Here is my list of 12 first-choice TBR books and how I did with this challenge: * Tell Me Where it Hurts - Dr. Nick Trout - Read * Finding Manana - Mirta Ojito - Read * Journey Through Britain - John Hilleby - Read * And Ladies of the Club - Santemeyer - Didn't Finish * The Various Haunts of Men - Susan Hill * New Grub Street - Gissing (Hi PAM!) * Mapp & Lucia - EF Benson - Read * The Road to Wellness - TC Boyle - Read * Writing Home - Alan Bennett * The Great Mortality - John Kelly - Read * The Knife Man - Wendy Moore * Moscow Stories - Graham Alternate List: * Kim - Rudyard Kipling - Didn't Finish * Watership Down - Richard Adams * Under an English Heaven - Robert Radcliffe - Read * Divisidaro - Michael Ondaatje - Read * Cross Country with Grandma - Karen Testa * An Imaginative Experience - Mary Wesley * Night - Elie Wiesel - Read * A Ship of Paper -- Scott Spencer * Waterland - Graham Swift - Read * Stillmeadow Sampler - Taber * Wuthering Heights - Bronte - Read * Cry, Beloved Country - Alan Paton So, I was quite happy with that. Some of these titles have rolled over to the 2011 TBR list, so we'll see if this year can get them completed. Elliot, Chris and Veronica - how did you fare?

Liz, may I submit Mrs Beeton and her Husband by Nancy Spain, for 1947, a copy of which I have had knocking around here for some time? N S was the great niece of Mrs B and had a large selection of family letters and memorabilia which she drew on for this book. A pity that it is written under Post-War conditions as the paper is poor quality and there is a dearth of photos and illustrations.

From my school website (I teach 7th grade): Author Suggestions: ~Terry Pratchett- try out The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, and The Wintersmith ~Robin McKinely - author of some of my favorite books like Beauty ~Diana Wynne Jones - try out The Year of the Griffin ~Anne McCaffery - check out Dragonsong and Dragonsinger and No One Noticed the Cat ~Eion Colfer - author of the Artemis Fowl series + other books ~E.D. Baker - author of The Frog Princess series ~Eva Ibbotson - author of humorous books like Which Witch? ~Richard Peck - author of great books like The Teacher's Funeral and A Long Way from Chicago ~Patricia Wrede - author of Dealing with Dragons and other fun books ~Gail Carson Levine - author of Ella Enchanted, as well as many other great books! ~Stephanie Meyer - author of the popular Twilight....check out her other books Book Suggestions: Some specific books you might want to check out. ~Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George - what is the secret behind the blue slippers? ~Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy - He's a skeleton AND a detective - with a funny sense of humor...once you've read the first book, read the 2nd! ~The Treasures of Weatherby by Zilda Keatley Snyder - 12 y/o Harleight must find a way to protect the treasures of his famous ancestors ~The Princess Academy by Shannon Hale - All the girls are training to impress the prince, until invaders come to their mountain ~The Dragon's Eye by Dugald A. Steer - first novel based on the Dragonology series ~The Death Collector by Justin Richards - Eddie steals a wallet with a secret, he must then work to save London from unimaginable terrors ~Midnight Magic by Avi - When a ghost starts haunting the princess, a magician must work to save her ~The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick - Valerian the magician must find a way to save himself from a deal he made years before - or he will die ~The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosh - Cassandra & Max-Ernest work to find out the fate of the disappeared magician - but it may cost them their lives ~The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison - Prince George is betrothed to Princess Beatrice of their rival neighbors. Both hide secrets that could bring them ruin or may change the course of their countries forever - which will it be?

I finally finished Prince of Tides. I didn't have a lot of time to devote to reading the last few weeks, but I can usually finish a book in a week at most. This one took me three weeks! I love Pat Conroy, but whew, it was a long one. Furry, I read Defending Jacob many years ago with my book club. Really enjoyed it and good discussion points. I'm just starting a book called When The Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi. It was recommended by a friend. It's about a family who escapes from Afghanistan/the Taliban to Europe.