I am going to participate in the 2014 TBR Pile Challenge from Roof Beam Reader.
Basically, the rules are that the list of 12 books and 2 alternates must be chosen by January 15, and the books must be titles that have been in your TBR for over 1 year.
Here are my selections:
1. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
2. Food Matters by Mark Bittman
3. The Killing Floor by Lee Child
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
6. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Godwin
7. John Adams by David McCullough
8. This is How by Augusten Burroughs
9. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
10. Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
11. The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry
12. The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey
Alternate 1. Quantum by Manjit Kumar
Alternate 2. The Known World by Edward P. Jones