The Next Best Book Club discussion

Start: August 1, 2013
*Any book that you finish after this date can be used for this challenge.
End: November 30, 2013

1. To have read a book off a shelf, you must read a book that is found on that particular shelf. i.e. to have read a book off the classics shelf, you must read a book that is found on the "classics" shelf within the first page.

Here is how you find the page:
- Find the book you just read and click on it so you get to the original page. For example: Pride and Prejudice
- After you get to this page, look all the way to the right hand side and scroll down a little to find "See Top Shelves", click on it and you should get to this page which is a list of the most popular shelves for Pride and Prejudice. Now you mark off the shelves you you "touched" from our list of Shelf-a-Thon 16 shelves.

2. A single book may be found on several shelves however we will only count the first page of top shelves for this book. For example, you may find a book that has 148+ pages of shelves (such as Pride and Prejudice), but only count the first page.

3. You don’t have to read off the shelves in any particular order of shelves.

4. The name of shelves must MATCH EXACTLY to the shelf you are trying to count. No deviations are acceptable (check the spelling off the official list below). For example one shelf reads: 2011-read and another 2011-reads or childrens or children-s.

5. It is permissible to read a book that is found on a shelf you've already counted. I may read 10 books that include the shelf "books-i-own". After you have found this shelf once, continue to check off the same shelf, but do not count it as an additional shelf. At the end of the round, report the shelf you hit the most.

6. Reporting:
All we want you to report on the thread is the number of books you've read and the number of shelves these books are found on. Do not report titles because that will give your competitors a strategic edge. I will be creating a another thread where people can post questions on where to find a shelf. So if someone is looking specifically for economics, they can ask other players where they found that shelf. Some of us would like to keep this a secret, as it may give the competitors who are trying to get the most shelves more of an advantage.

For example:
52 shelves
2 books

You must track the titles read and the shelves on your own. You can come up with your own method of tracking. I personally print the list and highlight the shelves I have hit, but someone out there may have made a excel spreadsheet, which can be requested by other players via email.

7. HOW DO I GET RID OF SHELVES I CAN'T TOUCH??
If you read a book with a certain amount of pages, you can cross off a shelf you are finding difficult to hit. If you cross off a shelf and later hit it, you cannot change your original shelf. You must choose another shelf to cross off.

* If a book has 400-499 pages - Mark off 1 extra shelf of your choice
* If a book has 500-599 pages - Mark off 2 extra shelves of your choice
* If a book has 600-699 pages - Mark off 3 extra shelves of your choice
* For more than 700 pages - Mark off 4 extra shelves of your choice

Please include this in your reporting.

For example:
216 shelves
23 books
Book over 400 pages, crossed off so and so shelf.

8. At the end of the first month, the top three shelvers will be allowed to cross off 3 shelves. I will also randomly (names out of a hat) pick 3 people to cross off 2 shelves of their choice. At the end of the second month, the shelvers with the biggest change in their number of shelves will be allowed to cross off 3 shelves. I will also do the 3 random shelvers thing again.

9. We will continue to celebrate GR authors, so if you read a book by a Goodreads author, you can eliminate one shelf. Again, this information should be included in your reporting.

For example:
102 shelves
5 books
Book by a Goodreads author, crossed off so and so shelf.

10. Objective
The "winner" is one who has either read off all 350 shelves noted on the official list or who has read the most off these 350 shelves by the end date, November 30th.

*Also, please post the shelf you 'touched' the most at the end of the challenge.

**This is still Angela's challenge, I can do it for Round 17 but if someone else wants to take over, please let me know. I was just trying to keep it going until she's was ready to take charge again.
~Rebecca

Shelf-a-Thon 17 Shelves


1
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
1001-books
2011-reads
2012-books
2012-read
2012-reads
2013-books
2013-challenge
2013-read
2013-reading-challenge
2013-reads
20th-century
3-stars
4-star
4-stars
5-star
5-stars
abandoned
action
action-adventure
adult
adult-fiction
adventure
all
all-time-favorites
already-read
american
and
animals
arc
art
at-library
audible
audio
audiobook
audio-book
audiobooks
audio-books
available
bdsm
biography
book
bookclub
book-club
books
bookshelf
books-i-have
‪books-i-own‬
books-i-want
books-read-in-2013
books-to-buy
borrowed
bought
british
business
buy
calibre
chick-lit
childhood
children
childrens
children-s
childrens-books
children-s-books
christian
christian-fiction
classic
classics
collection
college
comedy
comics
coming-of-age
coming-soon
contempor​ary
contemporary-fiction
contemporary-romance
couldn-t-finish
crime
currently-reading
daddy-dark-s-baby-warrior-list
dark
death
default
did-not-finish
didn-t-finish
dnf
done
do-not-own
downloaded
drama
dystopia
dystopian
ebook
e-book
ebooks
e-books
ebooks-i-own
england
english
epub
epubs
erotic
erotica
europe
family
fantasy
fantasy-sci-fi
faves
favorite
favorite-authors
favorite-books
favorites
favourite
favourites
favs
fiction
fiction-to-read
finished
first-in-series
first-reads
for-review
free
freebie
freebies
friendship
fun
funny
gave-up-on
general
general-fiction
giveaways
graphic-novel
graphic-novels
hardcover
have
have-read
high-school
historical
historical-fiction
historical-romance
history
home
home-library
horror
humor
humour
in
in-english
in-my-library
interesting
‪‪i-own‬‬
i-own-it
ipad
juvenile
kids
kindle
kindle-book
kindle-books
kindle-lendable
kindle-to-read
kobo
lendable
library
library-book
library-books
literary
literary-fiction
literature
looks-interesting
love
loved
loved-it
magic
manga
maybe
maybe-read
meh
memoir
might-read
mine
misc
mm
m-m
modern
modern-fiction
music
must-read
must-reads
my-books
my-bookshelf
my-ebooks
my-favorites
my-library
mysteries
mystery
mystery-suspense
mystery-thriller
mythology
need
need-to-buy
need-to-get
netgalley
never-finished
new
new-adult
‪next
next-to-read
next-up
nonfiction
non-fiction
nook
nook-books
not-interested
not-out-yet
not-owned
not-read
not-yet-released
novel
novels
on-deck
on-hold
on-kindle
on-my-bookshelf
on-my-kindle
on-my-shelf
on-the-shelf
other
own
own-a-copy
own-but-haven-t-read
own-but-not-read
own-ebook
owned
owned-books
owned-not-read
owned-to-read
own-it
own-kindle
own-not-read
own-tbr
own-to-read
own-unread
paperback
paranormal
paranormal-romance
part-of-a-series
personal-library
philosophy
picture-books
poetry
politics
print
psychology
purchased
random
read-2010
read-2011
read-2012
read-2013
read-again
read-in-2009
read-in-2010
read-in-2011
read-in-2012
read-in-2013
read-in-english
read-more-than-once
read-next
realistic-fiction
really-want-to-read
recommended
reference
relationships
religion
reread
re-read
review
reviewed
romance
scanned
school
science
science-fiction
scifi
sci-fi
sci-fi-fantasy
series
sf
short-stories
short-story
stand-alone
started
stories
summer-2013
summer-reading
supernatural
suspense
tbr
tbr-pile
teen
thriller
thrillers
to-be-read
to-be-released
to-buy
to-get
to-purchase
to-read
to-read-2013
to-read-ebook
to-read-fiction
to-read-next
to-read-own
to-read-owned
to-read-soon
to-reread
to-re-read
to-review
travel
unfinished
unowned
unread
unsorted
up-next
urban-fantasy
vampire
vampires
waiting-to-be-read
want
wanted
want-to-buy
want-to-own
want-to-read
war
will-not-read
wishlist
wish-list
women
ya
ya-fiction
young-adult

Things will be up shortly - I apologize for the delay.

We can now start crossing off those shelves. Remember any book read as of August 1st will count. Good luck!

Thank you Rebecca for keeping this going :) I am going to participate this round!

Angela wrote: "Thank you Rebecca for keeping this going :) I am going to participate this round!"

Yay!! Glad to have you back.

My printer is not working, so I just wrote all the shelves...lol! Daddy-darks-baby-warrior-list??? How some of the shelves have changed!