I have decided to participate in the RYOB Challenge for 2010.

The rules are:

• Pick a number of books you’d like to read in one year
• Choose those books from your OWN collection
• Read them between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010

And some guidelines:

• Re-Reads are NOT allowed (the challenge is to get more of your own books read that have been sitting there waiting!)
• Audiobooks & e-books ARE allowed

I am challenging myself to read 25 of the following books in 2010.

(I plan to revisit this list in deeper detail in an attempt to solicit your opinions and leverage your knowledge.)

• R. Scott Bakker
  • The Darkness That Comes Before
• Jonathan Barnes
  • The Somnambulist
• Elizabeth Bear
  • Ink and Steel
  • Hell and Earth
• Carol Berg
  • Restoration
  • Transformation
  • Revelation
  • Flesh and Spirit
  • Breath and Bone
• Patricia Briggs
  • The Hob’s Bargain
• Jacqueline Carey
  • Kusniel’s Scion
  • Kushiel’s Justice
  • Kushiel’s Mercy
  • Naamah’s Kiss
• Kristin Cashore
  • Graceling
  • Fire
• Amanda Downum
  • The Drowning City
• Dave Duncan
  • The Alchemist’s Apprentice
  • The Alchemist’s Code
• James Engle
  • Blood of Ambrose
• Lynn Flewelling
  • Shadows Return
• Kate Forsyth
  • The Witches of Eileanan
• Emily Gee
  • Thief with No Shadow
• Robin Hobb
  • Assassin’s Apprentice
• Morgan Howell
  • A Woman Worth Ten Coppers
• Russell Kirkpatrick
  • Across the Face of the World
  • In the Earth Abides the Flame
  • The Right Hand of God
  • Path of Revenge
  • Dark Heart
  • Beyond the Wall of Time
• Mindy E. Klasky
  • The Glasswrights’ Apprentice
• Mercedes Lackey
  • Foundation
• Stephen R. Lawhead
  • Hood
  • Scarlet
  • Tuck
• Scott Lynch
  • The Lies of Locke Lamora
  • Red Seas Under Red Skies
• Sarah Micklem
  • Firethorn
• Moira J. Moore
  • Heroes Adrift
• Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Name of the Wind
• Michelle Sagara
  • Cast in Shadow
• Brandon Sanderson
  • Mistborn
  • Elantris
• Maria V. Snyder
  • Storm Glass
  • Sea Glass
• Sunny
  • Mona Lisa Awakening
  • Mona Lisa Blossoming
  • Mona Lisa Craving
  • Mona Lisa Darkenig
  • Lucinda Darkly
• Elizabeth Vaughan
  • White Star
• Jo Walton
  • The King’s Peace

And I’m going to cheat, and include the books on my Amazon wish list.

• Joe Abercrombie
  • The Blade Itself
• R. Scott Bakker
  • The Warrior Prophet
  • The Thousandfold Thought
• Anne Bishop
  • Shalador’s Lady
• Scott Lynch
  • The Republic of Thieves