2025 Reading Challenge discussion

CLEAR ALL YOUR BOOKSHELVES CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2018

This challenge is a way to clean out all of your bookshelves: your physical, your electric, and your audible ones! The books you read for this challenge are books you that are already in your possession. Whatever you do for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after December 31, 2017 unless you have read at least 5 books you already own.

Here are some ideas on how to choose your books:

1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished.
2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.
3. Read a book you have started, set aside for awhile, and now want to finish.
4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a yearly challenge.
5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelters, Goodwill, etc.

List the number of
Physical Books:
Ebooks:
Audible Books:
you want to read (listen to).

How to Participate

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress.

Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the challenge leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.

For more information about how challenges work, check out this thread or ask your challenge leader.

Participants

For this challenge, the updates are done a little differently. I share a spreadsheet with you all because of the number of columns needed. Please let me know if you need help understanding how it works.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Updated as of May 2 as of message 602.

I’ll sign up for 12 to start with, please.
I mainly own physical books, so I will concentrate on reducing that pile :-)

Own-not-read - 20/20 - COMPLETE ✔️
UPDATE GOAL FROM 12 TO 20

✅ Belmarsh: Hell - 4⭐️
✅ Hvilken befrielse: Fortælling fra en barndom i nazismens og retsopgørets skygge - Ny revideret udgave - 2,5⭐️
✅ Murder in Mesopotamia - 5⭐️
✅ Evil Under the Sun - 4⭐️
✅ Cat Among the Pigeons - 4⭐️
✅ 4:50 from Paddington - 4,5⭐️
✅ Captains Courageous - 4⭐️
✅ Stalky & Co. - 3⭐️
✅ Uncle Tom's Cabin - 4,5⭐️
✅ Origin - 5⭐️
✅ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 3⭐️
✅ American Gods - 3⭐️
✅ The Clocks - 3,5⭐️
✅ The New Collected Short Stories - 4⭐️
✅ If You Could See Me Now - 3⭐️
✅ Heksen - 3,5⭐️
✅ Elephants Can Remember - 4⭐️
✅ The Man From St. Petersburg - 4⭐️
✅ Purgatory - 4,5⭐️
✅ The Accused - 4⭐️

OMG! I thought I was done joining yearly challenges for 2018 but the goodies just keep on coming :D

Please add me. I need to check my Kindle and determine how many I'll sign up for. For now I'll go with 10 :)

Progress: 4/10
✔ Ready Player One
✔ The Picture of Dorian Gray
✔ The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
✔ Kafka on the Shore

I'll clear my shelves of 5 books.

0/5

I'm in for 30 initially. I need help to clear my bookshelves of books I've bought and never read.

E-books
1 The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
✅2 Where Memories Go 29/03/16
✅3 The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Wax23/12/16
4 Till the Fat Lady Slims
✅5 The Stranger21/12/14
6 So You Want to Be a Wizard
✅7 The Secret Olympian: The inside story of the Olympic experience 18/07/12
8 Red Rising
✅9 Outlander08/09/16
✅10 Me Talk Pretty One Day19/02/14
11 The Killing
✅12 The Hate U Give 1/12/17
✅13 Gone With the Wind 15/06/16
✅14 Four: A Divergent Story Collection25/03/17
15 The End of Your Life Book Club
✅16 Carstairs: Hospital for Horrors 08/09/16
17 The Book of Beasts
✅18 Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition 10/01/17
✅19 New World Fairy Tales bought 25/03/17
✅20 Ready Player One bought 26/12/17
✅21 The Picture of Dorian Gray 27/12/17
✅22 Caraval 24/93/17
✅23 Sense and Sensibility 29/12/17
✅24 Winter 04/05/17
✅25 Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying 18/04/17
✅26 Delicacy 23/04/12
✅27 The Reader on the 6.27 16/01/17
✅28 Fahrenheit 451 27/12/17
✅29 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 19/06/15
✅30 Dead Girls Walking 04/04/17
✅31 Typhoon 21/04/14
✅32 Agony and Ecstasy: My Life in Dance 24/05/13
✅33 Pushing up Daisies 20/09/16
✅34 Little Man in a Dog Suit: The Story of a Boston Terrier 29/12/17
✅The Marvelous Land of Oz 17/01/14
✅The Testing 18/08/16
✅Charlotte's Web 29/12/17
✅Elizabeth Is Missing 01/01/17
✅Followed by Frost7/5/16
✅Jonathan Livingston Seagull 19/10/16
✅The Barry Island Murders 29/12/17
✅Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 16/08/16
✅Miss Treadway & the Field of Stars 01/03/17
✅The Story of Scotland 10/08/12

Physical books
1 What? Dead Again?
✅2 A War of Gifts 7/12/16
✅3 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 31/12/14
4 Mad Girl
5 How to Be a Woman
6 Happy: Finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect
✅7 Claude’s Christmas Adventure received 25/12/16
✅8 City of Heavenly Fire Nov 2017
✅9 The Fortunate Few 1983
✅10 Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World 29/12/17

Audio books
✅1 Into the Water 30/05/17
✅2 La Belle Sauvage library 20/12/17
✅3 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 29/04/17
✅4 Five Quarters Of The Orange 31/12/17
✅5 The Thirteenth Tale 31/12/17

48/30

I'm in but I'll have to update the number later.

Updated: I've changed my goal to 50

70/50

1. Heartless by Marissa Meyer 1/7/18 (added to GR on 10/26/15)
2. A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom 1/7/18 (added to GR on 2/26/17)
3. The Girls by Emma Cline 1/8/18 (added on GR on 1/15/16)
4. Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss 1/13/18 (added on GR on 10/26/15)
5. Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige 1/14/18 (picked up at a used book store over a year ago)
6. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami 1/17/18 (added on GR on 3/23/15)
7. The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli 1/18/18 (added on GR on 10/25/16)
8. Origin by Dan Brown 1/23/18 (added on GR on 10/31/17)
9. After You by Jojo Moyes 1/27/18 (added on GR on 4/26/15)
10. One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus 1/28/18 (added on GR on 7/1/17)
11. A List of Cages by Robin Roe 1/29/18 (added on GR on 1/4/17)
12. 11/22/63 by Stephen King 2/4/18 (added on GR on 5/1/16 but it's been on my physical shelf for years)
13. Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson 2/9/18 (added on GR on 7/12/16)
14. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 2/10/18 (added on GR on 7/1/17)
15. The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson 2/10/18 (added on GR on 6/18/15)
16. Paris for One and Other Stories by Jojo Moyes 2/11/18 (been sitting on my physical shelf since 1/9/15 when it was published)
17. The Diviners by Libba Bray 2/21/18 (added on GR on 4/18/13)
18. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 2/24/18 (added on GR on 11/1/17)
19. A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir 3/3/18 (added on GR on 1/15/16)
20. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 3/4/18 (added on GR on 4/11/14)
21. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han 3/4/18 (added on GR on 11/19/14)
22. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli 3/13/18 (added on GR on 10/28/15)
23. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda 4/4/18 (added on GR on 11/11/16)
24. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green 4/10/18 (added on GR on 9/7/17 and received in my August BOTM box)
25. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton 4/15/18 (added on GR on 1/5/17)
26. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood 4/16/18 (added on GR on 5/16/16)
27. And I Darken by Kiersten White 4/27/18 (added on GR on 10/26/15)
28. A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle 4/29/18 (been sitting on my bookshelf for the last 3 years)
29. Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst 5/6/18 (added on GR on 1/15/16)
30. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas 5/20/18 (added on GR on 5/16/16)
31. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas 5/27/18 (added on GR on 11/18/16)
32. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card 6/2/18 (been sitting on my bookshelf for the last 4 years)
33. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion 6/3/18 (added on GR on 2/6/15)
34. Caraval by Stephanie Garber 6/16/18 (added on GR on 6/25/16)
35. The Rose & the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh 6/22/18 (added on GR on 1/15/16)
36. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire 6/23/18 (added on GR on 3/26/16)
37. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 6/24/18 (added on GR on 8/26/13)
38. A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab 7/1/18 (added on GR on 11/8/15)
39. A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab 7/6/18 (added on GR on 11/10/16)
40. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson 7/8/18 (added on GR on 11/19/14)
41. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller 7/13/18 (added on GR on 10/26/16)
42. Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia 7/14/18 (added on GR on 10/27/16)
43. The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw 7/16/18 (added on GR on 12/22/17)
44. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon 7/22/18 (added on GR on 2/19/17)
45. Mosquitoland by David Arnold 7/23/18 (added on GR on 4/29/16)
46. Kids of Appetite by David Arnold 7/28/18 (added on GR on 4/29/16)
47. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica 7/29/18 (added on GR on 9/27/14)
48. This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab 8/12/18(added on GR on 1/15/16)
49. Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab 8/14/18(added on GR on 10/26/16)
50. The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi 8/25/18(added on GR on 1/8/16)
51. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 9/8/18 (added on GR on 3/15/15)
52. The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen 9/10/18 (added on GR on 3/24/14)
53. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson 9/17/18 (on my shelves since 2012)
54. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon 9/20/18 (added on GR on 6/25/16)
55. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor 9/22/18 (added on GR on 12/2/17)
56. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne 9/22/18 (added on GR on 5/14/17)
57. Dear Martin by Nic Stone 9/23/18 (added on GR on 11/9/17)
58. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake 9/29/18 (added on GR on 4/11/17)
59. Cryptic Cravings by Ellen Schreiber 10/14/18 (on my shelves since I read the last book in 2013)
60. Immortal Hearts by Ellen Schreiber 10/14/18(on my shelves since I read the last book in 2013)
61. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman 10/28/18 (added on GR on 10/14/17)
62. First & Then by Emma Mills 11/4/18 (added on GR on 10/26/15)
63. The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness 11/7/18 (added on GR on 10/26/15)
64. Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough 11/11/18 (added on GR on 12/14/17)
65. The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord 11/16/18 (added on GR on 10/25/16)
66. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher 11/29/18 (added on GR on 11/5/15)
67. What Light by Jay Asher 12/4/18 (added on GR on 9/20/16)
68. A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg 12/8/18 (added on GR on 12/15/17)
69. The Power by Naomi Alderman 12/21/18 (added on GR on 11/1/17)
70. The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu 12/22/18 (added on GR on 11/19/14)

Sign me up for 50

A challenge that can get me to read the books I own!!!

Start: 1 jan 2018 End: 30 dec 2018

1. The Wisdom of the Sands
2. The Chouans
3. The Red and the Black
4. Armance
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. Anna Karenina
7. Far from the Madding Crowd
8. The Forsyte Saga
9. The Secret Agent
10. Sense and Sensibility✔
11. Persuasion✔
12. Moll Flanders✔
13. Vanity Fair
14. The Divine Comedy
15. The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
16. The Adventures of Sherlock
17. Selected Tales
18. Lord Jim✔
19. Martin Eden
20. White Fang
21. Someting by Carl May...can't remember now
22. Orlando
23. To the Lighthouse
24. The Best Loved Plays of Shakespeare actually a different book, but I'm to lazy to find it now... Othello, Macbeth, Coriolanus, The comedy of errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard II
25. Demons
26. Eugénie Grandet
28. Something by Proust 😅
29. Alloy of law✔
and the list is open because I'm a proud owner of classics😁
30. The Diaries of Adam and Eve✔
31. The Turn of the Screw✔
32. The Secret Agent ✔
33. The Charterhouse of Parma ✔

I'm going to aim for 40 books, format TBD (I use all three.)

16/40

Physical: 5
The Dead Zone
Star Trek Movie Tie-In (also ebook)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (I have this book in all 3 formats)
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Ebook: 8
The Hobbit (also own in both physical and audible)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Pride and Prejudice
The Lightning Thief
You're Never Weird on the Internet
The Picture of Dorian Gray (also own audio)
Frankenstein (also own audio)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (also own audio)
Audible: 3
Transfer of Power
The Third Option
The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

I am going to try for 12.

Physical Books (7)

1. The Miracles of Archangel Michael
2. The Healing Miracles of Archangel Raphael
3. The Hostage
4. At Bertram’s Hotel
5. In the Garden of Beasts
Chakras, Auras, and the New Spirituality
6. People of the River
7. The Cult Files


E-Books (5)
1. Belle
2. The Maze Runner
3. Planet Urth (Book 1)
4. Among Wolves (Children Of The Mountain Book 1)
5. Next in Line

Completed: 3/12

sign me up for 100 books
most of them will be ebooks but will have a few paper books
1.Premonition
2.You are So Undead To Me

Just when I think I've decided on all my yearly challenges... there's another one I just can't pass up!

total read → 00 | 50

physical → 32
ebook → 6
earc → 12

Brianna wrote: "Just when I think I've decided on all my yearly challenges... there's another one I just can't pass up!

total read →

physical →
ebook →
earc →"

Hahaha, I know what you mean Brianna! Good luck with all of your challenges!

Can't pass this one up either! lol I'll go for 30 books !

Physical Books: (27)
1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. America's First Daughter
3. Betsy-Tacy and Tib
4. Bloodstone
5. The Clique
6. Emily of New Moon
7. Emma
8. Frankly My Dear, I'm Dead
9. The Golden Compass
10. Gossip Girl
11. The Hidden Staircase
12. I See You
13. The Life We Bury
14. Lust
15. Midnight Crossroad
16. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
17. New Moon
18. New Year's Eve Murder
19. No Rest for the Dove
20. NYPD Red 3
21. One for the Money
22. The Promise
23. The Quick and the Thread
24. Real Murders
25. Step on a Crack
26. Valentine visitor
27. The Westing Game

Ebooks: (2)
1. Kiss a Girl in the Rain
2. Taking the Fall

Audible books: (1)
TBD

Brianna wrote: "Just when I think I've decided on all my yearly challenges... there's another one I just can't pass up!

total read →

physical →
ebook →
earc →"

I know just what you mean! lol

I'm in for 50 Kindle books.

50/50
Complete!

The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
Forbidden Entry (Kendall O'Dell Series #5)
Arbor Hill (Jack Marconi)
Something Witchy This Way Comes (Jolie Wilkins #5)
The Shining
Replica
The Truth about the Titanic
Misery
The Tower of London
Anna Karenina
Unbridled
The Terracotta Army
Rogue's Hollow
Finders Keepers
The Declaration of Independence: History and Legacy
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon #1)
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon #2)
Aesop's Fables
Inferno (Robert Langdon #4)
King Lear
The Comedy of Errors
Memories Before and After The Sound of Music
The Shipwreck of the Essex
Reaching the North Pole
Lucifer's Hammer
The Stepford Wives
Airport
Insider X (Marks & Lip #2)
The Breach (Travis Chase #1)
Hyde
The Killing Room
The Jakarta Pandemic (The Perseid Collapse #0.5)
The Perseid Collapse (The Perseid Collapse #1)
Cashback
Quiet River
Genesis (Mark Taylor #0.5)
No Good Deed (Mark Taylor #1)
March into Hell (Mark Taylor #2)
Dracula's Demeter
The Zen Man
Online
From the Storm
The Vivisectionist
Desert Places (Andrew Thomas/Luther Kite #1)
Whiskey Sour (Jack Daniels Mystery #1)
Bloody Mary (Jack Daniels Mystery #2)
Exposure
The One You Love (Emma Holden #1)
Gray Area
You Only Die Twice

Since I plan on reading books from my shelf anyways, I will be joinning this. I'm only going to count books that been on my shelf for 2+ years.

Physical:
1. Crazy
2. Firefight
3. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
4. Necromancing the Stone
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

This is what I've planned anyway, so I'm in with 10 books:
9 pBooks + 1 eBook

Read 3/10:
1. Pollyanna
2. Catching Fire
3. The Da Vinci Code

I’m in! I’ll start with 5. I hope this is a good incentive. My books are mainly audio and ebooks.

Clear the Shelves
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2018

(Physical books which are either passed on to family or friends or donated.)

1. Alles is verlicht (Everything Is Illuminated) by Jonathan Safran Foer
Completed 2/1/18 Rating 2 stars

2. Five Get into Trouble by Enid Blyton
Completed 7/1/18 Rating 4 stars

3. Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Completed 9/1/18 Rating 4 stars

4. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Completed 25/1/18 Rating 4 stars

5. Milk Glass Moon by Adriana Trigiani
Completed 23/2/18 Rating 4 stars

6. The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende
Completed 15/3/18 Rating 3 stars

7. In mijn dromen by Simone van der Vlugt
Completed 23/3/18 Rating 3 stars

8. Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage. by Elizabeth Gilbert
Completed 11/4/18 Rating 3 stars

9. Along Came A Spider by James Patterson
Completed 25/4/18 Rating 4 stars

10. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Completed 27/4/18 Rating 5 stars

11. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Completed 3/5/18 Rating 4 stars

12. The Dog Who Came in From the Cold by Alexander McCall Smith
Completed 11/5/18 Rating 4 stars

13. De Indische waterlelies (The Indian Water Lilies) by Efteling - Queen Fabiola of Belgium
Completed 12/5/18 Rating 3 stars

14. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Completed 6/6/18 Rating 4 stars

15. Op klaarlichte dag by Simone van der Vlugt
Completed 16/6/18 Rating 3 stars

16. Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Completed 22/6/18 Rating 4 stars

17. De Ontsnapping (Escape) by Heleen van Royen
Completed 8/7/18 Rating 2 stars

18. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Completed 18/7/18 Rating 3 stars

19. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Completed 13/8/18 Rating 4 stars

20. Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Completed 17/8/18 Rating 3 stars

21. Mario and the Magician by Thomas Mann
Completed 19/8/18 Rating 3 stars


21/35

I'm going to use books already on my challenges (see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...) but they will be divided up as follows:

20/63

Physical: 31
Cranford
A Death at Fountains Abbey
The Eyre Affair
Great Expectations
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth
The Man Who Spoke Snakish
The Sculptress
Zofloya

Ebook: 32
The 39 Steps
Anna Karenina
The Bell Jar
A Darker Shade of Magic
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Death in Venice
Cymbeline
Career of Evil
Peter Pan
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
The Trial

So 63 now I've decided on which ones! I don't really do audiobooks so haven't counted them in this.

I’m in for 50 books. What a great challenge!

Physical-12
Ebooks-38

I’m in for clearing my shelves! Will update later.

Clear the Shelves Challenge
1/20 Audible books

✓ 1. Refuge
2. The Three-Body Problem
3. The Dark Forest
4. Death's End
5. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
6. The Magicians
7. The Magician's Land
8. Barkskins
9. Arcadia
10. Planetfall
11. After Atlas
12. Seveneves
13. The Nightingale
14. Mr. Mann: The afterlife and times of the Devil's Acquisitor ad Infinitum
15. Children of God
16. The Sparrow
17. The Name of the Rose
18. The Name of the Wind
19. Beach Music
20. The Invisible Bridge

oh gods i need to do this...yes please!

sign me up for 25 physical books :)

I know that this to-read list will get bigger as these are off the top of my head (I've recently moved house some of these books are still in boxes!)

26/28

Physical Books - 10/12:

▴ Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
▴ The Long Song by Andrea Levy
▴ Saga, Vol. 1 (Saga, #1) by Brian K. Vaughan
▴ Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
▴ The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
▴ East of Acre Lane by Alex Wheatle
▴ La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust #1) by Philip Pullman
▴ Uprooted by Naomi Novik
▴ The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5) by Terry Pratchett
▴ American Street by Ibi Zoboi
▴ Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
▴ I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith


Ebooks - 8/8:

▴ The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
▴ The Leopard (Harry Hole, #8) by Jo Nesbø
▴ Collected Folk Tales by Alan Garner
▴ Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
▴ Magyk by Angie Sage
▴ The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan
▴ The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1) by Cixin Liu
▴ Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

Audio Books - 8/8:

▴ Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
▴ See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
▴ The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; Sebastian Baczkiewicz (Adaptation)
▴ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
▴ The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
▴ The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
▴ The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
▴ The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya

I am going to enter this with 32

4/32

Physical Books: 13/30


Ebooks: 2/5


Audiobooks: 2

I'm in for 15!

physical books:9/10
1. Don't Breathe a Word***
2. The Perfect Fit: Fat-Free Dreams Just Don't Taste the Same***
3. One Good Dog****
4. For My Daughters****
5. Unraveled: The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother***
6.The Weight of Silence****
7. Barefoot***
8. Perfect Match****
9. Song of Redemption***

Ebooks: 0/5

💜💜💜 Clear the Shelves - 2018 💜💜💜
This list will be books that I've had on my TBR for 2 or more years.

E-books: (view spoiler)[
✤ Heidi 15/1/18
✤ Dead Fire February 18, 2018
✤ Torrent March 11, 2018
✤ The Indian In The Cupboard Trilogy February 11, 2018
(hide spoiler)]


Physical books: (view spoiler)[
✤ Gods and Warriors June 16, 2018
✤ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire August 19, 2018
✤ Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon May 4, 2018
✤ Jane Austen: The Complete Collection September 4, 2018
✤ Insurgent March 11, 2018
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✤ Winter September 8, 2018
✤ Kingsman: The Secret Service July 5, 2018
✤ TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES June 22, 2018
✤ War Horse July 26, 2018
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I'm in for 30!


List the number of

Physical Books:
- Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig - completed January 2018
- The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor - completed January 2018
- A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall - completed February 2018
- The Last Girls by Lee Smith - completed February 2018
- The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks - completed August 2018
- White Oleander by Janet Finch - completed August 2018
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - completed October 2018

Ebooks:
- The Eight by Katherine Neville - completed January 2018
- Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah - completed January 2018
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterley - completed January 2018
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas - completed January 2018
- The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell - completed January 2018
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley - completed February 2018
- Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton - completed March 2018
- Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah - completed March 2018
- Fly Away by Kristin Hannah - completed April 2018
- Dodgers by Bill Beverly - completed April 2018
- The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead - completed April 2018
- Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King - completed June 2018
- The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen - completed June 2018
- Seduced By The Heart Surgeon by Carol Marinelli - completed July 2018
- The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken - completed July 2018
- Brother’s Ruin by Emma Newman - completed August 2018
- Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty - completed September 2018
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - completed October 2018
- Night Road by Kristin Hannah - completed November 2018
- The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle - completed November 2018
- The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol - completed November 2018
- The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith - completed November 2018

Audible Books:
- The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy Reichert - completed May 2018

30/30 - challenge completed!!!

i'm in for 30 books so nice to see this as a yearly challenge!

I'm in for 24 books!

I have a huge owned-but-not-read pile. I'll aim for 20 physical and 5 e-books.

Please sign me up for 40 books - love this challenge, it is much needed!

Clear the Shelves
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2018

This challenge is a way to clean out all of your bookshelves: your physical, your electric, and your audible ones! The books you read for this challenge are books you that are already in your possession.

I'm going to sign up for reading 40 books that I already owned prior to December 31st 2017. My backlist is huge so this should be a doddle! I'll fill in the books as I go.

1. How to be Champion by Sarah Millican ✔
2. Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu ✔
3. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli ✔
4. The Explorer by Katherine Rundell ✔
5. The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave ✔
6. It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne ✔
7. The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli ✔
8. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman ✔
9. Needlework by Deirdre Sullivan ✔
10. The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu ✔
11. Simply the Quest by Maz Evans ✔
12. S.T.A.G.S by M. A. Bennett ✔
13. The Potion Diaries by Amy Alward ✔
14. Seed by Lisa Heathfield ✔
15. Gilded Cage by Vic James ✔
16. Tarnished City by Vic James ✔
17. Tangleweed and Brine by Deirdre Sullivan ✔
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Read: 17/40 books

So I have a lot of books that I already own that I have to read. I did really well until I discovered Library Sales and BookBub...Then things got out of control!

Physical: 12/50
1. High Fidelity
2. A Brief History of Time
3. Belief In Allah
4. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why
5. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
6. Tafsir Ibn Kathir
7. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed
8. Tuesdays with Morrie
9. The World of the Noble Angels: In the Light of the Qur'an and Sunnah
10. The Road
11. Shahadah & Its Essential Conditions
12. Tafsir Ibn Kathir Volume 2 0f 10

e-book: 8/50
1. The Big Sleep
2. Beauty
3. Goldilocks
4. Briar Rose
5. Rapunzel
6. Close to Home
7. Red
8. Alice

Audible: 9/15
1. 1776
2. A Study in Scarlet
3. The Sign of Four
4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
5. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
6. Stumbling on Happiness
7. First World Problems: 101 Reasons Why The Terrorists Hate Us
8. Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
9. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Total: 29/115

Which is more than my yearly goal, buy I'll try!

See the updated web link for your updates!
Welcome to the challenge everyone!

Sigh...resistance is futile.

Clear the Shelves - 2018
4/41

7 EBOOKS
✔ 1. Fallen - 1/4 ★★

34 AUDIOBOOKS
✔ 1. Reckless - 1/1 ★★★½
✔ 2. Night School - 1/4 ★★★
✔ 3. Too Much Temptation - 1/13 ★★★

I'm in for 50 books.

I'm in for 10 books, but I think the number will go up as the year progresses.

1. Middengard Sagas Omninbus: Books 1 to 3 - set aside and finally finished it!

2. Cinder - Counts toward yearly challenge

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D.G. wrote: "Sigh...resistance is futile. ..."

Hahaha, good one! And so true!

Kadijah, I've finally got the right number of books on #24! Just thought I'd write another message in case you miss it!

If anyone wants to know which books I'm using, here's the shelf for this challenge! https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Physical
1Treasure Island✔
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14

ebooks
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audible books
1Girls Made of Snow and Glass✔
2The Hunger Games✔
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2/40

Books: 20
Kindle books: 20

Books:
✔ 1. The Ersatz Elevator
2. The Vile Village
3. The Hostile Hospital
4. The Carnivorous Carnival
5. Dust
6. The City of Mirrors
7. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
8. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's
Sorry
9. A Brief History of Seven Killings
10. The Night Circus
11.The Dark Lake
12. The Lying Game
13. The Windup Girl
14.Night Film
15. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
16. Whistling Past the Graveyard
17. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
✔ 18.44 Scotland Street
19. Coming Clean
20.The Devil's Star

Kindle Books
1. Passenger 19
2. MY FATHER'S KILLER: Kayla's Story
3. The Boy on the Bridge
4. Fractured
5. Triptych
6. Little Girl Lost: A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery- Book 0
✔ 7. Dawn Girl
8. The Cereal Murders
✔ 9. A Guide to the Birds of East Africa 1/3/2018
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
11. The Nightingale
12. The Virgin in the Ice
✔ 13. The Watson Girl 1/6/2018
14. Between
15. Before He Kills
16. Dark Space
✔ 17. Mortal Engines -1/24/2018
18. The Colony
19. The Cat Who Saw Red
20. Becoming Human

Just the challenge for me.
Sign me up for 75 please. I'll mix paperbacks with kindle as I go. Hope that's ok.

Physical books read:

1. Kushiel's Dart - 1/5/2018
2. Victory of Eagles - 1/7/2018
3. Child of the Prophecy - 1/7/2018
4. Sword-Born - 1/8/2018
5. The Return of the Soldier - 1/12/2018
6. Dragons of Winter Night - 1/12/2018
7. Gardens of the Moon - 1/13/2018
8. Paladin of Souls - 1/15/2018
9. Cross Stitch - 1/15/2018
10. The Darkest Road - 1/21/2018
11. The Witch's Daughter - 1/23/2018
12. Legend - 1/25/2018
13. The Clan of the Cave Bear - 1/25/2018
14. Blood Song - 1/29/2018
15. Legend - 1/30/2018
16. Wizard's First Rule - 2/02/2018
17. Kushiel's Chosen - 2/05/2018
18. Heir to Sevenwaters - 2/06/2018
19. The Winter Witch - 2/06/2018
20. Tongues of Serpents - 2/07/2018
21. Before I Go to Sleep - 2/09/2018
22. Daughter of the Empire - 2/10/2018
23. The Claw of the Conciliator - 2/11/2018
24. Sword-Sworn - 2/12/2018
25. Dragons of Spring Dawning - 2/13/2018
26. The Demon's Librarian - 2/13/2018
27. Snowbrother - 2/14/2018
28. A Darker Shade of Magic - 2/14/2018
29. The Last Unicorn - 2/15/2018
30. The Winter Ghosts - 2/16/2018
31. The Christmas Train - 2/16/2018
32. Veronika Decides to Die - 2/17/2018
33. Aunt Jane's Nieces - 2/20/2018
34. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad - 2/22/2018
35. Deadhouse Gates - 2/22/2018
36. Tower Lord - 2/26/2018
37. Anathem - 2/28/2018
38. Stone of Tears - 3/02/2018
39. Little Dorrit - 3/03/2018
40. Seer of Sevenwaters - 3/04/2018
41. The Crystal Shard - 3/06/2018
42. Kushiel's Avatar - 3/07/2018
43. Queen of Fire - 3/10/2018
44. Crucible of Gold - 3/11/2018
45. 100 Selected Stories - 3/14/2018
46. Servant of the Empire - 3/16/2018
47. Streams of Silver - 3/20/2018
48. The Scorpio Races - 3/21/2018
49. The Curse of the Mistwraith - 3/25/2018
50. The Halfling's Gem - 3/25/2018
51. A Wrinkle in Time - 3/26/2018
52. So You Want to Be a Wizard - 3/29/2018
53. The Black Gryphon - 3/31/2018
54. Blood of the Fold - 4/02/2018
55. Dance Upon the Air - 4/03/2018
56. The Thief of Always - 4/03/2018
57. Heaven and Earth - 4/04/2018
58. Deep Wizardry - 4/05/2018
59. Face the Fire - 4/06/2018
60. Beard Science
61. The Falcons of Montabard
62. The Duke and I
63. The Graveyard Book
64. The Last Wish
65. Boy's Life
65. Archangel
66. Angel-Seeker
67. Fool's Assassin
68. Fool's Quest
69. The Heroes
70. Best Served Cold

Kindle books read:

1. Eight Cousins - 2/16/2018
2. The Frog Prince
3. Me and You
4. A Beauty So Beastly
5. Pleasing the Ghost

Challenge completed!

I'm in for 40 physical books!

4/40

1. Autumn by Ali Smith.
2. Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard.
3. Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik.
4. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.

I'm going to start with 12! 5 physical books and 7 ebooks.

I randomized my "Books I Own" and "Ebooks I Own" lists to get these:

1. House of Stairs
2. Where the Numb Meets the Lonely.
3. Every Secret Thing
4. The Beach Club
5. A Wedding in December

I will donate all of the physical copies to the library!

1. A Beautiful Poison
2. In the Shadow of Lakecrest
3. Blindsided
4. Rise of the Dragons
5. Greyhound
6. Ghost in the Machine
7. The Candidate's Daughter

12/12

So I still have a hard time following the Goodreads site but this will be the year that I make an all-out effort. Cat, your list of books looks awesome and I too have about 50 books on my shelf that I have not read or have started and put down. You have inspired me and I will put my challenge in after I look at what i have got. thanks
debiCat wrote: "A challenge that can get me to read the books I own!!!

Start: 1 jan 2018 End: 30 dec 2018

1. The Wisdom of the Sands
2. T..."

Debi wrote: "So I still have a hard time following the Goodreads site but this will be the year that I make an all-out effort. C
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Hi Debi, what makes it hard? Do you mean something technical or finding the time to update your challenges/readings?

I'm in with 15 physical books!

1. The three Muketeers
2. War and peace
3. Slaughterhouse five
4. Adventures of sherlock holmes
5. Brief History of Time
6. I know why the caged bird sings
7. A tale of two cities
8. The Importance of Being Earnest
9. The name of the rose
10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
11. Mrs. Dalloway
12. To the Lighthouse
13. The Count of Monte Cristo
14. The Old Man and the Sea
15. Dracula