2025 Reading Challenge discussion

PILED HIGH
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023

For this challenge we will create a pile of books!
Each new book on the pile shares one word with the previous book, or differs by only one word. This word can be in the title or describe an element on the cover of the book. You can choose to use either titles or covers for this challenge, or both! Multiple piles may be created, but please note that each pile should contain at least 5 books. You can also plan ahead and don't have to read the books in order.

Example using titles:
Gone with the Wind
Gone Girl
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Things You Save in a Fire
Those Who Save Us

Example using covers:

(spectacles, mountains, birds, feather)


How tall can you make your pile?

Thanks to Kristina for suggesting this challenge!
Happy Reading!

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. You must choose a goal for the challenge.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress. Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed and the number of your original message every time you post an update.
The challenge leader is not able to keep track of your total number of books for you because of the number of participants in the challenge. The number of the original post is used to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.

Example:
message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!

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

P.S. Please do not delete posts! It makes updating very confusing for the Moderators! If you decide to leave the challenge, please just let us know. You can edit your original post to say {redacted}. Thank you!


Participants:
Amanda - 1 / 12
Amber - 0 / 5
Amy (m. 23) - 5 / 25
Amy (m. 63) - 15 / 15 Completed!
Amy (Other Amy) - 0 / 25
AnnaG - 0 / 15
Ashly - 0 / 5
Beth - 90 / 25 Completed!
Beverly - 25 / 25 Completed!
Brittany - 0 / 10
Carmen - 250 / 250 Completed!
Carri Carey - 31 / 30 Completed!
Carrie - 0 / 20
Chika - 0 / 10
Chrissie - 30 / 30 Completed!
CrazyAsACupcake - 0 / 10
D.L. - 2 / 15
Darinda - 10 / 10 Completed!
Debra Diggs - 15 / 15 Completed!
Diana S - 1 / 15
Elena - 0 / 10
Emma - 0 / tbd
Evil Secret - 0 / 5
Gabby - 0 / 5
Gail - 0 / 8
Gem - 5 / 15
Hina ♡ - 15 / 15 Completed!
Ilona - 0 / 10
Jaida - 7 / 10
JenniferJ - 0 / 15
Karen - 34 / 25 Completed!
Kendra - 14 / 10 Completed!
Kristin - 2 / 10
Kristina - 50 / 50 Completed!
L A i N E Y - 0 / 10
Lilili - 15 / 15 Completed!
Lisa - 5 / 25
Marcia - 0 / 10
Margaret - 0 / 10
Mariana - 15 / 15 Completed!
Marissa - 0 / 25
Maureen - 0 / 10
Megan - 6 / 6 Completed!
Meghan - 3 / 5
Michelle - 10 / 10 Completed!
michelle-belle - 0 / 15
Nina - 2 / 6
Pamela - 0 / 10
Rachel - 12 / 15
Robbin - 0 / 10
Samantha - 12 / 20
Sara - 0 / 15
Sarah (m. 22) - 15 / 15 Completed!
Sarah (m. 25) - 0 / 20
Shari - 30 / 45
Sheila - 0 / 50
Summer - 0 / 15
Suzanne - 0 / 15
TerryJane - 50 / 25 Completed!
Theresa - 5 / 5 Completed!
Tracy - 2 / 12
Ziggy - 0 / 10


Updated up to message 231 on January 7, 2024.

Reserved!

I'm in! I'm going to aim for a pile of 25 books.

Piled High
Duration: January 1-December 31, 2023
Progress: 11/25

1. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (1/6)
2. The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage (2/14)
3. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica (3/15)
4. The Missing Hours by Julia Dahl (3/28)
5. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (4/22)
6. From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion (5/19)
7. Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray (5/27)
8. Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer (6/13)
9. Book of Night by Holly Black (7/15)
10. The Memory Book by Lara Avery (8/19)
11. My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares (9/3)

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Update: increasing my goal to 10 books.

Progress: 15/15
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PILE 1:

People on cover:
- Servo e serva, pg. 300
- L'uomo duplicato, pg. 272
- Ballo di famiglia, pg. 193
- La verità su Bébé Donge, pg. 170
- Fuori dal mondo, pg. 226
- Il metodo Ongaro
- Mangia che dimagrisci
- L'arte di correre
- Ogni tuo passo
- La spiaggia



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PILE 2:

Vegetation (trees, flowers, vegetables etc) on cover
1) I venti di sabbia, pg. 444
2) Lo smemorato di Tapiola
3) Delitto al pepe rosa
4) Agatha Raisin e la Sorgente della morte
5) Violeta

I am going to do 3 piles of 5 books each, total of 15 books.

15/15

Pile 1
✔ 1. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
✔ 2. (spirits) - The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
✔ 3. (labyrinth) - Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
✔ 4. (ice) - The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
✔ 5. (queen) - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin

Pile 2
✔ 1. Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean
✔ 2. (dead) - Dead People by Ewart Hutton
✔ 3. (people) - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
✔ 4. (winter) - The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter by Michael J. Sullivan
✔ 5. (of) - The Book of Flying by Keith Miller

Pile 3
✔ 1. Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
✔ 2. (story) - The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
✔ 3. (bridge) - The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
✔ 4. (under) - City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
✔ 5. (one) - One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski

I will try for 15 books.
I changed my goal to 5 books on Nov. 26.

Progress: 5/5

Covers:
✔The Pier At Jasmine Lake (Sep. 16)
✔About A Dog (Mar. 24)
✔What A Dog Knows (Jan. 31)
✔The Lindbergh Nanny (May 7)
✔The Children's Blizzard (May 20)

PILED HIGH
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023

I'm in

12/15

Pile 1

THE

✔ 1.The Black Queen By Jumata Emill 2/27 5 stars
✔ 2.The Writing Retreat By Julia Bartz 3/6 5 stars
✔ 3.The Headmaster's List By Melissa de la Cruz 3/29 5 stars
✔ 4.The Only Survivors By Megan Miranda 5/5 4.5 stars
✔ 5The Subtle Knife By Philip Pullman 5/25 4.5 stars


Pile 2
Like words in title

✔ 1.Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History By Tracy Borman 6/20 5 stars
✔ 2.Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics By Sarah Gristwood 7/12 3.5 stars
✔ 3.Elizabeth I and Her Circle By Susan Doran 8/3 4 stars
4
✔ 5Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children By Therese Oneill 12/26 3 stars



Pile 3
"A Novel" on the cover

✔ 1.Dark Corners By Megan Goldin 8/17 5 stars
✔ 2.The Family Game By Catherine Steadman 8/26 3.5 stars
3.Ravensong By T.J. Klune 10/2 5 stars
4.
5

OMG book Jenga! Yes sign me up! I'll start with 25.

Stacking books on my Book Balcony.

0/25

Im gonna try for 1 stack of 5

0/5

📚 PILED HIGH - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 50/25 -- COMPLETE

My member's corner PILED HIGH post

1. House 23: A Thriller
2. The House Next Door
3. House Made of Dawn
4. The House in the Pines
5. The Red House Mystery
6. 30 Red Dresses
7. Red Dust
8. Red Desert
9. Red Planet
10. Tomato Red
11. Red Leaves
12. The Red Badge of Courage
13. A Red Herring Without Mustard
14. The Girl in Red
15. The Girl Who Lived Twice
16. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
17. Who Is Vera Kelly?
18. Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
19. A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
20. The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
21. They All Fall Down
22. All I Want
23. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
24. All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
25. You Don't Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles
26. You Should See Me in a Crown
27. If You Leave Me
28. Between You & Me
29. Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
30. A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
31. The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
32. The Other People
33. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
34. Like No Other
35. Like a Sister

1. The Well
2. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
3. The Way I Heard It: True Tales for the Curious Mind with a Short Attention Span
4. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
5. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
6. Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
7. The Emperor's Soul

1. Rose Cottage
2. The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943
3. Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories
4. White Sand Blues
5. White Bird
6. Wild Bird
7. A Psalm for the Wild-Built
8. Daisies for Innocence

I'm going to start my pile with my first book club read in January which is The Lions of Fifth Avenue. I'm attempting to have one pile of 25 books.

25/25

PILED HIGH - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2023

1. The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis FINISHED 1/5
2. Running With Lions by Julian Winters FINISHED 2/3
3. Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd FINISHED 2/14
4. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison FINISHED 3/10
5. Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough FINISHED 3/28
6. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield FINISHED 6/19
7. Long Bright River by Liz Moore FINISHED 8/22
8. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah FINISHED 9/10
9. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell FINISHED 1120
10. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell FINISHED 9/19
11. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson FINISHED 5/10
12. City of Windows by Robert Pobi FINISHED 8/27
13. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens FINISHED 10/31
14. The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff FINISHED 8/31
15. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro FINISHED 12/11
16. When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal FINISHED 12/20
17. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd FINISHED 4/10
18. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch FINISHED 11/15
19. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie FINISHED 8/8
20. Haunted Hibiscus Laura Childs FINISHED 12/18
21. Haunted Legends by Ellen Datlow FINISHED 6/13
22. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson FINISHED 11/17
23. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng FINISHED 8/29
24. Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee FINISHED 8/14
25. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo FINISHED 2/8

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Please put me in for 8:
0 / 8

Pile #1:
1. Nisei Daughter
2. Mother, Daughter, Traitor, Spy.......................daughter
3. Mother-in-Law...................................................mother
4. How not to drown in a glass of water...........in
5. Ghosts of Greenglass House...........................glass
6. Midnight at Malabar House.............................house
7. Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookshop........midnight
8. Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders....book

Progress: 9/15

✅ Cupcakes and Crime
✅ Colorado Crime Scene
Justice at Cardwell Ranch & Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch
Second Chance Ranch
✅ Second Grade Baby
✅ First Comes Baby...
First Snow
✅ The Snow War

✅ Gone With The Ghost
✅ Ghost of a Chance
Second Chance Love
✅ Summer Love
✅ Summer Lies
Legacy of Lies: Sins of the Past Echo Through Time
Lost Legacy

U[dated message #12 with my goal. 1 pile of 25 books.

Please put me down for 15!

Progress: 15/20

Pile 1
1. The Book Woman's Daughter ✔
2. Daughter of Fortune ✔
3. Foul Lady Fortune ✔
4. The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
5. The Jane Austen Society ✔

Pile 2
1. A Dangerous Business ✔
2. Dangerous Women
3. The Wilderwomen ✔
4. Lady Tan's Circle of Women ✔
5. The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

Pile 3
1. The Spanish Daughter
2. Daughter of the Moon Goddess
3. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI ✔
4. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride ✔
5. The Last Cuentista ✔

Pile 4
1.The Japanese Lover ✔
2. Lunar Love ✔
3. Love, Theoretically ✔
4. Love on the Brain ✔
5. Immortality: A Love Story ✔

[redacted]

Welcome to this new yearly challenge and thank you for signing up!

Hola!
Count me in please 😉

PROGRESS: 250/250
(view spoiler)[
PILE 1✅
❎1. Invisible
❎2. The Invisible Man
❎3. The Man Who Spoke Snakish
❎4. The Man in the Iron Mask
❎5. The Man on the Balcony
❎6. This Was a Man
❎7. A Man of the People
❎8. The Bone People
❎9. Poor People

PILE 2✅
❎1. Smaller and Smaller Circles
❎2. A Small Place
❎️3. In a Lonely Place
❎4. Dark Places
❎5. Heart of Darkness
❎6. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
❎7. Follow Your Heart
❎8. Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
❎9. The Ink Black Heart
❎10. Black Shack Alley
❎11. Written in Black
❎12. The Black Tulip
❎13. Black Out
❎14. Blackberry Winter
❎15. Winterkill
❎16. A Kiss for Midwinter
❎17. You Have To Kiss A Lot Of Frogs


PILE 3✅
❎1. Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
❎2. An Antarctic Mystery
❎️3. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
❎4. Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
❎5. French Silk

PILE 4✅
❎1. Snow Blind
❎2. The Island of the Colorblind
❎3. Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
❎4. The Colour of Milk
❎5. Soviet Milk
❎6. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
❎7. The Duchess War
❎8. The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
❎9.Sacred Horses: Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy
❎10. Monkey Boy
❎11. The Boy Between Worlds
❎12. The Secret Between Us
❎13. The Ocean Between Us
❎14. The Light Between Oceans
❎15. Light in August

PILE 5✅
❎1. The Runaway Quilt
❎2. The Running Grave
❎3. The Running Girl
❎4 Kids Run the Show
❎5. Savage Run
❎6. Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga
❎7. Bear Island
❎8. Butterfly Island
❎9. An Island Away
❎10. My Little Island
❎11. Island of Flowers
❎12. Iron flowers

PILE 6✅️
❎1. Violeta
❎2. The History of Violets
❎3. Living History
❎4. The Year of Living Dangerously
❎5. Twelve Years a Slave
❎6. Vaitupu: Two years on a remote Polynesian atoll
❎7. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
❎8. The Purple Land
❎️9. The Land Without Shadows
❎️10. Landline

PILE 7✅️
❎️1. What the Duke Desires
❎️2. The Duke's Bride
❎️3. The Wagered Bride
❎️4. The Convenient Bride
❎️5. The Mischievous Bride
❎️6. The Terracotta Bride
❎️7. The Secret Bridesmaid
❎️8. Secret Beast
❎️9. The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
❎️10. To Wed a Wild Lord

PILE 8✅
❎1. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
❎2. Secret Desires of a Gentleman
❎️3. Secrets and Stilettos
❎4. Best Kept Secret
❎5. My Best Friend's Exorcism

PILE 9✅️
❎1. Vanish
❎️2. The Other Lady Vanishes
❎3. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
❎4. A Lady Never Surrenders
❎5. Love Letters to a Lady
❎6. The Consequences of Love
❎7. Love in a Fallen City
❎️8. If the Viscount Falls
❎️9. Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue

PILE 10✅️
❎1. Moscow to the End of the Line
❎2. Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
❎3. A House Without Windows
❎4. The House of Mirth
❎️5. Secrets at the Last House Before the Sea

PILE 11✅
❎1. Deep in the Sahara
❎2. Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
❎3. Ocean Sea
❎4. Sun, Sea and Sangria
❎5. A Raisin in the Sun
❎6. Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
❎7. Lady's Well

PILE 12✅
❎1. Ripley Underground
❎2. Underground Time
❎3. Only Time Will Tell
❎4. The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
❎5. The Scent of Almonds and Other Stories
❎6. Life and Other Near-Death Experiences
❎7. How to Bake a Perfect Life
❎8. The Private Lives of Trees

PILE 13✅
❎1. The Penguin Pool Murder
❎2. Death and the Penguin
❎3. Death In Paradise
❎4. The Trouble with Paradise
❎5. The Trouble With Valentine's Day
❎6. Apple Pie and Trouble
❎7. Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
❎8. Three Apples Fell from the Sky
❎9. The Girl Who Fell to Earth
❎10. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
❎11. The Kitchen God's Wife
❎12. Gods of Jade and Shadow
❎13. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
❎14. The Shadow Murders
❎15. The Oxford Murders
❎16. A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
❎17. Murder by the Cup
❎18. A Spoonful of Murder

PILE 14✅
❎1. Last to Die
❎2 Due or Die
❎3. Cherry Pie or Die
❎4. Under the Cherry Blossoms
❎5. Under the Lilacs
❎6. Under the Whispering Door
❎7. Grace Under Pressure
❎8. A Fatal Grace

PILE 15✅
❎1. China Blues
❎2. Sapphire Blue
❎3. Havana Blue
❎4. Jamaica Blue
❎5. Red, White & Royal Blue
❎6. The Red Notebook
❎7. Red April
❎8. Broken April

PILE 16✅
❎1. Confessions
❎2. I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
❎3. Confessions of a Completely Insane Mother
❎4. My Evil Mother
❎5. Evil Games
❎6. The Most Dangerous Game

PILE 17✅
❎1. Number the Stars
❎2. Think of a Number
❎3. The Solitude of Prime Numbers
❎4. Too Loud a Solitude
❎5. Too Many Cooks

PILE 18✅️
❎1. The Elephant's Tale
❎️2. Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood
❎3. Midnight's Children
❎4. The Midnight Witness
❎5. If Only For Tonight
❎6. Good Night, My Darling
❎7. The Night Women
❎8. The Shrouded Woman
❎9. Woman at Point Zero

PILE 19✅️
❎1. Trainspotting
❎2. Bullet Train
❎3. The Bullet That Missed
❎4. The Missing Heiress
❎5. Missing Joseph
❎️6. The Case of the Missing Moonstone
❎7. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
❎8. The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot

PILE 20✅
❎1. Girl on a Wire
❎2. Paper Girls, Volume 1
❎3. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
❎4. The Persian Pickle Club
❎5. The Mephisto Club
❎6. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
❎️7. The Vampire Knitting Club
❎8. Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
❎️9. I'm the Vampire, That's Why

PILE 21✅
❎1. Before We Were Strangers
❎2. Before We Were Yours
❎️3. Truly Madly Yours
❎4. Truly Madly Guilty
❎5. Truly, Madly
❎️6. Madly

PILE 22✅
❎1. Mr S and the Secrets of Andorra's Box
❎2. Mr Lyon
❎3. Mr Damon
❎️4. Mr. Perfect
❎5. The Perfect Block
❎6. The Perfect Wife

PILE 23✅
❎1. The Drowned Girl
❎2. The Silent Girl
❎3. The Summer Girls
❎4. The Summer Wind
❎5. Summer

PILE 24✅
❎️1. City Girl, Country Vet
❎2. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
❎3. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
❎4. The Long Quiche Goodbye
❎5. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
❎6. Thanks for the Memories

PILE 25✅️
❎️1. Ruth's First Christmas Tree
❎2. 'Twas the Night after Christmas
❎3. After the Fire
❎4. With the Fire on High
❎5. Beyond the Highland Mist
❎6. Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

PILE 26✅
❎1. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
❎2. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
❎3. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
❎4. Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist
❎5. A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
❎6. Arsenic and Old Cake
❎7. Cake on a Hot Tin Roof
❎8. Hot Ice
❎9. A Grue of Ice
❎10. The Ice Fisher
❎11. Ice Cold
❎12. The Cold Cold Ground

PILE 27✅
❎1. The Museum of Extraordinary Things
❎2. The Very First Damned Thing
❎3. The Last Thing He Told Me
❎4. The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
❎5. The Last Brother
❎6. Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last
❎7. Messenger of Truth
❎8. The Truth About Lord Stoneville
❎9. Winning Lord West
❎10. The Seduction of Lord Stone
❎11. A Study in Stone

PILE 28 ✅
❎1. Well-Schooled in Murder
❎2. Murder in Scorpio
❎3. Murder on Mulberry Bend
❎4. Murder as Sticky as Jam
❎5. A Little Taste of Murder
❎6. Murder Any Witch Way
❎7. The Worst Witch
❎8. The Once and Future Witches
❎9. Witch Way To Amethyst
❎10. Swann's Way

PILE 29✅️
❎️1. Stone Devil Duke
❎2. Devil in Spring
❎3. Devil-Devil
❎️4. The Devil's Deep
❎5. The She-Devil in the Mirror

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Count me in please for 15
✅ 31: Political - American x 4 - You x5 - God x 3 - How x 3 - History x 8 - From - King x 3 - Court x 6 - Betrayal x 3 - Bite x 3

Redacted.

Sign me up for 15 books over three piles

15/15-COMPLETED

Pile One
✅1)Stuart Little (6/3/23)
✅2)The Little House (16/2/23)
✅3)The Last House on the Street (23/5/23)
✅4)The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter (18/6/23)
✅5)The Paper Bag Princess (4/2/23)

Pile Two
✅1)Breakfast Club (22/1/23)
✅2)The Thursday Murder Club (16/10/23)
✅3)School for Murder (26/3/23)
✅4)Sunny Meadows Woodland School (13/2/23)
✅5)Sunny Side Up (4/12/23)

Pile Three
✅1)Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man (2/7/23)
✅2)The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (27/11/23)
✅3)Beauty's Daughter: The Story of Hermione and Helen of Troy (10/7/23)
✅4)Of Beast and Beauty (20/7/23)
✅5)Beast (5/7/23)

Please count me in for 5 piles, at least 25 books

1/5 piles

Pile 1 (Covers only) -

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - woman on cover
2. You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao - woman/flowers on cover
3. Always On My Mind by Beth Moran - flowers/brick on cover
4. The Only One Left by Riley Sager - brick/waves on cover
5. Ever After by Kate Eberlen - waves on cover

Pile 2 -

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Pile 3 -

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I'm going to start with a pile of 10 and see how it goes from there

2/10

1. The Lost Metal
2. Lost in the Moment and Found
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i'm going to try and make 20! love this idea

I'm going to try to get 30!

✔️ Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
✔️ How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel
✔️ Deep Water
✔️ Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
✔️ Mad Honey

✔️ The Enigma of Room 622
✔️ Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
✔️ The Keeper of Lost Things
✔️ An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
✔️ Remarkably Bright Creatures


✔️ The Phantom Tollbooth
✔️ Phantom Prey
✔️ Hidden Prey
✔️ Hidden Pictures
✔️ Picture Perfect
✔️ My Perfect Daughter

✔️ All the Lies They Did Not Tell
✔️ They Both Die at the End
✔️ The Cabin at the End of the World
✔️ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
✔️ The Chocolate War

✔️ Road to Nowhere
✔️ Neverwhere
✔️ I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
✔️ When You Find Me
✔️ Remember Me

✔️ Gathering Prey
✔️ Invisible Prey
✔️ Invisible Murder
✔️ Enter a Murderer
✔️ Where the Light Enters

PILED HIGH
January 01 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 50/50

Put me down for 50!

Member Corner Tracking Post

I'm joining for 45

PILED HIGH
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023

Progress: 30 / 45

🏆 Pile #1:
1. Not Our Kind
2. The Color of Our Sky
3. Why the Sky Is Blue
4. The Last Blue
5. The Last Tiara
6. The Book of Last Letters
7. Letters from Skye
8. Tales from the Café

🏆 Pile #2:
1. Peony in Love
2. Love and Other Words
3. A Secret Amish Love
4. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
5. The Royal Windsor Secret

Pile #3:
1. The Lost and Found Bookshop
2. The Library of Lost and Found
3. The Lost Girls of Paris
4. The Lost Ticket
5.

🏆 Pile #4:
1. Other Birds
2. Red Birds
3. The Red Address Book
4. The Book Spy
5. Spy


Pile #5:
1. Christmas at Fireside Cabins
2. Amish Christmas Search (Love Inspired Suspense
3. The Christmas Bargain
4. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
5. Christmas Witness Conspiracy
6. The Paper Bag Christmas
7. Surprise Christmas Family
8. The Christmas Bargain

Update to message #26 - I'll set my goal at 30 :)

I'm in! I'm going to go for 2 piles of 5 min (10 books)

Goal: 10
🏆Progress: 10/10 (100%)
COMPLETED 6/2/23

Pile 1:
🌍Fat Girl Walking
🌍The Girl Who Loved Tom Gorden
🌍Love After Love
🌍Day After Night
🌍Our Endless Numbered Days

Pile 2:
🌍Her Every Fear
🌍And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
🌍Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
🌍The Broken Girls
🌍The House of Broken Angels

I'm in for 10 books.

Michelle wrote: "I'm in!"

Michelle, for how many books can I put you down?

I'll join for 10, please :)

I’m in for 10 - going to try for one long stack!

1. Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann - completed January 2023
2. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - completed February 2023
3. Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things by Maya Prasad - completed February 2023
4. Something Like Love by Beverly Jenkins - completed April 2023
5. Love Report by Shellee Marie - completed June 2023
6. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich - completed September 2023

6/6 - completed!

I'm going to try for 25 (five piles most likely, but fewer if I can).

Progress 5/25

Pile #1

✔️We All Want Impossible Things
✔️All the Devils Are Here
✔️All the Lonely People
✔️All That Is Mine I Carry with Me
✔️All the Sinners Bleed

Pile #2

Pile #3

Pile #4

Pile #5

planning:
The Lightning-Struck Heart
Heart of the Sun Warrior
The Ink Black Heart
Blacktop Wasteland
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Wolfsong
Once There Were Wolves

Piled High
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
0/10

Pile #1: using titles
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
This Time Tomorrow
Island Time
The Island of Sea Women
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
The Once and Future Witches
Once There Were Wolves
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Sing You Home
The Yellow Bird Sings

Joining for at least 2 piles -- one of titles and one of cover images!

Pile 1: Cover images - chain
<-- riding a horse --> <-- two worlds reflected (above/below) --> <-- ocean --> <-- the night sky --> <-- stars --> <-- concentric circles --> <-- holding a book --> <-- glasses --> <-- smoke -->


Pile 2: Titles - chain
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
fish
The Magic Fish
magic
White Magic
white
A Thousand White Butterflies
a thousand
A Thousand Strands of Black Hair
black
The Black Queen
queen
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish


Pile 3: Titles - chain
Time Is a Mother
time
This Is Your Time
this
Is This How You See Me?: A Locas Story
you
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You
love
My Love Mix-Up!, Vol. 1
my
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
lines
The Law of Lines


Pile 4 - chain:
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog And Chainsaw
man
The Cat Man of Aleppo
cat
Yokai Cats Vol. 1
yokai
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
book
This Book Is Gay
gay
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution


Pile 5 - chain:
How to Sell a Haunted House
how
How to Read a Book
book
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
guide
Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer’s Guide
world
The World Belonged to Us


Pile 6 - chain:
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
about
All About Plants! (Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files #2)
all
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
story
A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
life
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Volume 14)


Pile 7: Titles - similarities - single-word titles (not counting articles or subtitles)



Pile 8 - chain:
The Water Dragon's Bride, Vol. 1
water
Healer of the Water Monster
monster
If Your Monster Won't Go To Bed
go
How High We Go in the Dark
high
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Finished: 2023/09/17

Not quite sure yet, where it'll lead me, but it sounds interesting. Starting with one pile of 5 books.

30/30

✓ Pile 1

(person, sky, building, mountains)

✓ Pile 2
The Decay of Lying
One of these Nights
In these words 04
Die Stadt in deinen Farben
Die elementaren Strukturen der Verwandtschaft

✓ Pile 3

(glasses, necktie, flowers, kiss)

✓ Pile 4
Warte auf mich in Udagawa
No God in Eden 02
First Do No Harm
The First to Die at the End
Out of the Blue

✓ Pile 5

(faceless person, sitting, flowers, shirt collar)

✓ Pile 6

(water, clouds, trees, shadow)

finished for possible piles:

This sounds like fun. I'm in for 10 books.

Message #30 updated to 10 books! TY

I'm in for 1 pile

Covers

Eye, Stars, Flowers, Building

PILED HIGH
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023

14/15

Pile 1: Titles

1. The Songs You've Never Heard ✔
2. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. ✔
3. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism ✔
4. What the Other Three Don't Know ✔
5. Vampires, Hearts, & Other Dead Things ✔

Pile 2: Titles

1. Margaret the First ✔
2. The First to Die at the End ✔
3. All Princesses Die Before Dawn ✔
4. Ain't Burned All the Bright ✔
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures or All the Bright Places

Pile 3: Covers


(bridge, stars, woman, glasses)

Hi Ilona - This one sounds fun, and I haven't planned anything yet. I am going to stack 25 books in someway.

PILED HIGH
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 34/25

1st Pile:
Roads (16)


2nd Pile:
Word to Word (6)
Moving is Murder (Middle Age is Murder, #1) - Nellie H. Steele
Murder, She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle (Murder, She Wrote, #56) - Jessica Fletcher
The Girl Who Knew Death (Spider Green, #4) - Norm Harris
The Man Who Screams At Nightfall...and other stories - Rush Leaming
Dark of Night (Annie Pederson, #2) - Colleen Coble
Lucha of the Night Forest - Tehlor Kay Mejia

3rd Pile:
Prepositions of Place: In/On/At/Out/Under/Against/Behind/Between/Above/Below/Next to/In front of/Across from/Opposite of/Out of/Inside/Outside/Past/Before/Beside (12)
Murder, She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle (Murder, She Wrote, #56) - Jessica Fletcher
The Man Who Screams At Nightfall...and other stories - Rush Leaming
Snuffed Out (Magic Candle Shop, #1) - Valona Jones
Under a Veiled Moon (Inspector Corravan, #2) - Karen Odden
In the Frame (Rosedale Investigations #3) - Lyn Farrell
Wined and Died in New Orleans (Vintage Cookbook Mystery, #2) - Ellen Byron
Race Against Time (Sands of Time Trilogy, #2) - C.J. Peterson
A Study in Chocolate (Bean-to-Bar Mystery, #5) - Amber Royer
Last Sunrise in Eterna - Amparo Ortiz
The Vanishing at Castle Moreau - Jaime Jo Wright
Murder in Postscript (Lady of Letters Mystery, #1) - Mary Winters
Shannon in the Spotlight - Kalena Miller

Sign me up for 10. Not sure if it will be 1 or 2 piles.

0/10

I want to join this challenge! I want to start with a total of 10 books (2 piles, 5 books each)

How fun! I love to join for 2 piles of 5 please :)

hi, sign me up for 10 books!

Count me in for 1 shelf of 5 for now! :) Thank you.

My Member's Corner

This looks fun! I'll sign up for 2 piles of 5 :)

1. The Big Time
2. This is How You Lose the Time War
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5.

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I'm in for 10 books!