Read What You Own Challenge

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I’m going to start a Read What You Own Challenge on the 1st of July to try and reduce down my ridiculously huge TBR both physical and kindle.
My rules for me are-

• No buying any new books after midday on July 1st
• Unsubscribe from the kindle daily deals email
• I am allowed to break it for the Booker Prize longlist when it’s announced, but must check my library for the books first.
• Keep going until August 21st as my first goal. (Maybe until 2026 in total)

These rules are specific to me and anyone who wants to join me is free to make their own set of rules for their challenge. I’m going to log each book I read here to keep me accountable. Anyone else up for it? I know some 50 Bookers are considering it…

Appassionata - Jilly Cooper which has been on my Kindle for 5 years.

Indemnity Only - Sara Paretsky. Bought this in 2014, enjoyed it, glad the RWYO unearthed it!

Ploughed through Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell, very miz lit

Just finished JD Kirk - Thicker Than Water.

Finished Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy but it probably doesn’t count as it’s a reread!

Finished A Second Chance - the third St Mary’s book. Fun and silly but not sure how many more of these I’ll read. I have two more in my Audible library so I’ll definitely finish those two but after that we’ll see.

Just finished Britt Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman. Enjoyed it.

Have started a book called Wild Thing by Randal Plunkett - he is re-wilding his family castle/estate in Ireland. Interesting to me as my great grandmother gave the castle as the address she was living at on her marriage certificate to my great grandfather (who gave another old castle in the area as his address). Sadly we are not landed gentry and they were both live in staff! It’s near to where my sister now lives too and we went and had a look at the castle last summer. Just from the road. And we think he drove past us and slowed down to see what we were up as as we peered in through some locked gates!

2 more- both good reads. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (more of a novella really) and Men who Hate Women by Laura Bates.

Finished Lindsey Davis - The Silver Pigs. It was on my TBR pile for over 10 years, and The Surprise Visitor by Cathy Bramley.

2 more- Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh- disappointing and Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor definitely worth the read.

Finished another, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Finished and enjoyed Faith Martin - A Fatal Obsession. The first in the Ryder and Loveday series.

Finally finished The Hallmarked Man. I enjoyed The Running Grave but kept drifting off in this one. I think I prefer the TV adaptations.

@CutFlowers I thought The Hallmarked Man was very disappointing

Agree, Troubled Blood and The Running Grave were far superior.

I have just finished The Friday Night Knitting Club paperback.

It took me way too long because my MN scrolling habit is strong. My childhood self is very disappointed in me so I am vowing to do better!

Also finished Damien Boyd - Swansong. I’ve managed to reduce the amount of online scrolling I do, but it is an easy habit to slip into.

Two months after joining this thread, I have finally finished my first read what you own book: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. Buying famous &/ worthy books on Kindle deals is clearly my downfall, as I assume that I will of course read them at some point (only of course I rarely get round to reading them). I did like both the writing style and characters of Hamnet, but it was quite an effort to get through the book as I really didn’t want to read it as I knew it was about a child who will die in the book.

I also cleared my BorrowBox backlog - (un)fortunately I then filled up my account again with loans / reservations from the 50 Book thread!

I accidentally buy worthy books and don't read them too @Benvenuto
I have finished In A Thousand Different Ways on my kindle and This One Wild And Precious Life by Sarah Wilson on audible.

Finally finished The Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod Eagles. Book two of the Moorland dynasty covering the period of Henry VIII. It was a marathon and I almost gave up, it's taken me a month to finish.

Read Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. Didn’t rate it.

May I join? What does TBR mean?

I do have a pile of physical and kindle books I havent read. The temptation of a 99p book i want is too much sometimes.

Trying to make my way through what I have

TBR = To Be Read. Books you own but haven't read yet!

Welcome @TheLivelyRose
TBR = to be read.

In that case I have 5 books as physical copies TBR and lost count of the kindle books.

I am half way through Passengers on The Hankyu Line. Hard copy. First outing with Japanese literature...

Edit make that 7 hard copy books.