2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

Welcome! Bookworms are, once again, able to take control of their reading and rearrange their virtual bookshelves!

This yearly challenge will help you organize your reading plans around "thematic bookshelves.” Although you’re given the general concept of each of the 20 shelves, it’s up to you to fine-tune your chosen shelves to accommodate your reading tastes and plans.

You may repeat a shelf theme, if you wish, but your challenge should consist of at least two different themes, with two books minimum per shelf. Also note that you may count each book only once within this challenge, but feel free to apply that book to any of our other yearly, quarterly, and monthly challenges.

The 20 shelf themes
* An Author
* Award Winners
* A Book Genre
* Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
* Books-to-Screen/Stage
* Careers
* Diversity (in any of its forms)
* Favorites to Re-read
* Formats & Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.)
* Heritage & Culture
* A Hobby or Pastime
* A Listopia
* Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
* Mythology & Folklore
* Nature and the Environment
* A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
* Science & Technology
* Seasons & Holidays
* Title (starting with the same letter)
* Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

Tiers
🥚 Hatching a plan (0 books)
🐛 Bookworms (1 or more books)
🐉 Book Dragons (Challenge complete)


To see a sample set-up, click the spoiler tag. (view spoiler)[
Sample Challenge Set-up
Progress: 0/36 books

An Author: Ellis Peters: 0/3
Book Length: Chunksters (500 or more pages): 0/6
Diversity: Transgender or Non-Binary Author/Protagonist: 0/4

A Listopia: Women in Translation: 0/12

Awards: Hugo Award for Best Novel (Winners): 0/4

A Place: Literature by Asian Authors: 0/4

A Time: Renaissance Era (14th-17th centuries): 1/3
House of Niccolo series, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (hide spoiler)]

Please join us and bend the themes to your 2026 reading plans. Let’s make like oysters and be shelfish!

How to Participate:

1. Post here telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
You may choose your books at the beginning, or add them as you go. You may join any time during the year, and may change your goal whenever needed.

2. When you finish books for the challenge, edit your original post or member’s corner thread to add them.
Instructions are in the how-to link below.

3. To have your progress updated, post a new comment here to let the challenge leader know.
Every time you post an update, be sure to include your original (sign-up) message number, the number of books you have completed, and your goal. We use your original message number to identify you, since multiple members may have the same profile name.
Example:
Update to message 32: 2/25 books read!

For more information about how our challenges work, visit this how-to thread or ask your challenge leader.

P.S. Please do not delete posts! It changes the message numbers, complicating the update process for both leaders and participants. If you wish to leave the challenge, simply post a comment here to let us know. You may edit your original post to say {deleted}. Thank you!

Participants:

Amanda - 0 / 30 🥚
Amitha - 0 / 12 🥚
Ashly - 0 / 20 🥚
Beth - 0 / 5 🥚
Caraina - 0 / 50 🥚
Chalmation - 0 / 44 🥚
Chrissie - 0 / 5 🥚
Cordelia - 0 / 25 🥚
CrazyAsACupcake - 0 / 10 🥚
Denise - 0 / 40 🥚
Dubhease - 0 / 27 🥚
Emily - 0 / 20 🥚
Frankie - 0 / 60 🥚
Gail W - 0 / 40 🥚
Jaida - 0 / 30 🥚
Jill - 0 / 30 🥚
Kristina - 0 / 100 🥚
Lara - 0 / 10 🥚
Laura - 0 / 50 🥚
Lexi - 0 / 26 🥚
Martha - 0 / 5 🥚
Nat - 0 / 20 🥚
Rachael - 0 / 20 🥚
Rachel - 0 / 25 🥚
reggikko - 0 / 20 🥚
Sarah - 0 / 123 🥚
Serafima - 0 / 40 🥚
Shari - 0 / 60 🥚

STATS
Participants: 28
Books Read: 0
Book Goal: 947
Completed: 0


Updated through Message #34

Reserved for backup moderator

☀ Progress: x /40

A Female Author: Adrienne Yabouza
1. Co-Wives, Co-Widows
2. The Magic Doll: A Children's Book Inspired by African Art

A Male Author: Yuri Herrera
3. The Transmigration of Bodies
4. Kingdom Cons
5. Signs Preceding the End of the World

Award Winners:
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Book Length (under 200):
8. Alison's House
9. Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
10. Bozamba's Revenge
11. I Who Have Never Known Men
12. Rad Women A-Z
13. Ring Shout
15. What Was the March on Washington

Book Length (over 500):
16. All the Colors of the Dark
17. Never

Diversity :
19. Happiness
34. Replacement Life
35. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
36. Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings
37. World We Once Lived In

38. Berry Pickers
39. Death of the Author 
40. Filling Station
41. Five Little Indians
42. Ghost
43. Grandmother Begins the Story
44. I'll Give You the Sun
45. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
46. On Juneteenth
47. Symphony of Secrets
48. Thomas and Beulah
49. Underground Railroad
50. Vanishing Half
51. Waiting for the Long Night Moon
52. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

Genre: Translated Mystery
20. Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery by Carmen Posadas, from the Spanish
21. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, from the Russian
22. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, from the Swedish
23. The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre, from the French
24. The Locked Room by Maj Sjöwall, from the Swedish

Heritage & Culture:
25. Dying for Chametz & Other Mystery Stories for Passover 
26. Latke in the Library

A Listopia: A Middlebrow Syllabus: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
27. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
28. Miss Plum and Miss Penny by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Place (NOT in North America, NOT included in other categories here):
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Title-starting with the letter "Z":
32. Zoli by Colum McCann
33. Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina

Progress: 0/26

An Author: Anthony Horowitz (0/7)

Book Genre: Dark Academia (0/4)

Favorite Re-Reads: (0/4)

Format: Audiobooks (0/8)

Style: Graphic Novels (0/3)

Claiming a spot for now. Goal and setup follows.

currently reading: tbd

Progress: 0/55

An Author: Yoneda Kou 5
A Book Genre: Thriller 4
Book Length: 300 - 500 pages 4
Diversity: LGBTQ+ 4
Formats & Styles: Manga 20
A Listopia: Best Books of the Decade: 2020s 4
Title: Starting with I 4
Your Backlist: Home TBR pre 2026 10

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Length: over 500 pages (0/5)
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Reread (0/5)
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Mythology and Folklore (0/5)
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Heritage & Culture (0/5)
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Fantasy (0/5)
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Classics (0/3)
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Author: Juliet Marillier (0/3)
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Author: Mimi Matthews (0/2)
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Joining with goals determined later.
Progress: 0/33

The 20 shelf themes
* An Author: Kate Atkinson: 4 books
A God in Ruins
Transcription
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Case Histories

An Author: Radih Alameddine
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible
Hakawati, The
Angel of History, The
The Wrong End of the Telescope

An author: Magda Szabo
The Door
Abigail
The Fawn


* Book Length 500+ pages: 4 books
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Books-to-Screen/Stage: 4 books
1. Project Hail Mary
2. East of Eden
3. The Woman in Cabin 10
4. Wool Omnibus


* Favorites to Re-read: 4 books
1. Pachinko
2. An Unnecessary Woman
3. A Fine Balance
4. The Night Watch
5. Parable of the Sower


* Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies: 2 books
Baldwin: A Love Story
Lovely One

* A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation): Georgia (country): 2 books
Hard by a Great Forest
The Lack of Light


* Seasons: 4 books
Winter: City of Thieves
Spring:
Summer:
Fall:

hi, sign me up for 30 books!

I am signing up for 33

Progress: 0/33

5 Nobel laureates (Award Winners)

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10 mystery/thrillers (Book Genre)

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3 Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies

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5 Canadian books (a place)

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10 Books that are the oldest on my TBR list

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BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

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* Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
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* A Listopia
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* An Author: Sarah J. Maas
*An Author: Colleen Coble
*An Author: Colleen Hoover
*An Author: Emily Henry
*A Book Genre: Christian Fiction
*A Book Genre: Christian Nonfiction
*A Book Genre: YA
* Favorites to Re-read: JD Robb/Eve Dallas
* Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
* A Place: 50 States
* Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
January 1 - December 31, 2026
Progress: 0/100

Sign me up for 100 for now!

Member Corner Tracking Post

0/20

* Book Length (500+ pages)
The Count of Monte Cristo-1243 pages
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: East and West Vol. 1-955 pages
Parade's End-836 pages
Lord Byron: The Major Works-1020 pages
The Magic Mountain-706 pages

*Genre: Fantasy

*Genre: Nonfiction
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

*Favorites to reread

I'm in for 44.

0/44

My favourite yearly challenge! Please sign me up for 20 books.

COMPLETED: 0/20

*An Author: Terry Pratchett

*An Author: William Shakespeare

*Book Length: 500+ pages

*Favourites to reread?

Please sign me up for 60.

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January 1 - December 31, 2026

Progress: 0 / 60

* An Author
* Award Winners
* A Book Genre
* Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
* Books-to-Screen/Stage
* Careers
* Diversity (in any of its forms)
* Favorites to Re-read
* Formats & Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.)
* Heritage & Culture
* A Hobby or Pastime
* A Listopia
* Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
* Mythology & Folklore
* Nature and the Environment
* A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
* Science & Technology
* Seasons & Holidays
* Title (starting with the same letter)
* Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

i’ll join for ten please :)

I'm in for 20


Diversity (in any of its forms)
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Favorites to Re-read
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0/20 Read

Sign me up for 123 books

0/123

An Author: Judith Kerr (0/20 books)
1. Mog the Forgetful Cat
2. Mog's Christmas
3. Mog and the Baby
4. Mog in the Dark
5. Mog and Me
6. Mog's Family of Cats
7. Mog’s Amazing Birthday Caper
8. Mog And Bunny
9. Mog & Barnaby
10. Mog on Fox Night
11. Mog in the Garden
12. Mog’s Kittens
13. Mog and the Granny
14. Mog and the V.E.T.
15. Mog's Bad Thing
16. Goodbye Mog
17. Mog's Christmas Calamity
18. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
19. The Tiger Who Came to Tea
20. The Curse of the School Rabbit

Awards: Pulitzer Prize Winners (0/11 books)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize for Novel - 1940)
22. To Kill a Mockingbird (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1961)
23. Beloved (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1988)
24. The Age of Innocence (Pulitzer Prize for Novel - 1921)
25. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Pulitzer Prize for Novel - 1928)
26. The Old Man and the Sea (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1953)
27. The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1979)
28. All the Light We Cannot See (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 2015)
29. March (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 2006)
30. Middlesex (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 2003)
31. Hamilton: The Revolution (Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 2016)

Formats & Styles: Audiobooks (0/30 books)
32. The Summer I Turned Pretty
33. The English Patient
34. The Book of Form and Emptiness
35. Elizabeth Is Missing
36. Never Let You Go
37. Who I Was with Her
38. The Line of Beauty
39. Cutting for Stone
40. Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different
41. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
42. The Women
43. The Book Thief
44. All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
45. Sorority
46. Cuddy
47. The Office of Historical Corrections
48. We Own Tonight
49. The Perfect Guests
50. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
51. The Husband's Secret
52. The Incendiaries
53. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
54. The Oracle Year
55. youthjuice
56. Check & Mate
57. I Hope This Finds You Well
58. Robopocalypse
59. The Cruel Prince
60. Red Queen
61. Street Smart

Formats & Styles: Graphic Novels (0/62 books)
62. Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Vol. 4: Sin Eaters
63. Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor: Facing Fate Vol. 1: Breakfast at Tyranny's
64. Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor: Time Trials Vol. 1: The Terror Beneath
65. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #21
66. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #22
67. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #23
68. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #24
69. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #25
70. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #26
71. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2018 Annual, #1
72. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #9
73. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #27
74. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #10
75. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #28
76. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #11
77. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #29
78. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #12
79. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #30
80. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Shattered Grid, #1
81. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers: Back to School #1
82. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #13
83. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #14
84. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #15
85. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #16
86. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #17
87. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #18
88. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #19
89. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #20
90. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers: Forever Rangers #1
91. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #31
92. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #32
93. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #33
94. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #34
95. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #35
96. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #36
97. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #37
98. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #38
99. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #39
100. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special #1
101. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #40
102. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #21
103. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #41
104. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #22
105. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #42
106. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #23
107. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #43
108. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #24
109. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #44
110. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #25
111. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #45
112. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #26
113. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #46
114. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #27
115. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #47
116. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #28
117. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #29
118. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #48
119. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #30
120. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #49
121. Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #31
122. Something is Killing the Children #7
123. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #50

0/30
Biography— Those Wacky Tudors:
Tudor England Hardcover By Lucy Wooding, The Restless Republic By Anna Keay 2 Books Collection Set
Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

Hobby or Pastime—The Fab Four
The Beatles Anthology
The Beatles: The Biography
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the SixtiesTune In
Tune In
Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year
The Lyrics
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
Paul McCartney: The Life
Fashioning the Beatles: The Looks that Shook the World

Career—Acadian:
Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry
Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia
Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World
Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946 to 1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns

Non-fiction :
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America – The Biography of Gilded Age Muckraking and Defending Democracy
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan
Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the
Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11
The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
The sound of a bat hitting a baseball is the heartbeat of America.: Funny blank lined gag baseball gift notebook for family and friends
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

I'd like to give this a go, 10 for a start please

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

An Author
Favorites to Re-read
Formats & Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.)
Seasons & Holidays
Title (starting with the same letter)
Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to 2026)

My cozy little corner.

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

00/60 Completed

* An Author: Mary Stone
01.Killer Setup-Mary Stone
02.Killer Plot-Mary Stone
03.Killer Clone-Mary Stone
04.Shadow's Sacrifice-Mary Stone
05.Shadow's Collision-Mary Stone
06.Winter's Stalker-Mary Stone
07.Winter's Maze-Mary Stone
08.Autumn’s Deceit-Mary Stone
09.Autumn's Warning-Mary Stone
10.Autumn's Chase-Mary Stone

* Title (starting with the same letter): L
11.Love...It's Wild-Jeannine Colette
12.Loved Enough-Kelly Elliott
13.Lonesome Highway-L.T. Vargus
14.Love You, Mean It-Laura Pavlov
15.Lessons from a One-Night Stand-Piper Rayne
16.Look at Her and Die-Lani Lynn Vale
17.Last One Alive-H.K. Christie
18.Liar Liar-Willow Rose
19.Love Fast-Louise Bay
20.Lethal Lies-Rebecca Zanetti

* A Book Genre: Romance
21.A Love Song for Ricki Wilde-Tia Williams
22.Do You Take This Man-Denise Williams
23.When You Are Mine-Kennedy Ryan
24.Part of Your World-Abby Jimenez
25.Mr. Fixer Upper-Lucy Score
26.Passing Ships-Amber Kelly
27.The Proposal-Adriana Locke
28.Wicked Love-Willow Aster
29.Babymoon or Bust-Ava Hunter
30.Heaven Sent-Delaney Diamond

* Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages): 500+
31.660:The Gamble-Kristen Ashley
32.518:The Promise-Kristen Ashley
33.592:Hold On-Kristen Ashley
34.584:By a Thread-Lucy Score
35.540:From Lukov with Love-Mariana Zapata
36.604:Quarter to Midnight-Karen Rose
37.687:Closer Than You Think-Karen Rose
38.516:Criminal Intent-Sheldon Siegel
39.512:Caught in the Axe-Daphne Elliot
40.656:Sweet Dreams-Kristen Ashley

* A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation): States
41.Hawaii:Kalikimaka Killer-Jasmine Webb
42.Ohio:Their Deadly Truth-Declan James
43.Alaska:Thaw of Spring-Rebecca Zanetti
44.Louisana:Coeds and Cattails-Jana Deleon
45.Texas:Deep Tide-Laura Griffin
46.Washington:The Bodies on Horse Heaven Hill-D.D. Black
47.California:Fallen Star-Lee Goldberg
48.Alabama:The Last Trial-Robert Bailey
49.Illinois:Edge-Tracy Clark
50.New Jersey:Notorious Nineteen-Janet Evanovich

* Formats & Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.): Audiobook
51.In a Heartbeat-Laura Pavlov
52.True Crime-Elle Gray
53.The Fix-Mia Sheridan
54.You Can Scream-Rebecca Zanetti
55.Delivery After Dark-Marie Force
56.Girl Sixteen: Pursued-Molly Black
57.14th Deadly Sin-James Patterson
58.The Proving Ground-Michael Connelly
59.Fatal Mercy-Dan Padavona
60.Where You Belong-Kristen Proby

I will read 2 per shelf (40 books):
The 20 shelf themes
* An Author
* Award Winners
* A Book Genre
* Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
* Books-to-Screen/Stage
* Careers
* Diversity (in any of its forms)
* Favorites to Re-read
* Formats & Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.)
* Heritage & Culture
* A Hobby or Pastime
* A Listopia
* Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
* Mythology & Folklore
* Nature and the Environment
* A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
* Science & Technology
* Seasons & Holidays
* Title (starting with the same letter)
* Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

Please sign me up for 12 books. Thanks!

I'll sign up for 10 shelves with 2 books each for a total of 20 books.

0/20

1. An Author (Stephen King) 0/2
2. Award Winners 0/2
3. A Book Genre (Horror) 0/2
4. Book Length (500+ pages) 0/2
5. Books-to-Screen/Stage
6. Diversity (BIPOC authors) 0/2
7. Formats & Styles (Graphic novels) 0/2
8. Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies 0/2
9. Title (Starting with A) 0/2
10. Your Backlist 0/2

I'm in for 40 books.

Progress: 0/40

An Author: Dan Brown 0/3
An Author: Frank Herbert 0/3
An Author: Isaac Asimov 0/4

Award Winners 0/5
The God of Small Things - Booker Prize winner
Atmosphere - Goodreads Choice Award
My Friends - Goodreads Choice Award
The Women - Goodreads Choice Award
The Netanyahus- Pulitzer Prize

A Book Genre: Sci-Fi 0/4
A Book Genre: Fantasy 0/4

A Place: Japan 0/2
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat
The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Book Length (500+ pages) 0/2

Formats & Styles: audiobook 0/3
Formats & Styles: ebooks 0/4

Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

I'm in for 50 books

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Duration: January 1, 2026 - December 31, 2026

Completed: 0/50

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A Book Genre: Romance
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Books-to-Screen/Stage
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Heritage & Culture: Japanese
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Mythology & Folklore
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A Place: Africa
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Seasons & Holidays: Winter
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Title (starting with the same letter): Starts with L
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Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)
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Message 15. Please reduce my goal to 20. I decided to join a couple of other challenges and the number of books pledged was getting out of hand.

Thanks so much!

Goal: 0/20

* A Book Genre - horror
1. Starve Acre
2. Devil House
3. This Thing Between Us
4. Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting

* Book Length - under 200
5. The Fire Next Time (106)
6. Don't Sleep with the Dead (112)
7. Modern Poetry: Poems (112)
8. Small Things Like These (128)

* Heritage & Culture - authors in translation
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* A Listopia - Forgotten Frights
13. The Stepford Wives
14. Harvest Home
15. The Cipher
16. Wormwood

* Science & Technology
17. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
18. The Puma Years
19. Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
20. Raising Hare: A Memoir

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
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* Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
1.The Bell Jar
3.The Glass Castle
* Mythology & Folklore
* Nature and the Environment
* A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
* Science & Technology
* Seasons & Holidays
* Title (starting with the same letter)
* Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

Amanda E.'s Corner

Sign me up for 20 for now (10 shelves). Not sure what they will be but figure I’ll give another yearly a shot. Probably won’t actually read as much as I’m signing up for in each challenge but I’ll attempt them.

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Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
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I am going to do 5 books for each Shelf!

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Update to message 35: got my 10 shelves figured out (on a computer so copy paste works)

* An Author - Meng Xi Shi
* Award Winners - Newbery Honor Award
* A Book Genre - Romance
* Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages) - under 200
* Diversity (in any of its forms) - LGBTQ+
* Formats & Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.) - manga
* A Listopia - Danmei Officially Translated into English
* A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation) - China
* Title (starting with the same letter) - T
* Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year) - plenty

Sign me up for 5 shelves and 15 books please!

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Please sign me up for 20 total.

Diversity - Sapphic books x5
Diversity - Books with disabled protagonists x5
Backlist - Books added to my TBR prior to 2026 x10
Genre - Non-fiction x5

Update message #7 - please set my goal to 55, thanks.

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