Like many of you, I am an incorrigible hoarder of books that I don’t always have time to read. The TBR list in my head is a mile long and 24 hours-in-the-day short. Fortunately the 2018 TBR Pile Challenge, hosted again this year by Roof Beam Reader, will give me some impetus to commit to reading some books I’ve been wanting to read but never got to. So, without further ado, here’s my TBR Pile Challenge List for 2018 (split into 6 new, 6 old books):

New (after 1900)

1.  Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin (2012)
2. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (2013)
3. Moravigine by Blaise Cendrars (1926)
4. The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch (1932)
5. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Unset (1920)
6. Auto-da-fe by Elias Canetti (1935)

Old (before 1900)

1. Coryat’s Crudities by Thomas Coryat (1611)
2. Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1668)
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-72)
4. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov (1859)
5. My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen (1852-1870)
6. Letters by Madame de Sévigné (1725)

Alternates (1 new, 1 old)

• The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga (1890)
• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa (1959)