2015 TBR Pile Challenge Complete!

Adam, the Roof Beam Reader hosted the TBR Pile Challenge again this year and despite the craziness of the past few months, I actually completed it! Here's the link to my original post.
The goal was to read 12 books from your “to be read” pile within 12 months. Each of the 12 books must have been on your bookshelf or “To Be Read” list for AT LEAST one full year. Caveat: Two (2) alternates are allowed, just in case one or two of the books end up in the “can’t get through” pile. 

There were two on my main list that I didn't get to, but I read both of my alternates. I found a new favorite, A Girl of the Limberlost, tried Haruki Murakami for the first time, and read a good book set in my home state, The Circus in Winter. It was definitely a successful challenge.

Here’s my list:

1) Gulliver's Travels (Done)
    by Jonathan Swift 
2) A Girl of the Limberlost (Done)
    by Gene Stratton-Porter 

3) The Ghost Map (Done)
    by Steven Johnson 

4) Tess of the D'urbervilles (Done)
    by Thomas Hardy 

5) Asterios Polyp (Done)
    by David Mazzucchelli 

6) Master and Commander (Done)
    by Patrick O'Brian 

7) Kafka on the Shore (Done)
    by Haruki Murakami 

8) The Night Watch (Done)
   by Sarah Waters 

9) Light in August  
    by William Faulkner 

10) The Circus in Winter (Done)
    by Cathy Day 

11) Inherit the Wind (Done)
    by Jerome Lawrence 

12) On the Beach  
    by Nevil Shute
ALTERNATES:

1) A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Done)
     by Laurie R. King   

2) A Quiet Storm (Done)

     by Rachel Howzell Hall