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I still want to clear off books that have been on my to read shelf for too long, but on a smaller scale. I'm going to commit to 30 of these. I also plan to read newer books on my TBR with similar words in their title. Ever noticed how many 'girl' books there are? I'm going to target that group first I think.

Old TBR
30/30
✔1. The Road Between Us
✔2. Love Anthony
✔3. Love Invents Us
✔4. Empress Orchid
✔5. Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's
✔6. My Name Is Memory
7. Life Without Summer UTL
✔8. Fragile
✔9. The Violets of March
✔10. Heartbroken
✔11. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
✔12. The Lucy Family Alphabet
✔13. For One More Day
✔14. The Story of My Life
✔15. Far to Go
✔16. Change of Heart
✔17. Columbine
✔18. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
✔19. Please Look After Mom
✔20. Searching for Schindler: A Memoir
✔21. Mao's Last Dancer
✔22. The Secret River
✔23. The Lost Girls
✔24. Black Chalk
✔25. Deserving Death
✔26. Girl in Translation
✔27. Losing Kate
✔28. Neither Present Time
✔29. Simmering Season
✔30. The Watcher

Common Title Words

Girl 19/28
✔The Lost Girls
✔Girl in Translation
✔Girl, Interrupted
✔The Glass Girls
✔The Story of Beautiful Girl
✔The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
✔The Girl On Legare Street
The Forgotten Girl
The Girl From the Train
Moth Girls
✔The Girl You Lost
Nowhere Girl
The Lost Girls
✔Local Girl Missing
✔The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Roanoke Girls
✔The Girl Who Came Back
The Lost Girl
The Girl Who Lived
The Birthday Girl
✔Pretty Girls Dancing
✔Lost Girls
✔The Girl Who Came Back
✔The Stolen Girls
✔The Girl Before
✔The Broken Girls
✔The Hurricane Girls: The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly
✔The Girlfriend

Lost1/ 9
The Lost Wife
Lost & Found
Lost Memory of Skin
How I Lost You
The Edge of Lost
✔How to Be Lost
Lost Lake
The Keeper of Lost Things
Spirit of Lost Angels

Secret 7/16
✔The Secret River
Secret Lives
✔Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
The Secret Speech
The Secret Scripture
The Secrets of Lake Road
The Secret Life of Luke Livingstone
Dead Secret
The Secret by the Lake
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
Blood Secret
✔The Art of Keeping Secrets
✔The Secrets She Keeps
✔Silkworm Secrets
✔Little Secrets
✔The Secret Mother

Sister 1/8
✔The Sisters' Song
Sisterland
The Good Sister
The Good Sister
Bad Sister
Sister Dear
Two Sisters
Sisters of Shiloh

Lies5/12
White Lies
Tell Me No Lies
Lies
The Weight of Lies
Liar
✔Every Last Lie
Where the Memories Lie
Lie With Me
✔Sometimes I Lie
✔The Marriage Lie
✔Let Me Lie
✔The Liar


Boy 1/4
✔Boy, 9, Missing
The Two O'Clock Boy
The Boy Who Saw
American Boy

Gone3/ 4
✔A Long Time Gone
✔Nine Years Gone
✔Gone
Gone Astray

12 Really want to/meant to read
12/12
✔1.Small Great Things
✔2.The Sisters' Song
✔3.Best Day Ever
✔4.Before We Were Yours
✔5.Silkworm Secrets
✔6.The Women in the Castle
✔7.The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
✔8.I Will Send Rain
✔9.A Prayer for Owen Meany
✔10.Different Seasons
✔11. Coming of Age at the End of Days
✔12.When We Were Friends

Good luck and happy reading, Kerri 📚📚

Good luck Kerri! Great challenge :)

Good luck Kerri!

Isn't it funny how many titles have the same words in them!

And I just finished The Women in the Castle and can recommend it!

Kathryn wrote: "Isn't it funny how many titles have the same words in them!

And I just finished The Women in the Castle and can recommend it!"
I know, in particular I am so tired of books with 'girl' in their title. I have heard good things about Women in the Castle, I'm really looking forward to reading it. I'll be starting The Sisters' Song tonight another one I'm looking forward to.

Love the idea Kerri! And it is amazing how many books have similar titles when you see them grouped like that!

Good luck, happy reading! :)

Kylie wrote: "Love the idea Kerri! And it is amazing how many books have similar titles when you see them grouped like that!

Good luck, happy reading! :)"

Thanks Kylie, there are way too many on my TBR, I had to cut my original list back.

The 'girl' challenge, I love it!

Well, I think I did ok, not great but ok. I cleared my 30 old TBR books and will complete the 12 I really wanted to read, common words was a bit of fail though. I think I added as many books with girl in the title as I cleared off! I'm going to boycott them altogether nest year, author's will just have to come up with something more original for me.

Well done Kerri! You finished a fantastic amount! Great job :)