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I'm aiming to remove 50 books from a selection of my pre-owned tbr this year, particularly some of those books I most want to read:

Books read to date: 50/ 50 COMPLETED 22 Dec

✔ The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger 5★
✔ Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn 4★
✔ The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg 5★
✔ The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann 5★
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
✔ Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 5★
✔ The Wrong Woman by J.P. Pomare 4.5★
Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
✔ Remember Me by Charity Norman 5★
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain byGeorge Saunders
✔ What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris 5★
✔ Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher 4★
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor
The Puppet Show by M.W. Craven
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
✔ Cozy Up to Trouble by Colin Conway 4★
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
✔ The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan 5★
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
✔ Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-Jurado 5★
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
✔ The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 4★
Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson
✔ White Noise by Mercedes Mercier 4★
If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay
✔ The Girl in The Tower by Katherine Arden 5★
✔ The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen 5★
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
✔ Absolution by Caro Ramsay 4★
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
Sticks and Stones by John Carson
✔ The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman AA 4★
The Deceptions by Suzanne Leal AA
✔ Broken Bay by Margaret Hickey AA (4★)
✔ Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor AA 4★
Headcase by Jack Heath AA
✔ Red Dirt Road by S.R. White AA 4★
✔ Murder at the Carnival by Helen Goltz AA 3.5★
✔ The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie AA 4★
✔ In the Clearing by J.P. Pomare AA 4★
✔ The Fall Between by Darcy Tindale AA 5★
✔ The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud AA 5★
The Broken Wave by Matthew Ryan Davies AA
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
The Last Move by Mary Burton
✔ Kill for Me Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh 5★
✔ The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth 4★
Black River by Will Dean
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Out of the Dark by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Into the Fire by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
The Trapped Girl by Robert Dugoni
Close to Home by Robert Dugoni
The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths
✔ The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths 4.5★
✔ The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson 4★
✔ The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths 4★
✔ Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo 5★
✔ False Value by Ben Aaronovitch 4★
✔ Criminal by Karin Slaughter (read 16 Nov) 4.5★
Body Double by Tess Gerritsen
✔ Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb 5★
✔ Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb 4.5★
✔ Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb 5★
✔ New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb 4.5★
✔ The Crowded Grave by Martin Walker 4★
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
✔ White Nights by Ann Cleeves 4.5★
✔ Aunt Bessie Assumes by Diana Xarissa 3.5★
Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
Let Us Prey by Blake Banner
✔ The Last Word by Elly Griffiths 4★
✔ The Mistress of Bhatia House by Sujata Massey 4★
✔ Murder at Midnight by Faith Martin 4★
✔ Murder in Mind by Faith Martin 4★
✔ Hillary's Final Case by Faith Martin 4★
✔ Evans Above by Rhys Bowen 4★
Death Knells and Wedding Bells by Eva Gates
Terminal Peace by Jim C. Hines
Conquest by David Field
✔ Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood 4★
The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman
✔ December Park by Ronald Malfi 3.5★
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
✔ Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 3★

Keeping Track of my Annual Challenges:

✔ Aussie Readers Everything is Australian 24/ 24 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ Aussie Readers 'Real Life' Locations 26/ 26 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ Aussie Readers Genre Challenge 12/12 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ Aussie Lovers of Crime Read a Series Challenge 12/ 12 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ Personal Netgalley Challenge - to reduce my NG shelf (to less than 30 books) and read fewer than 144 NG books in 2024 (around 12 / month)

Total = 141 books

January: 11
February: 11
March: 14
April: 14
May: 9
June: 14
July: 17 (oops!!)
August: 11
September: 12
October: 11
November: 9
December: 8

Looks like you’re getting it under control Carolyn! Hope you’ve left room for the occasional “can’t go past” new release 😜

Jülie ☼♄  wrote: "Looks like you’re getting it under control Carolyn! Hope you’ve left room for the occasional “can’t go past” new release 😜"

I hope so Jools!! 🥴

Having a list of books I'd like to read sometime is really helpful when I'm looking for books to slot into the challenges, but I'll always make room for the "can't go past" new releases - which explains why I have so many unread books on my tbr in the first place!! 📚📚📚📚

Good luck with your challenge Carolyn - it's a good one :)

This is really impressive planning. I have a spreadsheet but I really like this. I didn't even know you could link your challenges to one place. I'll have to look up the how to.

One thing I'm curious about though - will reading 50 TBR books make a big dint in your pile? I suppose I should count how many I actually have if I want to make a change.

Good luck with this - I think it is really great.

Brenda wrote: "Good luck with your challenge Carolyn - it's a good one :)"

Thanks Brenda. It's a good place to list those books you want to read but keep forgetting about!

Mary wrote: "This is really impressive planning. I have a spreadsheet but I really like this. I didn't even know you could link your challenges to one place. I'll have to look up the how to.

One thing I'm cur..."

Unfortunately you're right Mary, reading 50 books won't reduce my tbr much as it always has more books than I could possibly read in a year! It's more of a priority system and helps when I'm looking for books to fit a challenge.

If you want to link your challenges go to where you posted your challenge details and copy the link on the address bar at the top.

Thanks Carolyn for the info regarding the challenge links. And I'm glad I'm not the only one with a ridiculously unrealistic TBR!! Happy New Year.

Carolyn wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Good luck with your challenge Carolyn - it's a good one :)"

Thanks Brenda. It's a good place to list those books you want to read but keep forgetting about!"

Yes I get what you mean!!

This is so good Carolyn, good luck :)

Good luck!

Thanks Helen and Sharon.