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TBR Jar - 2019
How to Participate1. Post here telling the Challenge Leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active. You must choose a goal for the challenge.
2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress.
---Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed every time you post an update. The Challenge Leader is not able to keep track for you because of the number of participants in the challenge.
3. Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the Challenge Leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.
Example:
message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!
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Participants
updated 23 December with the help of fellow mod, oshizu.
Abbie 0/52
� Adriana 4/4
Alicja 1/30
� Alisia 13/10
Alison 1/30
Allie//Kitasal 25/36
Amanda (msg 117) 0/10
Amanda (msg 132) 0/12
Ambwitch 6/12
Amy (Other Amy) 0/52
Anchita 0/10
Anissa 0/10
Ann 11/12
Anna 0/10
� AnnaG 24/24
Anne Hawn 6/12
Annie 4/5
� April 10/10
Ashley 6/10
Ashly 0/12
Auntie Terror 10/11
Beverly 26/30
Bmarieb27 9/30
bookescape 3/12
Britain 4/10
Brittany 6/10
� Carmen 114/100
Carri 0/25
Carrie 0/10
Cassandra 0/10
Catherine 21/25
Charity 8/15
Chrissy 15/24
Christine 57/87
Cindy III 0/50
Claire (msg 18) 2/12
Claire (msg 166) 1/12
Clem 0/20
Crazyasacupcake 0/24
Crystal 11/12
Darlene 0/10
� Debra 24/24
Dee 0/24
Den 5/12
Disha 5/12
Doris 0/12
Eden 0/59
Elaine 1/24
Elisa 1/5
Emily 0/25
Emma 0/12
Erica� 0/12
Erin (msg 13) 8/40
Erin (msg 210) 0/13
� Evelien 28/12
frugalitymom 0/20
Georgina 0/12
Greer 1/10
Greg 16/30
Gretchen 4/10
Haley 6/8
Haoyi 0/26
Hardcover Harlot 20/50
Heather 0/12
Heli 9/10
Honor 0/24
Hope 2/20
Ida 0/6
Jacs 0/25
Jayden 0/12
Jen 0/12
Jenn 13/20
Jennifer 5/24
Jessica (msg 6) 0/120
Jessica (msg 126) 0/25
Jocelyn 0/12
Jordynn 0/5
� Joy D 12/12
Julie 10/12
Kadijah Michelle 0/20
Kara 0/24
Karina 0/24
Kate 1/5
Katherine 13/30
Kelll 4/25
Kelly (msg 31) 0/40
Kelly (msg 97) 0/12
Kristin 3/40
Kristy 32/41
Kylie 0/10
Kyra 0/5
Laura (msg 35) 20/50
Laura (msg 108) 0/24
Laura (msg 125) 0/20
Leslie 3/36
Lindsay 20/24
Lois 1/20
Lorraine 13/40
Magic_Demigod 0/5
Mani 4/12
Margie 9/12
Martha 15/25
matilde 1/12
� Maureen 20/20
Megan BG 7/16
Meghan 0/12
� Michelle 5/5
Monica 42/60
Moriah 0/12
Nat 10/20
Natalie 0/12
� Nethra 10/10
Nikki 13/20
� Nisanka 22/22
Nori 0/20
Olivia 3/12
� oshizu 12/12
Paula 0/18
� Rachael 12/12
Rachel (msg 54) 0/10
Rachel (msg 131) 1/10
Rebecca 0/10
Rebekah 0/25
Renee 1/12
Rina 21/30
Sakchhi 0/52
Samantha 0/20
SANDYE 0/10
Sara 2/10
� Sarah (msg 72) 16/16
Sarah (msg 234) 2/20
Sarah c 5/10
SarahKat 9/12
Satin 0/5
Shahana 10/15
Sherry 0/10
Steph 0/12
Susan 0/10
� Susan C 20/20
� Susan (dalmatian 21) 12/12
Suzanne 0/10
Tee 3/12
TM 0/50
Trudy 0/10
Tulika 0/24
Valerie 0/12
Vanessa 21/50
Wayne 3/20
Wolf (Alpha) 0/200
� Ziggy 24/24
I'd like to join the TBR Jar challenge again. I'd like to read 25 to start. 16/25
Here are 25 of the books on my TBR shelf I've been wanting to read the most. I'll draw 2 books from a jar every month.
1. A Gentleman in Moscow� 5/31/2019
2. The Time in Between� 6/30/2019
3. Everyone Brave is Forgiven� 12/11/2019
4. We Were the Lucky Ones� 1/22/2019
5. The Weight of Ink � 2/13/2019
6. The Mars Room
7. The Summer Before the War
8. The Invisible Library� 12/23/2019
9. Eating Animals� 8/27/2019
10. A Little Life
11. Pachinko� 6/7/2019
12. Boy's Life
13. The Heart's Invisible Furies� 3/26/2019
14. Scythe� 6/9/2019
15. Song of Solomon� 4/15/2019
16. The Makioka Sisters
17. 11/22/63
18. Independent People� 8/19/2019
19. Relic
20. A Darker Shade of Magic� 9/1/2019
21. Fingersmith � 1/17/19
22. Prodigal Summer
23. No One Is Here Except All of Us� 6/13/19
24. The Bronze Horseman
25. Love Medicine� 10/20/2019
I'm in for 12 to start. One per month1. A.D.: After Death
2. All-Star Batman, Volume 3: The First Ally
3. Beautiful You
4. The Flash, Vol. 1: Move Forward
5. Gregor the Overlander
6. I Am Watching You
9. Strange the Dreamer
10. The Dead and the Gone
11. Truly Madly Guilty
12. Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
I think I’ll try this one again - I did the TBR randomizer in 2017, and it got me to read a bunch of stuff that might have not been prioritized otherwise. I will not hold myself to reading them in order, since I expect there will be overlap with AtY (which I am reading in order) and issues getting some books quickly from the library. I will commit to 24:
✔️1. A River of Stars June 14, ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud Jan 7, ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. Red Azalea Dec 16, ⭐️⭐️
4. The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
✔️5. The City of Brass Jan 26, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️6. An Age of License: A Travelogue Jan 5, ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. Hopscotch
✔️8. Refugee Aug 17, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. Some Sing, Some Cry
✔️10. Robopocalypse Apr 23, ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️11. The Silence of the Girls Mar 31, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️12. Faces in the Crowd Sept 27, ⭐️
✔️13. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns Apr 16, ⭐️⭐️⭐️
14. A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark
15. The Immortality Chronicles
✔️16. Speak Easy, Speak Love February 4, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️17. Medicine Walk September 9, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️18. The 57 Bus May 31, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️19. Catfish and Mandala December 17, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️20. Eight Flavors
✔️21. Maud August 1, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️22. Sabine's Notebook June 16, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
23. The Terracotta Bride
✔️24. Martin Marten May 12, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm in for 120. Ten a monthJanuary Books
1. Taken at Dusk
2. Hush, Hush
3. Leviathan
4. Passenger
5. The Iron King
6. Marked
7. Delicate Freakn' Flower
8. Fireblood
9. Anna Dressed in Blood
10. Into the Drowning Deep
11/123. Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power DNF
11. The Beast's Heart
April 22: I'm withdrawing from this challenge, as I have so little time to read with my new job and school.
I'm going to aim for 12 books too.This is my random list:
� The Sword of Summer finished 14 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
� Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor: Four Stories from the TARDIS finished 6 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
� Good Friday finished 24 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
� The Book of Life finished 3 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
� The Iron King finished 13 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
� The Word Is Murder finished 15 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
� The Tempest finished 2 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐� with review
� Fly by Night finished 3 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
� Now We Are Dead finished 22 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
�The Girl of Ink and Stars finished 22 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
� A Court of Thorns and Roses finished 19 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
� White Cat finished 18 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
COMPLETED: 12/12
I will going for 10 5/101, The Forgotten Ones
2, Tips for Living 25/5/19
3, The Extraditionist
4, The Devil Wears Scrubs
5, Distress Signals 29/9/19
6, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay 22/8/19
7, Lucky Escape
8, Girl Alone 20/9/19
9, Filthy Shades of Gray 25/9/19
10, Primed By The Past
I will set my goal for 40. I am going to use the ŷ random sort order to generate my list as I go.
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� 2. The Paper Magician
� 3. Eragon
� 4. The Great St Mary's Day Out
� 5. The Nix
� 6. Before We Were Yours
� 7. My Name is Markham
� 8. And the Rest is History
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Since this will really help me clear my shelves, I'm going to give this a try. Using the randomizer on my "to read" list, I will go for 30. If and when I finish those I may add to the list. I have the perfect picking jar somewhere in my house and when I find it...hopefully by the first of the year...I will use it!! 30/30First set of randomized picks...not necessarily in this order:
1. Alligators Overhead FINISHED 9/19
2. My Mr. Rochester FINISHED 10/10
3. Horror Stories from Denmark Box set FINISHED 9/13
4. Adrienne's Ghost FINISHED 10/15
5. Sisters of the Raven FINISHED 11/30
6. Someone's Daughter FINISHED 9/29
7. Exodus Lost FINISHED 4/17
8. Miss Buncle's Book FINISHED 10/31
9. Rushed FINISHED 3/19
10. As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece FINISHED 11/20
11. Fellside FINISHED 11/7
12. Before and After FINISHED 12/31
13. Death in West Wheeling FINISHED 12/29
14. Corelli's Mandolin FINISHED 10/29
15. The Mask of the Enchantress FINISHED 12/24
16. Brat Farrar FINISHED 9/6
17. All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane FINISHED 10/8
18. A Slice of Life FINISHED 10/3
19. Willnot FINISHED 1/13
20. The Secrets of Wishtide FINISHED 11/12
21. The French Lieutenant's Woman FINISHED 12/3
22. World's End FINISHED 11/26
23. Murder in Her Stocking FINISHED 2/22
24. Let Me Lie FINISHED 10/31
25. Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker FINISHED 11/22
26. One Half from the East FINISHED 9/24
27. Just Desserts FINISHED 3/12
28. Northanger Abbey FINISHED 12/28
29. Éclair and Present Danger FINISHED 12/7
30. Just What Kind of Mother Are You? FINISHED 11/8
I think I’m going to make a Star Jar this year to clear off some of the back log on my shelves. I will aim for 15 to start. 9/15
1. Replica by Lauren Oliver 1/13/19
2. Dorothy Must Dieby Danielle Paige 1/28/19
3. The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle 2/1/19
4. The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder 2/3/19
5. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy 3/2/19
6. Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker 3/30/19
7. Marlena by Julie Buntin 5/5/19
8. Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes 11/8/19
9. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini 12/31/19
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It just occurred to me that with my 5 face to face reading groups that I belong to, I most likely will end up having to read other TBR books that did not come from the randomizer...is it OK to just add those on to my list?
I wish to join for 12 books.I'm new to this challenge and made a random list before I was done choosing books for 2019. I've since re-randomized my 2019-tbr shelf on GoodReads, then created a new 2019-tbrjar shelf.
Progress: 12/12 (Completed 16 Jul)
✔️1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
✔️2. Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
✔️3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
✔️4. The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
✔️5. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (Elizabeth Catte)
✔️6. An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)
✔️7. The Briefcase (Hiromi Kawakami)
✔️8. Go (Kazuki Kaneshiro)
✔️9. A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
✔️10. Under the Midnight Sun (Keigo Higashino)
✔️11. Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimananda Ngozi Adichie)
✔️12. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Michael Pollan)
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This worked very well for me in 2018, so I'm ging to give it another go in 2019. Once again, I'll shoot for one a month, so I'm in for 12:1. May We Waken One by One
2. The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir
3. Ohio Triangle
4. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
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6. Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
7. The Forgotten: Aten's Last Queen
8. Alone in Antarctica: The First Woman To Ski Solo Across The Southern Ice
9. The Secret of Raven Point
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11. The Able Seaman's Mate
12. The Dreaming Fire
2/12 complete
I set up a TBR Jar for this challenge. I plan to pick a read if I'm done with my monthly TBR books or I have nothing to read on hand so I'm only going for four books but hopefully I can do more. We will see how the year progresses.
I would like to joint with 12 books.0/12
1. Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks by Trevor Baxendale
2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
4. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
6. Tales From A Bondi Vet by Chris Brown
7. Sea Witch by Sarah Henning
8. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
9. Stories For Bedtime by Enid Blyton
10. Girl Detective By R.A. Spratt
11. Panic by Lauren Oliver
12. Tales To Give You Goosebumps: 10 Spooky Stories by R.L. Stine
I'll do Read Harder when it's posted, so count me in for 24.
I am in for 50TBR Jar 2019
Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2019
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I am going to put 15 into a jar, but my goal is to read one a month, for a total of 12 (that way, when I pull a title in November or December, it will still be a surprise!)My 15 possible reads are:
1. Mata Hari's Last Dance
2. The Horse Dancer
3. Drink, Slay, Love
4. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
5. The Vow
6. Twenties Girl
7. For Whom the Bell Tolls
8. The Proposal
9. The Little Paris Bookshop
10. Fangirl
11. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
12. The Littlest Bigfoot
13. Small Great Things
14. They Both Die at the End
15. Nightbooks
My goal is 6 physical books I own, 4 books from the Great American Read (not including the physical or ebooks that I picked for this challenge), and 6 ebooks I own.5/6 physical
2/4 GAR
0/6 ebooks
7/16 total
6. White Fang (physical)
8. The Martian (GAR)
10. The Clan of the Cave Bear (GAR)
11. The Boyfriend Thief (ebook)
12. The Letters of Jane Austen (ebook)
13. Matchmaking for Beginners (ebook)
14. Heads or Tails (ebook)
15. Anna Karenina (ebook)
16. Wuthering Heights (ebook)
Beverly wrote: "It just occurred to me that with my 5 face to face reading groups that I belong to, I most likely will end up having to read other TBR books that did not come from the randomizer...is it OK to just..."You can add them if you want. I will put your goal as 30 for now.
Welcome to everyone! I am just updating you all now.
I'm in for 12 to start c:Note: Will choose by the randomizer closer to January 1st.
I will read 12 books, not necessarily in the order listed.Challenge Completed 6/26/19
Read: 12/12
(books completed are checked (�) and bolded below:
Selected by GR Randomizer:
�1. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides - completed 1/15/19 - 5 stars - My Review
�2. Caraval by Stephanie Garber - completed 2/5/19 - 4 stars - My Review
�3. And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life by Jane Christmas - completed 4/5/19 - 4 stars - My Review
�4. We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt - completed 2/2/19 - 2 stars - My Review
�5. The Address by Fiona Davis - completed 6/1/19 - 2 stars - My Review
�6. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande - completed 2/9/19 - 4 stars - My Review
�7. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer - completed 5/1/19 - 4 stars - My Review
�8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - completed 4/22/19 - 4 stars - My Review
�9. The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker - completed 3/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review
�10. The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder - completed 5/8/19 - 4 stars - My Review
�11. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher - completed 6/26/19 - 3 stars - My Review
�12. Without a Country by Ayşe Kulin - completed 2/10/19 - 3 stars - My Review
I am going to shoot for 12; one a month. I rather like Meghan’s idea of having more than 12 in my jar and pulling one at a time. Unfortunately, I couldn’t cut my list down lower, so I’ll have 20 titles in my TBR jar. Who knows, maybe I can make it through all 20. 1. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
2. Eragon
3. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen
4. The Girl of Ink and Stars
5. Gone Girl
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
8. Miss Buncle's Book
9. Scrappy Little Nobody
10. Thirteen Reasons Why
11. Waiting for Unicorns
12. Ensnared
13. The Cruel Prince
14. The Song of Achilles
15. The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder
16. The Handmaid's Tale
17. Magic in the Wind
18. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
19. The Darkest Minds
20. Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner
Happy Reading All!
JANUARY: Eragon - Completed Jan 19
FEBRUARY: Thirteen Reasons Why - Completed Feb 16
MARCH: Fairest Of All - Completed Mar 18
APRIL:
3/12
Id like to do the TBR challenge. Please put me down for 40. Thank you!
I'd like to join this challenge. Please put me down for 20 books. Thank you.
I will go for 24 please.20/24
December
�24 Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein
23 Cabin Fever: The sizzling secrets of a Virgin air hostess...
November
22 A Stolen Life
21 Alice
October
20 The Killing
�19 Never Let Me Go
September
�18 Heaven
�17 The Daughter of the Night
August
�16 Flowers for Algernon
�15 The Book of Beasts
July
�14 The History of Bees
�13 The Power
June
�12 Like Water for Chocolate
�11 Trains and Lovers
May
�10 600 Hours of Edward
�9 Treasure Island
April
�8 Till the Fat Lady Slims
�7 Lessons I've Learned
March
�6 Homegoing
�5 Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate
February
�4 Lily's House
�3 Purge
January
�2 3,096 Days
�1 Wonder
My absolute favorite, so glad it's back! I am going to go for 50, but I'll randomize in groups of 10 because it's so much fun not knowing what I'm going to get!Total Progress: 20/50
First 10:
✔️1.How To Be a Heroine - Jan. 26, 2019
✔️2.Fake Plastic Love - Jan. 27, 2019
✔️3.Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History - Jan. 31, 2019
✔️4.Twist of Faith - Jan. 23, 2019
✔️5.Flowers for Algernon - Jan. 19, 2019
✔️6.Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel - Jan. 13, 2019
✔️7.Eight Hundred Grapes - Feb. 5, 2019
✔️8.The Accidental - Feb. 24, 2019
✔️9.Lesson Plans - Jan. 20, 2019
✔️10.Unwifeable: A Memoir - Feb. 10, 2019
First 10 completed! For my next 10, I'm randomizing from the list I've been working off of for awhile of the Top 100 books in my TBR list by position (so, the oldest ones in terms of when I've added them). I have been picking at the list for a year or so, so it's down to 64 titles. My next 10 on the TBR challenge will be these:
✔️1. Remember Me Like This - Apr. 3, 2019
✔️2. The Forever Marriage - Mar. 30, 2019
✔️3. The Word Exchange - Apr. 14, 2019
✔️4. The Humans - June 26, 2019
✔️5. May We Be Forgiven - May 14, 2019
✔️6. Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke - Mar. 10, 2019
✔️7. The Rachel Papers - May 19, 2019
✔️8. I'd Know You Anywhere - Mar. 23, 2019
✔️9. If I Fall, If I Die - May 17, 2019
✔️10. A Midsummer's Nightmare - Mar. 17, 2019
I've generated my next 10 TBR based on books I own but haven't read yet, which is a shamefully high number.
1. Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women
2. Skeleton Crew
3. Handle with Care
4. On Beauty
5. Hausfrau
6. Invisible Man
7. The House on Mango Street
8. American Appetites
9. Atonement
10. And When She Was Good
I am in for 243.The Continent
4.Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
5.Bound Before the Morrow
6.Dorothy Must Die
8.The Secret Life Of CeeCee Wilkes
9.Watchers
10.Miracle Cure
11.American Midnight
12.Daughter of Smoke & Bone
13.The Birthgrave
14.A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost
15.The Same River
16.Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
18.Midwives
19.The Haunting of Hill House
20.Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
21.The Raven Boys
22.In the Blood
23.Silence for the Dead
This is the first time I'm doing this challenge and I'm going to go for 12 book in total (one book a month)I have already picked the books from my TBR Jar that I made last year, but have never used until now.
Here are the books I plan to read
1. Lullaby
2. The Unremembered Girl
3. Into the Water
4. The Two Towers
5. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
6. Blue Dog
7. The Fault in Our Stars
8. Origin
9. Who We Were Before
10. Doctor Sleep
11. Sleeping Beauties
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Happy Reading everyone!!!
I am so excited to participate in this. For the scoreboard, feel free to use Emily W. or Mcquaid. I will go for 25 books pulled from a jar.
1. Affinity - Sarah Waters
2. The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
3. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
4. The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
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I'm sooo in for this challenge, I'm excited to get my read on. I will go for 12 from my To Read list.Challenge Completed 7/14/2019
Evelien's TBR Jar:
� 1. The Cuckoo's Calling, Vol. 1 by Robert Galbraith
� 2. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
� 3. The Arrangement by Sonya Lalli
� 4. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
� 5. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
� 6. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
� 7. Eve of Man by Giovanna Fletcher
� 8. Even If I Fall by Abigail Johnson
� 9. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
� 10. Tomboy by Avery Flynn
� 11. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
� 12. By the Book by Julia Sonneborn
� 13. Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
� 14. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
� 15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
� 16. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
� 17. The Rose and the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh
� 18. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
� 19. Jackaby by William Ritter
� 20. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
� 21. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
� 22. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
� 23. Intercepted by Alexa Martin
� 24. Fumbled by Alexa Martin
� 25. Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
� 26. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
� 27.The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
� 28.The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Message 14 updated, /28 of 12 books read
Goal of 20, readjusted from 3013/20
5. Grave Mercy
7. A Court of Thorns and Roses
8. The Chemist
9. Magonia
11. Jurassic Park
12. UnHappenings
13. The Seventh Bride
14. The 100
16. Sleeping Giants
19. Firstlife
20. A Darker Shade of Magic
21. Illuminae
23. White is for Witching
24. Wintergirls
25. Red Rising
26. The Bookseller
27. Forbidden
i will use my husband to be my randomiser,as i keep my kindle books in collections of the month and year i download them i will get him to choose a year,then a page within the collection and then a book.I'm was going for 12,but this may change,i've upped my total to 40.
13/40
January
June 2012
September 2014
January 2015
August 2015
August 2016
September 2017
December 2017
December 2017
December 2017
December 2017
December 2017
January 2018
May 2018
I'm in for 12 - one per month. Picked from my TBR jar.1. The Nest
2. The Great Alone
3. City on Fire
4. 11/22/63
5. What We Lose
6. The Wonder
7. The Female Persuasion
8. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
9. Circe
10. Homegoing
11. Salt: A World History
12. A History of Loneliness
I’m in for 20!6/20 completed
I originally picked randomized books from my TBR, hardly any of these were books that I actually own. As I have so many books that I already own and have not read I have decided to put all the books I own in print, audiobook, and ebook in a jar and redraw the this way. I just need to get through some of the books I already have.
1. The Hate U Give finished 2/20/2019
2. Xbestia: Book One Xenofreak Nation
3. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
4. High Fidelity finished 3/16/2019
5. It
6. Kulti finished 3/20/2019
7. Ribbon
8. On Cats
9. The Master and Margarita
10. Hogfather
11. Valley of the Dolls
12. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
13. The Dark City finished 2/12/2019
14. The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
15. Silent Night
16. Through the Woods finished 5/15/219
17. A Man Called Ove
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
19. To Make Monsters Out of Girls
20. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks finished 7/4/2019
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15.Raising the Phoenix3/18/19
16.Snatched9/26/19
17.Murder at Mistletoe Manor11/19/19
18.Avoiding Alpha7/17/19
19.Joyride4/4/19
20.Homecoming1/12/19
21.Murder of a Werewolf9/12/19
22.Murder at the Lighthouse8/12/19
23.Blood Lust10/24/19
24.Killing Time2/25/19
I'll go for 20 total. I'll pick 10 from the jar and 10 from the ŷ randomizer. Here are the random picks from ŷ:1. The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life (completed)
2. The Girl With All the Gifts
3. Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World (completed)
4. The Road to Character (completed)
5. This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live (completed)
6. The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch (completed)
7. Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
8. A Gentleman in Moscow (completed)
9. Unaccustomed Earth (completed)
10. What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (completed)
Completed jar picks:
Perfect Little World
Lonesome Dove
Swing Time
No Exit
I Still Dream About You
Megatech: Technology in 2050
A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity
The Pillars of the Earth
World Without End
I'm in for ✔TOTAL: 114/100
1. Message in a Bottle
2. The Sea of Monsters
3. Casino Royale
4. The Sugar Queen
5. The Space Between
6. The Handmaid's Tale
7. Duplicate Death
8. Lover Unbound
9. The Bridges Of Madison County
10. Hija de la fortuna
11. The Quilter's Apprentice
12. Something Borrowed
13. Something Blue
14. Ender's Game
15. In the Woods
16. The Likeness
17. The Time Traveler's Wife
18. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
19. Ready Player One
20. Lost Lake
21. All the Bright Places
22. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
23. Detection Unlimited
24. Catch-22
25. Canyons of Night
26. Sleepless in Manhattan
27. Sunset in Central Park
28. If I Stay
29. Honeymoon in Paris
30. The Girl You Left Behind
31. Turbulence
32. Turbulence: The Epilogue
33. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
34. The Mystery of the Blue Train
35. Flat-Out Matt
36. Wedding Night
37. The Graveyard Book
38. Wonder
39. El amor en los tiempos del cólera
40. Firefly Lane
41. Pet Sematary
42. Flight Behavior
43. They Do It With Mirrors
44. The Pianist
45. Life of Pi
46. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
47. Divine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood
48. Shine
49. Small Great Things
50. Her Royal Spyness
51. El arte de conducir bajo la lluvia
52. Tangled Extra Scenes
53. Holy Frigging Matrimony
54. The Rosie Project
55. The Sun Is Also a Star
56. The Turn of the Screw
57. The Thirty-Nine Steps
58. Peril at End House
59. The Big Four
60. Unos asesinatos muy reales
61. The Great Train Robbery
62. The Westing Game
63. Four to Score
64. High Five
65. Hot Six
66. Los chicos que cayeron en la trampa
67. Big Little Lies
68. Devil in a Blue Dress
69. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
70. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
71. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
72. Black Coffee: A Hercule Poirot Novel
73. Lady Of Quality
74. The White Queen
75. Orphan Train
76. Beloved
77. Out of Africa
78. Poirot Investigates
79. El mensaje que llegó en una botella
80. The Darkest Hour
81. No Place to Run
82. Burial Rites
83. Between Shades of Gray
84. Night
85. Doña Bárbara
86. Lolita
87. El cartero de Neruda
88. Into the Wild
89. Appointment with Death
90. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
91. The Joy Luck Club
92. The Night Circus
93. Heist Society
94. Smilla's Sense of Snow
95. Palmeras en la nieve
96. Wife by Wednesday
97. Murder in Mesopotamia
98. Me Before You
99. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
100. Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies
101. Partners in Crime
102. La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao
103. Todos los fuegos el fuego
104. Captains Courageous
105. Heart Of The Matter
106. All the King's Men
107. Baby Proof
108. Daisy's Back in Town
109. Crazy On You
110. Frederica
111. Cotillion
112. Once
113. Silent Spring
114. The Prisoner of Zenda
You mentioned in the intro to this group that you would love to see pictures of the jars we picked to put our slips in...I have my jar and would be happy to post a photo of it if you will tell me how to do that!!!
@Beverly: Go to your profile, click on "more fotos" below your avatar, find "upload more fotos" on the right of the page, upload the picture, copy the image location via right-clicking on the picture, include it in your post via HTML code. You can find the code in the "some HTML is OK" link above new posts. (This is via homepage, not app.)Hope this helps :-)
Auntie Terror wrote: "@Beverly: Go to your profile, click on "more fotos" below your avatar, find "upload more fotos" on the right of the page, upload the picture, copy the image location via right-clicking on the pictu..."Thank you so much....I'll be out of town today but will attempt to do this tomorrow!!! Keep your fingers crossed!
Welcome to you all! Between us, we have pledged nearly 1,000 books so far.Auntie Terror, thanks for posting about how to add photos. I hope it's useful to you - if need any more help, let me know :)
I'm in for 10. Picked from ŷ randomizer.1.The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
2. Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
3.The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
4.Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
5. The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
6.Black and British: A Forgotten History
7. Henry IV
8. The Churchills
9. Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
10.Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
Progress: O/10
Here goes...I have my Randomizer Jar (with a straw to stir up the slips of paper and here's a photo of it...Hope this works!!! :)
It did...I'm so impressed...thanks to Auntie Terror (who must not be one because she was so nice to help me). Anyway, this was originally a table decoration that I made for one of my Red Hat get togethers and I thought it would be great fun to use it for my "surprise" picks to read!!! The B, of course, stands for Beverly but this year it stands for "BOOKS"!
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Girl with All the Gifts (other topics)Yoga bitch: serieuze poging van een vrouw om scepsis, synisme en sigaretten te boven te komen op weg naar verlichting (other topics)
Stranger in a Strange Land (other topics)
Unaccustomed Earth (other topics)
This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Alina Jacobs (other topics)Debbie Macomber (other topics)
Anna DeStefano (other topics)
Bryan Mooney (other topics)
J.L. Heritage (other topics)
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Duration: January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
The TBR Randomizer challenge was the big winner of our 2019 Challenge Poll, so we are bringing it back! But this year, we are giving it a twist to allow even more members to enjoy this challenge!
This year, we are asking you to make a JAR to pull your book choices from, and we are asking you to be creative on how to make it!
You can go with the traditional TBR Randomizer Challenge, and let ŷ choose:
Step 1: Select the number of books you want to read for this challenge.
Step 2: Go to the “My Books� tab on the top of the ŷ Page.
Step 3: Bring up your “To-Read� shelf.
Step 4: On the bottom of the page in the middle, go to the “sort� field and select “Random.�
Step 5: ŷ will generate a random list of books for you.
OR, you can put your own list of TBR in the jar. Some examples are:
The (our group will not be hosting this as an official challenge this year).
Any you have been wanting to try.
A list of classics, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, nonfiction, and/or any other genre you have been dying to read.
You could even create your tasks and throw them in jar based on what you know you have on TBR list.
The best part of this challenge is you can even do a mix of all of the above and throw it all in the JAR and SHAKE.
Just let us know how many slips of paper are going in your jar!
We love how creative you all are, and would love to see the pictures of your jars!
Happy Reading!