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Dec 18, 2021 08:19PM
Hi. This is my first year here. I own a lot of books and take part in about 8 reading challenges during the year. My problem is I tend to check out library books and never read the books I bought. This year I’m going to read my own books as much as possible in my reading challenges.
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I read six books that I own in January. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Humans of New York: Stories by Brandon Stanton
Total: 6
I only read one book that I own in February. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Total: 7
I need to step up my game here. I read two books that I own in March. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
Total for the year: 9
I read four books that I own in April. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Total for the year: 13
I only read one book that I own in May. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Total for the year: 14
I really need to read fewer library books. I only read one book that I own in June. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
Total for the year: 15 books
I read two books that I own in July. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Total for the year: 17
I read two books that I own in August. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Total for the year: 19 books
I read one book that I own in September. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Total: 20 books
I read one book that I own in October. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Total: 21 books
Wow I really thought doing this challenge would help me focus reading the books I own, but I still check out so many from the library. I read two books that I own in November.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Total for the year: 23
I only made it a little over half up the mountain. I read 4 books in December that I own. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Total for the year: 27 books
