2024 Reading Challenge discussion

THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2018

The TBR Randomizer challenge was the big winner of our 2018 Challenge Poll, so we are bringing it back! But this year, we are giving it a twist to allow even more members to enjoy this challenge!

This year, we are asking you to make a JAR to pull your book choices from, and we are asking you to be creative on how to make it!

You can go with the traditional TBR Randomizer Challenge, and let Goodreads chose:
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 “To-Read” shelf.
Step 4: On the bottom of the page in the middle, go to the “sort” field and select “Random.”
Step 5: Goodreads will generate a random list of books for you.

OR, you can put your own list of TBR in the jar. Some examples are:
The BookRiot ReadHarder Challenge (our group will not be hosting this as an official challenge this year).
Any other reading challenge you have been wanting to try.
A list of classics, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, nonfiction, and/or any other genre you have been dying to read.
You could even create your tasks and throw them in jar based on what you know you have on TBR list.

The best part of this challenge is you can even do a mix of all of the above and throw it all in the JAR and SHAKE

Just let us know how many slips of paper are going in your jar!

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

How to Participate

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. 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, as long as the challenge is still active.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress.

Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the challenge leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.

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

Participants

Abby - 0 /12
Agnieszka - 3 /15
Alex - 1 /6
Alice - 9 /30
Alison - 0 /36
Amanda (m. 21) - 1 /10
Amanda (m. 23) - 3 /12
Amanda (m. 58) - 0 /12
Amber - 0 /10
Amie - 0 /10
Ann - 2 /24
Anna (m. 116) - 0 /20
Anna (m. 18) - 7 /18
Anne (m.113) - 5 /20
Annie - 0 /5
April - 3 /6
Arushi - 0 /10
Ashley - 0 /5
AttWaq - 0 /8
Audrey - 0 /10
Auntie Terror - 1 /6
Ben - 0 /5
Blagica - 0 /7
Brandy - 0 /12
Brianna - 0 /6
Brittany - 2 /6
Caitlin - 1 /17
Carri - 0 /10
Carrie - 0 /4
Cassandra - 5 /52
Chetara - 18 /30
Cindy lll - 0 /18
Claire (m. 115) - 1 /12
Claire (m. 141) - 0 /15
Clare - 0 /5
CrazyAsACupcake - 3 /24
Daph - 0 /20
Debra - 6 /24
Debra H - 0 /26
Diana - 0 /10
Dlyn - 1 /22
Doris - 6 /12
Eirelyn - 6 /10
Elaine - 0 /?
Erin - 1 /20
Esther - 2 /15
Eunice - 1 /20
Fatma - 0 /10
Gail - 0 /12
Gem - 0 /5
Greg - 4 /20
Gretchen - 2 /10
Heather (m. 244) - 3 /12
Heather (m. 48) - 1 /25
Heather (m. 62) - 19 /20
Heather Codename: Dutchess - 1 /10
Helen - 8 /10
Helen F - 0 /8
Heli - 4 /10
Ida - 0 /10
Ilona - 11 /20
Irene - 4 /12
IslandGirl - 0 /10
Jacki - 0 /20
Jayden - 0 /12
Jenn - 6 /32
Jennifer (m. 195) - 0 /16
Jennifer (m. 40) - 0 /20
Jennifer (m. 76) - 0 /15
Jenny - 0 /7
Jess (m. 240) - 0 /5
Jessica (m. 154) - 0 /6
Jill (m. 106) - 7 /15
Jill (m. 292) - 0 /12
Jinx - 0 /24
Joy D - 3 /10
Juana "Darkness" - 19 /30
Julie (m. 123) - 7 /10
Julie (m. 160) - 0 /150
Kacey - 1 /10
Kadijah Michelle - 5 /20
Kaleigh - 0 /5
Karen - 0 /40
Karina - 0 /20
Kate - 0 /5
Katherine - 9 /25
Kathy - 0 /50
Katie - 0 /10
Kay - 7 /30
Kelly (m. 155) - 1 /20
Kelly (m. 20) - 4 /12
Kim - 0 /4
Kiwi Begs2Differ - 19 /36
Kristin (m. 159) - 0 /15
Kristin (m. 5) - 9 /10
Kirsty - 5 /20
Kylie - 0 /25
Lady - 0 /10
Lara - 0 /3
Laura (m. 185) - 0 /15
Laura (m. 49) - 0 /20
Laura (m. 54) - 34 /40
Lauri - 0 /12
Laurie - 4 /12
Leah - 0 /12
Libby - 0 /4
Linda - 1 /4
Lindsay (m. 165) - 2 /6
Lindsay (m. 8) - 3 /12
Lois - 0 /?
Mar - 0 /8
Marelis - 2 /12
Margie - 6 /12
Maria - 1 /10
Maris - 0 /20
Martha - 2 /24
Mary Pat - 0 /12
Maureen - 2 /26
Maxine - 0 /10
Megan BG - 1 /12
Meghan - 0 /12
Mel (m. 360) - 0 /18
Mel (m. 153) - 0 /10
Michaela - 0 /6
Michelle - 0 /12
Mindy - 4 /10
Monica (m. 102) - 6 /10
Monica (m. 108) - 0 /10
Nadia - Bookish Book Nerd - 0 /12
Natalia - 0 /10
Nikki - 3 /13
Nina - 2 /12
Nisanka - 4 /15
Nurai - 3 /30
Pamela - 1 /15
Paula - 2 /100
Rachael - 4 /20
Rachel - 1 /10
Rashmi Kris - 3 /20
Rebecca - 2 /10
ReGina - 7 /20
Rina - 10 /30
Rique - 0 /12
Sarah c - 3 /10
SarahKat - 2 /6
Scott - 0 /7
Sherry - 0 /5
Stella - 0 /50
Stephanie - 1 /24
Stephanie (Chinchillita) - 0 /10
Susan (m. 121) - 1 /40
Susan (m. 79) - 4 /12
Susan C - 2 /20
Tea - 0 /10
Tessa - 0 /6
Tiffany - 2 /25
Tina - 0 /24
Tulika - 0 /20
Ula - 1 /5
Valerie - 0 /16
Vicki - 2 /24
Waco - 1 /8
Winter - 0 /5
Wolf (Alpha) - 0 /50


as of message 380 on April 13

I'm in for 5.

0/5

I'm in for 20 books. Will decide later which titles I note down on the slips.

Books from my physical TBR:

Dutch
(view spoiler)[ De overkant van de rivier
De grote zaal
Het leven is vurrukkulluk
Heldere hemel
Oeroeg
De donkere kamer van Damokles (hide spoiler)]

English Fiction
The Underground Railroad
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Alias Grace (view spoiler)[
The Shock of the Fall
The Old Man and the Sea
The Mists of Avalon
A Christmas Carol
The Blind Assassin
1Q84
The Tropic of Serpents

English Non-Fiction
The Origin of Species
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (hide spoiler)]

Wordsworth classics
Mansfield Park
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Romeo and Juliet
A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four
(view spoiler)[ The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Lady Susan and Other Works
North and South
Ulysses
The Plays of Oscar Wilde
De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings
The Secret Garden
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man
Gulliver's Travels
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the Merry Men & Other Stories
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Shirley
Vilette
The Professor
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Agnes Grey
Robinson Crusoe
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Wind in the Willows (hide spoiler)]


Ebooks TBR:
The Hate U Give
Throne of Glass
The Circle
The Bear and the Nightingale
The Golden Compass
Kafka on the Shore
If I Stay
Out of the Easy
To The Bright Edge of the World
The Night Circus
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
An Abundance of Katherines
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

20/20 Completed!

I'm in for 10.


1/10


Split
1Q84
The Lord of the Rings
A Room Of One's Own 4-2-18
The Woman in White
Don't You Cry
Peter Pan
Bleak House
The Bourne Identity
Middlemarch
The Deep End of the Ocean

I didn't quite make my goal for 2017 so I'm going to downsize and aim for 6. I'll probably do a virtual jar - with tasks/specific books/prompts that are numbered and use random.org to pick for me.

I have the list of choices in my member's corner.

I'll generate the first random pick on the first of the year!

I'm going to go for 12. One a month!



116 slips in the jar.

✅1. New World Fairy Tales
✅2. Mistborn: Secret History
✅3. Dead Girls Walking
✅4. Agony and Ecstasy: My Life in Dance
✅5. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
✅6. The Testing
✅7. Elizabeth is Missing
✅8. The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Wax
✅9. Followed by Frost
✅10. Outlander
✅11. Xenocide
✅12. Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars: A Novel

Completed 13/12/18

sign me up for 24 two a month will do the goodreads randomizer and pick 2 a month and will post them as the months come up
1.The Vanishing Game
2.Premonition
3.Little Girl Lost: A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery- Book 0
4.Held
5.Vanessa Schierman PhD WITCH: A Paranormal Adventure
6.Joyride
7.Wickedly They Come
8.Still Alice
9.If You Stay
10.Mirror, Mirror
11.Broken Things
12.Cole's Creek
13.Spooked
14.The Last Boyfriend
15.Slide
16.To Catch a Killer: Book one in The Monello/Grazer Series
17.Rope Enough
18.Blood Mountain
19.Kidnapping My Daughter
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.

I am in for 12.

I'm in for 20 books. :)

And here's my TBR Jar:



I made it about a year ago and it's a handy thing. I just need to fill it up which I will do today.

Using my TBR-owned-for-a-long-time list (shelf now called to-read 2018) I’m in for 24 books (it’s actually 26 but 2 books on that shelf won’t count towards this challenge: one is a travel guide which I bought this year and the other one was recommended to me but I don’t own it).

I'm in. I'm waiting to see what the Reading Harder challenge is like before I make my jar entries from my own list. In the meantime, the number of books I'd like to read will be 24.

Read: 13/24

1. City of Shadows✔ 4/5/2018
2. The Genius of Birds
3. No Country for Old Men✔ 3/29/2018
4. At Night We Walk in Circles✔ 7/17/2018
5. Rabbit Cake✔ 9/13/2018
6. The Death of Vishnu
7. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
8. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
9. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
10. The Crystal Cave
11. The Summer Before the War
12. A Discovery of Witches✔ 12/5/18
13. A People's History of the United States
14. Bleak House
15. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl ✔ 10/5/18
16. Regeneration ✔ 4/28/18
17. The Three-Body Problem✔ 9/12/2018
18. Ordinary Grace✔ 11/12/2018
19. Go Tell It on the Mountain✔ 07/21/2018
20. Ragtime✔ 5/04/18
21. The Ghost Bride
22. Bless Me, Ultima
23. Men We Reaped ✔ 2/18/2018
24. The Snow Child ✔ 4/25/2018

I’m in for 10 please

I'm in for six. And this time I'll make it :-)

6/6


P. S.: And the actual jar is adorable.

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Edit:

This is my virtual TBR-Jar as of now: .

Loved this challenge. Made it this year and will double it for next.

In for 12 (1 per month), using Goodreads randomizer, randomizing each choice after the prior selection is read. I have self-imposed rules: No self-help, business books, poetry - and if from a series read the first in the series I've not read.

I'm in - again!

I'm changing my plans. I wanted to read Shakespear plays for this challenge, but decided to do it for AN AUTHOR'S WORKS CHALLENGE.

Since I have a few books I want to reread, I decided to make a list of those. There are 18 books on this list.

✔ 1. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 29.04.2018 ★★★★★
✔ 2. The Iliad by Homer 07.04.2018 ★★☆☆☆
✔ 3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 12.04.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
✔ 4. The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 24.03.2018 ★★★★☆
✔ 5. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 29.04.2018 ★★★★☆
✔ 6. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 20.04.2018 ★★☆☆☆
✔ 7. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 14.07.2018 ★★★★★
✔ 8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 18.03.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
✔ 9. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 06.03.2018 ★★★☆☆
✔ 10. Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin 28.01.2018 ★★★★☆
✔ 11. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 10.04.2018 ★★☆☆☆
12. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
13. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
14. The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
15. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
16. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
17. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
✔ 18. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 09.05.2018 ★★★★☆

12/18

I'm in for 7! 1/7

1. The King in Love: Edward VII's Mistresses
2. The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth
3. Above Suspicion
4. The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign
5. Bowl of Fruit 1907
6. Cherokee Mists: The Complete Set
7. The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

Please sign me up for 12.

TBR Jar Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2018

I'm going to take the traditional TBR Randomizer route for this one and set my TBR for this challenge now (in an attempt to beat that backlist once more! I'm going to pick 12 books from my TBR shelf, one for each month! Books chosen 02.12.2017

1. The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli ✔
2. Second Best Friend by Non Pratt ✔
3. Seed by Lisa Heathfield ✔
4. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman ✔
5. The Power by Naomi Alderman
6. Remix by Non Pratt
7. The Explorer by Katherine Rundell ✔
8. S.T.A.G.S by M. A. Bennett ✔
9. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli ✔
10. Final 7 by Kerry Drewery ✔
11. The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave ✔
12. The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton ✔

Read: 10/12 books

I'm going for 10 this year.

1/10

1. The Burning Girl (010918)
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So excited to do this for the second year!! I'm in for 26. My challenge is limited to books I already own, chosen one at a time.

16/26

1. Fool Moon Done!
2. The Stolen Email Archives Of Feable Industries abandoned after 8%, life is too short!
3. The Children's Hospital Done!
4. The Chimera Sequence Done!
5. Empire Falls Done!
6. Rokitansky Done!
7. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table Done!
8. Connected Done!
9. Bowl of Fruit 1907 Done!
10. Ann Marie's Asylum Done!
11. Life Among Giants Done!
12. O Pioneers! Done!
13. Plainsong Done!
14. Seriously Mum, What's an Alpaca? Done!
15. We
16. The Lake House
17. Viral Done!
18. Halfskin Done!
19. The Alienist
20. City of Beads Done!

The TBR Jar Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018

I've got a wooden book I put my slips of paper in. I'm going to pick one at a time.

1. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
Completed 18/2/18 Rating 3 stars
2. The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende
Completed 15/3/18 Rating 3 stars
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Completed 26/3/18 Rating 5 stars
4. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Completed 3/5/18 Rating 4 stars
5. How To Launch A Freelance Copywriting Business: Creative Writing For A Living by Jules Horne
Completed 21/5/18 Rating 4 stars
6. The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey
Completed 4/8/18 Rating 4 stars
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Completed 13/8/18 Rating 4 stars
8. Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Completed 17/8/18 Rating 3 stars



8/12

I'm in for 20 books please :)
I'm going to do it the traditional way with a twist, if that's OK? Each quarter, I will randomly pick 5 books from my "want to read" shelf.

Q1 Picks
✅ Good Omens read 15 March, **** with review
✅ Iron Gold read 11 February, ***** with review
✅ The Bone Season read 27 March, ****
✅ Between the Lines read 21 March, ****
✅ Vicious read 28 April, ***** with review

Q2 Picks
✅ Windhaven read 19 April, *** with review
✅ Oz: The Complete Collection read 23 June, **** with review
✅ The Women Who Made Me a Feminist read 29 April, ****
✅ The Merry Wives of Windsor read 13 May, ***
✅ Harry Potter: A History of Magic read 29 April, ****

Q3 Picks
✅ Pierce Brown's Red Rising: Sons Of Ares read 12 July, **** with review
✅ The Fire Sermon read 18 September, **** with review
✅ French Twist read 6 July, ****
✅ Crazy House read 16 August, ****
✅ Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins read 29 September, ****

Q4 Picks
✅ On the Other Side read 14 October, **** with review
✅ Shutter Island read 21 October, ****
✅ The Watchmaker of Filigree Street read 12 October, *** with review
✅ Library of the Dead read 27 October, ****
✅ The Hanging Club read 18 October, ****

COMPLETED: 20/20

TBR Randomizer Challenge
Completed 9/24
I'm stopping this challenge to focus on other reading priorities.

JANUARY
✓ print: American War 4/12 ***
✓ ebook: Sing, Unburied, Sing 3/4 ***

FEBRUARY
✓print: Uncommon Type: Some Stories 3/9 ****
✓ebook: Neon in Daylight 2/25 **

MARCH
print: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
ebook: Stay with Me

APRIL
print: The Fireman
ebook: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

MAY
print: The Maze at Windermere
ebook: Young Jane Young

JUNE
✓ print: The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist 8/13 ** DNF
ebook: An American Marriage

JULY
✓print: Census 7/7 **
✓ ebook: Circe 7/26 ***

AUGUST
✓ print: Tangerine 8/13 ****
✓ ebook: The Third Hotel 8/10 **

SEPTEMBER
print: The Wood Wife
✓ ebook: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 8/18 ***

OCTOBER
print: The Lido
ebook: Domestic Violets

I am in for 10 books randomly picked from my to read list.

1. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
2. Jurnalul Unui Calator Boem by Ciprian Enea
3. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
4. Blestemul Focului by Chloe Neill
5. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
6. Prinţul Spinilor by Mark Lawrence
7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
8. Bak lukkede dører by B.A. Paris
9. Viaţa secretă a albinelor by Sue Monk Kidd
10. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

It's the first time, that I try this challenge and I'm careful - I'm in for 6 :-)
I go with the traditional TBR Randomizer Challenge and I'll post my list after Christmas.

1. Frank Schätzing - The Swarm
2. Katia Fox - The Copper Sign
3. Alan Bradley - The Weed that strings the Hangman's bag
4. Angie Sage - Magyk
5. Bernhard Hennen - Nebenan
6. Dick Francis - Break In

Progress 0/6

I will be reading 20 from my TBR list.

All Quiet on the Western Front - paper
The Bourne Identity - need to get
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - need to get
Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume - paper
The Excellence Habit - How Small Changes In Our Mindset Can Make A Big Difference In Our Lives: For All Who Feel Stuck - Kindle
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 - paper
My Ideal Bookshelf - need to get
John Adams - audible
The Metamorphosis - Kindle
Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam - need to get
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian - need to get
The Time Machine - Kindle
A Walk to Remember - need to get
Walking Down Life's Path - Memoirs - need to get
The White Queen - paper

Read!
1. The Lightning Thief - paper
2. Tuesdays with Morrie - paper
3. Close to Home - Kindle
4. The Road - paper
5. The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad - audible

5/20

I will read 12 books for this challenge with my own list.

1. Read a classic from my TBR List.
2. Read a book I own but have not read.
3. Read the oldest fiction book on my TBR List.
4. Read the newest fiction book on my TBR List.
5. Read the oldest non-fiction book on my TBR List.
6. Read the newest non-fiction book on my TBR List.
7. Pick any book I want from my TBR List.
8. Read the longest book on my TBR List.
9. Read the shortest book on my TBR List.
10. Read a book that is a Buddy Read that is NOT on my TBR List.
11. Read a book that is also on a friend’s TBR List.
12. Read a book on a friend’s list that is not on my TBR List.

I’ll try seven. I used an Excel sheet to generate my list. I put 53 books into a spreadsheet then put a random number formula in the column before each book. Then sorted to generate the list. I had to turn off auto recalculation to get it to work properly.

1. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin
2. Gabriel's Inferno - Sylvain Reynard
3. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
4. An Army at Dawn: The war in Africa - Rick Atkinson
5. The Blade Inself - Joe Abercrombie
6. The Covenant - James Michener
7. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

I'm in for 12 from my TBR on Goodreads, which came out like this:

You'll Grow Out of It (completed)
The Road (completed)
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives (completed)
In Cold Blood (completed)
The Lost Wife (completed)
Middlesex (completed)
The Art of Choosing (completed)
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (completed)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (completed)
As I Lay Dying (completed)
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy (completed)
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (completed)

I'm going to do another 20 books from my shelf at home via the jar. I'll add those title as I read them.

Jar Picks (all completed)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Little Fires Everywhere
Are Prisons Obsolete?
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
My Ántonia
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Swimming Lessons
Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Future Home of the Living God
Rich and Pretty
Olive Kitteridge
American War

I'll go for 10 right now! Hopefully my random picks also work for other challenges lol😂

I'll go for 12 .

I’m in for 10
10/10

The Clippie Girls 26/2/18
Crooked Little Lies 4/3/18
It Isn't Cheating if He's Dead 26/12/18
The Sanctuary 24/10/18
Confessions of a Chocoholic 11/3/18
The Real Fling 26/5/18
My Soul To Keep 19/8/18
All Day, Every Day 16/12/18
I Heart New York 23/6/18
A Reason to Live 22/12/18

01. The Help
02. Persuasion
03. The Silent Boy
04. The Lovely Bones
05. Coraline
06. Psycho
07. The Ice Twins
08.
09.
10.


The Alice Network, American Elsewhere, Anansi Boys, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Call of Cthulhu, Catch-22, ✔ Coraline, Cuckoo Song, The Devil Crept In, Dolores Claiborne, Final Girls, Five Came Back, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Forget Me Not, Full Dark, No Stars, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Girl Last Seen, ✔ The Help, ✔ The Ice Twins , The Iron Wyrm Affair, Lolita, ✔ The Lovely Bones, The Man in the High Castle, The Man in the Picture, Painting the Darkness, Parade's End, ✔ Persuasion, ✔ Psycho, Rebel Magisters,
✔ The Silent Boy, The Small Hand, Strange Weather, The Thing on the Doorstep, To the Ends of the Earth, Under the Black Flag, The Virgin Suicides, Washington's Spies, Washington: A Life, Whitechapel Gods, The Widows' Cafe, The Woman in Black

DNF The Killing Jar,Sense and Sensibility

This sounds fun! Especially since my TBR list is out of control since I haven't made much time for reading this year.

I decided to put the titles of the 32 books I've owned the longest but haven't read in a jar, and plan to randomly draw 16 of them next year to read.

Randomized my TBR-2018 list (123 books, only plan to read 50 books this year sooo...)

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Although I love this challenge, I have way too many challenges going on right now. I'd rather do the ones where I can just go on the fly instead of having a specific list right now. :)

I'm in for 10, I've used the Goodreads randomiser, (I'm determined not to buy any more books so I'm trying to reduce my kindle pile).
List came out looking like this:

1. Kiss Me First
2, Anna Karenina
3. The Divine Comedy
4. 314
5. The Stepford Wives
6. The Boys From Brazil
7. A Kiss Before Dying
8. Exodus
9. The New York Trilogy
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Joining this for 4 books, will be picked after the Goodreads Choice Awards are announced as I want to add the winners of the 8 categories that interest me to the TBR-list before I pick.

I am in for 20. I did the randomizer a little differently. I have several series I need to complete so I put my series on random and went with the first ones that popped up to complete them.

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2.Y Is For Yesterday
3.Requiem
4.Eden
5.Dirty Deeds
6.Dirty Laundry
7.Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages
8.Glorious Appearing: The End of Days
9.Kingdom Come: The Final Victory
10.The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
11.The Irrational Season
12.Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
13.The Wedding
14.Pippi Goes on Board
15.Pippi in the South Seas
16.If There Be Thorns
17.Seeds of Yesterday
18.Garden of Shadows
19.Given to the Earth
20.Death In The Dark

The TBR Jar Challenge - 2018

1. Heidi 15/1/18
2. Don of the Living Dead 9/3/18
3. The Indian In The Cupboard Trilogy February 11, 2018
4. Giant Days, Vol. 5 July 14, 2018
5. The Pirate's Witch February 21, 2018
6. How to Break a Dragon's Heart May 23, 2018
7. Taran Wanderer February 5, 2018
8. A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons February 22, 2018
9. The Wizard of Oz January 28, 2018
10. Spook's: A New Darkness February 9, 2018
11. Minnie 20/3/18
12. The Light Fantastic May 24, 2018
13. Barbarian's Hope January 11, 2018
14. Barbarian's Choice August 17, 2018
15. The Tenth Kingdom: Do You Believe in Magic? February 19, 2018
16. The Fellowship of the Ring October 16, 2018
17. OZ: The Complete Collection volume 3 November 5, 2018
18. The Alchemyst November 8, 2018
19. Descent 5th Jan 2019

10 for me please! I used the Goodreads Randomizer to select 1 per month for 10 months from my TBR list, which at the time, contained 389 entries. I may not read them in order depending on availability and cost.

Challenge Completed: 10 of 10 as of 10/26/18

1. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman - completed 1/6/18 - 5 stars

2. Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor - completed 2/10/18 - 2 stars

3. The Kid by Ron Hansen - completed 3/10/18 - 3 stars

4. The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi by Alyssa Palombo - completed 4/18/18 - 3 stars

5. The Good People by Hannah Kent - completed 5/17/18 - 4 stars

6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - completed 6/7/18 - 4 stars

7. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick - completed 7/16/18 - My review (4 stars): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

8. North to the Night by Alvah Simon - completed 8/15/18 - My review (4 stars): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

9. The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay - completed 9/23/18 - My review (4 stars): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

10. The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman - completed 10/26/18 - My review (3 stars): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I’m in for 12 books. I will choose titles soon and post them here. I will probably do the goodreads random selections just to keep it interesting.

Well, I done 20 books in 2017 so this year (2018) I'm going to increase it by 10 more. I don't know what books I'm going to read though :) But yeah, 30 is good enough for me.

I'll go for 15.

The TBR Jar Challenge - 2018
Duration: 1/1/18 - 12/31/18
Read: 3/15 books

Read:
The First Lady of Three Rivers Ranch by Liz Isaacson 5* 1/12
No Safe Haven by Kimberley Woodhouse 5* 1/28
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates 4* 1/31

Currently Reading:
Die Begnadigung=The Broker by John Grisham

To Read:
The Recruiter by Roger Weston
Stim by Kevin Berry
Alana Candler, Marked for Murder by Joanie Bruce
Persecuted: I Will Not Be Silent by Robin Parrish
A Beautiful Fall by Chris Coppernoll
The Third Rule - The Complete Story by Andrew Barrett
Melody Hill by Rick DeStefanis
Unintended Target by D.L. Wood
From Fiery Trials to Freedom by Marisa De More
Aus dem Koma by Siegfried Langer lit. translation: Out of Coma
A Passion Most Pure by Julie Lessman

I'm in for 5

I'll try for 6.

THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2018
1/6 completed

1. Lie With Me
2. The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
3. The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir | 01.31.18
4. Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
5. I Remember You
6. Orbiting Jupiter

I'm going for 25 books next year.
1/25
Nemesis by Philip Roth

I'm in! I loved this one last year. I got some great reads off my to-do list thanks to the randomizer so I'm sticking with it this year and just did this the traditional (electronic) way. :)

20 books:

1. Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger by Beth Harbison
2. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
3. Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough
4. First Comes by Love Emily Griffin
5. Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
6. Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
7. Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
8. The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
9. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
10. Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy by Lucy-Anne Holmes
11. Who do You Love by Jennifer Weiner
12. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
13. The Right Thing by Amy Conner
14. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
15. Warriors of the Cross by T.R. Graves
16. Before Jamaica Lane by Samantha Young
17. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
18. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
19. Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich
20. The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

Update: Completed 1/5

I'm in this year too! Same as last year, I'll start with 5 random and will increment it when I finish them.

1. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
2. Marina de Buenos Aires by Ezequiel Szafir ✔
3. The Dark-Eyed Girls by Judith Lennox
4. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki ✔
5. Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley ✔

I'm in for 36 from my TBR list. I will make a jar with 36 titles I have chosen...



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Alison

I'm in for 5 since I failed horribly this year.

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Red Rising
Girl in Snow