Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Welcome to the world of LOST. There are a series of 3 rounds of this game. The first, LOST, will establish the date for the other two [FOUND and Lost & Found].

So...to get started.

Pick the 10 oldest books on your TBR. These are books that have been languishing on your To Read list for the longest. You may use any list...a paper list, a GR list, or just your home shelves.

For this game, you may DNR a book and still count it, if you gave it a try. (I have found some gems by trying a book I did not think I wanted to read after all these years.)

Participants:
Average Book Reviews
Bea
Beth Completed
Beverly Completed
CassieV
Charity
Elaine
Joanna
Joyce Completed
Lagullande
LaurLa Completed
Luann Completed
LynnB Completed
Meg Completed
Michelle
Nat
Rosemary Completed
Susan Completed
Tien Completed

Bea's Lost Books from Wishlist TBR added in 2011:

1. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2. A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered by M. Scott Peck
3. The Coffee Trader by David Liss
√4. This Must Be the Place by Kate Racculia Read 8/13/25
√5. The Coal Tattoo by Silas House Read 1/24/25
√6. My Father's Notebook by Kader Abdolah Read 4/9/25
√7. The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler Read 6/22/25
√8. Quaker Testimony by Irene Allen Read 12/26/24
√9. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson Read 6/12/25
√10. Jesus Out to Sea by James Lee Burke Read 1/9/25

Genres represented by these books: Philosophy, Historical Fiction (4) , Short Stories, Mystery, Coming of Age, Contemporary and Science Fiction.

My LOST list, mostly added in 2018
read 9/9 & 1 DNF, finished 12 Sep 2025

✔ 1. The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel 20 Apr 25
✔ 2. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell DNF 7 Aug 25
✔ 3. Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 18 Jan 25
✔ 4. The Journey Home and Other Stories by Malachi Whitaker 24 Mar 25
✔ 5. Mapp and Lucia by E F Benson 26 Aug 25
✔ 6. The Man Within by Graham Greene 31 Aug 25
✔ 7. Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell 12 Sep 25
✔ 8. England Made Me by Graham Greene 2 Mar 25
✔ 9. The Call by Edith Ayrton Zangwill 29 Jun 25
✔ 10. One True Thing by Anna Quindlen 23 Jan 25

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LOST 2025 from books I own or can borrow
(Completed 20 Oct 2025)

✔1. The Way of Beauty, Camille Di Maio, 20 Oct 2025
✔2. The First Mrs. Rothschild, Sara Aharoni, 20 May 2025
✔3. Here and Now, Santa Montefiore, 24 May 2025
✔4. Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, Kathleen Rooney, 16 Feb 2025
✔5. House Lessons: Renovating a Life, Erica Bauermeister, 24 Apr 2025
✔6. The Company Daughters, Samantha Rajaram, 8 Oct 2025
✔7. The Girl in the Woods, Camilla Läckberg, 17 Oct 2025
✔8. Greenwood, Michael Christie - DNF, read 25%
✔9. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Judy Batalion, 14 July 2025
✔10. The Women of Chateau Lafayette, Stephanie Dray, 9 June 2025

Added between Apr-Jun 2015

1For Today I Am a Boy📕
2The Secret Wisdom of the Earth📕
3Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World📕
4In an Antique Land📕
5On Such a Full Sea📖
6When She Woke📕
7The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August📕
8After Darkness📕
9The Gracekeepers📕
10The Valley of Amazement📕

Lagullande's LOST 2025

Read: 6/10

1. The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea: Winner of the Prix Odysée
✔️2. Hild 11/3/25
✔️3. New Moon 7/5/25
✔️4. Death and the King's Horseman 30/1/25
5. One Amazing Thing
6. The Sunne in Splendour
✔️7. Stormbird 4/4/25
8. The Joys of Motherhood
✔️9. The Provincial Lady Goes Further 28/2/25
✔️10. Hawksmoor 30/10/25


All were added to my shelves in Sept-Nov 2015

My LOST list for 2025. All books were added to my TBR in 2009.
FINISHED on 9/8/2025 with a bonus title finished on 9/25/2025.

✔ 1. Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipović - finished May 28, 2025
✔ 2. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - finished Jan. 24, 2025
✔ 3. Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy - finished June 13, 2025
✔ 4. Notes from the Dog by Gary Paulsen - finished May 28, 2025
✔ 5. Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix - finished Feb. 13, 2025
✔ 6. Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt - finished Aug. 11, 2025
✔ 7. Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian - finished Mar. 13, 2025
✔ 8. The Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer - finished May 13, 2025
✔ 9. Alma by H.B. Moore - finished Sept. 8, 2025
✔ 10. The Dragon Book edited by Jack Dann - finished July 28, 2025
✔ 11. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan - finished Sept. 25, 2025

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FINISHED: 11 of 11

My LOST list for 2025:
Read: 5/10

1. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
✅2. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris - 6/24/25
✅3. Snow in August by Pete Hamill - 7/29/25
4. The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
✅5. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst - 4/8/25
6. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
✅7. An Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedges - 4/1/25
8. Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism by Paul Collins
9. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
✅10. Black Lipstick Kisses by Monica Belle - 5/31/25

Alternates:
The Last Family in England by Matt Haig
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey

LOST 2025

Completed: 9/10

1. The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic (Sep 2 2018) 6/28
2. The Buried Giant (Sep 23 2018) 1/28
3. Bound (Sep 23 2018) 6/15
4. Twelfth Night (Oct 24 2018) 1/20
5. Red Rising (Oct 29 2018) 4/11
6. Ball Lightning (Oct 31 2018) 4/24
7. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet (Oct 31 2018) 1/29
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Nov 10 2018) 6/2
9. The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Nov 11 2018) 2/27
10. Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening (Nov 30 2018)

LOST 2025

Jan 1 - December 31, 2025

added in 2011:
✔1. Rio Grande Fall - fin 1/25

added in 2013:
✔2. Victims(Alex Delaware #27) - fin 5/28
✔3. The Borrower - fin 3/11

added in 2018:
✔4. Stay - fin 6/16
✔5. Under Heaven - fin 7/7
✔6. Viral Nation - fin 7/14

added in 2019
✔7. Singing Bird added 7/16/2019 - fin 2/19

added in 2020
✔8. The Last Honest Horse Thief - fin 1/6
✔9. Nothing Ventured - fin 8/27

added in 2021
✔10. August Snow - fin 2/7

COMPLETED 8/27

Lost 2025

8/10

1. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
✔2. Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment - Read 10/7/25
✔3. Wideacre - Abandoned 9/25/25
4. Middlemarch
✔5. Becoming a Woman of Extraordinary Faith: What If You Gave It All to God? - Read 12/1/25
✔6. Becoming a Vessel God Can Use - Read 5/24/25
✔7. Becoming a Woman of Influence: Making a Lasting Impact on Others - Read 7/4/25
✔8. Divine Mentor, The: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior - Read 9/19/25
✔9. Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father's Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood - Read 1/10/25
✔10. Every Child Needs a Praying Mom - Read 3/13/25

I'm still going from 2011 (I seem to add a huge number of books in March!)

1. Agatha Christie: The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot #13) -Read 01/04
2. Rachel Caine: Chill Factor -Read 01/07
3. Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass -Read 03/04
4. Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls -Read 03/08
5. Rachel Caine: Windfall -Read 03/10
6. H. Rider Haggard: She – A History of Adventure -Read 03/13
7. James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner -Read 03/15
8. Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby -Read 03/23
9. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot -Read 03/29
10. William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland -Read 04/07

Progress 10/10 books as at 04/07

My List for 2025:

1. Nutcracker and Mouse King / The Tale of the Nutcracker Read 2/15/25
2. Atonement Read 2/5/25
3. The Crow Road Read 10/5/2025
4. The Daughter of Time
5. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
6. Hey Nostradamus! - Read 2/28/25
7. If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
8. If This Is a Man • The Truce
9. An Instance of the Fingerpost
10. Jude the Obscure

LOST 2025


Completed: 10/10

✔️1. Under Currents
✔️2. The Last Tribe
✔️3. The End of October
✔️4. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
✔️5. The Most Fun We Ever Had
✔️6. The Lost Girls of Paris
✔️7. When We Believed in Mermaids
✔️8. Fingersmith
✔️9. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
✔️10. Parable of the Sower

2025 Lost

Challenge Accepted: January 1, 2025
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: ???

0/10 Complete
Updated through:

1. Reckless at Heart DNF
2. The Joan Wilder Effect DNF
3. Threshold of Annihilation
4. Facets of Revolution
5. Trials of Conviction
6. Broadway Butchery
7. The Queen's Advantage
8. The Queen's Triumph
9. Sword-Dancer
10. Sweep of the Heart

LOST 2025
January - September 11

My LOST 2025 Challenge (msg 17)

Lost completion date ❱❱ 09.11.25



🔺added April 2013 ❱❱ Her Something Impetuous ❱❱ 07.21 ★★★★
🔺added April 2013 ❱❱ Karma ❱❱ 02.01 ★★★★
🔺added April 2013 ❱❱ A Willow Creek Christmas ❱❱ 04.30 ★★★★
🔺added April 2013 ❱❱ Seeing Red ❱❱ 07.09 ★★
🔺added April 2013 ❱❱ My Runaway Heart ❱❱ 07.11 ★★★
🔺added April 2013 ❱❱ Chasing Shadows ❱❱ 07.25 ★★★
🔺added April 2013 ❱❱ Carolina Rebel ❱❱ 05.17 ★★★
🔺added April 2013 ❱❱ Wounded ❱❱ 07.04 ★★★★
🔺added Mar 2013 ❱❱ Jack Daniels Stories ❱❱ 07.25 ★★★
🔺added February 2013 ❱❱ Lady Susan ❱❱ 09.11 ★★★★

Working on getting my books together. Should have a list ready soon.

LOST 2025

All from 2017/18. All from my bookshelves.

1. Congo finished 01/30/25
2. The Prince of Tides finished 07/12/25....all done!!
3. Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' Perfect Maid Finished 01/12/25
4. The Reader Finished 01/05/25
5. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series finished 05/13/25
6. Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey finished 03/29/25
7. A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America finished 02/03/25
8. A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the Pga Tour finished 03/01/25
9. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption finished 04/17/25
10. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex finished 04/30/25

Hoping to finish out 2015 this year:

Goal: 33/37 (89.19%)

1. Tapping the Dream Tree - Charles de Lint (Newford #9)
🌲2. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
🌲 3. Hollywood Dirt - Alessandra Torre
🌲4. Pretending to Dance - Diane Chamberlain
🌲5. Smoke - Catherine McKenzie
🌲6. Humans of New York - Brandon Stanton
🌲7. The Tears of Dark Water - Corban Addison
8. Be Here Now - Ram Dass Can't find
9. 1,000 Places to see Before You Die - Patricia Shultz
🌲10. A Dog's Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron
11. The Center of the World - Jacqueline Sheehan

2016
Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness
The Bone Garden
Cage of Stars

2017
On Turpentine Lane
Foreign Soil
The Woman Next Door

2018
The Wolves of Winter
Where the Line Bleeds
The Eyre Affair

2019
Queenie
The Last Woman in the Forest
The Mermaid's Daughter

2020
The Hundred Year House
I'd Give Anything
The Jetsetters

2021
Of Women and Salt
The Survivors
How Beautiful We Were

2022
The Lioness
Out of the Easy
The School for Good Mothers

2023
Really Good, Actually
The Blue Window
Canticle Creek

2024
A Happier Life
By Any Other Name

Joyce's 2025 Lost
Books on TBR from at least 10 years ago (2015 or earlier)

10/10 FINISHED! 8/26/25

1.Chill Factor Added 1/1/2011 - Read 1/26/25
2.Full Tilt Added 6/19/2011 - read 2/21/25
3.666 Park Avenue Added 8/1/2012 - Read 2/18/25
4.Red Planet Added 2/15/2015 - read 2/22/25
5.Moving Pictures Added 7/3/2011 - Read 3/20/25
6.New York to Dallas Added 7/13/11 - Read 6/3/25
7.Undead and Undermined Added 7/7/11 - Read 6/13/25
8.Touched by an Alien Added 6/29/11 - Read 6/27/25
9.Dead Lines Added 1/1/11 Read - 6/30/25
10.The Stone Prince Added 11/13/11 Read 8/26/25

Three down....seven to go!

Beth wrote: "Three down....seven to go!"

I'm right there with you.

Is there going to be a challenge for this year set up in the Group Challenge area?

Luann wrote: "Is there going to be a challenge for this year set up in the Group Challenge area?"

I am not sure what you are asking. This is the thread for the LOST challenge for 2025.

Bea wrote: "Luann wrote: "Is there going to be a challenge for this year set up in the Group Challenge area?"

I am not sure what you are asking. This is the thread for the LOST challenge for 2025."

I think Luann might be asking about the widgets for the challenges. If so, I don't know whether Tien has decided about that. I didn't notice a great response from people when she asked about it. But maybe not everyone knows that that's what the "Challenges" section near the top of the group page are.

Susan wrote: "I think Luann might be asking about the widgets for the challenges. If so, I don't know whether Tien has decided about that. I didn't notice a great response from people when she asked about it. But maybe not everyone knows that that's what the "Challenges" section near the top of the group page are. "

Thanks, Susan, for that response. I must admit that I never noticed "challenges" nor do I use the widgets. Glad someone could give a coherent response to Luann.

Susan wrote: "Bea wrote: "Luann wrote: "Is there going to be a challenge for this year set up in the Group Challenge area?"

I am not sure what you are asking. This is the thread for the LOST challenge for 2025...."

Thanks, Susan. Yes, I was asking about the widgets for the challenges. I wasn't sure what they were called, but you get to them from the "challenges" link which is with all the other group links at the top right corner of each group page.

Where would I find the discussion where Tien asked about them? I've looked around in some of the discussions and haven't found it.

Luann wrote: "Susan wrote: "Bea wrote: "Luann wrote: "Is there going to be a challenge for this year set up in the Group Challenge area?"

I am not sure what you are asking. This is the thread for the LOST chall..."

Did you mean this post? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Lisette wrote: "Luann wrote: "Susan wrote: "Bea wrote: "Luann wrote: "Is there going to be a challenge for this year set up in the Group Challenge area?"

I am not sure what you are asking. This is the thread for ..."

Yes, thanks. That's the one I meant.

Susan wrote: "Lisette wrote: "Luann wrote: "Susan wrote: "Bea wrote: "Luann wrote: "Is there going to be a challenge for this year set up in the Group Challenge area?"

I am not sure what you are asking. This is..."

You are welcome

Halfway home!

4 down 6 to go. I am being slower this year.

6 down, 4 to go

Beth wrote: "6 down, 4 to go"

Go, Beth, Go!

Five down 5 to go. halfway there.

Joyce wrote: "Five down 5 to go. halfway there."

Nice, Joyce.

Joyce wrote: "Five down 5 to go. halfway there."
Good job, Joyce!

7 down 3 to go!

8 down 2 to go!

2 down, 8 to go 🤣

Beth wrote: "8 down 2 to go!"

Go, Beth, Go!

LynnB wrote: "2 down, 8 to go 🤣"

LOL! I am back there, too. Cheering for those making headway but thinking that I will be finishing this game by the end of the year!

I am just back from vacation and will need a week to decompress from my trip, so look for LOST #2 (new books) to be posted soon.

one more!

Beth wrote: "one more!"

Your're nearly there...

I completed LOST on May 26

Added between Apr-Jun 2015

1For Today I Am a Boy📕
2The Secret Wisdom of the Earth📕
3Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World📕
4In an Antique Land📕
5On Such a Full Sea📖
6When She Woke📕
7The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August📕
8After Darkness📕
9The Gracekeepers📕
10The Valley of Amazement📕

Meg wrote: "I completed LOST on May 26

Added between Apr-Jun 2015

1For Today I Am a Boy📕
2The Secret Wisdom of the Earth📕
3[book:Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in th..."

Congrats, Meg.

Two more to go......

All done!! Woo hoo!!