You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

I was beginning to feel like I was haunted. There was knocking coming from under the table. The legs even lifted off the floor, and the cloudy crystal ball almost rolled off onto the floor. I could hear a strange yet familiar ticking sound. It sounded like the fruit machine. I dusted off my turban, grabbed the Windex bottle and gave the crystal ball a good shine. Finally, I fished out the old tip jar. Madame Tutti Fruiti has returned!

So, here is the challenge:

Select 5 books from your "to read", "to listen to", or "wishlist" shelves. Write them in a comment in this thread. Don't forget to link them!!

I will summon the fruit machine, put your choices in, whisper "presto-chango", and then tell you which book you will be reading between Oct 1 & 31, 2014.

You may chose books from the Group Read or the October Toppler, but you may not chose books from your Chunkster challenge.

If the book that is randomly selected for you is a complete dud, I can put the remaining 4 in for a reshuffle and selection.

If you want to read all 5 books, the fruit machine can determine the order in which you read them.

Are you ready to learn your future?

Fun! Here is my selection:

1. Master of Crows (fantasy)
2. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time (nonfiction)
3. The Hangman's Daughter (historical fiction)
4. The Prince of Risk (thriller)
5. The Maze Runner (post-apocalyptic YA/now a movie)

Oh Madame Tutti Fruiti, what is the reading of my future? Will it be romance or mystery? A dark stranger, revenge or tranquility?

The Cutie , Donald Westlake
The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
Quarry's List (aka The Broker's Wife), Max Allan Collins
The Bookstore, Deborah Meyler
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, Alan Bradley

Here's my five, please pick one:

1) Half Blood Blues
2) Iron Curtain : The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
3) The Half-Made World
4) The Far Side of the Sky
5) The Thousand Names

This sounds like fun.
I will read all five books. Please have the fruit machine put them in order.

4. Dominic 10/6/14 ***
2. Rogue's Honor - 10/3/14 ***
3. Lady Eugenia's Holiday - 10/6/14 **
5. A Certain Want of Reason - 10/25/14 ****
1. Lord Stannington's Secret - 10/3/14 ***

What fun! Here are my picks. Please tell me which one I will read.

1. The Secret History
2. The House of Mirth
3. The Sea, the Sea
4. The Grass is Singing
5. The Bluest Eye

Work it, Madame Tutti Fruiti!

1. On the Jellicoe Road
2. The Killer Inside Me
3. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
5. The Round House

I foresee many new additions to my tbr ;-)

Love the challenge idea!

I want to read all 5 of the following:
1. Horns
2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
3. Somewhere To Fight For
4. The Society of Imaginary Friends
5. Gates

So, please, Madame Tutti Fruiti, put them in reading order for me!

Madame Tutti Frutti, please pick one of these:

1. The Magician's Lie
2. The Orphan Sky
3. 600 Hours of Edward
4. Yellow Crocus
5. Of Things Gone Astray

Happy to see the return of Madame Tutti Frutti!

Choose well, Madame!

1. Gone Girl
2. The Master and Margarita
3. The Man in the High Castle
4. The Eyre Affair
5. The Shadow of the Wind

Here are my five for Madame Tutti Frutti!
1. Horns
2. Interview with the Vampire
3. Thirteen
4. Odd Thomas
5. Authority

Please choose one of these for me Madame Tutti Fruiti!

1) Beautiful Disaster
2) Five Quarters of the Orange
3) The Lie
4) The Rosie Project
5) The Thirteenth Tale

Yay! Welcome back Madame ;)

Please Madame, choose the reading order of these for me:
Holiday in Death
Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and Lost Children
Teräsarkku
Piippo ja verhotut totuudet
Pikajuna Mumbaihin: matka Intiaan

Sounds fun! Please pick one for me.

The Line of Beauty
The Book of Summers
The Apprentice
A Paper Life
Exes and Ohs

Nice to meet you, Madame! I'm looking forward to your selection but I would like to read ALL these books so please pick the reading order. thanks :D

Here is my list:

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Widow of the South
The Garden of Evening Mists
The Sound Of Thunder
The Outlander

1 please

Aloha from Hell
Ex-Communication
Dissolution
Reamde
The Emperor's Blades

What color turban is Madame Tutti Fruiti wearing today? And what about those dangling earrings, eh? :-) looking forward to my future...

Here are my five books:
Eleni
Memed, My Hawk
Infidel
The Bridges of Constantine
Palace Walk

I'm also going to have to randomise my books down to 5 for you to pick from. I can't make decisions like that.

Rusalka wrote: "I'm also going to have to randomise my books down to 5 for you to pick from. I can't make decisions like that."

Hahahaah!

The scene revealed in my newly cleaned crystal ball was the tax man knock, knock, banging at the door. The next scene was the client's hands wrapped around Madame TF's neck, turban sitting all askew. I shall heed that dire warning and do some real work today. Book predictions begin tonight.

Hi, all! I'm a new member here and I'm quite excited to join in this challenge! I've been having a lot of trouble deciding what to read next so I figured it was time to start reading challenges again to help narrow down decisions. Madame Tutti Fruiti is coming along at a perfect time!
Now, I just have to narrow down that TBR to only 5 books! Eek, this is going to be hard! LOL.

Here is my list.

1)Death by Diamonds
2)The Thirteenth Tale
3)Night in Shanghai
4)Us Conductors
5)Shaman

Kim wrote: "Hi, all! I'm a new member here and I'm quite excited to join in this challenge! I've been having a lot of trouble deciding what to read next so I figured it was time to start reading challenges aga..."

Welcome Kim. Good to see you jumping right in to the fray.

Be sure to keep your eyes open for news of the Week Long Team Toppler Challenge coming up in October. It's a good way to get to know everyone (or the trouble-makers at least).

Thanks for the advice, Almeta. I'll definitely do that!

Okay, I used a random number generator to pick my 5 books (although, I may have clicked a couple extra times when I didn't like the first choice lol)... here goes:

Fate
Nico
Golden's Quest
Pines
Jenny Pox

Madame Tutti Fruiti, I will be reading all of these books, so please foretell the order I should read them.

Please pick one

~ Bloodline
~ The Wind in the Willows
~ Whodunnit? Utterly Baffling Detective Stories
~ Julius
~ Cranford

Oh Wise and Wonderful Madame Tutti Fruitti, I beseech you: such decisions are not to be undertaken by mere mortals alone.

1. This House is Haunted
2. Bloodsucking Fiends
3. The Girl with All the Gifts
4. The Ghost Bride
5. Eleanor

Lara - A dark shape swirled around in my crystal ball. It was quite thrilling with historical significance. As the image came clearer, and the lines of latitude and longitude showed nothing cataclysmic. Then I realized it was all a fantasy and the image was clear. You will be reading Master of Crows.

Madame Tutti Fruitti the all-seeing, which of these books is worthiest to be read first?

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus
2. The Wolfe Widow
3. The Cat Sitter's Nine Lives
4. The Paris Wife
5. A Dangerous Talent Edited 9/25.
Originally I listed Romancing the Duke as book 5. Explanation follows:

Edited 9/25. Madame Tutti Fruitti. I was weak. I have already started reading Romancing the Duke. Please forgive me, and substitute as my new book number 5, A Dangerous Talent. Again, I apologize.

Almeta - Oh ye of fickle allegiances. I predict that poor Mr. Westlake will be lonely yet again. Let's hope he isn't violent because his rival for your affections could be found The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches.

Dawn - I see that you are tempted to do things by halves. There is more in your stars. I hope that The Thousand Names will start you on a journey that will make you whole.

Lannelle - Things are going to be hot and cold for you in October... Hot reads and cold showers! You see, Lord Stannington's Secret is that he has no Rogue's Honor. On Lady Eugenia's Holiday, he'll introduce her to Dominic and the three of them will have A Certain Want of Reason.

Hey all! I do believe I'm back (at least at minimal speed, lol). What a lovely way to jump back into things :-)

Do you're magic Madame Tutti Fruitti, please :-)

The Sea Trials of an Unfortunate Sailor
The Shadow of the Wind
Sharp Objects
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Tejas Jane - At first I thought your titles had broken my crystal ball. It seemed to give up secrets, laughter, and singing. It turned the strangest blue. But then I heard the echo, and I knew you'd be at The Sea, the Sea.

Please pick one for me Madame Tutti Fruiti.

The Martian
The Thirteenth Tale
Dragonfly in Amber
A Thousand Days in Venice
Blood Red Horse

Liz - I could see a journey at every turn of my crystal ball. I turned and turned and the journey seemed to be without end. I was so dizzy I started to see stars and then it hit me. Your journey is an explosion of stars, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

Elsbeth - It's a frightful omen! I'm worried for you and really hope that you have Somewhere To Fight For The Society of Imaginary Friends at Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!! There are Horns at the Gates. Very ominous indeed!

Peggy - Lies, skies, and 600 hours with Edward are all things that can lead you astray. I can see into your future and recommend that you take a walk through the prairie fields and pick a Yellow Crocus or two. Heck, pick a posy!

Lucy - the fruit machine was ready with a pick, when a commercial came on the tv. I cannot ignore the significance since there are no coincidences! I must warn you though. Pick your way carefully through the mine field that is Gone Girl.

Sarah - I see dead people in my crystal ball as well as ghouls and goblins. I didn't think it odd at this time of year. But what was odd, was that a name came to mind. It was non other than Odd Thomas.

Lisa - Have you been getting the hiccups a lot lately? There are some old wives tales about the phenomenon. What my mother says causes them, my mother-in-law says cures them. Seriously!! I cannot tell The Lie. Read this, and hiccup no more.

Camilla - There is always a skeptic in the group, and I know you are testing me. But let me amaze you and the Children of the Night. Some of them you will find in a steel coffin Teräsarkku. It could be a Holiday in Death if you aren't careful. Jump on the express train Pikajuna Mumbaihin: matka Intiaan where you will find veiled truths Piippo ja verhotut totuudet.

Karin - There was a children's game called Rock, Paper, Scissors. Keep your scissors handy because they cut A Paper Life.

Madame Tutti Fruiti must take a break. She'll be back tomorrow once she's refreshed after imbibing some spirits.

^^^Hehehe. love it!

Madame Tutti Fruiti,
I would like to read the following five books.
Please determine my book to read

1.Animal Magnetism
2.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
3.A Reason to Live
4.The Hawk
5.Heroes Are My Weakness

Madam Tutti Fruiti, I seek your wisdom. Please tell me which of these I should read for this challenge.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Murder of a Sleeping Beauty
Reap What You Sew
The Winding Ways Quilt
Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Madame Tutti Fruiti, will you help me choose a book to fit between my Chunksters in October?

Far from the Madding Crowd
The Vampire Lestat
Wuthering Heights
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Age of Innocence

This is hilarious! Loving your wisdoms Madame Tutti Fruitti! And thank you for my book choice!