Off the Shelf Reading Challenge

Bookish Ardour is challenging us to read some of the books we already own. I’m choosing the “Trying” level and aiming low at 15 books. Visit the site to sign up. (Here’s my owned-to-read shelf on GoodReads if you’re curious.) This challenge runs from January 1 – December 31, 2011.  I’ll track my progress here.

1. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
2. Scones and Sensibility by Lindsay Eland
3. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
5. Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
6. The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
7. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
8. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
9. Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
10. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
11. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
12. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
13. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
14. Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
15. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein
16. Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
17. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes