Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This runs from January 1 - December 31, 2017

Well, it is that time again! This thread is for listing those 10 oldest books on your TBR and getting them read in 2017.

It is OK if those books coincide with a game. It is also OK if you read them all early and start a second 10.

Anna

Ashley

Ashleigh

Audrey

Bea

Blarneygod

CassieV

Cecile

Charlene

Charity

Christina

Christina (GR lib)

Claire

Coralie

Dree

Joyce

Kate Thompson

Katherine

Kathryn CA

Katie

Lagullande

Lahni

Lauren

Luann

Lusie

Lyn (Readinghearts)

LynnB

Marina

Martha

Matt

Megan

Melissa

Mickey

Nicki

Pat

Raine

Rosemary

Sassafrass

Sherri

Sue

Susan

Tien

Bea's LOST list:

√1. Questionable Behavior by J. Dayne Lamb - 3* Read 2/16/17
√2. The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney - 4* Read 12/12/17
√3. The Sherlockian by Graham Moore - 4* Read 10/6/17
√4. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon - 4* Read 3/6/17
√5. The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift - 4* Read 12/24/17
√6. Fireflies in the Mist by Qurratulain Hyder - 3* Read 1/14/17
√7. West of Here by Jonathan Evison - 3* Read 8/3/17
√8. The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard - 3* Read 6/20/17
√9. 'Til Death Do Us Part by Pat Warren - 4* Read 6/8/17
√10. Border Prey by Jessica Speart - 4* Read 2/24/17

All are from 2011.

Cecile's Lost List

Read: 1/10

This is such a great idea.

1. The Diary of a Young Girl ~ Jan 13, 2016
2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
4. The Story of My Life
5. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
6. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
7. Schindler's List
8. Mein Kampf
9. Dracula
10. The Kite Runner

Lynn's LOST list, 2017: COMPLETED 17 DEC 2017

(5 each from my "own" and "borrow from library" lists)

1. Daniel Plainway by Van Reid, read 23 Oct 2017
2. The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories by O. Henry, read 29 April 2017
3. Island: Collected Stories by Alistair MacLeod, read 11 Jan 2017
4. Juliet by Anne Fortier, read 30 June 2017
5. Blackout by Connie Willis, read 21 Feb 2017
6. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? by Philip Yancey, read 17 Dec 2017
7. The Queen of Water by Laura Resau, read 12 Aug 2017
8. Encore Provence by Peter Mayle, read 4 Nov 2017
9. So Big by Edna Ferber, read 19 June 2017
10. Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris, read 22 Oct 2017

Books have been on my lists ranging from 2008 to 2012.

Coralie's Lost List for 2017

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Clockwork Rocket
The Winds of Khalakovo
The Years of Rice and Salt
The Algebraist
Glasshouse
The Girl in the Glass
Gallows View
The Documents in the Case
Hard Spell Read Jan 11

Lusie's Lost List for 2017
My shelf

Read 10 / 10

Assassin Study [3-apr-2017] ★★★
Shadow Study [7-apr-2017] ★★★★
Fire Mage [12-may-2017] ★
It's In Her Blood [30-oct-2017] ★★
The November Man [20-nov-2017] ★★★
Deadly Thyme [22-oct-2017] ★★★
Ice Study [3-apr-2017] ★★★★
Power Study [3-apr-2017] ★★★
Death Sworn [29-aug-2017] ★★★
The Best of Fools [12-apr-2017] ★★★

Lyn's Lost list 2017 (I think it is finally a bit different from the past lists)

A Tale of Two Cities
The Poisonwood Bible
Night of Many Dreams
The Language of Threads
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
I Am the Messenger
The Way of the Traitor
Sweet Revenge
His Majesty's Dragon
Dragonfly in Amber

Sherri's Lost List - Go Go 2017


The Physician
Sorceress Weeded
Stargazer
Joe 7/13/17
Zed
The Wishing Spell 8/19/17
Guyaholic 5/13/17
Still Alice 3/9/17
Endangered 8/23/17
The Thorn Birds

I'm still working on books added in 2008 for most of my LOST books. I've added one extra, a picture book, which is the book that's been on my TBR the LONGEST!

10/17/17 - FINISHED! I think I'll try to read a couple more that have been longest on my TBR this year.

1. Rascal by Sterling North - finished May 22, 2017
2. The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh - finished April 10, 2017
3. Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl - finished May 30, 2017
4. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik - finished May 2, 2017
5. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik - finished September 4, 2017
6. Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly edited by Jane Espenson - finished August 19, 2017
7. Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley - finished October 14, 2017
8. Instead of Three Wishes: Magical Short Stories by Megan Whalen Turner - finished October 17, 2017
9. The Great American Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross - finished July 9, 2017
10. The Appeal by John Grisham - finished October 2, 2017
11. Pickle-Chiffon Pie by Jolly Roger Bradfield - finished July 13, 2017

Finished: 11/11



Bonus for the year:
12. The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley - finished 12/18/17
13. The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones - finished 12/21/17

I'm seeing some improvement on my tbr, thanks to LOST!

3 books from 2008, 1 from 2009, and the rest is from 2010, woot!

1. Where the Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese - Australian Story by Kim Huynh -Read 01/05
2. Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan -Read 05/05
3. North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter by Sakie Yokota -Read 02/28
4. Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun -Read 06/02
5. Fire (Graceling #2) by Kristin Cashore -Read 03/16
6. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead -Read 05/10
7. Eucalyptus by Murray Bail -Read 06/04
8. On, Off (Carmine Delmonico #1) by Colleen McCullough -Read 02/14
9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (The Karla Trilogy #1) by John le Carré -Read 01/29
10. The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham -Read 04/19

Progress: COMPLETED as at 06/04

Sassafrass's LOST LIST 2017:

Planned
Jesse's Story
Lee's Story
Stranded In Paradise
Carrie's Story: An Erotic S/M Novel
Safe Word
The Third Kiss: Dorian's Dream
Biting Nixie
Kept


Completed
Falling Down 2/19/17
Special Delivery 3/28/17

all from 2010

Here is my list for 2017:

1. Ghost Story
2. Watchers11-15-17*****
3. Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories
4. Life of Pi
5. The Catcher in the Rye 2-15-17 *****
6. Humans of New York: Stories 7-3-17 ****
7. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
8. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
9. Cash
10. Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life

I've been waiting for this one!
I have a shelf with 37 books that have been on my TBR the longest, so will see how many I can get through.

Completed: 2/5
✔ Seriously... I'm Kidding 8.1.17 ★★★
✔ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 21.1.17 ★★★★★
FROM:

• The Great Gatsby
• Postmortem
• The Lovely Bones
• Chasing Harry Winston
• Eat, Pray, Love
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Dear John
• P.S. I Love You
• Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
• If You Ask Me
all books added May 2012

I only managed half of my 2016 list so here's hoping that 2017 will be better:

2017 LOST - Longest on Shelf TBR
Complete: 9/10

✔ 1. Bitter Night by Diana Pharoah Francis, Added: October 12, 2011 / Read: October 30, 2017
✔ 2. The Darkest Seduction by Gena Showalter, Added: August 6, 2012 / Read: January 21, 2017
3. The Last Victim by Karen Robards, Added: September 12, 2012
✔ 4. Now You Die by Roxanne st. Claire, Added: December 8, 2012 / Read: August 12, 2017
✔ 5. The Demon Lover by Juliet Dark, Added: January 28, 2013 / Read: February 7, 2017
✔ 6. Relentless by Cherry Adair, Added: April 11, 2013 / Read: May 2, 2017
✔ 7. It Happened One Wedding by Jill Shalvis, Added: July 9, 2013 / Read: January 7, 2017
✔ 8. Bound by Night by Larissa Ione, Added: September 25, 2013 / Read: March 24, 2017
✔ 9. A Study in Seduction by Nina Rowan, Added: November 2, 2013 / Read: February 11, 2017
✔ 10. Shadow's Claim by Kresley Cole, Added: November 26, 2013 / Read: February 7, 2017

Books added prior to December 2013

Let's see if I can make it! Whenever available, I'm adding books with their English title for understanding's sake.

Marina's LOST list

1. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (read 01/08)
2. Big Sur (read 03/06)
3. The Turning Point (read 04/12)
4. La strage dimenticata (read 02/04)
5. Mephisto (read 07/04/2018)
6. Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel (read 29/08)
7. Night Flight (read 29/12)
8. Tartuffe (read 27/07)
9. Deutschland, eine Reise DNF
10. Fìdeg DNF

10/10 - completed 07/04/2018 (9/10 read in 2017)

Last years lost I used to get rid of my 2013 and 2014 books. Now I have only got books added in 2015 and 2016 thanks to lost :)

It is great to see this challenge helped other too to read old books.

Lusie wrote: "Last years lost I used to get rid of my 2013 and 2014 books. Now I have only got books added in 2015 and 2016 thanks to lost :)

It is great to see this challenge helped other too to read old books."

Wow, that's amazing! I hope that I'll be able to say the same thing at some point but my TBR is so long (and getting longer by the minute).

Here are my oldest 10. All added in 2010 or 2011.

✔The Orkney Scroll - finished 5/25
✔Mind of My Mind - finished 2/6
✔Dreamers of the Day - finished 5/8
✔The Man with a Load of Mischief - finished 3/20
✔The Dark Life - finished 2/7
✔The Aliens of Earth - finished 5/11
✔The Cypress House - finished 3/9
✔Hunger - finished 1/26
✔Neruda & Vallejo - finished 6/6
✔Legacy - finished 7/21

replaced because they're no longer available:
Nano Comes to Clifford Falls
Beaker's Dozen
Stinger

FINISHED 7/21

Sassafrass wrote: "Lusie wrote: "Last years lost I used to get rid of my 2013 and 2014 books. Now I have only got books added in 2015 and 2016 thanks to lost :)

It is great to see this challenge helped other too to ..."

I must admit...I didn't add that many books in 2013 and 2014. I started to use goodreads seriously in 2015. That is when I joined groups and started to add books. Though in 2016 i just went overboard with adding books. It is just crazy how many books I added this year.

I only have 32 from 2010 now that I've actually counted them. I'll work on those over the challenge and see what happens. I'll start with the first 10 first though.

I'm in, here's my list:

I'm into 2012 now, woohoo :)

Tried to read this year and still want to finish:
Les Misérables
and probably Kristin Lavransdatter (though I have hopes to still finish it this year!)

1. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
2. Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus - 7/7/17****
3. Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up - 12/19/17****
4. Simple Church: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples
5. Lord of the Fading Lands - 4/6/17****
6. Twenty Years After (technically next on the list is The Man in the Iron Mask, but I added these wrong on Goodreads initially, so I'm just swapping out for the right one) - 10/27/17***
7. The Princes of Ireland
8. Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles - Read 2/24/17**
9. The Awakening - Read 5/30/17**
10. The Pursuit of Holiness - Read 12/5/17***

This list won't be finalized until Jan 1, though, as many of these are on my TBR Trim list :).

@CassieV, I've been thinking that I should get to Hunchback for the last few years. Would you be interested in a buddy read sometime in 2017? :)

The keen bean that I am, I've got my first LOST 2017 book out from the library! Now, to remember NOT to start before Jan 1 :p

My 2017 LOST Challenge.
All books from 2012/2013
1. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2/21/17
2. Dark Bites
3. Twisted
4. Night Broken
5. Fallen in Love
6. The Shade of the Moon 3/12/17
7. Hallowed 11/22/17
8. Heaven
9. Beautiful Darkness 6/27/17
10. Balthazar

☀☀☀☀ Kat's LOST 2017 ☀☀☀☀ 1st Jan - 31st Dec 2017.

1. Memoirs of a Geisha
2. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War ------------------ 30/3/17
3. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ------------------ 29/3/17
4. The Lord of the Rings
5. The Spook's Mistake --------------------------------- 11/6/17
6. Inkdeath ------------------------------------- 30/4/17
7. The House of Hades --------------------------------- 12/7/17
8. The Blood of Olympus -------------------------------- 27/7/17
9. Wyrd Sisters --------------------------------- 17/6/17
10. Insurgent

PAS: LOST 2017
0/10 read

1. Roping the Wind
2. Surrender to Me
3. Hot as Sin
4. Holiday Hearts (An Antaeus Family Christmas)
5. The Bite Before Christmas
6. An Unwanted Hunger
7. The Ghost Shrink, the Accidental Gigolo, & the Poltergeist Accountant
8. Untamed Desire
9. A Certain Wolfish Charm
10. Awakening

lol Tien. Sounds like you are excited about starting the Lost 2017!

I desperately need to do this!

Ashley's List
1/10 read

1. Catch-22 (added August 2013)
2. The Girl You Left Behind (added August 2013)
3. The Bone Season (added August 2013)
4. The People in the Trees (added August 2013) Finished 2/1/17
5. The Gravity of Birds (added August 2013)
6. Babayaga (added August 2013)
7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (added August 2013)
8. On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (added August 2013)
9. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (added August 2013)
10. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (added August 2013)

My LOST list
10/10 read - finished 29 Nov 2017

✔ 1. Moll Flanders Finished 29 Nov 17
✔ 2. The Brimstone Wedding Finished 27 Apr 17
✔ 3. The Sterkarm Handshake Finished 20 Nov 17
✔ 4. A House in the Country Finished 13 Mar 17
✔ 5. Family Album Finished 21 Aug 17
✔ 6. The Traitor Game Finished 21 Mar 17
✔ 7. Notes on a Scandal Finished 19 Apr 17
✔ 8. The Sea Finished 7 Sept 17
✔ 9. City of Masks Finished 25 Mar 17
✔ 10. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Finished 15 June 17

Lusie wrote: "lol Tien. Sounds like you are excited about starting the Lost 2017!"

yep and I haven't even finished 2016 :p

I'm keen to finish off books added back in 2008! I didn't put them on 2016 list because I wanted to concentrate on books I physically own at home but I noticed I've only got 3 books left on my tbr that I added in 2008 so it's time to move them :D

I still have 47 books on my list from 2009, so I'm definitely in!

Read 3/10

✔ 1. The Fall of Neskaya Read May 6
2. Zandru's Forge
3. Fingersmith
4. Sebastian
✔ 5. The Castlemaine Murders Read Mar 5
✔ 6. Queen of the Flowers Read Mar 13
7. The Pillars of the Earth
8. Eldest
9. The Interpretation of Murder
10. Dreaming the Bull



I would LOVE to work my way through these! I'm sick of seeing the same books at the start of my TBR list. Though to be fair, I did manage to read some this year :)

Nicki wrote: "'m sick of seeing the same books at the start of my TBR list."

Hear! Hear!

I'm in....list to follow...unfortunately it will include several from last year, but that's ok :-)

1. End Game - Read 2/5/2017
2. Retribution - Read 2/16/2017
3. Revolution - Read 2/28/2017
4. Whiplash - Read 4/12/2017
5. Black Wolf - Read 4/26/2017
6. Collateral Damage - Read 7/11/2017
7. Speaker for the Dead - Read 1/19/2017
8. Xenocide - Read 5/3/2017
9. Children of the Mind - Read 5/16/2017
10. Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Read 1/27/2017

Tien wrote: "@CassieV, I've been thinking that I should get to Hunchback for the last few years. Would you be interested in a buddy read sometime in 2017? :)"

Sorry, I thought I marked this thread for notifications, but I guess I didn't! I would definitely be up for a buddy read :D. Probably after February sometime, if that works for you?

Nicki wrote: "I would LOVE to work my way through these! I'm sick of seeing the same books at the start of my TBR list. Though to be fair, I did manage to read some this year :)"

Me too!! I've made a bit of progress this year (read THE oldest and last one from 2011, yay!), but I'd still love to move some more out totally. I joined in 2011 but really started adding in 2012, so my first 75 are all still from 2012. But Moving Mountains may help with that as well ;).

CassieV wrote: "Sorry, I thought I marked this thread for notifications, but I guess I didn't! I would definitely be up for a buddy read :D. Probably after February sometime, if that works for you? "

Yes! Which week would you like to start with: Feb 27 or Mar 3? We can start later as well, it's up to you. I still have to get my copy ;p

Let's tentatively plan for March 3 :). My son's birthday is Feb 24, so that gives me a little time to recover, lol.

CassieV wrote: "Let's tentatively plan for March 3 :). My son's birthday is Feb 24, so that gives me a little time to recover, lol."

cool! will try to remember in 2 months time :)

Nicki wrote: "I still have 47 books on my list from 2009, so I'm definitely in!

1. The Fall of Neskaya
2. Zandru's Forge
3. Dreams Made Flesh
4. Sebastian
..."

I'm with you there Nicki!

Tien wrote: "CassieV wrote: "Let's tentatively plan for March 3 :). My son's birthday is Feb 24, so that gives me a little time to recover, lol."

cool! will try to remember in 2 months time :)"

Could I join with the buddy read for Hunchback? I didn't put it on my Lost list but I do want to read it. March would be good.

Rosemary wrote: "Could I join with the buddy read for Hunchback? I didn't put it on my Lost list but I do want to read it. March would be good. "

Of course, Rosemary! I'll note your name down too so I'll remember to send a reminder to you too :)

They say that making a written list gives you a better chance of getting things done. We'll see....

1. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
2. Bring Up the Bodies finished 14 Apr 17
3. Flight Behaviour
4. Seeing
5. Burnt Shadows finished 13 Feb 2017
6. Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims
7. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
8. Life After Life
9. The Headmaster's Wife finished 14 Nov 2017
10. Acts and Omissions removed from TBR, replaced with
11. Mary Reilly finished 15 Nov 2017

Lagullande, I was blown away by Burnt Shadows and gave it a rare 5* rating. That book has stayed with me even though it has been 5 years since I read it. I will be interested in your opinion of it.

Bea wrote: "Lagullande, I was blown away by Burnt Shadows and gave it a rare 5* rating. That book has stayed with me even though it has been 5 years since I read it. I will be interested in your..."

That's good to hear, Bea. It is Feb 2017's group read in the Bailey's/Orange Women's Fiction Prize GR group, on my request, so I definitely need to get to it soon.

Will have a go at this one again this year :) I think I managed 5 or 6 last year so not too bad!

1 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

2 ✔ Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess DNF
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard ★★1/2
3 ✔ The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen| ★★★★
4 ✔ War Trash by Ha Jin ★★★★

5 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

6 ✔ Dracula by Bram Stoker ★★★
7 ✔ The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman★★★★1/2
8 ✔ Earth Abides by George R. Stewart ★★★
9 ✔ Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella ★★1/2
10 ✔ Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer ★★★1/2

Dree wrote: "Will have a go at this one again this year :) I think I managed 5 or 6 last year so not too bad! "

Not bad at all!

Sue's LOST list:

_ 1) - The House at Riverton | Kate Morton
✓ 2) - The Solitary Envoy | T. Davis Bunn | Read 2017-Feb-18
_ 3) - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand
_ 4) - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson
_ 5) - Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë
✓ 6) - One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | Read 2017-Feb-25
+ 7) - The Merchant of Death | D.J. MacHale
+ 8) - A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini
+ 9) - Endangered Species | Nevada Barr
✓ 10) - The Dogs of Riga | Henning Mankell | Read 2017-Feb-18

All were added in 2010.

Sue, you have some great books on your list. I especially liked A Thousand Splendid Suns, which is the best book by Khaled Hosseini in my opinion.

Raine's Lost List for 2017

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
3. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
5. Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult
6. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
7. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
8. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
9. Ali and Nino: A Love Story - Kurban Said
10. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (finished 1/11/17)

I lost track of the dates of my TBR when I moved over from Shelfari - but these are the books that I know I have had on my list for a long, long time.