2016 Reading Challenge: #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks

When I started my blog last year, I simply wanted to read more and open my mind up to a variety of books. I feel that I definitely achieved that. Going into this year, I sat and pondered about which reading challenge I would participate in. Most of them required me to go out and buy a few books (not really a bad thing!) but, I really wanted to find a way to motivate myself to read what I already have at home. This lead me to the #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks challenge. This one suited me the best. I have a whole bookshelf of review copies and books I bought on impulse book hauls that are yearning to be read. Not to mention a complete set of Penguin Drop caps that need their spines broken in. So, here on in begins my challenge. I will be adding to this list once I do a walk through of my entire house because there are books EVERYWHERE. Wish me luck!

Here is my list for the #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks challenge. I'll be crossing books off as I go:

  • The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew (February 1)
  • Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon (February 9)
  • Mad Miss Mimic by Sarah Henstra
  • All the Bright Stars by Jennifer Niven
  • I'll give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
  • An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
  • The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
  • The Little Old Lady Strikes Again by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
  • Cinder by Marissa Meyer
  • Scarlett by Marissa Meyer
  • Cress by Marissa Meyer
  • A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E.Schwab
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 
  • Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Courtesan by Alexandra Curry
  • Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
  • The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
  • Cracked  by Barbara Leslie
  • My Antonia by Willa Cather
  • The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot 
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding 
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 
  • An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro 
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee 
  • Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville 
  • Five Children and It by E. Nesbit 
  • Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara 
  • Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 
  • The Greek Coffin Mystery by Ellery Queen 
  •  Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie 
  • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck 
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 
  • Kristin Lavransdatter: the Wreath by Sigrid Undset 
  • Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire 
  • Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose by Walt Whitman 
  • Sky Burial by Xinran
  • When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales by W.B. Yeats 
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 



1 comment:

  1. Good luck with your reading challenge! I also aspire to read the books I already own. It works pretty well in general, but sometimes you can't resist buying new titles and requesting ARCs!

    I very much recommend A Darker Shade of Magic and the Lunar Chronicles. :)

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