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                To-Read Weight Loss Challenge

To-read list obesity is a complex disorder involving an excessive amount of unread books. This isn't only an organizational concern. It increases your risk of unfinished series and harms your ability to read books you care about, such as romance, thriller or even historical.

Being extremely book obese means you are especially likely to have unread books on your list.

The good news is that even modest to-read book loss can improve or prevent the problems associated with book obesity. Browsing changes, increased reading activity and behavior changes can help you lose to-read books. Prescription medications and weight-loss surgery will probably not help treating book obesity.

Cure your to-read list obesity today!

Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count
2) List your desired end to-read book count
3) Choose a diet method
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

Duration: Open

Diets
Atkins Diet (view spoiler)[
"Atkins low carb diet program uses a powerful life-time approach to successful weight loss."

This diet will focus your weight loss on a specific type of book which is great for people who have problems with a wide variety of to-read books.

1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
3) Read!
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The Zone Diet (view spoiler)[
"The Zone Diet aims for a nutritional balance of 40% carbohydrates, 30% fats, and 30% protein each time we eat. The focus is also on controlling insulin levels, which result in more successful weight loss and body weight control."

This diet is a more balanced approach that spreads the weight loss to various issues in your to-read list.

1) Choose one genre of book that you have on your to-read list.
2) Choose one series of book that you have on your to-read list.
3) Pick a number between 1 and 5.
4) Read at least 3 books from your to-read list in the genre selected.
5) Read the rest of the series of the series you have selected (that have been released.)
6) Read 2 books on your to-read list that have X hundred pages based on the number you selected. (e.g. If you selected 3, you would read 300-399 page books).
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Vegetarian Diet (view spoiler)[
"The term vegetarian generally means a person who does not consume animal products; this includes land and sea animals. Most vegetarians generally do consume eggs and dairy products (milk products)."

This diet helps you eliminate animal books from your to-read list.

1) Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals. (Your definition of "animal" may vary.)
2) Read!
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Weight Watchers Diet (view spoiler)[
"Weight Watchers focuses on losing weight through diet, exercise, and a support network."

This diet helps you lose to-read weight with the help of others.

1) Select 3 books from your to-read list that have buddy reads.
2) Read along with your buddies!
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South Beach Diet (view spoiler)[
"The South Beach Diet focuses on the control of insulin levels, and the benefits of unrefined slow carbohydrates versus fast carbs."

This diet helps reduce the bulk of your to-read list while allowing lots of greens.

1) Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
2) Read!
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Raw Food Diet (view spoiler)[
"The Raw Food Diet, or Raw Foodism, involves consuming foods and drinks which are not processed, are completely plant-based, and ideally organic."

This diet will help you process non-processed books in your to-read list.

1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors who self-publish or have less than 2 published books.
2) Read!
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Mediterranean Diet (view spoiler)[
"The Mediterranean Diet is Southern European, and more specifically focuses on the nutritional habits of the people of Crete, Greece, and southern Italy. Nowadays, Spain, southern France, and Portugal are also included; even though Portugal does not touch the Mediterranean Sea."

This diet focuses on eating healthy from regions that may not be your own.

1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors born in countries other than your own.
2) Read!
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Banana Diet (view spoiler)[
"The Morning Banana Diet is a weight loss diet. It was popular in Japan in 2008, causing shortages of bananas in food stores. The diet plan allows consumption of unlimited bananas with room temperature water or a serving of milk for breakfast."

This diet plan picks a very random grouping of books to eliminate.

1) Pick a random letter of the alphabet - link
2) Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter. (Or all books if there are less than 5.)
3) Read!
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The Sleeping Beauty Diet (view spoiler)[
"Elvis was reputedly a fan of the Sleeping Beauty diet, which eschews sensible weight loss methods like eating less and exercising more in favour of simply sedating its followers for days at a time. After all, you can't eat burgers whie you're asleep, can you?"

This diet focuses on relaxing you while you sleep your way to weight loss.

1) Choose 3 books from your to-read list.
2) Listen to them in audio form!
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The Cabbage Soup Diet (view spoiler)[
"Popular with hardcore dieters for years, the Cabbage Soup Diet is a quick fix solution and considered by many to be a bit of a miracle that can help people lose up to10 pounds in a single week."

This diet helps you eliminate the freebies on your list.

1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
2) Read!
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Detox (view spoiler)[
"Drink plenty of water, detox water, lemon water, or try these caffeine-free drink ideas. Rest. Be sure to get enough sleep. Breathe and relax."

This diet helps you eliminate books that you don't want to read anymore.

1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you don't want to read anymore.
2) Delete them!
(hide spoiler)]

Reading Challenges ~ Emerald Coin

Earn your Emerald Coins with Reading Challenges joined on or after April 1, 2016.

To Earn an Emerald Coin:
One Coin upon completing 4 different Diets.

Learn about Gem coins here

Participants ( 2019 onward)

Alanna

BB

Carrie

Devann

Grayraincurtain

Jenn

Keely

Laurie

Tari

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Ok, So I lost 50 pounds, so I will go for 50 books. My starting number is 2405. I will start with the Raw Foods diet and see how many books I can take off. Here is the problem. Just like real life i might have weeks where I gain books instead! So my goal at the end of the challenge is 2355.

Raw Food Diet
5 Books by self published authors or have less than two books.
So....
1. Orange Is the New Black Only title
2. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Only Title
3. The Kitchen House Two titles
4. Rebel of the Sands Only title
5. Zanzibar Tales: Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa Only title

Congratulations on losing 50 pounds!

Welcome to the challenge Karrie and congrats!

Love this idea!!

I'm going with the Atkins Diet, with the goal of reading five books I own and the several books I currently have checked out from the library, whether e-books or physical (I've already listened to all of my owned audiobooks).

I keep reading books from the library, while of course purchasing books, so I want to read some of those that I already have at home and are lonely on their shelves :)

I also might do the Sleeping Beauty diet and should probably do the Detox too, lol :)

To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
Duration: Open
Date Started: 08/03/16
Date Finished:

--First Diet--
Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count - 983 ✓
2) List your desired end to-read book count - 970 ✓
3) Choose a diet method ✓
---Atkins - This diet will focus your weight loss on a specific type of book which is great for people who have problems with a wide variety of to-read books.
-------1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)
-------2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
-------3) Read!
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

Books Read:

Clever idea for a challenge!

Challenge Steps
Starting to-read book count:2267
End to-read book count:2000

Atkins
Atkins low carb diet program uses a powerful life-time approach to successful weight loss."
This diet will focus your weight loss on a specific type of book which is great for people who have problems with a wide variety of to-read books.
Protein: Romance


Duration: Open

Nothing But Reading Challenge

Reading Challenges > To-Read Weight Loss Challenge

August 1, 2016 to ????

Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count 6513
2) List your desired end to-read book count 6500
3) Choose a diet method South Beach
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

My first diet will be the South Beach diet.

South Beach Diet

"The South Beach Diet focuses on the control of insulin levels, and the benefits of unrefined slow carbohydrates versus fast carbs."

This diet helps reduce the bulk of your to-read list while allowing lots of greens.

1) Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
2) Read!

1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
2. Deep Green: Color Me Jealous by Melody Carlson
3. Gone to Green by Judy Christie
4. The Man in the Green Chevy by Susan Rogers Cooper
5. The Green and the Red by Armand Chauvel

I have a lot to lose! Let's do this!

August 3, 2016-June 16, 2017
Starting: 1415
Goal: 50
(4 Diets Completed: Atkins, Sleeping Beauty, Mediterranean, & Cabbage Soup)

50/50

Sleeping Beauty Diet
1. Swimming by Nicola Keegan
2. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Atkins Diet
(Newberry Honors Award Winners)
1. Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
2. Rascal by Sterling North
3. After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
4. Whittington by Alan Armstrong
5. Paperboy by Vince Vawter
6. One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
7. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
8. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
9. The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
10. Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
11. The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
12. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
13. Savvy by Ingrid Law
14. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
15. Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

Cabbage Soup Diet
(Free Reads)
1.North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
2.Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
3.Orlando by Virginia Woolf
4. A Bell for Adano by John Hershey
5. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

Atkins Diet
(1001 Must Read List)
1. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
2. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
3. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
4. Cain by Jose Saramago
5. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
6. Embers by Sandor Murai

Atkins Diet
(Pulitzer Prize winners)
1. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
2. His Family by Ernest Poole
3. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
4. Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
5. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
6. Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
7. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
8. The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
9. Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
10. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
11. The Way West by A. B. Guthrie

Atkins Diet
(Nobel Prize winners)
1. Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
2. Lyrics: 1962-2001 by Bob Dylan
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
4. When the New Wine Blooms by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
5. The Great Galeoto by Jose Echegaray

Mediterranean Diet
(5 Countries)
1. France Desert by Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
2. Poland View With a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymbrska
3. South Africa A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer
4. Nigeria Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
5. Vietnam The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Part 1: August 1, 2016 to ????

Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count 1523
2) List your desired end to-read book count 150
3) Choose a diet method
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

The Sleeping Beauty Diet (view spoiler)[
1. The Lightning Thief 8/5/16
2. Sabriel 8/18/16
3. W is for Wasted 8/24/16
4. Burned 8/31/16
5. The Rest of Us Just Live Here 9/3/16
6. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 9/18/16
7. Smoke 9/4/16
8. The Secret 12/10/16 (hide spoiler)]
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The Cabbage Soup Diet (Books You Can Get for Free)(view spoiler)[
1. The Long Game 8/27/16
2. Wink Poppy Midnight 9/9/16
3. It's All Your Fault 9/4/16
4. The Awakening of Sunshine Girl 9/17/16
5. Burn Baby Burn 9/20/16 (hide spoiler)]
6. The Land of 10,000 Madonnas 10/23/16

Atkins DietGraphic Novels & Mangas(view spoiler)[
1.Made for Each Other 8/25/16
2.My Boyfriend Bites 8/25/16
3. Under His Spell 8/26/16
4. I Date Dead People 8/26/16
5.Alice in the Country of Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz, Vol. 01 8/26/16
6. Ghost World 8/26/16 8/26/16
7. A Match Made in Heaven 8/25/16
8. The Dresden Files: Fool Moon, Volume 2 8/29/16
9. Welcome to the Jungle 9/6/16
10. The Punisher, Vol. 1: Black and White 9/11/16
11. Wrapped Up in You 9/19/16
12. Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things 9/20/16
13. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal 10/9/16
14. Through the Woods 10/6/16
15. Anya's Ghost 10/9/16
16. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death 8/13/16
17. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not 8/25/16
18. I Love Him to Pieces 8/19/16
19. The X-Files: Season 10, Volume 1 8/14/16
20. The X-Files: Season 10, Volume 2 8/14/16
21. The X-Files: Season 10, Volume 3 8/19/16
22. The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes 8/20/16
23. Richelle Mead's The Dark Swan: Storm Born 8/20/16
24. Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom 10/10/16
25. Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics 10/6/16
26. Courtney Crumrin's Monstrous Holiday 10/20/16
27. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why 10/20/16
28. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed 10/22/16
29. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4: Last Days 10/22/16
30. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Super Famous 10/22/16
31. Kin 10/22/16
32. Kith 10/23/16
33. Kind 10/23/16
34. Courtney Crumrin: The Witch Next Door 10/22/16
35. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood 10/22/16
36. Origins 10/24/16
37. Rising Son 10/24/16
38.Supernatural: The Dogs of Edinburgh 10/25/16
39. The Blacklist Vol 1: The Gambler 11/6/16
40. Lenore: Pink Bellies 11/6/16 (hide spoiler)]
41. Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf Volume 2 11/6/16
35. Courtney Crumrin: The Final Spell 10/22/16
36. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures 11/21/16

Atkins DietBooks I started but never finished
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Atkins Diet Llewellyn "For Beginners" books
1. Rituals for Beginners: Simple Ways to Connect to Your Spiritual Side 10/6/16
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Atkins DietBooks from the 1001 Books to read before you die list
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Atkins Diet Cozy Mysteries
1. Trouble Vision 9/11/16
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Atkins Diet Non-fiction misc. (view spoiler)[
1. Taste of Home Casseroles: 377 Dishes for Families, Potlucks & Parties 9/6/16
2. Taste of Home Potluck!: 336 Crowd-Pleasing Favorites for Easy Entertaining 9/1/16
3. Taste Of Home Slow Cooker Throughout The Year 8/10/16
4. The Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day 9/12/16 (hide spoiler)]
5. Southern Living 2012 Annual Recipes: Every Single Recipe from 2012 -- over 750! 12/7/16
6. The Staycation Jar: 200 Family Fun Ideas For Creative Meals, Main Events, Silliness, Love Projects 12/7/16
7. Put 'em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling 12/7/16
8. The Sparkle Factory: The Design and Craft of Tarina's Fashion Jewelry and Accessories 12/7/16
9. The 2012 Book Blogger's Cookbook (The Book Blogger's Cookbook) 12/5/16
10. Retro Family Recipes : Old Fashioned Recipes from the 1960's-1990's 12/5/16


Atkins Diet Off My Kindle
1. Adrenaline Rush 8/28/16
2. Ring Around the Rosy, Not Another Ghostie 9/19/16

Atkins Diet Subscription Box Catch Up
1. Not If I See You First 9/24/16

The Zone Diet
Thriller
1. Save Yourself 10/6/16
2. We'll Never Be Apart 10/3/16
3.
The Dresden Files
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2.
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5.
Two - 200-299 pages
1. Evidence of Things Not Seen 9/24/16 224 pages
2. John Winchester's Journal 11/5/16 218 pages

I have a question - Can I run two diets concurrently? Like the Sleeping beauty because it's audio book and one that would just be regular books? I listen to audiobooks in the car and while cleaning the house - but I read regular books when I am relaxing.

★✩★✩★✩★ To-Read Weight Loss Challenge. ★✩★✩★✩★ 5th - 22nd August. Part 1.
List to-read book count: 1,200 ★✩★ List your desired end to-read book count: 800
Read: 117/117

Atkins Diet: Fantasy/Paranormal. (view spoiler)[
1) With True Love's Kiss ✔
2) The Son of Neptune ✔
3) Avatar: The Last Airbender "Shells" ✔
4) The Twits ✔
5) Fairest ✔
6) Nimona ✔
7) Maelyn ✔
8) Legends and Myths From Wales - North Wales ✔
9) Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy ✔
10) Lumberjanes #2 ✔
11) The Little School Nurse That Could: Episode.1 ✔
12) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 21 ✔
13) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Side Story 3 ✔
14) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 22 ✔
15) Free Comic Book Day 2014: Project Black Sky #5 ✔
16) Doctor Strange (2015-) #1 ✔
17) The Emotionally Engaging Character ✔
18) Lumberjanes #3 ✔
19) Lumberjanes #4 ✔
20) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 24 ✔
21) The Grimm Diaries Prequels volume 15 - 18: Snow White Black Swan, The Pumpkin Piper, Prince of Puppets, The Sleeping Swan ✔
22) Kissed by a Dark Prince ✔
23) Attack on Titan Anthology Preview FCBD 2016 ✔
24) Kodansha Comics Digital Sampler Unreal ✔
25) Kodansha Comics Digital Sampler Real ✔
26) Chibi: Luxus ✔
27) Warm Up ✔
28) X-Men Origins: Deadpool ✔
29) Free Comic Book Day: Aliens #0 ✔
30) Free Comic Book Day: Star Wars ✔
31) Ani-Max, Volume 1 ✔
32) Star Trek: Alien Spotlight - Borg ✔
33) Wickedest Witch ✔
34) Lumberjanes: 2016 Special: Makin' the Ghost of It ✔
35) Rot & Ruin ✔
36) Lumberjanes #5 ✔
37) Lumberjanes #6 ✔
38) Lumberjanes #7 ✔
39) Cleopatra's Return ✔
40) Lumberjanes #8 ✔
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Weight Watchers Diet/The Zone Diet: Historical fiction (view spoiler)[
1) Rancher's Remorse ✔
2) Cowboy's Conundrum ✔
3) Teacher's Troublemaker ✔
4) Lucie: Bride of Tennessee ✔
5) Isabella: Bride of Ohio ✔
6) Josephine: Bride of Louisiana ✔
7) India: Bride of Indiana ✔
8) Michelle: Bride of Mississippi ✔
9) Lilly: Bride of Illinois ✔
10) Mail Order Misunderstanding ✔
11) Mail Order Mischief ✔
12) Baker's Bargain ✔
13) Scotsman's Siren ✔
14) Anna: Bride of Alabama ✔
(hide spoiler)]


Read a series of books that are on your to-read list/Pick a number between 1 and 5. 2 (200-299 page books) (view spoiler)[
1) Dance of the Hours ✔
2) Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan ✔
3) Lumberjanes #9 ✔
4) Lumberjanes #10 ✔
5) Love Mode, Vol. 9 ✔
6) Love Mode, Vol. 10 ✔
7) Love Mode, Vol. 11 ✔
8) James and the Giant Peach ✔
9) Here with You ✔
10) Empowered, Volume 1 ✔
11) Apocalypse ✔
12) Origins ✔
13) Evolution ✔
14) Empowered, Volume 2 ✔
15) Order Rank ✔
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Vegetarian Diet/Raw Food Diet (view spoiler)[
1) The House at Pooh Corner ✔
2) The BFG ✔
3) When We Were Very Young ✔
4) Now We Are Six ✔
5) となりの怪物くん 4 Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun 4 ✔
6) Killing Momzillas ✔
7) The Gentle Grafter ✔
8) Mail Order Bride Special- Benson Creek Mail Order Bride Box Set - 5 Book Special! ✔
9) 28 Days Later, Vol. 1: London Calling ✔
10) 28 Days Later, Vol. 2: Bend in the Road ✔
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South Beach Diet/Mediterranean Diet: (view spoiler)[
1) How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ✔
2) The Lorax ✔
3) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny ✔
4) Mitch's Win ✔
5) Snow Queen ✔
6) 家に帰ると妻が必ず死んだふりをしています。3 【リリース記念版　特別書き下ろし4コマ】 ✔
7) Il professor Layton e i misteri buffi n. 1 ✔
8) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 25 ✔
9) Probing the Annis ✔
(hide spoiler)]


Banana Diet: Pick a random letter of the alphabet: T (view spoiler)[
1) Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems ✔
2) 11 Tips for New Writers ✔
3) The Cat in the Hat ✔
4) Strong Female Protagonist. Book One ✔
5) Trainer's Treat ✔
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The Cabbage Soup Diet read books that I got for free. (view spoiler)[
1) Futaba-kun Change! Vol.1 ✔
2) Childrens Books: The Enchanted Hat ✔
3) Fight Club #0 FCBD 2015 Edition ✔
4) Doctor Strange (2015-) #3 ✔
5) Doctor Strange (2015-) #4 ✔
6) Overwatch #1 ✔
7) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 26 ✔
8) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 27 ✔
9) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 28 ✔
10) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 29 ✔
11) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 30 ✔
12) Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Chapter 31 ✔
13) Overwatch #2 ✔
14) Overwatch #3 ✔
15) Overwatch #4 ✔
16) World of Warcraft: Legion #1 ✔
17) World of Warcraft: Legion #2 ✔
18) Overwatch #5 ✔
19) Overwatch (Italian) #7 ✔
20) Overwatch (Russian) #8 ✔
21) Overwatch #6 ✔
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The Sleeping Beauty Diet: Listen to the books in audio form! (view spoiler)[
1) The Witches ✔
2) Inside Out ✔
3) Green Eggs and Ham ✔
4) Darkness ✔
5) The Wide Window ✔
(hide spoiler)]

Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count 5121
2) List your desired end to-read book count 5021
3) Choose a diet method
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

1st Diet Atkins
1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers) chef, baker or waitress
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
1 Player by Joanna Blake 8.5
2. She Let Herself Go by Hipsy Bohannon 8.6
3. Ugly by Sam Crescent 8.11
4. Bakers Law by Denise Belinda McDonald .13
5 Exquisite Trouble by Ann Mayburn 8.16

Zone Diet
Genre Contemporary
Series Heroes to the Dixie Wardens MC
#4

To Read
1 Stone At Your Service by Rie Warren 8.18
2 Torch by Karen Erickson 8.20
3 Wrangler by Dani Wyatt 8.22

Series
1 Lights to My Siren by Lani Lynn Vale 10.1
2 Halligan to my axe by Lani Lynn Vale 10.3
3 Kevlar to My Vest by Lani Lynn Vale 10..8
4 Keys to My Cuffs by Lani Lynn Vale 10..11

400-499 pages
1 Never Wed An Outlaw by Nicole Snow 9.12
2 Fire Inside by Kristen Asley 9.21

Vegetarian Diet
Animal Cover
1 Chance McAll by Sharon Sala
2 Savannahs Vision by Nicole Austin
3 Tessas Pride by Olivia Brynn
4 Emilys Story by D'Elen McClain
5 Bride of the Alpha by Georgette St Clair

This is such a different ideia! Does this challenge have timeline?

Adding this with my other TBR challenge since that is my major reading goal for this year.
To-Read Weight Loss Challenge. Duration: Open

Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count: 392
2) List your desired end to-read book count: 380 (I keep adding too)
3) Choose a diet method: Banana (seems the most random): Letter: O
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

I have 5 O titles on my TBR list that are currently published. Aiming for 5 but worried about finding some of them.

Holy cow! You guys have a crazy amount of books on you to-read lists.

Cristina wrote: "This is such a different ideia! Does this challenge have timeline?"

Open timeline. Take as much time as you need.

megan wrote: "Holy cow! You guys have a crazy amount of books on you to-read lists."

I have ‎2915... It's a sickness really.

What a funny idea, I love it! I'm definitely "book obese," haha.

To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
3 Aug 16 - present

Starting TBR Count: 1437
Desired TBR Count: 1300

Banana Diet - 0 / 5
5 books beginning with the letter D

1. Dracula by Bram Stoker
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
3. The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
4. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
5. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan

*Since it's open-ended I will try several diets
*Combining 3 shelves all are tbr: to-read, hoopla-audio, hoopla-ebook
To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
Starting to-read book count: 3889
Desired end to-read book count: 3789
Books Read: 20
Duration: Open
Date Started: 08/03/16
Date Finished:


Diet method #1: Atkins Diet
Type of Books: Romances
Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
1. by Nicole Edwards 10/26/18
2. by Samantha Towle 10/29/18
3. Burned by Karen Marie Moning 11/27/18
4. Ruined by Tracy Wolff 08/06/16
5. Throttle Me by Chelle Bliss 08/09/16
6. Until Nico by Aurora Rose Reynolds 08/15/16
7. Virgin River by Robyn Carr 12/05/18
8. by Aurora Rose Reynolds 11/04/18
9. Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire 08/08/16

Diet method #2: The Zone Diet
Genre: Paranormal
Series: Ghost and Reincarnation
Number: 4
Read at least 3 books from your to-read list in the genre selected.
1. Wildest Dreams by Kristen Ashley 08/25/16
2. One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost 09/20/16
3. The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter 10/09/16
Read the rest of the series of the series you have selected (that have been released.)
1. Sommersgate House by Kristen Ashley 10/05/16
2. Lacybourne Manor by Kristen Ashley 04/17/17
3. Fairytale Come Alive by Kristen Ashley 09/25/18
4. Lucky Stars by Kristen Ashley
02/11/19
Read 2 books on your to-read list that have X hundred pages based on the number you selected. (e.g. If you selected 3, you would read 300-399 page books)
1. Allegiance of Honor by Nalini Singh (478 pgs)08/23/16
2. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (454 pgs) 09/21/16

Diet method #3: Vegetarian Diet
Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals. (Your definition of "animal" may vary.)
1. Wild and Free (wolf shifter) 04/27/19
2. 06/17/19
3. 06/19/19
4. 06/21/19
5. Love and Other Wild Things (dragon/bear shifters) 08/02/19

Diet method #4:South Beach Diet
Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
1. Getting Schooled ~ 04/19/19
2. The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showalter ~ 05/05/19
3. ~ 05/08/19
4. ~ 06/18/19
5. Good Girls Don't ~ 07/15/19

Diet method #5: Raw Food Diet
Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors who self-publish or have less than 2 published books.
1.
2. ~ 06/07/2020
3.
4.
5.

Diet method #6: Banana Diet
Random Letter: C
Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter. (Or all books if there are less than 5.)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Diet method #7: The Sleeping Beauty Diet audiobooks
Choose 3 books from your to-read list.
1.
2.
3.

Diet method #8: The Cabbage Soup Diet
Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
1. ~ 07/20/2020
2. ~ 01/25/2020
3. ~ 02/26/2022
4.
5.

Diet method #9:Detox
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you don't want to read anymore.
2) Delete them!

Jenn wrote: "I have a question - Can I run two diets concurrently? Like the Sleeping beauty because it's audio book and one that would just be regular books? I listen to audiobooks in the car and while cleaning..."

It's fine to do two at a time, just don't overlap the books between them.

To-read Weight Loss Challenge

Start day : 8/4/16
End day : ?

Challenge Steps

1) List your starting to-read book count: 577
2) List your desired end to-read book count: 450
3) Choose a diet method
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

Atkins Diet

1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books.: contemporary
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
1 The Day Before
2 Goodbye, Rebel Blue
3 Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here (8/9/16-8/12/16)
4 When We Collided
5 Everything Leads to You
6 Not If I See You First (8/18/16-8/21/16)

I'm joining it! But I guess I'll be adding more to read books by the way...

Date Started: 08/05/16
Date Finished:

--First Diet--
Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count - 93 ✓
2) List your desired end to-read book count - 80 ✓
3) Choose a diet method - Mediterranean Diet ✓
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

Welcome to the challenge everyone! :)

Hi - well 45 pounds to go, so 45 books down for now. Going from 367 books to 322 books.

Decided on the Banana Diet - got letter P (hey, better than X!)

I have lots of great choices in this letter, so off to reading I go.

Thanks - great fun challenge!

Laura

To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
Start Date: 7/8/16
Starting To-Read Book Count: 385
Desired End Book Count: 300
Diet Type: Atkins
Romance - 0/100 (allowing for books that may need to be added to the list)

To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
Start Date: 8/8/16
Starting to-read book count:194
List your desired end to-read book count:179 (15 book loss)

Choose a diet method: Banana Diet 1/5
Random Letter Chosen: N
1.Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
2.The Nightingale9/5/16
3:North of Here
4:The Next Together
5:Nora & Kettle

To-Read Weight Loss Challenge

Start Date: 10th August 2016
Starting To-Read Book Count: 268
Desired End Book Count: Let's get this under 200 - so 199

Update 10/08/16 To-read count 263.
15/08/16 To-read count 264 (I added one. Boo :()
11/09/16 To-read count 263.
23/12/16 To-read count 274 (waaaa I added first books in series I already had :()

Atkins - I was originally going to choose 'General Fiction' and thought I would give myself a tougher challenge. I pick 'books over 500 pages.'
1) Dune by Frank Herbert
2) The Familiar Vol.2: Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)

The Zone Diet: Genre, horror; series, Sookie Stackhouse; number, 3.
1) We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory
2) Onyx Webb Book Two by Richard Fenton
3)
Number of books left in series: 7
Books between 300-399 pages:


Vegetarian Diet
Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals.
1) Being a Beast by Charles Foster
2) Swamplandia by Karen Russell
3) The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
4)
5)

Weight Watchers Diet


South Beach Diet
Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
1) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2) Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games by Joe Hill
3) The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
4)
5)

Raw Food Diet
Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors who self-publish or have less than 2 published books.
1) The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
2)
3)
4)
5)

Mediterranean Diet
Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors born in countries other than your own.
1) Knights of Sidonia 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
2) Scalped, Vol. 3: Dead Mothers by Jason Aaron
3) The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
4)
5)

Banana Diet
Letter - C
1) The Children of Men by P.D. James
2) The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
3) Chew Vol. 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman
4)
5)

The Sleeping Beauty Diet
1) Revolution by Russell Brand
2)
3)

The Cabbage Soup Diet
Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.


Detox
Easier said than done;

I'd like to try this one too! I'm going to start off fairly light with a 20-book weight loss, since I have difficulty not gaining books while losing. Hopefully, my TBR heads in the right direction!

# on TBR: 987 Goal: 967

Dates: 8/13/16-??
Books read: 12
Books removed (detox): 20
Updated TBR: 995

The Cabbage Soup Diet: Completed (view spoiler)[
NetGalley / library / Kindle freebies
✓1. The Other Einstein: A Novel
✓2. Her Darkest Nightmare
✓3. The Purloined Poodle
✓4. Lilac Girls
✓5. The Memory of Things (hide spoiler)]

Detox: Completed (view spoiler)[
Delete 5 books on your to-read list that you don't want to read anymore.

Detox 1:
1. The Bookstore
2. Family Pictures
3. Across the Universe
4. Inception (The Reaping Chronicles, #1)
5. As They Slip Away (Across the Universe, #2.5)

Detox 2:
1. Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
2. Glitch (Glitch, #1)
3. The Kitchen Daughter
4. Winged (Winged, #1)
5. Towering

Detox 3:
1. Silver Phoenix (Kingdom of Xia, #1)
2. Tam Lin
3. Silence of the Wolves (Call of the Wilderness #1)
4. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
5. W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)

Detox 4:
1. Maggot Moon
2. The Shuddering
3. Cryonic
4. The Arrivals
5. The Silent Wife

(hide spoiler)]

Weight Watchers Diet: Completed (view spoiler)[
Buddy Reads
✓1. A Torch Against the Night
✓2. Crown of Midnight
✓3. Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
(hide spoiler)]

The Sleeping Beauty Diet: (view spoiler)[
Choose 3 books from your to-read list, listen to the audiobooks.
✓1. The Hound of the Baskervilles
✓2. The Ice Twins
3. Wallbanger
(hide spoiler)]

The Zone Diet: (view spoiler)[
Genre: mystery & thriller series
1. The Night Stalker (DCI Erika Foster #2)
2. Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro #2)
3. The Promise (Scott James & Maggie, #2)

Series: Odd Thomas
✓1. Odd Apocalypse
✓2. Deeply Odd
3. Saint Odd

Number: 3 (300-399 pgs)
1.
2.
(hide spoiler)]

Atkins Diet: (view spoiler)[
Type of Books: (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(hide spoiler)]

South Beach Diet: (view spoiler)[
Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(hide spoiler)]

Banana Diet: (view spoiler)[
Random Letter:
Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(hide spoiler)]

Vegetarian Diet: (view spoiler)[
(animals on the cover)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(hide spoiler)]

Welcome to the challenge!

★✩★✩★ To-Read Weight Loss Challenge. ★✩★✩★ 5th August - Open. Part 2.
Read: 120/120

Atkins Diet: Science Fiction and Horror/ 30+ pages (view spoiler)[
1) iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World ✔
2) The Beauty, Vol. 1 ✔
3) Doctor Strange (2015-) #5 ✔
4) Doctor Strange (2015-) #6 ✔
5) World of Warcraft: Legion #3 ✔
6) World of Warcraft: Legion #4 ✔
7) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 ✔
8) Borderlands: Origins #1 ✔
9) Borderlands: Origins #2 Lilith ✔
10) Borderlands, Volume 1: Origins ✔
11) iZombie, Vol. 2: uVampire ✔
12) Marvel Zombies ✔
13) Marvel Zombies 2 ✔
14) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 ✔
15) Kick-Ass #7 ✔
16) Kick-Ass #8 ✔
17) Twisted Straight: Finding My Self in the Middle ✔
18) Ancient Egypt: A Guide to the Gods, Pharaohs, Dynasties, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt ✔
19) Greek Mythology: Doublepack - Greek Mythology & Greek Gods ✔
20) The Withering Palace ✔
21) All for You ✔
22) The Orc's Tale ✔
23) The Succubus in a Red Dress ✔
24) That Healing Touch ✔
25) Unlovable ✔
26) Yowamushi Pedal, Go! Vol. 1 ✔
27) Immune ✔
28) Sundered ✔
29) Kick-Ass 2 #2 ✔
30) Kick-Ass 2 #3 ✔
31) H2O, Issue 1 ✔
32) Leora: Bride of California ✔
33) Something to Read About: A Book Club Sampler from Simon & Schuster ✔
34) Trinity: Bride of West Virginia ✔
35) Remains #1 ✔
36) Oddly Normal #1 ✔
37) Bedlam #1: Preview ✔
38) Lost At Sea: Preview ✔
(hide spoiler)]


Atkins Diet: Children's & Young Adult (view spoiler)[
1) Little Miss Magic To The Rescue ✔
2) Little Miss Bossy Saves The Zoo ✔
3) Mr Mischief The Artist ✔
4) Little Miss Splendid and the Present ✔
5) Mr Chatterbox's Parrot ✔
6) Little Miss Hug ✔
7) Mr. Bump ✔
8) Mr. Snow ✔
9) Little Miss Somersault ✔
10) Little Miss Sunshine ✔
11) Mr. Happy ✔
12) Little Miss Busy ✔
13) Little Miss Twins ✔
14) Mr. Strong ✔
15) Mr. Tickle ✔
16) Rapunzel: A Magic Beans Story ✔
17) Drama ✔
18) Jim Henson's Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special ✔
19) Sins of the Fathers ✔
20) Smile ✔
21) Big Day Out ✔
22) Giant Days, Vol. 1 ✔
23) Boaz's Wager ✔
24) Patty's Gamble ✔
25) Lumberjanes, Vol. 4: Out of Time ✔
26) Zom-B Family ✔
27) Kick-Ass #1 ✔
28) Kick-Ass #2 ✔
29) Kick-Ass, volumen 1 de 3 ✔
30) Kick-Ass #4 ✔
31) Kick-Ass #5 ✔
32) Kick-Ass #6 ✔
(hide spoiler)]


Atkins Diet: Health & Fiction (view spoiler)[
1) Yoga For Beginners: Lose Inches Off Your Waist in 30 Days or Less With This Complete Yoga Guide! Yoga Poses to Enhance Your Abs! ✔
2) Yoga in Bed for All Ages ✔
3) Yoga For Weight Loss For Beginners: A Step-By-Step Picture Guide To 90 Slimming Yoga Poses ✔
4) Back Pain: How to Get Rid of It Forever ✔
5) Yoga: The Yoga Beginner's Bible: Top 30 Illustrated Poses for Weight Loss, Stress Relief and Inner Peace ✔
6) Pilates for Beginners ✔
7) Success And Happiness: 7 Habits To A Fulfilling Life ✔
8) Yoga: for Beginners: Your Guide to Master Yoga Poses while calming your mind, be stress free, and boost your self-esteem! ✔
9) Yoga Basic Knowledge: Exercises, Stories, Meditation and Enlightenment. Yoga for Beginners, Inner Peace and Happiness. ✔
10) Yoga for Gymnasts but not only for gymnasts ✔
11) Mrs. Dalloway ✔
12) Summer Heat ✔
13) nekomaki1 ✔
14) Orangutan: A Day in the Rainforest Canopy ✔
15) Harry The Happy Mouse ✔
16) Fat Chance ✔
17) The Prophet ✔
18) Travelling light ✔
19) Kick-Ass 2 #1 ✔
(hide spoiler)]


Atkins Diet: Romance & Fantasy (view spoiler)[
1) Tabitha: Bride of Missouri ✔
2) Blood Therapy ✔
3) Benzen: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance ✔
4) Barbarian's Touch ✔
5) Calm: Slice of Life Short Stories ✔
6) Adam ✔
7) Simply Irresistible ✔
8) More Than Friends / Drunk in Love ✔
9) Bound by Blood ✔
10) The School for Good and Evil ✔
11) Mail Order Brides: Shades of Romance Collection ✔
12) Twin Tales ✔
13) The Witch With The Glitch ✔
14) The Wendigo ✔
15) Out of the Past ✔
16) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - The Movie Storybook ✔
17) Movie Storybook ✔
18) Small Gods: A Discworld Graphic Novel ✔
19) The Complete Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm ✔
20) The Sworn Sword: The Graphic Novel ✔
21) The Hedge Knight: The Graphic Novel ✔
(hide spoiler)]

August 24, 2016
Starting: 119
Goal: 23

0/23

ATKINS:
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4.
5.

VEGETARIAN:
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4.
5.

WEIGHT WATCHERS:
1.
2.
3.

SOUTH BEACH:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

CABBAGE SOUP DIET
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Welcome to the challenge Katherine and Danielle ☺

I read two books for this challenge, but went a little crazy with the last Audible sale and had to add those books to my TBR. When all is updated I gained 9 books. This is going to take a while...

Kristie wrote: "I read two books for this challenge, but went a little crazy with the last Audible sale and had to add those books to my TBR. When all is updated I gained 9 books. This is going to take a while...
..."

That seems like how my weight loss goes :-/

Exactly! Lol

Part 2: August 1, 2016 to ????

Detox
(view spoiler)[
1. 黒執事 XVII Kuroshitsuji XVII Black Butler 17
2. The X-Files: Season 10 #1
3. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
4. Bait
5. Limbo's Child
6. She Didn't Smile
7. Two for Sorrow
8.They Shoot Birds, Don't They?
9. Secret Street
10. The Rhyn Trilogy
11.11th Hour Rose
12.13 on Halloween
13.About the Rabbits
14.Accessories & Alibis
15.The After School Murders
16.The Accidental Demon Slayer
17.Addicted to Magic
18.After The Ending
19.After the Summerland
20.Your Guardian Angel
21.Wraith
22.Destiny's Dark Fantasy Boxed Set
23.Faery Realms: Ten Magical Titles: Multi-Author Bundle of Novels & Novellas
24.Shimmerspell
25.Once Bitten
26.Dark Waters
27.No Remorse
28.The Fate of Destiny
29.Peaches
30.Devour
31.The Blackmail Club
32.Mr. Evil: The Seduction of Jezebel
33.Wings of Shadow
34.Demon Kissed
35.Prince of Wolves
36.Haunted Moon
37. Thoughtless
38.Nordic Fairies
39.Insight
40.The Vincent Boys
41.Into the Shadows
42.Thrall
43.Until Next Time
44.Sunrise at Sunset
45.Illicit Magic
46.Snow White and Rose Red: The Curse of the Huntsman
47.Broken
48.Blood of Anteros
49.Chameleon
50.Redemption
51.The Tree Shepherd's Daughter
52.The Mind Readers
53.City of the Falling Sky
54.Tempest
55.Preservation
56.The Grave Artist
57.Frozen Past
58.Flicker
59.For the Love of a Vampire
60.When Night Falls
61.Blood Faerie
62.This Blood
63.Forged in Fire
64.Armed and Fabulous
65.Michael
66.Twin Souls
67.She's Gotta Be Mine
68.Clockwork Blue
69.Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula
70.Birdsongs
71.Bite Me
72.Mind Games
73.Witch Book
74.Moon White: Color Me Enchanted
75. The Mayfair Moon
76.Become
77.Fairy Metal Thunder
78.Cranwood
79.Errant
80.Twin Souls
81.Blood Debt
82.Beckoning Light
83.Crux
84.The Soulkeepers
85.Rippler
86.Bluegrass State of Mind
87.Weaver
88.Meant to Be
89.The Mermaid Princess
90.Roots
91.Deadly Offerings
92.Stunner
93.The Wedding Cake Girl
94.A Cutthroat Business
95.Boyfriend From Hell
96.Entanglements
97.Nocturnal
98.Wicked Hungry
99.Vampire University
100.Ageless
101.The Pearl Savage
102.Vacation of Fear
103.Glimpse
104.Somebody tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead
105.Nightmare
106.Strictly Murder
107.My Soul to Keep
108.The Light Keepers
109.Bitter Frost
110.Mew Is for Murder
111.A Dream Unfolding
112.Crystal & Bone
113.Crossroads Road
114.Vengeance
115.Seaweed
116.Stardust
117.Hidden Gem
118.The Lost Soul
119.Darkness Falls
120.Darkness Breaks
121.Ember
122.Dangerous
123.Mesmerized
124.Winter's Awakening: The Metahumans Emerge
125.The Witches of West Shore
126.Legacy of the Witch
127.Sovereign Hope
128.Solstice: A Novel of the Zombie Apocalypse
129.Water Witch
130.Ephemeral
131. Feathermore
132.Song to Wake to
133.The Moon Coin
134.Curiosity Killed The Kat
135.Craved
136.Hush
137.One Black Rose
138.Death Whispers
139.Crossroads
140.Bewitching
141.Gravity
142.Mythology
143.Dirty Blood
144.Inhale
145.Released
146.Any Red-Blooded Girl
147.The Awakening
148.The Medium
149.The Annihilation of Foreverland
150.Seeds of Discovery (Dusk Gate Chronicles, #1)
151. Spiral
152. Anathema
153. My familiar Stranger
154. Whispers in Autumn
155. Jars of Clay
156. Falling (Hemlock Bay, #1)
157. How Huge the Night
158. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
159. Under the Black Clouds
160. Witchy, Witchy
161. Stirring Up Trouble
162. A Demon Made Me Do It
163. Moonsong
164. Malevolence
165. Elemental Magic
166. Endurance
167. Vampire a Go-Go
168. Collide
169. Unbound
170. MoonLife
171. Breath of Air
172. Crossroads (Crossroads Saga, #1)
173. Gun Monkeys
174. The Ghost Exterminator
175. Watcher’s Web
176. Breathless
177. Indelible Love – Emily’s Story
178. Cloack
179. The Doorknob Society
180. The Dark Realm
181. Dead Drop: A Lawson Vampire Bonus Story
182. Evren: Enter The Dragon
183. Shadows Gray
184. The Watchers
185. Wingless
186. Fall For You
187. The Ghost Exterminator
188. It’s Not The Great Pumpkin Maxie Duncan
189. The Selkie Echantress
190. Beguiled
191. The Legacy of Kilkenny
192. Ireland Rose
193. Ignite
194. The Watcher’s Web
195. Revenge of a Band Geek Gone Bad
196. Captured
197. The Red Church
198. Dead Spell
199. Dragon Rose
200. Whispers on Shadow Bay
201. Eternal Vow
202. Exile
203. Dark Revelation
204. Dark Seeker
205. Evolution
206. Skid
207. Kindred
208. The Guardian’s Keeper
209. The Man Painter
210. Call Me Jane
211. Altercation
212. Between the Land and the Sea
213. Stray
214. Past Suspicion
215. Cornerstone
216. Aphrodite’s Kiss
217. Ruby Blue
218. A Family Affair
219. Shadow on the Moon
220. Here (On the Otherside #1)
221. Shaken (Mind Reader, #1)
222. Mystic Embrace
223. A Hidden Fire
224. The Misadventures of Daria Pigwidgeon
225. Pretties
226. Plague
227. Grace Doll
228. Uneasy Spirits
229. True of Blood
230. Falling Slowly
231. Fifty Shades of Alice Through the Looking Glass
232. Chaos Burning
233. Blooded
234. Pride’s Run
235. Untraceable
236. On Fallen Wings
237. Revenant in Training
238. The Iron Witch
239. Desire
240. Bloodstone
241. A Job From Hell
242. The Huntress
243. Hacienda Moon
244. Camille
245. Stained
246. Night of the Purple Moon
247. Proof
248. Exposed
249. Dies Irae
250. The Binding
251. Stranger in Town
252. Chasing Venus
253. The Fortunate Only
254. Tales From the Pantry
255. Killbox
256. Tab Bennett and the Inbetween
257. Lady of Devices
258. Secrets
259. The Crow God’s Girl
260. Dark Creations: Gabriel Rising
261. Penny’s Choice
262. Untouched
263. Drawn: His Secret Toy
264. Cerulean
265. Reveal
266. Aura
267. Run Witch Run
268. Soul Protector
269. Parallel Spirits
270. Revenge of the Homecoming Queen
271. The Scarlet Dagger
272. The Changelings
273. The Temporary Detective
274. The Girl
275. Dying to Forget
276. Cheyenne
277. My Soul to Keep
278. Winter’s Wrath: Sacrifice
279. Lonely Souls
280. Faerie Tales: The Misfortune of a Teenage Socialite
281. Waterfall
282. Living Violet
283. The Secret Trinity
284. Trouble’s Brewing
285. Dream Smashers
286. Something Witchy
287. Lacrimosa
288. Forged by Greed
289. A Touch Mortal
290. Rest for the Wicked
291. Paranormal Public
292. Wildfire
293. The Flight of the Griffin
294. Wander Dust
295. Daisy Madigan’s Paradise
296. Maelyn
297. Gamers
298. Witch’s Brew
299. Amethyst
300. New England Witch Chronicles
301. Club Death
302. Witch Born
303. At Graves End
304. Between
305. Lost
306. Moonlight and Oranges
307. Fair Maiden
308. My Life as the Ugly Stepsister
309. Immortal Embrace
310. Taken By Moonlight
311. The Princess of Egypt Must Die
312. Reverence
313. Blood and Snow
314. Blood Singers
315. Placebo
316. Alice in Deadland
317. Destined
318. Deadly Designs
319. The Iron Butterfly
320. Faelorehn
321. Leopard Moon
322. Once In a Full Moon
323. Family Pieces
324. Sweet Blood of Mine
325. Unclaimed Legacy
326. Ravenous
327. The Next Dance
328. The Heartlands of Faery
329. Timeless
330. The Griffin Cryer
331. Season of Lies
332. Entangled
333. Crimson Echo
334. Midnight Fire
335. Fade
336. Daynight
337. The Den
338. Shifting Shadows
339. Incarnate
340. Dark Revelations
341. Awakened
342. The Monster’s Daughter
343. Grace
344. A Month with Werewolves
345. Intuitions Nightmare
346. Witch Way Bends
347. Call of the Herald
348. Oddily
349. Growl
350. Talisman of El
351. Sally Singletary’s Curiosity
352 Dissever
353. Flee
354. Miss Me Not
355. Painted Blind
356. Codename Dancer
357. Heir to the Underworld
358. Last Dance
359. Lauren
360. Arcadia’s Gift
361. All of You
362. Touched
363. Savor
364. Fall Girl
365. Open Minds
366. So Into You
367. Girl in the Woods
368. Charity Moon
369. Blackbirch Woods
370. Nowhere Blvd.
371. The Red Fox
372. Damian’s Oracle
373. Perception
374. Burden of the Soul
375. Taken
376. The Prophecy
377. The Legacy of the Key
378. Lie to Me
379. Givin’ Up the Ghost
380. The Wrong Side of the Tracks
381. The Information Thiefs
382. Myth Weaver
383. Fallen
384. The Classmate Murders
385. A Case of Imagination
386. A Really Dreadful Crime Company
387. Never Buried
388. The Bluejay Shaman
389. Death by Honeymoon
390. Loose Screw
391. The Lost Girls
392. Dying to Get Published
393. Child of the Ghosts
394. Cocaine Blues
395. Viridis
396. The Ragtime Kid
397. Concrete Underground
398. Hilda Hopkins, Murder She Knit
399. Livin Lahaina Loca
400. To Close to Home
401. Identity Issues
402. Shadow of the Wolf
403. Witch Flame
404. How to Date an Alien
405. Gods of Earth
406. The House of Grey Volume 1
407. The House of Grey Volume 2
408. New Girl
409. Valor
410. Reinventing Claire
411. Bound by Blood
412. The Cypher
413. Prophecy of the Flame
414. Max Xylander and the Island of Zumuruud
415. Dreamer
416. In Deep Shitake
417. Mer
418. Pride’s Pursuit
419. Blur
420. Flight
421. The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
422. Embers in a Dark Frost
423. Fearless
424. Deadly Night
425. Dark Wolf Rising
426. A Midsummer Night’s Demon
427. Sun Kissed
428. A Larger Universe
429. Blue Violet
430. Emily’s House
431. Breathless/Deathless 2 Book Set
432. Blood Rites
433. Blackbird
434. The Living Curse
435. Hidden Under Her Heart
436. The Obsession of Victoria Gracen
437. Come Back: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through Hell and Back
438. The Ghost, the Rate and Me
439. Into the Hourglass
440. Quenchless
441. Cherry Bomb
442. Deep Fried and Pickled
443. Synthetic: Dark Beginning
444. The Spirit Clearing
445. The One You Love
446. Sunshine Hunter
447. The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen
448. Phone Kitten
449. Invisible
450. Dolled Up For Murder
451. Vanish
452. The Undersirable
453. The Whispers of the Sprite
454. Shifting
455. Carnival Noir
456. Daughters of Night: Possession
457. Prairie Tale
458. Spring (Lakebridge #1)
459. Ever Shade
460. Scarlette
461. All the Paths of Shadow
462 BlackMoon Beinnings
463. Florida Heat
464. Ghosted
465. Tea Leafing
466. Love is Darkness
467. Foreclosed
468. Hex and the Single Witch
469. Slayer’s Kiss
470. Invisible
471. If You Come To California
472. Stilettos & Scoundrels
473. The Final Arrangement
474. Existence
475. Coming Home
476. Just Add Water
477. The Necromancer
478. My Ex From Hell
479. Kiss of Fire
480. Perilous
481. Always and Forever
482. Cupcake Kitty
483. No Cure For Murder
484. The Witch Sisters
485. The Stone Protector
486. Shattered Promises
487. No Shelter
488. Bluedawn
489. Carrots
490. The Ophelia Trap
491. Witchy Business
492. A Sporting Murder
493. Limerick
494. A Girl, A Guy and a Ghost
495. First Time Killer
496. Amaranth
497. Nirvana Effect
498. Dark Blood
499. The Friday Edition
500. Overdue for Murder
501. Shadowbloom
502. Blood Calling
503. Not Like My Mother
504. Cursed
505. Blood Calling
506. Titanic A to Z
507. The Moon Drinkers
508. The Girl From Yesterday
509. Hawthorn Inn
510. Alice in Deadland Trilogy
511. No Game for a Dame
512. Angel’s Ink
513. Death’s Hand
514. The Guardian of Threshold
515. Of Silk and Fire
516. The Language of Souls
517. Deadly Kisses
518. Hit or Missus
519. Goddess Legacy
520.Deedee Divine’s Totally Skewed Guide to Life
521. Descended
522. The Beast Within
523. Call of the Vampire
524. Gretel
525. Confessions of an Erotic Masseuse
526. Heavenly Killers
527. Elvis Has Not Left the Building
528. New Moon Summer
529. The Crimson League
530. The Amersham Rubies
531. All the Blue-Eyed Angels
532. A Cold Day for Murder
533. Canal End
534. Beginnings
535. I Hope You Find Me
536. The Lost Dreamer
537. Ember X
538. When Winter Comes
539. For Anyone to See
540. Voodoo Daddy
541. It’s Just a Little Crush
542. Veil Between Worlds
543. Ghost of a Chance
544. No Shoes, No Shirt, No Spells
545. Murder, Mystery & Eternal Youth
546. Only Human
547. Fins
548. Remix
549. Killer Image
550. The Aspen Valley Inn Series Collection Volumes 1-3
551. Talking to the Dead
552. Evergreen
553. Blood Moon
554. Murder on the Ghost Walk
555. Cursed
556. Graveyard Shift
557. Keep Me Ghosted
558. Thirteen for Dinner
559. Home Sweet Murder
560. Red, Green or Murder
561. Buried by Buttercups
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Part 3: August 1, 2016 to ????

Detox
(view spoiler)[561. Buried by Buttercups
562. Unseen
563. Hot Tea
564. Bias Cut
565. Cupid’s Treasure
566. Public House
567. Death Will Get You Sober
568. Huntress Moon
569. Hurricane Season
570. Bloody Mary
571. Lucky Stiff
572. Released
573. Dancing Days
574. Mocha, Moonlight, and Murder
575. Hell’s First Whispher
576. Life’s a Beach Then You Die
577. Dead is the New Black
578. Predestined
579. Katie Carter Mystery Series Collection Volume 1
580. Murder on Cinnamon Street
581. Doggone Dead
582. Elusive
583. Diary of a Dead Girl
584. Got Your Number
585. BeSwitched
586. To Catch a Bad Guy
587. Gwen Reaper
588. Hyde
589. Deep Naked
590. Scavenger Hunt
591. The Guardian
592. When All Hell Breaks Loose
593. Double Star
594. Immortal Prophecy
595. Motor City Shakedown
596. The White Aura
597. Gateway to Faerie
598. Just Breathe
599.Hunted
600. Unimaginable Treasures
601. Color Therapy: Unleash your Inner Powers
602. Anthropology of an American Girl
603. The Introductory Guide to Crystallomancy: Crystal
604. Divination for Beginners
605.Cinders & Sapphires (At Somerton, #1)
606.Tea Leaf Reading
607.The New Psychology of Achievement
608.Captive Girl
609.The Witch Sea
610.For Queen and Country (Shimmy and Steam, #1)
611.My Memoir Workbook
612.Talking With The Dead: An Introduction to Spirit 613.Communication
614.Dancing with Deception (Dancing, #0.5)
615.412 Journaling Exercises and Prompts for Personal Growth
616.The Forever Contract
617.Witches (The Cross-Worlds Coven Series, #1)
618.Open House (Pool of Souls, #1)
619.Isobel: A Novella
620.The Truth about Spirit Communication the Truth about Spirit Communication
621.Miracle at the Museum of Broken Hearts
622 Dream of Danger (Brown and de Luca, #1.5)
623 Elemental Rush (Elemental #1)
624 Fallen (The Transformed, #Prequel)
625 The Keepers: Sienna
626 The Last Reading (Storage Ghost Cozy Mystery, #1)
627 Hunting Light (Prequel to The Lifelight Series)
628 Beautiful Stranger (The Marked Ones Trilogy, #0.5)
629 The Halloween Close Call (Scrap-N-Craft Mystery Novella #9)
630 Summer: A Blackrock series novella
631 The Wolf: The Prequel to the Keeper Saga
632 The Girl Who Kissed a Lie (Otherworld, #0.5)
633 HER SWEETEST DOWNFALL (Forever Girl, #1.5)
634 Death Checks Inn (Aspen Valley Inn Series Book 1)
635 Death Comes to Town (Darcy Sweet, #1)
636 Alpha Moon (Silver Moon, #0.5)
637 The Time Machine
638 A Line To Murder (Puget Sound Mystery, #1)
639 World Famous Cults and Fanatics
640 Hexes and X's (Z & C Mysteries #3)
641 Murder In Half Moon Bay (A Jillian Bradley Mystery #1)
642 Steam & Sorcery (Gaslight Chronicles, #1)
643 Psychic Development for Beginners: An Easy Guide to Developing & Releasing Your Psychic Abilities
644 The Magick of Chant-O-Matics
645 Arena One: Slaverunners (The Survival Trilogy, #1)
646 Men-ipulation, A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery
647 The Truth Book
648. 365 Journal Writing Ideas: A year of daily journal writing prompts, questions & actions to fill your journal with memories, self-reflection, creativity & direction
649 Blackwater (Redeemers, #1)
650 Crush (The Crush Saga, #1)
651 Uniquely Unwelcome (The Shadow World, #1)
652 Hammers in the Wind (Northern Crusade, #1)
653 Born (Born, #1)
654 Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
655 Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood 656 Friends: My Life
657 Golden Illuminati
658 Rivals and Retribution (13 to Life, #5)
659 Angel (Maximum Ride, #7)
660 Serpent's Kiss (The Beauchamp Family #2)
661 Fang (Maximum Ride, #6)
662 A Lion Among Men (Wicked Years, #3)
663 The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Michael Vey, #1)
664 Infinite Days (Vampire Queen, #1)
665 Inside/Outside: One Woman's Recovery from Abuse and a Religious Cult
666 Son of a Witch (The Wicked Years #2)
667 Sleeping Roses (Dead Roses, #1)
668 With All My Soul (Soul Screamers, #7)
669 Everbound (Everneath, #2)
670 Everneath (Everneath, #1)
671 Sever (The Chemical Garden, #3)
672 The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1)
673 Pushing the Limits (Pushing the Limits, #1)
674 The Goddess Legacy (Goddess Test, #2.5)
675 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the
676 West (Wicked Years, #1)
677 If I Should Die (Revenants #3)
678 Requiem (Delirium, #3)
679 The Psalmist: A Bowers and Hunter Mystery (Bowers and Hunter Mysteries)
680 Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2)
681 Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
682 Out of Oz (Wicked Years, #4)
683 Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake: 3
684 The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft
Death: The High Cost of Living Collected
Witchcraft from the Inside (A Llewellyn occult manual)
The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts: Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights, and Other Hauntings of History and Legend
The Warrior Goddess Way: Claiming the Woman You Are Destined to Be
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2 (The Works of Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven Edition" #2)
The Wind in the Willows
Inventing the Pinkertons; Or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a Story of the Nation's Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective Agency
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Fairest of All
Control (Battlefield, #2)
Getting Unstuck
The Grimm Diaries Prequels 7-10
Clover Honey

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I'm going to give this a try. It's much better than a real diet and I can lose (book) reads. :)

Starting with the Atkins and working my way through them.

To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
Weight Loss Challenge
Challenge Steps

1) List your starting to-read book count (1695)
2) List your desired end to-read book count (1650)
3) Choose a diet method
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

Duration: Open

Diets
Atkins Diet
Young Adult
1. Ally Carter - I’d tell you I love you but then I’d have to kill you
2. Julie Kagawa - The Iron King
3. Richelle Mead - Spirit Bound
4. Robert J Crane - Destiny
5. Andrea Warren - Surviving Hitler

The Zone Diet
This diet is a more balanced approach that spreads the weight loss to various issues in your to-read list.
1) Choose one genre of book that you have on your to-read list.
2) Choose one series of book that you have on your to-read list.
3) Pick a number between 1 and 5.
4) Read at least 3 books from your to-read list in the genre selected.
5) Read the rest of the series of the series you have selected (that have been released.)
6) Read 2 books on your to-read list that have X hundred pages based on the number you selected. (e.g. If you selected 3, you would read 300-399 page books).

Vegetarian Diet
This diet helps you eliminate animal books from your to-read list.
1) Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals. (Your definition of "animal" may vary.)
2) Read!

Weight Watchers Diet
"Weight Watchers focuses on losing weight through diet, exercise, and a support network."
This diet helps you lose to-read weight with the help of others.
1) Select 3 books from your to-read list that have buddy reads.
2) Read along with your buddies!

South Beach Diet
This diet helps reduce the bulk of your to-read list while allowing lots of greens.
1) Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
2) Read!

Raw Food Diet
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors who self-publish or have less than 2 published books.
2) Read!

Mediterranean Diet
This diet focuses on eating healthy from regions that may not be your own.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors born in countries other than your own.
2) Read!

Banana Diet
This diet plan picks a very random grouping of books to eliminate.
1) Pick a random letter of the alphabet - link
2) Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter. (Or all books if there are less than 5.)
3) Read!

The Sleeping Beauty Diet
This diet focuses on relaxing you while you sleep your way to weight loss.
1) Choose 3 books from your to-read list.
2) Listen to them in audio form!

The Cabbage Soup Diet
This diet helps you eliminate the freebies on your list.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
2) Read!

Detox
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you don't want to read anymore.
2) Delete them!

Welcome Jenn and Carol :)

★✩★✩★ To-Read Weight Loss Challenge. ★✩★✩★ 5th August - Open. Part 3.
Read: 106/106

Atkins Diet: Adventure (view spoiler)[
1) One Piece: East Blue 1-2-3, Vol. 1 ✔
2) Vikings: The Most Badass Vikings in History ✔
3) Dying for a Date ✔
4) Poseidon's Peak ✔
5) The Edge of Never ✔
6) Lumberjanes #17 ✔
7) iZombie, Vol. 3: Six Feet Under and Rising ✔
8) Lumberjanes #18 ✔
9) Lumberjanes #19 ✔
10) KAZUAKI-KUN's BOOK ✔
11) iZombie, Vol. 4: Repossession ✔
12) Bold New Horizons ✔
13) Lumberjanes #20 ✔
14) Lumberjanes #21 ✔
15) The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power ✔
16) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal ✔
17) Kick-Ass 2 #4 ✔
18) Jem and the Holograms, Volume 2: Viral ✔
19) 1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad #0 ✔
20) Damsels: Mermaids #0 ✔
21) Return To Wonderland #0 ✔
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The Zone Diet: Fantasy (view spoiler)[
1) Jem and the Holograms Vol. 1: Showtime ✔
2) Jem and The Holograms #1 ✔
3) Jem and the Holograms (2015-): Holiday Special ✔
4) Soulfire ✔
5) Soulfire Preview ✔
6) Pointless Conversations: Superheroes ✔
7) Fathom: Dawn of War #0 ✔
8) True Blood (2010) #1 ✔
9) Share Your Universe Iron Man ✔
10) Black Magick Free Preview ✔
11) FCBD 2014: Don Rosa's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck - A Matter of Serious Gravity ✔
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Pick a number: 1 (view spoiler)[
1) Mastering Manga, How to Draw Manga Scenes ✔
2) Mastering Manga, How to Draw Manga Bodies ✔
3) Binge Eating Cure: Cure Binge Eating, Overcome Food Addiction, and Rid Your Life of Eating Disorders **FREE BONUS** ✔
4) Tyson Hesse's Diesel #1 ✔
5) Interview With an Accidental ✔
6) FCBD 2012 Witchblade Unbalanced Pieces ✔
7) It's Just a Little Crush ✔
8)Bedlam, Vol. 1 ✔
9) Fathom Vol. 1 #0 ✔
10) Fathom: Kiani #0 ✔
11) Sisters ✔
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Read books on your to-read list that have 100 - 199 pages: (view spoiler)[
1) Poppy: Bride of Alaska ✔
2) Tyson Hesse's Diesel #2 ✔
3) Fathom Vol. 1 #0.5 ✔
4) Pointless Conversations - The Purple Collection: 14 ✔
5) Bilbo's Last Song ✔
6) Tyson Hesse's Diesel #3 ✔
7) Fasting Diet 101: The Beginners Guide to The Fasting Diet ✔
8) Pointless Conversations: The Big One ✔
9) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed ✔
10) The Stylist: Free Sample ✔
11) Oddly Normal Vol. 1 ✔
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4) Read a genre: Horror (view spoiler)[
1) Kick-Ass 2 #4 ✔
2) Kick-Ass 2 #5 ✔
3) Kick-Ass 2 #6 ✔
4) Kick-Ass 2 #7 ✔
5) The School for Good and Evil 2 book collection: The School for Good and Evil (1) and The School for Good and Evil (2) - A World Without Princes ✔
6) Empty Bodies ✔
7) Last Pursuit ✔
8) Truth ✔
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Akines: Graphic novels/short stories. (view spoiler)[
1) Lumberjanes #24 ✔
2) Lumberjanes #25 ✔
3) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why ✔
4) The Story of Doctor Dolittle ✔
5) Pointless Conversations: Are You Going to Heaven? ✔
6) Pointless Conversations: What is Mr. Bean? ✔
7) Pointless Conversations - The Afterthoughts Collection ✔
8) Tyson Hesse's Diesel #4 ✔
9) Fairest of All ✔
10) The Indomitable Eve: A Montana Romance Novella ✔
11) Saga, Volume 1 ✔
12) Her Fallen Angel ✔
13) Lumberjanes #26 ✔
14) Lumberjanes #27 ✔
15) My Love Story!!, Vol. 6 ✔
16) Déjà Date ✔
17) Wizards ✔
18) Moon & Madly (A Retelling of the Little Mermaid): A Grimm Diary ✔
19) Defying Pack Law ✔
20) Heart of Hearts ✔
21) Date and Dash ✔
22) Lumberjanes #28 ✔
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The Cabbage Soup Diet: read books that you got for free. (view spoiler)[
1) Wrapped in You ✔
2) The Ultimate Guide to Beekeeping ✔
3) Fathom: Dawn of War Beginnings ✔
4) Harlequin Comics Best Selection Vol. 2 ✔
5) Princess Stories ✔
6) Depression 101: The Ultimate Guide to Beating Depression ✔
7) Becoming A Great Woman 101 ✔
8) Diary Of a Wickedly Cool Witch: Bullies and Baddies ✔
9) Old Greek Stories ✔
10) Black Beauty ✔
11) In Search of a Love Story ✔
12) The Princess, the Pea and the Night of Passion ✔
13) Ocean's Justice ✔
14) Tempted by the Jaguar: Transformation and Revelation ✔
15) Let's Call The Whole Thing Off ✔
16) Marauder Cygnus ✔
17) My Big Curvy Dating Dilemma: A BBW Curvy Romance ✔
18) The Railway Children ✔
19) Miracle On 5th Avenue: Free Sample ✔
20) The Cold King ✔
21) Married to Maggie ✔
22) Wyoming Wildflowers: The Beginning ✔
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⌖ NBRC TO-READ WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE ⌖

Time to kick my obese TBR list into shape!

Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count: 547 (Updated: 16/09/2016)
2) List your desired end to-read book count: <460
3) Choose a diet method
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal

Duration: Open
Date Started: 12th September 2016
Date Ended:


Atkins Diet
1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books (e.g. romances, 500+ page books, red covers).
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
3) Read!

Atkins Diet Phase #1
(view spoiler)[Genre: Science Fiction
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Atkins Diet Phase #2
(view spoiler)[Books with at least 450 pages
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Atkins Diet Phase #3
(view spoiler)[Genre: Paranormal
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The Zone Diet
1) Choose one genre of book that you have on your to-read list.
2) Choose one series of book that you have on your to-read list.
3) Pick a number between 1 and 5.
4) Read at least 3 books from your to-read list in the genre selected.
5) Read the rest of the series of the series you have selected (that have been released).
6) Read 2 books on your to-read list that have X hundred pages based on the number you selected (e.g. If you selected 3, you would read 300-399 page books).

The Zone Diet Phase #1
(view spoiler)[Genre: Fantasy
1. The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin
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Series: The Sweet Series
1. Sweet Evil (The Sweet Series #1) by Wendy Higgins ; read 12/09/2016
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4.
Number Chosen: 3
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South Beach Diet
1) Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
2) Read!

South Beach Diet Phase #1
(view spoiler)[Titles starting with G
1. Genesis (The Rosie Black Chronicles #1) by Lara Morgan
2. Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore
3. Gives Light (Gives Light #1) by Rose Christo
4. Gemini by Sonya Mukherjee
5. Geek Girl (Geek Girl #1) by Holly Smale (hide spoiler)]

South Beach Diet Phase #2
(view spoiler)[Titles starting with G
1. Genesis Girl (Blank Slate #1) by Jennifer Bardsley
2. Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
3. Grind by Edward Vukovic
4. Gray Street by A. Wood
5. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (hide spoiler)]

Raw Food Diet
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors who self-published or have less than 2 published books.
2) Read!

Raw Food Diet Phase #1
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Mediterranean Diet
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors born in countries other than your own.
2) Read!

Mediterranean Diet Phase #1
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Banana Diet
1) Pick a random letter of the alphabet - link
2) Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter (or all books if there are less than 5).
3) Read!

Banana Diet Phase #1
(view spoiler)[Random Alphabet: R
1. Room by Emma Donoghue
2. Remedies by Kate Ledger
3. Red Rain (Red Rain #1) by Ricky Pine
4. Red Queen (Red Queen #1) by Victoria Aveyard
5. Red Rising (Red Rising #1) by Pierce Brown
6. Relentless (Relentless #1) by Karen Lynch
7. Ruby Red (Edelstein-Trilogie #1) by Kerstin Gier
8. Reboot (Reboot #1) by Amy Tintera
9. Raze (Scarred Souls #1) by Tillie Cole
10. Ruined (Ruined #1) by Amy Tintera
11. Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
12. Riders (Riders #1) by Veronica Rossi
13. Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
14. Reign of Shadows (Reign of Shadows #1) by Sophie Jordan (hide spoiler)]

Detox
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you don't want to read anymore.
2) Delete them!

Detox Phase #1
(view spoiler)[1. Pack Up the Moon (Claire Breslinsky Mystery prequel) by Mary Anne Kelly ; deleted 12/09/2016
2. From the Heart by Nora Roberts ; deleted 16/09/2016
3. The Diagnosis of Love by Maggie Leffler ; deleted 16/09/2016
4. Black Coffee, Split Milk by Helen Cross ; deleted 16/09/2016
5. An Invitation to Sin (Naked Nobility #6.5) by Jo Beverley, Sally MacKenzie, Vanessa Kelly, Kaitlin O'Riley ; deleted 16/09/2016 (hide spoiler)]

Detox Phase #2
(view spoiler)[1. How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson ; deleted 16/09/2016
2. 150 Pounds: A Novel of Waists and Measures by Kate Rockland ; deleted 16/09/2016
3. Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg ; deleted 16/09/2016
4. This is How it Ends by Kathleen MacMahon ; deleted 16/09/2016
5. Remedies by Kate Ledger ; deleted 16/09/2016 (hide spoiler)]

I need this in my life :)

Nothing But Reading Challenges
To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
Duration: 9/1/2016 - Til Done!

                To-Read Weight Loss Challenge

To-read list obesity is a complex disorder involving an excessive amount of unread books. This isn't only an organizational concern. It increases your risk of unfinished series and harms your ability to read books you care about, such as romance, thriller or even historical.

Being extremely book obese means you are especially likely to have unread books on your list.

The good news is that even modest to-read book loss can improve or prevent the problems associated with book obesity. Browsing changes, increased reading activity and behavior changes can help you lose to-read books. Prescription medications and weight-loss surgery will probably not help treating book obesity.

Cure your to-read list obesity today!

Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count: 16,930
2) List your desired end to-read book count: 16,890
3) Choose a diet method Atkins to Start!
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.

Progress: 8 out of 44

Diets
Atkins Diet

"Atkins low carb diet program uses a powerful life-time approach to successful weight loss."
This diet will focus your weight loss on a specific type of book which is great for people who have problems with a wide variety of to-read books.

- Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)
- Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
- Read!

Romance:
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - *** - 9/6/2016 - 507 Pages
2. Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts - **** - 9/13/2016 - 336 Pages
3. Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts - **** - 9/20/2016 - 333 Pages
4. A Night of No Return by Sarah Morgan - *** - 11/15/2016 - 192 Pages
5. Play of Passion by Nalini Singh - *** - 12/1/2016 - 321 Pages


The Zone Diet

"The Zone Diet aims for a nutritional balance of 40% carbohydrates, 30% fats, and 30% protein each time we eat. The focus is also on controlling insulin levels, which result in more successful weight loss and body weight control."

This diet is a more balanced approach that spreads the weight loss to various issues in your to-read list.

- Choose one genre of book that you have on your to-read list = Urban Fantasy
- Choose one series of book that you have on your to-read list = Harry Dresden
- Pick a number between 1 and 5 = 3
- Read at least 3 books from your to-read list in the genre selected.
- Read the rest of the series of the series you have selected (that have been released.)
- Read 2 books on your to-read list that have X hundred pages based on the number you selected. (e.g. If you selected 3, you would read 300-399 page books).

Urban Fantasy Books
6. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley - ***** - 12/7/2016 - 496 Pages
7. Kindling the Moon by Jenn Bennett - ***** - 12/11/2016 - 358 Pages
8. Black Dog by Rachel Neumeier - ***** - 12/25/2016 - 448 Pages


Harry Dresden Books (Finish the Series)
9. Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files (The Dresden Files, #12.5)
10. Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13)
11. Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14)
12. Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)

Books with 300-399 Pages
13.
14.

Vegetarian Diet

Weight Watchers Diet

South Beach Diet

Raw Food Diet

Mediterranean Diet

Banana Diet

The Sleeping Beauty Diet

The Cabbage Soup Diet (view spoiler)

Detox (view spoiler)

Rachel's Diet Challenge
I picked the Vegetarian diet because I should be reading more books about animals for potential blogging/reviewing on my site.

Challenge Steps
Starting to-read book count: 840
Desired end to-read book count: 800
Diet method: Vegetarian
Start Date: 9/13/16

5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals:
1. Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology
2. Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
3. The Vegetarian
4. Night of the Animals
5. Hide the Elephant

Part 4: August 1, 2016 to ????

Detox (view spoiler)[
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated
365 Ways to Strengthen Your Spirituality: Simple Ways to Connect with the Divine
Afterlife Academy
Alienated (Alienated, #1)
All These Things I've Done (Birthright, #1)
Angelfire (Dark Angel, #1)
Aspen Allegations (Sutton Mass. Mystery #1)
Beetles in the Boxcar (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)
Along Came A Demon (Whisperings, #1)
Assault and Pepper (A Spice Shop Mystery #1)
Be a Good in the World: 365 Days of Good Deeds, Inspired Ideas and Acts of Kindness
A Beautiful Dark (A Beautiful Dark, #1)
Big Leagues (A Cat McDaniel Mystery, #1)
Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1)
Bound by Prophecy (Descendants #1)
Breathe (Breathe, #1)
A Brush with the Moon (Foxblood, #1)
The Buckland Romani Tarot: In The Authentic Gypsy Tradition
Calculus for Dummies
Caged in Darkness (Caged, #1)
Chain Reaction (Perfect Chemistry, #3)
A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1)
The Cellar (The Cellar #1)
A Charming Crime (Magical Cure Mystery, #1)
The Collectors’ Society (The Collectors’ Society, #1)
Cold Moon Dead (Esposito Mysteries, #4)
Committee (Llewellyn's Psi-Fi Novel)
A Corpse In A Teacup
Crazy, VA
Crewel (Crewel World, #1)
Cruel Beauty (Cruel Beauty Universe, #1)
Cursed in the Act (Bram Stoker Mystery #1)
Cursed
Crystal Dreams
Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (The Dowser, #1)
Darkangel (The Witches of Cleopatra Hill, #1)
Darker Still (Magic Most Foul, #1)
Darkness Before Dawn (Darkness Before Dawn, #1)
Daughters of the North
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
The Darkest Part of the Forest
Defiance (Defiance, #1)
Death Calls
Death Turns a Trick (Rebecca Schwartz, #1)
Dead Wrong (Blackmoore Sisters Mystery, #1)
Deadly Gamble
Demon Hunting in Dixie (Demon Hunting, #1)
Designer Dirty Laundry (Style and Error Mystery Series, #1)
Diary of a Mummy Misfit
Dishwasher (P.S.)
Dream Student (Dream, #1)
Drinking Closer to Home (P.S.)
Dying to Read (The Cate Kinkaid Files, #1)
Entanglement
Enslaved by Ducks
Enclave (Razorland, #1)
Enchanted
Everything Is Wrong with Me: A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong
Fated (Soul Seekers)
Fateful (Fateful, #1)
Finale (Hush, Hush, #4)
Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble (Jolie Wilkins, #1)
Following My Toes
Forsaken (The Forsaken Saga Book 1)
Freak of Nature (IFICS #1)
Freezer Burn (Peri Minneopa, #1)
Frosted Shadow (Toni Diamond Mysteries #1)
The Gatekeeper's Sons (Gatekeeper's Saga, #1)
The Ghost and the Graveyard (Knight Games, #1)
The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1)
The Girl Who Read the Stars (Otherworld, #1.5)
Good, Clean, Murder
Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, #1)
Graveminder
Gravity (The Taking)
A Good Man Gone (Mercy Watts Mysteries, #1)
Guidebook to Murder (A Tourist Trap Mystery #1)
Haunting Violet (Haunting Violet, #1)
Hemlock
Hidden Wings (Hidden Wings, #1)
How (Not) to Kiss a Prince (Cindy Eller, #2)
How (Not) to Kiss a Toad (Cindy Eller #1)
How to Eat a Cupcake
How to Host a Holiday (The Prequel to Ivy Stratton & The Time Machine)
I Suck at Girls
Zelda: A Biography
The Witch Hunter (Witch Hunter Saga #1)
Wicked (A Wicked Saga, #1)
Wicked Fate (Wicked, #1)
Variant (Variant, #1)
The Vespertine (The Vespertine, #1)
Tyger Tyger (Goblin Wars, #1)
Unraveling (Unraveling, #1)
Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1)
Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman
V is for Virgin (V is for Virgin #1)
Vanish (Firelight, #2)
Unreap my Heart (The Reaper Series Book 2)
Three Bedrooms, Two Baths, One Very Dead Corpse (An Amanda Thorne Mystery, #1)
Tiger Lily
Teardrop (Teardrop Trilogy)
Tempest Rising (Tempest, #1)
Tempest Unleashed (Tempest, #2)
These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)
The Third Kind
Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky, #2)
The Takers (The Oz Chronicles, #1)
Sweet Evil (The Sweet Trilogy, #1)
Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Mysteries, #1)
Silence (Hush, Hush, #3)
Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #4)
Sins & Needles (The Artists Trilogy, #1)
The Sin Eater's Daughter (The Sin Eater’s Daughter, #1)
Snowbound (FireFrost, #1)
Skinny
Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires, #1)
Something Strange and Deadly (Something Strange and Deadly, #1)
Soul Choices Workbook: Six Paths to Find Your Life Purpose
A Spirited Tail (Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery, #2)
A Sweet Murder (Storage Ghost Murders, #1)
Strong Spirits (Daisy Gumm Majesty #1)
Sweet Masterpiece
Strangeville (The Complete Trilogy)
Stray (Shifters, #1)
A Study Companion to Introduction to World Religions
The St. Valentine's Day Cookie Massacre (Hatter's Cove Gazette Mystery #1)
Secrets of Gypsy Dream Reading
Seduced by Innocence (The Seduced Saga, #1)
Secrets of Gypsy Fortunetelling
Shark's Tooth(Emerald Coast Murder)
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
The Seven Steps to Closure
Severed: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow
The Satanic Mechanic (Tannie Maria Mystery, #2)
Pocket Guide to the Supernatural
A pocket guide to the supernatural (An Ace book)
The Bane (The Eden Trilogy, #1)
The Murderous Puzzle (A Suzette Bishop Book Book 1)
The Lost Code (The Atlanteans, #1)
My Life List: Guided Journal
My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future
Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day
Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day 2016
Beyond Wonderland #0 (of 6)
Fight Club 2 Library Edition
Kill Shakespeare #1 (of 12)
Maximum Ride, Vol. 1 (Maximum Ride: The Manga, #1)
The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices: Manga, #1)
Your Personal Paleo Code: The 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, and Stay Fit and Healthy for Life
Murder at Breakfast (Dekker Cozy Mystery #4)
Killer Cupcakes (Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery, #1)
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End
The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
The Sandman: Endless Nights
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
Here Is The Occult
Illuminate (Gilded Wings, #1)
Illusionarium
Immortal with Bonus Material
Macaron Murder (Patisserie Mystery #1)
In the Blood
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty-one Wars
Inescapable (Eternelles, #1)
Infinity (Chronicles of Nick, #1)
Inherit the Word (The Cookbook Nook Series)
Innocent in Las Vegas (Tiffany Black Mysteries #1)
Inspire (The Muse, #1)
Jailbird
Jekel Loves Hyde
The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1)
The Island (The Island #1)
Karma (Karma, #1)
Keeping Faith
One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, #2)
Other (Other, #1)
Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
The Pantheon (Olympia Heights, #1)
Paper Phoenix: A Mystery of San Francisco in the '70s (A Classic Cozy--with Romance!)
The Peculiar (The Peculiar, #1)
Partials (Partials, #1)
Natural Selection (Forces of Nature, #1)
Murder is Binding (A Booktown Mystery, #1)
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
Riley's Curse (A Moon's Glow 0.5)
Rock & Roll Rip-Off
The Art of Fielding
Rules of Attraction (Perfect Chemistry, #2)
The Predicteds
Woo, Wow, and Win: Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight
How to Be a Financial Grownup: Proven Advice from High Achievers on How to Live Your Dreams and Have Financial Freedom
Ray Buckland's Magic Cauldron: A Potpourri of Matters Metaphysical
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Emotional Intelligence Workbook a Teach Yourself Guide
Enterprise LEADER Team Development Program - Facilitator's Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide For CEOs, VPs, Directors, Executives and HR Professionals To Develop ... Performance Business Teams Using Enterp
The Mamacita Murders
Malice In Wonderland (Dulcie O'Neil, #5)
The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
The Magician's Elephant
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Mind Games (Mind Games, #1)
Mind Games (Lock & Mori #2)
Minimalism Is Simple - A 30 Day Challenge
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)
Masque of the Red Death (Masque of the Red Death, #1)
Mind Over Money
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
Murder at Castle Rock (Amelia Grace, #1)
Nobody
Oddly Normal #1
The Ocean
Obsession
Nightfall Gardens
Night Speed
The Palace of Dreams
Perfect Ruin (Internment Chronicles, #1)
The Perfect Girl
The Master Key Workbook
The Personal Vision Workbook
Pale Demon (The Hollows, #9)
A Perfect Blood (The Hollows, #10)
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
Plaid and Plagiarism (Highland Bookshop Mystery #1)
Poison Pen (Forensic Handwriting Mystery, #1)
Practical Guide to Past-Life Memories: Twelve Proven Methods
A Potion to Die For (Magic Potion Mystery #1)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Progressive Dinner Deadly (Myrtle Clover Cozy Mysteries #2)
Psyched
The Psychologist's Book of Personality Tests: 24 Revealing Tests to Identify and Overcome Your Personal Barriers to a Better Life
Real Mermaids Don't Need High Heels (Real Mermaids, #3)
Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name
Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin, #1)
Pumpkins in Paradise (Tj Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery, #1)
Purple Hibiscus
Raven in the Grave (Pretty in Black, #3)
The Bookseller
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
The Short Life of Sparrows
Love in the Time of Global Warming
Saving Wishes (Wishes, #1)
Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The English Patient
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
Tender Is the Night
Albanian Folktales and Legends
Say You're One of Them
The Last Summer of Reason
The Stranger
The Accident
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A Dry White Season
And the Mountains Echoed
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose (People Skills for Professionals)
The Emotional Intelligence Activity Book: 50 Activities for Promoting Eq at Work
The Life-Planning Workbook: Living your life by choice instead of chance
Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
The Ruins of Us: A Novel
Everything Beautiful Began After
The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1)
Deadly Sting (Elemental Assassin, #8)
Scarlet (Scarlet, #1)
The Bean Trees
The Lotus Eaters
A Farewell to Arms
Room
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
A Crash Course On the Anatomy of Robots
Black Ice
By a Thread (Elemental Assassin #6)
Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson, #2)
The Good Girl
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible
The Golden Bough - Classic Illustrated Edition
Three Wishes
Blood Bound (Unbound, #1)
Looking for Alaska
Sea of Shadows (Age of Legends, #1)
French Pastry Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery)
The Silent Girls
Say What You Will
Living Dead Lovers
Goals For Life: Set SMARTER Goals That Stick.
Crimson Bound
Shallow Graves
Lost Voices
Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made
ReEmergent (The Guardians of Vesturon, #4)
The Last Degree
Lady Mechanika #0 (Lady Mechanika Vol. 1)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Special Edition Preview
True Blood: Tainted Love #1
Mary Mary Quite Contrary (The Grimm Diaries Prequels, #5)
The Beginning of the End (The Hollows: Graphic Novel, #1)
Edward Scissorhands #1
Beauty Never Dies (The Grimm Diaries Prequels, #3)
Fight Club 2 #0 (Fight Club Free Comic Book Day 2015)
The Walking Dead #1
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut (The Grimm Diaries Prequels, #4)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Graphic Novel)
The Girl In The Red Hoodie (The Grimm Curse #2)
Buffy: The High School Years - Glutton for Punishment (Buffy: The High School Years, #2)
Prince Charming Must Die (The Grimm Chronicles #1)
Snow White Sorrow (The Grimm Diaries, #1)
UnStrung (Unwind, #1.5)
The Grimm Diaries Prequels 7- 10
The Man Who Would Be King (hide spoiler)]

welcome to the challenge, everyone!