Bottom of TBR Pile Challenge

While I was in grad school, getting to the library in time to borrow and return books was just too much of a task to handle on top of working full-time and school part-time.  I did, however, have time to hit up used bookstores and utilize online book swapping websites.  By the time I graduated, my to be read (tbr) pile was….much bigger than I would like.  I thus have challenged myself to read all of the books I acquired before 2011 by the end of 2012.  48 of them if you can believe it!

Anywho!  Below are my Bottom of the TBR Pile books!  Read and reviewed ones are crossed out with links to the review.  Also, out of my own personal curiosity, in parentheses is listed how, exactly, these books wound up on my tbr pile.

1. Acacia: The War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham (PaperBackSwap) review 5/06/2012
2. Across the Table by Linda Cardillo (…recycling bin on my street *runs, hides*)
3. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman (live signing at Brookline Booksmith)
4. Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt (PaperBackSwap)
5. Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin (PaperBackSwap)
6. Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan (PaperBackSwap)
7. A Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence (PaperBackSwap) review 1/07/2012
8. Dark Life by Kat Falls (PaperBackSwap) review 1/12/2012
9. Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag (PaperBackSwap)
10. Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter (CVS)
11. The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis by Jeremy Rifkin (won…somewhere on the internet)
12. Empress Orchid by Anchee Min (PaperBackSwap)
13. Hack the Planet: Science’s Best Hope – or Worst Nightmare – for Averting Climate Catastrophe by Eli Kintisch (won…somewhere on the internet)
14. The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (PaperBackSwap)
15. The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant (PaperBackSwap)
16. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harvard Books)
17. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (PaperBackSwap)
18. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (borrowed from a friend…)
19. The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Ames (PaperBackSwap)
20. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (PaperBackSwap) review 5/23/2012
21. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter (PaperBackSwap)
22. Man Plus by Frederick Pohl (PaperBackSwap)
23. The Mount by Carol Emshwiller (PaperBackSwap) UP NEXT!!!
24. Mulliner Nights by P. G. Wodehouse (Harvard Books)
25. Nova by Samuel R. Delany (PaperBackSwap) review 1/18/2012
26. The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins (won…somewhere on the internet)
27. Path Of the Assassin, Vol. 1: Serving In The Dark by Kazuo Koike (Harvard Books)
28. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder (PaperBackSwap)
29. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover (PaperBackSwap)
30. The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice (Harvard Books. I think.)
31. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella (*coughs* recycling bin on my street again)
32. Rut by Scott Phillips (picked up for free at Back Pages Books)
33. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (PaperBackSwap)
34. Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham (This is the last recycling bin one, I swear.)
35. Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Wrede (PaperBackSwap)
36. Soulless by Gail Carriger (PaperBackSwap)
37. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (Better World Books) review 1/25/2012
38. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (PaperBackSwap)
39. Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead (PaperBackSwap) review 2/04/2012
40. Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin (Better World Books)
41. Waiting For The Galactic Bus by Parke Godwin (PaperBackSwap)
42. The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess (PaperBackSwap)
43. Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter (Back Pages Books)
44. Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (won….somewhere on the internet)
45. Watership Down by Richard Adams (PaperBackSwap)
46. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (PaperBackSwap)
47. Zelde M’Tana by F. M. Busby (SwapTree)
48. Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien (PaperBackSwap) review 1/10/2012