My best month yet by far in reading, not only in general but books off my own shelves. That is my overall goal for the year, to read as many books as possible off the TBR list and less from the library and borrowed books. I started off the year weak and while I feel like I made progress for reading 10 books that I owned, I added a large amount to my collection due to library book sales.

Books Read:

  1. Twilight Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke (TBR)
  2. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  3. Sex and the City: the Movie by Amy Sohn
  4. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
  5. Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center (TBR)
  6. Knit Two by Kate Jacobs (TBR)
  7. The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
  8. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  9. 300 by Frank Miller
  10. Love Letters of Great Men Vol. 1 by John C. Kirkland (TBR)
  11. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  12. 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
  13. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (TBR)
  14. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons (TBR)
  15. Violets are Blue by James Patterson (TBR)
  16. Four to Score by Janet Evanovich (TBR)
  17. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (TBR)
  18. 8th Confession by James Patterson (TBR)

Books Added:

  1. Tempest in Eden by Sandra Brown
  2. Unspeakable by Sandra Brown
  3. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
  4. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
  5. O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton
  6. Shakespeare’s Macbeth
  7. Hawk O’Toole’s Hostage by Sandra Brown
  8. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
  9. The Twilight Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke
  10. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
  11. Thursday’s Child by Sandra Brown
  12. Three in Death by J.D. Robb
  13. Divided in Dead by J.D. Robb
  14. Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb
  15. Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
  16. Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
  17. G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
  18. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  19. Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb
  20. L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton
  21. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  22. Purity in Death by J.D. Robb
  23. The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
  24. Survivor in Death by J.D. Robb
  25. Hot Stuff by Janet Evanovich
  26. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
  27. The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
  28. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
  29. Everything is Eventual by Stephen King
  30. I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton
  31. Best Kept Secrets by Sandra Brown
  32. Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb
  33. Origin in Death by J.D. Robb
  34. 8th Confession by James Patterson
  35. Hot Six by Janet Evanovich

Challenges Finished: Book Binge 2009, Banned Book Challenge, 50 Book Challenge, and participated in the 2009 Spring Read-a-Thon.

Not many goals for next month. June has a couple challenges finishing up so I’ll probably be reading books that pertain to those. Maybe I’ll get another 10 from my own shelves completed. Buy less books as well, which shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll be doing a lot of traveling in May so I’m sure my reading will be up, but not quite like this month that’s for sure.