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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 books from my Temp Read Soon Shelf. Most of these books are not Christian fiction this time around, however, they are sweet, clean romcoms that I want to read this year.

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I'm in! Please give me at least 2 options from my 2025-hg shelf: /review/list...

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

I'm in. Please choose several from my hidden gems shelf
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I'm in! Please select 2-4 books from my Hidden Gems shelf.

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I’m in. Please choose 3-4 books from this shelf.

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

I'm in. Please select 4-5 from either of these shelves:

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I'm in! Pick 4-5 from my Hidden Gems shelf!

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I'm in! Pick 3-4 from my Hidden Gems Shelf

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I’m in! 3-5 from my dare-to-dnf shelf:

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Welcome back, Hannah!

Glad to see so many jumping in to kick off the New Year!

I’m in - any 3-4 books on my shelves is open to pick

I’m in! Please pick 3-4 from any of the following shelves’s

My 2025 Must Read Shelf

My Hidden Gems Shelf

My 2025 TBR Shelf

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

I'll be in to even things out.
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Here are this month's matchups. Happy reading!

Annette (7) - Karen (9)
Reagan (10) - Missy (8)
Kate (3) - Sarita (15)
Charlene (16) - Michelle (6)
Bridget (5) - Hannah (12)
Loraine (11) - Brittany (2)
Staci (4) - Andrea (17)

Yay!

Bridget wrote: "I'm in. Please choose several from my hidden gems shelf
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You’ve got some good ones on your shelf! I see four that were solid five-star reads for me so here they are to pick from:

Charlene- There are several great options on your list! For you, I picked the following 4 books I've enjoyed:



Hope you find a new favorite!

Andrea selected for me:


I picked for her:


Happy reading all!

Sarita!
What a difficult choice to narrow it down to only 4, because you had several others on your TBR lists that were also 5 star reads for me!
These are my selections for you this month:
The Winter Rose
The Sound of Light
Hope Like Wildflowers
The Love Letter

Hi Loraine - My picks for you are the three suspense books I have read from your list & a Robin Lee Hatcher book that I haven't read, but sounds good:

(my top choice for you)
(also a great one, but these books should be read in order, so this one after Blind Spot)

Hi Annette,

I've only read one book on your shelf - - I enjoyed it.

My other choices for you are:

Hope you find an enjoyable read with one of these.

Hi Karen�.I’ve read only one book from your shelves which was a great read .

I haven’t read any of these but have enjoyed other books by these authors�

Canteen Dreams (on my tbr shelf)

You Can't Hurry Love

In Her Sights

I hope one or more is a winning read for you.

Karen wrote: "Hi Annette,

I've only read one book on your shelf - - I enjoyed it.

My other choices for you are:

Thank you Karen. In gonna read

Thank you Annette - I'm going with

Thanks Hannah!
I am going to go with


You have a lot of good ones to choose from.
Here are my picks for you:

Enjoy!

Missy,

Here are some books I've read and highly recommend!

Happy reading!

Bridget wrote: "Thanks Hannah!
I am going to go with


You have a lot of good ones to choose from.
Here are my picks for you:


Thanks! I’ll start with and see if I have time for any others! :)

Thanks Michelle. I will be reading

For you I pick

Hope you enjoy the book you pick

Thank you Charlene! I will go with and maybe .

Brittany wrote: "Hi Loraine - My picks for you are the three suspense books I have read from your list & a Robin Lee Hatcher book that I haven't read, but sounds good:

(my top choic..."

My choice Brittany is your top pick: Blind Spot

Your list was difficult for me as I have not read any of the books and am not familiar with any of the authors.

Thanks Kate, I will read

Hi Kate

My choices for you:

Thanks, Sarita! I'm going to go with Long Way Gone .
Happy Reading!

Thanks Loraine, I will probably read as this author is my author of the month in a different challenge.

Hi Regan -

Sorry I am late getting you your reads. For you I picked some books I enjoyed also. Hope you enjoy one of these too. Happy reading!

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I am going to choose

Missy wrote: "Hi Regan -

Sorry I am late getting you your reads. For you I picked some books I enjoyed also. Hope you enjoy one of these too. Happy reading!

, [bookcover..."

You're good! I am going to read [bookcover:With This Pledge|38915861]. Have a great week!

Hi Karen. I started reading my Hidden Gem right away and finished tonight . I loved it…a 5-star read for me. Thanks much.

Annette wrote: "Hi Karen. I started reading my Hidden Gem right away and finished tonight . I loved it…a 5-star read for me. Thanks much."

Hi Annette, I'm so glad to hear that. Sounds like I need to move it up on my TBR list.

I hope to get mine read by this weekend.

Read and really liked

so glad you also liked it, Sarita!

I finished and loved it!

Sarita, I finished Long Way Gone just now and am a blubbering mess . . . SO good! My first 5-star read of the year!

Kate wrote: "Sarita, I finished Long Way Gone just now and am a blubbering mess . . . SO good! My first 5-star read of the year!"

Glad you loved it!

Bridget wrote: "Thanks Hannah!
I am going to go with


You have a lot of good ones to choose from.
Here are my picks for you

Finished . Five stars!

Hi Annette - I finished and loved it. Thanks for a great pick. I look forward to reading more of this series.