The Next Best Book Club discussion

Start: February 1, 2015
*Any book that you finish after this date can be used for this challenge.

End: April 30, 2015

Objective:
To touch all of the 500 shelves on the official list or have touched the most shelves by the end date, April 30th.


1. Here is how you find the page and “touch” a shelf:
- Find the book you just read and click on it so you get to the book's main page page. For example: Click on the link:The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
- After you get to this page, look all the way to the right hand side and scroll down a little to find "Genres" and then a link to click on "See top shelves... click on it and you should get to this page (https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...) which is a list of the most popular shelves for Catcher in the Rye. Now you mark off the shelves you "touched" from our official list of Shelf-a-Thon 19 shelves.

2. A single book may be found on several shelves however we will only count the first 2 pages of top shelves for this book. For example, you may find a book that has 201+ pages of shelves (Catcher in the Rye), but only count the first two pages.

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

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

5. It is highly likely to read a book that is found on a shelf you've already counted. I may read 10 books that include the shelf "books-i-own". Once I crossed it off, I do not count it as an additional shelf.

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

For example:
52 shelves
2 books

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

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

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

Please include this in your reporting.

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

8. At the end of the first and second month, the top three shelvers will be allowed to cross off 3 shelves. I will also randomly (names out of a hat) pick 3 people to cross off 3 shelves of their choice.

9. We will continue to celebrate GR authors, so if you read a book by a Goodreads author, you can eliminate one shelf. Again, this information should be included in your reporting. If a book is written by dual authors and both are Goodreads authors, only one is allowed for an extra shelf cross-off.

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

10. So I read a book and had no new shelves!!!
I know this has happened to me plenty of times and it is disappointing to not have a single cross-off. This time around any book you read that is over 100 pages that did not touch a new shelf, you are allowed one cross-off extra.

11. Every Sunday, a random shelf will be posted. If you finish a book that touches that shelf (even if you have already previously touched the shelf) before the next random shelf is posted, you will get to cross off 5 extra shelves.



If you have any questions, please ask here.

Round 19 shelves:

1
1001-books
2
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2011-reads
2012
2012-books
2012-read
2012-reads
2013
2013-books
2013-challenge
2013-read
2013-reading-challenge
2013-reads
2014
2014-books
2014-challenge
2014-read
2014-reading-challenge
2014-reads
2015
20th-century
21st-century
3
3-star
3-stars
4-star
4-stars
5-star
5-star-books
5-stars
a
abandoned
action
action-adventure
adult
adult-books
adult-fiction
adventure
all
all-books
all-time-favorites
all-time-favourites
alpha-male
already-own
already-read
amazon
american
american-literature
and
animals
arc
art
asap
at-home
at-library
audible
audio
audio-book
audio-books
audiobook
audiobooks
auf-gar-keinen-fall
available
awesome
bdsm
best
biographies
biography
book
book-club
book-i-own
bookclub
books
books-i-have
books-i-own
books-i-own-to-read
books-i-want
books-owned
books-read-in-2012
books-read-in-2013
books-to-buy
books-to-read
bookshelf
borrowed
bought
british
business
buy
calibre
check
chick-lit
childhood
children
children-s
children-s-books
childrens
childrens-books
christian
christian-fiction
classic
classics
collection
college
comedy
comics
coming-of-age
coming-soon
considering
contemporary
contemporary-fiction
contemporary-romance
cookbooks
could-not-finish
couldn-t-finish
crime
culture
currently-reading
daddy-dark-s-baby-warrior-list
dark
death
default
detective
did-not-finish
didn-t-finish
digital
dnf
do-not-own
don-t-own
done
downloaded
drama
dropped
dystopia
dystopian
e-book
e-books
ebook
ebooks
ebooks-i-own
education
england
english
epub
erotic
erotic-romance
erotica
europe
family
fantasy
fantasy-sci-fi
faves
favorite
favorite-author
favorite-authors
favorite-books
favorite-series
favorites
favourite-books
favourites
favs
fiction
fiction-to-read
finished
first-in-series
first-reads
five-stars
for-fun
for-review
for-school
free
freebie
freebies
french
friendship
from-library
fun
funny
gave-up
gave-up-on
general
general-fiction
german
giveaway
giveaways
giveaways-entered
good
good-books
graphic-novel
graphic-novels
guilty-pleasures
hard-copy
hardcover
have
have-it
have-not-read
have-read
have-to-read
high-school
historical
historical-fiction
historical-romance
history
home
home-library
horror
humor
humour
i-own
i-own-a-copy
i-own-it
i-own-this
ibooks
in
in-english
in-library
in-my-library
inspirational
interesting
ipad
juvenile
keepers
kids
kids-books
kindle
kindle-book
kindle-books
kindle-freebie
kindle-lendable
kindle-owned
kindle-to-read
kobo
later
lendable
lgbt
library
library-book
library-books
listened-to
lit
literary
literary-fiction
literature
looks-interesting
love
loved
loved-it
m-m
made-me-cry
magic
manga
maybe
maybe-read
maybe-to-read
meh
memoir
memoirs
middle-grade
might-read
military
mine
misc
mm
modern
modern-fiction
music
must-read
must-reads
my-books
my-bookshelf
my-collection
my-ebooks
my-favorites
my-library
my-shelf
mysteries
mystery
mystery-suspense
mystery-thriller
mythology
narrativa
need
need-to-buy
need-to-get
need-to-read
netgalley
never-finished
new
new-adult
next
next-to-read
next-up
non-fiction
nonfiction
nook
nook-books
not-at-library
not-finished
not-interested
not-out-yet
not-owned
not-read
not-yet-released
novel
novella
novels
on-deck
on-hold
on-kindle
on-my-bookshelf
on-my-kindle
on-my-shelf
on-my-shelves
on-shelf
on-the-shelf
other
overdrive
own
own-a-copy
own-book
own-but-haven-t-read
own-but-not-read
own-ebook
own-it
own-kindle
own-not-read
own-read
own-to-read
own-unread
owned
owned-books
owned-but-not-read
owned-but-unread
owned-not-read
owned-to-read
owned-unread
paper
paperback
paranormal
paranormal-romance
part-of-a-series
part-of-series
partially-read
pdf
personal-library
philosophy
picture-book
picture-books
plays
poetry
politics
print
priority
psychology
public-library
purchased
random
re-read
re-reading
re-reads
read-2009
read-2010
read-2011
read-2012
read-2013
read-2014
read-again
read-fiction
read-for-school
read-in-2009
read-in-2010
read-in-2011
read-in-2012
read-in-2013
read-in-2014
read-in-english
read-more-than-once
read-next
read-soon
reading-list
realistic
realistic-fiction
really-want-to-read
recommendations
recommended
reference
relationships
religion
reread
rereads
review
reviewed
reviews
roman
romance
romantic
romantic-suspense
scanned
school
school-books
sci-fi
sci-fi-fantasy
science‎
science-fiction
science-fiction-fantasy
scifi
scifi-fantasy
self-help
series
series-books
series-to-read
sf
shelved
short
short-stories
short-story
someday
soon
speculative-fiction
spiritual
spirituality
stand-alone
stand-alones
standalone
started
stopped-reading
stories
sub
summer
summer-2013
summer-reading
supernatural
suspense
tbr
tbr-own
tbr-pile
teen
theology
thriller
thrillers
to-acquire
to-be-read
to-be-released
to-buy
to-download
to-find
to-get
to-purchase
to-re-read
to-read
to-read-2
to-read-2013
to-read-2014
to-read-again
to-read-ebook
to-read-fiction
to-read-kindle
to-read-later
to-read-library
to-read-maybe
to-read-next
to-read-own
to-read-owned
to-read-series
to-read-soon
to-reread
to-review
travel
unfinished
unowned
unread
unsorted
up-next
urban-fantasy
usa
vampire
vampires
waiting
waiting-to-be-read
want
want-to-buy
want-to-own
want-to-read
wanted
war
wish-list
wishlist
women
ya
ya-books
ya-fiction
young-adult
young-adult-fiction
youth

it's been a while since i've done this, but it seems I remember there was a minimum number of times a book had to be shelved as a genre to count (I think it was 10?) and also the number of pages we could go into the genres list, I think the last one had to be in the first 3 pages..Not sure if I remember right but just thought I would ask for clarification..thanks for bringing this one back:)

I checked the rules from last time and it was the first 2 pages so I went with that. And it doesn't matter how many times the book is shelved as long as it's within the first 2 pages. :)

ok sounds good!