Read What You Own 2026

Holes by Louis Sachar . It's a short YA book I had read it when DS2 did it at school, probably 15 years ago, and remembered enjoying it.
Engaging story of coincidence, morality and fate. A boy is wrongly convicted and sent to a youth penalty camp where the boys are made to dig holes in a desert. Historic wrongs are righted and it has a neat way of tying up the ends. A quick read.
I'm not doing well on RWYO but my plan was to re-read a few as I seldom do, so this was the first.

Last Man Standing - David Baldacci

Bought in 2019. FBI thriller that needed more editing (600 pages long!)

I agree - lovely book @MamaNewtNewt .

Another RWYO (I’m counting anything I got up to and including my birthday in early Jan). I finally got to 84 Charing Cross Road and I adored it.

I've finished The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith this evening . All 1180 pages of it. It was a marathon effort, via audiobook (and hefty paperback).

Hats off to JKR for her research into cults to produce a terrifyingly sinister one here, complete with charismatic leaders and brainwashed followers. You'd like to think you'd never be so gullible as to fall under the spell of a cult, but DH has a family member who was recruited whilst at university, just like one of the characters here.

I think, though, that I've had enough of cults for quite some time.

Having made some good progress last year, I am trying to RWYO with exceptions for book club books and series I am reading. 90+ on my Kindle and quite a few (but not as many physical books). Would be great to be below 50 on the Kindle by the end of the year......

A late start for me on RWYO this year but have now read a couple:

Passing On - Penelope Lively which I bought in February 2024
and
Double Cross - Ben MacIntyre which I bought in June 2023

Both good reads so glad I got to them.

I read Close Knit by Jenny Colgan this week - a romance novel my DD picked for me for Christmas. It came with a bonus knitting pattern for a bobble hat!

Totally agree re independent bookshops @ÚlldemoShúl !

And now you own them so you'll have to read them 😎 I applaud your reasoning!

Dnfed Forever, Interrupted, too depressing and soap opera dramatic for my tastes.

I feel exactly the same every time I read one of hers!

Another RWYO Death Rocks by LJ Ross. A bit far fetched and cliched, but there is some humour in the team dynamics. I keep thinking I won’t read the next one, then I do.

Another DNF for me - Going To Sea In A Sieve by Danny Baker I quite liked the TV series it was based on but can’t be bothered with the book.

I’m reading Last Man Standing which I bought in 2019. Going ok but it’s a bit of a tome!

I'm almost halfway into The Sittaford Mystery....I think I might have read this before 🤔
Amazing to think it was written 100 years ago

Welcome @RightOnTheEdge

The Wolf of Wall Street is a DNF. I enjoyed the film, but just can’t get past the sleazy mistreatment of women in the book.

Two more RWYO - . Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adidche and Recitatif by Toni Morrison. Slightly cheating as one is really an essay and one a short story but both interesting reads and counted as books by my kindle!

Hi, can I join in please?
I really want to finally get through some of my tbr books.

I've looked on Kindle and I've got 25 unread, which is much better than I actually thought. I'm too scared to count my physical books I've got a bookshelf in the living room full of them and two bedside cabinets full of dusty books I've been meaning to read for years 🙈

I want to try and not buy any new books unless it's one I really want like a new one from one of my favourite authors or the next in a series. I will try to avoid browsing charity shop book shelves until I have a good chunk of my tbr done.

I am reading Quicksilver at the moment which I bought last year and then after that I'm going to go back and finish all the books I started reading then abandoned when I went through a stage when I was struggling to sit down and concentrate.

Finished Death of a Witch by MC Beaton, one of the Hamish Macbeth series, which I bought in 2012. An okay but not great easy read, with the usual characters and storyline.

Highly recommend The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

And finished my 8th RWYO The Witch’s Egg by Donya Todd, which was a graphic novel, so a quick read thankfully as I hated it.