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Welcome to this month's Hidden Gems challenge!

Hidden Gems is a fantastic way to plow through those mountains of books claiming space in your house or e-reader. This challenge produces some fun group interaction as well, because someone else chooses which book you’ll read next.

If you sign up, you'll be matched up with a Hidden Gems partner. You will choose a book from the list your partner designates which you have already read and cannot believe your partner hasn’t read yet. Your partner will do the same for you with the list you designate. The point is to find that “Hidden Gem� that you think they’ll love� because you adored it when you read it!

Let us know which books you choose for each other. When you finish reading your gem, let us know what you thought about it. Perhaps your Hidden Gem might find its way to someone else’s wish list!

Match-ups will be created on the 10th of the month. Please choose books for each other by the 13th.

Sign up by telling us which list you’d like your partner to choose from.

Happy reading, friends!

I'm in! ! Please choose 3-4 from my tbr-physical-books and/or series-in -progress shelves.

I'm in! Please give me at least 3 options from my 2025-hg shelf: /review/list...

I'm in! Please select 3-4 books from my Hidden Gems shelf.

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I'm in! Please choose 2-3 from my Hidden Gems shelf.

I'm in! Please choose 2-3 from my Hidden Gems shelf.

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I'm in! Please choose 3-4 from my Temp Read Soon shelf:

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I'm in. Please select 4-5 from my CFD Current Challenges shelf:

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I am in. Please choose 3-4 from this shelf.

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I'm in. Please pick 5 from my hidden gem shelf.

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I’m in. All unread books may be chosen from.

I'm in. please choose several from my hidden gems shelf
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I’m in! Please pick 3-4 from any of the following shelf’s

My 2025 Must Read Shelf

My Hidden Gems Shelf

My 2025 TBR Shelf

I'm in! Please pick 2-3 from my HIdden Gems shelf:

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Sign-ups are now closed. Match-ups are being created.

I'll be in to round off things. Please choose from my CFD Hidden Gems shelf.

Here are this month's matchups. Let's see if we can get those choices selected by May 13. Happy reading!

Michelle (4) - Kate (3)
Annette (9) - Sarita (11)
Missy (5) - Staci (2)
Reagan (6) - Charlene (13)
Karen (8) - Brittany (7)
Andrea (16) - Bridget (12)
Loraine (14) - Kathi (10)

Bridget, here are some books I've enjoyed. Hope at least one is a winner for you!

The All-American
Secrets She Kept
Across the Blue
Veiled in Smoke

Hi Karen,

Here are some suggestions of books that I really enjoyed.

Hey Michelle! Here are my 4 options for you:


All Manner of Things
The Mistletoe Countess
Life Flight
Stitches in Time

Hi Sarita.

Here are books I’ve read and enjoyed from your shelf.








Hope you enjoy one or more as well.

Kate - I have not read any of the books on your list! Here are 4 books from authors I have enjoyed reading:

Thank you Kate for the choices! I will read Life Flight .

Andrea,
I haven't read any from your shelf
Here's what I've chosen for you
The cover is so cute
Looks like a good book
and Like both of these authors
I hope you enjoy

I am going to go with

Thanks!

Thanks so much, Bridget! Tough choices! I'm going to decide next week, after I turn in my edit job.

Hope you enjoy The All-American!

Michelle, I'm going to go with A Stranger's Game .
Happy Reading!

Thanks so much, Brittany. Tough choices.

I'll go with but I hope to read several more of them too.

Hi Brittany - unfortunately I have not read any of the books on your shelf. Therefore, I selected books that looked interesting and tried to give you variety in length and subject/genre.

Here's what I selected:


Hope you find a good read from these.

Loraine, I haven't read your books. This is what I selected:

Hey Reagan, It was hard to slim down picks for you as you had some great reads on your shelf. For you I pick:



Hope you enjoy the one you pick :)

Annette wrote: "Hi Sarita.

Here are books I’ve read and enjoyed from your shelf.




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All great choices. I am not sure what I will read from this list, will come back with my selection.

Annette, here is my selections for you:

Thank you Sarita. My plan is to read.

Missy chose for me:


I chose for her:


Happy reading all!

Decided to read and enjoyed

Reagan and Loraine, may you pick books for your partners? Let me know if there's any issue I may help resolve.

Would someone like to choose books for Charlene and Kathi?

Kathi, I haven't been matched with you this year yet, so I thought I'd give a look at your shelves and pick these 5 for you to choose from:

Anne of Avonlea
In Spotlight and Shadow
Authentically, Izzy
Sisters by the Sea
Before We Were Yours

Charlene, if no one picks for you by tomorrow morning, I'll have another look at your shelves. I just know that I am likely to pick similar titles to what I picked in March when we were matched, and hope that you will get a fresh set of eyes to pick for you this month in lieu. 🙂

Hi Charlene. These are the books I’ve chosen for you from your shelves.

Kate I decided to pick thank you for selecting books for me.

Kate. I didn’t refresh my page before I posted..Duh..and had books picked out for Kathi as well. Two of the books you chose were also my picks. GREAT MINDS�.LOL.

I pray all is well for the ladies who were unable to choose.

Thanks, ladies!

Echoing that prayer.

Thank you Kate, Annette and Andrea!

I will be reading

I’m in agreement with your prayers :)

Happy reading all

Kathi wrote: "Loraine, I haven't read your books. This is what I selected:


I picked: Sorry it took me a few days to respond, but I am recovering from Total Knee Replacement surgery.

My choices for you are:

Kathi, please give Loraine's choices precedence over mine. 😊

Loraine I will pick and I will read it later. Hope you are recovering well.

I read and really enjoyed it! Thank you, Karen!

Hope the recovery is going well so far, Loraine!

Kate, I finished reading and enjoyed it. It was definitely suspenseful!