Read Your Own Books Challenge
Jenn is hosting the 2009 Read Your Own Books Challenge. The concept is simple – read books that YOU OWN. Here are the rules:
- Set a goal of how many books you want to read throughout the year.
- Make a list of books you own which you want to read – the list can change at any time.
- Books you add to your collection during the year are eligible.
- eBooks and Audio Books are acceptable.
- Overlaps with other challenges are fine.
To sign up, visit the post about the challenge and leave Jenn a comment.
I’ll list books as I read them.
Edited to add: When I first started this challenge, I included books that I added to my collection via review copies. I’ve since reevaluated and decided to delete them from this challenge. This list now represents books that I truly have owned previously, purchased or won in giveaways.
- Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
- Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
- Ruby Among Us by Tina Ann Forkner
- Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
- Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
- The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
- Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons
- The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
- The Well by Mildred D. Taylor
- Consider Love, It’s Moods and Many Ways by Sandra Boynton
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
- The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
- Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
- Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
- Zlata’s Diary, A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic



Actually I’ve been doing this since it’s only been fairly recently that I was able to get my hands on some of those series I’d been meaning to get.
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