Challenge Wrap-Up: RYOB (Read Your Own Books) 2010

This was the second time I've participated in MizB's RYOB (Read Your Own Books) Challenge. I planned to read twenty of my own books, and actually read thirty. So I'd say it was mostly a success. My only problem was that many of the books I read were ARCs, which means I didn't really clear as many books off my long-term TBR stack as I'd hoped. Still, it was a fun challenge, and kept me reading - which is the main reason I sign up for all these challenges anyway.

Here's my list of books read (in roughly the order I read them), with links to reviews:

1. Venom. Joan Brady
2. People of the Book. Geraldine Brooks
3. Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death. Hazel Holt
4. The Brontes Went to Woolworths. Rachel Ferguson
5. Heresy. S.J. Parris
6. A Stitch in Time. Monica Ferris
7. The Swimming Pool. Holly LeCraw
8. An American Type. Henry Roth
9. A River in the Sky. Elizabeth Peters
10. Live To Tell. Lisa Gardner
11. The Map of True Places. Brunonia Barry
12. Innocent. Scott Turow
13. The Forgotten Garden. Kate Morton
14. The Spider Bites. Medora Sale
15. The Good Psychologist. Noam Shpancer
16. Damaged. Alex Kava
17. The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
18. Think of a Number. John Verdon
19. All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Lan Samantha Chang
20. The Convent. Panos Karnezis
21. The House Next Door. Anne Rivers Siddons
    
22. Animal Farm. George Orwell
    
23. After Claude. Iris Owens
    
24. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Shirley Jackson
    
25. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden. Helen Grant
    
26. The Distant Hours. Kate Morton
    
27. Juliet. Anne Fortier
28. The Weird Sisters. Eleanor Brown
29. The Thirty-Nine Steps. John Buchan
30. Operation Terror. Murray Leinster