Pick-a-Shelf discussion

* Read xx books from your stacks/shelves at home that you haven't read yet.
5 BOOKS

* Read xx books you have borrowed (from friends, family, the library) so you can return them and make room.
5 BOOKS

* Read xx books recommended to you by a friend.
5 BOOKS

* Read xx books that you have been dreading to tackle either due to reviews you have heard, content or the sheer length of them.
5 BOOKS

* Read the xx books that have been on your TBR the longest.
2 BOOKS

* Read the xx shortest books from your TBR that aren't picture books.
4 BOOK

* Spell something (your name, child's name, anything you choose) with xx picture books or graphic novels using the first letter of each title.
0 BOOKS

* Read xx non-fiction books.
5 BOOKS

* Read xx books from series, in order to complete some.
3 BOOKS

* Read xx books started but never finished.
4 BOOK

TASKS COMPLETED: 5
TOTAL BOOKS: 38

* Read xx books from your stacks/shelves at home that you haven't read yet.

1. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - July 17, 2010
2. Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto - August 2, 2010
3. The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke - August 19, 2010
4. Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie - October 25, 2010
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - October 26, 2010

* Read xx books you have borrowed (from friends, family, the library) so you can return them and make room.

1. Alphabet Weekends: Love on the Road from A to Z by Elizabeth Noble (Library) - July 26, 2010
2. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister (Library) - August 30, 2010
3. The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie (Library) - September 12, 2010
4. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (Library) - September 14, 2010
5. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - December 9, 2010

* Read xx books recommended to you by a friend.

1. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Dini) - July 29, 2010
2. Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan (Dini) - July 30, 2010
3. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (Dini) - July 31, 2010
4. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (Dini) - August 1, 2010
5. Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Sarah, Robbie) - September 23, 2010

* Read xx books that you have been dreading to tackle either due to reviews you have heard, content or the sheer length of them.

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - July 11, 2010
2. East of Eden by John Steinbeck - August 24, 2010
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - August 30, 2010
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - September 30, 2010
5. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - October 5, 2010

* Read the xx shortest books from your TBR that aren't picture books.

1. The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong - August 6, 2010
2. So Far from the Bamboo Grove: And Related Readings by Yoko Kawashima Watkins - December 1, 2010
3. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - December 7, 2010
4. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - December 9, 2010

* Read xx non-fiction books.

1. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang - August 25, 2010
2. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell - September 20, 2010
3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls - October 7, 2010
4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers - November 26, 2010
5. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood - December 13, 2010

* Read xx books from series, in order to complete some.

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - August 26, 2010
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - August 31, 2010
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - October 29, 2010

* Read xx books started but never finished.

1. The Hours by Michael Cunningham - September 29, 2010
2. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry - October 22, 2010
3. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - November 26, 2010
4. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - November 30, 2010

* Read x books that have been on your TBR the longest.

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon - November 7, 2010
2. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde - November 15, 2010