2025 Reading Challenge discussion

TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

This high-demand challenge is back for another year! Whether you like to plan your reading for the year ahead of time, or pick books at random, this challenge works the way you want it to work! There are 3 options for ways to pick your books for this challenge. You can stick with one or dabble in all 3!

Our task list has changed a bit from last year to make this challenge more TBR-sorting. If you miss any of last year’s prompts you can certainly use them in your own rotation.

1) You can let Goodreads let choose your books for this challenge:
Step 1: Select the number of books you want to read for this challenge.
Step 2: Go to the “My Books” tab on the top of the Goodreads Page.
Step 3: Bring up your “Want-To-Read” shelf.
Step 4: On the bottom of the page in the middle, go to the “sort” field and select “Random.”
Goodreads will generate a random list of books for you!

2) You can use the following tasks and pick a matching book later.
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

3) You can use any random generator on the internet to choose prompts or subjects. Some examples are: The TBR machine, Color picker, Wikipedia, random word generator, or shuffle your playlist and read books that have to do with those songs.

Write all your selected book titles or tasks on slips of paper, throw them in a jar, and shake! (Or, if you like, use the digital equivalent) Just let us know how many books you will be reading for this challenge.

We love how creative you all are, and would love to see the pictures of your jars! Happy Reading!

How to Participate:

1. Post here telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
You may choose your books at the beginning, or add them as you go. You may join any time during the year, and may change your goal whenever needed.

2. When you finish books for the challenge, edit your original post or member’s corner thread to add them.
Instructions are in the how-to link below.

3. To have your progress updated, post a new comment here to let the challenge leader know.
Every time you post an update, be sure to include your original (sign-up) message number, the number of books you have completed, and your goal. We use your original message number to identify you, since multiple members may have the same profile name.
Example:
Update to message 32: 2/25 books read!

For more information about how our challenges work, visit this how-to thread or ask your challenge leader.

P.S. Please do not delete posts! It changes the message numbers, complicating the update process for both leaders and participants. If you wish to leave the challenge, simply post a comment here to let us know. You may edit your original post to say {deleted}. Thank you!

Participants:

Alan - 15 / 16
Angel - 0 / 30
Ariail - 0 / 32
Barry - 3 / 12
Beth - 0 / 52
Beverly - 1 / 102
Brandi - 0 / 22
Brianna - 1 / 20
Brittany - 0 / 20
Bulatrix - 0 / 12
Caraina - 5 / 24
Carmen - 6 / 66
Carolyn - 8 / 16
Carri Carey - 29 / 36
Carrie - 4 / 16
Charlston - 0 / 35
Chiara - 0 / 12
Chika - 0 / 10
Chrissie - 6 / 30
ciera compton - 2 / 25
Cordelia - 6 / 10
CrazyAsACupcake - 0 / 10
Denise - 5 / 16
Dubhease - 7 / 10
Echo - 16 / 15 Completed!
Ela (Mouse333) - 0 / 12
Elaine - 0 / 150
Emily (msg 147) - 0 / 22
Emily (msg 43) - 37 / 45
Gina Marie - 6 / 16
Greg - 3 / 15
Gretchen - 0 / 15
Heli - 0 / 30
Inkeri - 0 / 52
Jade - 0 / 14
Jaida - 20 / 30
jami - 0 / 16
Jana - 91 / 100
Jane - 0 / 25
Janine - 15 / 16
Jenn (msg 281) - 0 / 16
Jenn (msg 84) - 84 / 150
Jennifer - 0 / 52
Jessica - 0 / 16
Jill - 0 / 12
Joi - 0 / 75
Joy D - 21 / 24
Julie - 3 / 20
juls.books - 0 / 16
Kay-Mika - 0 / 6
Kristina - 50 / 100
Lara - 0 / 16
Laura - 0 / 10
Lea Ann - 0 / 10
Leticia - 9 / 12
Lilili - 3 / 20
Lina (msg 18) - 0 / 16
Lina (msg 40) - 0 / 16
Lisa Marie - 4 / 16
Makayla - 0 / 16
Maria - 0 / 10
Mariana - 0 / 10
Martha* - 34 / 40
Mave - 0 / 26
Meghan L - 0 / 15
Michelle - 0 / 16
Mie - 13 / 16
Nat - 0 / 30
Natalie - 0 / 25
Nisanka - 16 / 20
Patty - 25 / 32
Rachael - 8 / 10
Sarah - 0 / 20
Sarah c - 0 / 10
SarahKat - 24 / 32
Satin - 0 / 26
Shari - 0 / 10
Sheri Davis - 0 / 24
Sophia - 8 / 16
Sophia D - 0 / 10
squeakers - 0 / 25
Susan - 6 / 16
Susan (dalmatian21) - 7 / 12
Sydney - 0 / 25
Taisha - 0 / 24
Tara - 0 / 24
TCampbell - 72 / 90
Ula - 0 / 10
Vicki - 0 / 21
Victoria - 14 / 16
Whitney - 31 / 45
Ziggy - 0 / 12

STATS
Participants: 92
Books Read: 718
Book Goal: 2544
Completed: 1

Updated through Message #393 on Aug 28, 2025.

Reserved by backup moderator

Progress: 8/28

1) One every month - 7/12
Jan - Make it Count
Feb - Danger Zone
Mar - Finn
Apr - The Gladiator's Downfall
May -
Jun - River
Jul - Ivory's Ruin
Aug - Redemption
Sep -
Oct -
Nov -
Dec -



2) Prompts - 1/16
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. - The Ember Blade
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

I am in for 24!

Completed: 21/24

Randomized list:
✅1. Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison - 6/13/25 - 4* - My Review
✅2. Delta-v by Daniel Suarez - 3/22/25 - 4.5* - My Review
✅3. The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens - 5/1/25 - 3* - My Review
✅4. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich - 2/20/25 - 4* - My Review
✅5. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron - 3/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
✅6. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade - 4/16/25 - 4* - My Review
✅7. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf - 2/9/25 - 4* - My Review
✅8. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay - 5/8/25 - 4.5* - My Review
✅9. The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands by Aidan Hartley - 5/3/25 - 5* - My Review
✅10. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers - 6/19/25 - 5* - My Review
✅11. Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy - 5/6/25 - 3* - My Review
✅12. The Missing by Tim Gautreaux - 3/26/25 - 4* - My Review
13. The Shape of Ruins Juan Gabriel Vasquez
✅14. Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende - 2/14/25 - 2* - My Review
✅15. The House on the Lagoon: A Novel by Rosario Ferré - 7/5/25 - 3.5* - My Review
✅16. When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe - 4/19/25 - 3.5* - My Review
17. A Question of Upbringing #1 Anthony Powell
✅18. Troubles by J.G. Farrell - 5/12/25 - 4* - My Review
✅19. Exile Music: A Novel by Jennifer Steil - 4/24/25 - 4* - My Review
✅20. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard - 7/19/25 - 4* - My Review
✅21. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer - 5/24/25 - 4* - My Review
✅22. This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 6/16/25 - 3.5* - My Review
23. They Were Found Wanting Miklos Banffy
✅24. Jack by Marilynne Robinson - 1/30/25 - 3* - My Review

hi, sign me up for 30 (tbd later)!
goal: 20/30

goodreads randomly generated books
jan: Conversations with Friends ⭐️
feb: The Mask Falling ⭐️
mar: Babel ⭐️
apr: Pines ⭐️
may: Little Fires Everywhere ⭐️
june: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ⭐️
july: Klara and the Sun ⭐️
aug:

prompt list
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. Kisscut ⭐️
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. In the Afterlight (535 pages) ⭐️
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory ⭐️
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR Wuthering Heights [1847]
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR Deep End ⭐️
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 Mistborn: The Final Empire [4.49 stars] ⭐️
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0 All Girls [3.22 (lowest)] ⭐️
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it). Gone Girl [3.256 million] ⭐️
10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page A Faint Cold Fear ⭐️
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page The Well of Ascension ⭐️
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. Sunrise on the Reaping ⭐️
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. The Hero of Ages ⭐️
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. The Gathering ⭐️
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. Before You Knew My Name ⭐️

I'm in for 16.

1. On TBR list the longest: The Hobbit
2. Added within last year: Night and Day
3. Book with over 500 pages: Magister Ludi:The Glass Bead Game
✔️4. Book with least pages: Themes and Variations - 6/1/25
5. Earliest published book: Meditations
6. Most recently published book: Women's Hotel
7. Highest average rating: Reflections:Essays on Place and Family
✔️8. Average rating below 3.0: Lost - 4/15/25
✔️9. Most number of ratings: The Hunger Games 6/22/25
✔️10. Least number of ratings: Laboulaye's Fairy Book - 3/24/25
11. Book from the first page sorted by title: Atomic Habits
✔️12. Book from the last page sorted by title: Where the Crawdads Sing - 7/15/25
✔️13. First book sorted by cover: Where the Red Fern Grows - 5/9/25
14. Book from the first page sorted by author: No Longer at Ease
15. Book from the last page sorted by author: The Golem and the Jinni
16. First random book: Hallucinations

TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Goodreads Randomly Chosen: 0/5

1. Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
2. All But My Life
3. The Name of the Wind
4. Daughters of Shandong
5. My Unexpected Forever

16 Tasks from Given List: 0/16
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year: Babylonia
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. Les Misérables 1463 pgs
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. The Bookstore Sisters 36 pgs
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

I'm in for 16

0/6 - Random picks

Jan-Feb: Jane Austen And Crime
Mar-Apr: A Burning
May-Jun:
Jul-Aug:
Sep-Oct:
Nov-Dec:

5/10 - prompts

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest: A Room of One’s Own ✅

2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year: Evenings and Weekends ✅

3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages: A Dance with Dragons ✅

4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages: Describing the Past

5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR: Goodbye to Berlin ✅

6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR: She's Always Hungry: Stories

7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 - The Season (4.25) ✅

8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0 - TBD

9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it). - Farenheit 451

10. Read the book with the least number of ratings. - More Letters of Oscar Wilde

I will sign up for 10

7/10

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year - Such Charming Liars
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. - Inheritance (860)
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. - Pit and Pendulum
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR - The Woman in Suite 11
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 - Kill for Me, Kill for You
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0 - Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page - audience of chairs
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page - The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. - The Crystal City
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. - Teresa
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

I am going to complete 32 - I will use the prompts twice.

Completed 27/32

✓1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
✓2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
✓3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
✓4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. Five's Legacy by Pittacus Lore
✓5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR - Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
✓6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
✓7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
✓9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it). Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
✓10. Read the book with the least number of ratings. Down World by Rebecca Phelps
✓11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page - Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
✓12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page - The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
✓13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. The Reality of Everything by Rebecca Yarros
✓14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
✓15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
✓16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros
✓1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. The Last Days of Lorien by Pittacus Lore
✓2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
✓3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR - The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR It's a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
✓9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it). Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
✓10. Read the book with the least number of ratings. Until Midnight by Melissa Landers
✓11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page - The Awakening by Caroline Peckham
✓12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page - Yesterworld by Rebecca Phelps
✓13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
✓16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments by Hannah Brown

Sign me up for 16, please.

🫙 TBR JAR
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Done: 13
Target: 16
Completion date:

List as of today:

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. - Amy Snow
📗 2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year - Sleeping in the Ground
📗 3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. - Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
📗 4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. - Bamser, bomber og brødristere
📗 5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR - Death of a Peer
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR - The Bone Garden
📗 7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 - The Women
📗 8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0 - Min fætter er høvding i Samoa
📗 9. Read the book with the most number of ratings - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
📗 10. Read the book with the least number of ratings. - Udvalgte eventyr
📗 11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page - The Beekeeper's Promise
📗 12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page - A Witch Hunt in Whitby
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. - Nothing Ventured
📗 14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. - Ender in Exile
📗 15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. - Rodløs
📗 16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. - Nerve

I'll use my plans for the ATY challenge next year and draw my picks.

Progress: 23/30

draw: 20.12. - 8 | 2.1. - 3 | 6.1. - 24 | 27.1. - 21 | 3.2. - 2 | 16.3. - 4 | 20.3. - 17 | 30.3. - 15 | 4.4. - 16 | 13.4. - 10 | 17.5. - 15 | 19.5. - 13 | 21.5. - 30 | 22.5. - 7 | 23.5. - 23 | 29.6. - 18 | 9.7. - 26 | 12.7. - 4 | 17.7. - 2 | 20.7. - 29 | 27.7. - 22 | 6.8. - 25 | 8.8. - 19 | 17.8. - 4 | 3.9. - 1

planned series/books
1. Twittering Birds Never Fly (0/8)

2. Fruits Basket Pearls + Fruits Basket Another Pearls (2/14)
✓ ✓
3. Links by Kizu Natsuki ✓ 01/06
4. Crimson Spell (3/7)
✓ ✓ ✓
5. #DRCL
6. From the Red Fog (0/3)
7. Liebesgift by Mikage Tsubaki ✓ 06/29
8. L.A. Waves by Pengu ✓ 01/02
9. City Lights Birthday
10. Lieber Liebeskummer by Kureno Mataaki ✓ 05/18
11. Ich hasse ihn
12. Whispering Blue
13. Perfume Master by Yuki Kaori ✓ 05/23
14. There are Things I can't tell You
15. Kenshin (2/-)
✓ ✓
16. Alles Licht, das wir nicht sehen by Anthony Doerr ✓ 06/25
17. Secret Service (1/6)
✓
18. No. 6 (1/6)
✓
19. Killing Stalking (1/14)
✓
20. Küss mich, Student (0/4)
21. Goodbye Harlequin - Special Edition by Kusabi Keri ✓ 02/03
22. Touch of Pain by Miyamoto Kano ✓ 08/05
23. Circe by Madeline Miller ✓ 07/12
24. Irish author - The Coast Road by Alan Murrin ✓ 02/02
25. scifi/fantasy novel by female author - Abschiede by Pascale Quiviger
26. Serpentine element - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz ✓ 07/17
27. author with 3 names - tbd
28. translated novel from asia - tbd
29. BoM 2024/2025 - Sekunden der Gnade by Dennis Lehane (May 2024) ✓ 08/08
30. published 2025 - Kabukicho Bad Trip – Ikeda & Rio by Nagisa Eiji ✓ 05/21
31. relating to fire - tbd

Please sign me up for 10 books. I've chosen the third option, any random generator on the internet, and used a random number generator to pick my books.

COMPLETED: 8/10

1. Strange the Dreamer finished 10 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. The Red House Mystery finished 31 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. The Necessary Arthur finished 20 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Children of Time finished 24 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Where the Library Hides finished 20 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
6. Dragon Rider finished 6 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. The Odyssey finished 17 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
8. Pollyanna finished 22 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Rithmatist
Rotherweird

Completed: 8/10

Belladonna
Shards of Honor
The Witch and the Tsar
Born of the Sun
Onyx Storm
The Crystal Cave
Empire of Shadows
Rules for Ruin
The Silver Metal Lover
Mysteries of Thorn Manor
The Last Unicorn
The Ragpicker King
Wolf Hall
The Red Tent
The Winners
The Wild Huntress
Somewhere in France
Codename Charming
Renegades
Sorcery of Thorns
The Hired Girl
The Witchwood Knot

I'll join for 10, please!

Going for 16 for now, thanks!

📝 TBR Jar - Yearly Challenge 📝
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025

📝 Progress: xx/16 📝 -

Going with a physical tbr-jar this year. Looking forward to it! My goal is to read 16 books for this challenge.

Tracking my books read for this challenge in my corner

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I sorted my To-Read list in ascending order of Date Added. My plan is to read the 52 oldest books on my TBR.

1. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
2. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
3. How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion by Derek Sivers
4. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
5. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
6. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography
7. Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill & My Mother
8. Fear: Trump in the White House
9. The Passionate Olive: 101 Things to Do with Olive Oil
10. The Ghost Map, The: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
11. Sparks Like Stars
12. The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
13. How I'll Kill You
14. STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
15. Hospital
16. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
17. Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
18. Everything She Feared
19. Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
20. The Last Flight by Julie Clark
21. The Quiet Tenant
22. Wild, Beautiful, and Free
23. Lovely Girls
24. The Perfect Murder Assignment: The first novel in an exciting new cozy mystery series (The Belinda Boothby series, Book 1)
25. Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel
26. Everything's Fine
27. 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion (Irish Century Book, #1) by Morgan Llywelyn
28. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
29. Rescuing Jeffrey by Richard Galli
30. Murder in an Irish Village (An Irish Village Mystery, #1) by Carlene O'Connor
31. Yossel, April 19, 1943 by Joe Kubert
32. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
33. Good Luck with That by Kristan Higgins
34. Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7) by James Patterson
35. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
36. Rudi and the Distelfink by F.N. Monjo
37. Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
38. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) by Heather Morris
39. The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
40. What Einstein Told His Cook
41. Before I Let You Go
42. I'm Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better, and a Hell of a Lot Louder
43. Still Life by Sarah Winman
44. In the Blood by Lisa Unger
45. The Space Between Us
46. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
47. The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1)
48. The Trap by Melanie Raabe
49. Death of an Englishman (Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery, #1) by Magdalen Nabb
50. God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
51. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black
52. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau

TBR JAR
January 01, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 50/100

This year, I'm working through books I own that are in my TBR pile and I'll be working by picking them at random. Starting with 100 books!

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TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
Book - River, Cross My Heart
Author - Breena Clarke
Date Read - 2/10/25
Rating - 2 stars


2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
Book - Perro Chupacabra
Author - Doug Goodman
Date Added - 9/26/24
Date Read - 4/9/25
Rating - 3 stars


3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
Book - Swan Song
Author - Robert McCammon
Pages - 929

4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
Book - Pay Me
Author - Ilona Andrews
Number of Pages - 8

5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
Book - The Wild Place
Author - Kathryn Hulme
Published - 1953

6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
Book - Buried Road
Author - Katie Tallo
Date Available - 12/3/24

7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
Book - Fury
Author - J.R. Tate
Rating - 5.00

8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
Book - Pennsylvania's Most Haunted Places: The Haunted History Behind Pennsylvania's Scariest Sites
Author - Tony Urban
Rating - 0

9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
Book - The Silent Patient
Author - Alex Michaelides
Number of ratings to date - 2,581,755 ratings
Read - DNF


10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
Book - Salt Lake City
Author - Al Halsey
Number of rating to date - 0

11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
Book - #Murdertrending
Author - Gretchen McNeil

12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
Book - The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Author - Diane Ackerman

13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
Book - Julia's Hope
Author - Leisha Kelly

14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
Book - Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board
Author - Zoe Aarsen
Date Read - 6/10/25
Rating - 5 Stars


15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
Book - Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
Author - Allan Zullo
Date Read - 8/26/25
Rating - 4 Stars


16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book
Book - Blood Sisters
Author - Jane Corry

TBR Jar Challenge message #22 Updated
80/90 Complete ⭐

1. Where the Fire Falls READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. A Clean Kill READ⭐⭐⭐
3. Falling Down READ⭐⭐⭐
4. Dark Dive READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Friends with Secrets READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. The Bookstore WeddingREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
7.Fatal Intrusion READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
8. Natural Selection READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. The Lioness of BostonREAD⭐⭐
10. Discord's AppleREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. A Death in the Family READ⭐⭐⭐
12. The Elias NetworkREAD⭐⭐
13. When We Were FriendsREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
14. Star Trek: Picard: FirewallREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
15. Surrender, New York READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
16. Explosive EighteenREAD⭐⭐⭐
17. Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A NovelREAD⭐
18. Blind DescentREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
19, Nobody's Perfect READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
20. The Answer Is NoREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
21. Impossible Creatures READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
22. Murder at Chateau Sur MerREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
23. The Way to the StarsREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
24. SkywardREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
25. The Naturalist SocietyREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
26. Ushers READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
27. The Guests on South BatteryREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
28. Games Untold: An Inheritance Games CollectionREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
29. Orbital READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
30. The Tiger's WifeREAD⭐⭐
31. The ReturnREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
32. The Orphan Master's Son READ⭐⭐⭐
33. So ThirstyREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
34. Iron Flame READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
35. HomegoingREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
36. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
37. The WomenREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
38. We Solve Murders READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
39. Where Are the Children Now?READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
40. The Wedding People READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
41. Wrong Place Wrong Time READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
42. Echo READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
43. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
44. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
45. The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street READ⭐⭐⭐
46. Life, Loss, and Puffins READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
47. Close Your EyesREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
48. The Brass Verdict READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
49. The Attic on Queen Street READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
50. Dangerous PlayREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
51. The Reaping READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
52. Glamorous Notions READ⭐⭐⭐
53. There's Something About Mira READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
54. Marilla of Green GablesREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
55. Anatomy: A Love Story READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
56. The Color Purple
57. Looking for Jane READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
58. Olive KitteridgeREAD⭐⭐⭐
59. The Storm We Made READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
60. X
61. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
62. Kiss the Girls and Make Them CryREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
63. My Dark Vanessa
64. Pride and Prejudice READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
65. Bright Young Women
66. The Unmaking of June FarrowREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
67. The Reversal READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
68. Sunrise on the ReapingREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
69. Mystery In Rocky Mountain National Park
70. Wool READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
71. The Venice Sketchbook READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
72. Isola READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
73. Yesterday's SonREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
74. Time for Yesterday READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
75. The Fall Risk READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
76. Mr. Whisper READ⭐⭐⭐
77. The Last RangerREAD⭐⭐
78. We Do Not Part READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
79. If Tomorrow Never ComesREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
80. The SubletREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
81. No Man's Land
82. Three Mothers
83. The One That Got Away: A Short Story
84. The Known World READ⭐⭐⭐
85. Homemaker
86. Death RowREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
87. The Shop on Royal StreetREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
88. The Thursday Murder ClubREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
89. The Henna ArtistREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
90. King of AshesREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐

I'm using the prompt list (option 2) for 16 books:
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
Sandwich
🌈3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
Ducks, Newburyport
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
Goodnight Desdemona
🌈5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
🌈8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
Tehrangeles
🌈9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
🌈10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
Angola under the Portuguese: The myth and the reality
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
And Then There Were None
🌈12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
Wandering Stars
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
🌈14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Hola, count me in!

PROGRESS: 6/66

my tracking post

Sign me up for 14 books, please!


1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

I will sign up for 16, please! :) Thank you

Progress: 8/16

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
Jackdaws
completed 7/26/25
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
On Mystic Lake
completed 2/27/25
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
completed 1/14/25
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
The Nightingale
completed 5/12/25
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
The Silent Patient
completed 6/30/25
10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
completed 1/26/25
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page.
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
completed 4/16/25
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
Piranesi
completed 4/8/25
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

Welcome all! Excited to cross some books off my TBR again this year!

22/32 -

Prompts
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
Churchill: A Biography
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
The Tiger Came to the Mountains by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
The Complete Poetry of John Donne
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
The Will of the Many by James Islington
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
The Garden by Tomi Adeyemi
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
The Last Thing He Told Me
10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
The Pursuit by R.L. Toalson
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
#Murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
The Years of Rice and Salt
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
The Turnout
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
When the Day Comes by Gabrielle Meyer

Randomizer
1. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey
2. Dreamsongs, Volume I
3. Upgrade
4. Innate Magic
5. The Warehouse
6. A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
7. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
8. Cursed
9. Feather
10. Hex
11. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
12. Shadow of the Fox
13. Tales of Mystery and Madness
14. The Midnight Feast
15. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
16. Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse Omnibus

I will join for 16 random books

Progress: 7/16

1. One Plus One - Jojo Moyes Completed
2. The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion Completed
3. The Night We Lost Him - Laura Dave Completed
4. The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henriquez Completed
5. Dear John - Nicholas Sparks Completed
6. One of Us Is Lying - Karen M. McManus
7. The Walls Around Us - Nova Ren Suma
8. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier Completed
9. The German Wife - Kelly Rimmer
10. Blockade Billy - Stephen King
11. Miracle Creek - Angie Kim
12. I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb Completed
13. Anna Dressed in Blood - Kendare Blake
14. Captivated & Entranced (Donovan Legacy) (Paperback) - Common - Nora Roberts
15. Resistance - Anita Shreve
16. The Awakening - Kate Chopin

Sign me up for 10. TBD.

1/10

2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year - Leave No Trace (Detective Karen Hart #9) on TBR list 10-12-24, read 1-5-25

THE TBR READING CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025

My progress: 4/52

I have close to a 350 books on my physical bookshelf and it seems like I never read any of them. In fact I have 276 unread books on my shelves. I want to read them which is why I chose these 52 books from my actual book collection to read in 2025.

1. A Clubbable Woman - Reginald Hill
2. A Passion For Killing - Barbara Nadel
✔️3. Ajopuujalka by Heli Laaksonen
4. Ash Wedesday - Ethan Hawke
5. Books That Changed The World - Andrew Taylor
6. Déjà Dead - Kathy Reichs
7. Devil Bones - Kathy Reichs
8. En Rakastu Kiusallakaan - Anni Polva
9. Englantilainen Romanssi - Niina Mero
10. Enkelit ja Demonit - Dan Brown
11. Musta Dahlia - James Ellroy
12. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Saffran Foer
13. Fear and Loathning in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
14. Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
15. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
16. Henry Henry - Allen Bratton
✔️17. Italialaiset Kengät - Henning Mankell
18. Joulua Pakoon - John Grisham
19. Keltaisten Sitruunoiden Ravintola - Kajsa Ingemarsson
20. Keskiyön Kirjasto - Matt Haig
21. Kolmas Ääni - Cilla Börjlind
22. Kylä Järvien Sylissä - Laila Hietamies
23. Kärpästen Herra - William Golding
24. Leo - Ulla-Lena Lundberg
25. Lisey's Story - Strphen King
26. Lokki Joonatan - Richard Bach
27. Mary Gallen-Kallela - Olisit Villiä Villimpi - Helena Ruuska
28. Meteoriitti - Dan Brown
29. Murder in the Afternoon - Frances Brody
30. New York Trilogia - Paul Auster
31. Normal People - Sally Rooney
32. Näin Murhaat Pomosi - Rupert Holmes
✔️33. Apteekkari Melchior ja Piritan kuristaja by Indrek Hargla
34. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
35. Pakoon Et Pääse - Joy Fielding
36. Pappi, Lukkari, Talonpoika, Vakooja - John Le Carré
37. Parempaa Väkeä - Sarah Walters
38. Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
39. Rakkautta Koleran Aikaan - Gabriel García Márquez
40. Revolverimies - Stephen King
41. Seitsemän Sisarta - Lucinda Riley
42. Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
43. Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
44. Sydämen Ääntä Ei Voi Unohtaa - Jan-Philip Sendker
✔️45. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
46. Tales From the Cafe - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
47. The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
48. The Door-to-Door Bookstore - Carsten Henn
49. The Holiday Bookshop - Lucy Dickens
50. The Princess and the Scoundrel - Beth Revis
51. The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick
52. The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year - Sue Townsend

I've been waiting for this! My favourite challenge of the year.
I have a list of 40 odd TBR books here and I'll try to get through them all.

Keeping track over here Martha's Shelf Noise
37/40

A = audiobook
B = book
K = kindle
L = library
N = need
O = own

BO🗓️ Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
✅️AO🗓️ Big Little Lies
✅️ AO📊🗓️ The Borrower
AL🐘🗓️ The Bone Clocks
✅️AL🗓️ The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
BO📊 The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide
✅️KO📊 City of Thieves
✅️KO⛄🗓️ Crying in H Mart
✅️ BL⛄🗓️ Danny the Champion of the World
BL📊 Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
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✅️KO🗓️The Enchanted
✅️BO📊🗓️February
✅️KO⛄🗓️Fight Night
✅️ BO📊🗓️The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
✅️AO🗓️Harlem Shuffle
✅️AL🗓️Horse
✅️AO🗓️The Housekeeper and the Professor
✅️KO🐘🗓️I Know This Much Is True
✅️BL📊🐘The Invention of Hugo Cabret
✅️AL🗓️Killing Floor
✅️AL🐘🗓️The Lincoln Highway
✅️BO📊🗓️Magpie Murders
✅AL🗓️Normal People
✅️BO⛄📊🐘🗓️The Orenda
✅️KO📊A Parchment of Leaves
AO🐘🗓️The Prince of Tides
✅️BL📊🗓️The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
BO🐘The Rose Code
BL🐘🗓️S.
✅️AL🗓️The Searcher
✅️KO📊🐘🗓️Skippy Dies
✅️KO🐘🗓️So Much for That
BL🗓️Tess of the D'Urbervilles
✅️AO🗓️The Testaments
✅️AO🗓️Through Black Spruce
✅️AL🗓️Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✅️ AL🗓️Trust
✅️ALTwenty-Seven Minutes
✅️AO🗓️The Unseen World
BO📊🐘🗓️The Way the Crow Flies
AL🗓️ We All Want Impossible Things
✅️AL📊🗓️We Begin at the End
✅️AL⛄The Wedding People
BL🗓️Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
✅️BO🗓️Women Talking
✅️BL⛄🗓️Wordhunter
✅️BO🗓️The Yellow House
✅️AL⛄You Are Here
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Sign me up for 6 books, please.
I will be using option 3

Please sign me up for 32. I'll do the 16 prompts and 16 by random number generator.
Progress: 26/32

Prompts
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
✅ 2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year Ninth House - Read 7/2/25
✅ 3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. The Running Grave - Read 4/15/25
✅ 4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - Read 2/3/25
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
✅ 6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR Sunrise on the Reaping - Read 5/27/25
✅ 7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 A Court of Mist and Fury - Read 6/1/25
✅ 8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0 Her - Read 7/25/25
✅ 9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it). The Catcher in the Rye - Read 5/6/25
✅ 10. Read the book with the least number of ratings. Gray Wolf Mountain - Read 6/16/25
✅ 11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page #Murdertrending - Read 3/1/25
✅ 12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story - Read 8/13/25
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
✅ 14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. You Will Know Me - Read 1/20/25
✅ 15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! - Read 5/30/25
✅ 16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. An American Marriage - Read 1/24/25

Random Number Generator
✅ 21 - All the Light We Cannot See - Read 4/16/25
✅ 27 - American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century - Read 2/7/25
✅ 39 - Aviary - Read 1/23/25
✅ 83 - The Briar Club - Read 5/16/25
91 -
✅ 96 - The Butcher Game - Read 4/19/25
109 -
✅ 174 - Extinction - Read 4/22/25
✅ 177 - Faithful Place - Read 5/2/25
✅ 419 - The Only Good Indians - Read 6/29/25
✅ 434 - The Patient - Read 6/23/25
495 -
✅ 506 - Small Favors - Read 5/22/25
✅ 517 - The Starless Sea - Read 4/8/25
✅ 567 - Unsouled - Read 7/17/25
✅ 623 - Young Mungo - Read 6/23/25

I'll use one prompt 😊

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. -
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year -
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. -
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR -
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 -
8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0 -
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
10. Read the book with the least number of ratings. -
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. -
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. -
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. -

0/16

I would like to sign up for 25!

0/25

This is a mix of prompts from the challenge and prompts from the TBR generator

1. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

2. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
Russka by Edward Rutherfurd

3. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger

4. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
Spilled Milk by K.L. Randis

5. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

6. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

7. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
The World Walk: 7 Years. 28,000 Miles. 6 Continents. A Grand Meditation, One Step at a Time. by Tom Turcich

8. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
Out of Sight!: Memoir of a San Francisco Hippie by Barbara Sanford Rahder

9. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

10. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.

11. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

12. Read a nonfiction book

13. Read a book that you think suits the current season (winter)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

14. Read a book with yellow on the cover
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

15. Read a book with a one-word title
Wilson by Daniel Clowes

16. Listen to an audiobook
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

17. Read a book with a beautiful cover
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

18. Read a book with an ugly cover
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

19. Read a historical fiction

20. Re-read a book you've read before
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

21. Read a book that has been nominated for or won a Goodreads Choice Award
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

22. Read a translation of a book

23. Read a book by an author you haven't read anything from before
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

24. Read a self-improvement book
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal

25. Read a romance book
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams

I'm in! I want to read 15 of the books that have been sitting in my physical TBR pile.

15/15 completed 7/27/25 - Let's see how much more I can do!
16/15 completed

1. Cross Roads
2. Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
3. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
4. Spellbound
5. The Calling (Sweep, No. 7) by Cate Tiernan
6. The Grief of Stones
7. Changeling
8. Early Riser
9. I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
10. Strife
11. Seeker
12. Origins
13. Eclipse
14. Legends & Lattes
15. Reckoning
16. Full Circle

As always, I will put 15 titles into my jar and choose one each month. (15 so that even in December, it is a surprise!)

0/12

1. The Age of Innocence
2. Before We Were Blue
3. Big Summer
4. Call Us What We Carry
5. Circe
6. Discount Armageddon
7. Elektra
8. Forging Silver into Stars
9. I Kissed Shara Wheeler
10. In Calabria
11. Inheritance
12. Lessons in Chemistry
13.Piranesi
14. The Seven Year Slip
15. I Killed Zoe Spanos

Signing up for 12!

I'd like to join for 16 books please 😊

Progress: 0/16

1. On TBR the longest Pride and Prejudice
2. Added within the last year The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
3. Most pages on your TBR In Search of Lost Time 4211 pages 💀
4. Least number of pages Zikora
5. Earliest published Meditations
6. Most recently published Is She Really Going Out with Him?
7. Highest average rating Berserk, Vol. 1
8. Lowest average rating One Last Word
9. the most number of ratings To Kill a Mockingbird
10. the least number of ratings Waters of the Wadi
11. Sort by title, from the first page An Academy for Liars
12. Sort by title, from the last page Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
13. Sort by cover, the first or last book One Last Night
14. Sort by author, from the first page Where Sleeping Girls Lie
15. Sort by author, from the last page The Book Thief
16. Randomize your TBR, first book Summer Reading

Might change the books as I go along according to mood or if some of them can stand in for prompts in other challenges.

my member's corner

TBR Jar Challenge

Challenge Accepted: January 1, 2025
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: December 31, 2025

1/150 Completed

(Personal Notes: #1-50 DBRL, #51-70 Hoopla, #71-150 ku-tbr)

This Summer Will Be Different
A Love Like the Sun
The Rules of Royalty
My Gently Raised Beast, Vol. 1
Eden of Witches Volume 1
Battle Royal
Love and Other Words
Funny You Should Ask
The Unleashing
Jacob


The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Wormwood Abbey
Chasing Perfect
A House with Good Bones
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Ghost Roast
Here One Moment
This Will Be Fun
Dragged to the Wedding
Witch of Wild Things


Harmony of Fire
The American Roommate Experiment
An Unkindness of Magicians
Partners in Crime
Coming Home
Ink & Sigil
Something Wild & Wonderful
Look on the Bright Side
Well Met
The Book of Dragons


Uncanny Times
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
Migrations
Solo Leveling, Vol. 1
Shadow Fox
Love Lettering
These Broken Stars
A Game of Fox & Squirrels
Taxi Ghost: A Graphic Novel
Tom's Midnight Garden Graphic Novel


Thornhedge
The Witches of Bone Hill
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Murder Your Employer
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Impractical Magic
I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
Dragonfire Quest
Don’t Forget to Write
The Rowan


The Engineered Throne
Outfoxed
Wolf's Lady
Agents of the Crown - The Complete Series #1-5
The Ward Witch
Booked for Murder
Fury Unleashed
Some Kind of Magic
Laying Claim
Catnapped


The Alpha Option
Manner of Death
Do Over
Stray
These Haunted Hills
Blind Tiger
Secret Agent Analyst
The Alpha Option
The Great Pet Heist
72 Hours

Continued from previous post...

Dark Wizard DNF
Winter Cowboy DNF
Heartscape
Peregrine Seas
A Little Too Late
Like a House on Fire
Just This Once
Promise Me Forever
Runaway Magic
Change My Ticket


Talk Bookish to Me
Thorn
It Started With a Bang
Fornever Yours
Christmas Delivery: MMM Romance 2-12-25
My Bare Lady
Redemption's Edge
Prelude to Love
Safe and Sound
The Mastermind


Pain
The Murder Between Us
The Night Of
Wolfsgate
Delta Delta Flyboy
To Bind a Dark Heart
Bound to the Wild Fae
Something Borrowed
Dracian Academy: MM Romance Fantasy
Thicker than Water



Charlie DNF
The Spare
Baked & Brewed
The Ivory Cat
Cooper
Dead and Breakfast
Deadworld Isekai
A Quiet Life in the Country
Vampires Don't Play Hockey
Wicked Heat


Vacationing with the Vampire in Hallow's Cove
The Other Side of Disappearing
Be My Endgame
The Secret
Eloise and the Grump Next Door
Let Me Love You
Free Fall
Throne in the Dark
Black Moon
The Elven King's Captive



No Take Backs
When It Falls Apart
What Happens at the Lake
Rogue Royal
Broken Warrior
Unbridled Cowboy
The Unicorn's Mate
Until I Saw You
Within the Mind
Lethal



My Daddy Is A Hitman
Embracing Fate
A Minute More
Get It Together
Kisses at the Crossroads
Impossible Things
The Tea House
Taylor-Made for Me
Phantasma
All the Hype



His Country
The Soulmate
Buried Deception
Outcrossing
Dungeon Life: An Isekai LitRPG DNF
The Silencer
Deadly Descent
Tell No One
Conflicted
The Brightest Light of Sunshine

I'm going to sign up for 45 chosen from a random number generator.

45/45 - Completed 9/2/2025

1. No Cry For Help by Grant McKenzie
2. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
4. Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
7. Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry
8. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
9. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
10. What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
11. Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
12. How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
13. A Twist of Murder by Heather Redmond
14. The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
15. All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
16. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
17. A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
18. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
19. Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson
20. Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
21. Yorkshire Lass by J Carol Nemeth
22. The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
23. Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas
24. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
25. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
26. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
27. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
28. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
29. Playing with Matches by Brian Katcher
30. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
31. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
32. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
33. Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung
34. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
35. The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
36. Fire Mountain by Dana Mentink
37. Animal Farm by George Orwell
38. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
39. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
40. Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
41. ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
42. Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris
43. There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia
44. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
45. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

0/24 books

1. 2025 new release
2. a book outside of comfort genre
3. read a book by a male author
4. goodreads's winner/nominee
5. read a book with disability rep
6. read a mythology
7. read a book in one day
8. a book with mental health representation
9. read a non-fiction book
10. read a book by an New Zealand author
11. read a sapphic book
12. a book originally written in another language
13. read a book published before 1900
14. a classic romance
15. read friends to enemies to lovers
16. set in year i was born
17. read a paranormal book
18. take place in my home state
19. read a sci-fi
20. read a historical fiction book
21. read a book that you think you will rate 5 stars
22. a book that scares you
23.
24.

I'm in for 20. I will just put the titles in a jar and shake. :)
5/20

1. Crazy in Alabama
2. The Lost Women of Lost Lake
3. Sweetwater Creek
4. Tony's Wife
5. Uncommon Reader

I'm in for 45. I used a "Spin the Wheel" website to determine the following books to read in 2025.

Progress: 32/45

1. An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole (Completed 1/8/25)
2. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Completed 1/19/25)
3. Majesty by Katharine McGee (Completed 1/27/25)
4. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (Completed 2/5/25)
5. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Completed 2/11/25)
6. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (Completed 2/18/25)
7. Happy Place by Emily Henry (Completed 2/26/25)
8. Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren (Completed 3/6/25)
9. Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory (Completed 3/10/25)
10. Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin (Completed 3/19/25)
11. Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev (Completed 3/28/25)
12. The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (Completed 4/5/25)
13. Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez (Completed 4/19/25)
14. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (Completed 4/26/25)
15. Rivals by Katharine McGee (Completed 5/4/25)
16. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez (Completed 5/14/25)
17. Reign by Katharine McGee (Completed 5/22/25)
18. Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour (Completed 5/28/25)
19. Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry (Completed 6/4/25)
20. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (Completed 6/12/25)
21. Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore (Completed 6/18/25)
22. Mem by Bethany C. Morrow (Completed 6/24/25)
23. The Sixth Wedding by Elin Hilderbrand (Completed 6/26/25)
24. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Completed 7/5/25)
25. The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (Completed 7/13/25)
26. Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (Completed 7/21/25)
27. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (Completed 7/27/25)
28. From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper (Completed 8/4/25)
29. Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory (Completed 8/12/25)
30. Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross (Completed 8/18/25)
31. A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare (Completed 8/26/25)
32. A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore (Completed 9/4/25)
33. The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang (Currently Reading)

Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune (September)
The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (September)

If the Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon (October)
Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James (October)
Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore (October)
So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park (October)

The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
November 9 by Colleen Hoover
Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
A Million Junes by Emily Henry
A Thorn in the Saddle by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Once Upon a Winter's Eve by Tessa Dare

My goal for this task is to read 15 books from my personal shelves. I used Random.org to make a random list of books I own but have yet to read.

1.) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

2.) The Confessions of Young Nero by Margaret George

3.) The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

4.) The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

5.) The Chalice by Nancy Bilyeau

6.) I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb

7.) John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk

8.) Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell

9.) The Queen's Bastard by Robin Maxwell

10.) The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

11.) Hera by Jennifer Saint

12.) The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey

13.) A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman

14.) Prophecy by S.J. Parris

15.) Island of the Swans by Ciji Ware

Welcome everyone! Looking forward to reading with you all next year!

Please sign me up for 16 using option 2.

⌛🫙Yearly Challenges: TBR Jar🏁🫙

🫙 TBR JAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 4/16


⏹️1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
John Adams

✔️2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas --- 2/2/25

⏹️3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
The Count of Monte Cristo
⏹️4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
The Tumor
⏹️5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
Wuthering Heights
⏹️6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
Beartooth
⏹️7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
Fighting Words
⏹️8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
The House in the Pines
⏹️9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
1984
⏹️10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
The Faithful
⏹️11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
choose later- multiple choice
⏹️12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
choose later- multiple choice

✔️13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.

It by Stephen King--- 2/19/25

✔️14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.

Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Ackerman --- 2/13/25

✔️15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros --- 3/12/25

⏹️16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
The Kite Runner

Signing up for 30 random!

Complete: 20/30

1. What the Neighbors Saw 1/15
2. Such Color: New and Selected Poems 4/12
3. Skinship: Stories 4/4
4. The Unwedding 2/19
5. Outdrawn
6. Blindsight
7. Long Live Evil 5/16
8. The Widows of Malabar Hill
9. Bath Haus
10. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
11. Out of the Drowning Deep 7/12
12. My Murder 5/6
13. The Last Hour Between Worlds 3/20
14. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date 7/9
15. A Gentleman in Moscow 3/14
16. The Lowland
17. The Fortunate Ones
18. The Last One 6/1
19. Girl, Woman, Other
20. Nexus 8/27
21. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil 3/26
22. Lost Ark Dreaming 7/14
23. Consent: A Memoir 4/19
24. Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror
25. The Twenty Days of Turin 8/30
26. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
27. China Mountain Zhang 8/18
28. In Other Lands 8/2
29. The Proper Thing and Other Stories 6/8
30. Solaris 7/24