Our Books for 2015

This is our fifth year of committing to reading books from our To Be Read (TBR) piles and reporting on them right here. 2014 was a little rough, but we're recommitting for 2015! (Our lists from 2011-2014 can be found over in the sidebar for anyone interested in delving deeper.)

We're shaking it up a bit this year with four shared books that we will both read at the same time. The discussion of those selections went down in the comments on this post and then we assigned months when we were together.

Here they are:

• January: The Sandman #1-20 by Neil Gaiman
• April:  On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• July: The Night Manager by John le Carré
• December: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Additionally, we each have each chosen 10 other books from our TBR piles (8 we will read and 2 backups) so here are our lists for 2015... 

Jenny's Books

Here is a screen cap from Shelfari of the books Jenny has chosen:

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In alphabetical order, they are:

1. An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (completed 8.31)
2. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser (completed 8.4)
3. How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ (completed 1.4)
4. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
5. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
6. The Night Manager by John le Carré (July)
7. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (April)
8. The Sandman #1-20 by Neil Gaiman (January)
9. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (completed 6.9)
10. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace (completed 12.28)
11. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (completed 12.13)
12. The Virgins by Pamela Erens (completed 3.15)
13. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala (completed 5.15)
14. White Girls by Hilton Als (completed 12.23)

Kelly's Books

Here is a screen cap from Shelfari of the books Kelly has chosen:

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In alphabetical order, they are:

1. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
   
2. The Fourth Hand by John Irving (Completed 11.27)
3. From Girls to Grrrlz : A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines by Trina Robbins (Completed 12.10)
4. Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk (Completed 10.25)
5. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (Completed 2.24)
6. The Last Lovely City by Alice Adams (Completed 3.14)
7. The Night Manager by John le Carré (July)
8. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (April)
9. The Roald Dahl Omnibus: Perfect Bedtime Stories for Sleepless Nights by Roald Dahl (Completed 10.15)
10. The Sandman #1-20 by Neil Gaiman (January 2015)
11. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Completed 5.10)
12.  Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
13. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace (completed 12.28)
14. The Turn of the Screw/Daisy Miller by Henry James (Completed 11.21)

We each have 14 books on our lists -- 12 for 12 months, plus two alternates, just in case we cannot stand a couple of them. Again, four of them are shared books that we will both read in our designated months, as noted above.

We will then write about them on this blog (Spoiler warning: we are spoiler-iffic with the spoilers) and then we will cross 'em off on this list by linking to our reviews/reports.

This is part of the 2015 TBR Pile Challenge at Roof Beam Reader -- the site that originally inspired us to get us working on our TBR piles in 2011. (As always, thank you, Adam!)