2008: Challenges – Read Your Own Books Challenge

The Read Your Own Books Challenge is exactly what I need to keep whittling down my TBR pile! I tend to get myself caught up in review copies and library books and forget that I have (more than) a few hundred unread books hanging around my living room and bedroom.

The rules for this challenge are super simple:

• set a goal for how many of your OWN books you’d like to read in 2009
• read from your own collection between January 1st and December 31st, 2009

That’s it! The goal I’m going to set is 30.  If I read slightly over 100 books, which I expect to, that means that one-third of them are ones non-review copies. And, to make this a little harder on myself, I’m not counting ebooks or audiobooks in this challenge.  Hard copy only!

I’ll be keeping track here:

last updated 12/11/09

1. Skin Tight – Carl Hiaasen
2. All Night Long – Jayne Ann Krentz
3. Kiss of the Night – Sherrilyn Kenyon
4. Summer Knight – Jim Butcher
5. Soul Catcher – Michael White
6. Can You Keep a Secret? – Sophie Kinsella
7. Whiskey Sour – J.A. Konrath
8. Drop Shot – Harlan Coben
9. Full Blast – Janet Evanovich
10. Dead Girls Are Easy – Terri Garey
11. Tell No One – Harlan Coben
12. Sunny Chandler’s Return – Sandra Brown
13. Tripwire – Lee Child
14. Kitty and the Midnight Hour – Carrie Vaughn
15. Night Play – Sherrilyn Kenyon
16. Courting Catherine – Nora Roberts
17. On Writing – Stephen King
18. Killer Takes All – Erica Spindler
19. A Man for Amanda – Nora Roberts
20. For the Love of Lilah – Nora Roberts
21. Suzanna’s Surrender – Nora Roberts
22. The Girl with the White Flag – Tomiko Higa
23. Megan’s Mate – Nora Roberts
24. Unnatural Exposure – Patricia Cornwell
25. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
26. The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
27. Seize the Night – Sherrilyn Kenyon
28. Death Masks – Jim Butcher
29. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
30. Chill Factor – Sandra Brown