Reading Resolutions - 2012

I have enjoyed participating this past year in the 2011 To Be Read (TBR) Pile Challenge, which required reading 12 books taken from my To Be Read stack, each selection to have been there for at least a year. I posted my list last January and then shared my reviews of those books with the other participants as I completed them.

I'm reenlisting in the same challenge for 2012. Here's my (fixed)  list together with the two (2) alternates that are allowed, just in case one or two of the books end up in the "can't get through" pile.

 
My Twelve Chosen are as follows:

1. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Complete 1/16/12)
   
2. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (Complete 5/21/12)
   
3. Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (Complete 4/6/12)
   
4. William Golding, Lord of the Flies (Complete 6/12/12)
   
5. Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (Complete 6/23/12)
   
6. Henry James, The Ambassadors (Complete 9/20/12)
   
7. Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
8. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
9. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
10. Cormac McCarthy, The Road (complete 9/27/12)
    
11. Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause
12. James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations  (Complete 9/4/12)

My Two Alternates:

1. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
2. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina