Read 10 Books You Owned Before This Year Began

lisbethleftwich Host

41 participants (273 books)

01 Jan 2024—31 Dec 2024

Overview

You can’t read books by osmosis! Read 10 books you owned before 2024 started. Bonus points if you read something that’s been lingering on your TBR for years. 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

445 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole LePera

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

Nicole LePera

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear

306 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything in Between by Fiona Givens, Terryl Givens

All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything in Between

Fiona Givens, Terryl Givens

191 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective slow-paced
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

201 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help informative reflective medium-paced
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Lucia Berlin

406 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction literary short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano

387 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory

Drunk on Love

Jasmine Guillory

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance lighthearted medium-paced
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Patsy

Nicole Dennis-Benn

432 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced