Having the books I already owned in the TBR collection and adding Rachel’s books that I haven’t read made creating a stack for this readathon a very quick process; before I knew it, I had over twenty books totaling several thousand pages. I came in at just under one thousand pages last time around, so I’m not expecting to get anywhere close to completion of this list, but at least I have a good variety, and no re-reads.

Augusten Burroughs’s Magical Thinking: True Stories – the next from his collection that Rachel recommended, after Running with Scissors and Dry. I’ve found his writing to be super easy for me to fly through, so I’m hoping this will be a good kickoff book – not too dense, but not 100-200 pages of fluff, either. Also on the stack is Possible Side Effects.

Lois Lowry’s Gathering Blue – a companion novel to The Giver, which I read and loved last year. I’ve also got Messenger on the stack, which followed those two.

Chosen: A House of Night Novel by P.C. and Kristen Cast. I read Marked a while back on a recommendation from a friend; I picked up the first four books at once, as they were all out in paperback and she’d read them all so far. I wasn’t hugely impressed with the start to the series, but it was an easy, fast read, and will be a good way to break up the more literary selections on the pile.

Okay, in the interest of time, and wanting to get this up before the readathon actually *starts*, here’s the rest in straight list form:

A Million Little Pieces, James Frey

I Am the Messenger, Markus Zuzak

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw

Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones, the Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

Animal Farm, George Orwell

The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

Stardust and Coraline, Neil Gaiman

The Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum

There are a couple more on the stacks that I can’t post because the pictures I snapped with my cell are pixelating the bindings when I zoom, haha, so those will remain a mystery :) Similarly, if I typoed or completely screwed up a title or author’s name, it’s all the fault of poor camera skills!

At any rate, there’s the batch – no re-reads, and enough variety to hopefully keep me from flitting from book to book at 30-some pages in. Happy readathon-ing, everyone – can’t wait for 5am!