The 2012 TBR Pile Challenge

I happened to hear about the Best Book Reading Challenge Ever: the TBR pile challenge.  The rules: pick 12 books (or 14, so you can ditch 2 books that you don't like) that have been on your To Be Read (TBR) pile for over 12 months, and read one a month throughout 2012.  If you enter the official contest, you can win a $50 gift card to Amazon or the Book Depository, but really, the benefit is getting those books off your list.

Here are my choices:

Virconium, by M. John Harrison
The Wallet of Kai Lung, by Ernest Bramah
The Eternal Mercenary, by Barry Sadler
Tales of Neveryon, by Samuel R. Delaney
The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
The Dead Man's Brother, by Roger Zelazny
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
Tomoe Gozen, by Jessica Salmonson
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
The Loving Dead, by Amelia Beamer
Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees
Ash, by Melinda Lo
The King in Yellow and Other Stories, by Robert W. Chambers
A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters