2025 & 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

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Joining with 36 books to begin this challenge.

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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

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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

I'm in for 30!

TBR JAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026

Progress: 0/12

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
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.

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
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
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
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
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 Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
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

I'll try for 100.

I'm in for 30.

14 Random and 16 prompts

Put me down for 16 please

Progress = 0/16

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

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

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: 0 / 10

Into the Darkest Day
Hotel Laguna
To Love and Be Loved
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
The One and Only Dolly Jamieson
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Maggie Bright: A Novel of Dunkirk
The Cliff House
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
The Grace Kelly Dress
The Ladies' Room
The Sunflower House
Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel
River's End
The Lost Letter
All the Glimmering Stars
The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel
Evidence That Demands a Verdict
The Bookworm Crush
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Dear Santa
The Jane Austen Society (Jane Austen Society, #1)
The Walnut Creek Wish (Creektown Discoveries #1)
The Silver Linings Playbook
The Treasure of Nonsense Woods
Big Summer

Please sign me up for 16 books.

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

Done:
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.
🖍️ 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
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I'm going to shoot for 32!

Put me down for 16 Books please.

COMPLETED: 0/16

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

Sign me up for 60

2026 is my year of TBR reading. I'll claim this space and decide on specifics soon.
Thanks for organizing!

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

0/20.