Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This particular game requires that you complete LOST 2025 first, since you use the date of completion to determine your books for this game.

Directions:
Read 10 books which were:
1. added to your TBR in the past 6 months AND
2. were published prior to the date you completed LOST 2025 (#1).

Participants:
Beverly Completed
Joyce
LaurLa Completed
Luann
Meg Completed
Rosemary
Susan Completed
Tien Completed

FOUND
10/10 books as at 10/13

Read 10 books which were:
1. added between 10/07/24 - 04/07/25
2. were published prior to 04/07/25

1. The Decagon House Murders (House Murders #1) by Yukito Ayatsuji -Read 05/20
added: 01/07/2025 | pub. 1987
2. Murder at Midwinter Manor (Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet Mysteries #3) by Anita Davison -Read 05/22
added: 02/06/25 | pub. 2024
3. The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong -Read 06/27
added: 11/12/24 | pub. 2024
4. Master of Iron (Bladesmith #2) by Tricia Levenseller -06/30
added: 03/05/25 | pub. 2022
5. Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida -Read 07/06
added: 01/14/25 | pub. 2018
6. Moving Pictures (Discworld #10) by Terry Pratchett -Read 07/26
added: 04/18/25 | pub. 1990
7. The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang -Read 08/31
added: 11/23/24 | pub. 2023
8. Murder on the French Riviera (Miss Underhay #16) by Helena Dixon -Read 09/16
added: 10/11/24 | pub. 2024
9. After Story by Larissa Behrendt -Read 09/30
added: 01/20/25 | pub. 2021
10. The Vine Witch (The Vine Witch #1) by Luanne G. Smith -Read 10/13
added: 12/09/24 | pub. 2019

FOUND

Read 10 books which were:
1. added between 26/12/24 - 26/5/25
2. were published prior to 26/5/25

1 Cemetery Boys ✔️
2 Tell Me Everything ✔️
3 Upon a Starlit Tide ✔️
4 Fundamentally ✔️
5 The Persians ✔️
6 The River Has Roots ✔️
7 Old Soul ✔️
8 Homeseeking✔️
9 How to Age Disgracefully✔️
10 The South✔️

Finished!!!

1 Cemetery Boys ✔️
2 Tell Me Everything ✔️
3 Upon a Starlit Tide ✔️
4 Fundamentally ✔️
5 The Persians ✔️
6 The River Has Roots ✔️
7 Old Soul ✔️
8 Homeseeking✔️
9 How to Age Disgracefully✔️
10 The South✔️

Meg wrote: "Finished!!!

1 Cemetery Boys ✔️
2 Tell Me Everything ✔️
3 Upon a Starlit Tide ✔️
4 Fundamentally ✔️
5 [book:The Persians|214152321..."

Congrats, Meg. I will be posting part 3 later in August. Be on the look-out.

Read 10 books which were:


1. added between 3/01/25 - 08/29/25
2. were published prior to 08/29/25

10/10 Completed 10/27/25

✔️1. The Lion Women of Tehran
✔️2. The River Is Waiting
✔️3. Abscond
4. The Priory of the Orange Tree DNF
✔️5. Heartwood
✔️6. Homemaker
✔️7. Such Quiet Girls
✔️8. Tilt
✔️9. The Last Bookstore on Earth
✔️10. Mississippi Blue 42
✔️11. Speak to Me of Home

My first time for FOUND, but I'll give it a try and see how many books I get to from my list.

Read 10 books which were:
1. added between 3/8/25 - 9/8/25
2. were published prior to 9/8/25

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1. West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
✔ 2. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks - finished Dec. 30, 2025
✔ 3. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker - finished Dec. 31, 2025
4. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
5. My Friends by Fredrik Backman
6. Girl Braiding Her Hair by Marta Molnar
✔ 7. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson - finished Dec. 24, 2025
✔ 8. Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen - finished Dec. 26, 2025
✔ 9. The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys - finished Dec. 11, 2025
10. Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill

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Finished: 5 of 10

Directions:
Lost Finished 8/26/25

Read 10 books which were add to TBR- 2/26/25 - 8/26/25
2. were published prior to 8/26/25

Found 7/10

✔️1.The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific Read 9/11/25Added 8/10/25 | Published 2003
✔️2.Wide Sargasso Sea Read 8/30/25Added 8/11/25 | Published 1966
✔️3.The Sol Majestic Read 8/29/25
added 2/26/25 | Published 2019✔️4.The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Read 8/26/25 added 8/21/25 | Published 2009
✔️5.The Devils read 8/26/25
added 7/10/25 | Published 5/6/25
✔️6.Pounded by Produce read 10/10/25 added 7/5/25 | Published 2/14/25
✔️7.Spells & Ashes Read 9/27/25 added 4/11/25 | Published 9/23/19
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FOUND read 4/10

10 books that were added to my TBR between 12 Mar and 12 Sep 2025 and published before 12 Mar 2025.

✔ 1. Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
read 25 Oct 25, added 8 May 25, pub 1988
✔ 2. Like Life by Lorrie Moore
read 6 Nov 25, added 8 May 25, pub 1990
✔ 3. Reunion by Fred Uhlman
read 29 Nov 25, added 25 May 25, pub 1971
✔ 4. Nobody's Hero by M.W. Craven
read 12 Dec 25, added 18 Apr 25, pub 2024
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FOUND (LOST 2025, #2)
September 12 - December 2025

My FOUND 2025 Challenge (msg 11)

Lost completion date ❱❱ 09.11.25



🔺added March 2025 ❱❱ published Nov 2015 ❱❱ Barbarian Mine ❱❱ 10.19 ★★★★
🔺added May 2025 ❱❱ published Sep 2016 ❱❱ Party Night on Union Station ❱❱ 09.21 ★★★
🔺added May 2025 ❱❱ published Sep 2019 ❱❱ Newly Undead In Dark River ❱❱ 09.13 ★★★★
🔺added May 2025 ❱❱ published Apr 2025 ❱❱ The Invitation ❱❱ 11.15 ★★★★
🔺added Aug 2025 ❱❱ published Jan 2016 ❱❱ The Witch's Halloween Hero ❱❱ 10.15 ★★★★
🔺added Oct 2025❱❱ published Sep 1 2025 ❱❱ Framed in Death ❱❱ 10.13 ★★★★
🔺added Oct 2025 ❱❱ published Apr 2016 ❱❱ Origins ❱❱ 10.25 ★★★★
🔺added Aug 2025 ❱❱ published Aug 2025 ❱❱ You'll Find It All Still Here ❱❱ 11.11 ★★★
🔺added Aug 2025 ❱❱ published Aug 2025 ❱❱ Accomplice to the Villain ❱❱ 10.31 ★★★★
🔺added Sep 2025 ❱❱ published Dec 2015 ❱❱ Before the Coffee Gets Cold ❱❱ 10.09 ★★★

FOUND

Aug 28 - December 31, 2025
Completed LOST 8/27

10 books, books must be:
added to TBR since 2/27 - in the past 6 months
published before 8/27 - LOST completed date

"Read 10 books which were:
>>>added between 2/27/25 & 08/27/25
>>>published prior to 08/27/25"

✔1. The Scavenger Door, added 7/26/25 - fin 8/31
✔2. Dreaming Spies, added 2/28/25 - fin 9/1
✔3. Atlantis Plague, added 4/21/25 - fin 9/21
✔4. The Two Lies of Faven Sythe, added 6/3/25 - fin 9/21
✔5. The Relentless Moon, added 9/4/25 - fin 9/28
✔6. Ghostdrift, added 4/23/25 - fin 10/3
✔7. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9), added 4/7/25 - fin 10/5
✔8. Rose/House, added 8/22/25 - fin 10/11
✔9. The Bookbinder, added 4/27/25 - fin 10/16
✔10. Out of the Deep I Cry (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #3), added 4/20/25 - fin 10/19

COMPLETED 10/19/25

Susan wrote: "FOUND

Aug 28 - December 31, 2025
Completed LOST 8/27

10 books, books must be:
added to TBR since 2/27 - in the past 6 months
published before 8/27 - LOST completed date

"Read 10 books which we..."

Congrats!

All finished on 10/27/2025!!

Beverly wrote: "All finished on 10/27/2025!!"

Congrats!

I'm confused about this challenge! I used to count any book that i acquired in the 6 months up to the day I finished Lost and after: so if I finished Lost on 1 September, I would count books added to my TBR from 1 March to whenever I had read 10, up to the end of the year. So if I got a book in October and read it right away, I would count it.

But this year I saw the rules differently and thought it should be only the 6 months from 1 March to 1 September in that example, not books added after 1 September. But looking at people's lists here, I'm not sure again.

Which of these is the actual intention of the challenge here?

1. Any books added to your TBR in the past 6 months from the present day (day of starting this challenge),
2. Those books need to have been published prior to your finish date for LOST 1.

Does that help?

Your example:
1. Any books added to your TBR from now back six months (Nov 4 => May 4)
2. But published prior to Sept 1 (the date you finished LOST 1)

I think that explains it. So in that example, if I added a book in December, it wouldn't count, right?

Rosemary wrote: "I think that explains it. So in that example, if I added a book in December, it wouldn't count, right?"

Correct.

Finally... finshed and updated FOUND!!
Updated post: My FOUND 2025 Challenge (msg 11)