Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This game runs from January 1- December 31, 2020.

The object is to make a list of 10 books that have been on your TBR list the longest and get them finally read.

You are allowed to DNF any book that you list after giving it a try.

This game is part 1 of 3. The other parts will be announced when people start finishing their LOST list as they are based on the date LOST was finished. However, you are not required to participate in parts 2&3, which are just incentives for not letting the LOST books linger.

Good reading, everyone.

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Abbie DiscoSuperFly

Anna

Ashley

Bea COMPLETED

Blarneygod

Carrie

Celest

Charlene

Charity

Christina

Christina N

Coralie COMPLETED

Dee COMPLETED

Dree

Ebony

Ines COMPLETED

Jammin Jenny

Jen

Jennifer

Joanna

Joyce

Judy

Katherine

Kristina Simon COMPLETED

Krysta

Lacy

Lagullande

Lahni

LASD

LaurLa COMPLETED

Lena

Luann COMPLETED


Lusie COMPLETED

Lyn (Readinghearts)

LynnB COMPLETED

Marina

Mary COMPLETED 10

Meg COMPLETED

Mell

Michelle COMPLETED

Nat

Pat

Pure

Rona

Rosemary COMPLETED

Sassafrass COMPLETED

Stacey

Susan COMPLETED

Susan S

Susan (susayq ~)

Tehreem

Tien COMPLETED

Bea's Lost List 2020
All are from my 2011 Wishlist (TBR not owned).

√1. Harvest - 4*
√2. The Oracle of Stamboul - 3*
√3. So Much Pretty - 3*
√4. The Priest's Graveyard - 4*
√5. The Alienist - 4*
√6. In the Shadow of the Lamp - 4*
√7. The Returning - 4*
√8. The Bone Garden - 4*
√9. Riding Lessons - 4*
√10. The Deepest Water - 4*

I'm in!!! I've got see what is still available on kindle because so many things have gone out of print.


LOST 2020
All books from 2011 and 1 from 2010

10/10: Completed 5/22/20

✔︎1. Deep in the Woods 2/14/20
✔︎2. A Question of Trust 4/3/20
✔︎3. Defying Pack Law 5/22/20
✔︎4. Menage on a Train 5/22/20
✔︎5. Call Me Sir 2/8/20
✔︎6. Deliberate Deceptions 2/10/20
✔︎7. Black Gold 4/4/20
✔︎8. Bloodlust 4/10/20
✔︎9. Sonny's Salvation 5/20/20
✔︎10. Once and Again 2/9/20



Queen of Song and Souls
Inside Out
A Visit from the Goon Squad

Lagullande's LOST 2020
Read: 5/10

Yikes, my books have an average of 490 pages each!!

1. The Count of Monte Cristo
✔️2. The Children Act 5/4/20
3. Moloka'i
✔️4. The Enchanted 12/2/20
✔️5. In Sunlight and in Shadow 23/5/21
6. An Unnecessary Woman
✔️7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 28/1/20
✔️8. Arrow of God 28/2/20
9. The Bone Clocks
10. Ice Road

Star Trekker wrote: "All books in a series I need to finally catch up on."

No problem, Star Trekker. However, we do have a SERIES thread (Seriously Serial '20) for focusing just on series.

Lusie's Lost 2020

Read 10/10

1. The Witching Elm [6-feb-20] ★★
2. We Were Liars [19-mar-2020] ★★★
3. River God [2-mar-20] DNF
4. The Innocent Mage [3-mar-20] ★★
5. Prince of Fools [20-mar-20] DNF
6. Daughter of the Blood [2-apr-2020] DNF
7. His Majesty's Dragon [30-mar-20] ★★★
8. Brightly Woven [10-mar-20] ★★
9. Season of the Dragonflies [25-jan-20] ★★★★
10. The Last Timekeepers and the Arch of Atlantis [11-apr-20] ★★★

LOST 2020

✔1. America's First Daughter (F) 26 Apr 2020
✔2. Children of the Flames (NF) - DNF, too grim
✔3. Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner (F) 23 May 2020
✔4. Dead Man's Walk (F), 19 Sept 2020
✔5. The Dead and Those About to Die (NF), DNF, just could not focus on it, maybe read after Covid-19!
✔6. Everybody's Fool (F), 22 Jun 2020
✔7. The Forgetting (F), 3 Mar 2020
✔8. Great Short Stories by American Women (F), 14 Feb 2020
✔9. The Railway Man (F), 3 Oct 2020
✔10.What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters (NF), 2 Sept 2020



Attempted, but did not finish (think this Covid-19 year was not a good year for these!)

Rosemary's Lost 2020
Read 10/10

✓ 1. New Boy by William Sutcliffe - 10 June 20
✓ 2. Clay by David Almond - 8 June 20
✓ 3. Nobody's Fault by Terry Tyler - 24 Feb 20
✓ 4. Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe - 5 May 20
✓ 5. Truth or Dare by Celia Rees - 9 March 20
✓ 6. Change of Life by Anne Stormont - 4 Sept 2020
✓ 7. Pompomberry House by Rosen Trevithick - 6 Apr 20
✓ 8. The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones - 8 July 20
✓ 9. Waiting by Ha Jin - 9 May 20
✓ 10. Thursdays in the Park by Hilary Boyd 21 Aug 20

All added between April and December 2012. And it seems like yesterday!!

Lost 2020
Finished: 8/10 books

1. Eve - 6/26/2020
2. Incarnate - 6/30/2020
3. Renegade - 10/24/2020
4. Red Queen - 8/15/2020
5. The Red Pyramid
6. Starcrossed - 5/16/2020
7. Seraphina - 8/2/2020
8. Halo - 9/11/2020
9. Angelfall - 3/29/2020
10. Dragon Bound - DNF

Potential Replacements
11. The Queen of the Tearling
12. The City of Ember - 3/28/2020
13. The Angel Experiment
14. Unearthly
15. Storm Siren

Lagullande wrote: "Lagullande's LOST 2020

Yikes, my books have an average of 490 pages each!!"

Not to worry, Lagullande, our 2020 challenge may be able to help you out there... ;)

LOST 2020
10/10 books as at 07/08

Still working on the last few days of October 2010 where I added all Aussie authors I could find and all the books they've published without even reading the descriptions... and some of them are missing descriptions because they're just that old :/

1. Checkers by John Marsden -Read 05/19
2. Reaching Tin River by Thea Astley -Read 05/30
3. Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White -Read 06/01
4. The Children's Bach by Helen Garner -Read 06/01
5. The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree #1) by Bryce Courtenay -Read 06/11
6. The Pea Pickers by Eve Langley -Read 06/17
7. Prelude to Christopher by Eleanor Dark -Read 06/25
8. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz -Read 06/29
9. The Tree of Man by Patrick White -Read 07/07
10. And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave -Read 07/08

LOST 2020

Since the oldest day on my TBR now has only a few books I am listing everything on my TBR from the second day too.

LOST Books read: 14/10

Day 1: 4 April 2016

✔️ 1. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
2. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
✔️ 3. The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
✔️ 4. The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
5. Ginny Gall by Charlie Smith

Day 2: 7 April 2016

1. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
✔️ 2. Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories by Shelby Foote
✔️ 3. The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
4. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
✔️ 5. Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright

✔️ 6. Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 by Lady Diana Cooper
✔️7. Change Your Clothes, Change Your Life: Because You Can't Go Naked by George Brescia
IR8. Conversations with Beethoven by Sanford Friedman
9. The Beekeeper's Daughter by Santa Montefiore
✔️ 10. Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura
I 11. Boo by Neil Smith

Series Sano Ichiro. Laura Joh Rowland
✔️ 12. Shinju
✔️ 13. Bundori
14. The Way of the Traitor
15. The Concubine's Tattoo
16. The Samurai's Wife
17. Black Lotus
18. The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria
19. The Perfumed Sleeve
20. The Assassin's Touch
21. Red Chrysanthemum
22. The Snow Empress
23. The Fire Kimono
24. The Cloud Pavilion
25. The Ronin's Mistress
26. The Incense Game
27. The Shogun's Daughter
28. The Iris Fan
29. The Dragon King's Palace

Series. Highway Quartet. C.J. Box
✔️ 30. The Highway
31. Badlands

Series. Linda Wallheim. Mette Ivie Harrison
✔️ 32. The Bishop’s Wife
✔️ 33. His Right Hand

Series. Blood on Snow. Jo Nesboe
34. Blood on Snow
35. Midnight Sun

Lost 2020
1. The Black Company This will be my second attempt at this book.
2. Osama
3. The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth
4. The Rediscovery of Man
5. The Time Ships
6. The Feast of the Goat
7. This Is Shyness
8. This Burns My Heart
9. The Risen Empire
10. Sixty Days and Counting

Tien wrote: "Not to worry, Lagullande, our 2020 challenge may be able to help you out there... ;)"

Now I'm curious!

LOST 2020

9/10

1. The Play of Everyman: Based on the Old English Morality Play - 28/09/2020
2. The Wisdom of Life - 17/05/2020
3. Spade come labbra - 24/02/2020
4. Gargoyles - 27/09/2020
5. Corporale - DNF
6. The Decameron - DNF
7. Manual of Painting and Calligraphy - 13/06/2020
8. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
9. Esilio - read 17/08/2021
10. The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces - DNF

As usual, I've used my owned TBR. There's one book I'm not able to locate right now - I'll replace it with the next in line if I don't happen to find it.

Some seriously difficult reads here...

Everyone is linked to here in post #2.

@Lagullande: Moloka'i is on my TBR also.

Bea wrote: "Everyone is linked to here in post #2."

Bea, you missed me, but maybe we cross-posted :)

Marina (Sonnenbarke) wrote: "Bea wrote: "Everyone is linked to here in post #2."

Bea, you missed me, but maybe we cross-posted :)"

Yes, I was reviewing everyone's list and rearranging the names alphabetically...probably at the same time you were posting.

You are all set now Marina.

Thanks Bea :)

Lusie wrote: "Tien wrote: "Not to worry, Lagullande, our 2020 challenge may be able to help you out there... ;)"

Now I'm curious!"

And I'm excited!!!

I'm in!! Will update with my picks once I'm not at work (hee hee!).

Progress: 10/10 (100%) COMPLETED 7/10/20!!!!

I'm going to create some of my own rules here, due to the books that are in these slots on my list. I'm going to bypass anything that is part of a series in which I have not read (or in one case, want to reread) the previous books. I will replace a book in the series with the initial or earlier book in that series that I have yet to read. In addition, the first book on my TBR at this moment I have been unable to locate, so I will bypass that one as well. Any books that I am unable to locate will be removed and replaced with the next book on the list. Finally, I will consider the challenge complete with these 10 books, but would like to challenge myself to a "bonus round" by selecting the first 3 books from each year on my TBR.

✿1. The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman
✿2. The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike (DNF)
✿3. Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint (Replaces The Onion Girl)
4. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (Reread prior to the next in series)
5. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
6. Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
7. Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott
✿8. Me & Emma - Elizabeth Flock
✿9. An Embarrassment of Mangoes - Ann Vanderhoof
10. Without Reservations - Alice Steinbach

Bonus Picks:
2016
The Immune System Recovery Plan - Susan Blum
Ashes to Ashes - Tami Hoag (replaces The Bitter Season)
✿Purity - Jonathan Franzen

2017
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
✿You - Caroline Kepnes
This Modern Love - Will Darbyshire

2018
If Wishes Were Horses - Susanna Forrest
The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
Triptych - Karin Slaughter (replaces The Kept Woman)

2019
✿My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki
✿The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
✿The Lost Man - Jane Harper

Yay. So cool! LOST 2019 was such a bless and a few book-treasures were found. Looking so much forward to this new challenge!
My books for LOST 2020 will be:

1. Into the Water
2. They Both Die at the End
3. The Snow Child
4. Brick Lane
5. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
6. Divergent
7. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
8. Eat, Pray, Love
9. Everything I Never Told You
10. Anna Karenina

All books were added around Feb. 2018 right after I signed up for GoodReads (one of the best things I ever did :P )

Michelle, I like your enthusiasm with the bonus picks. However, I would like to remind you that LOST has 3 games. The other two are dependent on your finish date - usually 10 books.

Bea wrote: "Michelle, I like your enthusiasm with the bonus picks. However, I would like to remind you that LOST has 3 games. The other two are dependent on your finish date - usually 10 books."

Yes, I saw that there were 2 additional games! I can't wait to read *all the books*!!!! =)

Lost 2020
Progress: 4/10

1. A Death in Sweden added 12/17/15
2. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and Premonitions: 101 Amazing Stories of Miracles, Divine Intervention, and Insight added 12/25/15
3. The Soldier's Wife added 12/28/15
✔️4. Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Very Good, Very Bad Cat: 101 Heartwarming Stories about Our Happy, Heroic Hilarious Pets added 12/29/15, read 4/29/20
✔️5. Angel & Faith: Live Through This added 12/30/15, Read 1/29/20
✔️6. Holy Cow added 12/30/15, read 2/22/20
7. Under the Dome added 1/4/16
8. Shapes the Sunlight Takes added 1/6/16
✔️9. The Altar Girl added 1/6/16, read 4/17/20
10. Unbound added 1/7/16

Edited list - turns out I don't have the Graphic Novel Southern Bastards, and removed a couple of books from my Want to Read, so I re-ordered the remaining books and added the next book in line.

LOST 2020

Jan 1 - December 31, 2020

✔1 The Diamond Age, added 1/7/12 fin 9/21
✔2 Gun Games, added 2/9/12 - fin 4/4
✔3 For the Win, added 2/14/12 - fin 6/24
✔4 Ruins, added 2/21/12 - fin 10/16
✔5 The White Mountains, added 2/24/12 - fin 2/20
✔6 Between Mom and Jo, added 2/25/12 - fin 1/22
✔7 Lost Boys, added 6/9/12 - fin 12/6
✔8 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, added 6/22/12 - fin 9/23
✔9 Midnight Riot, added 9/18/12 - fin 11/27
✔10 Every You, Every Me, added 9/20/12 - fin 6/17

COMPLETED 12/6

DNF
Red Azalea, added 2/13/11 - DNF 1/5/20
NO LONGER AVAILABLE:
Necropolis
The Speed of Dark
The Bar Code Tattoo

I'm in.

1.The Guilty
2. Reclaim Your Brain: How to Calm Your Thoughts, Heal Your Mind, and Bring Your Life Back Under Control
3. The Restorer
4. Beside Myself
5. River Road
6. Rework
7. Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire
8. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
9.Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently
10. Postmortem

I think I have everyone linked to here. If I have missed you, please let me know.

I would like to try for 2020!
2/10

1. Never Let Me Go 9/20/20
2. GraceLand
3. Winter's Bone 6/25/20
4. Last Exit to Brooklyn
5. Swimming Home
6. John Dies at the End
7. Orange Is the New Black -
8. The Stories of John Cheever
9. And the Mountains Echoed
10.The Thirteenth Tale

Charlene wrote: "I would like to try for 2020!"

You are linked up in post #2.

Lost for 2020 coming up!


✔️ 1. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak - DNF pg. 30
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
✔️ 3 Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke - ★★1/2
✔️ 4 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - DNF pg. 59
✔️ 5 Empire Falls - Richard Russo - ★★★★1/2
6. Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby jnr
✔️ 7 Columbine - Dave Cullen★★★★
✔️ 8. All the President's Men - Carl Bernstein - DNF pg. 38
9. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
10. The Kite Runner - Khaled Housseini

Wow, some heavy readings there, Dree...

Tien wrote: "Wow, some heavy readings there, Dree..."

I know Tien!! - I have literally just added the first 10 listings from my TBR pile - all added in a 6 month period between 2011 - 2012. I must have been on a classic novel bender! - Can't honestly see me getting through half of these - but they're driving me nuts they're even there :D

Dree, you are linked.

I'm going to try this!

LOST 2020

Jan 1 - December 31, 2020

1. The Thief-Taker by T.F. Banks
2.Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
3.Phoenix Rising by Pip Ballantine
4.The Native Star by M.K. Hobson
5.The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
6.The Greyfriar by Clay Griffith
7.Sins of the Heart by Eve Silver
8.I Burn for You by Susan Sizemore
9.Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer July 12
10.The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke

Will add my books before the challenge starts just in case I read some before hand, if that's okay?

@ Kate: you can change selections at any time, as long as you are using the oldest ones on your To Be Read list rather than newer books. Those will come into play when the next LOST part opens.

@ Carrie: Yes, you can add your books whenever you start the challenge.

Thank you Bea. :)

LOST 2020:

2/10 completed

added to Goodreads TBR January-May 2009

1. Left-handed History Of The World
2. The Given Day
3. The Winter Vault
4. A Person of Interest (1/28)
5. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (1/14)
6. The Blind Assassin
7. Oryx and Crake
8. Cat's Eye
9. Alias Grace
10. The Robber Bride

MY LOST 2020 CHALLENGE
Added to goodreads the day I joined in 2012 (completely by coincidence today Dec 13 is my 7th anniversary!)

1. Bluebeard's Egg FINISHED 18/2/20
2. Persuasion FINISHED 20/3/20
3. Kushiel's Scion FINISHED 14/1/20
4. David Copperfield FINISHED 7/3/20
5. Gillespie and I FINISHED 30/3/20
6. Holy Fools FINISHED 20/4/20
7. Earthly Joys FINISHED 1/4/20
8. Kushiel's Justice FINISHED 11/5/20
9. Murder Most Royal FINISHED 18/5/20
10. Sula FINISHED 23/1/20

Happy Anniversary, Meg!

I loved both Persuasion & David Copperfield ;)

Is it bad that I just went to the beginning of my TBR and deleted 10 books because I really didn't want to read them?? Here are the 10 that survived (minus one that is deep into a series I haven't started yet...) All from 2011

1. Untamed
2. Breaking Point -- 7/18/20
3. Savor the Danger -- 1/5/20
4. Chain Reaction
5. The Black Prism
6. Zone One -- DNF
7. Lethal -- 4/4/20
8. By Possession
9. The Name of the Wind DNF (When will I learn....)
10. Deadly Fear 2/28/20

Not at all, Stacey!

Sometimes, it feels so cleansing to be able to do that. I am very much a hoarder though and I hate knowing that one day, I may see it and re-add the book so I'd actually create a separate shelf and just move books I'm no longer interested in over :p

I can move them back if one day I feel so compelled ;)

All are linked.

Read: 10/10

Books on my shelf since at least 2007:

🗸1. Under the Net - 3/12/20
🗸2. Intrusions - 2/2/20
🗸3. Two Girls, Fat and Thin - 10/28/20
🗸4. Jesus Land: A Memoir - 12/7/20
🗸5. Apex Hides the Hurt - 4/22/20
🗸6. Peace Like a River - 7/15/20
🗸7. Moon Tiger - 1/16/20
8. Mirror Mirror -- book was water damaged...
🗸8. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller - 5/7/20
🗸9. Perfect Circle - 7/26/20
🗸10. The Abstinence Teacher - 7/19/20

Bea wrote: "Charlene wrote: "I would like to try for 2020!"

You are linked up in post #2."

Thanks!!!

Added my books, still may edit.

Carrie wrote: "Added my books, still may edit."

Editing is fine, Carrie. Thanks for letting me know.

I'm going to join in and use the books that have been on my Kindle for the longest.

Lost 2020
1/10 Kindle Books

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Completed 17/10/2020
2. Men I've Loved Before
3. Started Early, Took My Dog
4. Sleepyhead
5. Postmortem
6. Scaredy Cat
7. Comfort & Joy
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
9. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
10. The Girl Who Played with Fire

Lost 2020 ...

1. A Burnable Book
2. Beautiful Ruins
3. In the Shadow of the Banyan
4. The Orphan Master's Son
5. Defending Jacob
6. The Beautiful Mystery
7. The Secret Keeper
8. The Shoemaker's Wife
9. The Chaperone
10. The Flight of Gemma Hardy