The Official 2018 TBR Pile Challenge

I am joining the The Official 2018 TBR Pile Challenge!

I participated in 2013, 2014, and 2015, then Adam at Roof Beam Reader put the challenge on hiatus for two years while he was writing his doctoral dissertation. Now it is back.

The idea is:
1) Read 12 books that have been sitting on your TBR shelf for at least a year.
2) The books must be listed in advance and the post up by January 15, 2018. Two extra alternate titles are allowed in case you run into a title that you cannot read or finish for any reason.

I had sworn off challenges for 2018 because of doing so poorly at them in 2017, but the endless and growing TBR pile is my focus for this year. And I love to make lists.

So here is my list and we will see how well I do with it.

• Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong [published 2000, on my shelf since 2012]
• Black Orchid Blues by Persia Walker [published 2011, on my shelf since 2014]
• The Known Dead by Donald Harstadt [published 1999, on my shelf since 2014]
• The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin [published 2010, acquired 2014]
• Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis [published 1955, on my shelf since 2014]
• The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall [published 1965, on my shelf since 2014]
• Brewing up a Storm by Emma Lathen [published 1996, on my shelf for a long time.]
• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester [published 1951, on my shelf since 2013]
• Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg  [published 1976, on my shelf since 2013]
• Starting Out in the Evening  by Brian Morton [published 1998, on my shelf since 2015]
• Night Rounds by Helene Tursten [published 1999, on my shelf since 2013]
• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [published 1887, on my shelf since 2010]

Alternates:

• Perfect Gallows by Peter Dickinson [published 1988, on my shelf since 2012.]
• Love and Rubles by Stuart Kaminsky [published 1996, on my shelf for a long time.]