The 2012 “Books I started but didn’t finish” Reading Challenge

The goal:

• Commit to finish some or all of the books you began to read in 2011 (or before) and never completed.

Prizes:

• I will not give away prizes or otherwise motivate people to complete their goals for this challenge.
• Instead, I encourage you to self-motivate.
• Keep your list central on your blog (or elsewhere) and commit to buy yourself some sort of reward when you finish the task. (A book? A bookmark? Whatever you know will inspire YOU.)

The rules:

• Post a list of the books you began reading in 2011 (or at some point in your life) and never finished reading. (Maybe even say why you stopped reading!) 
• You can list as few or as many titles as you intend to complete in 2012. One or twenty or a hundred – it’s YOUR challenge.
• You can include whatever genres you please in this challenge.
• It doesn’t matter how you go about finishing these books. You can combine them with any other challenges.
• You do not need a blog to participate. You can simply list the books you want to finish in the comments below.
• List the prize you will gift yourself when you complete this challenge in your challenge post (to make it official.)
• Write yourself a little manifesto about how you intend to approach these left-over books.
• Commit to finish your list by the end of 2012.
• You are NOT allowed to stress if it takes longer than 2012 to finish your list! Just commit again in 2013!!
• Leave a link to your post in the comments below.

I would be happy to manage to read at least 5 of them in 2012, everything more than that is a Bonus.

Here is the List of Books in my Shelves:

	Author	Title	Original Title
1	Allende, Isabelle	Das Geisterhaus	La casa de los espíritus
4	Beecher-Stowe, Harriet	Onkel Toms Hütte	Uncle Tom’s Cabin
5	Bronte, Charlotte	Jane Eyre	Jane Eyre
6	Bujor, Flavia	Das Orakel von Oonagh	The Prophecy of the Stones
8	Cervantes, Miguel de	Don Quichote	Don Quichote
9	Cobain, Kurt	Tagebücher	Diaries
10	Danielsson, Bengt Ellerik	Rückkehr zur glücklichen Insel	Den lyckliga Ön
12	Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Robinson Crusoe
21	Hornby, Nick	Feaver Pitch	Feaver Pitch
31	Kafka, Franz	Die Verwandlung	Die Verwandlung
32	Kinsella, Sophie	Fast geschenkt	Shopaholic Abroad
39	Lodge, David	Small World	Small World
40	Mann, Thomas	Doktor Faustus	Doktor Faustus
43	Morrison, Toni	Sehr blaue Augen	The bluest eye
44	Patchett, Mary	Mit 800 Rindern unterwegs	Ajax and the Drovers
46	Saint-Exupery, Antoine de	Der kleine Prinz	Le petite Prince
50	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Die Schatzinsel	The Treasure Island
51	Swift, Jonathan	Gulivers Reisen	Guliver’s Travels
53	Twain, Mark	Tom Sawyer	Tom Sawyer

And these are the Books I started but had to return to the Library (and kept track of it on Goodreads)