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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!

Please select 3-4 books from my Hidden Gems shelf.

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Please choose 3-4 books from my hidden gems shelf.

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Please choose several from my hidden gems shelf
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I'm in! Please choose 3-4 books from my "Temp Read Soon" list:
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I'm in! Please give me at least 2 options from my 2024-hg shelf: /review/list...

I’m in. Please select 2-3 from my hidden gems shelf.

I'm in!

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

Please select 3-4 from any of these shelves:

To Read
To buy or borrow
To read kindle free
Reading next

I'm in! Please choose 3-4 from my hidden gems shelf:

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I'm in. Please pick 3-4 books from my books for summer trip shelf:

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I'm in. Please pick 3-4 books from my hidden gems shelf:

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I'm in.

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I’m in! Please pick 3-4 from the following shelf’s

My Hidden Gems Shelf

My 2024 TBR Shelf

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

Here are this month's matchups. Hope you find some good books to read!

Kate (7) - Reagan (11)
Annette (4) - Lisa (14)
Michelle (2) - Charlene (15)
Staci (9) - Sarita (10)
Brittany (6) - Missy (8)
Karen (12) - Bridget (5)
Loraine (13) - Evangelise Rose (3)

Reagan, you've got some good ones on your list, but I've come up with the following 4 suggestions for July's Hidden Gem for you:
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Sound of Light
All That Really Matters
Mending Fences

Hi Lisa�.

I hope you enjoy one or more of these hidden gems I’ve chosen for you. I’ve read and enjoyed the first two and the third is on my TBR shelf.

Hello Charlene!
Here are 4 books I enjoyed reading. I hope one of these will be a great read for you!

Hi Missy,
Here are three choices for you:



Happy reading!

Hi Bridget,

I've only read two on your shelf and they were very good reads:
- I've recommended this to many folks
- this was my first Robin Lee Hatcher book and she hooked me

Additionally, here are 3 others that we both want to read:


I hope you find a great read from one of these.

Hi Michelle,

I have just started so this is my first pick, but I also hope to read

For you I pick:

Hope you enjoy the book you choose :)

I'm going to go with . My second pick is .

Thanks Karen,
I am going to go with

Here are my choices for you:


Enjoy!

Sarita selected for me:


I picked for her:


Happy reading all!

Brittany -

I have picked these for you to choose from:

, , and .

I am going to choose .

Evangelise Rose wrote: "Hi! I'd like my partner to choose 3-4 books from this list:




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Evangelise I had a difficult time picking books because I was not familiar with any of these authors. Hope you like my picks:
[bookcover:Stalks of Gold|56863232]

Annette,

I've read all of these and they are great



by Becky Wade

by Susan May Warren

by Michael Hingson

by Becca Kinzer

Lisa wrote: "Annette,

I've read all of these and they are great



by Becky Wade

by Susan May Warren
..."

Thank you Lisa. I’m gonna go with and possibly this one

Thanks, Bridget for your choices.

I'll go with either and/or

I ended up reading and liked it so much that I read it in one day! Thank you, Missy.

Brittany wrote: "I ended up reading and liked it so much that I read it in one day! Thank you, Missy."

I am glad you liked it. I have to finish one before I can start mine, but hoping to this weekend.

Kate,
Sorry it has taken me a while to get back to you. I just got back from a mission trip.

I will read

For you:

These are all on my TBR list

The Hiding Place is one of the best books I've ever read. I hope you enjoy it at least half as much as I did!
I'm going to go with Of Love and Treason . . . will give me a new-to-me author as well as a new release!

Kate wrote: "The Hiding Place is one of the best books I've ever read. I hope you enjoy it at least half as much as I did!
I'm going to go with Of Love and Treason [bookcover:Of Love and Treaso..."

I can't wait to read it! :)

Loraine wrote: "Evangelise Rose wrote: "Hi! I'd like my partner to choose 3-4 books from this list:



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Evangelise could you please pick choices for me as I am leaving on vacation in 4 days and will not have my computer with me. If I need to get the book from the library, I would like to be able to get it and take it with me on vacation. Thanks!

Loraine, here are some picks for you, in case Evangelise Rose isn't able to choose. If she is able to choose, disregard this message. :)

These are books by authors whose books I usually enjoy. Happy reading!

Andrea wrote: "Loraine, here are some picks for you, in case Evangelise Rose isn't able to choose. If she is able to choose, disregard this message. :)

These are books by authors whose books I usually enjoy. Ha..."

Thanks Andrea! I will choose

Evangelise Rose wrote: "And I’ll read the Lady Glass for my Hidden Gems pick. <3"

I will read .

I finished reading . I definitely enjoyed reading it. Thank you Charlene!

I finished and enjoyed it. Thanks Bridget for your pick - it also gave me another new author.

I am glad you enjoyed it, Karen.
I started and just couldn't get into it. I am going to read instead.

Evangelise Rose, summer has been packed and busy for a lot of people this year. I hope you enjoyed your travels and VBS!

I completed

� by Deborah Raney - 7/25/24 HIGHLY RECOMMEND

Hoping to read
by Kim Cash Tate

Bridget wrote: "I am glad you enjoyed it, Karen.
I started and just couldn't get into it. I am going to read instead."

I loved I Hope You Dance

I finished . It's a very good story. The end of life stage is well described and realistic. Thank you Charlene for choosing it.

Hi Lisa.

Thanks much for the hidden gems picks for me. I finished the two I was hoping to read and enjoyed them bothâž–âž–

7/21 and 7/24

I finished (7/27/24). Thanks Karen!

I finished my hidden gem:

Reagan, I finished Of Love and Treason last night and quite enjoyed it. Thank you for choosing it for me!