2025 Reading Challenge discussion

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

Sometimes it can be tough to choose what to read next. Instead, let this challenge decide for you!

Step 1: Go here: http://www.random.org/integers/
Step 2: Put your goal of the number of books you want to read off your TBR list in the first box
Step 3: Put 1 in the second box and the total number of books you have on your to-read list in the third box so that it reads "Each integer should have a value between 1 and x" where x is the total number of books on your list
Step 4: Click "Get numbers"
Step 5: Look at your to-read list on Goodreads and read the books that correspond to the numbers generated*

*If you do not see any numbers on your to-read list, click "shelf settings," check "position," and change Sort to "position."

Post your list of books to read here!

Participants


Adriana
Agnes
Alissa
Amanda
Amelia
Amie
Angelique
Annika
Antoinella
Arianne
Artemisia
Barb
Bookwench69
Brianna
Brianna Andreda
Canndane
Carrie
Carrie (m100)
Caro
Charlotte
Chelsea
Chelsi
Cheryl
Chris
ChrisR
Claire P
Clare
Dana
Daphne
Deneal
Dessa
E
Erica
Erika
Freya
Greg
Helen
Heli
Holli
Ian
Jaclyn
Jane
Janhavi
Jen
Jenn
Jodi
Karina
Kathryn
Katy (Queen of the trash nerds)
Kayla
Kelsi
Kendra
Kim
Lilac
Lindy-Lane
Lois
Lorelei
Mary-Ann
Mary Pat
Maureen
Meimei
Meg
Megan
Michelle
Monica
Nancy Marie
Natalie
Nicole
Nidhi
PSmith
Rachel
Ren
Robin
Sabreen
Sarah
Sherry
Sibyl
Simone
Stefani
Stefani-SpelingExpirt
Stephanie
Susan
Tasha
Theresa~OctoberLace
Timothy
Tina
Toxey
Traci
Vernice
Victoria
Winter
Zara

Participants completed challenge :

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

I didn't have much luck this year with this challenge, hopefully 2015 will be better.

Completed: 0/10
Book List

1. From Strength to Strength
7. Cleopatra's Daughter
8. Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
15. Every Little Thing About You
18. Moonlight on the Millpond
25. Wild Lavender
42. Ghost Gum Valley
48. Maralinga: The Chilling Expose of Our Secret Nuclear Shame and Betrayal of Our Troops and Country
50. Making The Rounds With Oscar
65. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

RANDOMISER CHALLENGE.
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2015
Goal: To read 10 books from "My Books - To Read List"

31. The First World War / John Keegan
54. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo / Hayden Herrera
61. Virginia Woolf a Biography / Quentin Bell
10. Up the Line to Death / Brian Gardner
72. Pirate Queen of Ireland: the Adventures of Grace O'Malley / Anne Chambers
5. Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer / Alice Lide
74. History's famous women pirates: Grace O'Malley, Anne Bonny and Mary Read / Charles River Editors
79. Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer / Roy Peter Clark
3. Color: A Natural History of the Palette / Victoria Finlay
13. Old Soldiers Never Die / Frank Richards

I'm in with 15 books. I do hope some of them can be fitted in with other challenges as well, otherwise I may have a problem :-)

My list of numbers:
172 Love's Tender Fury
214 Unrest
259 Bottoms Up
300 Magic Cottage, Das Haus auf dem Land
475 The Long Earth
519 Cinder read 05-02-2015
741 Magician
792 Joyland
854 Welcome to Dead House read 30-01-2015
1001 Bezonken rood read 25-01-2015
1288 A Home at the End of the World
1639 Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
1749 Voss
1984 Vernon God Little
2303 Op hoop van zegen: spel van de zee in vier bedrijven

It turned out to be a varied list with some easy reading and some books that need a little bit more effort. I'm looking forward to reading them.

3/15

I have added everyone

I will go for 6, here are my numbers and corresponding books
25 – The Lovely Bones
27 – And the Mountains Echoed
5 – Life After Life
36 – Ask Me If I Care
18 - The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor: Part One
32 – The Cuckoo's Calling

Count me in for 20. There are a lot of sequels in my list (like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books). But I didn't want to 'cheat'. I hope it will help me to narrow my tbr list. Good luck everybody.

Total books read: 02 / 20

Books:

151. Veronica Roth - Insurgent.
159. Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead, vol 11. (1/4/15)
77. Ian Irvine - The Destiny of the Dead.
166. Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead, vol 18.
11. Ian Irvine - Tetrarch: A Tale of the Three Worlds.
99. Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey. (1/15/15)
51. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
15. Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight.
46. C. S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
18. Robert Jordan - Towers of Midnight.
84. Mary Shelley - The Last Man.
131. Terry Prachett - Lords and Ladies.
66. J. R. R. Tolkien - The Children of Hurin.
152. S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders.
161. Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead, vol 14.
47. John Steinbeck - Of Men and Mice.
52. Ken Kesey - Obe Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
116. Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune.
133. Anthony Beevor - D-day: The Battle for Normandy.
157. Orson Scott Card - Shadow of the Giant.

I decided to do 1 per month, so 12.

18 - Going Rogue: An American Life - 3/17
32 - The Time Traveler's Wife - 10/19
52 - The Invisible Man - 2/20
56 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - 10/1
68 - Mr. Kiss and Tell - 2/22
86 - A Tale of Two Cities - 12/21
96 - The Girl in the Wall - 3/19
118 - You Had Me At Hello - 7/11
153 - Nantucket Blue - 3/10
169 - Red Rain - 11/1
208 - Us
260 - Only Ever Yours - 7/19

11/12

I have added everyone

I am in! I will shoot for 10 books.

61- Silas Marner by George Eliot
80- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
66- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
16- Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
12- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
42- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
81- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
77- The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
8- Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

In the title is "TBR". What does this stand for?

Lois wrote: "In the title is "TBR". What does this stand for?"

To Be Read

Thanks Stefani

I'm in but need to try to finish randomiser challenge 2014 before I get my random numbers/books for 2015!

I will participate again. I will not have such much ambition this time and will set it up for just 15 books. Hope I make this time. The numbers are:

1. 2The Learning Curve
2. 6Island
3. 26The Outsider
4. 34Anna Karenina
5. 42The Secret Life of Sleep
6. 53Review of My Cat
7. 58The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
8. 69Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
9. 82 Drown
10. 86A Thousand Splendid Suns
11. 94Fall of Giants
12. 97La ridícula idea de no volver a verte
13. 139If I Stay
14. 148El caso Collini
15. 164Underground

Hopefully in 2015 I will make it

I'm in! I will aim for six:

1. Eat, Pray, Love
12. Across the Universe1.
14. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
30. The Casual Vacancy
35. 1984
55. Landline

I've added you Charlotte

Alissa and Caro I have added you both. Welcome to the challenge

Please sign me up for this one Zara. I am going to try for 20.

11. The Light Between Oceans
23. Hold Still
298. American Psycho
302. Suite Française
392. Mink River
318. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
89. Super Sad True Love Story
116. Indian Horse
324. The Historian
177. Before Ever After
164. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
✔55. And Then There Were None
✔413. Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding
320. Seraphina
173. Cry, the Beloved Country
420. She Is Not Invisible
✔280. I Am Number Four
161. Lolita
✔390. Clockwork Princess
188. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Funny thing is I completely did not make my last year's Randomiser Challenge and the Randomiser picked some of the books I was supposed to read this past year.

Yay! I loved this challenge this year! I'll go for 20 again :)


197
166
103
128
180
21
24
35
78
41
34
78
15
182
106
53
55
162
139
125

I'm going to read at least 10 each month which is equivalent to 120 books.

January:
101 =
271 =
298 =
251 =
97 =
220 =
75 =
144 =
110 =
174 =

wooohhooo so excited :D

I wasn't going to do this, but, uh, generated a list for fun, and it looks like a good one, so... I'll do 10.


008: Arkady Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
020: Ian McDonald - Planesrunner
067: Max Gladstone - Three Parts Dead
163: Andri Snær Magnason - Lovestar
176: Michael Chabon - The Final Solution
180: Seth Mnookin - The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
206: Paolo Bacigalupi - Zombie Baseball Beatdown
251: Larry Niven - Lucifer's Hammer
260: Nick Sagan - Idlewild
335: Frances Hardinge - A Face Like Glass

I'm in and will go for 12!

and here they are....


046 True History of the Kelly Gang
208 Reaper Man
314 The Yiddish Policemen's Union
175 Forest of Dreams: The Laylines Trilogy
378 In Search of the Blue Tiger
232 The Last Time They Met
398 The Sisters Brothers
515 California
214 Servant of the Bones
301 Children of Liberty
184 Monstrous Regiment
290 The Mystery of Mercy Close

I will make sure to fit in one every month for 2015 (around all my other challenges!)

I'm in!! And here are my books..

(3/10)

27. Survivor
15. Lord of the Flies
6. Sex Love Repeat
3. Heartbreak Hotel
25. Paper Towns
22. The House of the Spirits
23. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
13. Willow
29. Rant
7. Me Before You

This is a great idea, there are books on my TBR that I know I'll never actually get to unless forced to. I'm in for 10

13 - Keeping You a Secret
33 - Love
98 - Lifeguard - read March 19th
127 - Chemical Z
169 - The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
217 - Sword of the Guardian
238 - Florida Roadkill
346 - The Romanov Bride
393 - Casino Royale
479 - Red Queen - read February 16th

2/10

I'm in for 20 40 books for this challenge. Here are the numbers and the books that go with them:


Increased goal from 20 to 40 (5/5/2015)

✓ 356 - The Good Muslim read 11/29/2015
✓ 238 - Starvation Lake read 3/23/2015
✓ 239 - Sell the Pig read 2/16/2015
✓ 378 - The Weight of Blood read 4/6/2015
✓ 225 - Man in the Woods read 2/18/2015
✓ 99 - Social Blunders read 1/5/2015
✓ 49 - The Middlesteins read 1/10/2015
✓ 204 - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter read 1/19/2015
✓ 55 - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln read 1/25/2015
✓ 337 - Vintage read 2/17/2015
✓ 282 - The Good Luck of Right Now read 4/29/2015
✓ 189 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle read 5/4/2015
✓ 158 - Dance of the Winnebagos read 3/15/2015
✓ 121 - Son of a Gun: A Memoir read 2/19/2015
✓ 417 - Cold Storage read 1/2/2015
✓ 330 - I Loved You More read 7/28/2015
✓ 129 - NW read 6/22/2015
✓ 93 - Because of You read 6/15/2015
✓ 69 - Love Walked In read 6/12/2015
✓ 350 - Dead Politician Society: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel read 3/1/2015

Second set of 20
✓ 234 - Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald read 6/11/2015
✓ 411 - Our Endless Numbered Days read 6/13/2015
✓ 192 - Half a Life read 9/11/2015
✓ 153 - The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal read 11/1/2015
✓ 391 - Bridge of Sighs read 7/12/2015
✓ 106 - Making Marriage Simple: Ten Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have into the One You Want read 12/14/2015
✓ 346 - Tiger Shrimp Tango read 10/26/2015
✓ 332 - Adultery read 6/8/2015
✓ 298 - Cooking the Books read 10/23/2015
✓ 133 - Where'd You Go, Bernadette read 9/12/2015
✓ 148 - Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris read 9/7/2015
✓ 99 - Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City read 12/17/2015
✓ 37 - The Liars' Club read 8/7/2015
✓ 220 - Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child read 6/22/2015
✓ 288 - Zoli read 11/19/2015
✓ 52 - Schroder read 11/22/2015
✓ 355 - Bird Cloud read 9/30/2015
✓ 29 - Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S. read 7/18/2015
✓ 207 - Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska read 7/20/2015
✓ 356 - Elizabeth Street: A novel based on true events read 12/6/2015

40/40
Challenge completed!

I would like to do this one. My goal is to actually complete every challenge I sign-up for this year, so my goals will be small but doable. For this one I'll start with 6 and see how it goes! I'll add more if I get there.

Duration: January-December 2015
Completed: 1/6

57 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ✓
363 - What Alice Forgot
648 - Something Other Than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It
47 - Year of Wonders
440 - The Westing Game
20 - Following Christ: The Parable of the Divers and More Good News

I would like to sign up for 10 please.

1.In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
2.The Monstrumologist
3.Vicious
4.NOS4A2
5.Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
6.The Wide Window
7.Suffer the Children
8.Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
9.The Night Stalker
10.Gerald's Game

I want to try for 20 this year.

41. Consenting Adults—J. Lea Lopez
65. Brazen Tryst—Ella Price
97. Enforcer—Lauren Dane
196. Forever Mine(Subbed for the Grim Diaries Prequels)—Elizabeth Reyes
268. Claimed—K.R. Smith
313. Due Justice—Diane Capri
317. Shaved—Alora Matisse
330. Grim Island (Book 1) (Subbed for Blood Apples)—Wayne R. Tripp
485. How To Break A Cowboy—Daire St. Denis
508. The Pack—Ella Price
585. Shameless--Cheryl Douglas
660. The MacKinnon's Bride—Tanya Anne Crosby
663. Marblestone Mansion, Book 1—Marti Talbott
687. To Be With You—Opal Mellon
753. Vengeful in Love—Nadia Lee
816. The First Mountain Man: Preacher’s Massacre—William J. Johnstone
1121. Bait—Annie Nicholas--2/3/2015
1286. Origins—Kristen Middleton
1347. Fever—Lola Taylor
1383. Heart Raider—Sophia Knightly

I'm in for 12 and will generate me list a bit later, probably after Christmas.

Going for 12 again. Hopefully next year I won't wait until the last 2 months to finish them all :)

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

Completed 0 out 12

7.The Bronze Horseman
18.Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
27.Dragon's Kin
117.Every Day
162.The Windup Girl
192.Charming
349.Fables, Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind
353.Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 01
380.The Manual of Aeronautics: An Illustrated Guide to the Leviathan Series
479.Acacia: The War with the Mein
515.Inamorata
551.During the Dance

Two bonus books not finished for last years challenge:
Daughter of the Blood
Miserere: An Autumn Tale

all updated

The TBR Randomiser Challenge
Duration: 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2015
Total Read: 1/20

5. The Survival Kit
✔ 52. This is What Happy Looks Like (7/04/15) (***)
60. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
68. Flat-Out Love
96. The Sea of Tranquility
154. A Song for Julia
220. A Crucible of Souls
221. Traitor's Blade
227. But I Love Him
240. Where the Road Takes Me
250. Rock and Roll Never Forgets
251. My Clarity
289. He + She
294. Lifers
339. The Space Between
345. Fearless
357. Angelbound
361. Wicked
367. Compulsion
391. Song of the Fireflies

starting with a goal of 20: 13/20 READ

will post the books as i read them.

200. The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier 1.4
436. Michal by Jill Eileen Smith 2.15
2010. One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell 2.17
1827. The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith 4.10
2155. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott 4.20
148. The Other Woman by Jane Green 5.11
2119. Poppy Done to Death by Charlaine Harris 6.4
825. Murder Past Due by Miranda James 6.10
61. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig 6.12
2184. Sisterchicks in Sombreros! by Robin Jones Gunn 6.20
582. Cover Her Face by P.D. James 7.22
610. The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark 8.1
1057. The Negotiator by Dee Henderson 8.25

I'm going to try this one again this year. I didn't make it in 2014, but I would like to do 12 this year and, hopefully, manage my challenges better this year so I remember to work on each of them regularly.

Here's my randomized list:
447 The King and The Kid
624 Drawing Amanda
354 A Season Of Innocence
150 Just Like Other Daughters
382 Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
98 Winter in Full Bloom
343 Herman
456 I Am Pilgrim
415 The Sinners' Garden
706 Lifespan
751 The Gardener's Wife
138 Hobbledehoy Boy

I'm in. Starting with 5 off of my to-read (or re-read) list. Will probably add to the list once I get through these.

1 - Yes Please
2 - Beautiful Creatures
3 - Twelve Years a Slave
4 - The Vampire Lestat
5 - The Raven

I'm going to try to increase my commitment for 2015, by but I'm going to give myself some leeway. My goal is to read at least 50 of these titles.

2015 RANDOMIZER CHALLENGE
53/50+ BOOKS READ

✓ #3 - Double Take (FBI #11) by Catherine Coulter, finished 3/30 ★★★★
✓ #35 - Redshirts, by John Scalzi, finished 2/3 ★★★.5
✓ #110 - Mum's the Word (Flower Shop #1), by Kate Collins, finished 4/12 ★★★.5
✓ #132 - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, by Anthony Bourdain, finished 3/29 ★★.5
✓ #143 - Deadline, by John Dunning, finished 5/22 ★★.5

✓ #154 - English Trifle (Culinary Mystery #2), by Josi S Kilpack, finished 3/22 ★★★.5
✓ #166 - Affairs of Steak (White House Chef #5), by Julie Hyzy, finished 6/25 ★★★★
✓ #183 - The Witch Doctor's Wife (Amanda Brown #1), by Tamar Myers, finished 3/24 ★★.5
✓ #187 - A Year on Ladybug Farm (Ladybug Farm #1), by Donna Ball, finished 7/8 ★★★★
✓ #199 - Nemesis (Miss Marple #12), by Agatha Christie, finished 5/10 ★★★.5

✓ #201 - Aunt Dimity and the Summer King (Aunt Dimity #20), by Nancy Atherton, finished 4/24 ★★★★
#204 - Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves #15), by P.G. Wodehouse
✓ #230 - Sandstorm (Sigma Force #1), by James Rollins, finished 1/11 ★★★.5
✓ #283 - One Bad Apple (Orchard #1), by Sheila Connolly, finished 1/23 ★★★.5
#324 - Murder in C Major (Joan Spencer #1), by Sara Hoskinson Frommer

✓ #344 - Uncivil Seasons (Justin & Cuddy #1), by Michael Malone, finished 3/12 ★★★.5
✓ #364 - Eggs, by Jerry Spinelli, finished 4/9 ★★★.5
✓ #390 - Flags of Our Fathers, by James Bradley finished 5/17 ★★★★
✓ #410 - The Scent of Rain and Lightning, by Nancy Pickard, finished 6/9 ★★★★
✓ #426 - Fortunate Harbor (Happiness Key #2), by Emilie Richards, finished 1/1 ★★★★

✓ #486 - The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, by Jeff Buckley, by and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah", by Alan Light, finished 6/6 ★★★
✓ #511 - Pennsylvania Civil War Trails: The Guide to Battle Sites, by Monuments, by Museums and Towns, by Tom Huntington, finished 1/29 ★★★★
✓ #532 - Buffalo West Wing (White House Chef #4), by Julie Hyzy, finished 1/6 ★★★★
✓ #645 - It's Never Too Late to Get a Life (Angie's Adventures #1), by Heather Estay, finished 7/4 ★★★
✓ #649 - A Summer Affair, by Elin Hilderbrand, finished 6/16 ★★★

✓ #773 - A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh #2), by P.D. James, finished 6/4 ★★★
#798 - Bootlegger's Daughter (Deborah Knott #1), by Margaret Maron
✓ #821 - Owls Well That Ends Well (Meg Lansglow #6), by Donna Andrews, finished 8/4 ★★★.5
✓ #828 - Never Tease a Siamese (Leigh Koslow #5), by Edie Claire, finished 8/20 ★★★.5
#868 - A Deadly Vineyard Holiday (JW Jackson #8), by Philip R. Craig

✓ #917 - Going, Going, Ganache (Cupcake Bakery #5), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 6/27 ★★★★
✓ #950 - The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody #3), by Elizabeth Peters, finished 4/2 ★★★.5
✓ #991 - Thread Reckoning (Embroidery #3), by Amanda Lee, finished 4/21 ★★★.5
✓ #1042 - Sweet Tea Revenge (Tea Shop #14), by Laura Childs, finished 1/14 ★★★.5
#1044 - While My Pretty One Sleeps, Mary Higgins Clark, by Mary Higgins Clark

✓ #1160 - Stick a Fork in It (Poppy Markham #2), by Robin Allen, finished 6/19 ★★★.5
✓ #1201 - A Fatal Chapter (Booktown #9), by Lorna Barrett, finished 6/8 ★★★
✓ #1204 - The Wind From the Sun, by Arthur C. Clarke, finished 5/1 ★★★
#1220 - Murder, She Barked (Paws & Claws #1), by Krista Davis
✓ #1265 - Aunty Lee's Delights (Singapore Mysteries #1), by Ovidia Yu, finished 6/13 ★★★

#1270 - The January Corpse (Dave Garrett #1), by Neil Albert
✓ #1297 - The Patriot Threat (Cotton Malone #10), by Steve Berry, finished 2/2 ★★★★
✓ #1305 - Up Above the World, by Paul Bowles, finished 6/18 ★★
✓ #1396 - Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, finished 1/5 ★★★
✓ #1421 - Ladle to the Grave (Soup Lover's #4), by Connie Archer, finished 6/30 ★★★.5

✓ #1489 - Boiled Over (Maine Clambake #2), by Barbara Ross, finished 7/12 ★★★.5
✓ #1518 – East of Peculiar (Hannah Garvey #1), by Suzann Ledbetter, finished 8/30 ★★★★
✓ #1521 - Scorched Eggs (Cackleberry Club #6), by Laura Childs, finished 1/7 ★★★.5
#1569 - Paws For Murder (Pet Boutique #1), by Annie Knox
✓ #1602 - Suspendered Sentence (Amish Mystery #4), by Laura Bradford, finished 3/19 ★★★.5

✓ #1705 – Untitled (Book Lovers #4), by Julie Kaewert, finished 6/10 ★★★.5
#1742 - Bless Her Dead Little Heart (Southern Sisters #1), by Miranda James
#1753 - The Ox-Bow Incident, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
✓ #1773 - M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker, finished 5/21 ★★★★
✓ #1819 - Double Fudge Brownie Murder (Hannah Swensen #18), by Joanne Fluke, finished 3/21 ★★★

✓ #1921 - The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway #7), by Elly Griffiths, finished 3/31 ★★★★
✓ #1943 - Grace Interrupted (Manor House #2), by Julie Hyzy, finished 1/2 ★★★★
✓ #1950 - Killer Gourmet (Savannah Reid #20), by G.A. McKevett, finished 4/6 ★★★.5
#1966 - At the Drop of a Hat (Hat Shop #3), by Jenn McKinlay
✓ #2003 - Borrowed Crime (Bookmobile Cat #3), by Laurie Cass, finished 3/16 ★★★★

✓ #2124 - The Guest Cottage, by Nancy Thayer, finished 6/3 ★★★★
✓ #2177 - Beach Town, by Mary Kay Andrews, finished 5/31 ★★★★
#2283 - A Likely Story (Library Lovers #6), by Jenn McKinlay
✓ #2284 - The Lure of the Moonflower (Pink Carnation #12), by Lauren Willig, finished 8/19 ★★★★
✓ #2288 - Ubik, by Philip K. Dick, finished 6/30 ★★★

                 

                 

                 

                 

                 

     


***** CHALLENGE COMPLETE 8/30 *****

As of 7/25/15 finished 4 of 10

I took a shot and Randomizer came up with some good choices, so I'm in for 10:

✔ 83 Towers of Midnight finished 5/2/15
✔ 84 A Memory of Light finished 5/22/15
✔ 123 The Secret finished 5/6/15
147 Norwegian Wood 3M, Amazon, Audible
✔ 152 Blindness finished 7/25/15
159 The Vivisector Amazon
234 I'll Never Be Young Again Amazon
273 The MacKinnon's Bride owned
277 The Tudor Secret owned
383 Rob Roy owned

Question: #122 went on my TBR list when the publication date was to be in 2015. I just checked and it's been pushed back to 2016. What do I do with that one? Zara approved to substitute #123.

Notes by title are to remind me where to get the book!

If I were you I'd read one above or below that one, or use the randomiser again but just for one book.

Actually,#123 is The Secret by Julie Garwood, another Highlander novel by a different author. If Zara's okay with it, I'll make that substitution.

I'd like to join! This may be the only way I can remember enough of my to-read list to actually get some of them read, but I'll pick ten for this challenge:

24 - Sounder 4/4/15
62 - The Making of the President 1968
69 - A Red Herring Without Mustard 5/14/15
77 - Gone with the Wind
88 - Thérèse Raquin
98 - The Spellman Files
99 - Tomorrow, When the War Began
100 - The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
105 - My Cat Spit McGee 4/5/15
110 - 1984

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "Actually,#123 is The Secret by Julie Garwood, another Highlander novel by a different author. If Zara's okay with it, I'll make that substitution."

That's perfectly fine Theresa.

All updated to here.

I'm going to try for 12 again this year. This time, I used the random number generator but only used the books by women for the list, because I'm doing a huge project next year to read more books by female authors and wouldn't necessarily be able to fit in this challenge if I included male authors as well. These are still randomly chosen though. I hope that's okay! Here they are!

01. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
02. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
03. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
04. The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro (again!)
05. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
06. Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home by Susan Hill
07. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
08. Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
09. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
10. The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
11. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
12. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Good mix! A couple of non-fiction, some short stories and a couple of graphic novels are in there. Should be interesting!

I'm in for 12: 2015 Random Challenge List


The Wasp Factory: 02-01-2015
Tales of Nevèrÿon: 09-23-2015
I'm Not Stiller: Unfinished
The Tin Drum: 04-20-2015
Sailor Song: Unfinished
The Dervish House: 05-08-2015
Life - A User's Manual:
The Lost Country:
For the Sake of All Living Things: 05-23-2015
Imperial: 03-13-2015
Angel in the Forest - A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias: 01-18-2015

my apologies Brianna. I've just added you.

Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

10 books

291 - Skinwalker
305 - Homeland
984 - The Abyss
1217 - The Crown Tower
1307 - Red Rising
1454 - Brain
1500 - The Client
2135 - The Legacy of the Key
2382 - After the Fade
2606 - Twisted: The Collected Stories