Challenge Accepted: Book Bucket Reading Challenge

In an attempt to whittle down the massive TBR stacks in my house, I'm joining the 2011 Book Bucket Reading Challenge hosted by Bookworm_Lisa. She says, "I have decided that for 2011, I will read 50 of the books that have been sitting on my 'to read' shelf for too long, some for three years or more," and she invites other readers to join her with their own commitments, whether 10, 50, or some other number.

So I've gone through a small portion of my TBR stacks—both paper and electronic—and put together a list of 50 books that will be the ones I read to complete this challenge in 2011. They are:

1. Hornet's Nest by Patricia Cornwell
2. A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
3. Killer Hair by Ellen Byerrum
4. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
5. Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
6. Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
7. No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
8. Mrs. Jeffries Appeals the Verdict by Emily Brightwell
9. Death's Daughter by Amber Benson
10. The Know-It-All by A J Jacobs
11. Ghost of a Chance by Simon R Green
12. Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
13. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
14. The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice
15. South of Broad by Pat Conroy
16. The Second Wife by Elizabeth Buchan
17. Inhuman Resources by Jes Battis
18. The Second Silence by Eileen Goudge
19. The Myth of You & Me by Leah Stewart
20. Urban Shaman by C E Murphy
21. Spellbent by Lucy A Snyder
22. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
23. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
24. A Wolverine is Eating My Leg by Tim Cahill
25. The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker
26. The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik
27. Night Myst by Yasmine Galenorn
28. A Bicycle Built for Murder by Kate Kingsbury
29. Something from the Nightside by Simon R Green
30. The Long-Lost Map by Ulysses Moore
31. The Door to Time by Ulysses Moore
32. Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn
33. Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander
34. Kissing Sin by Keri Arthur
35. The Sporting Club by Sinclair Browning
36. Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot
37. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot
38. Dead Guilty by Beverly Connor
39. The Alpine Decoy by Mary Daheim
40. Running from the Deity by Alan Dean Foster
41. S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
42. The Mutant Prime by Karen Haber
43. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
44. The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
45. Deadly Gamble by Connie Shelton
46. The Children Star by Joan Slonczewski
47. Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski
48. Flag in Exile by David Weber
49. The Tale of Holly How by Susan Wittig Albert
50. I'm the Vampire, That's Why by Michele Bardsley

I will strike through each book as I read them, but I'm not making any promises to write reviews of any of these—unless they also fulfill the SF or Fantasy Challenges where a review is required.

If you're like me and have a large backlog of books that you need to read, then this is a challenge for you. Join me by signing up at Lisa's 2011 Book Bucket Challenge.