Off the Shelf Challenge 2013

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I’m signing up for the Off the Shelf Reading Challenge hosted at Bookish Ardour again this year. I’m slowly making a dent in my stacks of unread books, although I’m sure my husband can’t see my progress!

From Bookish Ardour:

About: The Off the Shelf Reading Challenge is probably the most popular challenge there is on BA. The goal? To read books on your shelves that have gone unread for far too long. Selecting books from the year before (in this case, 2012 and before), read as many of the unread ones as you can. It’s up to you if you want to keep them or give them away afterwards, the main goal is to turn those unread books into read ones.

The Main Rule: Do not include books acquired during 2013, it defeats the purpose, read those books from before 2013 started.
Running dates for all 2013 challenges: 1st of January – 31st of December 2013
Sign-Ups are accepted until the 16th of December 2013.

I’m signing up again at the “Trying” level–read 15 of my own books. I’ll track my progress here.

Songs of Love & Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Across the Nightingale Floor: The Sword of the Warrior by Lian Hearn
Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama by Lian Hearn
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Heartless by Gail Carriger
The Big Beautiful by Pamela Duncan
The Small Hand by Susan Hill
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
The Child Thief by Brom
Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood by Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley Jr.
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore