Wishlist Challenge 2012.

Yep. I found another one. Couldn't you at least pretend to be surprised? The Wishlist Challenge is a new challenge that I know I absolutely need, and I bet you do, too.

There are several challenges that ask you to read books you already own, they are generally called TBR challenges. And as anyone who has signed up for my own Mount TBR Challenge knows I have oodles of those books lying around. BUT I also have a huge list of To Be Read Books on my wishlist. Books that I come across out here in the interwebs or listed in the backs of other books that I like or suggested by friends or whatever...that I just have to read sometime so it goes down on the list. And then I don't read it for whatever reason. Well, this challenge will help me take care of that little problem...or at least part of it.

So here’s the wishlist challenge:

Read 12 books (one for every month of the year) that you would like to read, but don’t already have on your shelves.

Rules

1. The challenge runs from January 1st, 2012 to December 31st, 2012.

2. You are to read 12 books from your current wishlist. If you don’t have a list anywhere, write down books that you are eager to read, that you don’t own yet, and choose 12 books off that list.

3. If you can’t find a book that’s on your wishlist (your library doesn’t have it, or you don’t want/can’t buy it) then you can use another book. But: you are not allowed to include any NEWLY added books for this challenge. So, whatever your list is now, that’s it.

I.e. you can’t read amazing things about a book on someone else’s blog, decide you want to read it, then read it for the Wishlist Challenge.

4. You can overlap with other challenges, as long as you read books that were on your wishlist before January 1st, 2012.

Sound good? Want to know more? Then hop on over to Leeswamme's blog (link above) and get the full details.

Judith is promising honor and glory that will shine on everyone who finishes!

Here's my list:

1. The War of the Worlds Murder by Max Allan Collins (4/19/12)

2. Nantucket Soap Opera by S. F. X. Dean (3/20/12)

3. A Slip of the Tong by Charles Goodrum (6/3/12)

4. The Gemini Man by Susan Kelly (4/15/12)

5. The Curious Cape Cod Skull by Marie Lee (3/21/12)

6. The Doctor Dines in Prague by Robin Hathaway (3/12/12)

7. Murder Most Puzzling by Lillian S. Robinson (10/23/12)

8. A Good Death by Elizabeth Ironside (3/28/12)

9. The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor (9/30/12)

10. The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Kumachi & Izumi Shikiba, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan trans by Jane Hirschfield w/Mariko Aratani (3/17/12)

11. The Lady in the Loch by Elizabeth Scarborough (5/23/12)

12. Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart (10/14/12)

Complete!!! 10/23/12