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Trim List 2023

1. Circe by Madeline Miller; All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2. The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie; How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
3. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
4. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang
5. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon; Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
6. The Black Company by Glen Cook; The Odyssey, Emily Wilson’s translation
7. Blood of Elves by Andrej Sapkowski; Haven by Emma Donoghue
8. Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis; The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel
9. Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb; Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
10. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley; A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
11. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - on hold at library
12. A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavril Kay; The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Extra Swaps: 3
Special bonuses: 1 extra swap (2-3 on 2/4/23)

Heather Reads Books' Subdue the Shelf Game Board

1. Invisible Things / Mat Johnson
2. You Feel It Just Below the Ribs / Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson
3. Beneath the Stairs / Jennifer Fawcett
4. Shadow & Claw / Gene Wolf
5. The Sanatorium / Sarah Pearse - read already
6. The White Queen / Philippa Gregory
7. Elric of Melniboné / Michael Moorcock
8. In Farleigh Field / Rhys Bowen - landed on (6-2)
9. Fortune's Rocks / Anita Shreve
10. My Sweet Girl / Amanda Jayatissa
11. The Idiot / Elif Batuman
12. The Water Cure / Sophie Mackintosh
13. Notes on a Silencing / Lacy Crawford - landed on (2-3)
14. Into the Forest / Jean Hegland
15. The Ghost of the Mary Celeste / Valerie Martin
16. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void / Mary Roach
17. The Witch and the Tsar / Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
18. Bewilderment / Richard Powers
19. The Broken Girls / Simone St. James
20. The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolver
21. Red Mars / Kim Stanley Robinson
22. The Buried Giant / Kazuo Ishiguro - landed on (3-6)
23. Please Join Us / Catherine McKenzie
24. Impostor Syndrome / Kathy Wang
25. Hello, Transcriber / Hannah Morrissey
26. They Drown Our Daughters / Katrina Monroe
27. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories / Carmen Maria Machado
28. Lost Children Archive / Valeria Luiselli
29. The Mercies / Kiran Millwood Hargrave
30. Neverworld Wake / Marisha Pessl - landed on (3-5)
31. The Lost Diary of Venice / Margaux Deroux
32. Reckless Girls / Rachel Hawkins
33. Black Sun / Rebecca Roanhorse - shake it up Sunday - roll from here
34. Nine Princes in Amber / Roger Zelazny
35. Secret Daughter of the Tsar / Jennifer Laam - landed on (4-1)
36. The Secrets We Kept / Lara Prescott - landed on (2-1)
37. The Violin Conspiracy / Brendan Slocumb
38. The Project / Courtney Summers
39. The Last Thing He Told Me / Laura Dave
40. The Stranger Diaries / Elly Griffiths
41. Parable of the Sower / Octavia E. Butler
42. Remarkable Creatures / Tracy Chevalier
43. The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin
44. Mirrorland / Carole Johnstone
45. One by One / Ruth Ware - already read
46. Blue Ticket / Sophie Mackintosh
47. It's Always the Husband / Michele Campbell
48. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler / Italo Calvino
49. Perfect Little World / Kevin Wilson
50. The Cassandra / Sharma Shields
51. A Tale for the Time Being / Ruth Ozeki
52. Now Is Not the Time to Panic / Kevin Wilson
53. A Lullaby for Witches / Hester Fox
54. Homeland Elegies / Ayad Akhtar
55. The Plot / Jean Hanff Korelitz
56. Luster / Raven Leilani
57. Faithful Ruslan / Georgi Vladimov
58. Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran / Azadeh Moaveni
59. The Moor's Account / Laila Lalami
60. Cherish Farrah / Bethany C. Morrow
61. The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes / Elissa R. Sloan
62. The Tiger's Wife / Téa Obreht
63. Throne of the Crescent Moon / Saladin Ahmed
64. The Lost Girls of Willowbrook / Ellen Marie Wiseman
65. The Last Policeman / Ben H. Winters
66. The Silence of the Girls / Pat Barker
67. The Silent Companions / Laura Purcell
68. The Darkness Outside Us / Eliot Schrefer
69. The Dictionary of Lost Words / Pip Williams
70. This is How You Lose the Time War / Amal El-Mohtar
71. Acts of Violet / Margarita Montimore
72. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 / Cho Nam-Joo
73. Lapvona / Ottessa Moshfegh
74. The House on Vesper Sands / Paraic O'Donnell
75. Sisterland / Curtis Sittenfeld
76. The Maidens / Alex Michaelides
77. The Haunting of Hill House / Shirley Jackson
78. Disappearing Earth / Julia Phillips
79. A Slow Fire Burning / Paula Hawkins
80. The Blood of Flowers / Anita Amirrezvani
81. The Apostle Killer aka Acts of the Assassins / Richard Beard
82. The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead
83. The Court of Broken Knives / Anna Smith Spark
84. Our House / Louise Candlish
85. The Monsters of Templeton / Lauren Groff
86. Atomic Anna / Rachel Barenbaum
87. Frankenstein in Baghdad / Ahmed Saadawi
88. No One Is Talking About This / Patricia Lockwood
89. And Now She's Gone / Rachel Howzell Hall
90. The Marriage Portrait / Maggie O'Farrell - read already
91. A Long Petal of the Sea / Isabel Allende
92. Can't Look Away / Carola Lovering
93. Sisters / Daisy Johnson
94. The Shadow House / Anna Downes
95. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress / Robert A. Heinlein
96. I Found You / Lisa Jewell
97. The Round House / Louise Erdrich
98. Do You Dream of Terra-Two? / Temi Oh
99. Velvet Was the Night / Silvia Moreno-Garcia
100. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI / David Grann

Happy Birthday PBT

1. Read a book that fits our very first tag: historical fiction. Note that our very first tagger was MOM2RUDY who is now a published author, W.J. Small (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...).

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

2. PBT was founded in February, 2008. Read a book that represents or relates to any event that occurred (or occurs) in February.

3. Read a 5 star book from any of our administrators (past or present) "read" shelf. Administrators include: Ladyslott, LibraryCin, Annapi, JoLene, BooknBlues, Nicole R, Kristal and Anita.

From Anita’s shelf: Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

4. We have been compiling the PBT Top 10 list since our inception. Read a book from any of our 15 years of Top 10 selections.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (626 pages)
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (360 pages)
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (390 pages)

5. Read a book that fits the tag of India. Read in December, 2013, it represents our least read tag (excluding administrator special tags).

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

6. Surprisingly, our favorite tag as measured by books read in one month was read way back in 2008. Read a book that fits the tag of mystery.

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six Lisa Unger - 2 stars

7. When PBT was 7 years old, we compiled our own top 100 non-fiction books of all time. Read one to blow out this candle.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (416 pages)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (282 pages)
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides (454 pages)


8. When PBT was 8 years old, we compiled our own top 100 fictional books of all time. Read one to blow out this candle.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra (332 pages)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (387 pages)
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (336 pages)


9. In 2016, we were forced to make the move from Shelfari to Goodreads. Read a book that fits EITHER the last tag we read at Shelfari (2010) or the first tag we read at Goodreads (world war ii).

2010:
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (850 pages)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (653 pages)
The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory (415 pages)


10. Our most prolific poster (in the Goodreads era) is Amy (https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...). Amy has posted more than anyone (including the administrators!) with 9301 comments as of this writing. Read a book in Amy's honor that somehow relates to her (either it is on her shelf, or highlights something you know about her personally, or her geography, or her profession). Indicate how you selected the book with your review.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (546 pages)
The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman (504 pages)
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfield (412 pages)

11. Read a book that was a buddy read here on PBT that you have not read before. Link to the buddy read thread along with your review.

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (308 pages) - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell (451 pages) - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (449 pages) - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

12. Fall Flurries and Trim the TBR have been staples for PBT for a very long time! Select a book that has been read for either of these PBT stalwarts that is shelved on our PBT bookshelf found here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt (352 pages)
And Now She’s Gone by Rachel Hozwell Hall (381 pages)
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (433 pages)

13. PBT's very first game/challenge was called "Last Tagger Standing", and it was modelled on the famous television show, Survivor. Read a book that is tagged with survival or survivor.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (531 pages) 3 stars

14. Read a book from your favorite tag of all the tags you've personally read with PBT.

Detective: The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

15. PBT is 15 years old! Read a book that was published the year YOU turned 15.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (546 pages)
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (432 pages)
The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien (432 pages)

January
1. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger - 2 stars
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 3 stars
3. A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw - 1 star

February
4. In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen - 3 stars
5. Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford - 5 stars

March
6. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell - 3 stars
7. It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright - 5 stars

April
9. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - 4 stars
10. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro - 3 stars

May
11. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 3 stars
12. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin - 5 stars
13. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones - 5 stars

June
14. The Black Company by Glen Cook - 5 stars
15. Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl - 4 stars

July
16. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse - 3.5 stars
17. One by One by Ruth Ware - 4.5 stars
18. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin - 5 stars

August
19. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - 4 stars