Monday, January 19, 2009

2009 Read-Your-Own-Books (RYOB) Challenge

Having signed up for the 100+ Reading Challenge yesterday, I thought I'd better sign up for the Read-Your-Own-Books Reading Challenge today!

The rules for the RYOB Challenge are simple: Choose the number of books to read off of your own shelves between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009 and read them ;o). My goal is to have at least half of my 100+ books come from books I already own (as of this date - the only exceptions being books I get with my Christmas gift cards. After all, those were supposed to be Christmas books. How's that for a little rationalization ;o)).
So, my goal is to read at least 50 of my own books in 2009. I'll come back and add to this post as I finish and review books this year.
1. Silent Night by J.D. Robb, Susan Plunkett, Dee Holmes, Claire Cross
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. Shadow Game by Christine Feehan
4. Undercover Stranger by Pat White
5. The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts
6. Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb
7. Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch by B. J. Daniels
8. I'm Watching You by Karen Rose
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10. Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
11. Willing Spirits by Phyllis Schieber
12. The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez
13. Platinum Cowboy by Rita Herron
14. Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
15. Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb
16. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
17. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
18. In Over Her Head by Judi Fennell
19. Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
20. Shimmer by Eric Barnes
21. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
22. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
23. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
24. Nothing to Fear by Karen Rose
25. You Can't Hide by Karen Rose
26. Kill Me Twice by Roxanne St. Claire
27. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
28. Dirty Little Secrets by Julie Leto
29. Count to Ten by Karen Rose
30. Crazy Hot by Tara Janzen
31. Islands by Anne River Siddons
32. The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
33. Chosen to Die by Lisa Jackson
34. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
35. From the Heart by Nora Roberts
36. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
37. Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan
38. Too Much Temptation by Lori Foster
39. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
40. Marley & Me by John Grogan
41. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
42. The Vigorous Mind by Ingrid Cummings
43. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
44. Leilani Zan by Barbara Casey
45. Irish Rebel by Nora Roberts
46. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
47. Wild Blue Under by Judi Fennell
48. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
49. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
50. Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart

2 comments:

Desert Rose said...

Welcome to the challenge fellow challenger :)

joanna said...

wow, that's brave! :-) I keep reading new stuff I buy and those stacks just keep growing! :-)