The Owned & Unread challenge!

[coconutsnbutts (♫ נєѕѕι¢α ♪), The Wolf]

This is a challenge to read those books that have been sitting on your shelf collecting dust because you just keep putting them off. Why haven't you read them?! They're just lonely books, yearning to be read...

This challenge starts August 1st and ends August 31st. The goal is to read at least 3 books that you own and haven't read, but if you can read more, great. :)

Nosce te ipsum's Owned & Unread Reading List:

1. Watership Down by Richard Adams. Start: 7/24 Finish: 8/4
2. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher. Start: 8/15 Finish: 8/17
3. The Sacrifice by Charlie Higson. Start: 8/5 Finish: 8/15
4. A Summer of Kings by Han Nolan. Start: 8/17 Finish: 8/19
5. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Start: 8/20 Finish: 8/27

So, what are y'all gonna read? Show us your lists, and make sure to add and update your start and finish dates!

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Sounds like fun!

Asch's Anti- Paradigm's Owned & Unread Reading List

1.Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Start 8/8 Finished
2.King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence Started: 7/28, Finished: 8/2
3.Split by Swati Avasthi Finished 8/8
4.Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence Finished: 8/18
5.Wings by Aprilynne Pike Finished
6.Eve and Adam by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate

Trying to squeeze in one last book!:D

[Ken]

I'd do it, but I have so many other things going on

[Toni]

I have 158 books on my kindle I need to read. Ill probably read 10 this month.

[Heather]

I'm going to do it but some many books to chose from. I let you know what the books are going to be.

[coconutsnbutts (♫ נєѕѕι¢α ♪), The Wolf]

Heather wrote: "I'm going to do it but some many books to chose from. I let you know what the books are going to be."

Toni wrote: "I have 158 books on my kindle I need to read. Ill probably read 10 this month."

Sounds good! :)

IhaveacrushonDeanRodriguezJr-hegoestoCupertinoHighSchool wrote: "I'd do it, but I have so many other things going on"

That's alright. :)

[China]

I'M IN FOR THIS CHALLENGE....LIBRARY BOOKS! NOOK BOOKS GALORE! I'M GOING TO TRY AND KNOCK OUT TEN BUT I'M SHOOTING LOW FOR THREE.

CHINA'S Owned & Unread Reading List

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[Ashleighbenson87]

(how to you like tag a book so you can click it to view the book?) anyway, I gonna do this too! It sounds like a lot of fun!

1. Clockwork Angle
2. The lost hero
3. The dead and the gone
4. Before I fall
5. The fault in our stars!

Sounds like a fun month to me! Let's get started

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Ashleighbenson87 wrote: "(how to you like tag a book so you can click it to view the book?) anyway, I gonna do this too! It sounds like a lot of fun!

1. Clockwork Angle
2. The lost hero
3. The dead and the gone
4. Before..."

You just click the "add book/author" link above the comment box, type in what book you want, and click "add" when it comes up.

[Ashleighbenson87]

OH! Okay thanks! I had the app for Good Reads and you couldn't do it on the app but I found out now, thanks!

[Lina]

I'll attempt to read

1. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
3. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

[Bookishlor]

My list consists of books that have been on the list for awhile:

1. A Night to RememberA Night to Remember
2. The Jewel of Seven Stars
3. Great Ghost Stories - Finished 8/1
4. The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club - Started July and going back to the bookstore later this week. Boring story that lead nowhere. Finished as far as I could 8/4/13
5. Divergent - Finished 7/29 - oops early but it was GOOD!
6. City of Bones - Finished 8/10
7. Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
8. Obsidian - Finished 8/4 - Loved it! Already added Onyx. I'm never going to get to these other books :/
9. Dragon's Keep - Finished 8/6. Nice young adult fairytale. 2nd one is supposed to be even better!
10. ???

[Trinity]

Trinity's Owned & Unread Reading List


Started: August 1
Finishing: August 31
Books Read: 2 Books Total

1. Beautiful Darkness DONE! 8/8 (4.5 Stars)
2. Fire Burns DONE! 8/5 (4 Stars)
3. A Taylor-Made Life DONE! 8/9 (5 Stars)
4. The Pen & the Sword Currently Rdg
5. Charmed
6. Sworn to Raise
7. Love, Tink
8. Arielle: Immortal Awakening
9. Prince of Dark Ness

[Carrie]

Okay let's go!
1. The Book Thief
2. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
3. An Abundance of Katherines
4. The Passion
5. The Tempest Tales

[Kat]

This is a perfect challenge! I've been thinking a lot about trying to dive more into some of my long-term unreads. I pulled out a few for this challenge, and I hope I can follow through.

Kat's Owned & Unread Reading List
1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students by Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard III (started several months ago)
2. Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family by Najla Said
3. I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
4. When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Lauren wrote: "My list consists of books that have been on the list for awhile:

1. A Night to RememberA Night to Remember
2. The Jewel of Seven Stars
3. Great Ghost Stories
4. The Beach Street Knitting Society a..."

Divergent is really good, you're going to love it:)


Chimney wrote: "I think I will try this challenge, but I can't guarantee I will get through more then one of these:

1) The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
2) The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
3) The Game by Diana..."

PERCY JACKSON ROCKS. The Titan's Curse is one of my all-time favorite books EVER.

[[deleted user]]

I have over 20 books on my shelf that I haven't read, so I'll just see how many I can knock out!

1. Letting Ana Go
2. Thirteen Reasons Why
3. Moonrise
4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
5. The Bell Jar
6. Going Bovine
7. The Casual Vacancy
8. Naked
9. Running with Scissors
10. Sharp Objects

Plus many, many more!

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Izzy wrote: "I have over 20 books on my shelf that I haven't read, so I'll just see how many I can knock out!

1. Letting Ana Go
2. Thirteen Reasons Why
3. Moonrise
4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
..."

Going Bovine SO weird, but good.

[Aiman]

I got this ;)

[Leah]

1. The Casual Vacancy
2. Pandemonium
3. Reached

[coconutsnbutts (♫ נєѕѕι¢α ♪), The Wolf]

Leah wrote: "1. The Casual Vacancy
2. Pandemonium
3. Reached"

Pandemonium is pretty good. WAY more action than Delirium. :)

[Danielle]

1. Acts of Violets
2. Searching for God knows what
3. Out Casts

[Coralie]

Heather wrote: "I'm going to do it but some many books to chose from. I let you know what the books are going to be."

Exactly!

[Théo M.]

My List Is SO Long:
1) Beautiful Darkness
2) The Diviners
3) Bloodlines
4) Unravel Me
5) Matched
6) Beautiful Chaos
7) Carnival of Souls
8) The Lying Game
9)Flawless
10) Fearless
11) Sam
12) Run
13) Shadow and Bone

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

A. wrote: "My List Is SO Long:
1) Beautiful Darkness
2) The Diviners
3) Bloodlines
4) Unravel Me
5) Matched
6) Beautiful Chaos
7) Carnival of Souls
8) The Lying Game
9)Flawless
10) Fearless
11) Sam
12) Run
13..."

WOW. Good luck with that!

[Théo M.]

Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "A. wrote: "My List Is SO Long:
1) Beautiful Darkness
2) The Diviners
3) Bloodlines
4) Unravel Me
5) Matched
6) Beautiful Chaos
7) Carnival of Souls
8) The Lying Game
9)Flawless
10) Fearless
11) Sam..."

I've Read 20 books this month so I should be able to read those hopefully. The list continues, I just don't have my bookcase in front of me at the moment.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

A. wrote: "Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "A. wrote: "My List Is SO Long:
1) Beautiful Darkness
2) The Diviners
3) Bloodlines
4) Unravel Me
5) Matched
6) Beautiful Chaos
7) Carnival of Souls
8) T..."

Um, are you like, a speed-reader or something? That's freakin AMAZING.

[Syndell]

I can probably get through 15- 20. I have been putting off a lot of these, I'll just have to add to my list as I go,

1. Entangled
2. Duplicity
3. Enchantment
4. Hunting The Snark An Alice in Deadland Adventure
5. Envy
6. Ephemeral
7. Maternal Harbor
8. Bloodlines
9. The Golden Lily
10. The Indigo Spell
11. Mortal
12. Project ELE
13. Behold a Pale Horse
14. The Angel Experiment
15. Graceling
16. DragonSpell

[coconutsnbutts (♫ נєѕѕι¢α ♪), The Wolf]

@Syndell you should definitely read Graceling first! It is amazing.

[Syndell]

I was actually considering that I have heard good things, Thank u.

[Heather]

I like to buy a copy of Graceling.

[Syndell]

I got it while it was free on amazon.

[Mary]

1. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
2. The Divine Comedy
3. Confessions by Saint Augustine

[Dildora]

i'd compete in the challenge, but i only have 1 owned and unread book!!

1.Tennyson by Lesly M.M. Blume

[Tamiko]

i shall try and do this :)

[Jaclyn]

I just finished reading at any cost by Lauren Nichols in the middle of the night and now I'm starting a dee Henderson collection. starting with danger in the shadows. :-)

[Lina]

I just finished The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. Working on it for a year now. IT FEELS SO GOOD. Now I'm diving into The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights again. I'm probably just gonna read a fairtytale or two though, not all of it.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Chimney wrote: "I just finished The Game, it I started it before the challenge so I am going to try and fit another book in. I don't know which yet.

1) The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
2) The Titan's Curse by ..."

PERCY JACKSON. The Titan's Cruse ROX.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Sow how is everyone doing? How far along in your challenges are you?

[Trinity]

Oh! Thanks for reminding me! I need to update my list :)

And I just finished 2 books lol! How about you guys?

[Lina]

I read the first one and just fell off after. I also left them at home when I moved back to my flat, so I'll just read them later I think. So I fail.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

I'm on my third (Shatter Me), but I recently got a new book I think I'm going to add.

[Trinity]

Lina wrote: "I read the first one and just fell off after. I also left them at home when I moved back to my flat, so I'll just read them later I think. So I fail."

You haven't failed :)

[Trinity]

Updated! Message 14 :)

[[deleted user]]

My goal was to read five. We'll see if that happens. I finished one two days ago. I read the whole thing in one day!

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Izzy wrote: "My goal was to read five. We'll see if that happens. I finished one two days ago. I read the whole thing in one day!"

It must've been really good then:) What was it?

[[deleted user]]

It was Letting Ana Go. It was very good, but the ending was soooo predictable.

[Lina]

Trinity wrote: "Lina wrote: "I read the first one and just fell off after. I also left them at home when I moved back to my flat, so I'll just read them later I think. So I fail."

You haven't failed :)"

Technically I have, since my books are at home, and I'm not going home before August ends :/ And it sucks, but I'll just try again later.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Lina wrote: "Trinity wrote: "Lina wrote: "I read the first one and just fell off after. I also left them at home when I moved back to my flat, so I'll just read them later I think. So I fail."

You haven't fail..."

I think we're going to do a different challenge in September, so maybe you can participate in that:)

[Lina]

Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "Lina wrote: "Trinity wrote: "Lina wrote: "I read the first one and just fell off after. I also left them at home when I moved back to my flat, so I'll just read them later I think. So I fail."

You..."

Yup, I think I will. I'll just focus on being sober enough to get through Gatsby the rest of the month (two weeks of partying with the newbies at UNI... woo)