Well, here goes...

Fiction:
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Fight Club A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom


Nonfiction:
Crashing Through A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson
The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote



Alternates:
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

I am sure you will enjoy In Cold Blood. But you can put it under Non Fiction, as it is a true story and the investigation made by Truman Capote. It is true that it is so well written that one can think it is fiction. Alas, it is not!

Thanks! :)
Also just realized I have 13 on there. So I'll get rid of GOING BOVINE.

David,
You have some great books on your list! The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time is one of my favorites!! Let me know what you think of it! And I love anything by Agatha Christie! If you like her, you will like Murder on the Orient Express! Enjoy!

Hi David. Great list. I loved "The Kite Runner," and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." You even got Agatha Christie in there. You can't go wrong with her. It's going to be interesting to see how everyone likes the books they picked.

mary

I would love to join the TBR Challenge for 2010. I guess it begins when?????

You will love, love Kindred by Octavia Butler.

David-I'm cheating. I have 13 books on my list. Cheat like me!!! It's lonely over here cheating all by myself.

Hi Nataniel. You are so bad. I may have to send you to the corner to read William Faulker. That's a joke from the book club from before we come to this board. Somehow we decide to read William Faulkner with Oprah that summer long ago. If you are a Faulkner fan I don't mean to hurt your feelings. We really struggled with his books. We finally decided that he wrote all his books while drunk. We got to being so silly. I started sending people to the corner when they got too crazy. I wouldn't let them take anything but one of Will's books. Finally we decided maybe it would make sense to drink when reading his books so when I banished them to the corner they had to take Will's book and their drink of choose. LOL! It got to be so funny. Jill can tell you about those days. I'm sure you had to be there to think this is funny. It was a great summer though.

Mary

David, your fiction list could be my own (with the exception of Albom, who I refuse to read on principle).

Looking forward to your review on The Devil in the White City. I loved how it was two stories in one. And being from the midwest, it was kind of fun to picture the Chicago "before".

Meghan, I too loved Devil in the White City. When I first started it I did not get the two stories and kept trying to connect them. But once I got it (really not too far into it) I could not stop reading.

David you should enjoy it. I have read most of your list and it is a good one. However, I did not love the first one. Hard to go with "what if"

Have you tried The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston? Heard it was similar (and good)--the Italian version (also based on a true story).

Meghan wrote: "David, your fiction list could be my own (with the exception of Albom, who I refuse to read on principle).

Looking forward to your review on The Devil in the White City. I loved how it was two s..."

Hi Megahan. I loved "Devil in the White City." I was able to find some great pictures on the Chicago World's Fair. David, when you read the book goggle the fair and look at the the pictures. Hard to believe that spent all that money to build the fair and then left it.

Mary

MarBear wrote: "Hard to believe that spent all that money to build the fair and then left it...."

It's sort of what the Olympics are now.

Hi Meghan. You are right. They spent so much money on the fair and once it was over that was it. There were fires that destroyed part of it. You should google the fair. The ferris wheel was awesome. I posted tons of pictures. I enjoyed it because it was actually a real live event in the history of this country.

Marbear

I read DITQC right before I took vacation there. Loved it. I've read several on your list and not a stinker among them IMHO.

David let me know if you would like company for THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA I seem to have been putting it off for ages....

I added my two alternates, but I don't anticipate needing them since usually I will force my way through a book even if I'm not enjoying it.

I'm the same way. I pretty much always finish. Your non-fiction list is awesome. I read and enjoyed two of them.

Hi David. I'm the opposite. I will try to plow thru the books we read as a club because I have to do the book discussion. For example: I couldn't get into "The Elegance of the Hedgehog." But I stuck with it because we were reading it for the club. I'm glad I did because the last 100 pages was great. But if I'm reading a book just for me, I have the 50 page rule. I know it's weird.

Marbear

David,

I have read and enjoyed the Kite Runner, The Curious Incident of Dog in the Nighttime and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. The Kite Runner was my top read the year I read it.

Your non-fiction, I have only read In Cold Blood but the other two are on my huge TBR pile. I heard the author of Crashing Through A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See speak. He was very humorous.

My best non-fiction read of 2009 isColumbine. Wonder if would consider reading it? I understand for some people it would be too much.