Pick-a-Shelf discussion

"noun. a group of 13; a dozen plus one: from the former practice among bakers and other tradespeople of giving 13 items to the dozen as a safeguard against penalties for short weights and measures."

Read:
12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you

*it does not matter which serial number and that means you may read duplicate #2 etc

OR (if you do not read many series)

Read:
12 books by 12 different authors^ whom you have read ONLY ever 1 book of
AND
1 book by author^ new to you (you have not read any books by them ever)

^AND author's initials must be found in BAKER'S DOZEN

13/13 as at 05/30

all different series

1. A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden #2) by Charlaine Harris -Read 03/26
2. Mort (Discworld #4) by Terry Pratchett -Read 04/02
3. Genesis (Project Nemesis #2) by Brendan Reichs -Read 04/04
4. Retribution (Lexi Winter #2) by Sarah Barrie -Read 04/14
5. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy #2) by C.S. Lewis -Read 04/15
6. Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family #2) by Marian Keyes -Read 04/26
7. Lost Roses (Lilac Girls #2) by Martha Hall Kelly -Read 04/28
8. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Hercule Poirot #44) by Agatha Christie -Read 05/01
9. Rebel (Legend #4) by Marie Lu -Read 05/03
10. This Rough Magic (Heirs of Alexandria #2) by Mercedes Lackey -Read 05/23
11. The League of Gentlewomen Witches (Dangerous Damsels #2) by India Holton -Read 05/30
12. The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles #2) by Rick Riordan -Read 05/30

13. Forgotten Sins (Sin Brothers #1) by Rebecca Zanetti -Read 03/28

Prompt 13. Baker's dozen

Read: 12 books from 12 different series* from which you have read at least 1 book AND 1 book from a series* which is new to you AND author is new to you

1. The Confession of Brother Haluin
2. Silent Mercy
3. The Stone Monkey
4. Bone Deep
5. Callander Square
6. Stone Kiss
7. Song of the Lion
8. A Little Yellow Dog
9. The English Breakfast Murder
10. The Devil's Bones
11. The Absent One
12. The Brass Verdict

13. Hourglass

12 books by 12 different authors 1 completely new.


✔️1.The Silent Dolls 5/6
✔️2.Me Before You 11/6
✔️3.Midnight at Malabar House30/6
✔️4. The Golden Couple18/5
✔️5. Scandalous Wager9/2
✔️6. Boaz's Wager
7. An Inconvenient Vow
8. Invisible Girl
9. The Mistake
10.A Cup of Silver Linings
11. The Wedding Party
12. End Of Her
13. A Rising Man

12 books from 12 different authors, 1 new to you author

1.Dead Until Dark completed 03/30/23
2. By the Sword
Completed 05/2/23
3. Silver Borne 5/17/23
4. Three to Get Deadly 06/9/23
5. Check Yes Or No by J M Justice
6. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban completed 07/06/23
7. The Freedom Writers Diary completed 07/10/23
8. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore completed 07/17/23
9. Acorna's World completed 08/8/23
10. Dead to the World
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12.
New to you author
13.Mistletoe Murder 5/10/23 7

13. Baker's Dozen

Read:
12 books from 12 different series which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you AND author is also new to you

Continuing Series (all different)
1. The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor, 26 Mar 2023, Maggie D'arcy #3
2. So Shall You Reap, Donna Leon, 1 Apr 2023, Commissario Brunetti #32
3. The Low Road, A.D. Scott, 9 Apr 2023, Joanne Ross #5
4. The Burning Pages, Paige Shelton, 16 Apr 2023, A Scottish Bookshop Mystery #7
5. Buried Angels, Camilla Läckberg, 26 Apr 2023, Patrik Hedstrom #8
6. The Last Remains, Elly Griffiths, 3 May 2023, Ruth Galloway #15
7. Dashing Through the Snowbirds, Donna Andrews, 8 May 2023, Meg Langslow #32
8. Collateral Damage, J.A. Jance, 14 May 2023, Ali Reynolds #17
9. Donut Disturb, Ellie Alexander, 22 May 2023, Bakeshop Mystery #15
10. Dressed to Drill, Kate Carlisle, 1 June 2023, Fixer-Upper Mystery #10
11. The Scholar, Dervla McTiernan, 6 June 2023, Cormac Reilly #2
12. Playing Dead, Peggy Rothschild, 7 June 2023, Molly Madison #2
AND
New-to-me series by new-to-me Author
13. The Odor of Violets, Baynard Kendrick, 21 Mar 2023, p. 1, Duncan Maclain Mystery #3

12 books from 12 different authors, 1 new author:

1. The Curator (Washington Poe #3) 6/2
2. Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3) 8/26
3. Jade War (The Green Bone Saga #2) 4/2
4. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3) 4/18
5. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) 11/21
6. Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales #2) 4/24
7. Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) 4/4
8. Honor Lost (The Honors #3) 7/30
9. The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry #3) 11/19
10. Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) 3/27
11. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle #4) 11/5
12. The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire #2) 9/17
13. Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) 5/31

Done!

Fifteen for Fifteen - Prompt 13: Baker's dozen
March 18 - December 2023 ➖ COMPLETE

My Prompt 13 Plan (msg 8)

Prompt🔹Read 12 books from 12 different series AND 1 book from a series which is new to you


🔹

💟#8 Housewife Assassin🔹The Housewife Assassin's Killer App🔹03.18 ★★★
💟#2 Accidentally Yours🔹Accidentally Married to...a Vampire?🔹03.19 ★★★
💟#3 Take a Chance🔹Blueprint for a Kiss🔹03.20 ★★★★
💟#5 Jackson Falls🔹The Miles Between Us🔹03.21 ★★★★
💟#5 Quantum🔹Ravenous🔹03.23 ★★★★
💟#3 The Burrow🔹The End of Tomorrow🔹03.26 ★★★
💟#15 Dark Protectors🔹Garrett's Destiny🔹03.27 ★★★★
💟#9 Krewe of Hunters🔹The Night Is Watching🔹03.29 ★★★★
💟#8 Toronto🔹Finding My Happy Pace🔹03.30 ★★★
💟#3 Adair Family🔹Always You🔹03.31 ★★★★
💟#16 Made in Montana🔹Sizzling Summer Nights🔹03.31 ★★★
💟#1 Dakota Heartss🔹Her Dakota Man🔹03.31 ★★★★

💟#1 Infinity🔹Hearts Collide: Infinity Prism Book One🔹03.24 ★★

13. Baker's Dozen

Read:
12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you

1. The King of Crows (Diviners #4) ✔
2. Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic #5) ✔
3. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls #2) ✔
4. Wayward (Wayward Pines #2)
5. A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4)
6. Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper #4)
7. Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) ✔
8. Jingo (Discworld #21)✔
9. The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut #3)✔
10. P.S. I Still Love You (To all the boys #2)✔
11.The Sun Sister (Seven sisters #6)✔
12.The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder #3)✔
AND
13. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (Pirates #1)✔

Fifteen for Fifteen - Prompt 13 - Baker's Dozen

Read: 13/13 - Completed 10/29/23

Series books:
✅ 1. Odalisque (Comfort 3) - 6/18/23
✅ 2. Empire of Ivory (Temeraire 4) - 7/23/23
✅ 3. Dark Age (Red Rising 5) - 6/16/23
✅ 4. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants (Georgia Nicholson 4) - 7/27/23
✅5. Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story (Heist Society 2.5) - 7/15/23
✅ 6. The Chateau (Original Sinners 8.4) - 6/30/23
✅ 7. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (Murderbot 4.5) - 6/17/23
✅ 8. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children 8) - 10/29/23
✅ 9. I Will Not Beg (Mtn Masters & Dark Haven 6) - 6/9/23
✅ 10. The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southborne 2) - 6/9/23
✅ 11. The Effing List (Club Shadowlands 14) - 6/16/23
✅ 12. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple 2) - 10/27/23
AND
✅ 13. The Keeper of Lost Causes (Dept. of Q 1) - 9/6/23

Prompt 13: Baker's dozen ~ COMPLETE

Series already started (12 different series)
✓ 1. A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong (Rockton/Casey Duncan #2) Read: 3/25/23
✓ 2. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files #6) Read: 3/28/23
✓ 3. No Cats Allowed by Miranda James (Cat in the Stacks #7) Read: 5/25/23
✓ 4. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #3) Read: 5/31/23
✓ 5. A Fistful of Collars by Spencer Quinn (Chet and Bernie Mystery #5) Read: 6/17/23
✓ 6. Silent Scream by Karen Rose (Romantic Suspense #11) Read: 6/30/23
✓ 7. The Hen of the Baskervilles by Donna Andrews (Meg Langslow #15) Read: 7/14/23
✓ 8. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (MaddAddam #2) Read: 7/17/23
✓ 9. Listen To Me by Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles #13) Read: 8/11/23
✓ 10. The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Inheritance Games #3) Read: 8/30/23
✓ 11. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #3) Read: 9/5/23
✓ 12. Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire (October Daye #6) Read: 9/10/23

NEW series by NEW-to-me author
✓ 13. Elementary, She Read by Vicki Delany (Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery #1) Read: 8/22/23

0/13 as at 03/18

all different series

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NEW series and NEW author
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Prompt 13: Baker's Dozen
COMPLETED 31 July 23

12 different series, already started:

✔ 1. A Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino, 20 Mar 23
(Kyoichiro Kaga, #9)
✔ 2. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells, 26 Mar 23
(Murderbot Diaries, #4)
✔ 3. The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham, 3 Apr 23
(Albert Campion, #1) (I have previously read others)
✔ 4. Inspector French and the Crime at Guildford by Freeman Wills Crofts, 11 Apr 23 (Inspector French, #13)
✔ 5. Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery, 15 Apr 23
(Anne of Green Gables, #4)
✔ 6. Pusher by Ed McBain, 15 Apr 23
(87th Precinct, #3)
✔ 7. Lessons in Discovery by Charlie Cochrane, 1 May 23
(Cambridge Fellows, #3)
✔ 8. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike, 4 May 23
(Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
✔ 9. Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith, 9 June 23
(44 Scotland Street, #2)
✔ 10. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, 11 Jul 23
(African Trilogy, #3)
✔ 11. Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin, 13 Jul 23
(Gervase Fen, #5)
✔ 12. Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard, 31 Jul 23
(Cazalet Chronicles, #2)

One new series with new-to-me author:
✔ 13. Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy & Oscar Zarate, 24 Apr 23 (Introducing Graphic Guides series)

Prompt 13: Baker's dozen - DONE!
Twelve books in continuing different series and one that is first in series by an author I've never read before.

1. Hard Hit (Jon Reznick, #6) - Completed 4/8/23
2. Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #6) - Completed 4/21/23
3. The Gentlemen's Hour (Boone Daniels, #2) - Completed 5/27/23
4. Sparring Partners (Jake Brigance, #4) - Completed 8/4/23
5. Time is Money (Detective Kate Rosetti Mystery, #7) - Completed 6/26/23
6. Sunday Silence (Frieda Klein, #7) - Completed 6/3/23
7. The Suicide House (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #2) - Completed 7/9/23
8. Boundary Waters (Cork O'Connor, #2) - Completed 6/18/23
9. The Girl from Berlin (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart, #5) - Completed 7/30/23
10. Wildcard (Warcross, #2) - Completed 7/28/23
11. Rapture in Death (In Death #4) - Completed 7/23/23
12. City of Dreams (City, #2) - Completed 6/4/23

13. Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad, #1) - Completed 5/1/23

Prompt 13 - Baker's Dozen
Read 0/13

1. Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
2. Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
3. The Holy Covenants
4. I Know This Much Is True
5. Moloka'i
6. The Scorch Trials
7. Covenant Keepers
8. Enduring Light
9. Living Dead in Dallas
10. Esperanza Rising
11. A Little Princess
12. To the Lighthouse

13. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

Fifteen for Fifteen (2023) > 13. Baker's dozen
Read:
12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you


all different series - have read at least 1 book
1. Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #1) Apr
2. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War #2) Apr REQ
3. Heaven's Prisoners (Dave Robicheaux #2) - if not used for "same title" - have audio (March/Nov)
4. Promised (Birthmarked #3) Oct eaudio
5. Natchez Burning (Penn Cage #4) Nov
6. Locked Rooms (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #8) June
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new to me series and author
13. The Salaryman's Wife (Rei Shimura #1) Apr, LOST

All Different series

1. The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy read March 27
2. The Dying Day read March 28
3. Someone to Romance read March 28
4. Give All to Love read March 30
5. Seasparrow read April 3
6. The Betel Nut Tree Mystery read April 17
7. Lucy by the Sea read April 23
8. Children of Memory read April 29
9. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath read May 22
10. The Winners read May 28
11. Fatal Legacy read July 4
12. Seal of the Worm read July 16

New author new series
13. Saint Death's Daughter read April 7

Prompt 13: Baker's Dozen

Already started series:
1. China Rich Girlfriend 3/30
2. A Crown of Swords (4/3)
3. The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour (4/13)
4. East of West, Vol. 4: Who Wants War? (4/13)
5. Barbarian's Seduction (4/23)
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes (4/27)
7. Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Two (5/2)
8. Saga, Volume 10 (5/7)
9. Undercover Bromance (5/27)
10. Any Way the Wind Blows (5/31)
11. The Well of Ascension (7/11)
12. B is for Burglar (9/17)

New series and new author:
13. The Cold Dish (8/13)

"noun. a group of 13; a dozen plus one: from the former practice among bakers and other tradespeople of giving 13 items to the dozen as a safeguard against penalties for short weights and measures."

Read:
12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you

1. One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire ( October Daye #5)
2. Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams (Bromance Book Club #2)
3. Blood Promise by Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy #4)
4. Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb (In Death #8)
5. No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor (Chronicles of St. Mary's #5)
6. Archangel's Resurrection by Nalini Singh (Guild Hunter #15)
7. Storm Echo by Nalini Singh (Psy-Changeling Trinity #6)
8. Tricks for Free by Seanan McGuire ( InCryptid #7)
9. The Coloring Crook by Krista Davis (Pen & Ink Mysteries #2)
10. Death of Darkness by Dianne Duvall (Immortal Guardians #9)
11. The Shadow Warrior by Ann Aguirre (Ars Numina #4)
12. Dance of the Gods by Nora Roberts (Circle trilogy #2)

13. The Duchess of Chocolate by Sydney Jane Baily (Rare Confectionary #1)

Prompt 13: Baker's Dozen

Read:
12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you

Series:
1. Scars 4/11/23 Killers #5
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New Series and Author:
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Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #13: Baker's Dozen - Complete

✔︎ 1. Blind Trust by Lynda Aicher(The Boardroom #2)
Read: May 26, 2023
✔︎ 2. The Lies We Tell by Debra Webb (The Undertaker's Daughter #2)
Read: May 9, 2023
✔︎ 3. Fury on Fire by Sophie Jordan (Devil's Rock #3)
Read: April 22, 2023
✔︎ 4. Head Over Heels by Jill Shalvis (Lucky Harbor, #3)
Read: July 9, 2023
✔︎ 5. Danger Close by Kaylea Cross (Bagram Special Ops, #4)
Read: July 23, 2023
✔︎ 6. Dead Against Her by Melinda Leigh (Bree Taggert #5)
Read: April 13, 2023
✔︎ 7. On the Prowl by Christine Warren (The Others #6)
Read: May 26, 2023
✔︎ 8. Dying Wish by Shannon K. Butcher(Sentinel Wars #6)
Read: June 28, 2023
✔︎ 9. The Bride Wore White by Amanda Quick (Burning Cove #7)
Read: May 13, 2023
✔︎ 10. Breaking the Rules by Suzanne Brockmann (Troubleshooters #16)
Read: April 20, 2023
✔︎ 11. Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb (In Death #53)
Read: June 8, 2023
✔︎ 12. Best of My Love by Susan Mallery (Fool's Gold #20)
Read: August 24, 2023

New series+new author
✔︎ 13. Shooter by Dahlia West
Read: 16 August, 2023

Prompt 13: Baker's Dozen

1.) China Rich Girlfriend
2.) Shopaholic & Baby
3.) Heartstopper: Volume One
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"noun. a group of 13; a dozen plus one: from the former practice among bakers and other tradespeople of giving 13 items to the dozen as a safeguard against penalties for short weights and measures."

Read:
12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you

*it does not matter which serial number and that means you may read duplicate #2 etc

OR (if you do not read many series)

Baker's Dozen

Complete: 13/13

1. Tropical Dragon Diver (Shifting Sands #5) - previously read #1-4; finished - 4/23/23
2. Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs #9) - previously read #1-8 - Finished - 5/9/23
3. Wildfire Hellhound (Fire & Rescue Shifters: Wildfire Crew #5) - Previously read #1-4
4. What a Dragon Should Know (Dragon Kin #3) - previously read #1-2 - finished - 5/6/23
5. Speaking in Bones (Temperence Brennan #18) - previously read #1-17 - finished - 5/9/23
6. Treacherous Is the Night (Verity Kent #2) - previously read #1 - finished - 5/20/23
7. The Language of Secrets (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #2) - previously read #1 - finished - 5/12/23
8. The Firefighter's Dilemma (Mile High Firefighters #3) - previously read #1-2 - finished - 6/2/23
9. - Blossoms, Barbeque, & Blackmail (Campers and Criminals #20) - previously read #11 - finished - 6/4/23
10. Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) - previously read #1-2 - finished - 6/6/23
11. A Faint Cold Fear (Grant County #3) - previously read #1-2 and 6 - finished - 6/17/23
12. Sweep in Peace (Innkeeper Chronicles #2) - previously read #1 - Finished - 6/23/23

New to you series/author
1. Stray (Shifters #1) - new to me series and author (even if its been on my TBR shelf for years... - Finished - 6/24/23

Finished - see post 24

Fifteen in for Fifteen
Prompt #13 (March 18) Series

12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from

1.A Closed and Common Orbit Wayfarers #2 previously read book #1 3/9/23
2. Driving Heat Nikki Heat #7 previously read Books 1-6 3/20/23
3. Quicksand Eve Duncan #8 previously read books #1-7 4/6/23
4. Shambling With the Stars Living with the Dead #2.5 previously read book #1 6/25/23
5. Devil to Pay Night Huntress #3.5 previously read books 1-5 6/30/23
6. Curses Dresden Files #10.4 Previously read Books 1-14 7/9/23
7.Possession in Death In Death #31.5 Previously read books 1-31 9/8/23
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AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you

1. Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King jumped into the series at #8 and never read this author before 3/29/23