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message 1: by Shelly (last edited Dec 23, 2025 07:52AM) (new)
Dec 15, 2024 05:46PM

Shelly | 1019 comments 2025 Book Shelf

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

January
1. A Fatal Grace (2006) 4 stars
2. Nina Simone in Comics! (2023) 4 stars
3. Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption (2009) 4 stars
4. Bird by Bird 3.5 stars

February
5. The Magician’s Nephew (1955) 3 stars
6. When Breath Becomes Air (2016) 3 stars
7. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy (2022) 3 stars
8. Find a Way (2015) 4 stars

March
9. Death on the Nile (1937) 4 stars
10. Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1 (1968) 3 stars
11. Beezus and Ramona (1955) audio --4 stars
12. Oromay (1983) 5 stars

April
13. Bright I Burn 2 stars
14. When You Are Engulfed in Flames 3 stars

May
15. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper 2023 4 stars
16. Betty (2020) 5 stars

June
17. Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration (2021) 3 stars
18. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (2023) 4 stars

July
19. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (2023) 4 stars
20. The Immortalists (2019) 5 stars

August
21. The Life Impossible 3 stars
22. Silver Sparrow (2011) 3 stars
23. The Book of Speculation (2015) 4 stars

September
24. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War (2014) 4 stars
25. The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020) 4 stars
26. The Director 5 stars
27. There Are Rivers in the Sky (2024) 5 stars
28. The Women (2024) 5 stars
29. The Power of One (1989) 5 stars

October
30. Starter Villain (2023) 4 stars
31. Spinning Silver (2018) 4 stars
32. The Orphan's Tale (2017) 4 stars

November
33. James (2024) 5 stars
34. The Quiet American 1955 3.5 stars
35. Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023) 5 stars

December
36. The Shell Collector (2002) 3.5 stars
37. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (2023) 4 stars


message 4: by Shelly (last edited Dec 15, 2025 08:27AM) (new)
Dec 17, 2024 07:30AM

Shelly | 1019 comments Play Harder List #2

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

1. Read a book in which a character travels by train
The Orphan's Tale
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2. Read a book you know nothing about (pick it based on the title, cover, or author you love or want to try - don't read the synopsis or reviews.) The Director
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

3. Read a book that fits your favorite PBT tag from 2024
August tag -- 5 stars
The Power of One
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

***4. Read a book with a religious figure as a main character (priest, nun, monk, chaplain, pastor, vicar, rabbi, muezzin, the Pope, Buddha, prophet, etc.).***
Entered in October swap
4. A book with a main character who is a journalist or journalistic photographer - fiction or non-fiction
The Quiet American
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5. A romance or love story
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

6. Read a book from a fellow PBT member's historical fiction shelf that is tagged historical fiction at least 5x
From Amy's shelf
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

7. A book with a cat on the cover.
Starter Villain
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

8. A book rated 5 stars read by any PBT member whose first name starts with the same initial as yours, i.e. Amy could read one of Anita's 5 star rated books.
SWZippy The Women
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

9. A biography or autobiography
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

10. Read a book you have borrowed from your local library.
James
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

11. Read a book by an author you've been meaning to try, but never have read before
Spinning Silver
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

12. Read a book found on PBT's Shelfagories shelf
The Shell Collector
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


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Possibles
✔1. Read a book in which a character travels by train
The Edge
Outbound Train
The Last Train to Key West
✔2. Read a book you know nothing about (pick it based on the title, cover, or author you love or want to try - don't read the synopsis or reviews.)
The Director
✔3. Read a book that fits your favorite PBT tag from 2024
August 5 stars James
The Power of One
4. A book with a main character who is a journalist or journalistic photographer - fiction or non-fiction
The Quiet American
✔5. A romance or love story
Fourth Wing
Love in the Time of Cholera
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Red, White & Royal Blue
The House in the Cerulean Sea
✔6. Read a book from a fellow PBT member's historical fiction shelf that is tagged historical fiction at least 5x
*Amy There Are Rivers in the Sky
James
Barbara M The Power of One
✔7. A book with a cat on the cover.
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Starter Villain
Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve
✔8. A book rated 5 stars read by any PBT member whose first name starts with the same initial as yours, i.e. Amy could read one of Anita's 5 star rated books.
SW Zippy The Women
✔9. A biography or autobiography
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
9 1/2 Narrow: My Life in Shoes
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
10. Read a book you have borrowed from your local library.
✔11. Read a book by an author you've been meaning to try, but never have read before ,
My Brilliant Friend
Spinning Silver
The Frozen River
The Golden Compass
12. Read a book found on PBT's Shelfagories shelf
Watchmen
The Secret History
The Stepford Wives
My Brilliant Friend
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
The Shell Collector


message 5: by Shelly (last edited Sep 25, 2025 09:26AM) (new)
Dec 17, 2024 07:30AM

Shelly | 1019 comments Play Harder list #1

✔ 1. A book with a plot including a circus or carnival The Book of Speculation
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 2. Read a book with the character(s) name in the title. Nina Simone in Comics!
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...?
comment=285139016#comment_285139016

✔3. A family saga or family drama Betty
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 4. Read a book by an author who is also a scientist The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 5. A book set somewhere not on Earth Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 6. Cover includes shiny gold or silver lettering in Title Silver Sparrow
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
3 stars

✔ 7. A book featuring a female athlete Find a Way
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 8. Reread a chapter book that you originally read under the age of 18. Beezus and Ramona
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 9. Read a book you’ve borrowed from a friend. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 10. Read a book that was published posthumously When Breath Becomes Air
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

11. A book tagged "alternate history"swapped for
✔ 11. Read an audiobook When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 12. Read a book about or set in Eqypt. Death on the Nile
review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


message 7: by Shelly (last edited Nov 22, 2025 07:09AM) (new)
Dec 17, 2024 08:10AM

Shelly | 1019 comments Recommended
Three body problem
Braiding sweetgrass
Stoner
Adventures of Amina
Refrigerator Monologues
Butter Honey Pig Bread


November Possibles (Brit Lit)
And Then there were None - Agatha Christie
The Golden Compass - Pullman/Philip Dick/Philip Roth
The Man in the High Castle
Midnight Library - Haig
2001 - Arthur C Clarke/Arthur Miller/Arthur Conan Doyle
Atonement Ian McKewon/Ian Fleming

Quiet American
Scoop

October Possibles
Spinning Silver (PHC #11) New to me author
Watchmen (PHC#12) Shelfagories
Starter Villain (PHC #7) Cat on cover

September Possibles
Around the World meets Play Harder Challenge
The Director (PHC #2)
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War (PHC # 9)
The Power of One (PHC #6)
There Are Rivers in the Sky (PHC #10)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (PHC #5)


message 8: by Shelly (new)
Aug 19, 2025 06:44AM

Shelly | 1019 comments Coffee Shop Reads

1. Shitty First Drafts by Ann Lamott 1/10/25
https://mccourt.georgetown.edu/wp-con...
In Bird by Bird

2. On Perfectionism by Ann Lamott 1/16/25
https://cottonenglish.weebly.com/uplo...
In Bird by Bird

3. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury 1/28
audio on 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales Podcast
excellent

4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4/22
F. Scott Fitzgerald story.
Maybe i should watch the movie!

Ideas
https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/
podcast 1001 Classic short stories


You Took the Last Bus Home
These Precious Days: Essays
Galatea


message 9: by Shelly (last edited Dec 23, 2025 07:37AM) (new)
Aug 19, 2025 06:46AM

Shelly | 1019 comments Parking Lot

Top Ten for 2025

Oromay - Girma
There are Rivers in the Sky - Shafak
The Immortalists - Benjamin
Betty - McDaniel
The Director - Kehlmann
The Women - Hannah
Chain Gang All Stars - Adjei-Brenyah
James - Everett
The Power of One - Courteney
The Wager - Grann


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