Bookie Friends Favorites Reading Challenge

The Bookie Friends Favorites Challenge is being hosted by Vicki on its own blog.  I love this one; what a different take on a challenge!

From the blog:

Challenge starts January 1, 2012 and ends December 31, 2012

1. Write a post on your blog about joining this challenge

Add links to your 5 favorite books

Don't forget to add the challenge button

2. Click on the "Sign Up" tab above and leave the link to your challenge post, not to your blog's home page.

3. Visit the other participants and choose 3-12 of their favorite books to read.

You can choose them all at once or as you go.

Add the title to your original post, making sure to link back to the person whose favorite it is.

4. As you read each book:
Post a review on your blog and leave the link in the "Reviews" tab at the top of this blog

If you're like me, many of your reads come from other bloggers' recommendations.  How cool will it be to  participate in a challenge specifically geared to how we choose what to read?

For me to limit it to five books .. well, that's going to be fun.  And eclectic.  Clicking on a cover will take you to my original review page:

These are some of the books that have stuck with me; the ones whose titles instantly bring the story back to life in my mind.

Here are the books I will be choosing from for the challenge as well as the link to who recommended the book (clicking the cover will take you to the Goodreads page):

Alaskan Book Cafe	Alaskan Book Cafe	Diary of a  Domestic Goddess
Hellen's Reading Corner	Musings of a  Book Lover	An Introverted Reader
Jessie's Book Place	Quixotic Magpie	Bookaholic Mom
Under the Boardwalk	Under the Boardwalk	Martha's Bookshelf

Of Mice and Men would be a re-read, but almost like reading anew since it's been over twenty years since I first read it.  Most of these titles aren't already on my shelves, which is why I'm not committing to read all of them, although my goal is to read at least seven.