I Love Library Books (updated: 23/12/14)

Hosted over at Book Dragon's lair. So do visit the blog if you fancy yourself a reading challenge. There are a few over ones if you want to get involved in something not library related.

I am a part-time librarian as many of you know, so borrowing way too many books is pretty much a given. So this challenge is definitely something that I agree with. Why buy books when you can borrow from a library? And for those snobs that say that libraries only stock out of date stuff and nothing modern can you please go and ask a librarian in your local library if you can reserve the specific book you think is modern. If it is not in the library I bet the helpful librarian will order one in for you for a small charge. (I do buy books too, but only those that I will read more than once, for reference, and out of print to get from the library.)

Anyhow onto the challenge:

"Our love of reading can be expensive! Not only are we purchasing books but some of us also need space to keep them."

Rules are:

• choose a level - you may move up as needed, just not down.
• check books out of the library
• books may overlap with other challenges
• any format allowed (print, ebook, audio)
• reviews are not necessary but a list of books read is. (post with review linky is coming)
• a blog is not necessary, just comment that you want to join in.

Levels:

• board book - 3
• picture book - 6
• early reader - 9
• chapter book - 12
• middle grades - 18
• Young adult - 24
• adult - 36
• just insert IV - 50 

I have decided that I will go for 'adult' this year ... but I hope to meet the criteria for the 'just insert IV'. So I should aim for at least 3 per month. 

Books read (date finished):

1. 'Six Years' by Harlan Coben (?/01/2014) TBK
2. 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' by J.K.Rowling (11/01/2014) JF
3. 'Trust Your Eyes' by Linwood Barclay (12/01/2014) RG
4. 'Dead to Me' by Cath Staincliffe (02/02/2014) TBK
5. 'My Mum's Going to Explode!' by Jeremy Strong (03/02/2014) JF
6. 'From Rags to Riches: North Country Rag Rugs' by Rosemary E Allan (The Beamish Collections) (04/02/2014) NF
7. 'My Brother's Famous Bottom' by Jeremy Strong (04/02/2014) JF/TBK
8. 'Doctor Bonkers!' by Jeremy Strong (15/02/2014) JF/TBK
9. 'Bleed Like Me' by Cath Staincliffe (20/02/2014) TBK
10. 'Gangsta Granny' by David Walliams (21/02/2014) JF
11. 'My Brother's Famous Bottom Gets Pinched!' by Jeremy Strong (25/02/2014) JF
12. 'My Brother's Famous Bottom Goes Camping' by Jeremy Strong (05/03/2014) JF
13. 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' by Steven Galloway (13/03/2014) TBK
14. 'Smelly Bill' by Daniel Postgate (25/03/2014) JF
15. 'My Brother's Hot Cross Bottom' by Jeremy Strong (29/03/2014) JF
16. 'The Age of Miracles' by Karen Thompson Walker (02/04/2014) RG
17. 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared' by Jonas Jonasson (03/04/2014) 
18. 'My Brother's Christmas Bottom - Unwrapped!' by Jeremy Strong (10/04/2014) JF
19. 'Terry Deary's Pirate Tales: The Pirate Queen' (13/04/2014) JF
20. 'Money Doesn't Grow on Trees!' (15/04/2014) JNF
21. 'Horrid Henry's Sleepover' by Francesca Simon (16/04/2014) JF
22. 'The Library of Unrequited Love' by Sophie Divry (17/04/2014) 
23. 'How to Fall' by Jane Casey (19/04/2014)
24. 'The Story Behind Water' by Christin Ditchfield (20/04/2014) JNF
25. 'Never Saw it Coming' by Linwood Barclay (25/04/2014) TBK
26. 'The Troll and the Oliver' by Adam Stower (27/04/2014) JF
27. 'Horrid Henry Meets the Queen' by Francesca Simon (28/04/2014) JF
28. 'Monstar Finds a Home' by Steve Cole (02/05/2014) JF
29. 'The Worst Children's Jobs in History' by Tony Robinson (02/05/2014) JNF
30. 'Boys Don't Knit' by T.S.Easton (10/05/2014)
31. 'Top 10 Worst Creepy Mysteries' by Fiona Macdonald (11/05/2014) JNF
32. 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr.Seuss (13/05/2014) JF
33. 'Bet Your Life' by Jane Casey (27/05/2014)
34. 'Fox Populi' poems by Kate Fox (04/06/2014)
35. 'Pretty Guardia Sailor Moon 1' by Naoko Takeuchi (11/06/2014) M
36. 'Pretty Guardia Sailor Moon 2' by Naoko Takeuchi (14/06/2014) M
37. 'Midnight for Charlie Bone' by Jenny Nimmo (14/06/2014) JF
38. 'No One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday' by Tracy Bloom (18/06/2014)
39. 'The Stranger You Know' by Jane Casey (21/06/2014)
40. 'My Brother's Famous Bottom Gets Crowned!' by Jeremy Strong (25/06/2014) JF
41. 'Pretty Guardia Sailor Moon 3' by Naoko Takeuchi (26/06/2014) M
42. 'Dark Places' by Gillian Flynn (03/07/2014) TBK
43. 'The Kill' by Jane Casey (19/07/2014)
44. 'Charlie Bone and the Time Twister' by Jenny Nimmo (25/07/2014) JF
45. 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 4' by Naoko Takeuchi (27/07/2014) M
46. 'Dead Time' by Anne Cassidy (29/07/2014) 
47. 'Quidditch through the Ages - Kennilworthy Whisp' by J.K.Rowling (?) JF
48. 'The Mobile Library' by Ian Sansom (06/08/2014) 
49. 'Until You're Mine' by Samantha Hayes (14/08/2014)
50. 'Killing Rachel' by Anne Cassidy (13/09/2014)
51. 'Writers' Block' by Judith Flanders (26/09/2014)
52. 'Butterfly Grave' by Anne Cassidy (02/10/2014)
53. 'The Litigators' by John Grisham (~24/10/2014)
54. 'The Racketeer' by John Grisham (~10/11/2014)
55. 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams (~10/11/2014)
56. The Associate by John Grisham (23/11/2014)
57. 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern (~2/12/2014)
58. 'One for the Money' by Janet Evanovich (~18/12/2014) TBK
59. 'Shadowland' by Meg Cabot (~20/12/2014) TBK
60. 'The Confession' by John Grisham (22/12/2014)

Notes:

TBK: Talking Book
JF: Junior Fiction (I mainly read for my brother ... well that is my excuse)
RG: Reading Group
NF: Non-Fiction
M: Manga