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Goal: 5 books
So, I have two GR "to be read" shelves: one for books I own and one for any other book that interests me - usually library or kindle books.
I will draw from each.
Top 8 from Wishlist:
1. Body Count
2. The Riders
3. The Violin Conspiracy
4. The Known World
5. "I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice
6. Mad Honey
7. Pancakes and Corpses
8. Gallowglass
Top 2 from Want to Read (Owned):
9. You Don't Want To Know
10. X, Y
Moving Mountains 2026Goal: 26 Books
11/26 Read
Books Read:
✔ 1. Poems, Second Series - Read 1/8/26
✔ 2. The Hero of Ages - Read 3/31/26
✔ 3. The Guardian Duke - Read 4/10/26
✔ 4. The Paper Magician - Read 4/16/26
✔5. The Pink Fairy Book - Read 5/29/26
✔6. Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength - Read 7/20/26
✔7. The House Saphir - Read 8/5/26
✔8. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Read 8/16/26
✔9. What Moves the Dead - Read 8/19/26
✔10. Dance of Thieves - Read 8/22/26
✔11. We're All Freaking Out (and Why We Don't Need To): Finding Freedom from Your Anxious Thoughts and Feelings - Read 8/31/26
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I know, we're all impatient when it comes to planning ha ha ha
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Progress: 28/52 books as at 08/31
Books read:
1. If Wishes Were Retail by Auston Habershaw -Read 01/22
2. The Missing Nurse (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #1) by Roger Silverwood -Read 01/30
3. The Canopy Keepers (The Scorched Earth #1) by Veronica G. Henry -Read 02/05
4. Dark Heart by Tony Park -Read 02/12
5. Boy of Chaotic Making (Whimbrel House #3) by Charlie N. Holmberg -Read 02/17
6. Captain America: Sam Wilson, Vol. 1: Not My Captain America -Read 02/18
7. The Burrow by Melanie Cheng -Read 02/23
8. The Laeduin (Disharmony #2) by Leah Giarratano -Read 03/10
9. Thorns & Fire (The Ashes of Thezmarr #2) by Helen Scheuerer -Read 03/13
10. The House of Gaian (Tir Alainn #3) by Anne Bishop -Read 03/18
11. Islands of Angry Ghosts: The Story of Batavia, Australia's Bloodiest Mutiny by Hugh Edwards -Read 03/20
12. A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy (Publication order) #1) by Caimh McDonnell -Read 03/21
13. Protecting The Pack/Killer In Shellview County by R. Barri Flowers -Read 04/22
14. Scooby-Doo Team-Up, Volume 4 by Sholly Fisch -Read 05/01
15. The Man Who Played with Fire by Jan Stocklassa -Read 05/05
16. Sloth (The Last Girls on Earth #1) by Hayley Anderton -Read 05/06
17. The Sedleigh Hall Murder (Eric Ward #1) by Roy Lewis -Read 05/19
18. The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan -Read 05/30
19. Forceful Intent (Porter #1) by R.A. McGee -Read 06/29
20. The Marked Son (Keepers of Life #1) by Shea Berkley -Read 07/17
21. The Lantern's Ember by Colleen Houck -Read 07/30
22. The Greater Good (John Bailey #1) by Tim Ayliffe -Read 07/31
23. Trell by Dick Lehr -Read 08/03
24. Embers (The Wings of War #1) by Karen Ann Hopkins -Read 08/13
25. The Dragon Heart Keeper (Dragon Heart #1) by L.L. Hunter -Read 08/14
26. The Ambulance Girl (Devonshire Sagas #7) by Tania Crosse -Read 08/20
27. A Very Medoran Kaldoras by Lynette Noni -Read 08/20
28. Dead in the Water (Doug Mullen #1) by Peter Tickler -Read 08/31
29. Dreaming Beauty (Dreaming Princesses #1) by C. Rae D'Arc
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I know, we're all impatient when it comes to planning ha ha ha"
Oops! Well, count it as the 15th's draw.
My spotMoving Mountains '26
Progress: 24/52 books as at 16/8
Books read:
1. Someone You Can Build a Nest In
2. The Dilemma
3. Born Into This
4. Metronome
5. You, Me, and the Colors of Life
6. The Woman in the Waves
7. Lone Women
8. The Gifted School
9. Salvage
10. Affinity
11. A Children's Bible
12. The Rush
13. Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
14. Another Life
15. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
16. Unlikely Animals
17. A Lifetime of Impossible Days
18. Discipline
19. The Unseen World
20. The Psychology of Time Travel
21. Some Assembly Required
22. Exit Party
23. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
24. The Night Parade
25. Hester and Harriet
26. Naked
January Draw -
2. Prisoners of Geography
3. The Essex Serpent
February Draw -
5. Four Seasons in Japan
7. Canticle Creek
9. The Keep
10. The Burning Side*
March Draw -
2. Stay Awake
3. The Other Half of Augusta Hope
4. On the Calculation of Volume IV*
6. The Man Who Saw Everything
8. A Curious Beginning
9. Scythe
10. Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats*
April Draw
1. The Mad Women's Ball
2. When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over
3. The House Across the Lake
6. The Humans
7. Should We Stay or Should We Go
9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
May draw
3. The Eyes Are the Best Part
4. Murder on Port Meadow
5. The States*
6. The Bookstore Sisters*
8. The Sirens*
10. The Almost Sisters
June draw
1. Red Mars
2. Woodworking
3. The Shortest History of China
4. The Road to the Country
5. Songbirds
6. Friends and Strangers
7. The Beautiful Miscellaneous
8. The Most Important Job in the World
9. Same As It Ever Was
10. The Graduate*
July draw
1. The Passengers
3. Nightcrawling*
4. We Are Green and Trembling
5. The End of Mr. Y
6. Gifted
7. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
8. To the River
9. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be*
10. This Is Not About Us*
August draw
1. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
2. Dancing Barefoot
3. American Hagwon*
4. Colored Television
5. Fiend
6. All Her Beautiful Deaths*
7. Livonia Chow Mein
8. The Husbands
9. The Morningside
10. The Push*
September draw
1. Rise & Shine
2. A Fraction of the Whole*
3. Trad Wife*
4. Dark Roots
5. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire*
6. The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
7. The Honeyeater
8. Best of All Worlds
9. Lady Tremaine
10. Austerlitz
October draw
1. The Girl in His Shadow
2. Spoil the Harvest
3. The Drop-Off
4. Sunlight Finds You
5. Next of Kin
6. Liars
7. The Man Who Died Seven Times
8. The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
9. Long Division
10. In the Lives of Puppets
Hi Tien - can I also suggest? ... you can also skip a book on the list if the book you draw has already been included in a previous month draw
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Tien wrote: "ooh yes, good one, Meg - I didn't think of that because my list is so huge that the possibility did not occur to me lol"Yeah mine is getting ridiculous - nearly 2000! This might be a good way to cut it down a bit, if something comes up and I don't want to read it I need to delete it!
Oh and I just thought of another reason you would need to skip - if the book isn't out yet. I don't want to get stuck with The Winds of Winter on my list!
I'll start with 12. I'm going to use my owned books for this one.Read: 10/12
1. Atmosphere - (March list; read June 2026)
2. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer - (March list; read June 2026)
3. To Catch a Sub (June list - read June 2026)
4. His Wicked Games (July list - read June 2026)
5. The Happiness Code (April list - read June 2026)
6. Lady Helena Investigates (Jan. list - read July 2026)
7. Want - (Mar. list - read July 2026)
8. The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev - (Apr. list - read Aug. 2026)
9. Logan (July list - read Aug. 2026)
10. The Dead House (Feb. list - read Aug. 2026)
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January draw:
1. Peter Pan
2. The Nice and the Good
3. Patty Jane's House of Curl
4. Heart Songs and Other Stories
5. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
6. Passage
8. This Is How You Lose Her
9. Divisadero
10. Him
February draw:
1. Portnoy’s Complaint
3. Oh My Stars
4. The Eye of the Leopard
5. Supreme Courtship
6. The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
7. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
8. The Magicians
9. Keeping Faith
10. Fat Girl: A True Story
March draw:
2. The God of Animals
3. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
4. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
7. The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
8. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
9. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
10. Bird by Bird
April draw:
1. The 57 Bus
2. Joy Comes in the Morning
3. Erotic Fairy Tales: A Romp through the Classics
4. Middle Age: A Romance: When a Charismatic Hero Dies, a Small Town Uncovers His Flawed Humanity
5. Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
6. The Reluctant Assassin
7. Because They Wanted To: Stories
8. Microserfs
May:
1. A Death in the House and Other Stories
2. The Transit of Venus
3. The Tenth Circle
4. Sweat
5. The Tree of Hands
6. The Whole World Over
7. The Uses of Enchantment
8. The Losers' Club
9. Confessions of a Murder Suspect
10. Shadows on the Moon
June draw:
1. The Bee Sting
2. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
3. Ashes of the Sun
4. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
6. This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
7. A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists
8. Like No Other
9. Some Luck
10. The Fig Eater
July draw:
1. A Sudden Country
2. Landline
3. A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
4. Freedom
6. Rush Home Road
7. The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
8. The Stone Gods
10. The Flying Troutmans
August draw:
1. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
2. The Other Man
3. Slam
4. Brother, I'm Dying
5. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
6. The Gangster We Are All Looking For
7. Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies
8. Wide Sargasso Sea
9. The River Midnight
10. Nemesis
Sept. draw:
1. Starting Out in the Evening
2. The Halloween Man
3. The Go-Away Bird
4. The Light of Day
5. Perfect Fifths
6. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
7. Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature
8. Fool on the Hill
9. The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
10. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Moving Mountain 2026I will start with 12. Read: 12/12 books, 23 May 2026.
Increasing to 26. Read: 26/26 books, 6 Sep 2026.
Books read:
✔ 1. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher, 2 Jan 26
✔ 2. Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray, 5 Jan 26
✔ 3. The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt, 6 Jan 26
✔ 4. Longshot by Dick Francis, 17 Jan 26
✔ 5. Maigret on the Defensive by Georges Simenon, 12 Feb 26
✔ 6. Alibi Innings by Barbara Worsley-Gough, 28 Feb 26
✔ 7. The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti, 13 Mar 25
✔ 8. Two-Way Murder by E.C.R. Lorac, 28 Mar 26
✔ 9. In Memoriam by Alice Winn, 31 Mar 26
✔ 10. Forfeit by Dick Francis, 23 Apr 26
✔ 11. Body Breaker by M.W. Craven, 2 May 26
✔ 12. Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert, 23 May 26
✔ 13. Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh, 26 May 26
✔ 14. Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron, 28 May 26
✔ 15. The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain, 13 Jun 26
✔ 16. Wings Above The Diamantina by Arthur W. Upfield, 21 Jun 26
✔ 17. The Maze by Philip MacDonald, 10 Jul 26
✔ 18. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel, 11 Jul 26
✔ 19. Symposium by Muriel Spark, 13 Jul 26
✔ 20. Jennings' Diary by Anthony Buckeridge, 16 Jul 26
✔ 21. Pompeii by Robert Harris, 18 Jul 26
✔ 22. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny, 4 Aug 26
✔ 23. Once a Greek by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 22 Aug 26
✔ 24. Sold by Patricia McCormick, 25 Aug 26
✔ 25. The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe, 31 Aug 26
✔ 26. The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, 6 Sep 2026
January Draw (15 Dec):
1. Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid
8. Maigret and the Old Lady by Georges Simenon
February Draw (15 Jan) (only books on TBR before 1 Jan):
1. Dead Cert by Dick Francis
2. Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
3. The Essential Difference by Simon Baron-Cohen
10. The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer (ebook)
March draw (15 Feb) (only books on TBR before 1 Jan):
2. Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
4. Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde
6. The Visitor by Lee Child
8. The Man Without Qualities vol 1 by Robert Musil
9. One By One They Disappeared by Dalton Moray
10. City Primeval by Elmore Leonard (ebook)
June draw (19 May) (only books on TBR before 1 Jan):
1. One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre
3. More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham
5. Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay
7. Off With His Head by Ngaio Marsh
8. Dead If You Don't by Peter James
July draw (15 June) (only books on TBR before 1 Jan):
3. Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard (ebook)
4. Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto
5. Darkside by Belinda Bauer
7. Murder in the Mill-Race by E C R Lorac
8. A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
9. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
10. La Guingette à deux sous by Georges Simenon
I think that should be enough.
I'm in! My draws below:Draws for January:
1. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
2. Quite a Ride
3. The Foxhole Court - Read 1/8/26
4. The Institute
5. The Sign of the Beaver - Read 2/23/2026
6. The Romanov Prophecy
7. Idoru
8. Isla and the Happily Ever After - Read 3/13/26
9. Sky Masters
10. Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
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LOL - I took it as granted that books must be accessible (include being published) but I'll add that too :)
Games - General Thread > Moving Mountain - 2026 EdMoving Mountains '26
Progress: 0/52 books as at 01/01
January Draw:
✅ 1. Keep Out of the Woods!: Scary True Stories of the Unexplained
2. Out of the Ashes
3. Bad Blood
4. Out of Darkness
5. The Darkest Legacy
6. Return to Hoodoo
7. Wrecked
8. Dark Harvest Magic
9. Girls of Brackenhill
10. This Secret Thing
Books Read
1 - Keep Out of the Woods!: Scary True Stories of the Unexplained: Beware of the Woods by Tony Urban - 1/17/26
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Moving Mountains - 2026 Ed52 books/year
Must be on TBR before 1 Jan 2026.
Books read:
1. I Cheerfully Refuse, Leif Enger, 5 Jan 2026
2. Somebody's Fool, Richard Russo, 9 Jan 2026
3. Two Wars and a Wedding, Lauren Willig, 25 Feb 2026
4. Magpie Lane, Lucy Atkins, 28 Jan 2026
5. The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley, 17 Feb 2026
6. Letters Across the Sea, Genevieve Graham, 14 Mar 2026
7. Murder at Gulls Nest, Jess Kidd, 15 Mar 2026
8. River Sing Me Home, Eleanor Shearer, 18 Mar 2026
9. Sleeping Giants, Rene Denfeld, 22 Mar 2026
10. Hope for the Best, Jodi Taylor, 26 Mar 2026
11. The God of the Woods, Liz Moore, 3 Apr 2026
12. The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley, 20 Apr 2026
13. The Sweetness of Forgetting, Kristin Harmel, 25 Apr 2026
14. In the Shadow of Vesuvius, Tasha Alexander, 29 Apr 2026
15. Mad Mabel, Sally Hepworth, 13 May 2026
16. The Dressmakers of London, Julia Kelly, 13 May 2026
17. The Mountains We Call Home, Kim Michele Richardson, 17 May 2026
18. Chapter and Curse, Elizabeth Penney, 19 May 2026
19. The Great Passion, James Runcie, 27 May 2026
20. Another Time, Another Place, Jodi Taylor, 13 June 2026
21. The Brothers McKay, Craig Johnson, 28 June 2026
22. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine, Olivia Campbell, 29 June 2026
23. A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki, 10 July 2026
24. Daughters of War, Dinah Jefferies, 15 July 2026
25. The Things We Never Say, Elizabeth Strout, 8 Aug 2026
26. Murder at the Jubilee Rally, Terry Shames, 18 Aug 2026
27. Sunflower Sisters, Martha Hall Kelly, 28 Aug 2026
28. The Lady with the Dark Hair, Erin Bartels, 13 Sept 2026
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January's draw remaining:
7. The Book of Fire]
9. The Fire and the Ore
10. Hardland
February's draw remaining:
1. The Deeds of the Disturber
5. The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee
6. The American Adventuress
March's draw:
(Am going to use books from the Jan and Feb draws)
April draw remaining:
4. Properties of Thirst
5. The Twilight Garden
7. Mademoiselle Eiffel
8. The Paris Girl
9. Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
10. Mockingbird Summer
May's draw:
1. The Director
3. The Ferryman and His Wife
9. The Final Case
10. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
June's draw:
1. Dark Reading Matter
2. The Girls of Flight City
3. Hello Beautiful
4. Light to the Hills
5. The Good, the Bad, and the History
6. Canary Girls
7. The Roads we Take
9. Air Raid Book Club
10. A Cold Highland Wind
July Draw:
2. No Two Persons
3. Unaccustomed Earth
4. Land (O'Farrell)
7. The Boy from the Sea
8. Whistler (Patchett)
10. The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
August's draw:
(Not drawing)
September draw:
1. The Great Reclamation
2. The River We Remember
3. Catalogue of Catastrophe
4. Long Island
5. Palisades Park
6. Here One Moment
7. Propaganda Girls
8. The Crazed
9. The Elements of Marie Curie
10. After the Ocean
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sorry, Susan - I missed this. We discussed this over in the mods thread so that's why you couldn't find it here but yes, correct, books drawn at any time can be read at any other time in the year (not necessarily the month they are drawn in/for)
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Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2026
Books must've been added prior to 1/1/26
Books drawn can be read at any time during the year.
Using Considering shelf (TBR is too small)
goal: 52 books/year --> 4-5 books each month
✔1. Clear - fin 1/2
✔2. Carved in Bone - fin 1/12
✔3. The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II - fin 1/21
✔4. How It Unfolds - fin 2/5
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>>>January DNF:
Courting Mr. Lincoln
A Study in Treason
The Masked City
>>>February DNF:
Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth - couldn't find
COMPLETED 4 OF 52
MARKED DNF: 4
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Goal = 52 books Using Year-Long TBR
January Draw
Sarah's Seduction
Conspiracy of Silence
Final Appeal
The Heart of Devin MacKade
Rest in Pink
The Friendship Pact
All You Need is Love
Winter of the Wolf
Saving the CEO
Wicked Need
Moving Mountain 2026I will start with 26. Read: 17/26 books
Books read:
1.Changeling Read 1/31/26
2.Bring Out Your Dead read 1/31/26
3.Blackwater Falls Read 2/12/26
4.A Spelling Mistake Read 2/18/26
5.Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo Read 2/19/26
6. The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society 3/8/26
7.Someplace to Be Flying 3/18/26
8.When the Moon Hits Your Eye 3/13/26
9.Takedown Twenty 4/14/26
10.Play Nice 4/14/26
11.Carl's Doomsday Scenario 4/27/26
12.Second Hand Curses 6/17/26
13.Only Forward 6/11/26
14. Red Rising 6/12/26
15.Coffin Moon 6/5/26
16. A Head Full of Ghosts 6/26/26
17. The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy 6/26/26
18.A Murder for Miss Hortense 8/6/26
19.Celebrity in Death 8/13/26
20.Baby 8/15/26
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January Draw
1.Nightwalker
2. Aged for Murder
3. Shadows of Bourbon Street
6. The Eterna Files
7. Raging Heat
8. The Book of Magic
9. Oddjobs
10. A Little Night Muse
February draw
2.A Spelling Mistake
3.Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo
4.Break No Bones
5.How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
6.Relic
7.Long, Lean, and Lethal
8.Spellbreaker
10.Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
March Draw
1. Paradox Bound
5. Blood Lines
6. Slayer
7.Dancing With Werewolves
8.The Grand Finale
9. Mammoth Trouble
April Draw
1.A Shocker on Shock Street
3.Gil's All Fright Diner
4.Hollywood Dead
6.Riptide
7.20th Century Ghosts
8.The Collapsing Empire
9.The Sandman: Act II
May draw
1.Happy Doomsday
2.Fan Service
3.Monster Island
4.Accidentally Catty
5.Horror Movie
6.Colored Television
7.Kraken
8.Dead of Night
9.Tiger Eye
10.Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
June Draw:
2. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
4. Red Rising
5. The Ruined Temple
6. The Dancing Floor
7. The Beekeeper's Apprentice
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9.Serpent's Kiss
10. The Life Engineered
July Picks:
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2.They Got Out: a Sci-Fi and Horror Collection
3.Sterling
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5.The Android's Dream
6.When Day Breaks
7.The Cypher
8.Water Bound
9.Dyeing Wishes
10.Amber House
August Picks
2.Littered with Trouble
3. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
4.Bad Date
5.Deception
6. Death's Excellent Vacation
7.The Crying Child
8. Murder, Mayhem and Bliss
9. A Haunting at the Gates of Hell: The Complete Collection
10.Ghost Mortem
September picks
1.The Haunting of Ashburn House
2.The Beautiful Ones
3.Thunderbird Falls
4.Interference
5.The Ghost Hunter's Daughter
6.Kisses from Hell
7.Outland
8.The Drafter
9.The Whispering Room
10.Invasive
Moving Mountain - 2026 EdChallenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2025
Goal: 12
Read: 7/12
Books Read:
The Names 13/1/26
Three Men on the Bummel 14/1/26
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry28/2/26
Lightning Men 26/3/26
Circe 7/4/26
Kitchens of the Great Midwest 24/4/26
The Whispering Room 7/5/26
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You may generate February books now
Weird question because of the on TBR prior to Jan 1 rule - I am planning a reread of the In Death books... so I have 're-added' those to my shelf this month (January)... does that count or no? 😊PS - also added my Jan draw to my sign up post (msg 23)
I finally read my first book for this challenge and it was 5 stars!I also realised that the monthly draw makes it a bit harder than other challenges because you can't accidentally read a book that works for the challenge. If you read a book in January it can't be drawn from your TBR in a later month. So hopefully I can still get 52 for the year!
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@LaurLa, the intent of the challenge is to "move" off books off TBR, not re-add them back in lol. But if it works for you, why not, though there isn't a guarantee that in-death books will be drawn? Not sure how big a "shelf" you're drawing from so it may be possible, I guess
@Meg, yay! Glad you loved your first book.
I did find January to be rather slow but it's okay, as the year goes on and you draw more books, the "pool" to choose from will be bigger and it'll be easier to choose from here to hit the other challenges ;p
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I also had 1 DNF :/
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I'm away for the week so I'm posting reminder a little early :)
I have done 8 of the 26 planned but I do plan on probably expanding that number eventually.
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I got a cold then my sinus played up too - it hasn't been a great 2 weeks for me :/
i'm already doing a bunch of challenges this year so rather than try to fit this in in a month, i'm giving myself til the end of the year. i've picked 12 off my list of books i own but haven't read!1. Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - currently reading
2. The Companion by E.E. Ottoman - 8/22
3. Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall
4. Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes - 8/10
5. Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
6. The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
7. Giant Days by John Allison and Lissa Treiman - 8/22
8. The City Inside by Samit Basu
9. The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
10. Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho
11. The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
12. The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
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Welcome, Emily!
You can generate a new list every month so you're not locked in for these 2 books :)
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I'm going to aim for 26 books since we're about halfway through the year.1) Dune by Frank Herbert
2) Majesties by Tiffany Tsao
3) Shore: A Novel by Sara Taylor
4) Warm as Wool by Scott Russell Sanders
5) Abduction by Peg Kehret
6) 90 Seconds to a Life You Love by Joan I. Rosenberg
7) Paola Santiago and the River by of Tears by Tehlor Kay Meijia
8) What Becomes a Legend Most by Philip Gefter
9) Gussy by Jimmy Cajoleas
10) 7 Days at the Hot Corner by Terry Trueman
It's draw day!How is everyone going with the challenge? I'm on 24/52 - not sure if I'll make it, but I think this is my fave challenge this year.
Meg wrote: "It's draw day!How is everyone going with the challenge? I'm on 24/52 - not sure if I'll make it, but I think this is my fave challenge this year."
I'm on 25/52, so right there with you.
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Caught another bout of flu last week *sighs*
I'm on 25/52 too!!
I'm listing my books short to long and picking up shorter ones just to try to get 'up to date' lol
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That's great Susan - and I've still only read 1 LOST book, so you are well ahead of me there!Tien, there's been so many germs going around the last few weeks! Hope you are on the mend
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Time to list your next random 10 possible reads...
I'm only just around halfway lol I may or may not make it this year.
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As always, this challenge restricted books added to TBR prior to the year it's being played so books must be on TBR prior to 1 January 2026.
Go to your 'to-read' shelf on GR (or any similar shelf you've got set up) and draw 30 Random books using the GR functionality at the bottom of the page of your shelf (as shown below)
Once the page has refreshed and shown you the random selection, list the top 10 books as books qualified for you to read for this challenge.
IF any of the books listed for top 10 is:
1. series book further along in the series than you are currently on; OR
2. book added to your TBR after 31 December 2025; OR
3. book already selected in previous draw; OR
4. book you do not have easy access to (eg. not published etc)
Skip that and go onto the next book and keep listing books until you have 10 from this selection. This list is static and no change can be made to this list once done.
We will be doing this on a monthly basis starting from December 15th 2025 and the last draw will be on November 15th 2026 (ie. 12 random selections)
As usual, your annual goal can be chosen from below:
5 books (5 vowels in the alphabet)
12 books (12 characters in 'PICK-A-SHELF')
26 books (26 letters)
52 books (52 weeks in a year)
You will note that if you generate 10 random books per month, you will have 120 books you could read for this challenge. You do not have to generate your random selection each month especially if you have already met your goal. This is just to give you more flexibility in case there is any books you can't source or DNF.
If you do not have GR to-read shelves then my suggestion would be to get someone to randomly choose books off your TBR for you