2024 Reading Challenge discussion

TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

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 to work it! There are 3 options for ways to pick your books for this challenge. You can stick with one or dabble in all 3!

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 a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher.
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love.
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
16. 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).
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
20. Read a book that you own.
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself.

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 can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time during the year and may also change your goal whenever needed.

2. When you finish a book for the challenge, post it here to let the challenge leader know.
Please be sure to post the total number of books you have completed and the number of your original message every time you post an update. We use the number of the original message to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.

Example:
Update to message 32: 2/25 books read!

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

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

Participants:

Alison - 0 / 10
Alyssa - 1 / 20
Ann - 9 / 21
Ariail - 0 / 32
Ariana - 18 / 32
Ashleigh - 1 / 4
Ashly - 1 / 6
Barb - 0 / 10
Barry - 0 / 10
Beth - 36 / 150
Beverly - 19 / 100
Blagica - 1 / 8
Brianna Raquel - 0 / 200
Carmen - 32 / 32 Completed!
Carri Carey - 31 / 32
Chika - 0 / 32
Chrissie - 18 / 32
Christene Paula - 0 / 30
Christina - 0 / 10
Cordelia - 15 / 20
Creed - 25 / 50
D.L. - 0 / 15
Denise - 28 / 32
Dianne - 0 / 30
Dubhease - 14 / 15
Eggp - 26 / 32
Ela (Mouse333) - 1 / 42
Elaine - 0 / 50
Elizabeth - 0 / 8
Emily (msg 354) - 0 / 30
Emily (msg 61) - 12 / 19
Emma - 0 / 20
Frankie - 27 / 50
Georgia - 2 / 32
Gina - 0 / 24
Greg - 5 / 50
H - 0 / 36
Inge - 20 / 50
Jaida - 7 / 12
jami - 0 / 20
Jana - 0 / 70
Janine - 28 / 27 Completed!
Jenn - 0 / 100
Joy D - 20 / 24
Kalyn - 9 / 15
Karen - 0 / 4
Karin - 2 / 104
Katherine - 26 / 24 Completed!
Kelly (msg 71) - 4 / 25
Kelly (msg 74) - 10 / 50
Kristina - 9 / 150
Laura (msg 112) - 0 / 20
Laura (msg 47) - 9 / 25
Laura (msg 9) - 40 / 50
Laureen - 20 / 20 Completed!
Laurie - 16 / 32
Leticia - 0 / 20
Libby - 0 / 32
Lilili - 26 / 40
Lina - 24 / 30
Lisa Marie - 26 / 32
Lorraine - 27 / 32
Lulo - 0 / 32
luna ☾ - 0 / 50
Madam Mandela - 0 / 33
Margaret - 0 / 25
Maria - 19 / 15 Completed!
Mariana - 0 / 35
Marianne - 0 / 20
Martha (msg 27) - 0 / 45
Martha (msg 57) - 3 / 25
Megan BG - 0 / 12
Meghan L - 0 / 12
Michelle - 0 / 10
Monica - 1 / 32
Morgan - 9 / 32
Nat - 0 / 20
Nell - 0 / 25
Nina - 0 / 7
Nisanka - 15 / 15 Completed!
Patty - 60 / 75
Paula - 30 / 30 Completed!
Penelope - 0 / 32
Sahira - 25 / 18 Completed!
Samantha - 9 / 10
Sarah - 7 / 50
Sarah c - 0 / 10
SarahKat - 41 / 44
Shari - 0 / 20
Sheila - 25 / 10 Completed!
Shirley - 5 / 10
Susan (dalmatian21) - 7 / 14
Suzanne - 32 / 32 Completed!
TCampbell - 70 / 70 Completed!
Truitt_T - 5 / 100
Vanessa - 0 / 12
Ziggy - 30 / 30 Completed!

STATS
Participants: 97
Books Read: 1038
Book Goal: 3346
Completed: 12

Updated through Message #442 on Oct 02, 2024.

Reserved

TBR Jar
Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2024

35/50 Books Complete
Updated through: 6-21-24

✔ Patience DNF
✔ Fake Out 6-3-24
✔ The Wolf at Bay DNF
✔ Accidental Bonds DNF
✔ The Boyfriend Game 1-8-24
Friends No longer on KU
For the Fans
Iced Out
Roommate Arrangement
The Pact


Bad Pucking Timing
✔ White Noise 2-20-24
✔ For You, Sir: MM Butler Romance DNF
Room for You
A Little Too Late
✔ Cyclone DNF
Brewing Sunshine
✔ The Varsity Dad Dilemma DNF
✔ A Rake, His Patron, & Their Muse DNF
✔ Light My Fire DNF


✔ A Heart of Bones DNF
Coach
✔ Scorpio Hates Virgo 2-15-24
✔ That One Night DNF
✔ Beauty and Bad Blood 1-12-24
✔ Flirt DNF
✔ The Orc and the Manny 1-14-24
✔ Never Stay Gone 1-14-24
Pick Me
✔ Something Wicked 1-12-24


✔ Fathers of the Bride DNF
✔ My Sister's Sweetheart 3-28-24
✔ Until Hanna 3-10-24
A Gentle Way to Love
✔ Courtyard Omega 1-7-24
Rum and Rendezvous
✔ Scratch the Surface DNF
✔ More Than Life DNF
✔ Oh Buoy 3-8-24
✔ Awakening the Sheriff DNF


✔ Catch Me DNF
✔ Reed 6-15-24
✔ And the Best Man Ran Away With the Groom DNF
✔ Dangerous 1-15-24
✔ Relief Pitcher DNF
The Stablemaster's Heart
Poet
✔ Winter Dragon 1-2-24
Tied Over
✔ Forever Ink 2-23-24

TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
2/30

Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

1. Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs 1/6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. 1st to Die by James Patterson 1/27 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3.
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5.

I will sign up for 15 prompts

14/15

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. - This Present Darkness
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. - The Midnight Feast
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. - Brisingr
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. - The Canterville Ghost
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. - The Name of the Rose
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. - One Perfect Couple
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love.
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. - A Death at the Party
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. - Dragons in the Waters
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
16. 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).
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. - The Writing Retreat
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
20. Read a book that you own. - The House Across the Lake
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. - First Among Sequels
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. - Mere Christianity
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. - The Wife Between Us
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. - The Darkest Road

hi, sign me up for 12!

4/12

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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. ✅ Finished January
Lady Midnight

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

5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born. May
Never Let Me Go

6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.

7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. ✅ Finished March
House of Sky and Breath

8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.

9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.

10. Read a book with a cover you love.

11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. ✅ Finished January
Nightbitch

12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.

14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).

15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.

16. 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).

17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.

18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.

19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.

20. Read a book that you own.

21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.

22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.

23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish. April
A Court of Mist and Fury

24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.

25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. April
The Once and Future Witches (historical fiction)

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

27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.

28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.

29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.

30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.

31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.

32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. ✅ Finished March
A Court of Thorns and Roses (beauty and the beast)

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January 1 2024 to December 30 2024
Option 2. follow the tasks:
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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 a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher.
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love - You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke fin 2/24
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover - the Peacock by Isabel Bogdan (no entry in goodreads) fin 2/24
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
16. 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).
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
20. Read a book that you own - Burn Melanie Saward feb 24
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR - The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty fin 1/24.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself.

I'm in for 50.

Progress: 42/50
💎 done ♻ re-read ⏳Currently reading
📖 physical Copy 🎧 Audiobook 📱 Kindle/digital

💎📖1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (Finished January)
💎🎧2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado (Finished March)
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. I Choose Darkness by Jenny Lawson (Finished May)
💎📖5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (Finished September)
💎📖6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. Who Was Jesus? by Ellen Morgan (Finished April)
💎📖7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. Virgin River by Robyn Carr (Finished April)
💎🎧8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. Random in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished January)
💎🎧♻9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user. Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile (Finished May)
💎🎧10. Read a book with a cover you love. Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon (Finished February)
💎📱11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter by Janne S. Drangsholt (Finished April)
💎📖12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture A.D. Jameson (Finished April)
💎🎧13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James (Finished May)
💎📖14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). This Pen for Hire by Laura Levine (Finished July)
💎📖15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Finished February)
16. 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).
💎📖17. Read the book with the least number of ratings. Son of God: A Bible Study for Women on the Gospel of Mark, Volume 2 by Keri Folmar (Finished April)
💎🎧18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling (Finished September)
💎🎧19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf. Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Heather Lende (Finished March)
💎📖 20. Read a book that you own. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun (Finished March)
💎📖21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Finished May)
💎📖22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Finished July)
💎🎧23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Finished April)
💎🎧24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables by Phil Vischerv (Finished April)
💎🎧25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. A Million Ways to Die in the West by Seth MacFarlane (Finished March)
💎🎧26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. Turn Coat by Jim Butcher (Finished April)
💎📖27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 by Ichigo Takano (Finished June)
💎🎧28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Finished February)
💎🎧29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges by Jen Mann (Finished February)
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself.


Other TBR Books:
💎🎧33. Sabriel by Garth Nix (Finished April)
💎📖34. Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith by Michael Reeves (Finished May)
💎📖35. Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats by Gabe Henry (Finished May)
💎🎧36. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James (Finished June)
💎📖37. The sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur (Finished July)
💎🎧38. I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro (Finished July)
💎📖39. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Finished July)
💎🎧40. The Night Before by Lisa Jackson (Finished July)
💎🎧41. The Next Always by Nora Roberts (Finished August)
💎📖42. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt (Finished August)
💎📖43. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Finished September)
💎🎧44. I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story by Anthony Daniels (Finished September)
💎📖45. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover (Finished September)
💎📖46. The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett (Finished September)
💎🎧47. Naked Came the Phoenix Marcia Talley (Finished October)

In for 20

16/20

1. A Fragile Enchantment
2. Mysteries of Thorn Manor
3. Shanghai Immortal
4. The Hexologists
5. The Foxglove King
6. Even the Darkest Stars
7. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
8. Cursed
9. Born of the Sun
10. Lovely War
11. The Siren of Sussex
12. What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix
13. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
14. Bath Tangle
15. Resonance Surge
16. Son of the Shadows
17. Defy the Night
18. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
19. Sword Catcher
20. The Crystal Cave
A Promise of Peridot
The Librarian of Crooked Lane
State of Terror
Thistlefoot
The King's General
The Bone Shard Daughter
Belladonna
Ten Thousand Stitches
Together We Burn
After the Forest
Heart's Blood
The Scarlet Alchemist

Ok...here we go again...I love this challenge, even though this is the 2nd year in a row that I've not read everything that I had randomly selected from my reading backlog. But I've made progress and that's the important part. So here's my catch up lists and then I'll fill in with whatever I already have designated for this year!! Hopefully 100 in total.

3/5

Left from 2022:
1. The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time by Leslie Pockell FINISHED 1/26
2. The Captain's Door by Ciara Houghton FINISHED 4/30
3. Fado Alexandrino by Antonio Lobo Antunes FINISHED 8/27
4. Hook and Peter by Doram Jocoby
5. Salem Falls by Jodi Picolt

13/95

Combo of leftovers from 2023 and new selections from 2024:
6. 3rd Degree by James Patterson
7. Above the Ether by Eric Barnes
8. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
9. Black River Falls by Jeff Hirsch FINISHED 3/10
10. Black Rose, White Rose by Ellen Datlow
11. Bone Crier's Moon by Kathryn Purdie
12. The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg FINISHED 3/29
13. The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picolt
14. Breakfast at the Honey Creek Cafe by Jodi Thomas FINISHED 4/15
15. Broken by Don Winslow FINISHED 4/27
16. Burn Bright by Marianne de Pierres
17. Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
18. Devolution by Max Brooks
19. Diamond Solitaire by Peter Lovesey
20. The Diva Haunts the House by Krista Davis FINISHED 5/6
21. The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn
22. Furious Hours by Casey Cep
23. Good Luck with That by Krisin Higgins
24. The Heart of a Gypsy by Roberta Kagan
25. I'm Having so Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum FINISHED 2/16
26. I Am Lubo by Lou Pechi FINISHED 2/24
27. I Am Not a Monster by Carme Chaparro
28. I Am the Lion by Rachelle Lauro
29. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zuzak FINISHED 4/19
30. I Am Watching You by Teres Driscoll
31. Inherited Danger by Brian Rathbone
32. Jack the Giant Killer by Charles De Lint
33. Jack the Ripper in St. Louis by Fedora Amis
34. Jackson by Cindy Marabito
35. Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker
36. Jacob Wesley and the Darklights by J. S. Mitchell
37. Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
38. Jadaleddin by Beyon Miloyan
39. Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart
40. Jalepeno Cupcake Wench by Carol Kilgore
41. Kalki by Gore Vidal FINISHED 3/22
42. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer FINISHED 1/16
43. Karda by Sherrill Nilson
44. Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
45. Kate in the Land of Myth and Wonders by J. P. H. Tan
46. Katerina by James Frey
47. Katherine Page Hall presents Malice Domestic 11 by Verena Rose
48. Keep an Eye On That Mummy by Nancy Kriplen
49. Keep Calm and Carry On Children by Sharon K. Mayhew
50. Keep Me Ghosted by Karen Cantwell
51. Le Belle Sauvage by Phillip Pullman
52. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren FINISHED 6/11
53. Labyrinth by Mark T. Sullivn
54. Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter
55. Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
56. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
57. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver FINISHED 7/10
58. Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
59. The Last Suppers by Mandy Mikulencak
60. Left Fur Dead by J. M. Griffin
61. M is for Monster by Michael Kelahan
62. The Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury
63. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by Amira Ahmed
64. Madame Fourcade's Secret War by Lynne Olson
65. Madame Gray's Creep Show by Gerri Gray
66. Madly by Amy Alward
67. A Madman's Song by Jim Martin
68. The Madman's Tale by John Katenbach
69. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
70. Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
71. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
72. One Small Touch by Denise McGee
73. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
74. The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
75. Ronnie by Elliott Simon
76. Savage Run by C. J. Box
77. Someone's Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass
78. Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
79. Stay Up With Hugo's Best by Erin Somers
80. The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan
81. Tangerine by Christine Mangan
82. The Tenet by Katrine Engberg
83. Think of a Number by John Verdon
84. Throne of Lies by Sara Secora
85. Too Late for Angels by Mignon Ballard
86. Undaunted by William Manchee
87. The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage
88. X-Nova by Ken Hagdal
89. Xenicide by Orson Scott Card
90. The Xibalba Murders by Lyn Hamilton
91. The Yankee Widow b Linda Lael Miller
92. The Yard by Alex Grecian
93. Yarn to Go by Betty Hechtman
94. Ye Olde Antique Shoppe by Margaret Brazear
95. The Year I Almost Drowned by Shannon McCrimmon FINISHED 2/29
96. The Year Marjorie Moore Learned to Live by Christie Grotheim
97. Year of the Amphibian by Christopher Pickert
98. The Year of the Cloud by Ted Thomas
99. The Year of the Orphan by Daniel Findley
100. Year of the Wicked by Jeffrey J. Mariotte

I'm in for 24 books and go with Option B

Progress: 11/24

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. - Lie to Me
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. - Erebos
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. - The Stand
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. - The Land That Time Forgot
5. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. - Under the Dome 📖
6. Read a book with a cover you love. - Voices in the Snow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. - Sturmherz ❌
8. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). - Project Hail Mary ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. - DOORS X - Dämmerung
10. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. - Bird Box ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
11. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. - The Stone Sky ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
12. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. - Im Krebsgang
13. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish. - Schneller lesen - besser verstehen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
14. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. The Watchers
15. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ⭐️⭐️⭐️
16. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. Erebos 2
17. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. The Mists of Avalon
18. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. - Stark. The Dark Half
19. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
20. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. Die Verlobten des Winters ⭐️⭐️⭐️
21. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. - Auslöschung ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
22. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. - 零 Novel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
23. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. - The Ghost Tree 📖
24. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born. - Brokeback Mountain

Maybe:
25. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
26. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
27. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
28. Read the book with the most number of ratings. Gone Girl

I am down for 50 books.

I have now got 599 books on my TBR shelf with books added as far back as 2012. Reducing it by 50 randomly selected books is badly needed. Although, for everyone I read I always seem to add 2 more.

Knots and Crosses added to the list on April 5, 2014.
Under Occupation added to the list on December 5, 2023.
Pandora's Star added to the list on October 13, 2018.
River of Stars added to the list on May 2, 2013.
Heart-Shaped Box added to the list on December 28, 2016.
1356 added March 21, 2015.

6/50

Hola!
Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 32/32

❎️1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. Far from the Madding Crowd
❎2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. Stitches and Witches
❎️3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. Invisible Man
❎4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. Lords of Scandal
❎️5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born. Ada o el ardor
❎️6. Read the 24th book on any page of your TBR. Castigo
❎7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. El maestro de azúcar (4.15)
❎8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. La mujer fugitiva by Alicia Giménez Bartlett
❎️9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
❎️10. Read a book with a cover you love.
❎️11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.
❎️12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. Ursula
❎️13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. Las hijas del frío by Camilla Läckberg
❎14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). Tangled up in You
❎15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges. The Watchmaker's Daughter
❎️16. 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 Four Winds
❎17. Read the book with the least number of ratings. Al sur del Caribe
❎18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. The Last Devil to Die
❎19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf. El invierno en Lisboa
❎20. Read a book that you own. In a Holidaze
❎21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. Wolfsong = La canción del lobo
❎22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. Noches Blancas
❎️23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish. She Who Became the Sun
❎24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. Beleza vermella
❎️25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. Electra
❎️26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. You're Invited
❎27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. A Loyal Character Dancer
❎28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. Fourth Wing
❎29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. Mary, Bloody Mary
❎30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. My Kind of Wonderful (Winter)
❎31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR. Las siete muertes de Evelyn Hardcastle
❎️32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. Un mundo helado

I'm in for 15 prompts!
19/15

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. The Idiot on TBR list 11-07-14 read 3-1-24
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. The Wanted One (on tbr list 8-7-23) read 4-16-24
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. - The Count of Monte Cristo (1085pages) 1-8
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. -Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute #3) 2-13 (44 pages)
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. A Christmas Song (4.49 rating)
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. The Tumor 1-4-24 by John Grisham not my favorite book of his, but he's still one of my favorite authors
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love. Finale (Caraval #3)
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. The Lover (wolf in cover) 3-4
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges. - Maybe Now (Maybe Someday #2) 1-12
16. 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).
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. Lunch in Paris 1-3
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf. The Hotel Nantucket 2-5
20. Read a book that you own.-Painful (Thoughtless #6) 1-25
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. - Wings of Glass 1-31
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. Beyond Good and Evil 2-15
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish. One Italian Summer started last year but did not get to finish until 1-5-24
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. You Loved Me Once 1-14
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. Forensic Psychiatry 3-11
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.Fake-ish 5-13 (use of a hyphen)
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. Hazel and Gray (retelling of Hansel and Grettel) 2-26

30 / 30 Books Read
I will read 30 books using option #1 I will let the system Randomly Generate from my Want to Read. I will choose one from the top 10 generated each time.

1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
2. Holly
3. The Surgeon
4. First Lie Wins
5. Beware the Woman
6. For Wrath
7. Twenty-Seven Minutes
8. All the Light We Cannot See
9. Criminal
10. Desperate by Daniel Palmer
11. If It Bleeds
12. While We Were Dating
13. Triptych
14. Kill and Tell
15. Hunted in the HollerPink Lemonade Cake Murder
16. Dare to Lead
17. Truly Madly Guilty
18. Isle of Dogs
19. Fourth of July Creek
20. Holmes, Marple & Poe
21.The Broken Girls
22. Milk and Honey
23. Pink Lemonade Cake Murder
24. Part of Your World
25. Girl in Pieces
26. Nightcrawling
27. Heat Wave
28. All the Colors of the Dark
29. Me Before You
30. When Life Gives You Lululemons

I am going for 30 next year, please! I need to decrease my tbr-pile a bit!

📝 TBR Jar - Yearly Challenge 📝
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2024

📝 Progress: 24/30 📝 -

Updating the books I read for this challenge in my corner

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Trying my luck with the prompts this year.

29/32

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. (7:12 = 559) ✓
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. (96) ✓
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. ✓
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. (4.31) ✓
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. ✓
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love. ✓
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. ✓
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. ✓
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. (Dietrich) ✓
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges. ✓
16. Read the book with the most number of ratings. (147054) ✓
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings. (7) ✓
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. ✓
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf. ✓
20. Read a book that you own. ✓
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. ✓
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. ✓
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish. ✓
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. ✓
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. (cozy crime) ✓
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. ✓
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. ✓
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. ✓
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. ✓
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. (march: numbers) ✓
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR. (EHRTBM august classic) ✓
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. ✓

I am in for 24 in 2024! (to be read in any order throughout the year)

Completed 20/24:

TBR Jar:
✅1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - 1/7/24 - 4* - My Review
✅2. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman - 2/12/24 - 4* - My Review
✅3. Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash - 4/26/24 - 3* - My Review
✅4. The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith - 9/26/24 - 4* - My Review
5 1919 John Dos Passos
6 California Gold John Jakes
✅7. The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir - 1/17/24 - 4* - My Review
✅8. The General and Julia by Jon Clinch - 1/3/24 - 4* - My Review
✅9. Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier - 3/15/24 - 3* - My Review
✅10. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik - 7/6/24 - 4* - My Review
✅11. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman - 6/1/24 - 4* - My Review
✅12. South of Broad by Pat Conroy - 1/10/24 - 4* - My Review
✅13. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard - 3/5/24 - 4* - My Review
✅14. Murtagh by Christopher Paolini - 2/14/24 - 4* - My Review
✅15. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill - 2/25/24 - 5* - My Review
✅16. Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne - 1/29/24 - 3.5* - My Review
17 Greenwood Michael Christie
✅18. Pod by Laline Paull - 6/6/24 - 4* - My Review
✅19. Leviathan by Paul Auster - 4/17/24 - 4* - My Review
✅20. Still Life by Sarah Winman - 8/19/24 - 3* - My Review
✅21. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon by Buddy Levy - 2/4/24 - 4* - My Review
22 The Lighthouse Road Peter Geye
✅23. The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore - 1/4/24 - 5* - My Review
✅24. The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles - 1/8/24 - 4* - My Review

I'm signing up for 32.
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 a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher.
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love.
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
16. 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).
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. The Charade
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
20. Read a book that you own.
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself.

In for 20 random:

1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 3/30
2. From Below 5/9
3. Land of Milk and Honey
4. The Memory of Animals 6/1
5. The Kind Worth Killing 2/11
6. Homeland Elegies
7. A Guest in the House 9/15
8. Borne 7/4
9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds 2/17
10. The Auctioneer 8/24
11. Loki's Ring 5/16
12. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World 8/26
13. Before We Were Innocent 7/11
14. Burn the Negative 5/30
15. Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons
16. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau 6/12
17. The Current
18. The Immortalists 5/27
19. Dark Detectives 5/20
20. The Anomaly 6/16

Complete: 16/20

I will start with 10 books and may add a few as we go along:

1) Stolen by Daniel Palmer
2) The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross
3) The Girl on the Bridge by James Hayman
4) Close to Home by Robert Dugoni
5) The Back Road by Rachel Abbott
6) The Apex Predator by Michael Koryta
7) Craven Manor by Darcy Coates
8) Every Wicked Man by Steven James
9) Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor - COMPLETED
10) One Final Breath by C.R. Chandler

Updated message 11 with my list of 100 books for the year.

For this challenge I will be attempting to read 33 books! 0/33

This will be a hard challenge for me, a challenge that I am up for. Here are the prompts I am doing along with the books I will possible read from them.

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. Darwin's Secret: A Novel of the Amazon
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.Prentice Alvin and Alvin Journeyman: The Third and Fourth Volumes of The Tales of Alvin Maker
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.Salem Falls - A Novel
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.The Midnight Witness
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.What Lies in the Woods
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher.Berserk, Vol. 1
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.Bluestar's Prophecy
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love.The Midnight Library
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.Beast
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. Fifty Shades of Grey
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.Daisy Cooper's Rules for Living
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).The Magic of Astrology: What Your Zodiac Sign Says About You
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
16. 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).
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
20. Read a book that you own.
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself.
33. Goodreads picks my read! Maestra

Please sign me up for 30 books…doing a version of option 2 and 3.

TBR Jar

30/30. Completed

Please sign me up for 30 books…doing a version of option 2 and 3.

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. Family Lore
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. Jade Legacy
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
5.Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. The Book of Longings
6.Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. Death on the Nile
7.Read a book by one of your favorite authors. The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb
8.Read a book with a cover you love.European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
9.Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.Garlic and the Vampire
10.Randomize your TBR and read the first book. Misfit Mansion
11.Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). The Thief
12.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 Little Prince
13.Read the book with the least number of ratings. Winnie-the-Pooh and Other Delightful Stories (Painted Edition)
14.Read a book in your favorite genre. Jade War
15.Read a book that is from a genre you rarely read. Wrong Place Wrong Time
16.Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. The Orange and Other Poems
17. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. Lolly Willowes
18. Read an award-winning book. Piranesi
19. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. Weyward
20.Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself Bea Wolf
21.Random emoji generator inspires book choice 🦘The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
22.Random color wheel is main color of book Love on the Brain
23 Random letter wheel is first letter in authors last name The People We Keep
24 Random letter wheel is first letter in books name The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
25 Shuffle playlist-song inspires book choice Space Oddity by David Bowie The Spare Man
26 Random quote generator inspires book choice What the River Knows I get up in the morning looking for an adventure. George Foreman
27 The TBR Machine generates a prompt read a book with a person on the cover To the Bright Edge of the World
28 Hey Reader generates a prompt-Prompt Set in your Country-Hello Beautiful
29 Random Wikipedia inspires book choice random topic Smith criterion Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
30 Random genre generator The Tuesday Club Murders: Miss Marple’s Thirteen Problems

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

TBR JAR
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 9/150

Count me in for 150! As always, I'm trying to clear out as many books on my TBR list as possible. I'm going to go randomly through my Goodreads TBR for this year.

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TBR JAR
6/45

1. Finding Me
2. The Sun Sets in Singapore
3. Vanity Fair
4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
5. In Memoriam
6. Shark Heart
7. Evil Eye Finished 1/28/24
8. Happiness Falls
9. The Postcard
10. The Bookbinder
11. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
12. Let Us Descend Finished 2/28/24
13. Small Mercies: Finished 9/14/24 *****
14. The East Indian
15. Lady Tan's Circle of Women Finished 1/31/24
16. The Collected Regrets of Clover
17. Age of Vice
18. The Circus Train
19. Hello Beautiful
20. The Covenant of Water
21. The Magician
22. Jacqueline in Paris
23. Crossroads
24. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
25. Breathless
26. Babel
27. Booth
28. The Library of Legends Finished 1/21/24
29. Trust
30. Life After Life
31. Greenwood
32. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
33. China Room China Room 1/23/24 ****
34. Cloud Cuckoo Land
35. A Deadly Education
36. Deep River
37. The Flight Portfolio
38. Orphan Train
39. To the End of the Land
40. Sometimes a Great Notion
41. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
42. The Savage Detectives
43. Wellness
44. The Vaster Wilds
45. Warrior Girl Unearthed

My goal is 150 books. Potential candidates include books added to my To-Read shelf prior to 2024. Anything added in 2023 or before is eligible. As of today (Dec. 9, 2023), there are 366 books on my TBR shelf, so lots to choose from.
(view spoiler)[
Left over from 2023 TBR Jar list and Clear the Shelves list

My Own Words
Written in Bone
Beneath This Mask
Nowhere Safe
The Secret
Fear: Trump in the White House
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
Schindler's List
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
William Wallace: The King's Enemy
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill & My Mother
The Baker's Secret
(hide spoiler)]

Updates: post 175, post 348

January
1. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
2. A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) by Louise Penny
3. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
4. The Day That Never Comes (Dublin Trilogy, #2) by Caimh McDonnell
5. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
6. The Bees by Laline Paull
7. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
8. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
9. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire,#1) by Naomi Novik
10. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
11. Beloved by Toni Morrison
12. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
13. If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney, #2) by Stephen King

February
14. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
15. Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman
16. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
17. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
18. You (You, #1) by Caroline Kepnes
19. Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3) by Naomi Novik
20. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) by Rick Riordan

March
21. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
22. The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard Osman
23. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin Stevenson
24. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
25. Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #44) by Agatha Christie

April
26. Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) by Agatha Christie

May
27. The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1) by M.W. Craven
28. Reader, I Buried Them & Other Stories by Peter Lovesey
29. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
30. The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) by Caleb Carr

June
31. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
32. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) by Richard Osman
33. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
34. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) by John le Carré
35. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
36. Nowhere Safe (Harley Cole, #1) by Kate Bold
37. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
38. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss
39. The Secret by Gemma Rogers
40. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

July
41. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8) by Agatha Christie
42. Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry
43. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
44. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
45. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel
46. Beneath This Mask (Beneath, #1) by Meghan March
47. Riders (Rutshire Chronicles, #1) by Jilly Cooper

August
48. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches, #1) by Nicholas Meyer
49. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
50. How to Break a Dragon's Heart (How to Train Your Dragon, #8) by Cressida Cowell
51. Rivals (Rutshire Chronicles #2) by Jilly Cooper
52. Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
53. Day (The Night Trilogy, #3) by Elie Wiesel
54. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby
55. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
56. God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
57. If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
58. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
59. William Wallace: The King's Enemy by D.J. Gray

September
60. The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

Progress: 25/42

1) One every month - 9/12
Jan - Holiday Romance
Feb - Onyx and Ivory
Mar - Black Richard's Heart
Apr - Shifted Fate
May - A Natural History of Dragons
Jun - Baby For The Mountain Man
Jul - First Knight
Aug - Sinful Vows
Sep - The Kinder Poison



2) Prompts - 14/30
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. - Darkness of Light - 1 Jun
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. - Royally Bitten - 4 Jan
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 a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. - Phantom Shadows - 13 Mar
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. - Bonds of the Wolf - 25 Aug
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user. - Year of the Reaper - 8 Apr
10. Read a book with a cover you love. - A River Enchanted - 8 Jan
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. - Last Call at the Local - 2 Jun
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. - Immortal Fire - 18 Aug
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
16. 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).
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
20. Read a book that you own. - Silent Scream - 11 Feb
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. - No Rest for the Wicked - 9 Apr
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. - A Tale of Stars and Shadow - 17 Sep
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. - The Pilot's Daughter - 9 Jun
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. - Butcher & Blackbird - 25 Feb
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. - Does It Hurt? - 12 Jan
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. - Truly Madly Montana - 12 Sep
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. - Rescued By The Merman - 16 Mar

Increasing goal to 70
Update to TBR Challenge Message #30
70/70 Read Challenge Complete
1. In the Likely Event-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Sing, Wild Bird, Sing -Read⭐⭐⭐
3. Dear Bob and Sue: Season 2-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Never Lie -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Malibu Burning -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. Penelope in Retrograde -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. The Optimist's Daughter - Read⭐⭐⭐
8. March -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. Advise and Consent -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
10. The Caine Mutiny-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. The Spy Coast-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
12. Lights Out -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
13. Please Tell Me -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
14. Mastermind -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
15. The Final Equinox -Read⭐⭐⭐
16. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
17. Voices of Dragons -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
18. Scorpio -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
19. The Echo of Old Books -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
20. All the Little Liars -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
21. Headlong Flight - Read⭐⭐⭐
22. Fourth Wing - Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
23. Making It So: A Memoir -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
24. The Frozen River -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
25. Blackouts - Read⭐⭐
26. Spare - Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
27. American Vampires -Read⭐⭐⭐
28. To Lose the Earth -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
29. Force and Motion -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
30. The Vulcan Academy Murders -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
31. Chain-Gang All-Stars -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
32. The Fury -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
33. Hearts and Minds -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
34. Collateral Damage -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
35. Over a Torrent Sea-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
36. The Long Mirage -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
37. Enigma Tales -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
38. Original Sin-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
39. Broken Roads: A Cormac and Amelia Story -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
40. The Girl On Legare Street -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
41. Two Women Walk into a Bar -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
42. Water Fire Fae: Stories -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
43. The Wild Inside -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
44. The Confessions of Nat Turner-Read⭐⭐
45. The Reivers-Read⭐⭐⭐
46. Last Night-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
47. Mayluna-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
48. Murder at Rough Point-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
49. House Made of Dawn-Read⭐⭐
50. Dancers in the Dark-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
51. Don't Forget Me-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
52. Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
53. Fire Flight: A Novel-Read⭐⭐
54. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon-Read⭐⭐
55. The Inheritance Games -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
56. Daisy Jones & The Six -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
57. Baby X-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
58. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
59. The Underground Railroad-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
60. The Seven Year Slip-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
61. Quicksand -Read⭐⭐⭐
62. Friends in Napa-Read⭐⭐⭐
63. Lovers at the Museum: A Short Story -Read⭐⭐⭐
64. Zorrie -Read⭐⭐⭐
65. Fall-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
66. The Lady Doc-Read⭐⭐⭐
67. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
68. The Song of Achilles-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
69. Greta & Valdin-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐
70. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry-Read⭐⭐⭐⭐

TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

27/50 Completed

01.Obsession Falls-Claire Kingsley 1/02/24
02.Lotus-Jennifer Hartmann
03.Sway-Jessica Gadziala 1/07/24
04.23 Hours-Bink Cummings
05.Legacy-Laura Pavlov
06.Broken Dreams-Corinne Michaels 2/02/24
07.Limitless Love-Audrey Carlan 2/04/24
08.Last on the List-Amy Daws 1/21/24
09.Till Death Do Us Part-Willow Rose 3/01/24
10.Our Sister's Grave-B.R. Spangler 1/02/24


11.Trouble-Adriana Locke 1/08/24
12.Hollywood Yesterday-M.Z. Kelly 2/17/24
13.Don't Tell-Willow Rose
14.Sable Peak-Devney Perry 2/02/24
15.Flame-Adriana Locke
16.Be Your Everything-Catherine Bybee
17.A Little Twist-Tia Louise
18.Flowers on Her Grave-Jennifer Chase
19.Bodyguard-C.D. Reiss
20.Among the Wicked-Linda Castillo 1/05/24


21.Mine to Keep-Natasha Madison
22.June 7-Debra Kayn
23.Make-Believe Match-Melanie Harlow 1/21/24
24.Broken-Karin Slaughter 2/14/24
25.Coach-Devney Perry 3/05/24
26.Wildflower Graves-Rita Herron
27.Worth the Shots-Heather M. Orgeron
28.Caught Up-Liz Tomforde 2/01/24
29.Irresistible-Willow Aster 3/21/24
30.My One and Only-Layla Hagen


31.Take Me Back-Rosalind James
32.Girl Ten: Wanted-Molly Black
33.Cold As Ice-Toni Anderson 2/25/24
34.Into the Storm-Rachel Grant
35.A Familiar Sight-Brianna Labuskes
36.Ashes of You-Catherine Cowles
37.Fighting the Forbidden: Ruthless & Royal #1-Autumn Jones Lake 1/28/24
38.Love Me Today-A.L. Jackson 2/07/24
39.Until Hanna-Aurora Rose Reynolds 3/1424
40.I Could Never-Penelope Ward 2/15/24


41.Fighting Silence-Aly Martinez 3/01/24
42.Watching Her-Elle Gray 1/13/24
43.Bitter Falls-Rachel Caine 2/15/24
44.The Love Interest-Kayley Loring 3/02/24
45.Tonight You're Mine-Kayley Loring 1/07/24
46.Fallen Angel-D.K. Hood 2/21/24
47.Bring Me Back-Kristen Granata
48.Make Me Hate You-Kandi Steiner
49.Let Me Love You-Brittney Sahin
50.She Was Mine First-M. Robinson

Goal: 12

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I think sign me up for 50 books, please! I will most likely do it the third way, digitally.

[TBR pending...]

Sign me up for 20 please!

3/20

1. My Policeman (10. Read a book with a cover you love.)
2. The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Mind, Heart and Soul (21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.)
3. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone (24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.)

I'll sign up for the 2º option. I'll try go get all 32!

Count me in. I’ll go for option 2. 32 books.
Thanks

I'll sign up for 32 tasks/books, thanks!

TBR Jar, message #37
Goal: 26/32, 81.25%

01. On your TBR list the longest
02. Added within the last year: The Wisdom of Father Brown - 08 Apr 2024, 3/5
03. Most pages on your TBR/over 500 pages: The Count of Monte Cristo - 11 Mar 2024, 4/5
04. Least pages on your TBR/under 100 pages: The Taiga Syndrome - 23 Jun 2024, 2/5
05. Published the year/decade you were born: Galapagos - 07 Aug 2024, 3/5
06. 20th book on any page of your TBR: After the People Lights Have Gone Off - 03 Feb 2024, 2/5
07. Average rating of 3.8+: The Last Devil to Die - 22 Jan 2024, 4/5
08. By one of your favorite authors: System Collapse - 03 Mar 2024, 4/5
09. Added based on the review of another Goodreads user: My Real Children - 13 Jan 2024, 4/5
10. Cover you love: The Spare Man - 20 Jan 2024, 3/5
11. Animal/plant on the cover: Hell Bent - 27 May 2024, 3/5
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book: Deep Water - 24 Jul 2024, 4/5
13. Contains the initials of your name in the title/author name: Who Killed Palomino Molero? - 21 Jul 2024, 4/5
14. Book #45 (pages of TBR Shelf): Nightmare Alley - 25 Mar 2024, 4/5
15. Completes two+ other challenges: Right Ho, Jeeves - 26 Feb 2024, 3/5
16. Most number of ratings
17. Least number of ratings: Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms and Epitaphs - 29 Jul 2024, 4/5
18. First book that "sparks joy"
19. Added to at least one other shelf: The Affirmation - 06 Jan 2024, 3/5
20. Book that you own: Blood Meridian - 14 Jul 2024, 3/5
21. Friend/family member/acquaintance recommended: Casino Royale - 15 Mar 2024, 3/5
22. Feel you "should" read
23. Previously DNFed and still want to finish
24. Favorite genre/format: Non-Stop - 23 Apr 2024, 1/5
25. Genre/format you rarely read: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini - 10 May 2024, 4/5
26. Sort your TBR by cover, first or last book: Translation State - 28 Apr 2024, 4/5
27. Sort your TBR by title, from the middle page: The Last Good Kiss - 06 Jul 2024, 4/5
28. Hyped/bestseller/award-winning book
29. Title contains punctuation: Mapp & Lucia - 01 Apr 2024, 4/5
30. Related to yearly/quarterly/monthly theme: Tourmaline - 19 Feb 2024, 4/5
31. Group/buddy read already on your TBR: Mickey7 - 14 Aug 2024, 4/5
32. Retelling/reimagining of a classic story/the classic itself: The Blue Sword - 13 Aug 2024, 3/5

22/44

Randomizer

1. The Long Weekend
2. He Started It
3. The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
4. Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd
5. The World That We Knew
6. The Other People
7. The Armor of Light
8. Hidden Pictures
9. Small Game
10. City of Saints and Madmen
11. Once Upon a Broken Heart
12. The Subtle Knife

Prompts

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
A List of Cages by Robin Roe
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
The Gift by Alison Gaylin
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher.
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love.
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number.
Steampunk by Ann VanderMeer
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
The Winter Over by Matthew Iden
16. Read the book with the most number of ratings
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
Chivalry in Westeros: The Knightly Code of A Song of Ice and Fire
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
Snow Angels by James Thompson
20. Read a book that you own.
Game of Thrones Psychology: The Mind is Dark and Full of Terrors (Volume 4)
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself.

TBR Jar
0/20 Complete

1. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2.The Reader
3.My Ántonia
4.John Adams
5. Before You Know Kindness
6. Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
7. Lock Every Door
8. Love in the Time of Cholera
9.Agnes Grey
10.The Wives
11.The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
12.Daisy Jones & The Six
13.Caramelo
14.Gritos: Essays
15.Black Notice
16.Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
17.The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
18.The Song and the Silence
19.What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
20.Transcendent Kingdom

Please put me down for 15 books.

Progress: 0/15

1. The Wife He Needs
2. The Proposal
3. Design on a Crime
4. Peace Like a River
5. After Midnight
6. Clued in Christmas
7. The Crucifix Killer
8. Kind of Cursed
9. A New Foundation
10. Lost Hills
11. Her Hometown Man
12. Witch Is How To Find Your Magic
13. Chloe and the Kaishao Boys
14. Brownies & Betrayal
15. Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One

I will be in for 50

1. Nothing But Blue Skies
2. HhhH: Himmlers hersens heten Heydrich
✅3. Het meisje uit de trein --> finished 09/03/2024
4. The History of Bees
✅5. Als ik weg ben
6. Gardens of the Moon
✅7. De engelenboom --> finished 19-06-2024
8. The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke
✅9. Calamiteitenleer voor gevorderden --> DNF 06-05-2024
✅10 Augustus --> DNF 19-03-2024
✅11. De poppenspeler van Warschau860077]
12. Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts
13. The Enchanted
✅14. Het lied van de wolken --> finished 22-06-2024
15. The Clothes on Their Backs
✅16. All the Stars in the Heavens --> 16-05-2024
17. The Lace Reader
18. Guppies for Tea
19. Oorlogskind
20. Wuiven Naar de Vijand: Novelle
21. De witte handschoenen
✅ 22. The Secrets of Sunshine --> finished 22--06-2024
✅ 23. Every Exquisite Thing --> finished 09-07
24. Ellis en Elisabeth
✅25. Five Children on the Western Front --> finished 30-05-2024
26. Torn
✅27. Vrouwen, hoeden en Hitler --> finished 24-03-2024
✅28. Instinct
29. You've Reached Sam
✅30. The Cottage at Plum Tree Bay6179396] --> finished 19-03-2024
✅31. De kokkin van Himmler --> finished 14-02-2024
✅ 32 De Godinnentest --> finished 28-06
33. The Poems of Wilfred Owen
34. A Journey to the End of the Millennium
35 Notes from an Exhibition
36. Love in a Cold Climate
37. De straatfilosoof
✅38. Codenaam Verity --> finished 03-05-2024
39 Poppy Day
40.Het theehuis op Mulberry street
41De slaap en de dood (De Geus Spanning)
✅42 Coronakronieken --> finished 27-04-2024
43 Aprilheks
✅44 De laatste wilde dieren --> finished 12-05-2024
45 The Heart Beats in Secret: A USA Today Bestseller
46. Love's Pursuit
47. Love Is for Losers
48 Het meisje dat twee kampen overleefde
49. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
✅50. The Mindfulness in Knitting: Meditations on Craft and Calm --> finished 26-06

bonus books because DNF books: (still random)
1. The Other Countess
2. Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell

2024 TBR Jar Challenge

Goal: 25
Progress: --/25

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 a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher.
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love.
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
16. 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).
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
20. Read a book that you own.
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself.

I've decided to read 30 books this year. I used one of the suggested prompts. (see below) I'm looking forward to reading what you plan to read this year. Happy Holidays

Updated Progress: 3/30

1.

2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year.
Lily and the Octopus
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
A Course in Miracles
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
The God of Small Things
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
Lunch Poems
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher.
Origin Story: The Big History of Everything
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
The Owl Killers
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
10. Read a book with a cover you love.
Flower Fairies of the Autumn
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to find and save the World’s Largest Owl
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
Deep State
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
The Women in the Window
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
Carmelo
16. 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 Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Stars
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
The Soul of An Octopus
19.


21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
Wintersmith
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
The Dead Are Rising: Life of Malcolm X
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
The Invisible Life of Adie LaRue
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
The SunDown Motel
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.
The Secret to Super Human Strength
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
Issac’s Storm: A Man, A Time and Deadliest Hurricane in History
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Woman
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
29. Read a book with a title that has punctuation.
Is This Anything?
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
When Women Were Dragons

Please sign me up for the 32 prompts!

Progress: 31/32

✅ 1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Read 2/5/24
✅ 2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. Small Mercies - Read 1/30/24
✅ 3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Read 7/24/24
✅ 4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. Animal Farm - Read 1/22/24
✅ 5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born. Flowers in the Attic - Read 2/7/24
✅ 6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. Pines - Read 1/3/24
✅ 7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. You're Never Weird on the Internet - Read 1/19/24
✅ 8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. Neon Prey - Read 1/12/24
✅ 9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user. The Overnight Guest - Read 5/28/24
✅ 10. Read a book with a cover you love. Dead Eleven - Read 3/21/24
✅ 11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. The Girls in the Garden
✅ 12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. Saga, Volume 3 - Read 6/17/24
✅ 13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. Cackle - Read 8/4/24
✅ 14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). Heir of Uncertain Magic - Read 3/19/24
✅ 15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges. The Book of Two Ways - Read 1/8/24
✅ 16. 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). Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - Read 5/16/24
✅ 17. Read the book with the least number of ratings. Bright Eyes: A Kunoichi Tale - Read 7/2/24
✅ 18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. Scrappy Little Nobody - Read 1/15/24
✅ 19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf. Spellbook of the Lost and Found - Read 1/11/24
✅ 20. Read a book that you own. The Moonday Letters - Read 4/21/24
✅ 21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. The Last House on the Street - Read 4/25/24
✅ 22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. Fahrenheit 451 - Read 3/9/24
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
✅ 24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. Masked Prey - Read 1/25/24
✅ 25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. Must Love Flowers - Read 1/10/24
✅ 26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Read 2/15/24
✅ 27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - Read 2/8/24
✅ 28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. A Court of Thorns and Roses - Read 5/14/24
✅ 29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear - Read 1/1/24
✅ 30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. The Kind Worth Killing - Read 5/14/24
✅ 31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR. The Last Note of Warning - Read 8/10/24
✅ 32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. Peter Pan - Read 5/21/24

I plan on reading 75 from my TBR list this year. I realized that I don't like pre-selecting my books - the pressure!
I'll try and match them with the prompts and see how that goes!

66/75

✓1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
✓2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall
✓3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. Allegiant by Veronica Roth
✓4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. The Recital by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
✓6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. Down World by Rebecca Phelps
✓7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall
✓8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
✓9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user. Until the Day I Die by Emily Carpenter
✓10. Read a book with a cover you love. Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
✓11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
✓12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
✓13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. Past Present Future by Rachel Lynn Solomon
✓14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). Blue Moon
✓15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges. The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
✓16. 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). One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
✓17. Read the book with the least number of ratings. Crochet Your Own Dog: 14 Lifesize Amigurumi Pups to Make & Love! by Mieko Shindo
✓18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. Lone Wolf by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
✓19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf. Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner
✓20. Read a book that you own. Crocheting Reversible Amigurumi Projects: Adorable 2-Way Patterns Using Fur Yarn & Easy Methods by Jessie Van In
✓21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life by Neil Pasricha
✓22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
✓23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish. Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
✓24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. Evermore by Alyson Noel
✓25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. A Vintage Death by Mary Ellen Hughes
✓26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
✓27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. Pillow Talk: What's Wrong with My Sewing? by Craig Conover
✓28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
✓29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
✓30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson
✓31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
✓32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

33. Shadowland by Alyson Noel
34. Eternal Flame by Alyson Noel
35. Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
36. Night Star by Alyson Noel
37. Everlasting by Alyson Noel
38. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
39. The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
40. What You Wish For by Katherine Center
41. Darius by J.R. Ward
42. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
43. A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like by Ashley Graham
44. Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
45. Tigers in the Cage by Tigers in the Cage
46. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
47. Stormcrow by Rachel Caine
48. The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren
49. Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward
50. The Institute by Stephen King
51. Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
52. The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
53. Say You'll Stay by Susan Mallery
54. Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars
55. Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger
56. Hum by Helen Phillips
57. Sex, Lies & Serious Money by Stuart Woods
58. Help Is On the Way by Mindy Kaling
59. Blindness by José Saramago
60. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
61. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
62. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life by Lori Gottlieb
63. Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
64. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
65. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
66. Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
67. Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick
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Sheila from NC signing on for just 10 to start with please.

I am going to sign up for 25 prompts to give some leway for anything i can't fill

9/25

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.
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams 01/01-06/01
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 Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler 04/01-04/01
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher.
Varina Palladino's Jersey Italian Love Story by Terri-Lynne DeFino 02/01-15/01
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey 12/01-27/01
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
10. Read a book with a cover you love.Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin 18/02-25/02
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
16. 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). Why We Pray in Islam: A Guide to Deepening Your Connection to Allah Through Salah and Islamic Prayer by Muhammed Al Fakir 06/01-07/01
17. Read the book with the least number of ratings.Why We Pray in Islam: A Guide to Deepening Your Connection to Allah Through Salah and Islamic Prayer by Muhammed Al Fakir 06/01-07/01
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf.
20. Read a book that you own.
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
Love & Gelato 06/01-07/01
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. Evergreens by Liam Brown 18/02-26/02
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
Peaky Blinders: The Real Story by Carl Chinn 08/01-18/01
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself.

I'd like to join. I'm in for 18 but hope to be able to do more.

25/18 completed

✅ 1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. City of Ashes
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. Chain of Thorns
✅ 4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. The Lost Herondale
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born.
✅ 6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. The Evil We Love
✅ 7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. The Rise of the Hotel Dumort
✅ 8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. The Chalice of the Gods
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user.
✅ 10. Read a book with a cover you love. Chain of Iron
✅ 11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. The Tainted Cup
✅ 12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. V is for Vengeance
✅ 13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. A Reaper at the Gates
✅ 14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). The Voicemail of Magnus Bane
✅ 15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges. Chain of Gold
✅ 16. 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). City of Bones
✅ 17. Read the book with the least number of ratings. The Land I Lost
✅ 18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. Y is for Yesterday
✅ 19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf. The Killer in the Snow
✅ 20. Read a book that you own. City of Fallen Angels
21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you.
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read.
23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.
✅ 24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. T is for Trespass
✅ 25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. A Spindle Splintered
✅ 26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. City of Glass
✅ 27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. Learn About Loss
✅ 28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. Hell Bent
✅ 29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. Through Blood, Through Fire
✅ 30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. The Christmas Killer
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
✅ 32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. Gilded

I'm in for 10!

1- Day; Elie Wiesel
2- Nothing Like I Imagined (Except For Sometimes); Mindy Kaling
3- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism; Amanda Montell
4- Swamplandia! ; Karen Russell
5- Invincible Summer; Alice Adams
6- Let Me Explain You; Annie Liontas
7- The Guest Book; Sarah Blake
8- The Last Year of the War; Susan Meissner
9- The Abstinence Teacher; Tom Perrotta
10- Small Great Things; Jodi Picoult

I will go for 6 books and use a random wheel picker.

1/6 books

Spell Bound