2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

BOOK RECYCLING
Duration: July 1 - September, 30, 2021

Let's recycle some books! For this challenge you may read anything you want, and we have only one rule: the books should be 'recycled'.

This means that you can borrow them from a library or friend/relative, get them from a second hand store, or pass your copy to someone else. You can choose to read physical copies, but e-books and audiobooks also count for this challenge!

This challenge was inspired by Zeejane and D.L. Our challenge leader is Navya.

Hey everyone! Let's start our recycling journey😊

To post your progress, comment with your sign-up message number and your current progress, using the format below:
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Update to msg 12: 3/5


♻️Collecting and Sorting
Amy - Msg 09 : 0/15
Cindy III : 0/15
Crystal : 0/15
Dee : 0/5
Jennifer : 0/12
June : 0/12
Lisa : 0/10
Liz : 0/23?
Michelle : 0/10
QueenAmidala28 : 0/5
Sheila : 0/10
Stephanie : 0/10
Veronica : 0/5

♻️Processing
Agnieszka : 13/15
Amy - Msg 50 : 11/25
Anissa : 1/4
Audrey : 3/10
aya : 14/15
Gretchen : 10/20
Irphen : 7/9
Karin : 43/51
katarina : 6/10
Pamela : 7/10
Ravenclaw Library Books : 90/120
Regina : 10/15
Sofia : 2/20

♻️Successfully Recycled
Alyana : 39/30
Bailey : 6/5
Bobbi : 20/20
Carmen : 88/50
Claire : 10/10
D.L. : 11/10
Fran : 65/62
Janine : 15/15
Lynn : 32/32
Megan : 22/10
Megan BG : 10/10
Mikaela : 8/8
Rachael : 10/10
Rachel : 10/10
Sara : 20/20
Sarah : 29/29
Shari : 40/40
Soelo : 25/25
Sumi : 7/5
Sunny : 28/5
TerryJane : 61/60
The Book Girl : 15/10
Theresa : 9/9

Book Recycling Final Progress

Total Sign Ups: 49
Challenge Started/Total Sign Ups: 36/49 (73.47%)
Challenge Completed/Challenge Started: 23/36 (63.89%)

Books Read/Books Pledged: 797/956 (83.37%)

Challenge concluded! Thank you for joining 😀

I’m in for 10 books!

1. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams - completed July 2021
2. Carpentaria by Alexis Wright - completed July 2021
3. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - completed July 2021
4. The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela - completed July 2022
5. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder - completed July 2021
6. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides - completed July 2021
7. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab - completed July 2021
8. Witchshadow by Susan Dennard - completed July 2021
9. While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory - completed July 2021
10. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller - completed July 2021
11. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo - completed August 2021
12. One Two Three by Laurie Frankel - completed August 2021
13. A Burning by Megha Majumdar - completed August 2021
14. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova - completed August 2021
15. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse - completed August 2021
16. The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould - completed August 2021
17. Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite edited by Zoraida Cordova and Natalie C. Parker - completed September 2021
18. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - completed September 2021
19. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo - completed September 2021
20. What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo - completed September 2021
21. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead - completed September 2021
22. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty - completed September 2021

22/10 - challenge completed!

I'm in for 15 books! Updating to 40 books!

COMPLETED!! 9-23-21

40/40 Updated to 40 books on 8-27-21
15/15 Challenge completed 8-10-21


♻️ 1. 500 Miles from You borrowed from library and returned.
♻️ 2. The Secrets of Love Story Bridge borrowed from library and returned.
♻️ 3. New Boy borrowed from library and returned.
♻️ 4. Miss Benson's Beetle borrowed from library and returned.
♻️ 5. The Woman with the Blue Starborrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 6. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 7. A Children's Bible borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 8. Bookshop by the Sea borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 9. Best Beach Ever, read and placed into a little library
♻️ 10. Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 11. The Confession Club borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 12. Fairytale borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 13. To Love Again will be donating to my church library
♻️ 14. The Bungalow borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 15. The Sins of the Mother borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 16. Juror #3 giving to my MIL
♻️ 17. Tuck Everlasting borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 18. To The Moon and Back borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 19. To Love Again will be donating to my church library
♻️ 20. Cherry Cheesecake Murder giving to a little library
♻️ 21. The Sins of the Mother borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 22. Wyoming Mountain Escape donating to my church library
♻️ 23. A Good Woman borrowed from my library and returned
♻️ 24. Love Lives Here: Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want borrowed from my church libraryand returned
♻️ 25. The Dictionary of Lost Words borrowed from my library and returned
♻️ 26. Paint and Nectar borrowed from my library and returned
♻️ 27. The Personal Librarian borrowed from my library and returned
♻️ 28. Cottage by the Sea borrowed from my library and returned
♻️ 29. Window on the Bay borrowed from my library and returned
♻️ 30. Plain Jeopardy will be donating to my church library
♻️ 31. The Cowboy's Family Plan will be donating to my church library
♻️ 32. A Man for Honor will be donating to my church library
♻️ 33. Neighbors borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 34. Lilac Girls given to me by a friend and donated to little library
♻️ 35. Beauchamp Hall borrowed from the library and returned
♻️ 36. The Color of Light borrowed from library and returned
♻️ 37. Behind Closed Doors borrowed from library and returned
♻️ 38. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill borrowed from library and returned
♻️ 39. The Winter Room bought at a library book sale and donating to little library
♻️ 40. Elijah and the Widow giving to my church library

2021 Quarterly Challenges > Q3 - Book Recycling
Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2021
Progress: 39/30

✔1. Behind Her Eyes - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/02/21
✔2. One of Us Is Lying - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/07/21
✔3. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/08/21
✔4. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/09/21
✔5. The Color Purple - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/12/21
✔6. The Upside of Unrequited - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/12/21
✔7. The Maidens - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/16/21
✔8. The Eighth Sister - (Kindle Unlimited loaned and returned) - read on 07/16/21
✔9. Arsenic and Adobo - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/20/21
✔10. The Soulmate Equation - Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/24/21
✔11. The Names of the Dead - (Kindle Unlimited loaned and returned) - read on 07/25/21
✔12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/27/21
✔13. The Queen's Gambit - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/29/21
✔14. More Happy Than Not - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 07/30/21

✔15. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 08/07/21
✔16. The Lovely Bones - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 08/13/21
✔17. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 08/16/21
✔18. Game of Thrones - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 08/18/21
✔19. To All the Boys I've Loved Before - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 08/18/21
✔20. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 08/20/21
✔21. The Rescue - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 08/21/21
✔22. Good Girl, Bad Blood - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 08/24/21
✔23. The Last Agent - (Kindle Unlimited loaned and returned) - read on 08/28/21
✔24. The Good Lie - (Kindle Unlimited loaned and returned) - read on 08/29/21

✔25. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - (69 minutes) - read on 09/01/21
✔26. A Crooked Kind of Perfect - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 09/02/21
✔27. The Other Emily - (Kindle Unlimited loaned and returned) - read on 09/02/21
✔28. Regretting You - (Kindle Unlimited loaned and returned) - read on 09/05/21
✔29. 24 Hours - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 09/05/21
✔30. Ask Again, Yes - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 09/09/21
✔31. The Girl on the Train - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 09/10/21
✔32. Have You Seen Luis Velez? - (Kindle Unlimited loaned and returned) - read on 09/14/21
✔33. When We Believed in Mermaids - (Kindle Unlimited loaned and returned) - read on 09/15/21
✔34. The Sun Down Motel - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 09/17/21
✔35. One with You - (Scribd loaned and returned) - read on 09/22/21
✔36. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 09/24/21
✔37. Worst Idea Ever - (Library loaned and returned) - read on 09/26/21
✔38. I'll Give You the Sun - (Scribd loaned and returned) - read on 09/28/21
✔39. Ugly Love - (Scribd loaned and returned) - read on 09/29/21

Welcome to the challenge, Megan, Shari and Alyana :) Looking forward to seeing what everyone will be reading!

My goal is 9 books. Progress: 9/9

LIBRARY BOOKS:
✔The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride (07/25/2021)
✔Joint Custody (07/19/2021)
✔Hollow Kingdom (07/12/2021)
✔The Chef (08/05/2021)
✔The Bear (08/18/2021)
✔Dream Big, Stella! (08/26/2021)
✔I Know an Old Lady (08/30/2021)
✔Memory Man (09/11/2021)

BORROWED FROM LIBBY/OVERDRIVE
✔The Music of Bees (08/10/2021)

BOOK RECYCLING
Duration: July 1 - September, 30, 2021

Let's recycle some books! For this challenge you may read anything you want, and we have only one rule: the books should be 'recycled'.

This means that you can borrow them from a library or friend/relative, get them from a second hand store, or pass your copy to someone else. You can choose to read physical copies, but e-books and audiobooks also count for this challenge!

My goal is 15 books!
15/15 as of August 10!
25/25 as of September 5!
Goal raised to 30 as of September 12!
30/30 as of September 18!
New goal of 32
32/32 as of September 19! DONE!

🎆1. Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly
Passed along to a friend who will pass it along to another friend!
July 3 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆2. Ender in Exile (Ender's Saga #1.2) by Orson Scott Card
Purchased used!
July 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆3. Moon Pie by Simon Mason
Passing along to my grandchildren!
July 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆4. The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #16) by Alexander McCall Smith
Purchased used
July 10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆5. Origin (Robert Langdon #5) by Dan Brown
Purchased used
July 11 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆6. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Purchased new and will pass along to a friend.
July 17 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆7. Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga #2) by Orson Scott Card
Purchased used.
July 19 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆8. Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross #2) by James Patterson
Purchased used.
July 24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆9. The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax #3) by Dorothy Gilman
Purchased used.
July 25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆10. Good Wives (Little Women #1, part 2) by Louisa May Alcott
Purchased used.
August 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆11. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax #1) by Dorothy Gilman
Purchased used.
August 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆12. Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #17) by Alexander McCall Smith
Purchased used.
August 7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆13. The Alcatraz Rose (English Garden Mystery #6) by Anthony Eglin
Purchased used.
August 8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆14. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) by Jane Harper
Purchased used.
August 9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆15. The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
Purchased used.
August 10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆16. Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
Purchased used.
August 12 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆17. Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Passed along to a friend/fellow reader.
August 14 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆18. A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology edited by Dhonielle Clayton
Passed along to a friend/fellow reader.
August 18 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆19. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Sold to a used bookstore.
August 22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆20. Fat Like The Sun by Anna Świrszczyńska, translated by Grazyna Baran and Margaret Marshment
Passed along to a friend.
August 18 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆21. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Sold to a used bookstore.
August 24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆22. Xenocide (Ender's Saga #3) by Orson Scott Card
Purchased a used copy.
August 24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆23. Our Harlem: Seven Days of Cooking, Music and Soul at the Red Rooster by Marcus Samuelsson
Rented from Audible.
September 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆24. Jack & Jill (Alex Cross #3) by James Patterson
Purchased used.
September 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆25. Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
Purchased used.
September 9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆26. Love Story (Love Story #1) by Erich Segal
Purchased used.
September 11 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆27. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Purchased used.
September 12 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆28. Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela
Passing along to another reader.
September 12 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆29. Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace
Purchased used.
September 13 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆30. The Lady Matador's Hotel by Cristina García
Purchased used.
September 18 ⭐⭐

🎆31. Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Purchased used.
September 19 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆32. P.S. Be Eleven (Gaither Sisters #2) by Rita Williams-Garcia
Purchased used.
September 19 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎆32. A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic #2) by V.E. Schwab
Purchased used.
September 19 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Clear My Couch
July 1 - September, 30, 2021

Yes! Ever since I saw this challenge topic I have been standing outside it going "Open. Open. Open." I read a lot of library books just in general, but I've kind of been stalled on a big stack of them. And I buy books from Abebooks all the time and then I don't get them read. My goal is to read the ten library books I currently have sitting next to my couch and let's say five of the used books I've bought that are also sitting next to my couch. This will be the 'clear my couch' challenge!

Library Books Read and Returned
✔︎If They Come for Us ★★★★★

Bought Secondhand; Finally Read It

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BOOK RECYCLING - Q3 Quarterly Challenge
Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2021
Progress: 56/60



Let's recycle some books! For this challenge you may read anything you want, and we have only one rule: the books should be 'recycled'. This means that you can borrow them from a library or friend/relative, get them from a second hand store, or pass your copy to someone else.

AUDIOBOOKS BORROWED FROM THE LIBRARY
♻️ 1. Leave the World Behind
♻️ 2. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
♻️ 3. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
♻️ 4. The Book of Two Ways
♻️ 5. Mister Pip
♻️ 6. The Apple Orchard
♻️ 7. The Beekeeper's Ball
♻️ 8. The Lost and Found Bookshop
♻️ 9. A Piece of the World
♻️ 10. Perfect Tunes
♻️ 11. Murder Wears a Little Black Dress
♻️ 12. Daughter of the Pirate King
♻️ 13. Darned if You Do
♻️ 14. Knit Your Own Murder
♻️ 15. The Story of Arthur Truluv
♻️ 16. Moonflower Murders
♻️ 17. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
♻️ 18. The Book of Old Houses
♻️ 19. A Face at the Window
♻️ 20. Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files
♻️ 21. Crawlspace
♻️ 22. Knockdown
♻️ 23. Dead Level
♻️ 24. A Bat in the Belfry
♻️ 25. When Breath Becomes Air
♻️ 26. New York 2140
♻️ 27. Transcendent Kingdom
♻️ 28. Migrations
♻️ 29. What You Wish For
♻️ 30. The Daring Ladies of Lowell
♻️ 31. Tart of Darkness
♻️ 32. My Life with the Chimpanzees
♻️ 33. Tuck Everlasting
♻️ 34. Death on the Nile
♻️ 35. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
♻️ 36. Strangers on a Train
♻️ 37. A Walk to Remember
♻️ 38. The Pursuit of Happyness
♻️ 39. Midnight Crossroad
♻️ 40. Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
♻️ 41. Seven Days in June
♻️ 42. The People We Hate at the Wedding
♻️ 43. The Forgetting Time
♻️ 44. The Summer Seekers
♻️ 45. Sad Cypress
♻️ 46. The Winter Sister
♻️ 47. A Spark of Light
♻️ 48. Imaginary Friend
♻️ 49. Dreams of Falling
♻️ 50. Malibu Rising
♻️ 51. All Woman and Springtime
♻️ 52. Salvage the Bones

EBOOKS
♻️ 1. Riden's Chapter (read on author's website)

PASSED ALONG TO BOOK CLUB FRIENDS
♻️ 1. The Little Paris Bookshop
♻️ 2. I See You
♻️ 3. The Book of Lost Friends

I'll join for 20! I read a solid number of used books and library books regularly, so I may go over that 20 books. But we'll see.

Progress:

20/20

Checked out on Libby

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Rating ★)

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay (Rating ★★)

The Good Girls by Claire Eliza Bartlett (Rating ★★★)

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms (Rating ★★★★)

How to Pack for the End of the World by Michelle Falkoff (Rating ★★★★)

Gregor the Overlander (Rating ★★★★)

Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee (Rating N/A)

Rejected by Jaymin Eve (Rating ★★★★)

Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly (Rating ★★★★★)

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (Rating ★★)

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (Rating ★)

Bought Used

The Invited by Jennifer McMahon (Rating ★★★★)

Burntown by Jennifer McMahon (Rating ★★★)

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds (Rating ★★)

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (Rating ★★★)

The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham (Rating ★★★★★)

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin (Rating ★★★★)

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (Rating ★★★)

Europe in Autumn by David Hutchinson (Rating ★★★)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Rating ★)

I'll do 10 books!

Hi, Navya! Thanks for moderating this challenge. Please add me for 10 books.

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Used book purchase
2. The Golem and the Jinni ebook loan
3. Night of Miracles library book
4. The Home for Unwanted Girls library book
5. The Alchemist library book
6. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption library book
7. Piranesi library book
8. Difficult Women library book
9. Body of Stars library book
10. A Long Petal of the Sea library book

Challenge complete!

Hi Navya, Can you please add me for 20 books? I'm downsizing and need to get rid of some of my physical books, so I plan on reading some old titles for the last time, then donating them to a second-hand store. Thanks for leading this challenge!

Update 25 Sep: Unfortunately I dropped out of this challenge. Nedge

Please sign me up for 5 books for now. 25 July - goal updated: 10 books

COMPLETED: 10/10

✔️ Tuf Voyaging (pass on to someone else) finished 11 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ Hill of Bones: A Historical Mystery (pass on to someone else) finished 14 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ Uprising (borrowed from relative) finished 17 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ The Cross (borrowed from relative) finished 25 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ The Dirty Dozen (borrowed from relative) finished 2 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ Always With Love (second hand) finished 15 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ Reckoning (pass on to someone else) finished 23 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ Contagion (second hand) finished 1 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ Deception (second hand) finished 6 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ Evolution (second hand) finished 11 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Welcome, everyone :)

I am so happy to see all the love libraries and used book stores are getting <3

Hola Navya!
Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 88/50 ♻️📚

Archive.org:


Borrowed from a friend/relative:


My library (books and e-books):


Kindle Unlimited

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... challenge was made for me.

Goal - 51 books (number geek--went for the closest multiple of 3 to 50 ) -- all are borrowed from the library unless I note otherwise (see I forgot to keep typing library...)

Carmen--thanks for the little pictures.
Progress: 43/51 ♻️📚

♻️1 China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan - borrowed from the library - July 5
♻️2 The Wedding by Dorothy West - library book - July 7
♻️ 3 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - library book - July 11
♻️ 4 Frederica by Georgette Heyer library book July 12
♻️ 5 Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan library book - July 14
♻️ 6 Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20) by Agatha Christie July 17
♻️ 7 Little Black Lies by Sharon J. Bolton July 18
♻️ 8 The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov library July 19
♻️ 9 Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin July 21
♻️ 10 In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages by Hella S. Haasse July 22
♻️ 11 Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery July 24
♻️ 12 Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie July 26
♻️ 13 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson July 27
♻️ 14 His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik July 27
♻️ 15 Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles July 30
♻️ 16 Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov July 31
♻️ 17. Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery Aug 5
♻️ 18. Letters Across the Sea by Genevieve Graham
♻️ 19. The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna Aug 8 or 9
♻️ 20. Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan August 10
♻️ 21. The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude Aug 11
♻️ 22. Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami Aug 12
♻️ 23. Tender Is the Bite by Spencer Quinn Aug 15
♻️ 24. Fall from Pride by Karen Harper Aug 16
♻️ 25. The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe Aug 18
♻️ 26. Return to Grace by Karen Harper Aug 21
♻️ 27. The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes Aug 23
♻️ 28. Strands of Truth by Colleen Coble Aug 25
♻️ 29. The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol Aug 27
♻️ 30. Five-Carat Soul by James McBride August 29
♻️ 31. Finding Mercy by Karen Harper Aug 29
♻️ 32. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Aug 30
♻️ 33. Bedknob and Broomstick by Mary Norton Aug 31
♻️ 34. Lawyer for the Dog by Lee Robinson Sept 2
♻️ 35. When Calls the Heart by Janette Oke Sept 4
♻️ 36. A Wreath for Rivera by Ngaio Marsh Sept 6
♻️ 37. Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim Sept 7
♻️ 38. Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen Sept 8
♻️ 39. Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock Sept 10
♻️ 40. Paw and Order by Spencer Quinn Sept 12
♻️ 41. Lawyer for the Cat by Lee Robinson Sept 13
♻️ 42. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik Sept 17
♻️ 43. One Little Lie by Colleen Coble Sept 18

Hi Carmen and Karin! I have added you both to the participant list :)

Hi, Navya! I'll set my goal at 15 books for now.

14/15


Physical

♻️ The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Library)
♻️ The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Library)
♻️ The Best School Year Ever (Library)
♻️ The Best Halloween Ever (Library)
♻️ When Stars Are Scattered (Library)
♻️ The Downstairs Girl (Library)
♻️ Anti/Hero (Library)
♻️ Firekeeper's Daughter (Library)
♻️ She Drives Me Crazy (Library)
♻️ Ace of Spades (Friend)
Cinderella Is Dead(Friend)
Sisters of the Snake (Library)
City Spies (Library)

eBook

♻️ The Hellion's Waltz (Library)
♻️ Six of Crows (Library)
♻️ Code Name Verity (Library)
♻️ One Last Stop (Library)
The Girls I've Been (Library)

Hi Navya! Thanks for hosting this great challenge. Could you put me down for 20 please? Thank you. 🌹

Also, super quick question. Do kindle unlimited books count as borrowed?

Completed 8/27/21

Duration: July 1 - September, 30, 2021
Progress: 20/20

♻️1. Project Hail Mary (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 7/5
♻️2. Uglies (Library) 🚯🚯🚯 7/5
♻️3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 7/13
♻️4. The Quiet Girl (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯 7/16
♻️5. The Dinner Guest (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 7/17
♻️6. The Push (Library) 🚯🚯🚯🚯🚯 7/21
♻️7. The Maidens (Library) 🚯🚯🚯 7/22
♻️8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯🚯🚯 7/24
♻️9. The Giver (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯 7/30
♻️10. Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯 8/1
♻️11. Hex Hall (Library) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 8/2
♻️12. Thirteen Reasons Why (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯 8/7
♻️13. Shadow and Bone (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 8/11
♻️14. The Troop (Kindle Unlimited) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 8/12
♻️15. Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite (Library) 🚯🚯🚯 8/13
♻️16. Circe (Library) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 8/16
♻️17. The Final Girl Support Group (Library) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 8/21
♻️18. Find Layla (Kindle Unlimited) 🚯🚯 8/23
♻️19. Immortally Yours (Library) 🚯🚯🚯🚯 8/23
♻️20. Wilder Girls (Overdrive app) 🚯🚯🚯 8/27

Hey! Great challenge! I would like to participate with 5 books :-)
Progress: 5/5
1. Brida by Paulo Coelho read 5 - 7 july
2. Cauchemars en série by R.L. Stine read 30 july
3. Le jumeau diabolique by R.L. Stine read 31 july - 1 august
4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding read 21 july - 1 august
5. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett 3 - 11 august

6. La Tour de la Terreur by R.L. Stine 11 - 13 august
7. Orlando by Virginia Woolf 11 august - 29 august
8.
9.

Update: As I'm moving well in my recycling challenge my ultimate goal will be 9 instead of 5 :-)

Progress: 7/9

In for 10

10/10

1. It Had to Be You (Passed to someone else)
2. Certain Girls (Borrowed from the library)
3. Razorblade Tears (Passed to someone else)
4. Harvesting the Heart (Borrowed from the library)
5. Not a Happy Family (Passed to someone else)
6. A Desirable Residence: A Novel of Love and Real Estate (Borrowed from the library)
7. Stealing Home (Borrowed from the library)
8. 14th Deadly Sin (Borrowed from the library)
9. Where the Red Fern Grows (Borrowed from the library)
10. There's a Word for That (Passed to someone else)

Bobbi wrote: "Also, super quick question. Do kindle unlimited books count as borrowed?"

Hi Bobbi, I think Kindle Unlimited works through borrowing/returning books, so it should count. Hope you have a great challenge!

aya, Irphen, Megan BG - welcome to the challenge :)

I’m in for 10 please!

Sign me up for 29 books

29/29-COMPLETED

Books Read
✅1)Fiesta Latina: Fabulous Food for Sizzling Parties(Overdrive App)(1/7/21)
✅2)Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story(Overdrive App)(3/7/21)
✅3)100 Catastrophic Disasters(Overdrive App)(4/7/21)
✅4)Bus Stop Baby(Overdrive App)(5/7/21)
✅5)Do Whales Have Belly Buttons?(Overdrive App)(8/7/21)
✅6)Shopgirls(Local Library)(10/7/21)
✅7)The Girl Without a Voice: The true story of a terrified child whose silence spoke volumes(Local Library)(11/7/21)
✅8)The Queen's Fool(Local Library)(12/7/21)
✅9)In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex(Overdrive App)(13/7/21)
✅10)I've Got You Under My Skin(Overdrive App)(15/7/21)
✅11)Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920(Overdrive App)(16/7/21)
✅12)A Handful of Stars(Overdrive App)(17/7/21)
✅13)a Junior Doctor's Story(Overdrive App)(18/7/21)
✅14)The Secret Teacher: Dispatches from the Classroom(Overdrive App)(19/7/21)
✅15)The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine(Overdrive App)(20/7/21)
✅16)The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World(Overdrive App)(21/7/21)
✅17)Desert(Overdrive App)(22/7/21)
✅18)A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner(Overdrive App)(23/7/21)
✅19)The Amish Midwife(Overdrive App)(23/7/21)
✅20)The Crown: The inside history(Overdrive App)(24/7/21)
✅21)The Switch(Local Library)(26/7/21)
✅22)An Anonymous Girl(Local Library)(27/7/21)
✅23)Next Year in Havana(Overdrive App)(29/7/21)
✅24)Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas(Local Library)(29/7/21)
✅25)The Stonewall Reader(Local Library)(8/8/21)
✅26)Justice for Helen: A Mother's Quest to Find Her Murdered Daughter(Local Library)(21/9/21)
✅27)The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers(Local Library)(23/9/21)
✅28)A Suitable Boy(Local Library)(24/9/21)
✅29)The Times Great Events: A modern history through 200 years of The Times newspaper(Local Library)(25/9/21)

Heyo Audrey and Sarah! Added both of you to the participant's list :)

I'll sign up for 5 books!

0/5

I’ll sign up for 0/5.

I don't read many paper books right now (I started to move the furniture in my flat and all my books are packed in boxes) and private ebook lending is not possible (even illegal) in Germany so I'll sign up for two but will check my box with books I brought from my family and friends last month if any fit this month's challengs or look so appealing I won't be abble to resist squeezing them in. Please forget my original thoughts, there's still online library :-D

BOOK RECYCLING
Duration: 7/1/21 - 9/30/21
update to message #30: 13/15

Read:
Wiedersehen macht Liebe=About That Night by Julie James 3* 7/9 - online library
Murder Most Wild by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 3* 8/6 - online library
The Song Never Dies book 1 in Cherringham - Episodes 22 - 24 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 4* 8/8 - online library
A Bad Lie book 2 in Cherringham - Episodes 22 - 24 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 4* 8/9 - online library
A Death in the Family book 3 in Cherringham - Episodes 22 - 24 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 3.5* 8/9 - online library
Secret Santa book 1 in Cherringham, Episode 25-27 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 3* 8/10 - online library
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham 3* 8/10 - online library
Death on a Moonlit Night book 2 in Cherringham, Episode 25-27 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 3.5* 8/13 - online library
Scared to Death book 3 in Cherringham, Episode 25-27 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 2* 8/13 - online library
StehaufMensch!: Was macht uns stark? (K)ein Resilienz-Ratgeber. (Skipjack: What Makes Us Strong? (Not) An Resilience Guidebook) by Samuel Koch 4* 8/24 - online library (view spoiler)[
The title is not really translatable as it's a combination of a word play and contradictory statement:
- Stehaufmännchen (diminutive of Stehaufmensch) is a tumbler or skipjack though here it's a combination of the mental pictures of this toy and a resilient person as the sentence Steh auf, Mensch! (or more common Mensch, steh auf!) means literally Man (Gee)! Get up!
- (K)ein is a unique German word creation used as an (indefinite) aricle and it's negation all at the same - meaning here it's NOT a book about resilience but also that it IS a book about resilience (hide spoiler)]
A Dinner to Die For book 1 in Cherringham - Episodes 28-30 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 4* 8/26/21 - online library
The Drowned Man book 2 in Cherringham - Episodes 28-30 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 3* 8/27 - online library
The Gentleman Vanishes book 3 in Cherringham - Episodes 28-30 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards 3* 8/28 - online library

Für immer zuckerfrei: Schlank, gesund und glücklich ohne das süße Gift (Forever Free of Sugar: Slim, Healthy, and Happy Without The Sweet Poison) by Anastasia Zampounidis ?* 9/?
Upał (Heat) by Marcin Ciszewski ?* 9/? - borrowed from family

Die Kampagne=The Whole Truth by David Baldacci ?* 9?/? - 2nd hand book (former library copy)
*

I'll sign up for 10 books! I usually go to the library and get books from there so let's see how it will go!

Progress: 6/10

01. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Borrowed from library!
Read: July 3 - 26. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

02. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
Borrowed from library!
Read: July 26 - August 5. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

03. Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller
Borrowed from library!
Read: August 6 - 10. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

04. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
Borrowed from library!
Read: August 12 - 18. ⭐⭐⭐

05. The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
Borrowed from library!
Read: August 19 - 21. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

06. Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas
Borrowed from library!
Read: September 9 - 22. ⭐⭐⭐⭐


Books I'm planning on reading:
06. Le prime luci del mattino (library)
08. Secrets of a Summer Night (library)
09. It Happened One Autumn (library)
10. Devil in Winter (library)

I'm in for 10

1.) Peril at End House (Library Book)
2.) Lord Edgware Dies (Library Book)
3.) Daughter of Sparta (Library Book)
4.) Saturnalia (Used Book Store Purchase)
5.) A Thousand Ships (Library Book)
6.) The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World (Library Book)
7.) The Vixen (Library Book)
8.) Nobody Loves a Centurion (Used Bookstore Purchase)
9.) The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot (Library Book)
10.) The Hollywood Spy (Library Book)
CHALLENGE COMPLETE

CHALLENGE CONT.
11.)The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Library Book)
12.) Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (Library Book)
13.) The Color of Time: A New History of the World: 1850-1960 (Library Book)
14.) Fifty Words for Rain (Library Book)
15.) The Tribune's Curse (Used Bookstore Purchase)

I'm in for 5.

Thanks!

Progress: 10/5

Completed!

Library Books

Night-Night, Spot
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
Tailing a Tabby
When the Bough Breaks
Strangled Prose
The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn
Dear Miss Demeanor
Murder on a Girls' Night Out
A Man Lay Dead
By Book or By Crook

BOOK RECYCLING
Duration: July 1 - September, 30, 2021

I usually go to the library, so for this challenge I will be utilizing my library.


I'm in for 10

10/10

1. Survive the Night By Riley Sager 4 stars 7/7
2.The Maidens By Alex Michaelides 5 stars 7/13
3. The Last Time I Lied By Riley Sager 5 stars 7/25
4. Hostage By Clare Mackintosh 4.5 stars 7/30
5. The Final Girl Support Group By Grady Hendrix 3.5 stars 8/10
6.A Good Girl's Guide to Murder By Holly Jackson 5 stars 8/16
7. The Silent Wife By Karin Slaughter 4.5 stars 8/21
8.Murder at Sunrise Lake By Christine Feehan 4 stars 8/27
9. The Third Victim By Lisa Gardner 5 stars 9/3
10. Always Watching By Chevy Stevens 4 stars 9/10

Please sign me up for 5 books

1. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

I'm in for 10 books!

1. Batman: Year One
2. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
3. Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
4. Angels Fall

Hi Navya, please sign me up for 15 books.

Progress: 10/15

Used
✅The Jewel in the Crown

Library


ebooks (Kindle, Libby, Cloud Reader, Scribd, Hoopla)
✅Mrs. Lorimer's Quiet Summer (Kindle)
✅I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death (Libby)
✅The Moon And Sixpence (scribd)
✅In the Balance (hoopla)
✅Garnethill (kindle)
✅The Poison Thread (kindle)
✅The Norths Meet Murder (kindle)



audiobooks (Audible, Libby, Cloud Reader, Scribd, Hoopla)
✅Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Audible)
✅The Murder on the Links (hoopla)

Karin wrote: "Carmen--thanks for the little pictures.
Progress: 0/50 ♻️📚"

You're welcome 😉

FYI - almost every book I read comes from my library, usually borrowed. I have a reread that's one I bought used as well, so I love this challenge.

Put me down for 12 please!

1.The Hound of the Baskervilles
2.Wilderness
3.Becoming
4.Before I Say Goodbye
5.The Art of Fielding
6.The Brethren
7.The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
8.The Giver

I’m in for at least 8 please! Love this challenge. I’m going to challenge myself to not include ebooks from the library because that is practically all I read these days haha want to expand where the reach of my “recycling” a bit more!

BOOK RECYCLING
Duration: July 1 - September, 30, 2021
Goal: 12
Books read: 14

Using Scribd and used books
1. The Snow Child- got secondhand. Read July 3-9
2. European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman- from SCRIBD. Read July 15-31
3. Glory in Death- got secondhand . Read July 25
4.Long Bright River- borrowed from library. read August 9
5. Suite Française- bought thrifted; read August 10
6. Artificial Condition - from SCRIBD - August 13
7. The Runaways- library loan August 13
8.Rogue Protocol- from SCRIBD August 17
9. Exit Strategy- from SCRIBD August 19
10. Abeng- library loan August 20
11. Crimson Bound from SCRIBD August 21
12. Paradise- library loan August 25
13. A Gentleman in Moscow- library loan August 28
14. God Help the Child- library loan September 4
15. A Mercy- library loan
16. No Telephone to Heaven library loan
17. The Family Upstairslibrary loan
18. When I'm Gonelibrary loan
19. Sleep It Off Ladylibrary loan
20. Ascension- scribd

message 20 updated

2/15

Welcome everyone! You have been added to the list :)

And congrats aya on finishing collecting & sorting and starting processing ^_^ Hope you enjoyed the books you read so far!

Hi! I'd love to join for 20 books.

Here's the link to where I am keeping track of this challenge: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

updated msg 46

2/20 books

Updated msg 3

Just cleared my first library book - While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams. This was the perfect read for the 4th of July weekend. The writing is clear, and while the plot bogged down just a bit in the middle, it picked back up for a satisfying conclusion. I particularly appreciated the view on the law and our country - it’s a tightrope I feel I walk daily. Abrams’ expressed it beautifully. “America is a contradictory and precocious country . . . We have, in a very short period of time, managed to comment venal sibs against our own people and offer the world repeat examples of exceptionalism. Americans are greedy, brilliant, ambitious, and compassionate. We like to remind everyone about our genius, and yet our leaders make fun of smart people. In less than two centuries, we took over more than half a continent, placed a man on the moon, and invented the Clapper. I enjoyed the contrasts.” Definitely worth reading! 4.5 stars

1/10

Theresa wrote: "My goal is 9 books. Progress: 0/9

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride
Joint Custody
Hollow Kingdom
What Lies Between Us"

Hi Theresa, I loved The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride and just found out there is a second book! Added it to my TBR list.

I will go for 25

11/25

1. Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie-- giving to a friend
2. Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own-- bought secondhand; donated to little free library
3. Fahrenheit 451-- gave to my daughter
4. Grace Is Gone-- giving to a friend
5. Forget You Know Me-- donated
6. Hot Rocks-- bought secondhand
7. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia-- bought secondhand
8. Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm-- given to me by a friend
9. Little Bee-- giving to a friend
10. Timepiece-- giving to a friend
11. The Handmaid's Tale-- bought used