2010 TBR Challenge

In 2010 try to read 12 books that have been on your to-be-read shelf for at least one year.

Start Date: Jan 1st 2010.
Finish Date: 31st Dec 2010.

12 books in one year sounds quite easy, it's only one a month. But these books have been on my TBR pile for over a year, and there's usually a reason for that. These are the books that I have either never really bothered to read or they are books that I am intimidated by.

Here's my list, in no particular order:
1. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Morgan's Woman - Iris Gower - review
5. The Darling Buds of May: Book of the Seasons - H.E. Bates
6. The Penguin Book of Victorian Villainies - Hugh Greene
7. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
9. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - review
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
12. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
 
And two substitutes in case two above go seriously wrong.
13. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
14. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
 
I will be crossing them off the list as and when I read them.

A-Z Author Challenge

Find 26 authors whose surnames each start with a different letter of the alphabet and read a book by each of them. You can read them in any order.

Start Date: Flexible, I started it on Dec 19th 2009.
Finish Date: Whenever you complete the challenge.

My list so far:
A - Alder, Harry - Tracking Down Your Ancestors
B - Barker, Clive - The Hellbound Heart
C - Cheng, Edmond - Illusion
D -
E -
F - Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink
G - Gregory, Philippa - The Other Boleyn Girl
H - Holden, Sam - Diary of a Hapless Househusband
I - Islip, Bryan - Going With Gabriel
J - Jacobs, W.W. - The Monkey's Paw
K - Kramer, Naomi - DEAD(ish)
L - Lawrence, D.H. - Lady Chatterley's Lover
M - McNeil, Gil - Divas Don't Knit
N - Norman, Diana - A Catch of Consequence
O - O'Neill, Gilda - East End Tales
P - Perkins Gilman, Charlotte - The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Q -
R - Rainsford, James - Education, Edukation, Edukashun
S - Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Suicide Club
T - Trigilio, Tony- Make a Joke and I Will Sigh and You Will Laugh and I Will Cry
U - Updale, Eleanor - Montmorency
V -
W - Wright, Diane J. - Birthday Girl
X -
Y - Young, Elizabeth - Fair Game
Z -