I've just joined this challenge.
Here are my twelve books for the year:
1. River at the Centre of the World by Simon Winchester
2. Defining the Wind by Scott Huler
3. Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print edited by David Wallis
4. River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
5. Library: an unquiet history by Matthew Battles
6. The 8:55 to Baghdad: From Suburbia to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie by Andrew Eames
7. The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway by Paul Watkins
8. Avoiding the Cosmic 2x4 by Rita Louise
9. Snowstruck: in the Grip on an Avalanche by Jill Fredston
10. The Coast of Bohemia by Edith Pargeter
11. The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan
12. The Dangerous Edge of Things: a Village Childhood by Candida Lycett Green
Alternates:
1. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviours by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
2. The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
3. Burned Alive by Souad
4. Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour by Joseph E Persico
5. Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia by Frank Welsh
6. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
7. The Treehouse by Naomi Wolf
8. A Literary Atlas of Canada by Noah Richler
9. One City by Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh
10. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
11. The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
12. Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair with the Sea by Trevor Norton
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