2025 Reading Challenge discussion

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

It’s time to take control of your reading and rearrange your virtual bookshelves!

This yearly challenge will help you organize your reading plans around "thematic bookshelves.” Although you’re given the general concept of each of the 20 shelves, it’s up to you to fine-tune your chosen shelves to accommodate your reading tastes and plans.

If you are a returning Bookworm, please look carefully as the prompts have slightly changed.

You may repeat a shelf theme, if you wish, but your challenge should consist of at least two different themes, with two books minimum per shelf. Also note that you may count each book only once within this challenge, but feel free to apply that book to any of our other yearly, quarterly, and monthly challenges.

The 20 shelf themes are:

*An Author
*Award Winners
*A Book Genre
*Book Length (under 200 or over 500 pages)
*Books-to-Screen/Stage
*The Color of the Cover
*Diversity (in any form)
*A Feeling
*Formats and Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.)
*Heritage & Culture
*A Listopia
*A Location
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
*Mythology & Folklore
*Publishing Year/Decade
*Science & Technology
*Seasons & Holidays
*Time Period
*Title (starting with the same letter)
*Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

To see a sample set-up, click the spoiler tag. (view spoiler)[
Sample Challenge Set-up
Progress: 0/36 books

An Author: Ellis Peters: 0/3
Book Length: Chunksters (500 or more pages): 0/6
Diversity: Transgender or Non-Binary Author/Protagonist: 0/4
A Listopia: Women in Translation: 0/12
Award Winners: Hugo Award for Best Novel (Winners & nominees): 0/4
Lois MacMaster Bujold, Ursula K. LeGuin, Anne Leckie, Catherynne M. Valente, Rebecca Roanhorse
A Location: Literature by Asian Authors: 0/4
Various authors and cultures
Time Period: Renaissance Era (14th-17th centuries): 0/3
House of Niccolo series, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (hide spoiler)]


Please join us and bend the themes to your 2025 reading plans. Let’s make like oysters and be shelfish!

How to Participate:

1. Post here telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
You may choose your books at the beginning, or add them as you go. You may join any time during the year, and may change your goal whenever needed.

2. When you finish books for the challenge, edit your original post or member’s corner thread to add them.
Instructions are in the how-to link below.

3. To have your progress updated, post a new comment here to let the challenge leader know.
Every time you post an update, be sure to include your original (sign-up) message number, the number of books you have completed, and your goal. We use your original message number to identify you, since multiple members may have the same profile name.
Example:
Update to message 32: 2/25 books read!

For more information about how our challenges work, visit this how-to thread or ask your challenge leader.

P.S. Please do not delete posts! It changes the message numbers, complicating the update process for both leaders and participants. If you wish to leave the challenge, simply post a comment here to let us know. You may edit your original post to say {deleted}. Thank you!

Participants:

Amy (Other Amy) - 4 / 24 🐛
Ann - 15 / 30 🐛
Ashly - 8 / 30 🐛
bailey - 44 / 50 🐛
BarbaraBrubru_gingertiger - 9 / 40 🐛
Beth - 0 / 100
Briana - 0 / 48
✨Brianna Raquel✨ - 134 / 188
Brittany - 28 / 48 🐛
Caraina - 22 / 30 🐛
Carmen - 10 / 25 🐛
Chalmation - 29 / 40 🐛
Chiara - 7 / 57 🐛
Chrissie - 30 / 40
Cordelia - 15 / 25 🐛
CrazyAsACupcake - 0 / 10
Darlene - 50 / 50 🐉 Completed!
Delaney - 16 / 30 🐛
Denise - 37 / 40 🐛
Dubhease - 24 / 27 🐛
Ela (Mouse333) - 0 / 59
Elaine - 0 / 100
Emily - 149 / 30 🐉 Completed!
Erin - 6 / 25 🐛
GailW - 47 / 40 🐉 Completed!
Greg - 10 / 25 🐛
Gretchen - 0 / 15
Inkeri - 0 / 36
Jaida - 54 / 30 🐉 Completed!
Jane - 0 / 15
Janine - 37 / 25 🐉 Completed!
Jennifer - 0 / 20
Jessica - 0 / 44
Ju - 0 / 20
Julie - 1 / 10 🐛
Kalyn - 15 / 15 🐉 Completed!
Kimmie - 0 / 10
Kristina - 74 / 100 🐛
Kylie - 0 / 100
Laurie - 11 / 15 🐛
Lexi - 25 / 25 🐉 Completed!
Lina - 0 / 20
Margie - 53 / 60 🐛
Melina - 0 / 30
Mie - 34 / 30 🐉 Completed!
Nat - 0 / 20
Navya - 0 / 12
Patty - 56 / 63 🐛
Pippin18 - 0 / 30
Rachael (msg 012) - 24 / 30 🐛
Rachael (msg 063) - 0 / 30
Rachel (msg 009) - 11 / 25 🐛
Robynne - 0 / 8
Sarah - 50 / 50 🐉
SarahKat - 23 / 40 🐛
Shari - 0 / 50
Sherri - 0 / 48
Sophia - 7 / 15 🐛
.sunflower. - 0 / 6
Sunny - 0 / 30
TCampbell - 37 / 37 🐉 Completed!
TerryJane - 112 / 40 🐉 Completed!
Theresa - 4 / 6 🐛
TerryJane - 58 / 40 🐉 Completed!
Vicki - 11 / 75 🐛
Ziggy - 0 / 30

Updated through Message #355 on Oct 01, 2025.

Reserved

Joining up for 20 for now, thanks!

📸 Bookworms Take Shelfies - Yearly Challenge 📸
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025

📸 Progress: /20 📸 -

Tracking my books read for this challenge in my corner

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I would like to sign up for 30 books 📸

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Done: 36
Target: 30
Completion date: 05.08.25 🇩🇰

In most title challenges we usually discard “A”, “AN” and “THE” - in this challenge I will honor them ☺️

THE A’S HAVE IT:

📗 A Witch Hunt in Whitby
📗 A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston
📗 A Calamitous Chinese Killing
📗 A Frightfully English Execution
📗 A Funny Life
A Wedding in December
📗 An Island Wedding

THE THE’S:

The Bone Garden
📗 The Vanishing Half
📗 The Last Shadow
The Summer Skies
📗 The Narrows
📗 The Exchange
📗 The Boys from Biloxi
📗 The Midnight Library
📗 The Women
📗 The Marriage Act
📗 The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
📗 The Maid
📗 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
📗 The Lavender Garden
📗 The Beekeeper's Promise
📗 Den døde diplomat - The dead diplomat
📗 The Memory Police

My stats tell me that the majority of my books are between 300-400 pages long, so obviously I will have to include these shelves in my challenge.

UNDER 200:

📗 Udvalgte eventyr
📗 Bamser, bomber og brødristere
📗 Nerve
📗 After the Quake
📗 Blondinens betragtninger: Om køn, feminisme og #metoo
📗 HjerneRo
📗 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
📗 Top 35 Mistakes Danes Make in English: A fun guide to small but significant errors
📗 Rodløs
📗 117 måder at dø på: Fra retsmedicinerens bord

OVER 500:

📗 De bedste familier
📗 Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
📗 The Forgotten Garden
📗 Laurits og Valdemar
Amy Snow
📙 The Six Sacred Stones
📗 Elephant Song

Progress: 28/59

An Author: Anne Bishop - 0/3
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An Author: Alanea Alder - 1/3
1. Fate Knows Best
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An Author: Alice Coldbreath - 1/3
1. Wed by Proxy
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An Author: Ashley Jade - 1/2
1. The Words
2.

An Author: Maggie Osborne - 2/2
1. The Wives of Bowie Stone
2. The Bride of Willow Creek

A Book Genre: Fantasy - 10/13
1. A Wizard of Earthsea
2. The Girl and the Stars
3. The Waking Fire
4. Shorefall
5. Death Rider
6. The Ember Blade
7. Blood Over Bright Haven
8. The Legion of Flame
9. The Empire of Ashes
10. The Tiger and the Wolf
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A Book Genre: Non-Fiction - 3/5
1. In the Flo: Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life
2. Sociopath: A Memoir
3. How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
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5.

Formats and Styles: Audiobook - 3/3
1. Archangel's Consort
2. Make Me, Sir
3. Archangel's Blade

A Listopia: Paranormal Romance Series with One Lead Couple - 1/5
1. Chosen
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5.

A Listopia: Adventure Books with Romance (not the other way) - 1/5
1. Wild Magic
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5.

Your Backlist: Oldest 15 - 5/15
1. Blackburn
2. Moon Spell
3. Four Seconds to Lose
4. Claimed
5. Reaper's Stand
6. Sway
7. Logan
8. Perfect Chaos
9. Poison Study
10. Scoring Mr. Romeo
11. Locked
12. Colton Copycat Killer
13. Vanished
14. Affliction
15. The Return of Brody McBride

Hola!
Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 10/25

*An Author
Jane Austen and her influence in literature

*A Listopia
1001 books you must read before you die

*Publishing Year/Decade
Books published before 1970

my tracking post

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025


11/25


*A Location

1.Keep Me By Sara Cate ( New York, Scotland) 2/10 3.5 stars
2.The Voyage Home By Pat Barker 2/28
3.The Woman in the Library By Sulari Gentill 4/29 3.8 stars
4.The Life We Bury By Allen Eskens (Minnesota) 5/19 4.5 stars
5.Green Darkness By Anya Seton (England) 6/14 4 stars





*Publishing Year/Decade ( 2025)
1.The Woman in Suite 11 By Ruth Ware 2.5 stars 8/18
2.The Wrong Sister By Claire Douglas 9/3 4 stars
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*Diversity (in any form)
1.The Game Is Afoot By Elise Bryant 8/21 4 stars
2.The Vegetarian By Han Kang 8/25 4 stars
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*A Book Genre

1.Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots By Jade Scott 2/26 5 stars
2Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom By Christine Brown Woolley 9/28 5 stars
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*A Book Genre ( Historical fiction)

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I love this challenge! I'm always way too ambitious and I'm sure this year won't be any different. But it is so fun to set it all up.

37/48 (55/48 when adding extras from categories)

*An Author: Brandon Sanderson 0/3
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*An Author: Keri Arthur 2/3
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*An Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes 3/3
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*An Author: Debut Authors 6/3
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*A Book Genre: Cozy 4/3
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*Book Length 500+ pages 13/6
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*A Location: Written by Canadians 9/5
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*A Location: Set in Asia 5/5
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*Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies 3/2
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*Mythology & Folklore: Egyptian 5/3
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Publishing Year/Decade: 2000-2010 1/4
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*Science & Technology 0/2
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*Time Period: Ancient World 1/3
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*A Listopia Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2024 3/3
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Possibilities (view spoiler)[ The Familiar The Tainted Cup Heavenly Tyrant To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods A Fragile Enchantment Foul Days The Girl with No Reflection So Let Them Burn The Spellshop Long Live Evil Voyage of the Damned Winter Lost The Phoenix Keeper The Book of Doors Song of the Six Realms Dreadful (hide spoiler)]

Put me down for 30.

I'll add my themes when I figure them out.

I love this challenge! Please sign me up for 20 25 30 books.

COMPLETED: 27/30

* An Author: Terry Pratchett
1. Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Stories
2. Strata

* An Author: William Shakespeare
1. The Complete Sonnets and Poems
2. A Lover's Complaint
3. The Rape of Lucrece

* Award Winners: Goodreads Choice Awards
1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Non Fiction 2012)
2. The Woman in Me (Memoir & Autobiography 2023)
3. The Hate U Give (Debut Author/Young Adult Fiction 2017)

* Book Length: 500+ pages
1. Strange the Dreamer (528 pages)
2. Muse of Nightmares (528 pages)
3. I Am Pilgrim (624 pages)
4. Children of Time (609 pages)
5. Days of Blood & Starlight (516 pages)
6. Dreams of Gods & Monsters (506 pages)
7. Crazy Rich Asians (546 pages)
8. Onyx Storm (758 pages)
9. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (856 pages)
10. Dragon Rider (Funke) (549 pages)
11. Dragon Rider (Matharu) (568 pages)
12. The Odyssey (532 pages)
13. Katabasis (559 pages)
14. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (544 pages)
15. Legendborn (511 pages)

* Title: R is for Rachael and also these book titles... (excluding the/a)
1. The Red House Mystery
2. The Railway Children
3. The Raven Spell
4. Rotherweird

26/27

Award Winners - Nobel

1. Mirèio, a Provençal Poem
2. The Vegetarian
3. Plays by Jacinto Benavente : Second series
4.
5.

A Book Genre - Mystery/Thrillers

1. Such Charming Liars
2. Kill for Me, Kill for You
3. Are You Sara?
4. Middle of the Night
5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
6. With a Vengeance
7. The Woman in Suite 11
8. Home Is Where the Bodies Are
9. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

A Location - Reading Across Canada

1. Denial (BC)
2. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (AB)
3. Who Has Seen the Wind (SK)
4. A Complicated Kindness (MB)
5. Vampires of Ottawa (ON)
6. The Tin Flute (QC)
7. Wicked Woods (NB)
8. An Audience of Chairs (NS)
9. The Troop (PEI)
10

Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

1. We Sold Our Souls
2. Ulysses
3. Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah
4. Broken
5. Everyone Here Is Lying

I'm in for 40.

31/40

*The Color of the Cover: Blue 3/3


✔️

*A Listopia: Best Books Ever 2/3
Death Comes As the End
Everything I Never Told You

*Science & Technology: Medical 1/3
How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner

*Title (starting with the same letter): B 3/4
Big Lake Sinner (Big Lake #25)
Breaking Cover (Tony Wolf/Tim Buckthorn #1)
Broken Shield (Tony Wolf/Tim Buckthorn #2)

*Book Length (under 200 or over 500 pages): 4/6
<200
Dead of Night (Sloane Monroe #6.5) 111

>500
The Collected Stories, Season Three, Volume II: A Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery Collection 538
Hearts in Atlantis 640
Black House (The Talisman #2) 625

*A Location: Europe 0/3

*Time Period: 1900s 3/3
Galahad's Castle (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #31)
The Loch Ness Horror (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #32)
The Adair Murders (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #33)

*Books-to-Screen/Stage: 3/3
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Bag of Bones
Crooked House

*An Author: Marla Madison 5/5
Relative Malice (Detective Kendall Halsrud #1)
Iced Malice (Detective Kendall Halsrud #2)
Promise of Malice (Detective Kendall Halsrud #3)
Season of Malice (Detective Kendall Halsrud #4)
Aisle of Malice (Detective Kendall Halsrud #5)

*Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year): 4/4
Famous Landmarks of Ancient Rome: The History of the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Appian Way
Sector C
Hush Now Baby (Sloane Monroe #6)
Fact. Fact. Bullsh*t!

*A Book Genre: Fantasy 3/3
Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4)
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower #5)
Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower #6)

I'm going to do 3 in each shelf. I'll finalize the categories later.

Progress: 59/63

An Author - Rebecca Yarros
1. Fourth Wing
2. Iron Flame
3. Onyx Storm

Award Winners
1. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
2. Down World by Rebecca Phelps
3. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Book Genre - Romance
1. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
2. Lover Forbidden by J.R. Ward
3. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia

Book Length (under 200)
1. The Last Days of Lorien by Pittacus Lore
2. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
3. Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

Book Length (over 500 pages)
1. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
2. Quicksilver by Callie Hart
3. The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent

Books-to-Screen/Stage
1. One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
2. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Color of the Cover - Blue
1. El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
2. The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
3. The Selection by Kiera Cass

Diversity (in any form)
1. Yesterworld by Rebecca Phelps
2. Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
3. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

A Feeling - Love
1. Love at First by Kate Clayborn
2. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
3. In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros

Formats and Styles audiobook
1. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
2. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
3. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Heritage & Culture
1. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
2. How to Play the Guitar and Y: Words + Music, Vol. 21 by Elvis Costello
3.

A Listopia Best Books of 2024
1. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
2. Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
3.

A Location - England
1. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
2. The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
3.

Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
1. God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments by Hannah Brown
2. Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner
3. Inside Out by Demi Moore

Mythology & Folklore
1. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
2. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
3. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

Publishing Year/Decade - Decades 2020's
1. Command and Control by Marc Cameron (2023)
2. The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth (2021)
3. It's a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan (2025)

Science & Technology
1. Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
2. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
3. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Seasons & Holidays
1. Until Midnight by Melissa Landers
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
3.

Time Period - Historical
1. The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
2. The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman
3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Title (starting with the same letter) T
1. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
2. The Reality of Everything by Rebecca Yarros
3. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)
1. Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
2. City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
3. Six's Legacy by Pittacus Lore

Progress: 33/40

currently reading:

An Author: Chris Carter 3
A Book Genre: Classic 3/3

Booklength: 200 - 400 pages 4/4
(304) (240) (384) (400)
Diversity: BIPOC 3/3

Film & Theater: Book turned into Movie/TV Show 5/5

A Hobby or Pastime: Books 3/3

A Listopia: Best Gay Fiction 5/5

Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies: 1/3

Nature and the Environment: Ocean 3/3

A Place: Tokyo 5/5

A Time: World War II 1/3

Bookworms Take Shelfies
I'm going for 5 from each of the 20 categories.

✅ An Author - Stephen King
(view spoiler)[1. The Shining (The Shining, #1) by Stephen King
2. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
3. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
4. It by Stephen King
5. Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4) by Stephen King (hide spoiler)]

Award Winners - CWA New Blood Dagger Award
1. Death's Bright Angel (Dec)
2. A Real Shot in the Arm (Sep)
3. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1) by Walter Mosley
4. Fourth of July (Nov)
5. Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor

✅ A Book Genre - Crime Fiction
(view spoiler)[1. The Venetian Betrayal (Cotton Malone #3) by Steve Berry
2. All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3) by Patricia Cornwell
3. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
4. Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7) by C.J. Sansom
5. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell (hide spoiler)]

✅ Book Length (under 200 or over 500 pages) - over 500
(view spoiler)[1. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
2. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
3. The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1) by Rick Riordan
4. Whirlwind (The Asian Saga Book, #6) by James Clavell
5. Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, #6) by C.J. Sansom (hide spoiler)]

✅ Books-to-Screen/Stage - book to TV
(view spoiler)[1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
2. Pines (Wayward Pines, #1) by Blake Crouch
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
4. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) by P.G. Wodehouse
5. Defending Jacob by William Landay (hide spoiler)]

✅ The Color of the Cover - green >50%
(view spoiler)[1. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore over 75%

2. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall over 73%

3. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbinsover 84%

4. How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion by Derek Sivers

5. Salvage the Bones (Bois Sauvage, #2) by Jesmyn Ward
(hide spoiler)]

✅ Diversity (in any form) - BIPOC author
(view spoiler)[1. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
2. Binti (Binti, #1) by Nnedi Okorafor
3. In the Darkness, Eyes and Teeth by Felix I.D. Dimaro
4. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
5. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (hide spoiler)]

A Feeling - Fear
1. Fear Thy Neighbor by Fern Michaels
2. What Angels Fear (Sep)
3. Everything She Feared (Oct)
4. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
5. Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

✅ Formats and Styles - audiobook
(view spoiler)[1. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
2. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
5. On the Way to the Wedding (Bridgertons, #8) by Julia Quinn (hide spoiler)]

Heritage & Culture - Native American/Indigenous Authors
1. Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
2. Crazy Brave: A Memoir (Sep)
3. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
4. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
5. Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

✅ A Listopia - Books that Everyone Should Read at Least Once
(view spoiler)[1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #1) by Mark Twain
3. The Stranger by Albert Camus
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (hide spoiler)]

A Location - set in Russia/Soviet Union
1. The Bronze Horseman (Aug)
2. Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1) by Tom Rob Smith
3. The Romanov Bride (Oct)
4. Rasputin's Daughter (Romanov, #2) by Robert Alexander
5. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant

✅ Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
(view spoiler)[1. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
2. Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography by Rob Lowe
3. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
4. Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
5. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (hide spoiler)]

Mythology & Folklore
1. Circe by Madeline Miller
2. Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World (Dec)
3. Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Nov)
4. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
5. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4) by Rick Riordan

✅ Publishing Year/Decade - 2020s
(view spoiler)[1. Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler
2. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
4. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
5. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black (hide spoiler)]

✅ Science & Technology
(view spoiler)[1. The Ultimate Ocean Facts for Kids, Teens, & Adults by Ethereal Ray
2. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
3. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
4. Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas by Lisa Yount
5. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (hide spoiler)]

Seasons & Holidays
1. The Herdmans 3 (Oct)
2. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
3. The Gift (Dec)
4. The Crash by Freida McFadden
5. He Sees You When You're Sleeping (Dec)

✅ Time Period - WWII
(view spoiler)[1. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) by Heather Morris
2. Always Remember Your Name: A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz by Andra Bucci
3. The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw
4. Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1) by J.G. Ballard
5. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (hide spoiler)]

✅ Title (starting with the same letter) - I
(view spoiler)[1. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
2. I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1) by Dan Wells
3. I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
4. Invitation, The by Lucy Foley
5. I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin (hide spoiler)]

✅ Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)
(view spoiler)[1. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
2. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
3. How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion by Derek Sivers
4. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
5. Before I Let You Go (hide spoiler)]

Signing up for 25.

18/25


Length: over 500 pages (5/5)
1. The Winners
2. The Bone Shard Emperor
3. Onyx Storm
4. Marble Hall Murders
5. Wolf Hall

Genre: Sci-fi (3/5)
1. Alibi
2. Skyward
3. Here Beside the Rising Tide
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5.

Arthurian (3/5)
1. Le Fay
2. The Bright Sword
3. Born of the Sun
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A Location: Israel (3/5)
1. Rebel Daughter
2. Three Floors Up
3. The Red Tent
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Author: Juliet Marillier (1/3)
1. Heir to Sevenwaters
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Genre: Classic (2/2)
1. The Odyssey
2. The Custom of the Country

I'll join for 10, but not sure what shelves yet! :D

Progress: 70/25

(Original Goal (25/25) Completed: 04/14/25)

An Author- Karen M. McManus: (2/2)
🫧Nothing More to Tell-Karen .M. McManus
🫧Such Charming Liars-Karen .M. McManus

A Book Genre- Dark Academia: (6/4)
🫧The Library of Shadows-Rachel Moore
🫧Don't Let the Forest In- C.G. Drews
🫧Darkly-Marisha Pessl
🫧Truly, Devious-Maureen Johnson
🫧They Never Learn-Layne Fargo
🫧Immortal Consequences-I. V. Mare

Formats and styles- Audiobooks: (44/20)
🫧For She Is Wrath-Emily Varga
🫧The Party-Natasha Preston
🫧Threads That Bind-Kika Hatzopoulou
🫧The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins
🫧Catching Fire-Suzanne Collins
🫧Snow Drowned-Jennifer .D. Lyle
🫧A Cruel Thirst-Angela Montoya
🫧A Starlet's Secret to a Sensational Afterlife-Kendall Kulper
🫧Rebel Witch-Kristen Ciccarelli
🫧Mockingjay-Suzanne Collins
🫧The Scarlet Alchemist-Kylie Lee Baker
🫧Scythe & Sparrow-Brynne Weaver
🫧Our Infinite Fates-Laura Steven
🫧The Unfinished-Cheryl Isaacs
🫧We Were Warned-Chelsea Ichaso
🫧Sunrise on the Reaping-Suzanne Collins
🫧Fearless-Lauren Roberts
🫧Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
🫧None Shall Sleep-Ellie Marney
🫧The Reptile Room-Lemony Snicket
🫧Some Shall Break-Ellie Marney
🫧The Wide Window-Lemony Snicket
🫧The Miserable Mill-Lemony Snicket
🫧With a Vengeance-Riley Sager
🫧The House Across the Lake-Riley Sager
🫧The Knight and the Moth-Rachel Gillig
🫧The Austere Academy-Lemony Snicket
🫧Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers-Jesse .Q. Sutanto
🫧Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping On a Dead Man -Jesse .Q. Sutanto
🫧Not Quite Dead Yet-Holly Jackson
🫧The Ersatz Elevator-Lemony Snicket
🫧My Sister, the Serial Killer-Oyinkan Braithwaite
🫧We Were Liars-E. Lockhart
🫧The Missing Half-Ashley Flowers & Alex Kiester
🫧The Wife Upstairs-Freida McFadden
🫧A Forgery of Roses-Jessica S. Olson
🫧All the Hidden Monsters-Amie Jordan
🫧Family of Liars-E. Lockhart
🫧Wild Reverence-Rebecca Ross
🫧Fearful-Lauren Roberts
🫧The Executioners Three-Susan Dennard
🫧Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone-Benjamin Stevenson
🫧Everyone on This Train is a Suspect-Benjamin Stevenson
🫧How to Survive a Horror Story-Mallory Arnold

Titles with the Same Letter- “B”: (6/4)
🫧Bittersweet in the Hollow-Kate Pearsall
🫧The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes-Suzanne Collins
🫧The Blood Orchid-Kylie Lee Baker
🫧Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng-Kylie Lee Baker
🫧The Bad Beginning- Lemony Snicket
🫧Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil-V.E. Schwab

Your Backlist TBR- ARCs from NetGalley: (12/15)
🫧Thieves' Gambit-Kayvion Lewis (ARC: 2024)
🫧The Last Bookstore on Earth-Lily Braun-Arnold (ARC: 2025)
🫧Lies on the Serpent's Tongue-Kate Pearsall (ARC: 2025)
🫧Heist Royale-Kayvion Lewis (ARC: 2024)
🫧The Debutantes-Olivia Worley (ARC: 2024)
🫧The Blood Vier-Christy .R. Harrill (ARC: 2024)
🫧The Thrashers-Julie Soto (ARC: 2025)
🫧The Tarnished Son-Elizabeth McKenna (ARC: 2024)
🫧We Won't All Survive-Kate Alice Marshall (ARC: 2025)
🫧This Ravenous Fate-Hayley Dennings (ARC-2024)
🫧More Than This-Krystal Marquis (ARC-2024)
🫧House of Hearts-Skyla Arndt (ARC-2025)
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BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
January 01, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 105/150

Count me in for 100 books.
Update to 150 books.

Member Corner Tracking Post

Sounds like fun. I'll aim for 100 books with my shelved to be pondered betwen now and 1/1.

Progress: / 100

Shelf #1:
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Please put me down for 50 books, 6 shelves.

Author: Fern Michaels
1. The Wild Side
2. Vanishing Act
3. Deadly Deals
4. Game Over
5. Cross Roads
6. Deja Vu
7. Home Free
8. Gotcha!
9. Kiss and Tell
10. Blindsided

Genre: True Crime
1. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
2. Guilty Admissions: The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies behind the College Cheating Scandal
3. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
4. The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
5. The Cases That Haunt Us
6. If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children
7. Before He Wakes
8. Murder, Interrupted
9. Home Sweet Murder
10. Murder Beyond the Grave

Genre: Suspense
1. A Very Bad Thing
2. The Hitchcock Hotel
3. What the Wife Knew
4. Carolina Moon
5. The Night We Lost Him
6. The Witness
7. Hidden Pictures
8. The Couple at Number 9
9. A Killing Cold
10. Famous Last Words

Title: B
1. The Boyfriend
2. The Bog Wife
3. Before the Coffee Gets Cold
4. Brightly Shining
5. Black Woods, Blue Sky

Title: L
1. Life or Death
2. The Lake of Lost Girls
3. Love, Unscripted
4. Life, Loss, and Puffins
5. The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Backlist: added before 01/01/2025
1. Rockin' Around the Chickadee
2. The House Is on Fire
3. The Garner Files: A Memoir
4. A Reason to See You Again
5. The Christmas Inn
6. Nora Goes Off Script
7. Here One Moment
8. The Banned Books Club
9. Eyes Only
10. Shy Creatures

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Goal: 75
Progress: 11/75

✍💡A Female Author: Colleen Coble💡✍ 0/2
1. Two Reasons to Run
2. Three Missing Days

✍💡A Male Author: James Patterson💡✍1/2
1. 25 Alive
✔️2. Death of the Black Widow: An unsolvable case becomes an obsession

🏅💥Award Winners💥🏅 2/5
1. House of Flame and Shadow
2. Somewhere Beyond the Sea
3. You Like It Darker
✔️4. Ruthless Vows
✔️5. How to End a Love Story

♐🛐A Book Genre: Historical Fiction🛐♐ 5/20
1. Wandering Stars
✔️2. The Lion Women of Tehran
3. The Briar Club
✔️4. All the Colors of the Dark
✔️5. Husbands & Lovers
6. The Seventh Veil of Salome
7. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
8. The Book of Witching
9. Behind Every Good Man
✔️10. James
11. Shelterwood
✔️12. There Are Rivers in the Sky
13. The Phoenix Crown
14. The Booklover's Library
15. The Bright Sword
16. Daughters of Shandong
17. Where the Library Hides
18. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
19. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
20. A Sweet Sting of Salt

✔️💜Book Length (under 200)💜✔️0/2
1. The Xanders Case 108 pgs
2. TBD

💪🌟Book Length (over 500 pages)🌟💪 1/5
1. Phantasma
✔️2. When the World Tips Over
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🌎🌈💧Cultures Around the World💧🌈🌎 0/3
1. Masquerade African
2. My Name Is Red Turkish
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😱😍😂A Feeling 😂😍😱1/3
✔️1. Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen Fisher 2 January
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🕵️‍♂️🔨🔍2nd Favorite Genre: Mystery & Thriller 🔍🪓🕵️‍♂️0/5
1. Where Sleeping Girls Lie
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🖤☠️Nonfiction, Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies ☠️🖤0/2
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☀️✨Mythology & Folklore ✨☀️0/3
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🎅☃️❄️Holidays ❄️☃️🎅0/5
1. The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas
2. Big on Christmas
3. The Christmas Forest
4. The Christmas Village
5. We'll Always Have Christmas

⛈️🌸🍂Seasons🍂🌸⛈️ 0/5
1. The Summer Cottage
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📚😱Backlog on NetGalley 😱📚 0/15
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❤️💛💚Good Enough to Read AGAIN! 💚💛❤️ 1/5
✔️1. The Women
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Put me down for 15 books and 5 shelves please!

Progress: 15/15 books & 5/5 shelves COMPLETED! :)

*An Author (Cassandra Clare)
1. Queen of Air and Darkness ✔️
2. Chain of Gold ✔️
3. Chain of Iron ✔️

*A Book Genre (Fantasy)
4. The Selection ✔️
5. Caraval ✔️
6. A Court of Frost and Starlight ✔️

*Book Length (under 200 or over 500 pages)
7. A Court of Mist and Fury ✔️
8. A Court of Wings and Ruin ✔️
9. Lord of Shadows ✔️

*The Color of the Cover (Red)
10. One of Us Is Lying ✔️
11. The Elite ✔️
12. Twisted Hate ✔️

*Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)
13. Daughter of the Pirate King ✔️
14. 8th Confession ✔️
15. Into the Wild ✔️

I am going to go for 15 on this, please :)

Progress: 7/15

An Author Kristin Hannah:
1. On Mystic Lake
completed 2/27/25
2. Home Front
completed 8/3/253.

Book Length 500+ pages:
1. The Nightingale
completed 5/12/25
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Genre Memoirs & Auto/Biographies:
1. The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose - completed 1/14/25
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Time Period Early Americana:
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Title Starts with "C":
1. The Cove
completed 4/1/25
2. Commonwealth
completed 5/28/25
3. Crow Lake
completed 8/27/25

Put me down for 8 books please.

I want to do ONE Author Shelf -
Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael Gear.

I need to read some of their Forgotten Past series!!

People of the Silence - Chaco Canyon Empire - New Mexico
People of the Moon - Collapse of the Chaco Canyon Empire
People of the Canyons - Four Corners Area - South West

People of the Wolf (Book 1) - Crossing the Bering Sea Ice Bridge
People of the Fire (Book 2) - Climate Change - Warming up
People of the Earth (Book 3) - Plains & Basin

People of the Lakes - Great Lakes - Hopewell culture
People of the Song Trail - First Contact with the Vikings

Please count me in for 44 😊

Authors

Alison Weir - I want to finish reading her six queens series.
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Kate Morton - I want to read the books of hers that I haven't gotten around to yet
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Book Genre

Horror
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Great Courses
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Books-to-Screen/Stage

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Listopia

Best Books of 2020
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Best Books of 2021
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Best Books of 2022
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Best Books of 2023
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Best Books of 2024
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0/44

A place for my current obsessions! Yes please! 52 seems like a good number just to put down. This year did not go as planned. I think I'll drop that to 24.

Author: Cassandra Khaw


Genre: Fauxumentaries


Genre: Lost, Found, and/or Cursed Media


Cover Color: Make a Rainbow


Diversity: In Translation

Diversity: Indigenous Authors

Myth & Folklore: Foxes


Science: It Is Sharks

8/24

I would like to sign up for 15 please.

A GENRE: SPIRITUALITY
1. Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah by Ajahn Chah
2. Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart by Ram Dass
3. True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart by Tara Brach

DIVERSITY
1. Timecode of a Face by Ruth Ozeki
2. Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
3. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle

BIOGRAPHIES/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES/MEMOIRS
1. Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
2. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
3. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola

BACKLIST (books added to your TBR list before this year)
1. The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
2. We Are Water by Wally Lamb
3. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin

TIME PERIOD: 1960s
1. The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang
2. The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle
3. Hippie by Barry Miles

I'm planning to do 36 for this challenge.
Progress: 1/36

Year Published: 2025 - 0/10
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Listopia: Best Books of the 20th Century - 0/6
1. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
2. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
3. Sokea surmaaja by Margaret Atwood
4. Revolverimies by Stephen King
5. Rakkautta koleran aikaan by Gabriel García Márquez
✔️6. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Series: The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley - 0/8
1. Seitsemän sisarta
2. Myrskyn sisar
3. Varjon sisar
4. Helmen sisar
5. Kuun sisar
6. Auringon sisar
7. Kadonnut sisar
8. Atlas, Papa Saltin tarina

Title: A chracter name in the title - 0/6
1. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2. Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton
3. Maggie ja minä by Eppu Nuotio
4. Leo by Ulla-Lena Lundberg
5. Lokki Joonatan by Richard Bach
6. Henry Henry by Allen Bratton

Length: Over 500 pages - 0/6
1. Parempaa väkeä Sarah Waters
2. Lisey's Story Stephen King
3. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
4. Kaukaiset hetket by Kate Morton
5. Luvattu maa by Barack Obama
6. Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter

Please add me for 60 books

Progress: 58/60 books, 4/9 shelves

Book Genre: Science Fiction - 4/5
2014 England/Oasis: The Book of Strange New Things
2023 Space: These Burning Stars
2024 England: The Ministry of Time
2025 Scotland, Mars: Terrestrial History

☑️Book Genre: Travel Writing (travelogues, road trips, adventures, reportage) - 5/5
1921 Sardinia: Sea and Sardinia
1938 Svalbard Norway: A Woman in the Polar Night translated from German
1965 Armenia: An Armenian Sketchbook txl from Russian
2022 Croatia: My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland
2023 Antarctica: The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

Diversity: Women In Translation - 8/10
1948 China: Half a Lifelong Romance translated from Mandarin Chinese
2002 Turkey: Last Train to Istanbul translated from Turkish
2017 West Africa: In the Company of Men translated from French
2020 China (Taiwan): Taiwan Travelogue translated from Mandarin Chinese
2021 South Korea: We Do Not Part translated from Korean
2022 Kazakhstan: Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan translated from Kazakh and Russian
2024 No location specified/Kuwait: The Book Censor's Library translated from Arabic
2024 US: The Hebrew Teacher translated from Hebrew

Listopia: Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Books - 4/6
1967 Kenya: A Grain of Wheat
2000 Canada: Monkey Beach
2010 US: How to Read the Air
2019 Australia: The White Girl

☑️Location: Maritime Southeast Asia - 5/5
(Brunei Darussalam, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore)
2008 Malaysia: Evening Is the Whole Day
2020 Brunei Darussalam: The Fisherman King
2020 Indonesia: Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
2022 East Timor: Crocodile's Kill
2022 Philippines: How to stand Up to a Dictator

Location: Balkans - 4/6
1965 Romania: The Spoilt City (The Balkan Trilogy #2)
1971 Albania: Chronicle in Stone
1994 Bosnia: Sarajevo Marlboro
2022 Bosnia: Black Butterflies

Location: Syria - 2/3
2020 How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism
2022 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

☑️Publishing Year: 2024 - 11/10 books from my 2024 Catchup TBR
Black River
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape
Our Evenings
Someone Like Us
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
The Book Censor's Library
The Magnificent Ruins
The Message
The Most
The Rich People Have Gone Away

☑️Your Backlist: Books added to my Goodreads TBR in 2018 - 15/10
1887 England: The Woodlanders
1976 Fantasy: Dragonsong (Harper Hall #1)
1983 US: Heartburn
1988 Fantasy: The Oathbound (Vows & Honor #1)
1993 Australia: The Women in Black
1994 US: Walk Two Moons
1999 South Africa: Disgrace
2009 US: Black Water Rising (Jay Porter #1)
2012 Canada: The Walker on the Cape (Sgt. Windflower Mystery #1)
2016 Australia: The Dry (Aaron Falk #1)
2016 Poland: In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
2017 US: A Million Junes
2018 England: The Comforts of Home (Simon Serrailler #9)
2018 Ireland: The Witch Elm
2018 US: I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

Bookworms Take Shelfies

Challenge Accepted: January 1, 2025
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: December 31, 2025

88/100 Completed
Updated through 9-22-25

An Author: Authors To Catch Up On

Nora Roberts
1. Inheritance 1-30-25
2. Mind Games 2-5-25
3. The Mirror 3-9-25

Lucy Score
1. The Body in the Backyard 2-6-25
2. Story of My Life 3-13-25 (605 p. if need to move to 500 p.+)
3. Mr. Fixer Upper 4-20-25

Jett Masterson
1. Cherry Breeze: An MM Omegaverse Romance 5-17-25
2. Pretty Boy 5-28-25
3. Good Boy 5-28-25

Lori Foster
1. Don't Tempt Me 4-8-25
2. Let Me Be the One 6-13-24
3. The Love Shack 6-13-25

NR Walker
1. Benji 1-26-25
2. Fitch 3-1-25
3. Red Dirt Heart 4 4-2-25

Lily Morton
1. On Circus Lane 2-7-25
2. Merry Measure 2-7-25
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Anna Hackett
1. Take 2-4-25
2. Claim 2-5-25
3.

Jennifer Crusie
1. Maybe This Time 3-8-25
2. Wild Ride 3-8-25
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Lucy Lennox and/or May Archer
1. The Billionaire's Valet 2-12-25
2. The Pretenders of Copper County 3-3-25
3.

Honor Raconteur
1. Tomes Apprentice 3-18-25
2. All Fun and Games 8-7-25
3.

A Book Genre: Historical
1. Murder at Queen's Landing 2-28-25
2. Death at Bishop's Keep 3-5-25
3. The Lady and the Highwayman 3-12-25
4. Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens 3-17-25
5. The Frozen River 8-17-25

A Book Genre: Sci-Fi Romance
1. The Ministry of Time 3-4-25
2. Demons Don't Date 5-31-25
3. Demons Don't Dream 5-31-25
4. Death's Mate 6-17-25
5. Fire's Mate 6-18-25

A Book Genre: Non-Fiction
1. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout 1-28-25
2. Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day 1-29-25
3. Less: A Visual Guide to Minimalism 2-11-25
4. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life 6-6-25
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Book Length: Over 500 pages
1. Waiting on the One 1-5-25 (699 p.)
2. Rerouting River 1-8-25 (618 p.)
3. Carry On 1-31-25 (517 p.)
4. Grave Situation 3-22-25 (577 p.)
5. Barbarian 4-14-25 (506 p.)

A Location: New Zealand & Australia
1. Red Dirt Heart 2 2-2-25
2. Red Dirt Heart 3 2-26-25
3. Tallowwood 2-3-25
4. A Mage's Guide to Aussie Terrors 2-17-25
5. Red Dirt Heart Imago 4-2-25

Seasons & Holidays: Christmas
1. Christmas Delivery: MMM Romance 2-12-25
2. Hellfire & Tinsel 3-27-25
3. Red Dirt Christmas 4-2-25
4. The Trouble with Mistletoe 5-23-25
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Your Backlist: 35 Books from my DBRL for later list
1. A Wizard of Earthsea 1-3-25
2. Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 1-5-25
3. Hour of Need 1-20-25
4. Minutes to Kill 1-22-25
5. Shattering Dawn 1-25-25
6. The Spellshop 1-25-25
7. Always on My Mind 1-26-25
8. People in Glass Houses 2-1-25
9. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches 2-1-25
10. Wayward Son 2-1-25
11. Once in a Lifetime 2-6-25
12. Eighth Grave After Dark 2-9-25
13. It's in His Kiss 2-11-25
14. He's So Fine 2-12-25
15. Unicorn Book Club 2-25-25
16. Better Than Friends 3-2-25
17. One in a Million 3-6-25
18. The Alpha Option 3-9-25
19. The Enforcer's Gamble 3-10-25
20. The Omega's Prize 3-11-25
21. Give Me Butterflies 3-15-25
22. Archangel's Light 3-16-25
23. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel 3-18-25
24. Judy Moody: Sunny-Side Up 4-2-25
25. Dark Hope 4-5-25
26. Archangel's Lineage 4-8-25
27. Mrs. Nash's Ashes 4-8-25
28. Lasagna Means I Love You 5-3-25
29. Leopard's Hunt 5-3-25
30. Archangel's Ascension 5-7-25
31. Thunder Game 5-11-25
32. The Lost Story 6-3-25
33. The Tainted Cup 6-4-25
34. Dead of Winter 6-8-25
35. Frostbitten 6-11-25

hi, sign me up for 30!
54/30

An Author: Brandon Sanderson
1. Mistborn: The Final Empire ⭐️
2. The Well of Ascension ⭐️
3. The Hero of Ages ⭐️

An Author: Gillian Flynn
1. Gone Girl ⭐️
2.
3.

An Author: Karin Slaughter
1. Kisscut ⭐️
2. A Faint Cold Fear ⭐️
3. Indelible ⭐️
4. Faithless ⭐️
5. Skin Privilege ⭐️
6. Triptych ⭐️
7. Fractured ⭐️
8. Genesis ⭐️
9. Broken ⭐️
10. Fallen ⭐️

New to me Authors
1. T.J. Newman - Falling ⭐️
2. Claire Keegan - Foster ⭐️
3. Ali Hazelwood - Deep End ⭐️
4. Emily Layden - All Girls ⭐️
5. R.F. Kuang - Babel ⭐️
6. Lucy Foley - The Midnight Feast ⭐️
7. Blake Crouch - Pines ⭐️
8. Emily Suvada - This Mortal Coil ⭐️
9. K.L. Walther - The Summer of Broken Rules ⭐️
10. Ian Reid - I'm Thinking of Ending Things ⭐️
11. Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ⭐️
12. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife ⭐️
13. Benjamin Stevenson - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone ⭐️
14. Tony DiTerlizzi - The Field Guide ⭐️
15. Adriana Anders - Kink Camp: Hunted ⭐️
16. Layne Fargo - The Favourites ⭐️
17. Gerardo Sámano - Monstrilio ⭐️
18. Ray Bradbury -Fahrenheit 451 ⭐️
19. Elif Shafak - The Island of Missing Trees ⭐️
20. Fredrik Backman - Beartown ⭐️
21. Katee Robert - Neon Gods ⭐️
22. Sarah Adams - The Rule Book ⭐️
23. Becky Chambers - A Psalm for the Wild-Built ⭐️
24. Adalyn Grace - All the Stars and Teeth ⭐️
25. Jennette McCurdy - I’m Glad My Mom Died ⭐️
26. Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle ⭐️
27. Lynn Painter - The Do-Over ⭐️
28. Maggie Stiefvater - The Listeners ⭐️
29. Hugh Howey - Wool Omnibus ⭐️
30 - Norman Ohler - Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age ⭐️
31 - George Orwell - 1984 ⭐️
32. Jack London - The Call of the Wild
33. Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season ⭐️
34. Claudia Piñeiro - Elena Knows ⭐️
35. Ruth Ware - The Woman in Cabin 10 ⭐️

A Location:
1. Australia - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone ⭐️
2. Asia
3. Africa
4. South America - Of Love and Other Demons ⭐️
5. North America - Vampire Academy ⭐️
6. Europe - The Mask Falling ⭐️
7. Antartica

Award Winners
1. Hugo Awards Best Novella: Thornhedge ⭐️

Sign me up for 10
1/10

A Listopia: Top Books for Kindle Unlimited
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Books to Screen/Stage
1. Crazy in Alabama
2.
3.
4.
5.

23/40 -

Christian
1. Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis by C.S. Lewis
2. Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God
3.
4.
5.

Graphic Novels
1. Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse Omnibus by Ben Templesmith
2. The Approach by Jeremy Haun
3. Tales of Mystery and Madness by Edgar Allan Poe
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.

Fantasy
1. A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout
2. The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
3. The Pursuit by R.L. Toalson
4. Innate Magic by Shannon Fay
5. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
6. House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
7. Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
8. Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
9. Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan
10. Star Mother by Charlie N. Holmberg
11. Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer
12. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
13. The Will of the Many by James Islington
14. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
15. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
16. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
17. One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
18. Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa
19.
20.

I'm going to sign up for 18 to start but will see how much my shelves grow from there.

18/18
24/30 (increasing my goal to 30 as of 5/15/25)

Author - Stephen King:
1. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
2. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
3. ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Over 500 pages:
1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2. The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
4. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
5.
6.
Book to screen:
1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
2. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
3. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
4. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
5.
6.
Memoirs/autobiographies:
1. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
2. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
3.
Starting with E:
1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
2. Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline
3. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
4. Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung
Bought in 2024:
1. No Cry For Help by Grant McKenzie
2. Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
3. Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry
4. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
5. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
6. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
7. Two Days Gone by Randall Silvis
8.
9.

Sign me up for 25 to start . >>> 6/25

Author: New to me authors 3/3
✔1.Sophie Cousens
✔2. Jo Platt
✔3. Emily Wibberley

Book Length: under 200 1/3
✔1.The Member of the Wedding
2.
3.

Book length: Over 500 0/3
1.
2.
3.

Back list: 2/5
1.Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
2.More Than Words
3.
4.
5.

Listopia : Top Books for Kindle Unlimited 0/6
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Book Genre : Fantacy Fairytale Retellings 0/5
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Update to Bookworms Take Shelfies Message #39
37/37 Books Complete ⭐
6/6 Shelves Complete✔️
CHALLENGE COMPLETE

✔️ *Book Length (under 200 pages) ✔️
1. Falling DownREAD⭐⭐⭐
2. The Bookstore WeddingREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Natural Selection READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The Answer Is NoREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. UshersREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. The Fall Risk READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. The SubletREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
8. No Man's Land READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. The One That Got Away: A Short Story READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
10. Death RowREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ *Book Length (over 500 pages) ✔️
1. Surrender, New York READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Iron Flame READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. SkywardREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Wool READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ *An Author (Carrie Vaughn) ✔️
1. Discord's Apple READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. The Naturalist SocietyREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ *Award Winners (Pulitzer) ✔️
1. A Death in the Family READ⭐⭐⭐
2. Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A NovelREAD⭐
3. The Return READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The Orphan Master's Son READ⭐⭐⭐
5. The Color Purple READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. Olive Kitteridge READ⭐⭐⭐
7. The Known World READ⭐⭐⭐
✔️ *A Book Genre (Sci-Fi) ✔️
1. Star Trek: Picard: Firewall READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Orbital READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. The Way to the StarsREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. Yesterday's Son READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. Time for Yesterday READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ *Title (starting with the letter W) ✔️
1. Where the Fire Falls READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. When We Were FriendsREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. We Solve Murders READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The Women READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Where Are the Children Now? READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. Wrong Place Wrong Time READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. The Wedding People READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🐛 BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 112/40 -- COMPLETE

* Award Winners & Nominees - Audie
🐛 The Bridges of Madison County
🐛 A Christmas Carol
🐛 Piranesi
🐛 The End of the Affair
🐛 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
🐛 Yellowface

* Award Winners & Nominees - Edgar
🐛 Sadie
🐛 Long Way Down

* Award Winners & Nominees - Goodreads
🐛 Heir
🐛 Defending Jacob
🐛 The Spellshop
🐛 Wrong Place Wrong Time
🐛 Orbital
🐛 Signs Preceding the End of the World
🐛 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
🐛 The Light Pirate
🐛 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

* A Book Genre - Cozy Mystery
🐛 The Queens of Crime
🐛 A Killer Sundae
🐛 Grilled for Murder
🐛 When the Grits Hit the Fan
🐛 Peaches and Scream
🐛 Winner Cake All
🐛 Chili Cauldron Curse

* A Book Genre - Fantasy
🐛 Heart of the Sun Warrior
🐛 An Ocean of Minutes
🐛 Anthem
🐛 Throwback
🐛 Immortal
🐛 Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
🐛 The Dream Hotel
🐛 Black Woods Blue Sky

* A Book Genre - Historical Fiction
🐛 The Pull of the Stars
🐛 Junie
🐛 Homeseeking
🐛 The Dogs of Paradise
🐛 A Raisin in the Sun
🐛 Isola
🐛 Under the Same Stars
🐛 Good Dirt
🐛 Broken Country
🐛 The Stolen Queen

* A Book Genre - Indigenous
🐛 Shelterwood
🐛 The Things She's Seen

* A Book Genre - Mental Health
🐛 Me: Moth
🐛 Happy for You

* A Book Genre - LGBTQ+
🐛 How Y'all Doing?
🐛 Trace Evidence: Poems
🐛 The Three Lives of Cate Kay
🐛 The Unworthy
🐛 Untamed
🐛 The Book Eaters

* A Book Genre - Paranormal
🐛 The Dead Romantics
🐛 Wink Poppy Midnight
🐛 Listen to Your Sister
🐛 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
🐛 Something in the Walls
🐛 When the Bones Sing
🐛 In the Night Room

* A Listopia - 1001 Books
🐛 The Crying of Lot 49
🐛 The Flamethrowers
🐛 Excellent Women
🐛 A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
🐛 Enduring Love
🐛 The Vicar of Wakefield
🐛 A Hero of Our Time
🐛 Bonjour Tristesse
🐛 Breakfast at Tiffany's

* A Location - Africa
🐛 Americanah - Nigeria
🐛 The Red Pencil - Sudan
🐛 When Morning Comes - South Africa

* A Location - Asia
🐛 After the Quake - Japan
🐛 Dark Sons - Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria
🐛 Idol, Burning
🐛 Water Moon

* A Location - Europe
🐛 The Minders - UK
🐛 Murder at King’s Crossing - UK
🐛 The Blue Hour - UK
🐛 Memoirs of a Polar Bear - Germany
🐛 The Oxford Murders - UK
🐛 We All Live Here - UK
🐛 The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus - UK
🐛 Beautiful Ugly - UK

* A Location - North America
🐛 Fifty-Four Pigs - Canada
🐛 To Have and Have Not - Caribbean
🐛 Midnight Rainbow - Costa Rica
🐛 The Vacation - US California
🐛 Five Total Strangers - US Pennsylvania
🐛 The Crash - US Maine
🐛 Three Days in June - US Maryland
🐛 10:04 - US New York
🐛 The Twilight Wife - US Washington
🐛 Viper's Dream - US New York
🐛 The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove - US North Carolina
🐛 The Note - US New York
🐛 Head Cases - US Texas
🐛 Cross My Heart - US Massachusetts
🐛 Dream State - US Montana
🐛 The Business Trip - US Wisconsin
🐛 Trust No One - US Alabama
🐛 Trust No One - US Washington
🐛 All That Is Mine I Carry With Me - US Massachusetts

* A Location - Oceania
🐛 I Am the Messenger
🐛 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
🐛 Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect: A Novel
🐛 Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
🐛 Wild Dark Shore

* Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
🐛 Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
🐛 Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
🐛 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
🐛 Your Mom's Gonna Love Me
🐛 The Tell: A Memoir

🦇 𝔟𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔶'𝔰 2025 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔪𝔰 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔣𝔦𝔢𝔰 🦇

Progress: 50 / 50

📚An Author: Stephen King
🖋️1. Christine
🖋️2. Duma Key
🖋️3. Skeleton Crew
🖋️4. Rage
🖋️5. Creepshow
🖋️6. Cycle of the Werewolf
🖋️7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

📚Book Length: 500+ pages
🖋️1. Queen of Shadows
2. Empire of Storms
3. Tower of Dawn
4. Kingdom of Ash
🖋️5. Quicksilver
🖋️6. Lessons in Grey
🖋️7. Onyx Storm

📚Your Backlist: Any and All
🖋️1. Salt to the Sea
🖋️2. Undertow
🖋️3. Sunrise on the Reaping
🖋️4. Lightlark
🖋️5. Black Butler vol. 8
🖋️6. Black Butler vol. 9
🖋️7. Maid-sama! vol. 2
🖋️8. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon vol. 2
🖋️9. Babel-17

📚Genre: Classic
🖋️1. Love
🖋️2. The Red Pony
🖋️3. One Hundred Years of Solitude
🖋️4. The Notebook
🖋️5. The Great Gatsby
🖋️6. Rebecca

📚Genre: Horror
🖋️1. She is a Haunting
🖋️2. The Cabin at the End of the World
🖋️3. The Haunting of Hill House
🖋️4. Psycho
🖋️5. I Was a Teenage Slasher
🖋️6. Blood Sugar

📚Genre: Cozy Mystery
🖋️1. Key Lime Pie Murder
🖋️2. Carrot Cake Murder
🖋️3. Cream Puff Murder

📚Publishing Decade: The 2020s
🖋️1. The Writer He Haunted
🖋️2. The Heir She Loved
🖋️3. Mazikeen: Hands of Fate
🖋️4. The Patron Saint of Timber Hollow
🖋️5. Tainted Truth
🖋️6. Mazikeen: Stormborn
🖋️7. Makizeen: Queen of Fate
🖋️8. One of Us is Dead
🖋️9. The Wraith and Her Killer
🖋️10. Before the Ever After
🖋️11. A Love Woven in Moonlight

📚Diversity: LGBTQIA+ Authors and Characters
🖋️1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
🖋️2. Nightbane
🖋️3. Veiled Vengeance
🖋️4. Cursed Cocktails


*Award Winners
*Books-to-Screen/Stage
*The Color of the Cover
*Diversity (in any form)
*A Feeling
*Formats and Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.)
*Heritage & Culture
*A Listopia
*A Location
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
*Mythology & Folklore
*Publishing Year/Decade
*Science & Technology
*Seasons & Holidays
*Time Period
*Title (starting with the same letter)

I'm going to try to fill three shelves with five books for this challenge for a total of 15 books.

Book Genre - Fantasy
1.)
2.)
3.)
4.)
5.)

Mythology and Folklore
1.)
2.)
3.)
4.)
5.)

Backlist
1.)
2.)
3.)
4.)
5.)

I will sign on for 40...two for each shelf topic, subject to change to fewer

*An Author: Elizabeth Strout
1
2

🥇*Award Winners:
🩷1: The Wedding People
🩷2: The Frozen River

🥇*A Book Genre: literary fiction
🩷1: Horse
🩷2: We Need New Names

🥇*Book Length:( over 500 pages)
🩷1: Ducks, Newburyport
🩷2: 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

🥇*Books-to-Screen/Stage:
🩷1: Still Alice
🩷2: The Quiet American

🥇*The Color of the Cover: Blue
🩷1:
🩷2:

🥇*Diversity (in any form): BIPOC author
🩷1: Bibliolepsy
🩷2: Tehrangeles

🥇*A Feeling: Happy
🩷1: How to Age Disgracefully
🩷2: Five Winters

🥇*Formats and Styles: Short Stories/essay collections
🩷1: Table for Two
🩷2: These Precious Days: Essays

🥇*Heritage & Culture:
🩷1: America Fantastica
🩷2: Wandering Stars

🥇*A Listopia: Classics
🩷1: A Separate Peace
🩷2: Anne of Avonlea

🥇*A Location: Japan
🩷1: The Nakano Thrift Shop
🩷2: The Full Moon Coffee Shop

🥇*Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies:
🩷1: Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
🩷2: Hitch 22: A Memoir

🥇*Mythology & Folklore:
🩷1: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
🩷2: The Complete Poems

🥇*Publishing Year/Decade: 2020's
🩷1: The Correspondent
🩷2: Three Days in June

🥇*Science & Technology:
🩷1: Death of the Author
🩷2: Mostly Harmless

🥇*Seasons & Holidays:
🩷1: A Match Made for Thanksgiving
🩷2: A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day

🥇*Time Period: 1920's
🩷1: The Whisper Sister
🩷2: A Passage to India

🥇*Title (starting with the same letter): M
🩷1: Milkman
🩷2: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

🥇*Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year):
🩷1: In Five Years
🩷2: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Goal: 11/20

*Award Winners - World Fantasy Award
The Jasmine Throne
Alif the Unseen 2/6
And What Can We Offer You Tonight
She Walks in Shadows

*A Book Genre - fantasy
Ordinary Monsters 10/1
Long Live Evil 5/16
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries 6/15
The Water Outlaws

*Book Length (under 200)
A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems 3/27
Brain Twister 4/1
Black Water
Saturation Point

*A Listopia - Standalone Fantasy
Tigana
A Face Like Glass
Fire and Hemlock
The Curse of Chalion 6/11

*Science & Technology
The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers 6/18
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light
and Life in the Deep Sea 3/16
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet 1/29
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet 10/9

Please put me down for 20 books, will update list at a later time.

Progress: 0/20

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

I didn't participate in this one last year, so I'm going to this year.
My goal is to read 50 books.

Bookworms Take Shelfies
Progress: 46 / 50

*An Author
*Award Winners
*A Book Genre
Set in the 1940's:
1 - The Codebreaker's Secret
2 - The Sound of Light
3 - His Majesty's Hope
4 - Auschwitz Lullaby
5 - The Air Raid Book Club
6 - The Lost Book of Bonn
7 - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
8 -
9 -
10 -

Love Inspired Romance: - COMPLETED
1 - Child of Mine
2 - Finding Her Home
3 - Hometown Hero's Redemption
4 - Almost Heaven
5 - Abiding Love
6 - A Ring and a Promise
7 - Fatal Memories
8 - The Rancher's Homecoming
9 - Someone to Trust
10 - In Pursuit of a Princess

*Book Length (over 300 pages) - COMPLETED
1 - The Jazz Club Spy 304 pgs
2 - Now or Never 320 pgs
3 - Band of Sisters 528 pgs
4 - The Winter Garden 462 pgs
5 - Daughter of the Moon Goddess 498 pgs
6 - Haunted 362 pgs
7 - The Shadow 400 pgs
8 - Miss Morgan's Book Brigade 352 pgs
9 - Raspberry Danish Murder 364 pages
10 - Circle of Death 449 pages

*Books-to-Screen/Stage
*The Color of the Cover
Orange:
1 - Lies We Never See
2 - Carrot Cake Murder
3 - Before I Say Good-Bye
4 - The Rosie Result
5 - The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -

*A Location
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
*Publishing Year/Decade
*Seasons & Holidays
Christmas:
1 - Her Holiday Secret
2 - Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea
3 - Christopher Radko:Memories Of Yesteryear: Radko Christmas Book
4 - A Sugar Creek Christmas
5 -
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -

*Title (starting with the same letter)
M
1 - Meet Me at the Starlight
2 - Murder Freshly Baked
3 - Murder Tightly Knit
4 - Murder Simply Brewed
5 - Missing
6 - The Magnolia Sisters
7 - Material Witness
8 - The Midnight Feast
9 - The Mistletoe Mystery
10 - The Maid's Secret

*Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

Bookworms Take Shelfies

167/188

I hit character limit last year so here's a google sheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

i'm in for 30

*An Author - Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
✅1. Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 6
2. Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 7
3. Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 8

*A Book Genre - Mystery
✅4. Murder by Cheesecake
✅5. Julie Chan Is Dead
6.
7.
8.

*A Book Genre - Fantasy
✅9. Divine Rivals
✅10. Purrfectly Peculiar Pixie: Phlox's Story
✅11. The Invocations
✅12. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
✅13. Of Jade and Dragons
✅14. The Wicked Bargain
✅15. When the Tides Held the Moon
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*Book Length (over 500 pages)
✅19. His Reluctant Omega: An MPREG Omegaverse Book
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*Formats and Styles (audiobook)
✅22. Don't Let the Forest In
✅23. I Am Not Jessica Chen
✅24. Patron Saints of Nothing
✅25. Walking Practice
✅26. Ex Marks the Spot

*Seasons & Holidays
✅27. Go Luck Yourself
28. The Merriest Misters

*Title (starting with the same letter)
✅29. House of Bone and Rain
✅30. How to Survive a Horror Story

19/30 Read

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Completed: 22/30

An Author: James Patterson
1. The 23rd Midnight - James Patterson 1/8/25
2. The Medical Examiner - James Patterson 2/1/25
3. The 24th Hour - James Patterson 2/18/25
4. Private Sydney - James Patterson 4/2/25
5. The Russian - James Patterson 4/3/25

A Book Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
1. Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage 1/1/25
2. Fearless Fourteen - Janet Evanovich 1/2/25
3. The Phoenix Crown: A Novel - Kate Quinn 1/7/25
4. The Yellow House - Emily O'Grady 1/11/25
5. Q Is For Quarry - Sue Grafton 1/13/25

Diversity (in any form): Author POC
1. The Banks Sisters - Nikki Turner 1/12/25
2. Her Secret Life - Tiffany L. Warren 1/26/25
3. Indigo - Beverly Jenkins 1/30/25
4. One of Us Knows - Alyssa Cole 2/2/25
5. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? - Crystal Smith Paul 2/3/25

A Location: Set in Africa
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Seasons & Holidays: Set at Christmas
1. The Naughty, The Nice and The Nanny - Willa Nash 1/3/25
2. Christmas, Criminals, and Campers - Tonya Kappes 3/8/25
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Title (starting with the same letter): Starts with C
1. Crow Mary - Kathleen Grissom 1/5/25
2. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley 1/12/25
3. Countdown to Valentine's Day - Dianna Houx 2/16/25
4. Celestial Magic - T.M. Cromer 3/5/25
5. Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse - Harper Lin 3/12/25

I'm in for 10

Bookworms Take Shelfies

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The Color of the Cover: Red
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Title (starts with the same letter): M
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Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
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Format: Audiobook
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A Listopia: Smart Summer Reads
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