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TBR Bender- 11 - November completed 14 Nov 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from September 2025 reads.
1. For Duck's Sake: A Meg Langslow Mystery, Donna Andrews,
mystery, cozy mystery, humor
2. The Woman With the Cure, Lynn Cullen,
historical fiction, book club, medical
3. The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle, Erika Robuck,
historical fiction, war, photography
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. Run for the Hills, Kevin Wilson, 1 Nov 2025
(For Duck's Sake, humor)
2. The Blackout Book Club, Amy Lynn Green, 12 Nov 2025
(The Woman With the Cure, historical fiction)
3. Three Words for Goodbye, Hazel Gaynor, 2 Nov 2025
(The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle, historical fiction)
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Three Words for Goodbye, 400 pp.)
A Slowly Dying Cause, Elizabeth George, 8 Nov 2025, 656 pp.
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully, Julie McFadden, 14 Nov 2025
(The Blackout Book Club, both pub 2024)
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
(Run for the Hills, 253 pp.)
The Killing Stones, Ann Cleeves, 10 Nov 2025, 384 pp.
Tien wrote: "I hope everyone's enjoyed TBR Bender this year!..."Thanks for putting this challenge together, Tien! I've enjoyed doing it. I've had a lot going on this year, but was able to do it by sticking with just 3 starting books. I was afraid 5 would be too much (and it would have been).
TBR Bender, 12- DecemberB. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from October 2025 reads.
1. The Correspondent, Virginia Evans, 31 Oct 2025
fiction, literary fiction, contemporary
2. The Great Mann, Kyra Davis Lurie, 2 Oct 2025
historical fiction, retelling, literary fiction
3. The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes, Chanel Cleeton, 14 Oct 2025
historical fiction, mystery, books about books
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1.
2.
3.
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
Finally finished!LOST 2025 from books I own or can borrow
(Completed 20 Oct 2025)
✔1. The Way of Beauty, Camille Di Maio, 20 Oct 2025
✔2. The First Mrs. Rothschild, Sara Aharoni, 20 May 2025
✔3. Here and Now, Santa Montefiore, 24 May 2025
✔4. Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, Kathleen Rooney, 16 Feb 2025
✔5. House Lessons: Renovating a Life, Erica Bauermeister, 24 Apr 2025
✔6. The Company Daughters, Samantha Rajaram, 8 Oct 2025
✔7. The Girl in the Woods, Camilla Läckberg, 17 Oct 2025
✔8. Greenwood, Michael Christie - DNF, read 25%
✔9. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Judy Batalion, 14 July 2025
✔10. The Women of Chateau Lafayette, Stephanie Dray, 9 June 2025
TBR Bender October 2025Completed 20 Oct 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.
1. The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick
historical fiction, book club, books about books
2. The Spoon Stealer, Lesley Crewe
historical fiction, fiction, Canada
3.The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore
nonfiction, history, feminism
C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. (The Book Club for Troublesome Women, historical fiction)
The Company Daughters, Samantha Rajaram, 8 Oct 2025
2. (The Spoon Stealer, fiction)
The Disappeared, C.J. Box, 5 Oct 2025
3. (The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, nonfiction)
A Bookshop in Berlin, Françoise Frenkel, 4 Oct 2025
>D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
(A Bookshop in Berlin, both added to TBR 9/25)
The Retirement Plan, Sue Hincenbergs, 11 Oct 2025
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Disappeared, 388 pp.)
The Girl in the Woods, Camilla Läckberg, 17 Oct 2025, 580 pp.
D.2. new books
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books (for stand alone book), read another book by a new-to-you author.
(The Company Daughters)
The Way of Beauty, Camille Di Maio, 20 Oct 2025
September TBR Bender 2025Completed 2 Oct 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from July 2025 reads.
1.
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Judy Batalion
Nonfiction, history, world war II
2.
Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, Shaun Bythell
Nonfiction, books about books, Scotland
3.
The Memory of Lavender and Sage, Aimie K. Runyan
Magical realism, romance, France
C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. (The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, nonfiction)
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life, Helen Whybrow, 29 Sept 2025
2. (Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, nonfiction)
It Rhymes With Takei, George Takei, 11 Sept 2025
3. (The Memory of Lavender and Sage, France)
Last Twilight in Paris, Pam Jenoff, 10 Sept 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
✔5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Last Twilight in Paris, 336 pp.)
The Woman With the Cure, Lynn Cullen, 21 Sept 2025, 400 pp.
D.2. new books
✔1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(It Rhymes With Takei, pub June 2025)
The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle, Erika Robuck, 25 Sept 2025, pub. Aug 2025
✔2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(The Salt Stones, pub. June 2025))
The Great Mann, Kyra Davis Lurie, 2 Oct 2025, pub. June 2025
TBR Bender- 11 - Novembercompleted 14 Nov 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from September 2025 reads.
1. For Duck's Sake: A Meg Langslow Mystery, Donna Andrews,
mystery, cozy mystery, humor
2. The Woman With the Cure, Lynn Cullen,
historical fiction, book club, medical
3. The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle, Erika Robuck,
historical fiction, war, photography
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. Run for the Hills, Kevin Wilson, 1 Nov 2025
(For Duck's Sake, humor)
2. The Blackout Book Club, Amy Lynn Green, 12 Nov 2025
(The Woman With the Cure, historical fiction)
3. Three Words for Goodbye, Hazel Gaynor, 2 Nov 2025
(The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle, historical fiction)
D. Your Options
For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:
*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you
Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Three Words for Goodbye, 400 pp.)
A Slowly Dying Cause, Elizabeth George, 8 Nov 2025, 656 pp.
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully, Julie McFadden, 14 Nov 2025
(The Blackout Book Club, both pub 2024)
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
(Run for the Hills, 253 pp.)
The Killing Stones, Ann Cleeves, 10 Nov 2025, 384 pp.
08 - TBR Bender - August 2025Completed 25 Aug 2025
✔B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from June 2025 reads.
1. Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
historical fiction, mystery, thriller
2. Seeds of Fate, Sarita Dasgupta
India, short stories, family
3. Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks
memoir, nonfiction, grief
✔C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. (Small Mercies, historical fiction)
The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick, 10 Aug 2025
2. (Seeds of Fate, family)
Good Dirt, Charmaine Wilkerson, 11 Aug 2025
3. (Memorial Days, nonfiction)
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore, 19 Aug 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
✔1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added.
(Good Dirt, both added Sept 2024)
The Spoon Stealer, Lesley Crewe, 16 Aug 2025
✔3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
(The Woman They Could Not Silence, Kate Moore )
The Curse of Braeburn Castle, Karen Baugh Menuhin, 25 Aug 2025
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(The Book Club for Troublesome Women, both pub. 2025
Three Days in June, Anne Tyler, 12 Aug 2025
TBR Bender October 2025Completed 20 Oct 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.
1. The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick
historical fiction, book club, books about books
2. The Spoon Stealer, Lesley Crewe
historical fiction, fiction, Canada
3.The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore
nonfiction, history, feminism
C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. (The Book Club for Troublesome Women, historical fiction
The Company Daughters, Samantha Rajaram, 8 Oct 2025
2. (The Spoon Stealer, fiction)
The Disappeared, C.J. Box, 5 Oct 2025
3. (The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, nonfiction)
A Bookshop in Berlin, Françoise Frenkel, 4 Oct 2025
>D. Your Options
For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:
*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you
Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
(A Bookshop in Berlin, both added to TBR 9/25)
The Retirement Plan, Sue Hincenbergs, 11 Oct 2025
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Disappeared, 388 pp.)
The Girl in the Woods, Camilla Läckberg, 17 Oct 2025, 580 pp.
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
✔2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books (for stand alone book), read another book by a new-to-you author.
(The Company Daughters)
The Way of Beauty, Camille Di Maio, 20 Oct 2025
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
.TBR Bender, July 2025
✔B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from May 2025 reads.
1.
The Bohemians, Jasmin Darznik
historical fiction, book club, art
2.
The Bookseller at the End of the World, Ruth Shaw
nonfiction, memoir, books about books
3.
OverKill, J.A. Jance
mystery, suspense, thriller
✔C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelf.
1. (The Bohemians, historical fiction)
Together Tea, Marjan Kamali, 5 July 2025
2. (OverKill, mystery, thriller)
Endangered, C.J. Box, 7 July 2025
3. (The Bookseller at the End of the World, nonfiction)
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Judy Batalion, 14 July 2025
✔D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series.
(Endangered, Joe Pickett #15)
Off the Grid, C.J. Box, 29 July 2025, Joe Pickett #16
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature
(The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Days/Day)
Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, Shaun Bythell, 15 July 2025
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Together Tea, 338 pp.)
All the Broken Places, John Boyne, 6 July 2025, 400 pp.
7 down, 3 to go! (Better than last year at this time...)
September TBR Bender 2025Completed 2 Oct 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from July 2025 reads.
1.
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Judy Batalion
Nonfiction, history, world war II
2.
Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, Shaun Bythell
Nonfiction, books about books, Scotland
3.
The Memory of Lavender and Sage, Aimie K. Runyan
Magical realism, romance, France
C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. (The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, nonfiction)
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life, Helen Whybrow, 29 Sept 2025
2. (Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, nonfiction)
It Rhymes With Takei, George Takei, 11 Sept 2025
3. (The Memory of Lavender and Sage, France)
Last Twilight in Paris, Pam Jenoff, 10 Sept 2025
D. Your Options
For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:
*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you
Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
✔5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Last Twilight in Paris, 336 pp.)
The Woman With the Cure, Lynn Cullen, 21 Sept 2025, 400 pp.
D.2. new books
✔1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(It Rhymes With Takei, pub June 2025)
The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle, Erika Robuck, 25 Sept 2025, pub. Aug 2025
✔2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(The Salt Stones, pub. June 2025))
The Great Mann, Kyra Davis Lurie, 2 Oct 2025, pub. June 2025
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
TBR Bender - June 2025Completed 24 June 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from April 2025 reads.
1.
Esperanza Rising, Pam MuñozRyan, 25 Apr
historical fiction, middle grade, young adult
2.
The Lies We Leave Behind, Noelle Salazar, 21 Apr
historical fiction, romance, world war II
3.
The Turtle House, Amanda Churchill, 15 Apr
historical fiction, Japan, family
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. (Esperanza Rising, historical fiction)
The Women of Chateau Lafayette, Stephanie Dray, 9 June 2025
2. (The Lies We Leave Behind, romance)
Every Tom, Dick & Harry, Elinor Lipman, 4 June 2025
3. (The Turtle House, historical fiction)
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel, ReShonda Tate, 14 June 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
(The Women of Chateau Lafayette), Stephanie Dray
Tough Luck, Sandra Dallas, 24 June 2025
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical word in title
(The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel, Queen)
Mrs Queen Takes the Train, William Kuhn, 20 June 2025
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(Every Tom, Dick & Harry, both pub. 2025)
Seeds of Fate, Sarita Dasgupta, 12 June 2025
TBR Bender: May 2025Completed
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from March 2025 reads.
1.
The Jackal's Mistress, historical fiction, civil war, romance
2.
One Hundred Saturdays, nonfiction, history, memoir
3.
Chancing your Arm, ireland, contemporary, mystery
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. (The Jackal's Mistress)
Shelf: historical fiction
Where the Sky Begins, Rhys Bowen, 6 May 2025
2. (One Hundred Saturdays)
Shelves: nonfiction, memoir
The Bookseller at the End of the World, Ruth Shaw, 6 May 2025
3. (Chancing your Arm)
Shelf: Ireland
The Irish Girl: A Novel, Ashley E. Sweeney, 3 May 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Bookseller at the End of the World, 267 pp.)
The Bohemians, Jasmin Darznik, 13 May 2025, 368 pp.
D.2. new books
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(Where the Sky Begins, Rhys Bowen)
Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane, 31 May 2025
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position) - AS/SA
(The Irish Girl: A Novel, Ashley E. Sweeney)
The First Mrs. Rothschild, Sara Aharoni, 20 May 2025
TBR Bender - August 2025Completed 25 Aug 2025
✔B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from June 2025 reads.
1. Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
historical fiction, mystery, thriller
2. Seeds of Fate, Sarita Dasgupta
India, short stories, family
3. Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks
memoir, nonfiction, grief
✔C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. (Small Mercies, historical fiction)
The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick, 10 Aug 2025
2. (Seeds of Fate, family)
Good Dirt, Charmaine Wilkerson, 11 Aug 2025
3. (Memorial Days, nonfiction)
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore, 19 Aug 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
✔1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added.
(Good Dirt, both added Sept 2024)
The Spoon Stealer, Lesley Crewe, 16 Aug 2025
✔3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
(The Woman They Could Not Silence, Kate Moore )
The Curse of Braeburn Castle, Karen Baugh Menuhin, 25 Aug 2025
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(The Book Club for Troublesome Women, both pub. 2025
Three Days in June, Anne Tyler, 12 Aug 2025
TBR Bender, July 2025✔B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from May 2025 reads.
1.
The Bohemians, Jasmin Darznik
historical fiction, book club, art
2.
The Bookseller at the End of the World, Ruth Shaw
nonfiction, memoir, books about books
3.
OverKill, J.A. Jance
mystery, suspense, thriller
✔C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelf.
1. (The Bohemians, historical fiction)
Together Tea, Marjan Kamali, 5 July 2025
2. (OverKill, mystery, thriller)
Endangered, C.J. Box, 7 July 2025
3. (The Bookseller at the End of the World, nonfiction)
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Judy Batalion, 14 July 2025
✔D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)
✔2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series.
(Endangered, Joe Pickett #15)
Off the Grid, C.J. Box, 29 July 2025, Joe Pickett #16
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
✔4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature
(The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Days/Day)
Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, Shaun Bythell, 15 July 2025
✔5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Together Tea, 338 pp.)
All the Broken Places, John Boyne, 6 July 2025, 400 pp.
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
TBR Bender - April 2025Completed 29 April 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from February 2025 reads.
1.
Exile Music, historical fiction, music, World War II
2.
Crow Talk, nature, contemporary, animals
3.
The Lion Women of Tehran, historical fiction, historical, Iran
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. (Exile Music)
Shelf: Historical Fiction
The Underground Library, Jennifer Ryan, 11 Apr 2025
2. (Crow Talk)
Shelf: Contemporary
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife, Anna Johnston, 8 Apr 2025
3. (The Lion Women of Tehran)
Shelf: Historical Fiction
The Turtle House, Amanda Churchill, 15 Apr 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added.
(The Underground Library)
both added Dec 2023
A Wild and Heavenly PlaceRobin Oliveira, 16 Apr 2025
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Turtle House, 304 pp.)
Force Of Nature, C.J. Box, 20 Apr 2025, 385 pp.
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife)
both pub. 2024
The Last Twelve Miles, Erika Robuck, 29 Apr 2025
2 down, 8 to go 🤣
Finally finished! I was on the library wait-list for the last book quite a long time. FOUND 2024
Read 10 books which were:
added to your TBR in the past 6 months (since 6 Mar 2024)
AND
were published prior to the date you completed LOST 2024. (before 6 Sept 2024)
✔1. Our Darkest Night, Jennifer Robson, 3 Jan 2025, added to TBR Mar 2024; pub. Jan 2021
✔2. The Heretic's Apprentice, Ellis Peters, 13 Nov 2024, added to TBR Mar 2024; pub. Feb 1989
✔3. Secrets of the Octopus, Sy Montgomery, 2 Jan 2025, added to TBR Mar 2024; pub. Mar 2024
✔4. The Other Valley, Scott Alexander Howard, 1 Apr 2025
✔5. Whale Fall Elizabeth O'Connor, 16 Jan 2025
✔6. American Flygirl, Susan Tate Ankeny, 16 Sept 2024, added to TBR July 2024; pub 23 July 2024
✔7. Exile Music: A Novel, Jennifer Steil, 5 Feb 2025
✔8. A Collection of Lies, Connie Berry, 19 Sept 2024, added to TBR May 2024; pub 18 June 2024
✔9. Free Fire, C.J. Box, 17 Nov 2024, added to TBR 26 May 2024; pub. May 2007
✔10. Blood Trail, C.J. Box, 24 Nov 2024, added to TBR 26 May 2024, pub. May 2008
TBR Bender - June 2025Completed 24 June 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from April 2025 reads.
1.
Esperanza Rising, Pam MuñozRyan, 25 Apr
historical fiction, middle grade, young adult
2.
The Lies We Leave Behind, Noelle Salazar, 21 Apr
historical fiction, romance, world war II
3.
The Turtle House, Amanda Churchill, 15 Apr
historical fiction, Japan, family
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. (Esperanza Rising, historical fiction)
The Women of Chateau Lafayette, Stephanie Dray, 9 June 2025
2. (The Lies We Leave Behind, romance)
Every Tom, Dick & Harry, Elinor Lipman, 4 June 2025
3. (The Turtle House)
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel, ReShonda Tate, 14 June 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
✔3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
(The Women of Chateau Lafayette), Stephanie Dray
Tough Luck, Sandra Dallas, 24 June 2025
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
(The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel, Queen)
Mrs Queen Takes the Train, William Kuhn, 20 June 2025
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(Every Tom, Dick & Harry, both pub. 2025)
Seeds of Fate, Sarita Dasgupta, 12 June 2025
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
