Nightmares and Dreamscapes discussion

This challenge will be starting January 1, 2024 and will run for two years to December 31, 2025.

The reason for a longer time period is to give all members a chance to knock books off your tbr within a two period instead of a one year period. Less stress for everyone with not having to worry about cramming a bunch of books into a one year timeline so I made this challenge for two years.

You can read whatever genre book you want to read for this challenge. It does not have to be limited to 'horror, fantasy and science fiction". This tbr challenge is for all books that you want to clear off of your shelves.

You can list however many books you want to read for this challenge or just list them as you go. However you want to do it to make it easy for yourself.

You do not have to create a bookshelf for this challenge like other groups do - you can just keep track here. Some people are not bookshelf collectors on this website so to make it easy for members you can keep track of what you have read here.

Please use this thread for listing out your books. If you need to take up two or three posts because you have tons of books then you may do that instead of putting all the books in one post - just reserve however many spots you think you will need for this challenge.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. We are here for our members and we will be happy to answer your questions and help you any way we can.

Have fun everyone and Happy Reading!

Reserving my spot here. Not sure how many I will be reading but going to throw them up here as I go. :)

Update - End of 2024

I did not keep up with this book list at all however I have a list of all the books I read for the challenge with the link below. I did the 2024 Year on Goodreads which I added everything to that list. Typing out 72 books on here would take me awhile and with my mood I am not up for it. lol


https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Well, hey, I'll give it a whack too. Does 50 books in two years (for me) seem doable? I guess I'll see! 😵

Jeffrey wrote: "Well, hey, I'll give it a whack too. Does 50 books in two years (for me) seem doable? I guess I'll see! 😵"

Hey Jeffrey!!! Yes! That does sound doable to me! You should knock it out of the ballpark! :)

I’ll participate! I have so many books on my tbr shelves that I need a little push to get things moving. This should be fun.🤩

I am in for another TBR Challenge.

2024
Physical / Digital / Audio

1. The Metaframe Adept / digital
2. Memnoch the Devil / audio
3.
4.
5.

I’m in! I’m going to be reasonable since I’m less than two months away from a newborn lol and will have two kiddos under 2, my goal is 20 books 😁

Great! My goal is a relaxed 25. Counting only print books for this challenge, but also tracking TBR ebooks just for fun (curious which list will be larger at the end).

Print 2024:
1. Eisige Schwestern
2. Die Brontës gingen zu Woolworths
3. Abschied auf Italienisch
4. Eine Frage der Chemie
5. Barbara stirbt nicht
6. Die letzten Hexen von Blackbird Castle
7. Dunkel
8. Insel
9. Bei euch ist es immer so unheimlich still
10. Wie man einen Prinzen tötet
11. Taqawan
12. Projekt 22
13. Das Geheimnis von Shadowbrook
14. Storchenherzen
15. Die Tote im Sturm
16. The Doll Factory
17. Beuteherz
18. Das Gästezimmer
19. One of the Girls
20. Die Unbändigen
21. Die Farbe des Sturms
22. Ohne Spur
23. Die Erfindung des Dosenöffners
24. Gesang der Fledermäuse
25. Der Kanal
26. Engelsmädchen
27. Jacks wundersame Reise mit dem Weihnachtsschwein
Print 2025:
28. Bergland
29. Cascadia
30. Stunde um Stunde
31. Der Riss
32. Peanut Jones und die Stadt der Bilder
33. Die Überlebenden
34. Hasen feiern kein Weihnachten
35. Rindviehdämmerung
36. The Catcher in the Rye
37. Wer das Vergessen stört
38. Melmoth
39. Agathe
40. Der Totengräber und der Mord in der Krypta
41. Disgrace
42. Das Geheimnis der verborgenen Bibliothek
43. Elternabend: Kein Thriller
44. Hummer to go: Ein Bretagne-Roman
45. Trümmerkind
46. Apfelmädchen
47. Bats at the Library
48. Aschenputtel
49. Der Knochenwald

Ebook 2024:
1. Alistair Grim's Odditorium
2. Sundial
3. Pedo Island Bloodbath
4. KoboldKroniken 2.
5. Princess Margarita Illegal
6. Die Seele eines Spukhauses
7. Tödlicher Schlaf: Hamburg 1907: Carl-Jakob Melcher ermittelt
8. Das Portal
9. They Stalk the Night
10. Was auf das Ende folgt
11. Signalz
12. Still
13. Vampirische Weihnachten
14. Die Bibliothek im Nebel
Ebook 2025:
15. Krähennacht
16. Wer mit den Wölfen heult
17. Der Poet des Meeres
18. Das grüne Königreich
19. Das kalte Schweigen der See
20. Schneegrab
21. Das Haus in dem Gudelia stirbt

I’m sorry I’m new at this. What does tbr mean and us there a certain number we need to read each year?

To Be Read

Excellent Challenge! I'll Reserve 2 spaces and list as I read, except for this first batch, my "personal" TBR Pile Challenge, which I created in mid-August (because official TBR Pile Challenge ended in 2023).
Commencing January 1.

1. CHILDREN OF TIME #1
2. CHILDREN OF RUIN #2
3. CHILDREN OF MEMORY #3
4. SHARDS OF EARTH #1
5. EYES OF THE VOID #2
6. LORDS OF UNCREATION #3
7. CITY OF LAST CHANCES
8. HOUSE OF OPEN WOUNDS
9. SALVATION #1
10. SALVATION LOST #2
11. THE SAINTS OF SALVATION #3
12. THE DREAMING VOID (2017) #1 or THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST
13. THE TEMPORAL VOID #2 ? OR: THE ABYSS BEYOND DREAMS #1 [2014]
14. THE EVOLUTIONARY VOID #3 ? OR: A NIGHT WITHOUT STARS #2 [2016]

ALTERNATIVES/EXTRAS:
1. 2. 3. THE ICERIGGER TRILOGY [2017], Alan Dean Foster
4. RED RISING
5. GOLDEN SON

And:
1. CITY OF LAST CHANCES SF
2. HOUSE OF OPEN WOUNDS SF
3. CITY UNDER ONE ROOF (reread from January 2024) DYSTOPIAN
4. VILLAGE IN THE DARK DYSTOPIAN
5. 6. 7. THE ICERIGGER TRILOGY. SF ADF.
5. THE TERROR (reread) January or February HF/HORROR
6. DYATLOV PASS HF/HORROR
7. DEAD MOUNTAIN HF/HORROR
8. RETURN TO DYATLOV PASS HF/HORROR
9. THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE ALTERNATE HISTORY/HF

Reserved for Cobwebby's extensive TBR Renovation 😁

Awesome! I’m in.

Spot for January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024:

1. The Dirty South
2. Six Rooms
3. Boy's Life
4. The Hellbound Heart
5. The Housemaid
6. The Nameless Ones
7. The Wolf's Hour
8. Children of the Dark
9. Burn for Me
10. Dear Laura
11. Blacktop Wasteland
12. The Hunter from the Woods
13. The Soulmate Equation
14. Cujo
15. Red Rising
16. The Hollow Places
17. Tender Is the Flesh
18. Orphan X
19. The Willows
20. The Nowhere Man
21. Mystic River
22. Hellbent
23. Duma Key
24. The Grapes of Wrath
25. Mystery Walk
26. A Night in the Lonesome October
27. An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
28. North American Lake Monsters
29. Hark! the Herald Angels Scream
30. To Sir, with Love
31. Seven Shades of Evil
32. In a Holidaze
33. Hidden Pictures

Reserving my spot for this 2-year challenge. I’ll start by committing to 25/year.

It seems the trend is to reserve two spots, so here’s my 2nd!

Renee wrote: "I’m sorry I’m new at this. What does tbr mean and us there a certain number we need to read each year?"

No worries at all! :) TBR means "to be read" books that you have been meaning to read forever and that you haven't found the time to read yet.

There is no certain number of books you have to read - you do you. You pick however many you think you want to read for this challenge or you can just number them as you go. Whatever works for you. But you have two years to do it in with no stress - just pick a spot on here and that is it.

I will link the thread in from last year to give you an idea of how it looks from our members and what they did last year into this year.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hope that helps and good luck on your challenge! :)

Whoo-hoo Everyone! It seems my broadcast message just made you all pile on in here! LOL Awesome! Good luck to everyone and remember to have fun, happy reading and no stress! Read at your own pace! I cannot wait to see what all of you will be reading! :)

Is there a way to edit our comments? It seems that we add our read books to on or two of our comments in a list form. Do we add to the list as we go or after the end of two years?

2024 (Goal- 37)
Physical Reads (Goal- 12)
1. Needful Things 1/24/24
2. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
3. Rose Madder
4. Bag of Bones
5. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
6. Hearts in Atlantis
7. Jurassic Park 2/17/24
8. Caraval 2/22/24
9. The Thirteenth Tale 2/25/24
10. Yellowface 3/3/24
11. The Assassin's Blade 4/4
12. Throne of Glass 4/11/24
13. Crown of Midnight 4/20/24
14. Heir of Fire 5/16/24
15. Queen of Shadows 5/31/24
16. Empire of Storms 6/18/24
17. Tower of Dawn 6/18/24
18. Kingdom of Ash 7/17/24
19. Tress of the Emerald Sea
20. The Only One Left 7/29/24
E-books (Goal- 5)
Libby:
1. Defending Elysium
2. Ankle Snatcher 7/30/24

Audiobooks (Goal- 20)
Libby:
1. Rouge 6/3/24
2. The Last Town 1/11/24
3. Bad Cree 1/23/24
4. Let Me In dnf 1/17/24
5. The Watchers 2/15/24
6. Five Survive 1/14/24
7. Episode Thirteen 2/1/24
8. Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief 3/21/24
9. The September House
10. Tender is the Flesh 4/10/24
11. The Christmas Murder Game
12. The Change 1/3/24
13. Apples Never Fall
14. In the Night Room 1/10/24
15. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances 1/16/24
16. The Last Murder at the End of the Worldv 6/6/24
17. Long Time Gone 6/26/24
18. Warbreaker
19. The Emperor's Soul 1/12/24
20. Norse Mythology 1/7/24
21. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 1/27/24
22. Notes on an Execution 1/30/24
23. Those Empty Eyes 2/6/24
24. The Echo Wife 2/12/24
25. The Lost World 2/27/24
26. The Atlas Six 3/7/24
27. The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line 4/10/24
28. Mr. Kiss and Tell
29. The Husband's Secret
30. Truly Madly Guilty
31. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter 3/28/24
32. The Cabin at the End of the World 4/2/24
33. Beware the Woman 4/5/24
34. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 5/4/24
35. Looking Glass Sound 5/29/24
36. Then She Was Gone 5/30/24
37. Starling House 6/30/24
38. What Moves the Dead 7/2/24
39. All the Living and the Dead 7/19/24
Audible:
1. Experimental Film 1/4/24
2. A Study in Scarlet 1/4/24
3. The Sign of Four 1/5/24
4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1/6/24
5. Defiant 2/9/24
6. The Way of Kings 4/30/24
7. Words of Radiance 5/22/24
8. Edgedancer 5/24
9. Oathbringer 6/22/24
10. Dawnshard 6/25/24

2025
Physical Reads:
1.

 

Canavan’s 2024-2025 Nightmares and Dreamscapes TBR Challenge Adventure



The goal is to read at least 20 books from my personal TBR pile during 2024-2025.

Happy to join!

Total books read from personal Tower of Shame:
La bruja - 3 stars
What Moves the Dead - 3 stars

Read in 2024:
Kindle format: 1
Audible:
Hardback:
Paperback: 1

Read in 2025:
Kindle format:
Audible:
Hardback:
Paperback:

I'm in! Spot for 2024!

Spot for 2025!

I'm in too.

I'll run 2024 and 2025 in the same comment.

2024

Book #1
Book #n

2025

Book #1
Book #n

I'm in. Spots for 2024 and 2025 here.

I'll give it a go.

I'm also in! I'm aiming to read at least 25 books on my TBR and at least half have to be books I already own

Reserve me a spot.

Joe wrote: "Is there a way to edit our comments? It seems that we add our read books to on or two of our comments in a list form. Do we add to the list as we go or after the end of two years?"

You should be able to edit your comment and just add your list to the comment box. However, the Goodreads app on your phone is not user friendly at all and some people have a hard time with doing stuff on this website with the phone app.

So if you have access to a pc/laptop that might be an easier way to go. That is what I use for everything on Goodreads - I have a laptop.

Hope that helps. :)

With all the beautiful people that have already joined, how can I not?

I'm in 😊

Two years. Wusa, Wusa.

I’m in! I read 150 books last year. I will set my goal for 125.

@Marie what if we are unable to edit our comments?

Brianna wrote: "@Marie what if we are unable to edit our comments?"

I don't know - if it happens - it could be a GR glitch. Have you had any problems with editing your comments on here?

I just tried it through my phone app and with the kind of phone I have I cannot edit my own comments so not sure how anyone else is able to do it unless members have a smart phone which I don't own. I have just an android phone. Maybe another member knows the answer.

I always use my laptop and always have for Goodreads as normally the app doesn't work for certain things. I can look at notifications through the app or write a message with the app or comment through the app but that is about it. I cannot even add link in the book/author or use the html codes on here because of having an android phone.

Not everyone owns a smart phone so I am not sure how it works with the app. It used to be able to switch to desktop mode on the GR app but that doesn't work for me either so I just jump on my laptop and stay there. Less stress on pc/laptop. Too much anxiety for the GR app.

Whoops - lol - it looks like I went on a GR app rant! LOL Sorry about that! :)

@Marie, I’ve never been able to edit my comments but as you put it may be because of the app itself. I’ll try switching to desktop mode and see if that works. I don’t have a laptop or computer but we’ll see 😊

Marie wrote: "I just tried it through my phone app and with the kind of phone I have I cannot edit my own comments so not sure how anyone else is able to do it unless members have a smart phone which I don't own..."

The problem is not the kind of phone. The problem is the GR app. You have to use the webpage.

I’m in! Hoping to make a large dent in my tbr. Hard to do when it seems to keep growing. ;-)

Vavita wrote: "Marie wrote: "I just tried it through my phone app and with the kind of phone I have I cannot edit my own comments so not sure how anyone else is able to do it unless members have a smart phone whi

The problem is not the kind of phone. The problem is the GR app. You have to use the webpage..."

Oh - okay. I wouldn't know really as I don't use my phone much for Goodreads - I have always been a laptop person. lol I have tried to change over to webpage on my phone and it doesn't work so I just assumed it was the phone. lol

Marie said: I have tried to change over to webpage on my phone and it doesn't work so I just assumed it was the phone.

I’m not sure about Android devices, but with an iPhone, when one attempts to access the Goodreads web site using a browser, iOS will often attempt to force the user to instead use the Goodreads app. While the app (as opposed to the web site) makes better use of the limited screen real estate on a phone, it’s terribly buggy and its feature set somewhat limited. There are ways (which I unfortunately do not recall) to prevent the app from launching, but the quick (if rather drastic) fix is to simply delete the app from your phone.

Brianna wrote: "@Marie, I’ve never been able to edit my comments but as you put it may be because of the app itself. I’ll try switching to desktop mode and see if that works. I don’t have a laptop or computer but ..."

If you only use the app on your phone I don't think you can do it. Unless I am wrong and it has been changed, they do not allow you to edit your posts in the app. However, if you do it through the Goodreads website on your pc/mac/whatever then you can go back and edit the list later to fill it in.
You can also do this using desktop mode on the website using your phone.

Thank you so much for explaining this and sending me the link for last year. I would like to claim a spot please

I would like to claim another spot for 2025 also.

Renee wrote: "Thank you so much for explaining this and sending me the link for last year. I would like to claim a spot please"

You are welcome! Happy to help! :)

I'm gonna join in, though just committing to one year to start with! Gonna start with a humble 20 and hope it grows from there. :D

My spot 1 :) 2024

My spot 2 :) 2025

I'm in for 25/year.

Oh! I've always wanted to do a reading challenge. I'll claim a spot for 2024-2025! :)

Yeah I’m in! Any excuse to read more books lol. I was thinking 24 cause that’s at least 2 books a month but I might have to go higher for this year. I have no clue how many I’ll read in 2025 tho