Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Have you noticed the longer you are active on Goodreads, the larger your “to-read” (TBR) shelf becomes?

How do you tackle it? In date order? Alphabetical? Or do you just ignore it and hope to get to the books “one day”?

Rules: For this challenge, you’ll use a randomiser* to randomly pick numbers. Use these corresponding numbers on your “to-read” shelf to challenge yourself to read those books.

❶ Step 1
Go to www.random.org/integers/ to get your random numbers. (Instructions under spoiler.)
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1. Change the number in part 1 to the number of books you are choosing.
   In this example, I changed 100 to 2.

2. Change the second number (100) to the number of books on your “to read” shelf.
   In this example, I changed it to 187.

3. Click “Get Numbers.”
   



The next page will give you your random numbers:

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❷ Step 2
Go to your “to-read” shelf and find the books that match your numbers on your shelf. They are your selected books! (Example continues under spoiler.)
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In this example, the numbers given were 52 and 110 and book number 52 is “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”



Note: You may need to "turn on" your position number on your shelf. To do this, go to your "to-read" shelf, click on "Settings" (top right) then make sure "position" is selected and "save"

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*If you prefer not to use the randomiser, you may just choose random numbers yourself by rolling a dice, picking a number out of a hat, just choosing a number in your mind - up to you!!

Duration: One year from start date. (Though to keep with the original challenge each book selected should be read within one month. )

Levels:

Headlock: 1-8 books.
Coathanger: 9-17 books.
Spear Tackle: 18-26 books.
No Suspension: 27 + books

Help in Assigning Numbers to Your Books - (Screen under spoiler.)
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How to “turn on” the position indicator on your “to-read” shelf:

• Go to setting (blue arrow) and check-mark the box position (red arrow) and numbers will be assigned (purple arrow) to your books based on your add dates.

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Reading Challenges ~ Emerald Coin

Earn your Emerald Coins with Reading Challenges joined on or after April 1, 2016.

To Earn an Emerald Coin:
One Coin upon reaching the No Suspension Level in one year


Learn about Gem coins here

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Oldest 50 books on my TBR randomized

1. Death of an Englishman (Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery, #1) by Magdalen Nabb
2. Rudi and the Distelfink by F.N. Monjo
3. How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion by Derek Sivers
4. The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
5. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
6. The Ghost Map, The: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
7. Murder in an Irish Village (An Irish Village Mystery, #1) by Carlene O'Connor
8. Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
9. Rescuing Jeffrey by Richard Galli
10. The Last Flight by Julie Clark
11. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
12. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
13. Yossel, April 19, 1943 by Joe Kubert
14. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) by Heather Morris
15. Before I Let You Go
16. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
17. Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
18. Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7) by James Patterson
19. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
20. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
21. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
22. Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
23. Still Life by Sarah Winman
24. 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion (Irish Century Book, #1) by Morgan Llywelyn
25. In the Blood by Lisa Unger
26. Good Luck with That by Kristan Higgins
27. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
28. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black
29. The Trap by Melanie Raabe
30. The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
31. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

I am going to go for 22 books this year.
Randomized from my entire TBR.

Beginning of Year TBR: 256
End of Year TBR:

Spear Tackle

8/22

86 The Thinnest Air
84 Caraval
128 Girl, Forgotten
104 Freak
158 A Friend in the Dark (owned)

90 The Warner Boys: Our Family's Story of Autism and Hope (owned)
97 What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
190 A Very Bad Thing (owned)
42 Before Goodbye (owned)
167 Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

109 He Started It
204 The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
126 False Witness (audible)
110 Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the 70s and 80s
66 Tampa

154 Rabbit Hole
144 The Deserter
75 The Good Samaritan (owned)
114 Kingdom of Shadow and Light (owned)
132 Nettle & Bone

254 A Show of Faith
237 Desperate Creed

2025 TBR Tackler

Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Level: No Suspension – 27+ books

Completed: 0/27 books

#315 - Never Met a Duke Like You by Amalie Howard
#046 - The Thin Edge by Peggy Townsend
#334 - Her Last Whisper by Jennifer Chase
#250 - Drinking Deep by Dylann Crush
#204 - Love Letters by the Sea by Erica Ridley



#101 - Only a Duchess Would Dare by Amelia Grey
#337 - Her Perfect Bones by Ellery Kane
#034 - The Dark Corners of the Night by Meg Gardiner
#174 - The Irresistible Miss Peppiwell by Stacy Reid
#402 - Close to Home by Robert Dugoni



#366 - A Simple Seduction by Janna MacGregor
#273 - The Backup Plan by Jill Shalvis
#098 - Winter's Mourn by Mary Stone
#164 - The Duke’s Wife by Jess Michaels
#139 - Cowboy on My Mind by R.C. Ryan



#418 - The Cracked Spine by Paige Shelton
#272 - Defying the Earl by Erica Ridley
#449 - Love Only Once by Johanna Lindsey
#398 - Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti
#447 - Like Cats & Dogs by Lizzie Shane



#386 - The Earl and the Country Girl by Eva Devon
#048 - The Heiress He's Been Waiting For by Kaitlin O'Riley
#234 - Those Texas Nights by Delores Fossen
#193 - Indecent by Darcy Burke
#285 - The Countess by Sophie Jordan



#458 - Jewel Me Twice by Charish Reid
#180 - A Scot Is Not Enough by Gina Conkle

My spot.

TBR shelf 1st January 2025: 710
TBR shelf 31st December 2025:

2/25

#123 - A Room with a View by E.M. Foster
#165 - Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodger
#179 - Knife by R.J. Anderson
# 227 - Raven's Shadow by Patricia Briggs
# 231 - Dragonlord of Mystara by Thorarinn Gunnarsson



# 257 - Twelve Days of Christmas by Trisha Ashley
# 271 - Knight's Shadow by Sebastien de Castell
# 292 - Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence
# 363 - Brave the Tempest by Karen Chance
# 400 - Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto



# 410 - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
# 423 - Ink by Alice Broadway
# 430 - The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
# 475 - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
✔ # 486 - Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas - 19th July



# 530 - Ellie Pillai Is Brown by Christine Pillainayagam
# 574 - If I Stay by Gayle Forman
# 579 - The Host by Stephenie Meyer
# 598 - Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
# 624 - Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne



# 644 - Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
# 674 - Das Herz der Drachen by Liane Mars
# 678 - Fake Dates and Fireworks by Kyra Groh
✔ # 679 - Wounded by Shannon Mayer - 24th April
# 685 - Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Let's try this again, shall we? One of these years I won't actually fail miserably😆 Changing titles to links as I read them

18/27

Audio tbr:

1. #9 The Man I Think I Know
2. #116 Thomas Hardy
3. #12 The Adventures of Brother Cadfael: A Collection of Chronicles
4. #45 The Librarian of Crooked Lane
5. #77 Home
6. #102 The Maid
7. #56 The Mistress
8. #29 Spells for the Dead
9. #16 The Book-Lovers' Retreat
10. #13 The Burning Issue of the Day
11. #82 Nettle & Bone
12. #118 Here One Moment
13. #109 The Burning Secret
14. #41 The Travelling Cat Chronicles
15. #18 Murder at the Matterhorn

Print tbr:

1. #256 Get Shorty
2. #189 A Kestrel for a Knave
3. #228 A Study in Drowning
4. #17 The Bone Clocks
5. #162 The Coin
6. #211 To Die For
7. #220 Zhara
8. #347 China Mountain Zhang
9. #250 Voyage of the Damned
10. #25 Wildtrack
11. #53 Cryptozoic
12. #259 The Bad Weather Friend

I didn't do this one in 2024 because I ended up pretty much ignoring it in previous years. But let's give it another go this year.
I will list 50 with the intention of hopefully reading at least 25 of them. My TBR is 1,073 at the start of 2025.

✔0/25

485 - The Hostage of Glenorchy (kindle)
282 - Groomed: Danger lies closer than you think
498 - An Ignorant Witch
230 - The Secrets of the Notebook
343 - The Last Continent (Discworld)
702 - Newport Harbor House (kindle)
796 - Case No. 56 (audible)
777 - A Long Shadow (kindle)
286 - Rainbow Valley (audible)
543 - My Sister's Keeper (kindle)
917 - The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster (library)
790 - A Royal Farce (kindle)
151 - Talon (book/Libby)
64 - Pollyanna Grows Up
391 - Captivate
700 - The Beach Hut (kindle)
1030 - The Winter Cottage
851 - What Happened at the Lake (kindle)
167 - Watership Down (library)
1057 - Behind Her Lies (kindle)
1051 - Old Man's War (book)
385 - A Quiet Place to Kill (kindle)
535 - School For Spirits (kindle)
927 - Thirty Seconds to Live (kindle)
29 - The Field Guide
712 - Littered with Trouble (kindle)
843 - The Waratah Inn (kindle)
1052 - The Water Thief (kindle)
589 - Transmission (kindle)
690 - The City on the Sea (kindle)
53 - Throne of Glass
221 - H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
956 - Dead Wrong
778 - Deadhead and Buried (kindle)
36 - The Lost Child (book)
181 - Then There Were Nun (kindle)
1064 - Tiger Chair (kindle)
26 - Hostile Witness (kindle/audible)
163 - A Prayer for Owen Meany
867 - The Window (kindle)
1061 - In Any Lifetime (kindle)
48 - Killing Times 6 (kindle)
498 - An Ignorant Witch (kindle)
75 - In Between (kindle)
420 - Tempest in the Tea Leaves (kindle)
747 - Rise of the Dragons (kindle)
859 - Magical Arts Academy: Omnibus One (kindle)
146 - Fresh Doubt
957 - The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
556 - The Harvest (kindle)

TBR Tackler Challenge 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

I am going to use a Random Number Generator each month because I like surprises, and I tend to get squirrelly if I know my books too far in advance!

READ: 24

Using my TBR (regular and literary-horror list)

January
#977 - The Donor by Clare Mackintosh 1/2/25
#41 - Run on Red by Noelle W. Ihli 1/7/25
#554 - The Girls Who Disappeared by Claire Douglas 1/18/25
#49 - Hide in Place by Emilya Naymark 1/29/25

February
#5 - The Villa by Rachel Hawkins 2/2/25
#543 - My Murder by Katie Williams 2/5/25
#870 - Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall 2/13/25
#892 - Gathering Mist by Margaret Mizushima 2/14/25
#897 - The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson 2/15/25
#761 - No Exit by Taylor  Adams 2/28/25

March
#33 - BlueBuried Muffins by Lyndsey Cole 3/11/25

April
#215 - The Patient by Jasper DeWitt 4/10/25
#258 - The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir 4/23/25

May
#657 - The Kamogawa Food Detectives Hisashi Kashiwai 5/6/25
#120 - The Maid by Nita Prose 5/18/25
#647 - Don't Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders 5/22/25

June
#30 - The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson 6/2/25
#210 - Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries by Martin Edwards 6/8/25
#151 - Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter 7/4/25

July
#182 - How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales: and Other Stories by Kate Bernheimer 7/6/25
#50 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 7/13/25
#541 - Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark 7/23/25
#959 - Open Throat by Henry Hoke 7/26/25

August
#80 - The Guide by Peter Heller 8/17/25
#243 - Audition by Ryū Murakami 8/23/25

Going for 27 books.

367- Barking
492- The Parliament
450- Arboreality
✅139- In the Shape of a Boar
398- Isle of Woman
520- Blank
✅423- She Who Knows
352- A Garden of Briars
353- Percival's Planet
✅253- The Wicked King
62- Rendezvous with Rama
324- The Execution of Noa P. Singleton
✅299- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
218- Grunts
211- A Spell for Chameleon
64- Revenant Gun
✅488- There Are Rivers in the Sky
358- Now and Again
115- The Whispers
✅43- The Book of Imaginary Beings
349- The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
313- The Dog Stars
✅106- Wolves of the Calla
✅308- The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification
✅473- The Gray House
58- Invisible Man
30- Threading the Labyrinth

2025 TBR Tackler. (each book selected should be read within one month. )
Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Level: No Suspension – 27+ books

Completed: 0/27 books

740 Uit de puinhopen. Een nieuwe politiek in een tijd van crisis
1058 De verloren kinderen
1072 The Woman in the White Kimono
1235 The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises
335 Damned
504 Moletown
2074 How the Penguins Saved Veronica
1077 The Mountain Between Us
21 Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
664 Bring Me Back
788 The Library Book
793 Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
1907 The Unadulterated Cat
1400 Een regen van eeuwig vuur
1886 What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
1533 Mijn geliefde boekhandel
1459 The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
1917 Bookworm
1490 Achterland
1506 Uncommon Type: Some Stories
930 Centaur
881 The Famished Road
1173 Het gerucht
1761 He Called Me Son
558 Beneath the Sugar Sky
2218 Under the Eye of the Big Bird
891 Birdbox

Going for 10 :)

1422 For She Is Wrath
1512 I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
1097 Under the Rainbow
533 Nevernight
880 You May Now Kill the Bride
1053 Over My Dead Body: A Witchy Graphic Novel
20 The Scarlet Letter
1745 The Magic of Light
1649 Dark City Omega
509 The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband

Going for 8 again; we'll see if I manage it this year-
Finished: 5/8

5 from general TBR:
✅ - #36 - The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket 8/21
✅ - #64 - Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them by Scarlett Curtis 4/17
#119 - The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
✅ - #169 - She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen 6/26
✅ - #246 - Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia 9/15



3 past bookclub picks:
✅ #3 - You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks 8/10
#6 - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
#28 - Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake



BONUS (2024's which I didn't get to):
✅ The Returned by Jason Mott 9/23
✅ The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz 9/10
Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Going for 27
#62 Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" 1/1/25
#52 P.S. I Love You 1/21/25

YEARLY CHALLENGE: TBR Tackler Challenge 2025
DATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
LEVEL: Headlock: 1-8 books
COMPLETED: 2/8

✔️ #81 - Marked, Kim Richardson
❌ #636
❌ #1321
❌ #174
✔️ #2238 - The God of the Woods, Liz Moore
❌ #939
❌ #1361
❌ #403

I'll do coat hanger:
1035: The Incendiaries
831: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
143: Marmee
💜878: In Five Years
💜960: Year of Wonders
💜942: Reasons to Stay Alive
💜712: How Proust Can Change Your Life
289: A Farewell to Arms
65: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
1033: Black Candle Women
💜329: Sandwich
784: Before We Forget Kindness
💜778: Sandwich: A Global History
433: And Then There Were None
52: Fiona and Jane

20 for this year

Completed: 3/20

238 Girlcrush
499 Locked 27/6
235 Again Again
236 Truly, Darkly, Deeply
646 Brutal Ambition
306 Liar
228 The Kingmaker
311 Luna Touched
5 Fear Nothing
539 The Villain Institute
549 The Bad Ones
253 The Black Witch
547 Jewel 13/9
283 The Soulmate Equation
24 Shattered
223 Fix Her Up 13/4
78 Don't Lie to Me
240 The Paper Palace
104 Playing with Monsters
313 Dreary Shadows Part One

Saving

Round 2 of TBR Tackler
Level: No Suspension: 27 + books

In ascending order:

3 - Far From the Madding Crowd
46 - Brave New World
231 - Half of a Yellow Sun
290 - Vilette
348 - Memorial
386 - The Reading List
420 - The Eye of the World
438 - Nick
450 - Glitch Feminism
469 - My Body
493 - Daughters of Sparta
589 - Present Tense Machine
640 - Dragon Seed
643 - Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Read 14-Jan-2025)
739 - Indelicacy
773 - Atlas Shrugged
790 - Ascension
830 - Hopscotch
833 - The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
836 - Look at Me
876 - The Death of Mr Love
902 - Água Viva
904 - Julia
906 - No Man's Land: Living Between Two Cultures
925 - Girls & Boys
927 - They're Going to Love You
935 - Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

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876
386
927
290
904
46
739
830
643
935
469
906
231
450
836
420
925
902
589
348
773
438
790
640
833
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I went for 60 this year, but when I finished sorting out my list, I realized I had 61 numbers listed. Not sure what happened, but I'm going with it, lol!

26/61 books read

✔️6. Waiting by Ha Jin (22/01/25)
13. Neuromancer by William Gibson (own)
41. Kalki by Gore Vidal (own)
55. House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (own)
101. Still Life by Louise Penny (own kobo)
131 Killing Floor by Lee Child (own)
139. Ringworld by Larry Niven (own)
✔️152. The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (09/07/25)
154. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (own)
163. The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton (own)
202. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (own)
256. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (own)
✔️260. Thor Vol 2: Who Holds the Hammer? by Jason Aaron (22/01/25)
✔️273. The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison (03/01/25)
✔️276. James Bond: Hammerhead by Andy Diggle (29/01/25)
✔️290. The Woods Vol 1: The Arrow by James Tynion IV (22/02/25)
304. A Rendezvous in Avervoigne by Clark Ashton Smith (own ereader)
✔️324.The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman (17/03/25)
✔️338. The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (10/02/25)
348. The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (own)
381. If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Cavalino (own)
415. A mother's reckoning by Sue Klebold (SMPL)
✔️416. Wait Until Spring Bandini by John Fante (22/02/25)
✔️427. Who? by Algis Budrys (04/01/25)
449. The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu (Libby B)
484. Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent (SMPL)
552. Sphere by Michael Chricton (own)
✔️558. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (24/07/25)
614. Slan by A E van Vogt (own)
617. Aftermath by Chuck Wendig (own)
620. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (SMPL)
682. The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago (Libby B)
✔️770. Self Made by Mat Groom (13/03/25)
✔️809. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (12/03/25)
✔️819. The Future of another Time Line by Annalee Newitz (08/01/25)
842. Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland (own)
881. Holding by Graham Norton (Libby B)
✔️883. Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper (21/06/25)
✔️897. Black Science Vol 1: How to Fall Forever by Rick Remender (08/05/25)
✔️975. Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski (28/05/25)
978. Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin (SMPL)
✔️1002. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (21/01/25)
✔️1011. Batman Universe by Brian Michael Bendis (16/03/25)
1022. Killshot by Elmore Leonard (own)
✔️1024. Astrid Parker Never Fails by Ashley Herring Blake (01/07/25)
1030. Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth (SMPL)
✔️1049. Batman Year One by Frank Miller (04/05/25)
✔️1052. Captain America: White by Jeph Loeb (19/05/25)
✔️1094. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (25/06/25)
✔️1107. Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Nightmare by Sara Gran (15/05/25)
1205. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (own)
✔️1379. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (08/02/25)
1431. Berlin Game by Len Deighton (Libby B)
1435. Sour Candy by Kaelan Patrick Burke (Libby B)
1490. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (own)
✔️1494. Nemesis by Jo Nesbo (31/07/25)
1495. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (own)
1513. The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin (own)
1522. Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi (own)
1541. Eagle in Exile by Alan Smale (Libby A)
1551. The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper (own)

TBR Tackler Challenge 2025

January 1, 2025 to December 2025

No Suspension: 27 + books

5/30 books

62: Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
493: Ireland and the Classical World
575: Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland 450 - 1150
990: Hessians: Officer, Baroness, Chaplain―Three German Experiences in the American Revolution
✅ 1024: The Wizard and the Prophet
1039: Charles Williams: The Third Inkling
1195: Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion
1341: Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
1419: Adjustment Day
✅ 1675: Cover of Snow
1753: The Summer Dragon
1864: Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
✅ 2076: The Fall of Gondolin 1/24/25
2210: Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
2649: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
2697: Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians
2718: The Magic Mountain
2761: A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
2827: The Town House
3721: The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy
3813: The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
3895: Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613
3994: Nights of Plague
4140: Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind
✅ 4620: If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
4638: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
4789: The Making of Victorian Sexuality
5287: Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
5782: The Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity (Volume 53)
✅ 6139: Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

Finished: 2025/06/29

I still have too many unread books at home, so going with 20 for a start.

Levels
Headlock: 1-8 books
Coathanger: 9-17 books
Spear Tackle: 18-26 books
No Suspension: 27 + books

on home TBR prior to 2025: 29


other:

My goal is 20 from books I own
#24
Spear Tackle: 18 - 26

Completed 12

✅1. The House by the River 5/13
✅2. Pretty Girls Dancing 3/23
12. Once Night Falls
24 Gone with the Wind
25. The Hunting Wives
✅29. A Day Like This 4/3
✅43. The Rules of Magic 10/14
47. Mitigating Circumstances
65. The Fallen
✅71. The Soulmate 2/7
79. Letters From a Stranger
✅85. Reckless 1/5
105. Daisy Darker
✅115. Wild Irish Eyes 2/24
124. We Were the Lucky Ones
126. The Second Time We Met
✅144. Highland Protector 1/31
146. Husbands & Lovers
✅148. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry 1/12
157. Demon Copperhead
163. Blue Sisters
164. Long Island
✅171. The Hunting Party9/7
✅172. Holding Up the Universe 8/15
✅175. Memory Man 8/14

Books on the TBR List as of January 1, 2025 - 1052.

Books to read: 10/13
(adding 3 books that were on my list in 2024 and that I didn't get to read)

207.
279. ✅ 10/07/2025
282.
337. ✅ read 08/05/2025
408. ✅ read 06/18/2025
589. ✅ read 01/19/2025
606. ✅ read 07/28/2025
629. ✅ read 03/03/2025
643. ✅ read 01/30/2025
954. ✅ read 08/10/2025

Additional 3 books leftover from 2024:

421. ✅ read 05/19/2025
430.
811. ✅ read 02/18/2025

Love this challenge! The first year I picked a new number after each read book. Last year I picked my books ahead of time. Honestly, I liked the novelty of picking a new number each time, so I'm going back to that this year!

Current TBR: 402

1. #236 - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera - 1/5/25
2. #217 - Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo - 1/14/25
3. #199 - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret - 1/20/25
4. #245 - We Are Okay by Nina LaCour - 2/15/25
5. #190 - The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer - 2/27/25
6. #278 - Shark Heart by Emily Habeck - 5/22/25
7. #9 - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 6/9/25
8. #341 - Deep End by Ali Hazelwood - 6/28/25
9. #52 - The Wolf at the Door by Charlie Adhara - 7/7/25
10. #325 - Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling - 7/10/25
11. #8 - Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou - 7/12/25
12. #174 - Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix - 7/15/25
13. #250 - The Favorites by Layne Fargo - 7/18/25
14. #140 - A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck - 7/20/25
15. #357 - The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull - 7/26/25
16. #266 - The Deep by Rivers Solomon - 7/27/25
17. #277 - Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson - 8/11/25

Current Level: Headlock (6/8)

344 The Scarlet Alchemist
597 The Dyke and the Dybbuk
324 The Cleaving
454 The Thirteenth House
732 A Ceiling Made of Eggshells
603 The Lost Story
752 Fair as a Star
377 Faebound
271 The Winners
90 The Windup Girl
351 The Crystal Cave
226 Born of the Sun
347 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
615 The Tower at Stony Wood
479 The City of Stardust
769 Cassandra in Reverse
687 The Very Best of Tad Williams
397 The Evening and the Morning
456 Royal Airs
616 Goyhood
346 Belladonna
142 The Silver Metal Lover
367 Silence and Shadow
276 The Grace of Wild Things
148 The Birds and Other Stories
407 Akarnae
481 Where the Dark Stands Still
658 The Wild Huntress
717 Heir to Sevenwaters
271 The Poisoner's Ring

Books on the TBR List as of January 1, 2025 - 6666

Books to read: 0/25

3764 - When a Laird Loves a Lady
5573 - Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

No Suspension 2/30

162 The Murders of Molly Southbourne
101 Carter and Lovecraft
125 Bloodchild and other stories
4 Children of time
36Bunny: A Novel
143 Dating and Dragons 4 star
90 The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
197 I Kissed Shara Wheeler DNF,
Replacing with 174Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction 4 stars
16 The Tomb of Dragons 4 stars
91 Vengeful
118 How High We Go In the Dark
53 Emergent Properties 3 stars
80 Role Playing
68 The Royal art of Poison
19 Heart’s Blood
33 Elegy for the Undead
119 The Novice's Tale
176 To the StarsTo the Stars 4 stars
6 Heavenly Tyrant 3 stars
189 A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons3 stars
66 Sweet Dreams
160 Crypt of the Moon Spider
179 Beggars in Spain
100 Shadow of Night
61 Why Women have Better Sex under Communism
20 Akata Witch
98 Cackle
28 Last to Leave the Room
85 The Art Thief
195Lessons in Chemistry Lessons in Chemistry

2025 TBR Tackler

Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
TBR start (priority + hopefuls + past): 226 + 251 + 299
TBR end: _____

Completed: 20/45 books ✔️

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Priority TBR:
#055 - The Bone Shard Daughter
✔️ #177 - Ztracené příběhy
#107 - Bringing Down the Duke
#119 - Witch King
#126 - The Poppy War



✔️#034 - City of Stairs
✔️#043 - The Island of Sea Women
✔️#115 - Pěšky Kolumbií pod rouškou covidu
✔️#046 - Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
✔️#101 - Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice



✔️ #214 - The Girl in the Tower
#104 - In the Company of Witches
✔️ #187 - Císař Nihon-džinu
#054 - A Grave Robbery
#020 - The Widows of Malabar Hill



#018 - The Calculating Stars
#196 - Frost Burned
#025 - Gideon the Ninth
✔️#086 - The House Witch 3
✔️#045 - Záhada černé květiny




Hopefuls TBR
✔️#232 - The Princess of Potential
#153 - Evocation
✔️#237 - The White Masai
#144 - A Dark and Secret Magic
#155 - Foul Days



✔️ #246 - The Rainfall Market
✔️ #081 - Na větrné hůrce
#056 - The Wolf Den
#175 - The Lion Women of Tehran
✔️#178 - A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping



#242 - The Stolen Queen
#183 - Bookshops & Bonedust
#001 - Ink and Bone
#211 - The Mermaid from Jeju
#007 - Egypťan Sinuhet




Past TBRs
#191 - Spin the Dawn
✔️ #086 - A Royal Murder
✔️ #098 - An Impossible Impostor
#104 - The Kingdom of Copper
#238 - Eragon



✔️#029 - Fourth Wing
#261 - Prudence
#187 - Smrtící Vzdělání
✔️#028 - The Tainted Cup
✔️#127 - The Midnight Library


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Levels:

Headlock: 1-8 books.
Coathanger: 9-17 books.
Spear Tackle: 18-26 books.
No Suspension: 27 + books

January-
#108 - The Screwtape Letters - 13/01/25 ⭐️⭐️
#245 - The Name of the Wind
#1786 - Hidden Figures - 18/09/25⭐️⭐️

Feb -
#1982 - Tin Man
#447 - Everything Under the Heavens
#1523 - Devoted (dean Koontz)

Mar
#1406- This is Chance!
#176 - Beard Science
#328 - Death Comes for the Archbishop - 12/03/25 ⭐️⭐️

Apr
#236 The Girls - Everand
#1212 Confessions of Augustine libby
#715 The Fortune of the Rougons - everand

May
#687 - The Templar Legacy
#1671 - Sabrina & Corina - 22/05/25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
#1084 - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

June
#2466 - The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
#2155 - A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
#2276 - Family Lore

September
#1671 - Circus of the Dead: Book 1
#704 - Relics
#1231 - Troilus and Cressida

October

2025 TBR Tackler
Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Level: No Suspension – 27+ books
Starting TBR: 1103
https://www.random.org/integers/

I'm going to try for 3/month. If I draw one later in the series -- I'm going to jump to the next one I need to read.

January:
890 - The Finders Unavailable
381 - The Reapers are the Angels
733 - Mountains Made of Glass
1091 - The Jasad Heir

2025 TBR Tackler
Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Level: Headlock 0/8 books
Starting TBR: 2693

http://www.random.org/integers/

Headlock: 1-8 books.
Coathanger: 9-17 books.
Spear Tackle: 18-26 books.
No Suspension: 27 + books

425- Me, Myself and Why?
486-Reflected Desire
1661-High Wizardry
1883-No Good Tea Goes Unpunished
2215-The Lighthouse Witches
44- Unclean Spirits
1708-What You Did
1394-Where the Forest Meets the Stars

2025 TBR Tackler
Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Level: Coathanger 11/17 books
Starting TBR: 538

1. 337 - Alas, Babylon 1/7/25
2. 243 - Prison Ramen: Recipes and Stories from Behind Bars 1/14/25
3. 537 - The Book Thief 2/3/25
4. 129 - The Living Dead 3/22/25
5. 52 - To Kill a Kingdom 4/5/25
6. 470 - Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails 4/15/25
7. 224 - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century 4/23/25
8. 230 - The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton 5/6/25
9. 112 - Robopocalypse 8/19/25
10. 261 - The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry 8/30/25
11. 54 - You Think It, I'll Say It 9/17/25
12. 106 - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
13. 70 - The Marathon We Live: Training for a Personal Best in Life with Type 1 Diabetes
14. 360 - No Plot? No Problem!
15. 428 - Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
16. 383 - Let's Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change!
17. 414 - The Still Point

TBR Tackler Challenge 2025
Coathanger: 9-17 books.
10 Books

5056 - The Sunflower House
Author - Adriana Allegri
Date Read - DNF
Rating - No Rating left


453 - Book Haven
Author - Laury Falter

1224 - Book - Blood Red
Author - Wendy Corsi Staub

2853 - Book - The Elephant in the Room
Author - Holly Goldberg Sloan

3129 - Book - The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow
Author - Alyssa Palombo

4713 - Graveyard Shift
Author - M.L. Rio

4128 - Book - Graveyard of Lost Children
Author - Katrina Monroe

231 - Book - Born at Midnight
Author - C.C. Hunter

222 - Book - The Portal
Author - Christopher Allan Poe

538 - Book - Second Verse
Author - Jennifer Walkup

TBR Tackler 2025
Coathanger: 9-17 books.
10 Books
5/10

35. Unsung Hero Barbara Ankrum - 3/24/25
28. The Accidental Siren Lexi Blake
22. Passion Lydia Hall
18. One Night before Christmas Serenity Woods - 2/19/25
42. How to Rope a Wild Cowboy Anya Summers
23. The Confession Shayla Black - 1/4/25
9. Ruby Tears Pepper Winters
1. A Very Kinky Valentine's Day Tymber Dalton
3. Love the Way You Spy Lexi Blake - 3/7/25
46. Live, Love, Spy Lexi Blake - 3/15/25

TBR Tackler 2025
No Suspensions Level
17/27

1. The Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand 1/6/25
2. Circe by Madeline Miller 1/9/25
3. Tai-Pan by James Clavell3/29/25
4. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
5. The Home For Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
6. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley 5/19/25
7. The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
8. Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco
9. The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake 5/1/25
10. Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
11. The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
12. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
13. The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
14. The Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score
15. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erin Litteken
16. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson 4/30/25
17. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
18. Mistress Bradstreet by Charlotte Gordon
19. The Pale Assassin by Patricia Elliot
20. Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son by Sholem Alechem
21. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell (6/19/25)
22. All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
23. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Addlington 9/24/25
24. The Wish by Nicholas Sparks 8/9/25
25. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
26. Grace to Become by Emily Belle Freeman
27. A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan

TBR Tackler 2025

No suspension: 27 books
Read: 14/27

324 - The Silent Corner
✔️632 - Remember Me ? - 4/30
✔️967 - Dreadful - 5/26
✔️830 - The Secret Keeper - 3/21
188 - Joka viisautta rakastaa

✔️1196 - The Vanishing Stair - 1/25
✔️666 - In the Dark - 4/12
610 - Burial Rites
✔️66 - Blue Skinned Gods - 1/6
✔1121 - We Don't Talk About Emma - 2/6

✔️250 - The Family Remains - 6/29
1024 - In Other Lands
708 - Taatelitalvi
✔️1031 - Äitiä etsimässä - 8/19
1097 - Rósa & Björk

✔️253- The Devil and the Dark Water - 4/8
✔️96 - Uhri ja pyöveli - 5/4
323 - Show Your Anxiety Who's Boss: A Three-Step CBT Program to Help You Reduce Anxious Thoughts and Worry
609 - Cackle
155 - The Moonstone

907 - Once Upon a Broken Heart
835 - A Thousand Mornings: Poems
✔️880 - Unqualified - 1/9
✔️48 - Sinun, Margot - 3/17
10 - One Last Child

705 - Vanished
✔️408 - Homeland - 2/4

TBR Tackler 2025
Spear Tackle 26 Books

1845: The First to Die at the End
120: Second Time Around
614: This is Where I Leave You
1766: Camino Island
1469: The Dating Plan
1496: Red, White, and Whole
415: 13 Gifts
635: A Place of Peace
1448: The Rose Code
1321: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
1612: The Midnight Library
887: Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
1209: Saint Mazie
1826: Troubled Blood
314: The Chocolate Lovers' Club
1717: The Last Thing He Told Me
1003: Ghost Moon
1750: Come with Me
1564: The Hating Game
902: History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
69: Ballet Shoes
1890:Family Lore
1180: The Forgotten Room
1063:The Infinite Sea
721: Glitches

TBR Tackler 2025
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Headlock (1-8 books)
Progress: 6 of 6
Updated: 8/15/25

❌ - deleted

165 - Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
48 - Autumn's Game by Mary Stone - KP
✔️ 152 - Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton (6/7/25) ★★★.5
2046 - Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs
816 - A Samurai Never Fears Death by Dorothy Hoobler

2065 - The Deal by Elle Kennedy
❌ 1570 - The Battle Dawns by Maya Snow
✔️ 207 - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend by Victoria Laurie (4/2/25) ★★★.5
888 - Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass
749 - Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury

864 - Brody by Mandy Harbin - kindled
115 - Dockside by Susan Wiggs
21 - Downburst by L.T. Ryan
✔️ 40 - Mad River by John Sandford (7/14/25) ★★★.5
✔️ 935 - Pennies for Hitler by Jackie French (8/15/25) ★★★★★

1048 - Child of the Ghosts by Jonathan Moeller - kindled
136 - The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
✔️ 141 - Access Denied by Donna Andrews (6/6/25) ★★★.5
34 - The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
✔️ 66 - Blind Descent by Nevada Barr (2/24/25) ★★★★

TBR Tackler 2025
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: No Suspension: 27 + books

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Headlock: 1-8 books.
✅3- Garden Spells 1/28
115- The Professor of Immortality A Novel
✅81- A Ruin of Roses 1/3
300- Enemies
✅376- Heart of the Sun 3/7
✅169- Keep It in the Family 2/1
✅228- Broken Chains (Nook) 4/8
✅58-The Dark Highlander 2/24

Coathanger: 9-17 books.
101- The Wreck
145- Bittersweet Promises
238- How to Find Love in a Bookshop (Nook)
✅84- Son of the Morning 3/9
✅458- Until I Saw You 1/23
✅52- The Mistake 3/18
✅382- Prey 1/20
269- Five Brothers
✅51- Pack Up the Moon 1/10

Spear Tackle: 18-26 books.
236- Charmed by the Bartender (Nook)
✅131- Neanderthal Seeks Human 2/17
✅️32- Faithless 7/20
110- The Player
232- The Billionaire Deal (Nook)
✅151- Vicious 2/28
✅74- Throttle Me 2/18
✅️427- Unwanted 6/15
✅18- Whispering Rock 1/8

No Suspension: 27 + books
✅452- Guardian of Darkness 2/12

TBR Tackler Challenge 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Level: No Suspension 27 + books
Read: 0/30

1. #2368 The Girl With No Soul by Morgan Owen
2. #2806 The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
3. #1587 Smoke and Key by Kelsey Sutton
4. #1769 Half Life by Lillian Clark
5. #2815 Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan
6. #630 Prodigy by Marie Lu
7. #2229 They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman
8. #984 Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter by Simon Mayo
9. #2604 Viva Lola Espinoza by Ella Cerón
10. #1833 No Way by S.J. Morden
11. #561 Witching Hour by A.I. Nasser
12. #2197 Finding Her Edge by Jennifer Iacopelli
13. #2778 Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
14. #251 Into the Light by Aleatha Romig
15. #2390 How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine
16. #20 A Million Junes by Emily Henry
17. #1999 The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
18. #1270 Compass Rose by Anna Burke
19. #155 The Disappearing by Jennifer Torres
20. #2398 Dark Room Etiquette by Robin Roe
21. #517 Don't Let Me Die by Alex Sinclair
22. #2113 Girl on the Line by Faith Gardner
23. #875 Etherworld by Claudia Gabel
24. #289 How to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller
25. #597 This Body Won't Break by Lea McKee
26. #1077 Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda
27. #2274 Lucky Girl by Jamie Pacton
28. #2148 A Better Bad Idea by Laurie Devore
29. #2669 Always Isn't Forever by J.C. Cervantes
30. #2098 Calculated by Nova McBee

TBR Tackler Challenge 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Level: No Suspension 27 + books
Read: 0/40
1.18 House of Many Ways
2. 65 Code to Zero
3.70 The Power Twins
4.242 The Indian Clerk
5.288 The Girl in the Steel Corset
6.350 Between Friends
7.351Death and the Devil: A Novel by Frank Schatzing
8.436 The Marriage Trap
9.532 Oryx and Crake
10.583 What a Carve Up!
11.593 White Oleander
12.599 Olive Kitteridge
13.602 At Risk
14.654 Tokyo Fiancée
15.671 Joyland
16.675 The Scent of Lemon Leaves
17.677 Faceless Killers
18.689Cinder
19.697 The Lost Girls of Rome
20.829 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
21.874 Just One Year
22.884 Will You Be There?
23.904 Doll Bones
24.909 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
25.920 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
26.926 Christmas at the Cupcake Café
27.1057 The Lion's Daughter
28.1108 Lady Bridget's Diary
29.1113 Summer Without You
30.1143 The Buried Giant
31.1210 The Cider House Rules
32.1225 One Man's Bible
33.1228 Before We Were Yours
34.1310 The Phantom of the Opera
35.1399Royally Matched
36.1411 The President Is Missing
37.1428 Great Harry: A Biography of Henry VIII
38.1451 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
39.1502 Carve the Mark
40.1541 The Secret Life of Bees

Last year I managed all but 1 of the books I had on my list from this - some of which had been on my tbr for about 10 years and I'd been avoiding for no discernible reason. Time to try again!

135 The Serpent's Tale
74 King of the Murgos 4*
45 Remember When
177 Lolita
274 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
32 Holy Sister
336 Letters from Father Christmas
231 The Remains of the Day
113 Something's Guava Give
242 To the Lighthouse

Ah now, the Tolkien is begging to be used for the Tolkien challenge! It's also rather a lovely read!

Some good ones on that list!

Picked out 28 - I'll do however many and may rechoose later on if i dnf/end up deleting them from my tbr list based on availability since all my books come from libby/hoopla/library. I did check these but some have seriously long holds.

■ 1. 408 - Sweet Talk
■ 2. 312 - After Obsession
■ 3. 1126 - The Cereal Murders (2022)
■ 4. 55 - Never Bite a Boy on the First Date
■ 5. 96 - Stray (2011)
■ 6. 142 - Aces Up
7. 192 - Teeth: Vampire Tales by Ellen Datlow (2011)
■ 8. 170 - Eve (2011)
9. 299 - Vicious Circle by Linda Robertson (2011)
10. 267 - Chocolat by Joanne Harris (2011)
11. 330 - Shine by Lauren Myracle (2012)
12. 314 - Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson (2012)
■ 13. 481 - Hamlet (2012)
■ 14. 1263 - The Mistletoe Inn
■ 15. 246 - Ice
■ 16. 1302 - Seoulmates
■ 17. 498 - Three Little Words
■ 18. 645 - Panorama City
■ 19. 727 - The Carnivorous Carnival
■ 20. 539 - Slammed
21. 548 - The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper (2012)
22. 676 - The Thirteenth Unicorn by WD Newman (2013)
23. 635 - Knock Off by Rhonda Pollero (2014)
24. 761 - Books Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay (2015)
25. 774 - The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey (2016)
26. 851 - Lover Mine by JR Ward (2016)
27. 814 - The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (2016)
28. 809 - Burned by Sara Shepherd (2016)

Lauri’s Spot!
2025 TBR Tackler
Spear Tackle 26 Books - 2 books from each page
0 / 26

1) Good in Bed
2) Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic with a Blood-Sucking Twist
3) The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
4) Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
5) Miss Chopsticks
6) The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
7) The Snow Fox
8) The Shiksa Syndrome
9) The Library at Mount Char
10) Cold Sassy Tree
11) The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
12) Orphan Number Eight
13) Murder in the Place of Anubis
14) The Darling Strumpet
15) The Secret Chord
16) Fates and Furies
17) The Healing
18) Lending a Paw
19) Black Flower
20) Blue Asylum
21) Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek
22) Peace Like a River
23) This Book Is Gay
24) Between, Georgia
25) To All the Boys I've Loved Before
26) Fangirl

Picked 40 books using the randomizer. I may end up reading more/less as I go along depending on how quickly I read them or if I DNF some of them.

1. 545. Supernatural Shadow by Fatima Fayez (Aisha Bone, #1) Kindle
2. 294. Never Buried by Edie Claire (Leigh Koslow Mystery, #1, Kindle)
3. 784. Different by Alycia Linwood (Tainted Elementd, #1, Kindle)
4. 543. Shanti and the Magic Mandala by F. T. Camargo Kindle
5. 908. The Secret Formula by Clare Havens (Bella Street Mysteries, #1, paperback)
6. 958. Something Maybe Magnificent by R. L. Toalson (Giveaway book, Paperback)
7. 870. All Tied UP by Sonia Parin (Deadline Cozy Mystery, #3, Kindle)
8. 994. Campus Bones by Vivian Barz (Dead Remaining, #3, kindle)
9. 906. A Murderous Macaron by Fiona Grace (Beachfront Bakery, #2, Kindle)
10. 187. The Two Minute Rule by Robert Crais (Paperback)
11. 63. The Dungeon Slayer by Konrad Ryan (The Dungeon Slayer, #1, Kindle)
12. 458. Damaged Good by C. A. Hocking (Kindle)
13. 718. Lucky Man by Tony Dunbar (Tubby Dubonnet, #6, Kindle)
14. 226. Journey to Jambalot by Ryan Wakefield (Giveaway, Kindle)
15. 556. Gray Area by George P. Saunders (Mystery, Thriller/Kindle)
16. 562. The Serpent’s Ring by H. B. Bolton (Relics of Mysticus, #1 (Fantasy, YA, Kindle)
17. 266. Entangled by Barbara Ellen Brink (Fredrickson Winery, #1, Kindle)
18. 2. The Never Hero by T. Ellery Hodges (Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs, #1, Kindle)
19. 262. Open Season by Archer Mayor (Joe Gunther, #1, Kindle)
20. 695. Ascent to the Nest by Ramy Vance (Dragon Approved, #2, Kindle)
21. 694. The First Human Rider by Ramy Vance (Dragon Approved, #1, Kindle) 2/7/25
22. 944. Black Tides by Jay C. LaBarge (Nick LaBounty, #3, kindle)
23. 371. May Day by Jess Lourey (Murder by Month Ramcom Mystery, #1, Paperback
24. 130. Itsy Bitsy Spider by Willow Rose (Emma Frost, #1, Kindle)
25. 282. The Dragon Princess by C. J. Lloyd
26. 247. Crepes and Crimes by Constance Barker (Mad Batter, #2, Kindle)
27. 267. Dark Carnival Murders by Bob Moats (Jim Richards Murder Mystery, #20, Kindle)
28. 573. The Ancient Allan by H. Rider Haggard (Kindle)
29. 158. Fire & Flood by Demitria Lunetta (Mytherse, #1, Kindle)
30. 930. Kep Westguard Rebel Spy by Eileen Schnabel (Giveaway book, Kindle)
31. 322. Mr. Right for the Night by Marisa Mackle (Kindle)
32. 507. Lie Down in Green Pastures by Debbie Viguie (The Psalm 23 Mysteries, #3, Kindle)
33. 64. Portents of Chaos by K. C. Julius (The Drinnglennin Chronicles, #1, Kindle)
34. 948. Glint by Raven Kennedy (The Plated Prisoner, #2, paperback)
35. 342. A Skelton in the Closet by Judith K. Ivie (Kate Lawrence Mysteries, #3, Kingle)
36. 204. The Llano Kid: No Illusions by Paul K. Brown (Kindle)
37. 725. Witch Time for Tea by Vered Ehsani (Wavily Witches, #1, Kindle)
38. 467. Regen by Cassie Greutman (Penchant for Trouble, #1, Kindle)
39. 441. Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection Box Set #1-3 by Barbara Venkataraman (Kindle?)
40. 517. Shadow of Reality by Donna Fletcher Crow (Elizabeth and Richard Mysteries, #1, Kindle)
41. 658. Wicked witch by Tess Lake (Torrent Witches, #10, Kindle?)

Duration: One year from start date. (Though to keep with the original challenge each book selected should be read within one month. )

Levels:
Headlock: 1-8 books.
Coathanger: 9-17 books.
Spear Tackle: 18-26 books.
No Suspension: 27 + books

books read: 0/27
1. #3221-Out of the Easy
2. #3870-The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide
3. #697-The Stand-In
4. #1729-Things We Never Got Over (Knouckemount #1)
5. #1210-Betting on You (Always a Bridesmaid #1)
6. #4616-Midnight Sun (Twilight #5)
7. #1249-Seeing Dead Things(Roxie's Midlife Adventures #1)
8. #3308-Declan (Callaghan Mafia #1)
9. #1611-The Business of Blood (Fiona Mahoney Mysteries #1)
10.#5402-Betrothed to the Beast (Reformed Rogues #1)
11. #2903-Madhouse
12. #252-Angels' Blood (Guild Hunter #1)
13. #1146-No Whisk No Reward (Donnor Bakery #1)
14. #2627-Queen Charlotte
15. #62-Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1)
16. #698-The Self Care Prescription: Powerful Solutions to Manage Stress, Reduce Anxiety & Increase Wellbeing
17. #3821-First Year (The Black Mage #1)
18. #426-Resisting Roots
19.#110-Sea of Suspicion (East Coast of Scotland #1)
20. #616-Cheat Codes (Dawson Family #1)
21. #5480-A Harvest of Hearts
22. #1201-The Long Earth (The long earth #1)
23. #2202-Not a Happy Family
24. #1011-Choose Me
25. #3777-The Traitor (Divergent #.04)
26. #4101-Magic for Nothing (Incryptid #6)
27. #4173-I, Michael Bennett (Michael Bennett #5)

TBR Tackler Challenge 2025

Duration: April 1, 2025 - Mar 31, 2026

Completed: 0/27

91: The Cider House Rules by John Irving
93: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
128: The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
161: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
229: The Mysterious World of the Human Genome by Frank Ryan
276: Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
303: The Mystery of Three Quarters (The New Hercule Poirot Mystery #3) by Sophie Hannah
324: The Valley of Masks by Tarun J. Tepal
429: The Painted Veil by Somerset W. Maugham
459: Wonder (Wonder, #1) by R.J. Palacio
511: The Fate Of Butterflies by Nayantara Sahgal
597: The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
613: Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1) by Jenny Lee
673: The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
735: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
798: Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
806: Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
828: Marilyn by Norman Mailer
832: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
953: Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1) by Robert McCammon
956: Murder on Black Swan Lane (Wrexford & Sloane, #1) by Andrea Penrose
984: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
1015: Bacchanal by Veronica Henry
1018: Blue Skinned Gods by S.J. Sindu
1170: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
1179: The Cat Who Caught a Killer (Conrad the Cat Detective #1) by L.T. Shearer
1211: The Daemoniac (Gaslamp Gothic, #1) by Kat Ross