My own library

I decided to join this group to start reading my own books, bought over the years. I'm a regular library visitor, although I have enough books to read on my own shelves.
Going to the library is a bit of an addiction for me, and I come home with way too many books...
So this is what I want to do: only get one bookin the library a month, and read my own books instead, fiction or non-fiction.
I want to make a list of 20 books, will post this list at the end of the week.

Welcome aboard, and best wishes for your success!

sabine, I do that too: I am always bringing home more books than I can read...and yet, there are many TBR (to be read) books on my own shelves!

I look forward to seeing your list, and your results.

I do the same and now that library books are availabe on Kindle it's even worse! I can check out a library book in the middle of the night!

Good luck with your challenge.

Thanks! I am still deciding about my list...

Finally, I decided which books to take off my (dusty) shelves!
There are a few classics I want to reread, a few new bought books and some very oldies. Fiction and non-fiction, and even a children's book.
Here we go:
1. Rudyard Kipling - Kim
2. Charlotte Brönte - Jane Eyre
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
4. John Steinbeck - East of Eden
5. Bram Stoker - Dracula
6. Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love
7. J.L.Carr - A Month in the Country
8. The Voyage of the Narwhal - Andrea Barrett
9. Alain de Botton - The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel
10. Stevenson - Treasure Island
11. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
12. E. Nesbit - The Railway Children
13.Joshua Foer - Moonwalking with Einstein
14. James C. Wharton - The Arsenic Century
15. David Van Reybroeck - Congo
16.Bill Bryson - At Home
17. David Attenborough - The Life of Birds
18. Jane Sellars - Charlotte Brönte
19. James Hamilton - Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration
20. Antoni Maczak - Travel in Early Modern Europe

The Arsenic Century is the first book I took off the shelf. Nineteen more to go!

Finished:
1. The Arsenic Century
2. The Great Gatsby

Finished:
1. The Arsenic Century
2. The Great Gatsby
3. The Pursuit of love
Sloooooow progress......

Your list mostly consists of classics that are not easy to read and have many many pages - so if you are "slow", it might also be because of that, some books just take longer than others, and that is just natural :-)

I can see it myself right now, I took ages to read Villette by Charlotte Bronte, and now that I have resolved to read some easier, slimmer books for some time, it all goes much faster!

My list of books got a bit longer the last months... I enjoyed Treasure Island, a classic I've never read in my childhood.
So, here is my new list:
1. The Arsenic Century
2. The Great Gatsby
3. The Pursuit of love
4. Treasure Island
5. Moonwalking with Einstein
6.The Voyage of the Narwhal

Maybe I will go for some non-fiction for my next book? I will read a slim book first!