One more challenge to participate in this year.  Make a list of twelve books before January 1, 2010 and read all before December 31, 2010.  I realize it is January 3 and I am just posting my list, so I am not sure if I can fully participate in the challenge, but I just found the challenge today!  So, here is my list:

1. Getting Things Done
   by David Allen
2. The Help
   by Kathryn Stocket
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
   by Steig Larsson
4. I'm Sorry You Feel that Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife , Mother and Friend to Man and Dog
   by Diana Joseph
5. It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan For Living A Richer Life With Less Stuff
   by Peter Walsh
6. The Knife of Never Letting Go
   by Patrick Ness 1/31/2010
7. The Magicians
   by Lev Grossman
8. Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Lives
   by Lori Leibovich
9. The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
   by Emmanuel Guibert
10. State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
    by Matt Weiland
11. Pictures of an Exhibition
    by Sara Houghteling
12. Makers
    by Cory Doctrow 1/19/2010

And the alternates (or maybe the next 12):

1. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
   by Gretchin Rubin
2. Loving Frank
   by Nancy Horan
3. Stiches
   by David Small
4. How I Became a Famous Novelist
   by Steve Hely
5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
   by Barbara Kingsolver
6. Commited: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
   by Elizabeth Gilbert
7. Love is the Higher Law
   by David Levithan
8. Going Bovine
   by Libba Bray
9. The Weight of Silence
   by Heather Gudenhauf
10. In the Kitchen: a novel
    by Monica Ali
11. The Story of Edgar Sawtalle
    by David Wroblewski
12. The Unit
    by Ninni Holmqvist