Reading Challenges for Maw Books

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
23. The Next Thing On My List by Jill Smolinksi
24. Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
25. Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
26. Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
27. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
28. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
29. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
30. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
31. Picking Cotton, Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo
32. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
33. The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
34. Charlotte’s Rose by Ann Cannon