Medellia12 2009: I'm going to do something I should've done a long time ago

I've just discovered the TBR challenge, and since I see people here gearing up for 2009 reading, I'll join in. I rather like having a huge TBR pile, but there are some books that I have been continually passing by for some time now. This is my attempt to force myself to confront those books!

So, choosing from my list of roughly one billion:
1. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
2. Goldbug Variations by Richard Powers
3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
4. Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
5. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
7. Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
8. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
9. The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
10. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
11. Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
12. Beloved by Toni Morrison

And back to post my alternates list, though I'll try to stick with the other 12...

1. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
3. Three Junes by Julia Glass
4. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
5. Moo by Jane Smiley
6. The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
7. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
8. Borderliners by Peter Hoeg
9. The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits
10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
11. Kindred by Octavia Butler
12. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

Hi, Medellia12!
I have been wondering about that Byatt book. My girls want to read that one. They know lots more about books than I do.
--BJ

Yeah, I noticed the Folio Society edition coming out in March (I must have it!) and thought maybe that'd spur me into reading it. :) A friend whose taste I trust recommended it, and it looks great, but I keep putting it aside. (I can't understand my whims & ways.)