Pick-a-Shelf discussion

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

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

Amy

Bea

CassieV

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Dee

Jayme(theghostreader)

Joanna

Joyce

Lauren

LaurLa

LynnB

Marina

Meg

Nat

Susan

Tien

Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from April 2025 reads.
Twenty Blue Devils by Aaron Elkins
Born of Water by Autumn M. Birt
The Novice's Tale by Margaret Frazer


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).

Twenty Blue Devils - Humor, Science Fiction, Cozy Mystery
Born of Water - Fantasy, Paranormal, Magic
The Novice's Tale - Mystery, Historical Fiction, British Literature

Humor: Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Paranormal: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs
Historical Fiction: The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

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:

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)

The Novice's Tale added to BRO 5/12/12
Also added same day: The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak

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)

Author of Born of Water is Autumn M. Birt whose initials are AB
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title


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

Twenty Blue Devils = 276p
A Tale of Two Kitties = 326p

TBR Bender - June 2025
Completed 24 June 2025

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from April 2025 reads.
1.
Esperanza Rising, Pam MuñozRyan, 25 Apr
historical fiction, middle grade, young adult

2.
The Lies We Leave Behind, Noelle Salazar, 21 Apr
historical fiction, romance, world war II

3.
The Turtle House, Amanda Churchill, 15 Apr
historical fiction, Japan, family

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. (Esperanza Rising, historical fiction)

The Women of Chateau Lafayette, Stephanie Dray, 9 June 2025

2. (The Lies We Leave Behind, romance)

Every Tom, Dick & Harry, Elinor Lipman, 4 June 2025

3. (The Turtle House)

The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel, ReShonda Tate, 14 June 2025

D. Your Options

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)
(The Women of Chateau Lafayette), Stephanie Dray

Tough Luck, Sandra Dallas, 24 June 2025

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
(The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel, Queen)

Mrs Queen Takes the Train, William Kuhn, 20 June 2025

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.
(Every Tom, Dick & Harry, both pub. 2025)

Seeds of Fate, Sarita Dasgupta, 12 June 2025

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

TBR Bender June
Read: 4/6

Top Reads from April:
* The Husbands - Romance, Fantasy
* The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Fantasy, Magical Realism
* A Boy at the Hogarth Press - Nonfiction, Memoir

Like for Like:
The Husbands - Romance
1. The Venus School - Romance

The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Fantasy
✅2. The Book Censor's Library - Fantasy - 9/22/25

A Boy at the Hogarth Press - Nonfiction
✅3. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - Nonfiction - 6/27/25

TBR:
Title: The Venus School
4. The Transit of Venus

Pages: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - 306pp
✅5. Flashlight - 464pp - 6/10/25

New:
Series: The Book Censor's Library (standalone)
✅6. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (new author) - 9/27/25

June
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 7/9

April Books
1. You're So Vein by Christine Warren
Shelves: Paranormal Romance, Vampires, Own, Fantasy, Series
2. Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis
Shelves: Romance, Contemporary, Favorites, Series, Chick-Lit
3. Listen To Me by Tess Gerritsen
Shelves: 2022, Mystery, Thriller, Tess-Gerritsen, Crime

Like for Like
✔︎ 1. Paranormal Romance - Last Guard by Nalini Singh
Read: October 30, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 2. Contemporary Romance - You Say It First by Susan Mallery
Read: July 4, 2025
Rating: 3.5 Stars
✔︎ 3. Tess-Gerritsen - Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag
Read: September 8, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars

Options - TBR
1. Date (March 2025): The Mapmaker's Apprentice by C.J. Archer (March 2025)
✔︎ 2. Next in Series: Second Chance Girl by Susan Mallery
Read: November 1, 2025
Rating: 3.5 Stars
3. Word in Title (Cold): Cold Fury by Toni Anderson

Options - New
✔︎ 1. Published in 2021 - Pippa and the Prince of Secrets by Grace Callaway
Read: September 26, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 2. Author - Notorious by Minerva Spencer
Read: August 24, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 3. New Series w/New Author - Mr. Gardiner and the Governess by Sally Britton
Read: June 26, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars

My top 3 reads in April:

The French Lieutenant’s Woman - Fiction / Classics / Historical Fiction / Romance / Historical
Cosima - Italy / Italian Literature / Fiction / Classics / Nobel Prize
Piove per esigenze di trama: La prima indagine del Commissario Elfo - Fantasy / Humor / Fiction / Thriller

L4L

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Top shelf: fiction
Book #1: La palude dei fuochi erranti - read 29/06

Cosima by Grazia Deledda
Top shelf: fiction
Book #2: The Haunting of Ashburn House - read 17/07

Piove per esigenze di trama: La prima indagine del Commissario Elfo by Nicolò Targhetta
Top shelf: fantasy
Book #3: Vlad - read 24/06

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: Vlad (122 pages) -> Corpi celesti (264 pages) - read 20/07

Books Read: 4/6

June Plan

B: My Books - April
1. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone - Mystery / Fiction / Thriller
2. To Seek and to Save: Daily Reflections on the Road to the Cross - Christian / Theology / Nonfiction
3. The Stardust Thief - Fantasy / Physical TBR / Owned

C. Like for Like
1. Piranesi Shelf: Mystery Added: Dec 16, 2021
✔2. Divine Mentor, The: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior Shelf: Theology Added: May 1, 2012 Read 9/19/25
3. Project Hail Mary Shelf: Owned Added: Apr 30, 2021

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)
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Added Dec 16, 2021 using Piranesi)

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)
The Wicked Wager by Anya Wylde (using Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir)

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.
Tiger Lily (292 pages, using Diving Mentor w/ 240 pages) Read 5/31/25

Read: 2/6

My Top 5 reads & shelves
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy : 2025, fiction, mystery, botm, thriller
The Ladies' Road Guide to Utter Ruin (The Ill-Mannered Ladies #2) by Alison Goodman : historical-fiction, 2025, romance, mystery, 2025-release
The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #1) by Val McDermid : mystery, crime, thriller, fiction, val-mcdermid
White Night by Ellie Marney : young-adult, ya, 2018, australian, contemporary
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune : fantasy, 2023, sci-fi, science-fiction, 2024

Like 4 Like

Top Shelf: botm
🗸 Book 1: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong -Read 06/27

Top Shelf: historical-fiction
🗸 Book 2: Fortune by Lenny Bartulin -Read 07/13

Top Shelf: mystery
🗸 Book 3: The Blood Countess (Pandora English #1) by Tara Moss -Read 06/29

Top Shelf: contemporary
🗸 Book 4: Butter by Asako Yuzuki -Read 06/11

Top Shelf: science-fiction
🗸 Book 5: Edge of Time (Lifespan of Starlight #3) by Thalia Kalkipsakis -Read 06/15

D.1. Your TBR (all these books are on my TBR)
🗸 1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
Edge of Time (Lifespan of Starlight #3) by Thalia Kalkipsakis >> add Jul '20 >> The Burning Island (Grayling Family #2) by Jock Serong -Read 07/25

🗸 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
Fortune by Lenny Bartulin >> The Unearthed -Read 07/31

🗸 3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
Butter by Asako Yuzuki >> Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida -Read 07/06

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)
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong >> SMALL / FORTUNE >>

🗸 5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
The Blood Countess (Pandora English #1) by Tara Moss >> 389p + 50 = 439p >> Saints of Storm and Sorrow (Stormbringer #1) by Gabriella Buba -Read 06/25

D.2. new books
🗸 1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
Edge of Time (Lifespan of Starlight #3) by Thalia Kalkipsakis >> pub 2018 >> The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon -Read 06/04

🗸 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
Butter by Asako Yuzuki >> Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi -Read 06/13

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 Blood Countess (Pandora English #1) by Tara Moss

🗸 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
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong >> small >> Moving Pictures (Discworld #10) by Terry Pratchett -Read 07/26

🗸 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
Fortune by Lenny Bartulin >>> 304p >>> 4xxp >>> Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway -Read 06/26

JUNE - Done!

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. Lost to Dune Road - netgalley
Break Every Rule - Completed 5/10/25

2. Heaven's Keep - william-kent-krueger
Vermilion Drift - Completed 5/12/25

3. Imitation in Death - mystery
Roses of May - Completed 5/7/25

4. Stone Cold - fiction
Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel - Completed 5/11/25

5. Storm Child - thriller
Look Both Ways - Completed 5/15/25

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel (added Dec 8, 2024)
Paranoia (added December 30, 2024) - Completed 10/17/25

2. Series: Vermilion Drift
Northwest Angle (the next book in the series) - Completed 8/2/25

3. Author: Look Both Ways by Linwood Barclay
The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr - Completed 7/25/25

4. Title: Roses of May
Mayluna - Completed 10/27/25

5. Pages: Break Every Rule - 346 pages
Parting Shot - 464 pages (at least 50 pages more) - Completed 7/21/25

D.2. new books
1. Date: Look Both Ways (published 2022)
The Ursulina - Completed 7/14/25

2. Series: Vermilion Drift
Lethal Defense (new series by a new author) - Completed 6/11/25

3. Author: Break Every Rule by Brian Freeman
My Friends by Fredrik Backman (flipped initials) - Completed 5/29/25

4. Title: Roses of May
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/may
Sunrise on the Reaping - Completed 6/30/25

5. Pages: Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel (352 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
Hard Power (284 pages) - Completed 5/4/25

JUNE

My Top 5 Reads in April & shelves:
✔Some Desperate Glory: science fiction, fiction, queer, LGBT, fantasy
✔Tell Me Three Things: young adult, romance, contemporary, fiction, realistic fiction
✔Pirate King: mystery, historical fiction, fiction, historical, historical mystery
✔The Dictionary of Lost Words: historical fiction, fiction, ]bookclub] historical, [audibook] booksaboutbooks
✔Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2: fantasy, short stories, fiction, [audiobook], high fantasy, science fiction fantasy

Like 4 Like : a book on one of the 3-5 top shelves
Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Some Desparate Glory)
✔Book 1: The Solar War - fin 9/18

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Tell Me Three Things)
✔Book 2: A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) - fin 6/10

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Pirate King)
✔Book 3: Murder in an Irish Village (Irish village #1) - fin 4/8

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2)
✔Book 4: Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles #4) - fin 6/30

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Dictionary of Lost Words)
✔Book 5: The Mapmaker's Apprentice - fin 12/4

Your TBR

1. Date: Using one of your [Like 4 Like] books, read from closest date added
✔Murder in an Irish Village (Irish village #1), added 5/20/22 - fin 4/8
✔Children of Time added 10/10/21, fin 3/31/25

2. Series: Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or another book by the same author
✔Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles #4), Robin Hobb - fin 6/30
✔Fool's Assassin - fin 8/8

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 Solar War, A.G. Riddle
✔The Truth about the Couch, Adam Rubin - fin 4/26

4. Title:Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
✔A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3), light
✔Into the Light - fin 7/28

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
✔The Mapmaker's Apprentice, 313 pages
✔Night Study,400 pages - fin 6/24/25

COMPLETED 12/4

TBR Bender ❱❱ June ❱❱ COMPLETE
June - December 2025

My June TBR Bender (msg 12)

April Books
🔺Word Night on Union Station ❱❱ science fiction; humor; future fantasy; science fiction fantasy
🔺The Friends We Keep ❱❱ romance; chick lit; contemporary; women's fiction; adult fiction
🔺Tangled Up in You ❱❱ romance; contemporary; retellings; comtemporary romance; chick lit

Like for Like



☑️science fiction fantasy ❱❱ Word Night on Union Station
🔺Mercenary Abduction ❱❱ 05.20 ★★★
☑️contemporary ❱❱ The Friends We Keep
🔺Fourth and Goal ❱❱ 10.06 ★★★
☑️romance ❱❱ Tangled Up in You
🔺Breathless In Love ❱❱ 05.08 ★★★★

Options - TBR



☑️Date ❱❱ Fourth and Goal ❱❱ added April 2013
🔺Appaloosa Blues ❱❱ 07.22 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Breathless in Love ❱❱ series ❱❱ Maverick Billionaires
🔺Reckless In Love ❱❱ 06.29 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Mercenary Abduction ❱❱ 219 pp ❱❱ 302 pp
🔺The Royal Mess ❱❱ 05.04 ★★★

Options - New



☑️Date ❱❱ Fourth and Goal ❱❱ pub May 2011
🔺Double the Trouble ❱❱ 07.31 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Mercenary Abduction ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Hope Springs
🔺The Second Chance Cafe ❱❱ 05.24 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Breathless in Love ❱❱ 406 pp ❱❱ 628 pp
🔺Bounty ❱❱ 06.08 ★★★★

JUNE BENDER

Top 3 of April:
1 The Burrow literary fiction, australia, contemporary
2 The Safekeep historical fiction, LGBT
3 After Darkness historical fiction, australia, war

Like for Like
1 The Burrow ==literary fiction==Lucy by the Sea✔️
2 The Safekeep ==LGBT== A Language of Limbs✔️
3 After Darkness ==australia== Dropbear✔️

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

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
Lucy by the Sea == Tell Me Everything✔️

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
A Language of Limbs == language == Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language✔️

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Dropbear==++==Juice✔️

Goal: 3 books
Read: 6/6

April Books
1. Head Cases
2. A Promised Land
3. A Cryptic Clue

L4L
1. Thriller - Snow Angels 6/3
2. Nonfiction - The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 6/24
3. Cozy - Lonely Castle in the Mirror 7/23

Options: D.1 TBR
1. Pages - 264 + 50 = 314 - The Search Party 6/8
2. Date - added 11 April 2025 - Shah of Shahs 6/27
3. Title - Mirrored Heavens 10/29

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from April 2025 reads.
Reserved for the Cat
The Sleeping Beauty

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).
Foundation
Completed 06/11/25
Intrigues 6/16/25
Changes-6/21/25
Closer to Home

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
Closer to the Heart

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

Strands of Bronze and Gold 6/7/25
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

June Bender

Top 5 Books from April
Crow Mary
The Prison Healer
Kill for Me
Viva Lola Espinoza
The No-Girlfriend Rule

L4L
Crow Mary - Native American - The Berry Pickers
The Prison Healer - Magic - Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Kill for Me - Romantic Suspense - Silent Scream
Viva Lola Espinoza -
The No-Girlfriend Rule

JUNE

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from April 2025 reads.
1. Origin in Death by J.D. Robb 2 April 2025 ★★★★★ Mystery, futuristic, romantic suspence
2. Jade City by Fonda Lee 12 April 2025 ★★★★ urban fantasy, magic, science fiction
3. To Con a Gentleman by Sarah Adams 5 April 2025 ★★★ romance, historical fiction, regency

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. romantic suspence - Rev It Up by Julie Ann Walker
2. science fiction - Pride and Prejudice in Space by Alexis Lampley
3. Historical fiction - River God by Wilbur Smith




D.2. new books
1. Date:  published 2012 Rev It Up
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

4. Title: Pride and Prejudice in Space
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/Prejudice
Page 10
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: date added December 12, 2018 River God
Time Was by Nora Roberts

Joyce's June TBR Bender: COMPLETED

B. My Top April 2025 Reads

1. The Husbands 4/13/25
2. Infinite 4/26/25
3. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops 4/29/25

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. April Book - The Husbands 4/13/25 - FANTASY - Whispers Under Ground 6/30/25
2. April Book - Infinite- SCIENCE FICTION - System Collapse 7/2/24
3. April Book - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops BOOKS ON BOOKS - The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep 8/7/25

D1/TBR: (Use L4L books as starting point)

1. L4L book-YOUR TBR Whispers Under Ground ADDED 10/2021 - Chapter and Curse ADDED 10/14/2021 rEAD 8/13/25
2. L4L book -PAGES System Collapse 248 PGS - Thief of Lies 6/11/25 348 PGS.
3. L4L book - TITLE -The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep UNLIKELY - American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot 9/9/25