Read Your Own Books Challenge


January 1 – December 31, 2009

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.

  1. Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
  2. Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
  3. Ruby Among Us by Tina Ann Forkner
  4. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  5. The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
  6. Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
  7. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
  8. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
  9. The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
  10. Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons
  11. The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
  12. The Well by Mildred D. Taylor
  13. Consider Love, It’s Moods and Many Ways by Sandra Boynton
  14. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  15. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
  16. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
  17. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
  18. Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
  19. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
  20. Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
  21. Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
  22. Zlata’s Diary, A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

2 comments


  1. 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.

    on June 19th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
  2. [...] Read Your Own Books Challenge – Runs all of 2009.  22 completed – open ended. [...]

    on September 14th, 2009 at 2:08 am

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