensure that all twelve are among the forty or so books I will likely read this year. If I end up not liking any of them, or just not getting into it, I can swap in an alternate.
Here are the books:
Primary:
Stephen King — From a Buick 8
Elizabeth Kostova — The Historian
Robert A. Heinlein — Stranger in a Strange Land
Kurt Vonnegut — Slaughterhouse-Five
Richard Adams — Watership Down
Joseph Heller — Catch-22
Scott Hahn — A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture
J. D. Salinger — The Catcher in the Rye
Henry Petroski — The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Terry Pratchett — Going Postal
Iain M. Banks — Matter
Stephen King — On Writing
Alternates:
Margaret Atwood — The Handmaid’s Tale
F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby
I think I have a decent mix of genres, some hard and easy books. The Historian and Stranger in a Strange Land were on last year’s list, but I didn’t get around to them. And yes, I do have a history of the pencil on my list as a book I’ve wanted to read for some time…
Should be fun! I’ll be keeping track on my 2012 Reading page here, and you can also follow my reading updates on Goodreads.