2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

This challenge is a way to clean out all of your bookshelves, whether that be your physical, your electric, or your audible ones! The aim is to prioritize books you already own, so for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after December 31, 2024 unless you have read at least 5 books that you already own.

Here are some ideas on how to choose your books:
1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished.
2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.
3. Read a book you have started, set aside for a while, and now want to finish.
4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a yearly challenge.
5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelters, Goodwill, etc.

List the number of
Physical Books:
Ebooks:
Audible Books:
you want to read (listen to).

Happy Reading!

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:

Alia (msg #15) → 2/25
Alyssa (msg #83) → 1/109
Amy (msg #64) → 5/45
Ana (msg #43) → 2/46
Ann (msg #45) → 0/34
Anna (msg #39) → 0/18
Ashlee (msg #28) → 0/25
Ashley (msg #5) → 5/50
Barb (msg #33) → 0/15
Berit (msg #66) → 1/30
Beth (msg #44) → 0/30
Briana (msg #97) → 0/25
Brittany (msg #31) → 3/30
Brittany (msg #50) → 0/25
Brooke (msg #27) → 2/6
Carmen (msg #26) → 20/100
Carrie (msg #25) → 5/34
Chalmation (msg #14) → 6/36
Chiara (msg #58) → 4/30
Chrissie (msg #8) → 5/30
Christina (msg #68) → 4/20
Christina (msg #78) → 0/30
christine_littlelibrary (msg #17) → 0/100
Cordelia (msg #95) → 6/50
CrazyAsACupcake (msg #29) → 0/10
Darleen (msg #60) → 0/40
Denise (msg #100) → 5/25
Desiré (msg #32) → 0/30
Didi (msg #88) → 10/30
D.L. (msg #35) → 7/50
Elaine (msg #19) → 0/160
Emily (msg #30) → 8/50
Jade (msg #12) → 1/12
Jaida (msg #21) → 4/30
Jessica (msg #152) → 1/8
juls.books (msg #71) → 0/191
Katy (msg #57) → 1/15
Kathy (msg #72) → 0/24
Kim (msg #104) → 2/20
Kristina (msg #13) → 0/100
Laura (msg #47) → 0/50
Laurie (msg #55) → 0/15
Lena (msg #114) → 13/50
Leona (msg #38) → 0/25
Leticia (msg #125) → 10/100
Lexi (msg #16) → 0/25
Lina (msg #6) → 0/20
Lina (msg #37) → 0/10
Lisa (msg #11) → 0/20
Lisa (msg #48) → 0/20
Lotte (msg #76) → 2/12
Luci (msg #154) → 0/5
Luisa (msg #49) → 0/36
Lynette (msg #7) → 5/25
Marcia (msg #145) → 1/12
Margie (msg #46) → 3/40
Maria (msg #74) → 4/15
Marissa (msg #56) → 0/50
Megan BG (msg #40) → 5/16
Michelle (msg #53) → 0/55
Mindy (msg #18) → 5/15
Miriam (msg #67) → 8/20
Mona (msg #151) → 0/80
Monica (msg #63) → 0/50
Mrs Charlotte (msg #51) → 0/24
MysticMoods (msg #36) → 2/12
Patty (msg #24) → 9/75
Rachael (msg #10) → 6/36
Ranmali (msg #62) → 4/22
Samantha (msg #75) → 2/30
Sara (msg #128) → 0/50
Sarah (msg #91) → 0/140
Shari (msg #34) → 0/80
Tammie (msg #59) → 0/24
TCampbell (msg #9) → 16/34
Ula (msg #160) → 0/15
Veronica (msg #99) → 0/10
Victoria (msg #158) → 0/19
Wendy (msg #42) → 0/20
Ziggy (msg #23) → 0/12

Good luck, and happy reading to all of you! 😊
Updated until msg #177

Participants:

Alia - (Message #15)- 20/25
Alison - (Message #213)- 1/25
Alyssa - (Message #83)- 1/109
Amitha - (Message #244)- 34/38
Amy - (Message #64)- 43/45
Ana - (Message #43)- 2/46
Ann - (Message #45)- 23/34
Anna - (Message #39)- 1/18
Ashlee - (Message #27)- 0/25
Ashley - (Message #5)- 17/50
Barb - (Message #32)- 3/15
Berit - (Message #66)- 1/30
Beth - (Message #44)- 0/30
Briana - (Message #97)- 0/25
Brittany - (Message #30)- 20/30
Brittany - (Message #50)- 3/25
Brooke - (Message #26)- 5/10
Carmen - (Message #25)- 20/100
Carrie - (Message #24)- 14/34
Chalmation - (Message #14)- 32/36
Chiara - (Message #58)- 5/30
Chrissie - (Message #8)- 28/30
christene_littlelibrary - (Message #17)- 0/100
Christina - (Message #68)- 0/20
Christina - (Message #78)- 0/30
Cordelia - (Message #95)- 31/50
CrazyAsACupcake - (Message #28)- 0/10
D.L. - (Message #35)- 53/50Complete!
Darleen - (Message #60)- 0/40
Denise - (Message #99)- 25/25Complete!
Desiré - (Message #32)- 22/30
Elaine - (Message #19)- 0/160
Emily - (Message #29)- 50/50Complete!
Inge - (Message #211)- 22/50
Jade - (Message #12)- 1/12
Jaida - (Message #21)- 40/30Complete!
Jessica - (Message #152)- 9/8Complete!
juls - (Message #71)- 0/191
Kathy - (Message #72)- 0/24
Katy - (Message #57)- 3/15
Kim - (Message #104)- 12/20
Kristina - (Message #13)- 70/100
Laura (msg 458) - (Message #458) - 0/10 TOTAL
Laura (msg 47) - (Message #47)- 28/50
Laurie - (Message #55)- 7/15
Lena - (Message #114)- 46/50
Leona - (Message #38)- 5/25
Leticia - (Message #125)- 75/100
Lexi - (Message #16)- 10/25
Lina - (Message #6)- 17/20
LinaVer - (Message #37)- 0/10
Lisa - (Message #11)- 0/12
Lisa - (Message #48)- 0/20
Lotte - (Message #76)- 2/12
Luci - (Message #154)- 5/5Complete!
Luisa - (Message #49)- 1/36
Lynette - (Message #7)- 25/25Complete!
Marcia - (Message #145)- 3/12
Margie - (Message #46)- 40/40Complete!
Maria - (Message #73)- 13/15
Marissa - (Message #56)- 5/50
Megan BG - (Message #40)- 10/16
Michelle - (Message #53)- 0/55
Mindy - (Message #18)- 19/15Complete!
Miriam - (Message #67)- 17/20
Mona - (Message #151)- 0/80
Monica - (Message #63)- 0/50
Mrs Charlotte R Barnes - (Message #51)- 0/24
MysticMoods - (Message #36)- 12/12Complete!
Patty - (Message #23)- 73/75
Rachael - (Message #10)- 53/60
Ranmali - (Message #62)- 20/22
Rona - (Message #238)- 0/20
Samantha - (Message #75)- 2/30
Sara - (Message #128)- 3/50
Sarah - (Message #91)- 0/140
Savannah - (Message #195)- 2/28
Shari - (Message #34)- 40/80
Tammie - (Message #59)- 0/24
TCampbell - (Message #9)- 36/36Complete!
Ula - (Message #160)- 6/15
Veronica - (Message #99)- 0/10
Victoria - (Message #157)- 19/19Complete!
Wendy - (Message #42)- 2/20
Ziggy - (Message #23)- 1/12

STATS
Participants: 85
Books Pledged: 3270
Books Read: 1208
Challenges Completed: 0

Updated through Message #482 on Nov 29, 2025.

In for 50
42/50

1. The Cove
2. Deceptive Calm
3. Agent Gatz: A Great Gatsby Prequel
4. And So It Begins
5. Where the Truth Lies
6. Baited
7. Bad Karma
8. End of Story
9. The House Across the Lake
10. Strohm Alley
11. Ghost of a Chance
12. Gone for Good
13. A Talent for Murder
14. Hairpin Bridge
15. A Very Bad Thing
16. The Shining
17. Southern Spirits
18. Home Is Where the Body Is
19. Serial Killers and Psychopaths
20. Mine Forever: A Mystery full of Drama and Emotion
21. Springtime for Murder
22. The Chestnut Man
23. On Her Own Two Wheels
24. Over Her Dead Body
25. The Wishing Game
26. The Peculiar Case of the Petersburg Professor
27. Count My Lies
28. The Bat
29. The Drowning Game
30. Sycamore Row
31. The Clinic
32. The Storyteller
33. Confessions on the 7:45
34. Skyscrapers & Starlight: An Evergreen Hills Romance
35. Murder by Cheesecake
36. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
37. Out of Control
38. Like a Sister
39. Good Girl, Bad Blood
40. The Penitent Priest
41. Tetherless
42. As Good As Dead
43. The Resort

Joining for 20, thanks!

📚 Clear the Shelves - Yearly Challenge 📚
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025

📚 Progress: 17/20 📚 -

Read books that you have owned before January 1st 2025

Tracking my books read for this challenge in my corner

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I'm in for 25 this year!


Physical Books from my TBR stacks: 25/25 as of Oct 17th

1. Boy of the South Seas ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 000 25
2. The Boy Who Was ⭐⭐ Jan 17
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Feb 5
4. The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Feb 11
5. Murder in the West Wing ⭐⭐⭐ Feb 19



6. The Mephisto Club ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mar 2
7. A Royal Murder ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mar 6
8. The Winged Watchman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mar 8
9. King of Scars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mar 20
10. 1421: The Year China Discovered America ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mar 20



11. The Shadow of the Wind ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ May 3
12. The Alehouse Murders ⭐⭐⭐ May 20
13. This Old Homicide ⭐⭐⭐ Jun 3
14. Rule of Wolves ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jul 2
15. Lost Dog ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jul 7



16. The World of William Penn, by Genevieve Foster ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jul 10
17. A Red Herring Without Mustard ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jul 17
18. The Lake House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jul 31
19. The Question of the Absentee Father ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Aug 11
20. The House of Wolves ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Aug 21



21. Murder in the Red Room ⭐⭐⭐ Sep 2
22. The World of Columbus and Sons ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sep 17
23. Rules of Murder ⭐⭐⭐ Oct 4
24. Mountain Born ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oct 6
25. Gideon's Rescue ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oct 17




LibriVox full-cast audiobooks I'm scheduled to edit: x/4
Frailty & Hypocrisy
Unnatural Death (pending role submissions)
Downright Dencey (pending role submissions)
Ivanhoe (pending role submissions)
The Great Quest (pending narrator submissions)


Books I bought this year - 9/15

Challenge prompts I can't fill from my TBR stacks: ✔️
✔️ The President's Man ⭐⭐⭐ pre-Dec 23 shared universe
✔️ Now or Never ⭐⭐ pre-Dec 31 starts with N
✔️ Greenlights⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mar 25 celebrity on cover




2025 Newbery Books: ✔️
✔️The First State of Being ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jun 20
✔️Across So Many Seas ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mar 30
✔️Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jul 19
✔️One Big Open Sky ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Feb 24
✔️The Wrong Way Home ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Aug 2




The author is my friend, and it's a great series!
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams

I was enchanted by the author:
Ghosts of Greenglass House
The Raconteur's Commonplace Book
✔️Rule of Wolves ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mar 31
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
The Golden Tresses of the Dead

This time tackling 30 novels I previously owned.

Progress: 28/30

currently reading:

novels owned prior to 2025:


other:

Clear The Shelves Challenge Message #9 Updated
36/36 CHALLENGE COMPLETE ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I'm in for 36

1. Where the Fire Falls READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. A Clean Kill READ⭐⭐⭐
3. Falling Down READ⭐⭐⭐
4. Dark Dive READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Friends with Secrets READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. The Bookstore Wedding READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7.Fatal Intrusion READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
8. Natural Selection READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. The Lioness of BostonREAD⭐⭐
10. Discord's Apple READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. A Death in the Family READ⭐⭐⭐
12. The Elias Network READ⭐⭐
13. When We Were Friends READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
14. Star Trek: Picard: Firewall READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
15. Surrender, New York READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
16. Explosive Eighteen READ⭐⭐⭐
17. Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A NovelREAD⭐
18. Blind Descent READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
19, Nobody's PerfectREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
20. The Answer Is No READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
21. Impossible Creatures READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
22. Murder at Chateau Sur MerREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
23. The Way to the StarsREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
24. SkywardREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
25. The Naturalist SocietyREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
26. UshersREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
27. The Guests on South BatteryREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
28. Echo READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
29. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
30. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum READ⭐⭐⭐⭐
31. The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street READ⭐⭐⭐
32. Life, Loss, and Puffins READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
33. Close Your EyesREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐
34. The Attic on Queen Street READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
35. Time for Yesterday READ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
36. Yesterday's SonREAD⭐⭐⭐⭐

I'm signing up for 36 48 60 books please.

COMPLETED: 56/60

1. A Morbid Taste for Bones finished 2 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since April 2015
2. Whose Body? finished 6 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since January 2021
3. Strange the Dreamer finished 10 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since October 2023
4. Sorcerer to the Crown finished 19 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2018
5. Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Stories finished 21 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since August 2020
6. The Red House Mystery finished 31 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since July 2024
7. The Unmaking of June Farrow finished 5 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since April 2024
8. An Academy for Liars finished 8 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since July 2024
9. Once Upon A Time finished 12 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since April 2022
10. Valentine Grey finished 14 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since March 2022
11. Time Of My Life finished 17 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since at least June 2014
12. Out of the Drowning Deep finished 19 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since July 2024
13. The Necessary Arthur finished 20 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since July 2020
14. Children of Time finished 24 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2017
15. Goblin Fruit finished 5 March, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since October 2017
16. Days of Blood & Starlight finished 29 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since January 2024
17. Dreams of Gods & Monsters finished 2 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since January 2024
18. Howards End finished 5 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since July 2023
19. Daughters of the Night Sky finished 7 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2017
20. Under Different Stars finished 15 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since January 2016
21. The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy finished 17 April, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since April 2023
22. Three Dark Crowns finished 21 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since June 2017
23. Bookshops & Bonedust finished 26 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2024
24. Legends & Lattes finished 28 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2024
25. Princess of Souls finished 7 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2024
26. A Tale of Two Cities finished 11 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since March 2014
27. The Nicest Girl finished 15 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since July 2022
28. Until the End of Time finished 25 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2016
29. The Railway Children finished 3 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since April 2015
30. The Gilded Ones finished 8 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2024
31. Daughter of Darkness finished 14 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since May 2022
32. Where the Library Hides finished 20 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since October 2024
33. Dragon Rider (Funke) finished 6 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since November 2014
34. Am I Normal Yet? finished 9 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2024
35. Dragon Rider (Matharu) finished 14 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since December 2023
36. The Odyssey finished 17 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since July 2023
37. Dying to Get Published finished 20 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since June 2014
38. Pollyanna finished 22 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2019
39. The Last Hour Between Worlds finished 25 July, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since May 2024
40. A Tempest of Tea finished 27 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since November 2024
41. A Touch of Darkness finished 6 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since July 2021
42. The Wicked Guardian finished 13 August, ⭐⭐⭐. Owned since May 2015
43. The Wrath and the Dawn finished 21 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since August 2017
44. Twice Cursed finished 24 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since April 2023
45. The Vengeance finished 30 August, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since September 2024
46. The Raven Spell finished 14 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since October 2022
47. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking finished 16 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2024
48. Movies Showing Nowhere finished 19 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since March 2024
49. Legendborn finished 27 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2020
50. Good Girls Don’t Die finished 28 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since November 2023
51. Rotherweird finished 5 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since August 2017
52. Masters of Death finished 8 October, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since April 2023
53. The Next Always finished 25 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since February 2015
54. Ill Wind finished 19 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since July 2022
55. That Bonesetter Woman finished 25 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since July 2022
56. The Rithmatist finished 27 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since April 2015

I haven't checked what books could work for this challenge, but let's go with 20 for now.

Please sign me up for 12 books!


The Dragon's Promise
Clockwork Angel
House of Roots and Ruin
On Wings of Ash and Dust
Hooked
The Bridge Kingdom
Gilded
Wolfsong
A Trial of Sorcerers
Godkiller
Sorcery of Thorns
Hunting Prince Dracula

CLEAR THE SHELVES
January 01, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 70/100

As always, my goal is to clear out books I own that I haven't read yet. Put me down for 100 to start!

Member Corner Tracking Post

I'm in for 35 ebooks 📱 and 1 physical book 📖.

32/36

📱
Famous Landmarks of Ancient Rome: The History of the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Appian Way
Sector C
Hush Now Baby (Sloane Monroe #6)
Gone Daddy Gone (Sloane Monroe #7)
Smoke and Mirrors (Sloane Monroe #8)
Safely Buried
In Their Blood
The Collected Stories, Season Three, Volume I: A Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery Collection
The Adair Murders (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #33)
Horror Stories
Crime Stories
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)
Fact. Fact. Bullsh*t!
The Assassin Flaw (Jonah Parish #1)
The Chaos Code (Jonah Parish #2)
The Death Behind (Jonah Parish #3)
Muffin Man
Breaking Cover (Tony Wolf/Tim Buckthorn #1)
The Mechanist
How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner
Everything I Never Told You
Silicone
The Slab
Blue Straggler
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
The Haunted

📖
From a Buick 8

joining with 25 books! (2 physical books, 23 ebooks)

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

1. Anak Semua Bangsa DNF
2. Rumah Kaca
3. Jill The Reckless (shelved since dec '24)
4. A Short History of Nearly Everything DNF (shelved since dec '22)
5. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant DNF (shelved since dec '22)
6. WaldenDNF
7. Catch-22 DNF
8. As Long as the Lemon Trees GrowFIN(shelved since jan '23)
9b. ?????
10b. Cry Heart, But Never Break FIN (shelved since Mar'24)
11b. Aquicorn Cove FIN (shelved (shelved since Mar'24)
12. Elena Knows FIN (shelved since apr '23)
13b.How Does Santa Go Down The Chimney? FIN (shelved since Mar'24)
14b.Dewdrop FIN (shelved since Mar'24)
15b. My Beijing FIN (shelved since Mar'24)
16. Atomic Habits DNF (shelved since dec '22)
17. All the Light We Cannot See
18. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
19. The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1) FIN (shelved since jan '24)
20. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue DNF
21. East of Eden
22. Blue Sisters FIN (shelved since dec '24)
23. The Catcher in the Rye DNF
24. Love Like The Galaxy FIN (on-hold since oct '24)
25. ?????

current total: 20 books
jan (msg #101) --> 2 books
feb (msg #183) --> 5 books
mar (msg #222) --> 3 books
may-jun (msg #337) --> 5 books
jul - sept (msg #433 ) -->5 books

Clearing The TBR Shelves:
Progress: 24/25

2023 “Overdue” Library Books: (7/4)
☘️The Library of Shadows-Rachel Moore
☘️Bittersweet in the Hollow-Kate Pearsall
☘️Nothing More to Tell-Karen .M. McManus
☘️Threads That Bind-Kika Hatzopoulou
☘️The Scarlet Alchemist-Kylie Lee Baker
☘️Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers-Jesse .Q. Sutanto
☘️Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone-Benjamin Stevenson

2024 “Overdue” ARCs From NetGalley: (7/7)
🍁Thieves' Gambit-Kayvion Lewis
🍁Heist Royale-Kayvion Lewis
🍁The Debutantes-Olivia Worley
🍁The Blood Vier-Christy .R. Harrill
🍁The Tarnished Son-Elizabeth McKenna
🍁This Ravenous Fate-Hayley Dennings
🍁More Than This-Krystal Marquis

2025 “Newly Gained” ARCs From NetGalley: (10/10)
🌻The Last Bookstore on Earth-Lily Braun-Arnold
🌻Lies on the Serpent's Tongue-Kate Pearsall
🌻The Thrashers-Julie Soto
🌻We Won't All Survive-Kate Alice Marshall
🌻House of Hearts-Skyla Arndt
🌻Who's All Going (to Die)?-Lisa Springer
🌻All The Lost Souls-Amie Jordan
🌻We Fell Apart-E. Lockhart
🌻Final Cut-Olivia Worley
🌻The Trespassers-Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

CLEAR THE SHELVES
January 01, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 0/100

Physical/Owned Books and Borrowed Books

1.
2.

I'm in for 15 this year!

Progress: 16/15 Goal exceeded!!

1. Must Love Books
2. Cocktails for Three
3. Invisible Girl
4. Pineapple Street
5. Win
6. The Takeover
7. Too Good to Be Real
8. Come Home
9. The Return of Ellie Black
10. NYPD Red
11. O is for Outlaw
12. You Don't Own Me
13. The Wedding People
14. The Guncle
15. Piece of My Heart
16. Love, Theoretically
17. Invisible Girl
18. Death by Dumpling
19. The Holiday Swap

Clear the Shelves

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

0/160

(Personal Note: 80 physical books & 80 ebooks)

At First Spite
Dreadful
A Shadow in the Ember
Circling Back To You
The Witches of Moonshyne Manor
Once More with Feeling
The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Do Your Worst
This Will Be Fun
A Novel Love Story


The Last Dragon of the East
A House with Good Bones
It's Watching
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Vol. 1
Covenant, Vol. 1
A Curious Beginning
Swordcrossed
The Fortunes of Jaded Women
My Brother's Husband, Volume 1
A Jingle Bell Mingle


Mother-Daughter Murder Night
The Tangleroot Palace
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
Impossible Creatures
The Ghost Cat
Hollow
Witch of Wild Things
The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher
Winter’s Orbit
Dating Dr. Dil


Cowboy Wolf Trouble
The Fake Dating Game
This Spells Love
The Book of Love
The Windsor Knot
The House With a Dragon in It
Out of Nowhere
Mister Magic
Children of the Fox
Meesh the Bad Demon


How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Ex-Heroes
Fangs
Full Speed to a Crash Landing
Filthy Rich Fae
The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
The Love of My Afterlife
Harmony of Fire


Big Bad Wolf
One Last Stop
Summer Romance
Station Eternity
Colton Gentry's Third Act
The Tainted Cup
The Maleficent Seven
A Cowboy of Legend
Migrations
Fall of Ruin and Wrath


Voyage of the Damned
A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure
You, Again
The Apothecary Diaries, Vol. 1 Manga
Less: A Visual Guide to Minimalism 2-11-25
The Impossible Us
Remnants of Filth: Yuwu (Novel) Vol. 1
Hello, Universe
Mickey7
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall


The Best Man Plan
The Sherlock Society
Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder
Honeysuckle and Bone
Crimson Point Protectors Series: Box Set Volume I
Ride Share
Tempest in a Teapot
Small Miracles
Howl at the Moon
Cadaver Lab: A Romantic Comedy... With Corpses

Continued from previous post

The Rose Gate: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
The Dating Disaster
Knotted by the Wolf Prince 1-2-25
Punk-In
Vampires Don't Suck
Beautifully Toxic
A Ruin of Roses
The Protector
Prelude to Love
The Doctor's Heart


Elven Duty
Game Changer
Until Bax
Home for a Cowboy Christmas
The Protector
Earl Hathbury's Vessel
Hard Job
Alpha's Awakening
Keeping Cade
Shadow's Embrace


This Will Hurt I
Forever Asher
Infamous Park Avenue Prince
Exiled Heir
Fae for Pay
The Accidental Necromancer
The Tea House
Storm Warning
Trickster
The Nightmare Before Kissmas


Triple Dog Dare
Prince, Charmed
Knox
A Pub in the Underworld
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
Fish Out of Water
Howl You Doin?
Descent of Ravens
The Finder
Flirt


Luca
Forget Me Not
Love Notes & Lifelines
Behind the Net
Lovewrecked
Straight Battle
Sweetheart
Passions of a Papillon
Alchemist Apprentice
Baking with a Ghost DNF


Frederick
Prince of Flowers
Brewing Sunshine
The Omega Thief
Nine Month Contract
Touch Her and Die
Sexless in Seattle DNF
Cloud Ten
Just Friends
Charles


Holidays on the Ranch
The Fox Assassin: League of Supernatural Assassins
Over the Woodward Wall
Revenant
Wild Irish Heart
Flawless
Shards of Hope
Rainbow Place
Her Three Bodyguards
Pack of Lies


Hollow
Foxes Love Sorcerers
Quest
The Fae Menagerie
Champion Security: The Complete Series
The Hot Mess Prince
Enemy Mine
Unbridled
Filthy Rich Vampire
All Our Tomorrows

hi, sign me up for 30 books!
goal: 41/30

1. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.
1. Falling ⭐️
2. Conversations with Friends ⭐️
3. Gone Girl ⭐️
4. Project Hail Mary ⭐️
5. The Mask Falling ⭐️
6. Mistborn: The Final Empire ⭐️
7. Small Favors ⭐️
8. All Girls ⭐️
9. Babel ⭐️
10. Their Fractured Light ⭐️
11. The Well of Ascension ⭐️
12. The Hero of Ages ⭐️
13. This Mortal Coil ⭐️
14. The Host ⭐️
15. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown ⭐️
16. Life’s Too Short ⭐️
17. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ⭐️
18. This Cruel Design ⭐️
19. Before You Knew My Name ⭐️
20. Little Fires Everywhere ⭐️
21. Horrid ⭐️
22. Malibu Rising ⭐️
23. Carrie Soto Is Back ⭐️
24. Yellowface ⭐️
25. A Slow Fire Burning ⭐️
26. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ⭐️
27. The Time Traveller's Wife ⭐️
28. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone ⭐️
29. Tithe ⭐️
30. The Heart of Betrayal ⭐️
31. Someone We Know ⭐️
32. Valiant ⭐️
33. The Beauty of Darkness ⭐️
34. Ironside ⭐️
35. Beartown ⭐️
36. All the Stars and Teeth ⭐️
37. I’m Glad My Mom Died ⭐️
38. Klara and the Sun ⭐️

2. Read a book you have started, set aside for a while, and now want to finish.
1. The Summer of Broken Rules ⭐️
2. The Geography of Lost Things ⭐️

I'll pass since I read library books almost exclusively--but all the best to those of you with piles of books in your home you're going to get to :)! This is a great idea!!!

I read ebooks almost exclusively, but I want to try more audiobooks this year. I'm going for 75

Clear The Shelves 2025
Dates: 01/01/2025-12/31/2025
Completed: 75/75 Finished Nov. 29, 2025

1. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
2. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
3. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
4. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
5. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
6. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
7. Love at First by Kate Clayborn
8. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
9. In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros
10. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
11. One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
12. Command and Control by Marc Cameron
13. The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
14. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
15. Down World by Rebecca Phelps
16. Yesterworld by Rebecca Phelps
17. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
18. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
19. The Last Days of Lorien by Pittacus Lore
20. Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
21. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
22. Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
23. Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent
24. City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
25. Quicksilver by Callie Hart
26. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
27. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
28. God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments by Hannah Brown
29. The Reality of Everything by Rebecca Yarros
30. Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner
31. Six's Legacy by Pittacus Lore
32. Inside Out by Demi Moore
33. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
34. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
35. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
36. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
37. The Awakening by Caroline Peckham
38. Until Midnight by Melissa Landers
39. The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent
40. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
41. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
42. Nemesis by Gregg Hurwitz
43. Five's Legacy by Pittacus Lore
44. El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
45. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
46. It's a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan
47. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
48. The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
49. The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
50. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
51. Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
52. Never Say Die by James Patterson
53. How to Play the Guitar and Y: Words + Music, Vol. 21 by Elvis Costello
54. The Broker by John Grisham
55. The Selection by Kiera Cass
56. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
57. The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
58. Lover Forbidden by J.R. Ward
59. The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman
60. Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
61. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
62. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
63. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
64. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
65. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
66. The Fallen Legacies by Pittacus Lore
67. Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab
68. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
69. How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis
70. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
71. Fallen City by Adrienne Young
72. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
73. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
74. Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis
75. One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

My goals add up to 34!


🏁 CLEAR THE SHELVES
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 14/34

Physical Books: 2/10
(choose at least 10 books that I already own or have borrowed)
(view spoiler)[

✔️1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 3/13/25
✔️2. Eat, Pray, Love 3/31/25

The Bourbon Kings
Blink
The Red Tent
The Pilot's Wife
She’s Come Undone
Camino Island
The Judge's List
The Chamber
The Whistler
Deliver Us from Evil
The Camel Club
One Good Deed
First Family book 4 of series
The Sixth Man book 5 of series
The Penny Tree
Red Queen book 1 of series
That Perfect Someone series
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Jane Eyre
Rogue Lawyer
The Confession
(hide spoiler)]

Ebooks: 7/14
(books borrowed from kindle unlimited at beg of year and free reads from prev year or books borrowed and snoozed multiple times-choose at least 14)
(view spoiler)[
1. Catch The Sun
2. Priest
3. Spark of the Everflame: The Kindred's Curse Saga, Book One
4. The Kitchen House
5. Still Beating
6. The Wolf King
7. My Lady Jane
8. Jar of Hearts
9. Rising: After the Thaw
10. The Blinds
11. Yours Truly
12. American Dirt
13. One Second After
14. The Girl Who Stayed
15. Bad Mother
16. What the Light Touches
✔️17. Shatter Me 1/1/25
✔️18. Happy Place 2/5/25
19. The Priory of the Orange Tree
✔️20. The Four Winds 2/8/25
21. Three Women
✔️22. The House in the Cerulean Sea 1/10/25
23. Neverwhere
24. Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✔️25. Demon Copperhead 3/28/25
26. Hot Pursuit
27. One Thousand White Women
✔️28. Part of Your World 1/3/25
29. Chinese Cinderella
✔️30. Archer's Voice 1/15/25
(hide spoiler)]


Audible Books: 5/10
(books started in prev years and not finished and books downloaded in prev years but not started or library books snoozed - choose at least 10)
(view spoiler)[
✔️1. A Court of Wings and Ruin
2. The Stillwater Girls
3. A Girl Called Samson
4. A Voice in the Wind
5. The Keeper of Happy Endings
6. The Last Sin Eater
7. The Quarry Girls
8. Take Me With You
✔️9. Finders Keepers 1/4/25
✔️10. The Return of Ellie Black 2/4/25
✔️11. I'll Be Waiting 3/8/25
✔️12. It 2/19/25
13. Holly
14. The Witching Hour
(hide spoiler)]

Count me in, Lisa!

PROGRESS: 20/100

I'll be clearing ebooks and audiobooks from my shelves.

E-BOOKS


AUDIOBOOKS

In for 6! Wanting to clear some physical books from my shelves 📚

EDIT 20 JUN 25: Goal updated to 10

5/10 completed

Currently Reading (Purchased before 1 Jan 2025)



Cleared

1. The Fog - 4 Jan 2025
2. The Bullet that Missed - 26 Jan 2025
3. Redheaded Stepchild - 25 Feb 2025
4. The Lost Man - 5 Apr 2025
5. The Twyford Code - 20 Jun 2025
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

My goal is to read 25 books I already own :)

i’ll join for 10 to start :)

I'll sign up for 50 physical.

50/50

1. No Cry For Help by Grant McKenzie
2. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
4. Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
5. Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
6. Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
8. Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
9. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
10. Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry
11. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
12. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
13. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
14. Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen
15. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
16. What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
17. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
18. How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
19. A Twist of Murder by Heather Redmond
20. The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
21. The October List by Jeffery Deaver
22. All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
23. Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline
24. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
25. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
26. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
27. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
28. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
29. Find Me by Andre Aciman
30. Two Days Gone by Randall Silvis
31. Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson
32. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
33. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
34. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
35. Yorkshire Lass by J Carol Nemeth
36. Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
37. The Collective by Alison Gaylin
38. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
39. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
40. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
41. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
42. Playing with Matches by Brian Katcher
43. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
44. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Stryon
45. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
46. Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung
47. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
48. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
49. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
50. Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

Time to once again try to do better about cleaning out the shelves!

22/30

Physical Books: 7/15

Ebooks: 6/8

Audible Books: 9/7

I'm in for 3o books!

Books owned going into 2025: 66 (5 audiobooks)

Goal: 0/30 Books

I'm in for 10 physical books and 5 ebooks!

10/15 completed

Physical Books
1- The Power of the Dog (Don Winslow)
2-The Cartel (Don Winslow)
3-The Big Four (Agatha Christie)- READ 5/4
4-The Murder on the Links (Agatha Christie)- READ 6/15
5-Red, White and Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston)- READ 7/16
6- Ghostland (Colin Dickey)- READ 2/17
7- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)- READ 1/6
8- On Writing (Stephen King)- READ 4/21
9-The Guncle (Steven Rowley)- READ 6/4
10- The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware)- READ 8/13


Ebooks
1- The Border (Don Winslow)
2-I'm Fine and Neither Are You (Camille Pagan)
3- The Bad Mother's Book Club (Keris Stainton)- READ 11/5
4- Your Blue Is Not My Blue (Aspen Matis)
5- Thunderstruck (Erik Larson)- READ 6/29

I really need to focus on this one!
Setting my goal at 80!!

Progress: 52 / 80

Physical books:
Her Holiday Secret
Lies We Never See
Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea
Hometown Hero's Redemption
The Shadow
The Magnolia Sisters
Auschwitz Lullaby
Women of the Silk
Peach Cobbler Murder
A Tangle of KnotsAlmost Heaven
Carrot Cake Murder
Raspberry Danish Murder
Child of Mine
Finding Her Home
Almost Heaven
Abiding Love
A Ring and a Promise
One by One
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
Crosshairs
Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
The Collectors
The Dressmaker's Dowry
The Transatlantic Book Club
Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris
Fatal Memories
God's Little Devotional Book
The Rancher's Homecoming
The Last Time I Saw You
Before I Say Good-Bye
The Joy Luck Club
Someone to Trust
In Pursuit of a Princess
Running Blind
Secrets of Their Past
The Shadow Year
The Lost Hours
The Coworker
The Perfect Dress
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry
The Newcomer
An Amish Reunion
The Elephant of Belfast: A Novel
Only If You're Lucky
The Most Fun We Ever Had - DNF
Loving Isaac
An Amish Buggy Ride
Stealing Freedom
Radar Girls
Missing and Endangered
Leaving Home




Ebooks (Kindle):
The Escape Game

COMPLETED: 53/50 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETED

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

I am going to aim for 12 books;

4 x Physical Books
4 x Ebooks
4 x Audio Books

0 / 12

Thanks!

Physical Books = 4 ----ππππππ+++++++++°°°°°°°°°----

• Well Read Black Girl : Glory Edim et al.
• An African History of Africa: Zeinab Badawi
• Where I'm Coming From #1-3 : Barbara Brandon-Croft
• Out There Screaming : Jordan Peele et al.

Audio Books = 4 ----ππππππ+++++++++°°°°°°°°°----

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
• The Memory Librarian And Other Stories from Dirty Computer : Janelle Monáe et al.
• The Fraud : Zadie Smith
• The Dark Lady : Akala

Ebooks = 4 ----ππππππ+++++++++°°°°°°°°°----

• Memphis : Tara M. Stringfellow
• The Spider King's Daughter : Chibundu Onuzo
• Firerush : Jacqueline Crooks
• The Gilded Ones : Namina Forna

Joining for 10 books :) I might increase the number if all goes well.

For these 10 books I will read physical books that I own as I also want to read more paper books this year, a bit fed up with screens. 😅

my member's corner where I track everything

I will try for 25:

15 Physical
4 Audio
6 E-books

Physical:
1. Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant *****
2. 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life by Don Piper
3. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier *****
4. Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City by Alex Hannaford

E-books:
1. A Nice Class of Corpse by Simon Brett ****

I failed miserably on this challenge in 2024, so I will try better in 2025!

I will sign up for 18:

12 physical
6 e-books
0 audio-books

16 total
4 each: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audible

1. Hardcover: The Neighbor's Secret
7. Hardcover: Children of Virtue and Vengeance
8. Hardcover: The Women
9. Hardcover: I Was Anastasia

2. eBook: Grave Talk
3. eBook: The Answer Is No

4. Audible: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

5: Paperback: You Know You Love Me
6: Paperback: The 5th Wave
10: Paperback: Well Read, Then Dead

Clear The Shelves Challenge
Message #9 Updated (I increased my goal, found a few more that need to be cleared out.)
0/34 Complete ⭐

Clear the Shelves Challenge 2025!

I'm in for 20 from either physical, e-books or audiobooks.

1. Othello, by William Shakespeare
2. Richard III, by William Shakespeare
3. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
4. Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
5. A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
6. The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave
7. The 39 Steps, by John Buchan
8. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
9. The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
10. Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna, by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
11. What's Wrong with the World, by G.K. Chesterton
12. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
13. The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare
14. Life Together, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
15. David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell
16. The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase, by Mark Forsyth

Signing up for 46 books this year!

Progress
2/46


1. Amantes dos Reis de França by Ana Cristina Duarte Pereira
2. Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
3. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
4. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
5. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
6. The Bone Shard Daughter
7. The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
8. City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
✅9. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
10. An Ember in the Ashes in Sabaa Tahir
11. The End of the Day by Claire North
12. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
13. The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien
14. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
15. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
16. Final Girls by Riley Sager
17. The First Binding by R.R. Virdi
18. House of M by Brian Michael Bendis
19. If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
20. The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman
✅21. The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
22. Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
23. The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
24. The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
25. Longshadow by Olivia Atwater
26. The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
27. The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick
28. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
29. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
30. A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
31. Neon Gods by Katee Robert
32. The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
33. Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans
34. Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
35. The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
36. The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
37. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
38. The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
39. Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
40. Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
41. The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
42. The Stars Undying by Emery Robin
43. A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
44. The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
45. The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
46. Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham

Clear the Shelves

Goal: 30 books oldest books on my TBR

1. The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
2. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
3. Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
4. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
5. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
6. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black
7. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
8. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
9. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
10. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
11. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
12. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
13. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
14. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
15. 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
16. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
17. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
18. Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
19. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
20. The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
21. Fifty Shames of Earl Grey (Fifty Shames, #1) by Fanny Merkin
22. Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2) by T.J. Klune
23. My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Botany of Desire, The
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Hospital
Passionate Olive, The
Power of Habit, The
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill & My Mother
Sorrow's Anthem (Lincoln Perry #2)
Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography
Welcome Grave (Lincoln Perry #3), A
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Will try for 34


12 Physical Books:
1. FINISHED. The Lost Library. Rebecca Stead
2. FINISHED. Any Other Name Jodi Picoult
3. FINISHED. Ghostlight. Kenneth Oppel
4. FINISHED. By Any Other Name. Jodi Picoult



12 Ebooks:
1. FINISHED. The Last Goodbye. Fiona Lucas
2. FINISHED. We All Live Here. Jojo Moyes
3. FINISHED. Solve Murders. Richard Osman
4. FINISHED. Mistletoe Mystery. Nita Prose
5. FINISHED. Old Man's War. John Scalzi
6. FINISHED. The Lantern of Lost Memories. Sanaka Hiiragi
7. FINISHED. The Booklover's Library. Madeline Martin
8. FINISHED. My Friends. Fredrik Backman
9. FINISHED. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. Jesse Q. Sutanto
10. FINISHED. Upgrade. Blake Crouch

10 Audible Books:
1. FINISHED. The 6:20 Man. David Baldacci
2. FINISHED. The House of Hidden Meanings
RuPaul
3. FINISHED. The Memory Library. Kate Storey
4. FINISHED. Grief Is for People. Sloane Crosley
5. FINISHED. Out. Demi Moore
6. FINISHED. Mystery in the Title. Ian Ferguson
7. FINISHED. Connie: A Memoir. Connie Chung
8. FINISHED. Finders Keepers. Stephen King
9. FINISHED The Three Lives of Cate Kay. Kate Fagan



23/34

My goal is 40 books.

Progress: 26/40
Physical books: 7/20
Ebooks: 19/20

Physical books: 7
A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina's Nightmare
An Armenian Sketchbook
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Fledgling
Sarajevo Marlboro
The Desert and the Drum
The Roots of Heaven

Ebooks: 19
A Matrimonial Murder
A Room of One's Own
Amethyst Witch
An Englishman in Madrid
Born on a Tuesday
Camber of Culdi
Dark Summer
Evening Is the Whole Day
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
Last Train to Istanbul
Miss Marjoribanks
O Pioneers!
Sanctuary
Sea and Sardinia
She Would Be King
The Book of Strange New Things
The Fisherman King
The Turner House
Two Spies in Caracas

My Goal is 50 books

Progress 28/50

I am only counting E-Books and Physical books

Planned Reads:

1. The Stolen
2. The Lost Souls
3. The Killer Inside
4. Born in Blood
5. Silent Dolls
6. Stranger at the Window
7. The Doll Collector
8. Killer Charm
9. Whispers in the Hollow Room
10. Blood & Honey
11. Gods & Monsters
12. Things We Hide from the Light
13. Things We Left Behind
14. The Duke and I
15. The Viscount Who Loved Me
16. An Offer From a Gentleman
17. Romancing Mister Bridgerton
18. To Sir Phillip, With Love
19. When He Was Wicked
20. It's in His Kiss
21. On the Way to the Wedding

Unplanned:
1. Sugar and Spice: 4 Explicit FFM Threesome Stories by Victoria Hartwood - 23/01-23/01 - 52 pages
2. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 02/01-15/01 - 519 pages
3. The Submission Diaries: 4 Explicit FSub BDSM Stories by Victoria Hartwood - 23/01-24/01 - 37 pages
4. Trick or Treat: 4 Explicit Halloween Stories by Victoria Hartwood - 24/01 - 24/01 - 36 pages
5. Under Your Spell: 4 Explicit Fantasy Stories by Victoria Hartwood - 25/01-25/01 - 31 pages
6. Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams - 02/02 - 10/02 - 370 pages
7. The Fall Risk by Abby Jimenez - 15/01-16/01 - 82 pages
8. The Power of Du'a by Aliyah Umm Raiyaan - 01/01-02/02 - 224 pages
9. You Don't Need Meat by Peter Cox - 16/02-10/03 - 404 pages
10. Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals by Gary L. Francione - 10/03-19/03 - 148 pages
11. Yes, Sir: 4 Explicit MDom Stories by Victoria Hartwood - 25/03-26/03 - 42 pages
12. Short-Cut Math by Gerard W. Kelly - 24/03-29/03 - 170 pages
13. 28 Questions by Indyana Schneider - 06/04-14/4 - 368 pages
14. Heartwarming: 4 Explicit Spicy Romance Stories by Victoria Hartwood - 26/03-02/04 - 50 pages
15. Vegetarian Cookbook: Discover the Joy of Cooking with Plants by Martin HArt - 28/03 - 02/04
16. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - 25/04-04/05 - 482 pages
17. Making the Cat Laugh: One Woman's Journal of Single Life on the Margins by Lynne Truss - 212 pages - 04/05-09/05
18. Things We Hide from the Light by Lucy Score - 15/05-31/05 - 594 pages
19. Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score - 01/6-13/6 - 581 pages
20. The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle - 13/06-15/06 - 380 pages
21. How to Grow Your Own Vegetables in Raised Beds and Containers: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started by Clara DeBeyer - 06/05-21/06 - 171 pages
22. The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More by Arin Murphy-Hiscock - 29/06-08/07 - 225 pages
23. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig - 12/07-20/07 - 345 pages
24. The House Guest by Charlotte Northedge - 08/07-23/07 - 352 pages
25. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore - 09/08-10/08 - 373 pages
26 .Dinner for Two by Mike Gayle - 10/08-18/08 - 352 pages
27. Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister 28/08-08/09 - 402 pages
28. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki by Se-Hee Baek - 08/09-12/09 - 196 pages

Clear the shelves. I’m in for 20 books this year

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I'm going to try 36 this year!

Starting with the ones I started but didn't finish in 2024:

[FINISHED]: 1/36
1. Iron Flame (brazilian version)


On going:
Physical:
1. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
3. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
4. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
5. Permanent Record

Kindle:
1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
2. The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible

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Put me in for 25 to start please! We'll go from there :)

3/25

Physical Books:
1. What Remains

E-Book:
1. Hexed
2. Onyx Storm

Last Edit: 2/9/25

I’m going to aim for 24 books this year (2 a month). I’m a fast reader but 3 young children limit my reading time.