Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This challenge is to read the 10 oldest books on your TBR, and it runs from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019 or for the Aussies and Europeans in the group 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2019 (I am trying to get used to your dating, so practicing it here!)

So find the books you once wanted to read but that you have neglected...and give them some love. Hopefully you will find some gems as you dig among the old books.

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Ashley FINISHED

Bea FINISHED

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CassieV

Charity

Christina

Coralie FINISHED

Dree FINISHED

Jammin Jenny

Jayme (the ghost reader)

Jen

Jess

Joyce

Katherine

Kim

Kristina Simon FINISHED

Lagullande FINISHED

Lahni

Laura

LauraLa FINISHED

Lauren FINISHED

Leigh

Lena

Luann

Lusie FINISHED

Lyn (Readinghearts)

LynnB FINISHED

Marina (Sonnenbarke) FINISHED

Mary

Mell

Michelle FINISHED

Nat

Rosemary FINISHED

Sassafrass FINISHED

Susan FINISHED

Tien FINISHED

Bea's LOST list:
√1. Daughters of Rome - Read 8/5/19
√2. To Be Queen: A Novel of the Early Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine - Read 9/25/19
√3. Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution Read 1/13/19
√4. Friendship Bread - Read 3/16/19
√5. The White Devil - Read 7/29/19
√6. Insight - Read 7/7/19
√7. The Medusa Amulet - Read 7/21/19
√8. The Lost Symbol Read 1/22/19
√9. Medicus Read 10/5/19
√10. Jephte's Daughter Read 5/21/19

I have 2 TBRs. Wishlist is for all those books I do not own, and TBR is for those I do own. This LOST list gets me to May 2011 in both lists.

Rosemary's LOST list for 2019. Read 10/10 - Finished!

✔ 1. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - 15 Aug 19
✔ 2. Untying the Knot by Linda Gillard - 28 Jan 19
✔ 3. Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge - 17 Nov 19
✔ 4. The Case of the Missing Boyfriend by Nick Alexander - 5 Dec 19
✔ 5. A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard - 15 June 19
✔ 6. 13:55 Eastern Standard Time by Nick Alexander - 24 Nov 19
✔ 7. The Preacher's Bride by Jody Hedlund - 28 Apr 19
✔ 8. The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan - 12 Feb 19
✔ 9. Coffee, Tea, the Gypsy & Me by Caroline James - 16 Sept 19
✔ 10. Knowing Me Knowing You by Mandy Baggot - 15 Mar 19

Lusie's LOST list - date finished: 7-may-19

✔ 1. The Visitor [3-may-19] ★★
✔ 2. The Witches of BlackBrook [28-mar-2019] ★★
✔ 3. Forsaken [5-may-19] ★★★
✔ 4. When Cicadas Cry [28-feb-2019] ★★★★
✔ 5. Midnight Thief [2-may-19] ★★
✔ 6. Mistake Creek [31-mar-2019] ★★
✔ 7. Travel Glasses [4-may-2019] ★★★
✔ 8. Alienated [14-apr-2019] ★★
✔ 9. The Carnelian Legacy [7-may-19] ★★★
✔ 10. Cinderella Six Feet Under [21-feb-2019] ★★

LOST 2019

Jan 1 - December 31, 2019

✔1 The Collaborator of Bethlehem (Omar Yussef Mystery #1) - fin 2/4/19
✔2 Eastern Standard Tribe - fin 6/15
✔3 The Defenders - fin 6/16
✔4 The Machine Stops - fin 5/31
✔5 When the Sleeper Wakes - fin 5/4
✔6 Invasive Procedures - fin 10/25
✔7 The Traveler (Fourth Realm #1) - fin 7/8
✔8 Shine - fin 9/8
✔9 Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus #2) - fin 10/30
✔10 Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs #1) - fin 12/7

replaced because no longer available:
A Place So Foreign and Eight More
Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime #2)

DNF:
City at the End of Time - DNF 11/16 after reading 159 pages

COMPLETED Dec 7

LOST 2019

✔ 1. Apprentice by Maggie Anton, read 13 Nov 2019
✔ 2. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult, read 19 Apr 2019
✔3. My Name Is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner, read 14 July 2019
✔4. Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People by Dorothy C. Bass, read 23 July 2019
✔5. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne, read 2 Jan 2020
✔6. The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin, read 24 Jan 2019
✔7. The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay, read 3 Nov 2019
✔8. Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found by Rebecca Alexander, read 6 Feb 2019
✔9. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, July 2019, DNF
✔10. Ethics, Bonhoffer, DNF

Lots of non-fiction is piling up on the oldest part of my TBR list!!
These are leftovers from 2009 to 2012.

*Updated 1/15/19: changed two (one was a DNF; couldn't find the other).

I haven't restricted my list to my TBR, but have gone for any book added to my GR shelves.

LOST 2019
All added in November 2014

Finished 19/6/19 1. The Godfather
Finished 18/7/19 2. Jenny
Finished 27/12/19 3. Independent People
Finished 18/4/19 4. The Tenderness of Wolves
Finished 16/9/19 5. The Street
Finished 2/1/19 6. Men Explain Things to Me
Finished 7/11/19 7. The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Finished 12/7/19 8. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Finished 22/9/19 9. A Stranger in Olondria
Finished 4/6/19 10. Calling Me Home


I have two of my LOST 2018 books left to read but I'm hoping to finish them by the end of the year. But I haven't touched the six LOST 2017 ones!

LOST 2019

10/10 - completed 24/09/2019

1. Qui è proibito parlare read 09/02
2. Il mio nome è Lucy: l'Italia del XX secolo nei ricordi di una transessuale read 31/03
3. K. read 30/05
4. Quaderni peruviani read 05/08
5. Mansur, oder, Der Duft Des Abendlandes: Roman read 04/09
6. Zu ebener Erde und erster Stock, oder Die Launen des Glückes read 29/07
7. The Adolescent read 16/08
8. We Were the Mulvaneys read 10/04
9. The Visit read 25/07
10. The Death of Virgil DNF 24/09

Note: I have 2 to go from LOST 2018 + 1 which would be on my LOST 2019 but I will hopefully read it before the end of the year for MM 2018 - so I haven't added those. As usual, I am using my owned TBR.

ETA 01/04: cannot find my 10th book, I've replaced it with the next in line.

4/10 (40% complete)

Here are my 10 - all added in May 2012:
Chasing Harry Winston
Déjà Dead ✓ 4★ 04.02.19
Postmortem
Marked
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
Bridget Jones's Diary ✓ 4★ 19.09.19
Little Women
Angels & Demons ✓ 4★ 09.08.19
The Great Gatsby ✓ 4★ 19.09.19
Twilight

LOST 2019:

Progress: 10/10 books as at 07/12

1. A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal by Diana Preston & Michael Preston -Read 06/26
2. The Washerwoman's Dream: The Extraordinary Life of Winifred Steger 1882-198 by Hilarie Lindsay -Read 01/08
3. The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander -Read 07/12
4. The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston -Read 07/11
5. The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb -Read 06/13
6. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín -Read 03/15
7. The Green Wind (The Robinson Family #1) by Thurley Fowler -Read 05/20
8. Holden's Performance: A Novel by Murray Bail -Read 03/07
9. And De Fun Don't Done (Les Norton #7) by Robert G. Barrett -Read 03/11
10. Blind Faith by Ben Elton -Read 02/22

Mell wrote: "Maybe one year I will finish this!

Here are my 10 - all added in May 2012:"

They all look like easy and/or fun reads, Mell, so I'm sure you will finish them next year ;)

LynnB wrote: "LOST 2019

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things"

I own this one, LynnB, if you want to buddy read :)

Not in the next 3 months tho as I'm reading along War & Peace already.

Michelle D's 2019 LOST

COMPLETED 10/10 ON 12/21/19

1. Always the Sun
2. The Color of Home
✔3. Saving Max
✔4. Never Change
✔5. Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
✔6. Accidents of Marriage
✔7. The Girl from the Well
✔8. In a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat Opot
✔9. The Forgotten Girl
10. Rellik

Alternates:
✔11. Burying Water
✔12. The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
✔13. The Museum of Extraordinary Things

My list - the books are much shorter this year so I'll have no excuses not to finish.

Felicia's Journey
The Crack in Space
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
Martian Time-Slip
The Game-Players of Titan
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
The Secret City
Wonders of the Invisible World
The Story of a Nobody
The Ghost-seer

Completed July 12

Tien wrote: "LynnB wrote: "LOST 2019
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things"

I own this one, LynnB, if you want to buddy read :)
Not in the next 3 months tho as I'm reading along War & Peace already."

I will check with you when I get to that book (or let me know when you're ready). Buddy reads are good!

This challenge has been fantastic for my TBR. Whether I read the books or decide that they don't appeal anymore, it is helping to focus my reading on the books that I really want to read.

Here's my 2019 list:

2019 LOST - Longest on Shelf TBR
Complete: 10/10

✔︎ 1. Virgin River by Robyn Carr - Added: October 21, 2011 / Read: March 6, 2019
✔︎ 2. Dark Desires by Eve Silver - Added: June 1, 2013 / Read: May 11, 2019
✔︎ 3. Forbidden by Lisa Clark O'Neill - Added: August 13, 2014 / Read: February 28, 2019
✔︎ 4. Die Again by Tess Gerritsen - Added: December 19, 2014 / Read: February 7, 2019
✔︎ 5. Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs - Added: March 6, 2015 / Read: April 30, 2019
✔︎ 6. One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare - Added: April 5, 2015 / Read: January 15, 2019
✔︎ 7. Barely Breathing by Pamela Clare - Added: July 6, 2016 / Read: May 24, 2019
✔︎ 8. Cold Light of Day by Toni Anderson - Added: August 26, 2016 / Read: July 13, 2019
✔︎ 9. Frosted by Allison Brennan - Added: October 19, 2016 / Read: April 30, 2019
✔︎ 10. All the Queen's Men by Lnda Howard - Added: December 14, 2016 / Read: April 30, 2019


All books added in or before 2016

Lauren wrote: "This challenge has been fantastic for my TBR. Whether I read the books or decide that they don't appeal anymore, it is helping to focus my reading on the books that I really want to read.

Here's ..."

I love that I've finally found someone that is farther behind on their TBR than me! Lol, I'm out of control - mine were all added in 2014 also! Good luck on yours this year. =)

All lists linked to this point. See post #2.

thanks bea

LOST 2019:

added to Goodreads TBR January-May 2009

1. Out
2. Blindness read 1/27
3. The Given Day
4. Lush Life
5. Arlington Park read 6/21
6. The Winter Vault
7. A Misalliance
8. A Person of Interest
9. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
10. The Handmaid's Tale read 9/1

Michelle wrote: "I love that I've finally found someone that is farther behind on their TBR than me! Lol, I'm out of control - mine were all added in 2014 also! Good luck on yours this year. =)"

Lol! Sometimes I look back on my list and think to myself "why on earth did I ever add this book?!"

Good luck to you too :)

Lauren wrote: "Sometimes I look back on my list and think to myself "why on earth did I ever add this book?!.."

Me too, Lauren. I'm hoping to find out soon!

Lauren wrote: "Sometimes I look back on my list and think to myself "why on earth did I ever add this book?!"

Me too!

I have to look at my lost books again. So far I can only get 5 of the 10 oldest books.

All books are from Jan. 2017 (i.e. the day I joined Goodreads and had a TBR list that included dates).

1. Wild Magic - Finished 1/3/2019
2. The Goddess Test - Finished 1/10/2019
3. Eve - can't find, replacing with #11
4. Inside Out - Finished 10/3/2019
5. Across the Universe - Finished 5/23/2019
6. Incarnate - can't find, replacing with #12
7. Partials - Finished 9/9/2019
8. For Darkness Shows the Stars - Finished 5/13/2019
9. The Hunt - Finished 9/20/2019
10. Renegade - can't find, replacing with #13

Replacements (if needed)
11. Beta - Finished 9/7/2019
12. The Son of Neptune - Finished 1/26/2019
13. The House of Hades - Finished 2/19/2019
14. Red Queen
15. The Blood of Olympus - Finished 2/23/2019

Finished 10/3/2019

Great another LOST!

I have found this shelf to be fabulous for moving the TBR. Mainly to weed out those books that I dont want to read anymore as I've found that I've DNFd most of my LOSTs in the past.

All good though - off the list is off the list after all!

LOST list for 2019 is:

✔️ 1. - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser DNF- will read another time
✔️ 2.- The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams ★★★★1/2
✔️ 3. - Christiane F. - Mein zweites Leben by Christiane F. ★★★★1/2
✔️ 4. - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens DNF
✔️ 5. - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe DNF
✔️ 6. - The Thin Red Line by James Jones DNF
✔️ 7. - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak NO RATING - see review! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
✔️ 8. - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ★★1/2
✔️ 9 - A Fortunate Life by AB Facey ★★★1/2
✔️ 10. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas DNF

Here is my LOST list for 2019

I failed miserably in 2018. This is a new year. I noticed I have a lot from the same author so I decided not to have more than two books from the same authors in this list.

1) Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews
2) Be Still My Vampire Heart by Kerrelyn Sparks
3) Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
4)Swimming Without a Net by MaryJanice Davidson
5)Cravings by Laurell K. Hamilton
6)Undead and Unwelcome by MaryJanice Davidson Finished 1/16/19
7)Queene of Light by Jennifer Armintrout
8)Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
9)Dark Awakenings: Penance / After the Lightning / Seeing Red / A Kiss of Frost / Ice Bound by Sharon Sala
10)Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton

What an awesome challenge. I am relatively new to GoodReads so all the books were added in February 2018 - when I entered. Anyways, most of them have been on my TBR-list for so much longer... So here it is my LOST 2019 list:

1) The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
2) To Kill a Mockingbird
✔︎ 3) I'll Give You the Sun
4) Into the Dim
✔︎ 5) Annie on My Mind
✔︎ 6) An Abundance of Katherines
7) Iphigenie auf Tauris
✔︎ 8) Animal Farm
9) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
✔︎ 10) The World Unseen

So here we go. Pretty diverse but I am looking so much forward to it!

Lena, I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird and Iphigenia in Tauris, a Tragedy, while Animal Farm is simply wonderful. So happy reading!

Lena & Joyce, you are both linked in post #2.

As a European, thank you for being inclusive with your date formats. It's not too bad when you use month names it's more confusing with numbers. I went into a challenge once thinking I had 6 months to complete it but it was actually a month!

Anyway. Here is my lost list:

1) Blackass
2) The Bullet Trick
3) Cloud Atlas
4) What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
5) A Little Life
6) The Jump
7) A Cure for Suicide
8) The Way of Kings
9) As I Lay Dying
10) Did You Ever Have a Family 03/04/19

Marina (Sonnenbarke) wrote: "Lena, I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird and Iphigenia in Tauris, a Tragedy, while Animal Farm is simply wonderful. So happy reading!"

Thank you! I am so happy to finally tackle my TBR list ;)

Jess wrote: "As a European, thank you for being inclusive with your date formats. It's not too bad when you use month names it's more confusing with numbers. I went into a challenge once thinking I had 6 months..."

Thanks for noticing, Jess. I hope I did it correctly.

I know what you mean as I am in an Australian group which uses the European dating...as well as having challenges that are seasonal to Australia (reverse seasons for me)! I am always trying to figure out the dating! BUT, I am getting better. :)

BTW your post is linked.

Michelle wrote: "Michelle D's 2019 LOST

1. Always the Sun
2. The Color of Home
3. Saving Max
4. Never Change
5. Marley and Me: Life and Love With th..."</i>

<i>Michelle wrote: "Michelle D's 2019 LOST

1. [book:Always the Sun
2. The Color of Home
3. Saving Max
4. Never Change
5. [book:Marley and Me: Life and Love With th..."

The Museum of Extraordinary Things is AMAZING.

Ok, my list.
1. Daimones
2. Becoming
3. Undersea
4. Escape from Eden
5. The Runaway Queen
6. State of Wonder
7.Slaughterhouse-Five
8. Wind Riders
9. Highland Ever After
10. The Atlantis Revelation

I'm in and here's my list...some are carrying over from last year because even though I had a good start I kind of stalled due to increased work responsibilities, which are totally interfering with my reading! LOL...looking forward to a new year!

1. Good Night, Mr. Tom - Read 2/26/2019
2. Fifth Business - Read 4/26/2019
3. Mansfield Park
4. Of Human Bondage
5. The Day of the Locust - Read 5/17/2019
6. The Dream Life of Balso Snell - Read 6/15/2019
7. At Swim-Two-Birds
8. Bleak House
9. The Idiot
10. Mrs. Dalloway

These are my oldest taking-up-room-on-my-physical-bookshelves books. This year's Lost will lead me out of the added to Goodreads in 2010s (the year I joined)! Woohoo!

✔︎ 1. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman ~ added 8/21/10 ~ ★★★★ Read: 6/12/19
✔︎ 2. Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg ~ added 8/21/10 ~ ★★★★ Read: 6/16/19
✔︎ 3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ~ added 8/25/10 ~ ★★★★ Read: 10/30/19
✔︎ 4. Edge of Sight by Roxanne St. Claire ~ added 11/3/10 ~ ★★★ Read: 8/14/19
✔︎ 5. The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross ~ added 11/22/10 ~ ★★★★ Read: 7/7/19
✔︎ ** Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank ~ added 12/3/10 ~ ★★ Read:11/4/19
✔︎ 6. Plantation by Dorothea Benton Frank ~ added 12/3/10 ~ ★★★★ Read: 11/26/19
✔︎ 7. A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King ~ added 12/3/10 ~ ★★★★ Read: 11/18/19
✔︎ 8. The Face Of Deception by Iris Johansen ~ added 12/3/10 ~ ★★★★ Read: 6/6/19
✔︎ 9. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris ~ added 1/13/11 ~ ★★★★ Read: 11/8/19
✔︎ 10. No Regrets by Shannon K. Butcher ~ added 3/6/11 ~ ★★★ Read: 5/9/19

** Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank ~ added 12/3/10 -- on my list to finish by the end of 2018 but, if not, will bump off one of the ones above

I'm actually looking forward to all the books on the list. I just completed my annual purge of the physical bookshelves so, now, I only own books I'm still excited about reading. LOL

Okay - anything to knock down my TBR...

1. Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation by Mary K. Greer - added 7/12/2015
2. Around the Tarot in 78 Days: A Personal Journey Through the Cards by Marcus Katz - added 7/12/2015
3. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann - added 12/17/2015
4. A Death in Sweden by Kevin Wignall - added 12/17/2015
5. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and Premonitions: 101 Amazing Stories of Miracles, Divine Intervention, and Insight by Amy Newmark - added 12/25/2015
6. The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy - added 12/28/2015
7. The Walking Dead, Vol. 24: Life and Death by Robert Kirkman - added 12/28/2015 read April 2019
8. Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Very Good, Very Bad Cat: 101 Heartwarming Stories about Our Happy, Heroic Hilarious Pets by Amy Newmark - added 12/29/2015
9. Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man by Jason Aaron - added 12/30/2015
10. Angel & Faith: Live Through This by Christos Gage - added 12/30/2015

This will almost get me through 2015!!

Read

1. The Kite Runner - added 21 Sep 2011
2. Americanah - added 1 June 2017
3. Frankenstein - added 1 June 2017
4. The Secret Chord - added 1 June 2017
5. Moonglow - added 1 June 2017
6. Jurassic Park - added 1 June 2017
7. In the Darkroom - added 1 June 2017
8. The Accident Season - added 1 June 2017
9. Everything Leads to You - added 1 June 2017
10. Spindle's End - added 1 June 2017

Complete: 3/10

I'm going to sign up for this again. Hopefully I'll get a few more done this year! I want to clean out the old list before I link up this one officially, though.

LOST 2019

1/10

✔︎1. Simple Church: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples - Read 3/1/19***
2. The Man in the Iron Mask (I added the series out of order so I'm swapping this for the next in the series: The Vicomte de Bragelonne) Added: Feb 2012
3. The Princes of Ireland Added Mar 2012
4. Wideacre Added Mar 2012
5. An Ideal Husband Added Mar 2012
6. The Dark Mirror Added Apr 2012
7. Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life Added Apr 2012
8. Becoming a Woman of Extraordinary Faith: What If You Gave It All to God? Added May 2012
9. Becoming a Vessel God Can Use Added May 2012
10. The Power of a Woman's Words Added May 2012

Lost 2019
Added in 2010/2011

10/10

✔︎1. Taming Mad Max (added Aug 2011) 1/25/19
✔︎2. Possessing Morgan (added Aug 2010) 1/25/19
✔︎3. Untamed Desire (added Oct 2010) 2/23/19
✔︎4. Physical Therapy (added Sep 2011) 3/1/19
✔︎5. In Service (added Dec 2011) 3/31/19
✔︎6. After the Fire (added Dec 2011) 4/12/19
✔︎7. Dark Awakening (added Jul 2011) 5/23/19
✔︎8. Sam's Promise (added Dec 2011) 6/21/19
✔︎9. Perfect Formation (added Nov 2011) 6/21/19
✔︎10. Tidal Wave (added Mar 2011) 6/21/19

Options:

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Queen of Song and Souls
Crown of Crystal Flame
Seven Nights of Sin
Sweet Magik
Mistress
Ravished
Colters' Daughter
Colters' Promise
Nauti and Wild
A Contract Bride's Triple Surprise

2019 Lost Books
1. Envy 12/16/19
2. Infamous
3. Dark Bites 10/29/19
4. Son of No One
5. Twisted
6. Night Broken
7. Rapture
8. Boundless 3/26/19
9. Sweet Peril
10. Radiant Shadows

2019 Lost Books
1. The Casual Vacancy
2. A Disobedient Girl
3. Half-Blood
4. Out
5. Water for Elephants
6. The Surrendered
7. The Hangman's Daughter
8. Of Mice and Men
9. East of Eden
10. I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia

Everyone is linked to here. Let me know if I missed you.

LOST 2019
January - December 2019

My LOST 2019 Challenge (msg 45)



🔹1 Treasure Island ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~ 05.24 ★★★
🔹2 Private Arrangements ~ Brenda Jackson ~ 07.07 ★★★
🔹3 The New Deputy in Town ~ B.J. Daniels ~ 03.12 ★★★
🔹4 Tears Of The Renegade ~ Linda Howard ~ 06.04 ★★★
🔹5 Silver-Tongued Devil ~ Jennifer Blake ~ 05.30 ★★★
🔹6 Tender Betrayal ~ Jennifer Blake ~ 08.19 ★★★
🔹7 Black Friday ~ Alex Kava ~ 01.13 ★★★
🔹8 Wanting ~ E. Ayers ~ 06.08 ★★★
🔹9 Fallen Hero ~ Lorhainne Eckhart ~ 02.05 ★★★
🔹10 A Night to Surrender ~ Tessa Dare ~ 02.09 ★★★★

Well, I was a book and a half away from finishing my goal! I'll add the two I still need to finish to my 2020 goal.

Still working on books added in 2008. I’m getting closer, though, thanks to this challenge!

1. The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle - completed June 15, 2019
2. Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card - currently reading
3. Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan - completed October 20, 2019
4. A Jockey's Life: The Biography of Lester Piggott by Dick Francis - finished December 8, 2019
5. Paper Towns by John Green - completed August 11, 2019
6. The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones - completed October 23, 2019
7. The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
8. Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn - completed September 8, 2019
9. Well Witched by Frances Hardinge - completed September 2, 2019
10. The Alley by Eleanor Estes - completed January 4, 2019

Finished: 8 of 10



I decided to clean out some of the picture books on my to-read shelf from 2008. (I was a children's librarian then.) I removed those I didn't have immediate access to, and read three of them. I changed my goal from 10 books to 13, to accommodate the extra numbers:

11. The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman - read November 6, 2019
12. Peter Spier's Rain by Peter Spier - read November 6, 2019
13. Zooflakes ABC by Will C. Howell - read November 13, 2019

Let's see how this goes.

1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
3. The Road to Serfdom
4. Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way
5. Animal Farm
6. Firefly Cloak
7. The Sweet in Between
8. Desert Solitaire
9. Blue Latitudes
10. Blue Highways

1) Gulliver's Travels January
2) Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
3) Sea Glasstook off list without reading
4) Song of Solomon took off list without reading
5) A is for Alibi February
6) Moby-Dick, or, the Whale took off list without reading
7) Jo's Boys
8) Romeo took off to read list without reading
9) A Long Fatal Love Chase took off list without reading
10) The Fountainhead
11) Hard Timestook off to read list without reading
12) The Unbearable Lightness of Being took off to read list without reading
13) The Jungletook off to read list without reading
14) For Whom the Bell Tolls took off list without reading
15) The Sun Also Rises took off list without reading
16) In the Shadow of Mantook off to read list without reading
17) War and Peace took off to read list without reading
18) A Tale of Two Citiestook off to read list without reading

Blarneygod wrote: "Here is my list for 2019. I am putting all 18 books that I have from 2007, not because I think I can read 18 books (the most I have read on this challenge is 4 and last year, I managed only 1), but..."

I loved Gulliver's Travels and liked The Unbearable Lightness of Being and War and Peace. I definitely recommend you get to all three of them. On the other hand, I couldn't finish Moby-Dick or, The Whale which was a complete bore to me, although I do plan on trying again some day, though not soon. A Long Fatal Love Chase is on my wishlist and I would be interested in your thoughts if you get to it.

Just to let you all know that the widget is set up & ready for you, if you'd like to use it. From past experiences, it's best to set up your shelf via the widget.

LOST 2019 (Widget)