Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This is the thread for May. Some of the instructions are posted below as well for your ease of reference.

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from March 2025 reads.

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).

You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

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TBR Bender: May

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from March 2025 reads.
Home Front - Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Family
Tom Lake - Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Scraps of Paper - Mystery, Suspense, Paranormal

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).

You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).

Historical Fiction: A Curious Beginning
Romance: Storm Cursed
Paranormal: Magic Triumphs

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added

Magic Triumphs was added to TBR 11/14/18
On that same date, I added The Winter Queen

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

Storm Cursed -> Smoke Bitten

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn (DR) -> The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez

Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title:
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from March 2025 reads.
Acorna's World
Acorna's People
If I Asked You to Stay

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).
Acorna's Search
Acorna's Rebels
Here With Me

You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
Shatter Me 5/3/25
Deliver Me
Pick Six: A Havenmill Peach Novel
Someone Has Led This Child to Believe: A Memoir
Completed 5/13/25
Fake It Like You Mean It 5/14/25

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped positioMusic of the Ghostsn)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

MAY BENDER

Top 3 of March:
1 Wild Dark Shore mystery, thriller, literary fiction
2 Good Dirt historical fiction, literary fiction
3 The Mountains Sing historical fiction, war, literary fiction

Like for Like
1 Wild Dark Shore ==mystery, thriller == Five Found Dead✔️
2 Good Dirt== historical fiction, literary fiction==The Persians ✔️
3 The Mountains Sing ==historical fiction==The Impossible Thing✔️

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
The Persians == added April 2025 == Good Girl✔️

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
The Impossible Thing==thing==The Last Thing He Told Me✔️

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Five Found Dead==The Valley of Amazement✔️

TBR Bender: May 2025
Completed

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from March 2025 reads.
1.
The Jackal's Mistress, historical fiction, civil war, romance
2.
One Hundred Saturdays, nonfiction, history, memoir
3.
Chancing your Arm, ireland, contemporary, mystery

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading").
You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).
1. (The Jackal's Mistress)
Shelf: historical fiction

Where the Sky Begins, Rhys Bowen, 6 May 2025

2. (One Hundred Saturdays)
Shelves: nonfiction, memoir

The Bookseller at the End of the World, Ruth Shaw, 6 May 2025

3. (Chancing your Arm)
Shelf: Ireland

The Irish Girl: A Novel, Ashley E. Sweeney, 3 May 2025

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Bookseller at the End of the World, 267 pp.)

The Bohemians, Jasmin Darznik, 13 May 2025, 368 pp.

D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(Where the Sky Begins, Rhys Bowen)

Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane, 1 June 2025

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
(The Irish Girl: A Novel, Ashley E. Sweeney)

The First Mrs. Rothschild, Sara Aharoni, 20 May 2025

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

May Plans :)

B: My Books - March
1. Mistborn: The Final Empire - Fantasy / Fiction / Owned
2. West With Giraffes - Historical Fiction / Book Club / Fiction
3. Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection - Physical TBR / 2025 / Mystery

C. Like for Like
1. Watership Down Shelf: Owned Added: Oct 10, 2024
2. Before We Were Yours Shelf: Historical Fiction Added: Dec 5, 2017
✔3. Sunrise on the Reaping Shelf: Physical TBR Added: Jun 9, 2024 Read 5/12/25

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Added: Oct 11, 2024, using Watership Down)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts (by: Susan Cain, using Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Middlemarch (853 pgs, using Before We Were Yours - 342 pgs)

Read: 1/6

TBR Bender May
Read: 6/6 - Completed 5/15/25

Top Reads from March:
Babel - Fantasy, Hist. Fict., Dark Academia
Piranesi - Fantasy, Mystery, Mag. Realism
The Ninja Daughter - Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Like for Like:
Babel - Fantasy
✅1. The Husbands - Fantasy - 4/21/25

Piranesi - Mystery
✅2. Dark Pines - Mystery - 5/7/25

The Ninja Daughter - Mystery
✅3. Sacred and Profane - Mystery - 5/8/25

TBR:
Date:Dark Pines (added Jan. 2025)
✅4. Dungeon Master (added Jan. 2025) - 5/9/25

Pages: Sacred and Profane (374pp)
✅5. The Line of Beauty (438pp) - 4/8/25

New:
Series: The Husbands (standalone)
✅6. Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady (new author, standalone) - 5/15/25

MAY - Completed 8/6/25

Like for Like (L4L)

Top Shelf: Reunion in Death - jd-robb
Book 1: Portrait in Death - Completed 3/31/25

Top Shelf: Hold Strong - historical-fiction
Book 2: The Glassmaker - Completed 4/26/25

Top Shelf: First Degree - fiction
Book 3: Cold as Hell - Completed 4/7/25

Top Shelf: Breaking Point - mystery
Book 4: The Body in the Marsh - Completed 4/5/25

Top Shelf: Nemesis - thriller
Book 5: Storm Child - Completed 4/30/25

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: The Glassmaker - closest date added
Cliff Diver - both added in February 2025 - Completed 4/11/25

2. Series: Portrait in Death - read the next book in the series
Imitation in Death - Completed 4/19/25

3. Author: The Body in the Marsh by Nick Louth
The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster - same initials - Completed 6/10/25

4. Title: Cold as Hell - identical word in title
Stone Cold - Completed 4/23/25

5. Pages: Storm Child (336 pages)
The God of the Woods (478 pages) - at least 50 pages more - Completed 5/14/25

D.2. new books
1. Date: The Glassmaker - published in the same year
An Insignificant Case - both published in 2024 - Completed 3/31/25

2. Series: Cold as Hell (#3 in series)
The Other Half - first in a series by a new author - Completed 5/2/25

3. Author: Portrait in Death by J.D. Robb
Guilty Acts by Robin James -first & last initials reversed - Completed 6/12/25

4. Title: Storm Child (CHILD)
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/child?pa...
Small Wars - Completed 8/6/25

5. Pages: The Body in the Marsh (384 pages) the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
Invisible Son - 416 pages - Completed 4/13/25

May
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 9/9

March Books
1. Out of Nowhere by Sandra Brown
Shelves: 2023, 2024, Sandra Brown, Romance, Mystery
2. The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer
Shelves: Fantasy, Kindle, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romance
3. Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
Shelves: Romance, 2023, Contemporary, 2023, Contemporary Romance

Like for Like
✔︎ 1. 2024 - Random in Death by J.D. Robb
Read: May 28, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 2. Romance - You're So Vein by Christine Warren (336)
Read: April 1, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 3. Contemporary Romance - Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis
Read: April 14, 2025
Rating: 4 Star

Options - TBR
✔︎ 1. Date added (December 2024): Hidden Salem by Kay Hooper (October 2024)
Read: July 12, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars
✔︎ 2. +50 Pages (+386): Circle of the Moon by Faith Hunter (400)
Read: August 31, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 3. Next in Series: At Last by Jill Shalvis
Read: June 2, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars

Options - New
✔︎ 1. Published in 2024 - A Merry Little Murder Plot by Jenn McKinlay
Read: July 10, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 2. New Series w/New Author - All Our Tomorrows by Catherine Bybee
Read: June 5, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 3. Author: Fabulous Beast by Stephanie James
Read: June 25, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars

My top 3 reads in March:

ioParto - Travel
Silver Nitrate - Horror / Fiction / Historical Fiction / Mystery / Thriller
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Fiction / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Humor / Mystery

L4L

ioParto by Miriam Orlandi
Top shelf: travel
Book #1: The Lost Heart of Asia - read 27/05

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Top shelf: historical fiction
Book #2: The Ardent Swarm - read 15/05

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Top shelf: fiction
Book #3: A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear - read 30/05

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: The Lost Heart of Asia (added 07/09/2020) -> Love & Other Poisons (added 22/09/2020)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear -> What Language Do I Dream In?

5. Pages: The Ardent Swarm (174 pages) -> La materia del desiderio (311 pages) - read 06/06

Books Read: 4/6

My Top 5 reads & shelves
Blade of Secrets (Bladesmith #1) by Tricia Levenseller : young-adult, physical-tbr, ya, romance, owned
Holiday in Death (In Death #7) by J.D. Robb : mystery, romance, jd-robb, crime, in-death
Take the Key and Lock Her Up (Embassy Row #3) by Ally Carter : young-adult, mystery, ya, favorites, 2017
Victoria by Julia Baird : history, non-fiction, biography, 2017, audiobook, own
Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 3 by Tomohito Oda : manga, owned, romance, young-adult, fiction

Like 4 Like

Top Shelf: romance
🗸 Book 1: Heart of the Sun Warrior (The Celestial Kingdom #2) by Sue Lynn Tan -Read 07/30

Top Shelf: mystery
🗸 Book 2: The Special Ones by Em Bailey -Read 05/29

Top Shelf: young-adult
🗸 Book 3: Read At Your Own Risk by Remy Lai -Read 05/31

Top Shelf: biography
🗸 Book 4: Constable on the Hill (Constable Nick Mystery #1) by Nicholas Rhea -Read 07/17

Top Shelf: fiction
🗸 Book 5: Flying The Coop by Ilsa Evans -Read 05/26

D.1. Your TBR (all these books are on my TBR)
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
Constable on the Hill (Constable Nick Mystery #1) by Nicholas Rhea >>> add Apr 1, 2020 >>> A Lover Too Many (Inspector John Crow #1) by Roy Lewis

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
Read At Your Own Risk by Remy Lai >>> Chickenpox

🗸 3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
The Special Ones by Em Bailey >>> EB >>> Forestborn (Forestborn #1) by Elayne Audrey Becker -Read 08/02

🗸 4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
Heart of the Sun Warrior (The Celestial Kingdom #2) by Sue Lynn Tan >>> HEART >>> The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient #3) by Helen Hoang -Read 05/14

🗸 5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Flying The Coop by Ilsa Evans >>> 400 + 50p = 450 >>> Pride and Prejudice in Space by Alexis Lampley (504p) -Read 06/07

D.2. new books
🗸 1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
Heart of the Sun Warrior (The Celestial Kingdom #2) by Sue Lynn Tan >>> pub 2022 >>> The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard -Read 05/02

🗸 2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
Read At Your Own Risk by Remy Lai >>> School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung by Chung Serang -Read 05/28

🗸 3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
The Special Ones by Em Bailey >>> EB >>> BE >>> Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control by Barbara Ehrenreich -Read 07/31

🗸 4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
Flying The Coop by Ilsa Evans >>> flying >>> House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas -Read 06/12

🗸 5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
Constable on the Hill (Constable Nick Mystery #1) by Nicholas Rhea - 206p >>> 693p - The Shadow of what was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy #1) by James Islington -Read 06/22

MAY

My Top 5 Reads in March & shelves:
✔1. Transgalactic: science fiction, fiction
✔2. The Wicked King(The Folk of the Air #2):fantasy, young adult, romance
✔3. The Hunter:mystery, fiction, ireland, audiobook, mystery thriller
✔4. The Borrower: fiction, books about books, adult fiction, adult, contemporary
✔5. Cascade Failure: science fiction fiction, queer, audiobook, LGBT

Like 4 Like : a book on one of the 3-5 top shelves

Top Shelf: science fiction (Transgalactic)
Book 1: The Blighted Stars

Top Shelf: adult (or fiction) (The Borrower)
Book 2: The Killing Moon

Top Shelf: mystery (The Hunter)
Book 3: The Contractors

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Wicked King)
✔Book 4: The Falling World (The Books of the Raksura #3.6) - fin 4/25

Top Shelf: LGBT (Cascade Failure)
Book 5: For Today I Am a Boy

1. Date: Using one of your [Like 4 Like] books, read from closest date added
The Harbors of the Sun, added 3/25/24
Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage), added 2/3/24

2. Series: Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or another book by the same author
✔The Falling World (The Books of the Raksura #3.6)
The Harbors of the Sun

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
The Contractors, author Harry Harrison
Herman Nesse - The Glass Bead Game or Hugh Howey - Molly Fryde & ...; Half-Way Home; The Hurricane; The Shell Collector or another Harry Harrison

4. Title:Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
The Killing Moon (moon)
Luna: New Moon

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
For Today I Am a Boy, 256 pages
✔Some Desperate Glory, 438 pages - fin 4/4

COMPLETED 2/10 as of 5/3

MAY

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from March 2025 reads.
1. Shadow Touch by Marjorie M. Liu 29 March 2025 ★★★★★ Magic, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
2. So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison 16 March 2025 ★★★ Horror, Vampires, Fantasy
3. The Women by Kristin Hannah 12 March 2025 ★★★ Historical Fiction, War, Fiction


C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. Magic - Heartless by Marissa Meyer
2. Vampires - Frostbite by Richelle Mead
3. Historical Fiction - The Witch’s Lens by Luanne G. Smith



D.1. Your TBR

1. Author'd Initials: MM
The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
2. Series: Vampire Academy #2
Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead Vampire Academy #3
3. Title: Witch
Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli

Goal: 3 books
Read: 6/6

March Books
1. Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
2. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
3. The Last Hour Between Worlds

L4L
1. Nonfiction - Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language 5/10
2. Mystery - Head Cases 4/23
3. Fantasy - The Curse of Chalion 6/11

Options: D.1 TBR
1. Date - Eastbound - both added 21 Nov 2023 5/19
2. Pages - 341 + 51 = 391 - Last Argument of Kings, 536 8/2
3. Title - This Cursed House 10/18

TBR Bender ❱❱ May
May - December 2025

My May TBR Bender (msg 16)

March Books
🔺The Heart Principle ❱❱ romance: contemporary: adult: chick-lit: mental health
🔺Say Yes to the Marquess ❱❱ romance: historical romance: regency: adult: friends to lovers
🔺What Lies Behind ❱❱ mystery: thriller: suspense: romantic suspense: medical

Like for Like



☑️chick-lit ❱❱ The Heart Principle
🔺Hello Stranger ❱❱ 05.29 ★★★★
☑️historical romance ❱❱ Say Yes to the Marquess
🔺Lucien's Fall ❱❱ 06.01 ★★★
☑️medical ❱❱ What Lies Behind
🔺Trauma Plan ❱❱ 07.31 ★★★

Options - TBR



☑️Date ❱❱ Lucien's Fall ❱❱ added Jan 2014
🔺Protecting Truth ❱❱ 09.22 ★★★
Series ❱❱ Trauma Plan ❱❱ series Grace Medical
🔺Rescue Team
☑️Pages ❱❱ Hello Stranger ❱❱ 325 pp ❱❱ 417 pp
🔺Seduce the Darkness ❱❱ 04.24 ★★★★

Options - New



☑️Date ❱❱ Trauma Plan ❱❱ published 2012
🔺Chasing Shadows ❱❱ 06.25 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ The Heart Principle ❱❱ standalone
🔺Her Something Impetuous ❱❱ 07.21 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Lucien's Fall ❱❱ 324 pp ❱❱ 402 pp
🔺The Simple Wild ❱❱ 05.06 ★★★★

Top 3 March
Acorna's People
Acorna's World
Dirty Thirty
Like 4 Like
Back to School
Murder-mystery
Dragonsong-fantasy
Silence: A
Novel
Dragonsinger
Dragondrums
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Your TBR
The Castaways: A
Novel
Valentine Candy
Murder

Pick a Shelf May

Goal: 6 books
Read: 0/6

March Books
In the Tall Grass - horror, stephen-king, short stories, fiction, kindle
Your Shadow Half Remains - horror, 2024, 2024-releases, novella, queer
Bull - plays, contemporary

L4L
1. Kindle or Short Stories
2. Horror or Novella
3. Plays

D1. Your TBR
1. Date: Read from closest date added
2. Series: Next in series or same author
3. Author: Same initials
4. Title: Same title word
5. Pages: 50 more pages

D2. New Books
1. Date: Published same year
2. Series: New to you series or author
3. Author: Same initials (inverted)
4. Title: Shelf with title word
5. Pages: First number is last number of pages

Dee

Top 5 Books from March
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Malas
Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm—from Scratch
DallerGut Dream Department Store
In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

L4L
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Medicine - Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Malas - Coming of Age - This Tender Land (pg2)
Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm—from Scratch - food - The Lager Queen of Minnesota (pg8)
DallerGut Dream Department Store - asian literature - The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (pg4)
In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army - War - Once There Was a War

Joyce's May TBR Bender: COMPLETED

B. My Top March 2025 Reads

1. Hollow Kingdom 3/7/25
2.We'll Prescribe You a Cat 3/17/25
3. Station Eternity 3/21/25

C. Like 4 Like (numbers correspond with books as listed above)
(view spoiler)[For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).

You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR). (hide spoiler)]

1. March Book - Hollow Kingdom - HORROR - The Night Guest 5/20/25
2. March Book - We'll Prescribe You a Cat - CATS -Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 7/30/25
3. March Book - Station Eternity- SCIENCE FICTION - The Lives of Tao 6/3/25

D1/TBR: (Use L4L books as starting point)
(view spoiler)[Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.2. new books

1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages (hide spoiler)]

1. The Night Guest -SERIES -Friend of the Devil 5/25/25
2. The Lives of Tao - DATE 2013 -Some Like It Wicked 6/30/25
3. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop- TITLES -Bookshop - 1Q84 7/29/25