Pick-a-Shelf discussion

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

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from September 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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This is the thread for November. Some of the instructions are posted below as well for your ease of reference.

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

TBR Bender- 11 - November

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from September 2025 reads.
1. For Duck's Sake: A Meg Langslow Mystery, Donna Andrews,
mystery, cozy mystery, humor

2. The Woman With the Cure, Lynn Cullen,
historical fiction, book club, medical

3. The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle, Erika Robuck,
historical fiction, war, photography


C. Like for Like (L4L)
1.
2.
3.

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

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from September 2025 reads.
1. The Book of Guilt historical fiction, dystopia, science fiction
2. Heart the Lover romance, literary fiction, contemporary
3. Earth contemporary, literary fiction, ireland

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. historical fiction, science fiction The Actual Star
2. romance A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
3. contemporary, literary fiction Everyone and Everything

D. Your Options


D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping == 1 Oct 2025 == The Autumn of Ruth Winters

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
The Actual Star ==MB== Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
Everyone and Everything == Everything Is Tuberculosis

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

November TBR Bender
Read: 0/6

Top 3 September Reads:
* Feel Free: Essays - Essays, Nonfiction, Short Stories
* The Song of Achilles - Fantasy, Hist. Fiction, Romance
* Sing, Unburied, Sing - Book club, Magical Realism, Literary Fiction

Like for Like (L4L):
* Feel Free: Essays - Nonfiction
1. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness - Nonfiction

* The Song of Achilles - Romance
2. Salacious Exposure - Romance

* Sing, Unburied, Sing - Literary Fiction
3. Barley Patch - Literary Fiction

TBR:
Date:Salacious Exposure - added Aug. 2025
4. Ayiti - added Aug. 2025

Pages: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness - 400pp
5. Girl, Woman, Other - 453pp

New:
Pages: Barley Patch - 272pp
6. Thérèse Raquin - 201pp

November Spot

B: My Books - September
1. God's Grace in Your Suffering - Christian / Counseling / Christian Living
2. The Midnight Library - Fiction / 2021 / Fantasy
3. All Systems Red - Sci-Fi / Science Fiction / Fiction

C. Like for Like
1. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life Shelf: Christian Living Added: Jan 20, 2024
2. Sweet Dates in Basra Shelf: Fiction Added: Sept 24, 2012
3. Sea of Tranquility Shelf: Science Fiction Added: Dec 9, 2022

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
The Glass Hotel (same author as Sea of Tranquility)

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 Accidental Beauty Queen (by Teri Wilson, using Tish Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary)

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 Covered Deep (400 pgs, using Sweet Dates in Bosra, 347 pgs)

Read: 0/6

November

C. Like for Like (L4L)

1. The Book Woman's Daughter - 2024
Where They Last Saw Her

2. Back Blast - thriller
Hard Duty - Completed 10/3/25

3. Dead Law - crime
The Lying Man

4. A Dead Draw - mystery
The Client List

5. Off the Grid - fiction
Black Out - Completed 10/5/25

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Black Out
Defending Britta Stein - both added Sep 9, 2025

2. Series: Hard Duty
Hard Lights (next book in the series)

3. Author: The Lying Man by Andy Maslen
either The Naturalist or Mr. Whisper by Andrew Mayne (authors with same first and last initials)

4. Title: The Client List (identical word in title -
An Innocent Client

5. Pages: Where They Last Saw Her - 336 pages
Hour of the Witch - 406 pages (at least 50 pages more)

D.2. new books
1. Date: Where They Last Saw Her - published Sep 3, 2024
TBD - another book published in 2024

2. Series: Hard Duty
The Collaborators - series by a new-to-me author

3. Author: The Client List by Robin James
Born in Death by J.D. Robb (authors with the same initials reversed)

4. Title: Black Out
Crook Manifesto - Black shelf

5. Pages: The Lying Man - 392 pages
Half the Blood of Brooklyn - 223 pages (first number of pages is that of my book's last number of pages)

Goal: 3 books
Read: 0/6

September Books
1. The Poisoned Chocolates Case
2. Borderline
3. Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror

L4L
1. Mystery - Murder Must Advertise
2. Fantasy - Sunrise on the Reaping
3. Horror - The Lottery and Other Stories

Options: D.1 TBR
1. Title - How to Solve Your Own Murder
2. Author - SC - The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
3. Pages - 302 + 50 = 352 - Blindsight (384 pages)

TBR Bender ❱❱ November
November - December 2025

My November TBR Bender (msg 10)

September Books
🔺Born to Be Badger ❱❱ romance; paranormal; fantasy; urban fantasy; humor
🔺The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ romantic suspense; mystery; small town romance
🔺Happy After All ❱❱ romance; contemporary; enemies to lovers; christmas; chick lit

Like for Like



☑️paranormal ❱❱ Born to Be Badger
🔺Sanctuary ❱❱ 10.04 ★★★★
romantic suspense ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind
🔺Gone From Me
christmas ❱❱ Happy After All
🔺Christmas with a SEAL

Options - TBR



Date ❱❱ Sanctuary ❱❱ added Jan 2025
🔺Shaken
Series ❱❱ Christmas with a SEAL ❱❱ series ❱❱ Uniformly Hot SEALs
🔺A SEAL's Proposal
Pages ❱❱ Gone From Me ❱❱ 226 pp ❱❱ 306 pp
🔺Storm Gathering

Options - New



Series ❱❱ Gone From Me ❱❱ new author ❱❱ Toshikazu Kawaguchi
🔺Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Title ❱❱ Christmas with a SEAL ❱❱ shelf ❱❱ christmas
🔺Wreck the Halls
Pages ❱❱ Sanctuary ❱❱ 152 pp ❱❱ 246 pp
🔺The Vampire Book Club