2026 Reading Challenge discussion

TBR JAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

This high-demand challenge is back for another year! Whether you like to plan your reading for the year ahead of time, or pick books at random, this challenge works the way you want it to work! There are 3 options for ways to pick your books for this challenge. You can stick with one or dabble in all 3!

1) You can let Goodreads let choose your books for this challenge:
Step 1: Select the number of books you want to read for this challenge.
Step 2: Go to the “My Books” tab on the top of the Goodreads Page.
Step 3: Bring up your “Want-To-Read” shelf.
Step 4: On the bottom of the page in the middle, go to the “sort” field and select “Random.”
Goodreads will generate a random list of books for you!

2) You can use the following tasks and pick a matching book later.
1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page.
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page.
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page.
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page.
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page.
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.

3) You can use any random generator on the internet to choose prompts or subjects. Some examples are: The TBR machine, Color picker, Wikipedia, random word generator, or shuffle your playlist and read books that have to do with those songs.

Write all your selected book titles or tasks on slips of paper, throw them in a jar, and shake! (Or, if you like, use the digital equivalent.) Just let us know how many books you will be reading for this challenge.

We love how creative you all are, and would love to see the pictures of your jars! Happy Reading!

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

Alan - message #55 - /16
Amanda - message #7 - /15
Angel **Book Junkie** - message #29 - /128
Ann - message #60 - /30
Ariail - message #49 - /16
Ashly - message #32 - /5
Barry - message #76 - /10
Beth - message #38 - /?
Brianna - message #59 - /75
Caraina - message #42 - 5/50
Carolyn - message #17 - 3/26
Carri Carey - message #21 - /32
Carrie - message #57 - /16
Charlston - message #90 - /38
Chika - message #70 - /16
Chrissie - message #18 - /30
Cordelia - message #6 - /12
D.L. - message #22 - /16
Denise - message #37 - /16
Dubhease - message #15 - /12
Elizabeth - message #31 - /16
Emily - message #40 - /30
Frankie - message #33 - /50
Gina Marie - message #13 - 2/16
Grace - message #58 - /10
Jaida - message #14 - /30
Jana - message #11 - /100
Janine - message #25 - 4/16
Jill - message #26 - /20
Jodi - message #89 - /20
Joy D - message #34 - 9/24
Kaila - message #74 - /16
Katherine - message #63 - /31
Kristina - message #16 - /100
Laura - message #54 - /10
Laurie - message #48 - /16
Lazy Days - message #50 - 1/16
Lina - message #39 - /10
Lindey - message #23 - 3/60
Lisa Marie - message #87 - /16
Marielle - message #69 - 1/32
Martha - message #5 - /36
Martha☀ - message #24 - /80
Mave - message #52 - /26
Megan BH - message #45 - /16
Meghan L - message #47 - /26
Michelle - message #35 - /10
Michelle - message #56 - /16
Mie - message #20 - /16
Missy - message #44 - 1/17
Nat - message #43 - /30
Nisanka - message #53 - /10
NyJaya - message #64 - /15
Samantha - message #36 - /16
Sarah - message #30 - 1/12
Sarah c - message #10 - /10
SarahKat - message #12 - /30
Shari - message #19 - /10
Susan - message #8 - 1/12
Tara - message #77 - /13
TCampbell - message #51 - 8/90
Vanessa - message #62 - /24
Whitney - message #9 - 3/45

STATS
Participants: 63
Books Read: 42
Book Goal: 1758
Completed: 0

Updated through Message #96 on Jan 25, 2026.

Reserved for backup moderator

Joining with 36 books to begin this challenge.

0/36
Free Food for Millionaires
East of Eden
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Women
Hard by a Great Forest
My Friends
The Covenant of Water
This Is Happiness
The Plot
Homeseeking
The Bright Sword
The Reformatory
In Memoriam
Eleanore of Avignon
The Ministry for the Future
There Are Rivers in the Sky
The Door
Alias Grace
Erasure
The Devils
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
The Favorites
The Dutch House
Lies and Sorcery
The Book of Records
The Bee Sting
Babel
Gone with the Wind
The Lack of Light
Shark Heart
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Fire Exit
Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Seventh Cross
Sunlight on a Broken Column
Long Island

0/12

The Mirror & the Light
The Woman Beyond the Sea
The Matrimonial Advertisement
Mirror Dance
The Republic of Salt
Codename Charming
The Windup Girl
Empire of Shadows
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Wild Reverence
The City of Stardust
The Unmaking of June Farrow
The Amber Owl
Once Upon a River
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
The Secret Commonwealth
Becoming Mrs. Lewis
The God and the Gumiho
The Crystal Cave

0/20 - Using number generator and sorting my WTR by random
1. #293 - The Reformatory
2. #485 - The Fourth Daughter
3. #39 - A Merry Little Lie
4. #468 - The Lincoln Lawyer
5. #267 Go as a River
6. #36 - Seascraper
7. #160 -When Never Comes
8. #308 -The Things We Cannot Say
9.#465 - Binding 13
10. #134 Same As It Ever Was
11. #564 The Book of Doors
12. #106 It
13.#475 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
14. #55 1984
15. #44 Homegoing
16. #120 What My Bones Know
17. #5 A Child Called "It"
18. #392 The Crescent Moon Tearoom
19. #269 The Asylum Confessions
20. #385 Hidden Pictures


Amanda E. Corner

TBR JAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

Progress: 1/12

1. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
2. Interesting Facts about Space by Emily R. Austin
3. A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl by Nanda Reddy
4. Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
5. The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano
6. Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore
7. The Memory Box by Eva Lesko Natiello
8. The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Chynthia Hand
9. Too Old for This by Samantha Downing - Finished 1/15/26
10. All the Rage by Courtney Summers
11. Defending Jacob by William Landay
12. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

I'm in for 45! Put all my books on an online wheel and spun. Here's the 45 books the wheel picked for me.

Progress: 3/45

1. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Completed 1/8/26)
2. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (Completed 1/14/26)
3. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (Completed 1/22/26)
4. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (Currently Reading)

A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Witches of America by Alex Mar
A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Aspergirls by Rudy Simone
In the Woods by Tana French
Back in a Spell by Lana Harper
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Along Came Amor by Alexis Daria
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
Inheritance by Katharine McGee
Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
The Likeness by Tana French
The Situationship by Abby Jimenez
Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
Mate by Ali Hazelwood
While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory
Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Jagged by Lauren Dane
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
Taken by Dee Henderson
The One That Got Away by Charlotte Rixon
The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore
Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare
Everyday Aspergers by Samantha Craft
Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare
Violeta by Isabel Allende

Put me down for 10 please
0/10

The Quarry Girls
Across the Winding River
The Sinister Coast Boxset
Rain Will Come
Her Name Was Rose
In the Dark
One Bad Turn
Mother Dear
dEaDINBURGH: Alliances
The Mentor

I'll try for 100.

I'm in for 30.

14 Random and 16 prompts

Put me down for 16 please

Progress = 2/16

I'll be using the 16 prompts above and tracking them in my 2026 Reading Corner.

hi, sign me up for 30 books!

Sign me up for 12 books

Progress: 0/12

1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page. - lost tales
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page. - Last Stand, Third Wheel, Castleknoll
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page. - Black Bonspiel
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page. - Salem's Lot
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page. - Sense and Sensibility
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.
Vagabond, husband's Wife, the Unknown
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
Vagabond, Dying of the Light
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
Mermaid of Brooklyn, the Future
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.
lovely Bones, Circe, Cinder
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
changeable - most unpublished
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.
All your Twisted Secrets
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
Yadda Yadda
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
Susan Aglukark, Kelly Armstrong, Austen
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
maybe
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.

TBR JAR
January 1 - December 31, 2026
Progress: 0/100

Sign me up for 100 to start!

Member Corner Tracking Post

Put me down for 26 books this year

1. Atmosphere
2. My Friends
3. One Golden Summer
4. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
5. An Eye for an Eye
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures
7. Good Spirits
8. First-Time Caller
9. The Women
10. We All Live Here
11. Beach Read
12. The Strawberry Patch Pancake House
13. James
14. Normal People
15. The Scarlett Thread
16. Beach Reads
17. The Swimmer of Auschwitz
18. Circe Madeline Miller 15 Jan
19. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
20. The Great Zoo of China
21. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
22. The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
23. Powerless
24. The House in the Cerulean Sea
25. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
26. The Gingerbread Bakery
27. Thursday Murder Club
28. The Catcher in the Rye
29. Part of Your World
30. My Name is Emilia Del Vella
31. The Silent Patient
32. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
33. 25 Alive
34. The Hobbit
35. Silver
36. Throne of Glass
37. Shuggie Bain
38. The Women
39. To Kill a Mockingbird
40. Summer in the City
41. A Good Girls Guide to Murder
42. Cobalt Blue
43. The Silver Chair
44. The Magicians Nephew
45. Ned Kelly
46. The True Story of the Kelly Gang
47. The Fellowship of the Rings
48. The Book Thief
49. Wicked
50. Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros 05 Jan
51. Wild Side Elsie Silver 11 Jan

Claiming a spot for now. Goal and set up will follow soon.

Progress: 6/30

draw: 31.12. - 6 | 3.1. - 15 | 7.1. - 9 | 14.1. - 11 | 17.1. - 14 | 22.1. - 2 | 26.1. - 17

planned series/books
1. Twittering Birds Never Fly (0/7)
2. Fruits Basket Pearls + Fruits Basket Another Pearls (1/11)
✓
3. Advanced Reading Copies
4. Crimson Spell (0/3)
5. Borrowed from family & friends
6. From the Red Fog (1/3)
✓
7. Netgalley
8. Library books
9. City Lights Birthday: Gefühlvoller Boys-Love-Einzelband aus dem Omegaverse, in dem Beta und Omega ihr Schicksal selbst in die Hand nehmen by Hongo Chika ✓ 01/13
10. Sula
11. Ich hasse ihn by Minase Masara ✓ 01/16
12. T.J. Klune
13. Oscar Wilde biographies
14. There Are Things I Can't Tell You by Mofumofu Edako ✓ 01/21
15. Kenshin (1/10)
✓
16. Disney Villains (0/7)
17. Secret Service (0/5)

18. No. 6 (0/4)
19. Killing Stalking (0/12)
20. Küss mich, Student (0/3)

Please sign me up for 10 books.
Books will be chosen using Goodreads.
I always ask for more than the # I want to read as I always have several books that I can't find at my local library.

TBR JAR
January 1 - December 31, 2026

Progress: 2 / 10

Into the Darkest Day - nothing
Hotel Laguna - ebook
To Love and Be Loved - nothing
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz - book and ebook
The One and Only Dolly Jamieson - Audiobook
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World - book and ebook
Maggie Bright: A Novel of Dunkirk - book and ebook
The Cliff House - ebook and audiobook
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference - book (childrens shelf)
The Grace Kelly Dress - book and ebook
The Ladies' Room - book
The Sunflower House - ebook - placed hold 1-5-26
Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel - nothing
River's End - have
The Lost Letter - book and ebook
All the Glimmering Stars - book
The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel - book and ebook
Evidence That Demands a Verdict - ebook
The Bookworm Crush - audiobook
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker - audiobook
Dear Santa - book
🪻The Jane Austen Society (Jane Austen Society, #1) - Completed 1-18-26
The Walnut Creek Wish (Creektown Discoveries #1) - book and ebook
The Silver Linings Playbook - book and ebook
The Treasure of Nonsense Woods - nothing
🪻Big Summer - completed 1-12-26

Please sign me up for 16 books.

🫙 TBR Jar 🔅
My corner https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Done: 6
Target: 16
Completion date:

1. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the first page.
🖍️ Foundation
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page.
🖍️ Renée - At finde hjem
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page.
🖍️ The Stranger
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page.
🖍️ The Paper Bracelet
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page.
📗 Tarzan the Terrible
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.
🖍️ I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
🖍️ Den sidste udpost
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
🖍️ The Closers
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the first page.
🖍️ Kan han li' at fiske? -og andre godbidder fra mit vidunderlige liv
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
📗 The Lost Apothecary
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.
📙 Colour Scheme
🖍️ Battle Ground
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page.
📗 Verity
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
🖍️ Hidden in Plain Sight
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
📗 The Dark Prophecy
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
📗 The Sun Over The Mountains: A Story of Hope, Healing and Restoration
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.
📗 Many Rivers to Cross
.

I'm going to shoot for 32!
Progress: 7/32

Prompts
✅ 1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page. The Descendants - Read 1/4/26
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page. Sisters in Science
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page. I Know This Much Is True
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page. A Short Stay in Hell
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page. Beautiful Joe: An AutoBiography of a Dog
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page. The Merge
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page. The Pallbearers Club
✅ 9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page. The Housemaid - Read 1/2/26
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page. Window of Time
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page. 107 Days
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page The Zodiac Killer
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. With the Fire on High
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. Finding My Way
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page. Head Cases
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page. Butts: A Backstory

Random Number Generator
63 - Blackouts
✅ 102 - The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets - Read 1/27/26
✅ 104 - The Case of the Missing Marquess - Read 1/20/26
186 - A Familiar Sight
288 - A House with Good Bones
385 - Loved One
406 - Mickey7
✅ 414 - A Monster Calls - Read 1/13/26
479 - The Pact
490 - Phantom
508 - Rainbow Black
512 - Real Americans
638 - The Warm Hands of Ghosts
✅ 646 - The Wedding People - Read /23/26
655 - What in God's Name
✅ 689 - Wonder - Read 1/9/26

COMPLETED: 0/16

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

TBR JAR: January 1, 2026-December 32, 2026

Sign me up for 60

2026 is my year of TBR reading. I'm going for 80 TBRs!

XX/80

fiction
46 of these 54
(view spoiler)[
Air
The All of It
All Our Yesterdays
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me: A Novel
Barbara Isn't Dying Yet
Beautyland
The Bee Sting
The Bird Hotel
Bread Alone
Cahokia Jazz
Cape Fever
The Compound
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
The Eighth Detective
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Extinctions
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Fire
Forever and a Day
A History of Loneliness
House Made of Dawn
A House Without Windows
The Housemaid
I See You've Called in Dead
Idaho
The Illegal
Indians on Vacation
Interesting Facts about Space
Look Closer
Marble Hall Murders
Moonflower Murders
Murder Takes a Vacation
My Name Is Yip
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
The Mystery Guest
Pachinko
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Project Hail Mary
The Quality of Silence
S.
The Remains of the Day
The Secret History
Shine, Pamela! Shine!
Sh*tshow
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
So Long, See You Tomorrow
The Stranger Diaries
These Silent Woods
This Is Happiness
This Is How It Always Is
Vera, or Faith

non-fiction
34 of these 37
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Children's Blizzard
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food
The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat
A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Fox & I
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Homes: A Refugee Story
The House of Beauty: Lessons From the Image Industry
How to Examine a Wolverine: More Tales from the Accidental Veterinarian
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lonely Planet Austria
Memorial Days
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love
Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket
The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Reasons to Stay Alive
The Shoebox Bible
There is no Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells
This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
(hide spoiler)]

Please sign me up for 16. I'm going to aim to do all the tasks again :)

2/20
1. You Won't See Me: When the Beatles Ghosted Imelda
2. The Bell Jar

Whitney wrote: "I'm in for 45! Put all my books on an online wheel and spun. Here's the 45 books the wheel picked for me.

A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria
[book:Seven Days in Jun..."

what website did you use?

Amanda wrote: "what website did you use? Whitney wrote: "I'm in for 45! Put all my books on an online wheel and spun. Here's the 45 books the wheel picked for me.

A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria
[book:S..."

wheelofnames.com

TBR JAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

Goal is 128
Completion : 16/128
DNF = 2


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53. The Good Samaritan
54. Robbie
55. Should Have Known Better
56. The Perfect Family
57. She's Gone
58. Sweet Addiction
59. That One Night
60. Boundary Crossed | Melissa F. Olson | 01.25
61. Those Girls DNF 32%
62. Heart of the Witch
63.Please Take My Baby | Emma Robinson | 01.24
64.The Things We Carry | Kate Anslinger | 01.24
65. Hart's Ridge
66. The Games Gods Play
67. What She Left Behind
68. The Scars Within


DNF
1. Little Sister | Patricia MacDonald | 30%
2. Those Girls | Chevy Stevens | 32%

Sign me up for 12 books

1/12

✅1. Murder on the First Day of Christmas (8/1/26)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
4. The Women in the Mirror
5. One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
6. Claiming His Family
7. Fifty-seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way
8. Better Days
9. Summertime
10. Gone Girl
11. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
12. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, #34

Sign me.up for 16!
0/16

1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page. - The Host
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page. - The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page. - Underdog
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page. - The Historian
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page. - Jason and the Golden Fleece
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page. - A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page. - Secretly Yours
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page. - Magic Binds
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page. - Pride and Prejudice
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page. - Blood and Other Cravings
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page. - Airborne
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page - ブラッククローバー 1 Black Clover 1
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. - Kiss of Midnight
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. - Barakamon, Vol. 1
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page. - Tea & Treachery
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page. - 11/22 1963

I'm in for 5


Used a wheel picker
Books that been on my Want to Read shelf for years
1. The Kneebone Boy
2. Stitch
3. The Long Run
4. Black Water Sister
5. Meet Me in Mumbai

TBR JAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

06/50 Completed

01.A Killer's Heart-Thomas Fincham
02.Knight-Kristen Ashley
03.Beauty and the Baller-Ilsa Madden-Mills
04.Odessa on the Delaware-John A. Hoda
05.Part of Your World-Abby Jimenez
06.Play Dead-Anne Frasier
07.Still Life in Blood-Crystal Heidel
08.Wood You Be Mine?-Daphne Elliot
09.The Darkest Game-Alex Sigmore
10.Vicious Cycle: A Thriller-Jaime Parker Stickle
11.Avenging Angel-Kristen Ashley 1/09/26
12.Zero Pucks Given-K.T. Quinn
13.The 6:20 Man-David Baldacci
14.Elevator Pitch-L.B. Dunbar 1/24/26
15.Crash-Kathy Lockheart
16.Send Me Crazy-T. Gephart
17.The Grump Next Door-Brighton Walsh 1/12/26
18.Entice-Ava Harrison
19.The Problem with Dating-Brittainy C. Cherry
20.Deadly Silence-Rebecca Zanetti 1/21/26
21.Say You'll Remember Me-Abby Jimenez
22.The Woman at the Masked Gala-A.J. Rivers
23.Her Dark Secret-Alex Sigmore
24.The Dancing Girls-M.M. Chouinard
25.Pinch-Tia Louise
26.Hard to Handle-K. Bromberg
27.Dawn Girl-Leslie Wolfe
28.Gone by Dawn-H.K. Christie
29.Echoes of Guilt-L.T. Ryan
30.Stolen Kisses-Lia Huni
31.Black Ties & White Lies-Kat Singleton
32.Call Her Mine-Melissa Foster
33.Homecoming-Marie Force
34.Switchback-Pamela Fagan Hutchins
35.Caught in the Axe-Daphne Elliot 1/16/26
36.Why She Had to Die-Nicholas Harvey
37.Flame-Chelle Bliss
38.Curly-Lilly Atlas
39.The Gamble-Kristen Ashley
40.Dark & Deceitful-Bink Cummings
41.The Housemaid-Freida McFadden
42.Blood in the Bayou-C.M. Sutter
43.The Girl in Town-Elle Gray 1/01/26
44.New Girl in the Falls-Elle Gray
45.The Badge-Lena Hendrix
46.Chasing the Sun-Lena Hendrix
47.Exhume-Danielle Girard
48.The Fallen Girls-Kathryn Casey
49.A Not So Meet Cute-Meghan Quinn
50.Stay with Me-Alexandria House

Completed 9/24

✅1. How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue - 1/7/26 - 3* - My Review
2 Wintering Peter Geye
✅3. The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt - 1/19/26 - 4* - My Review
✅4. Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay - 1/3/26 - 3* - My Review
5 Bird by Bird Anne Lamott
6 The Summer Country Lauren Willig
7 The Bonanza King Gregory Crouch
8 Restoration Rose Tremain
✅9. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander - 1/10/26 - 5* - My Review
✅10. The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro - 1/5/26 - 4* - My Review
11 The Stranger from the Sea Paul Binding
12 The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock Imogen Hermes Gowar
13 Stay and Fight Madeline Ffitch
14 Telephone Percival Everett
15 The Android's Dream John Scalzi
16 English Passengers Matthew Kneale
17 The Bookbinder of Jericho Pip Williams
✅18. The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles - 1/24/26 - 4* - My Review
✅19. Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor - 1/12/26 - 4.5* - My Review
✅20. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera - 1/6/26 - 4* - My Review
21 Taipei Tao Lin
22 Home Cailean Steed
23 When the Nightingale Sings Suzanne Kelman
✅24. The Next Everest by Jim Davidson - 1/2/26 - 4* - My Review

I'm in for 10!

I'm in for 16!

TBR JAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page. The Winter Witch
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page. Graceless Heart
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page. China Room
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page. Heat of the Everflame
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page. Gone With the Wind
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page. The Tapestry of Fate
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page. And Now, Back to You
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page Woven in Moonlight
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. The Familiar
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. The Excalibur Curse
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.

In for the 16 here:

1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page.
The Bell Jar
📚2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page.
The Starfish Sisters
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page.
Paris
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page.
The Histories
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.
Wreck
Abscond
Dan in Green Gables: A Modern Reimagining of Anne of Green Gables
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
This Is Chick-lit
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.
Death on the Beach: Essays from a Marginal World
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
Carrie Soto Is Back
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.
84, Charing Cross Road
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
Penelope in Retrograde
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
The Safekeep
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

goal and books tbd

📝 TBR Jar - Yearly Challenge 📝
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

📝 Progress: xx/10 📝 -

Tracking my books read for this challenge in my corner

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I'll sign up for 30 chosen by a decision wheel - will spin and choose them as I need help picking a book to read.

1/30

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TBR JAR
Duration: January 1, 2026 - December 31, 2026

Completed: 5/50

1. Oklahoma's Gold - Kathryn Long
2. Who's Your Daddy? - Lauren Rowe
3. The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. The 7th Victim - Alan Jacobson
5. V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton
6. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice 1/2/26
7. Adult Assembly Required - Abbi Waxman
8. Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth
9. The Wind Knows My Name - Isabel Allende
10. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride - Roshani Chokshi
11. Neruda on the Park - Cleyvis Natera
12. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
13. One Second After - William R. Forstchen
14. Bombshell - Sarah MacLean
15. The Absolute Book - Elizabeth Knox
16. The Woman on the Ledge - Ruth Mancini
17. A Spell of Good Things - Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
18. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
19. The Queens of Crime - Marie Benedict
20. Beautiful Country - Qian Julie Wang
21. If This Gets Out - Sophie Gonzales
22. The Night Swim - Megan Goldin
23. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
24. Hollow City - Ransom Riggs
25. The Warden - Anthony Trollope
26. Letters from Strangers - Susan Walter
27. The Turner House - Angela Flournoy
28. Ariadne - Jennifer Saint
29. The Bones at Point No Point - D.D. Black
30. Perished by Pasta - Tessa Aura
31. Night Wherever We Go - Tracey Rose Peyton
32. Fractured - Karin Slaughter
33. Silent Sisters - Joanne Lee
34. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
35. Ghostwriter Anonymous - Noreen Wald
36. Drunk on Love - Jasmine Guillory
37. Waiting on You - Kristan Higgins
38. The Seed Keeper - Diane Wilson 1/2/26
39. The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
40. A Game of Retribution - Scarlett St. Clair 1/12/26
41. War Storm - Victoria Aveyard
42. The Hollows - Jess Montgomery
43. Sweet Little Lies - Caz Frear 1/9/26
44. Lover Awakened - J.R. Ward 1/5/26
45. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
46. Hadley & Grace - Suzanne Redfearn
47. The Coffin Dancer - Jeffery Deaver
48. French Braid - Anne Tyler
49. Sacred Trust - Hannah Alexander
50. All That Remains - Patricia Cornwell

Signing up for 30 random!

Complete: 3/30

1. The Glow
2. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
3. The Skeleton Key 1/5
4. The Dark Forest
5. Mistress of Lies
6. The Great Hunt
7. The Bridesmaid
8. Doll Parts
9. The Treasure Hunters Club
10. Your Utopia
11. Women and Children First
12. Bringer of Dust
13. Welcome to Murder Week 1/24
14. The Fourth Consort
15. A Most Puzzling Murder
16. The High House 1/19
17. A Fire Born of Exile
18. Old Soul
19. Tender
20. Kill Creek
21. Cold Moon Over Babylon
22. Dune
23. I Can Fix Her
24. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
25. Court of Lions
26. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
27. The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories
28. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
29. Vita Nostra
30. The Shadow of What Was Lost

Sign me up for 17. That’s how many are left on one of the reading competition lists I’ve been following

The Orpheus Plot
The Last Cuentista
The Story that Cannot be Told
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked and Found
The Dragonet Prophecy vol. 1
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
The Wednesday Wars
Where the Red Fern Grows (refused to read this as a kid)
Dread Nation
The Unidentified
Scythe
A Soul as Cold as Frost
Lovely War
Illusionarium
The House of the Scorpion
One of Us is Lying
Samurai Rising

The read order will be based on my Read and Roam (same books). The Last Cuentista is my start point. Might have another list in the future. My actual TBR is at 216 (67 required challenge books and 149 bought in 2025), but I want to complete this reading list before the 2026-27 comes out in the summer.

I'm going to do the 2nd option.

Goal: 16

1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page.
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page.
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page.
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page.
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page.
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.

Update message #18 - please set my goal to 30, thanks

I'm going to try something new this year. I am putting all of the books on my physical tbr shelf into the jar! My goal is that half or more of my read books come from that shelf.

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Please sign me up for 16

1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page.
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page.
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page.
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page.
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page.
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.

Sign me up for 16! I might increase later in the year.

Signing up for 16
✅1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page. Foe - finished 5 Jan
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page.
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page.
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page.
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page.
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.