The TBR Chal­lenge is a chal­lenge set up to assist read­ers who are seri­ous in reduc­ing their tbr piles. Take a look at your accu­mu­lated stacks of books and decide if you want to par­tic­i­pate this year. The rules are sim­ple and par­tic­i­pa­tion is vol­un­tary and open through­out the year. BTW, this is a sticky post that will remain until the end of this week. UPDATE: The TBR 2010 INFO PAGE now avail­able. It’s also in my nav menu (look up)

For this chal­lenge I ask that you do two things:
1) post your review(s) on the des­ig­nated day of the month
2) aim for the books that have been in your tbr piles the longest

You bought these books from somebody’s rec or review, right? So now is the time to read them! No for­mal review for­mat is required. You shouldn’t have to buy any books for this chal­lenge but then I will leave that up to you to decide. I will have the info page up and run­ning soon.

Need­less to say this is a self-directed chal­lenge and it’s sup­posed to be fun. This can be a reward­ing expe­ri­ence in that you prob­a­bly might find a ter­rific book that you’ve had all along in your stacks. Through this chal­lenge I’ve dis­cov­ered some great reads like Char­laine Harris’s Dead Until Dark that I’d had in my stacks for 7 years before I decided to read it. So you just never know what you may find in your tbr pile.

The themes for the chal­lenge are sug­ges­tions only. You are free to read what­ever you want from your stacks of books. Resources will be made avail­able for read­ers who choose to search out books for themes listed. I like to keep track of all those who par­tic­i­pate so if you are inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing this year please leave a com­ment with a link to your blog.

That’s it! Ques­tions? Please leave them in the com­ments. Let’s read some good books!

Pro­posed Themes for 2010 and please throw in some ideas as well. Most of these themes are from the Spe­cial Title list­ing edited by Rachel Pot­ter. Make sure to look through tbr piles and see what you got.

Cat­e­gory Romance
New To You Author(s)
Friends to Lovers
Unre­quited Love
His­tor­i­cal Romance
Con­tem­po­rary romance
Roman­tic sus­pense
Mar­riage of con­ve­nience
West­erns
Mys­tery and sus­pense
Mar­riage in trou­ble
YA fic­tion romance
Heroes in pur­suit
Vir­ginal hero
Unusual pro­fes­sions
Not Your usual set­ting (non Eng­land or US set­tings)
Mys­tery
SFR
SF/F