Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Challenge Instructions:

Period of Challenge: January 1 - December 31, 2026

We are mixing this up a bit this year so we hope you like this edition!

1. Go to: https://www.random.org/integers/
2. Generate "26" random integers
3. Each integer should have a value between "1" and "9"
4. Format in "1" column
5. Get Numbers

You then read the serial # book/s as per each number OR you may put together numbers that are next to each other and read that serial # book/s

ONLY series books are allowed in this challenge BUT there are no page limitations so feel free to read any of the .5 books/stories to make up your sum ;)

*series name are usually in grey font next to the title and will have a number denoting its place in the series

WARNING: you will need some arithmetic skill for this challenge

EXAMPLE

1 4 9 8 3 6 6 2 2 8 2 5 8 9 9 5 7 3 3 9 7 6 4 8

1 - Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal #1)
4 - Cat in the Dark (Joe Grey #4)

OR
14 - The Hidden One (Kate Burkholder #14)

OR
14
Cat in the Dark (Joe Grey #4)
Murder on Board (Miss Underhay #10)
4 + 10 = 14

OR
9
Date with Deceit (The Dales Detective Series #6)
Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #3)
6 + 3 = 9

OR
5 (3 + 2)
Alex Cross Must Die (Alex Cross #32)

..

23/26 numbers with 44 books as at 02/24

📚 5 - Undercover (Into Shadow #5) by Tamsyn Muir -Read 01/01

📚 6 - The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow #6) by Veronica G. Henry -Read 01/08

📚 5 - Firestorm (Weather Warden #5) by Rachel Caine -Read 01/05

📚 29 = #23 + #6
Murder in Williamstown (Phryne Fisher #23) by Kerry Greenwood -Read 01/02
Thin Air (Weather Warden #6) by Rachel Caine -Read 01/07

📚 9 = #2 + #3 + #4
Void (The Far Reaches #2) by Veronica Roth -Read 01/23
Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse -Read 01/23
The Long Game (The Far Reaches #4) by Ann Leckie -Read 01/23

📚 6 - Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches #6) by John Scalzi -Read 01/23

📚 9 = #5 + #4
Gentlemen Formerly Dressed (Rowland Sinclair #5) by Sulari Gentill -Read 01/30
A Heart Divided (The Legend of the Condor Heroes #4) by Jin Yong -Read 02/03

📚 6 - A Murder Unmentioned (Rowland Sinclair #6) by Sulari Gentill -Read 02/15

36 = (3 x #1) + #24
Dark Rise (Dark Rise #1) by C.S. Pacat -Read 02/19
Behind the Crimson Curtain (The Crimson Curtain #1) by E.B. Golden -Read 02/22
The Frenchman (The Frenchman #1) by Jack Beaumont -Read 02/23
Fallen City (Fallen City Duology #1) by Adrienne Young
Nightblade's Vengeance (Blades of the Fallen #1) by Ryan Kirk
The Laeduin (Disharmony #2) by Leah Giarratano
Broken (Avena #2) by Marianne Curley
Birdman (Jack Caffery #1) by Mo Hayder
Murder in the Cathedral (Phryne Fisher #24) by Kerry Greenwood -Read 02/24

8 =
Give the Devil His Due (Rowland Sinclair #7) by Sulari Gentill


📚 13 = (3 x #1) + #10
The Canopy Keepers (The Scorched Earth #1) by Veronica G. Henry -Read 02/05
Way of the Argosi (Argosi trilogy #1) by Sebastien de Castell -Read 02/10
The Spellshop (Spellshop #1) by Sarah Beth Durst -Read 02/15
Date with Destiny (The Dales Detective #10) by Julia Chapman -Read 02/21

📚 7 - Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow #7) by Garth Nix -Read 01/08

📚 33 = #30 + #3
Boy of Chaotic Making (Whimbrel House #3) by Charlie N. Holmberg -Read 02/17
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher #30) by Lee Child & Andrew Child -Read 02/14

📚 4 - What the Dead Know (Into Shadow #4) by Nghi Vo -Read 01/01

📚 4 - A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple #4) by Agatha Christie -Read 01/08

📚 28 = (2x #1) + #26
Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy #1) by Callie Hart -Read 01/03
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails #1) by Brandon Sanderson -Read 01/05
The Hollow (Hercule Poirot #26) by Agatha Christie -Read 01/07

📚 3 - A Gift to Remember (New York Romance #3) by Melissa Hill -Read 01/27

📚 16 = (4 x #1) + (2 x #2) + #3 + #5
Naomi's Gift (A Point in Time #1) by Martha Hall Kelly -Read 01/25
Daughter of Chaos (The Dark Pantheon #1) by A.S. Webb -Read 01/26
The Missing Nurse (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #1) by Roger Silverwood -Read 01/30
The Sharp Edge of Fate (The Belladonna Trilogy #1) by T.F. Johnson -Read 02/05
Ash Wednesday (A Point in Time #2) by Paula McLain Read 01/27
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes #2) by Travis Baldree -Read 02/03
Landing (A Point in Time #3) by Olivia Hawker -Read 01/27
Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches #5) by Nnedi Okorafor -Read 01/23

📚 3 = 3 x #1
The Apricot Colonel (The Apricot Colonel #1) by Marion Halligan -Read 01/22
Orphan X (Orphan X #1) by Gregg Hurwitz -Read 01/22
How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches #1) by James S.A. Corey -Read 01/23

📚 7 = (5 x #1) + #2
The Forsaken (Logan Booth #1) by Matt Rogers -Read 01/09
Prime Cut (Cato Kwong #1) by Alan Carter -Read 01/09
Crows Nest (Dana Gibson #1) by Nikki Mottram -Read 01/10
Mystery in Provence (Miss Ashford Investigates #1) by Vivian Conroy -Read 01/16
Wattle Creek (Wattle Creek #1) by Fiona McCallum -Read 01/19
Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White (Song of the Last Kingdom #2) by Amélie Wen Zhao -Read 01/13

Seriously Serial '26

Numbers:
1 Moloka'i
6 The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
6 The Bone Yard
1 How the Penguins Saved Veronica
1 From Blood and Ash
4 A Room Full of Bones
8 Six Easy Pieces
2 Thereby Hangs a Tail
9 Aunt Bessie Invites
5 The Impossible Fortune
5 The Sins of the Wolf
7 The Jefferson Key
8 The Silent Cry
1 The Cruel Prince
9 One Dog Night
4 Silent Partner
1 A Letter to the Luminous Deep
7 The Secret Servant
7 A Noble Radiance
2 Murder in the Library
7 Liberty Falling
1 Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder
6 Bluegate Fields
7 Persuader
8 Deep South
2 Foundation and Empire

Seriously Serial 2026
Read: 10/26

8
✔ 6 = 6
Without Fail (Jack Reacher #6) by Lee Child, 11 Feb 26
6
✔ 3 = 3
On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle, 13 Feb 26
✔ 1 = 1
The Judge and His Hangman (Kommissar Barlach #1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt, 6 Jan 26
✔ 2 = 2
The Serpent Sea (Books of the Raksura #2) by Martha Wells, 17 Jan 26
✔ 4 = 0.4 + 3.6
Stories of the Raksura (Books of the Raksura 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 3.6) by Martha Wells, 25 Feb 26
✔ 3 = 3
The Siren Depths (Books of the Raksura #3) by Martha Wells, 17 Feb 26
3
2 = 1 +
The Blood Strand (Faroes #1) by Chris Ould, 8 Feb 26
✔ 5 = 5
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Roger Sheringham #5) by Anthony Berkeley, 14 Jan 26
6
4
4
5
3
✔ 5 = 5
Damsel in Distress (Daisy Dalrymple #5) by Carola Dunn, 17 Feb 26
7
6
8
✔ 1 = 1
Death at the President's Lodging (Sir John Appleby #1) by Michael Innes, 30 Jan 26
✔ 9 = 6+3
Maigret on the Defensive (Maigret #63) by Georges Simenon, 12 Feb 26
4
6
3
4

Seriously Serial '26

✅47 = 34 + 11 + 2
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34) - Completed 1/11/26
The Cuckoo (Patrik Hedström, #11) - Completed 2/5/26
The Reaping (Steinbeck and Reed, #2) - Completed 1/19/26

✅4 = 2 + 1 + 1
The Shadows of Pike Place (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller #2) - Completed 1/17/26
False Positive (Detective Cooper Devereaux, #1) - Completed 1/10/26
Reckoning Hour (Dean Lincoln Legal Thriller, #1) - Completed 1/26/26

✅9 = 3 + 3 + 2 + 1
The Summer Children (The Collector, #3) - Completed 1/18/26
A Vow So Bold and Deadly (Cursebreakers, #3) - Completed 1/24/26
The Medusa Protocol (Assassins Anonymous #2) - Completed 1/22/26
The Plot (The Book Series, #1) - Completed 1/25/26

✅6 = 5 + 1
Badlands (Nora Kelly #5) - Completed 2/6/26
Nash Falls (Walter Nash #1) - Completed 1/31/26

5
5
1
4
5

✅7 = The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7) - Completed 1/18/26

25 = Creation in Death (In Death, #25)

✅24 = Edge of Honor: A Thriller (Scot Harvath, #24) - Completed 1/4/26

6 = Gunmetal Gray (Gray Man, #6)

✅31 = 30 + 1
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30) - Completed 1/5/26
Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe, #1) - Completed 1/4/26

✅24 = Innocent in Death (In Death, #24) - Completed 2/5/26

4
4
6
7
4
7

To place:
Hard Sun (Jon Reznick #15) - Completed 1/25/26
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8) - Completed 2/1/26
Darkwater Lane (Stillhouse Lake #7) - Completed 2/7/26

Seriously Serial 2026
Completed: 15/26

5 = 5
The Bone Orchard (1/25)

4 = 13 (1 +3)
War Lord (2/15)

3 = 12 (1+2)
Sword of Kings (1/20)

9 = 9
Barbarian's Heart (1/14)

1 = 1
The Pumpkin Spice Café (1/3)

9 =

5 =

8 = 8
Barbarian's Taming (1/12)

2 = 2
Trespasser (1/4)

7 = 7
Barbarian's Touch (1/4)

1 = 1
The Housemaid (1/13)

7 = 7
The Shattering Peace (1/15)

3 = 3
Bad Little Falls (1/18)

4 = 4
Massacre Pond (1/24)

9 =

9 =

6 = 6
The Precipice (2/1)

2 = 2
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (1/27)

7 = 7
Widowmaker (2/15)

7 =

9 =

4 =

7 =

4 =

8 =

9 =

Unused:
Barbarian's Hope (2/1)
Barbarian's Choice (2/8)
The Housemaid's Secret (2/11)
The Christmas Tree Farm (2/20)

Seriously Serial 2026
Completed: 0/26

7 Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)
➕The Mountains We Call Home: The Book Woman's Legacy (#3)
➕ Two Steps Forward (#1)

3 On the Calculation of Volume III

6 The Wolf Tree (George Lennox and Richie Stewart #1)✔️
➕The Cursed Road (George Lennox and Richie Stewart #2)✔️
➕Pheasants Nest (Kate Delaney #1)
➕Shellybanks (Kate Delaney #2)

9 I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (I Want to Eat Tteokpokki #1)✔️
➕The Gambler (PI Vince Reid #2)
➕An Academic Affair (Love Notes #1)
➕Heated Rivalry (Game Changers, #2) ✔️
➕Scarlet Morning (Scarlet Morning, #1)
➕2

4 About Time (The Time Police, #4)

2 Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

9

7

12 (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)

8 And the Rest Is History (The Chronicles of St Mary’s, #8)

6

1 The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

14 (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

5

5

6

1 Scattered All Over the Earth (Trilogy #1) ✔️

2 The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #2)

6

2

8

7

13 (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)

Seriously Serial 2026
Read: 5/26

9
7
1 - Marie Antionette #1
Becoming Marie Antoinette - Read 1/24/26

2 - The Queens of Renthia #2
The Reluctant Queen - Read 1/20/26

9

6 - Murderbot Diaries #6
Fugitive Telemetry - Read 1/7/26

7
5
7
7
8
9
3
8
6
3
6
3

2 - The Secrets of Ormdale #2
Drake Hall - 1/27/26

7
9
3
5
2 - Wives of the Patriarchs #2
Rebekah - 2/10/26

5
5

Period of Challenge: January 1 - December 31, 2026

We are mixing this up a bit this year so we hope you like this edition!

1. Go to: https://www.random.org/integers/
2. Generate "26" random integers
3. Each integer should have a value between "1" and "9"
4. Format in "1" column
5. Get Numbers

You then read the serial # book/s as per each number OR you may put together numbers that are next to each other and read that serial # book/s

ONLY series books are allowed in this challenge BUT there are no page limitations so feel free to read any of the .5 books/stories to make up your sum ;)

*series name are usually in grey font next to the title and will have a number denoting its place in the series

WARNING: you will need some arithmetic skill for this challenge

3
2
1
9
6
6
6
3
2
2
8
6
1
9
1
2
1
6
5
3
4
9
8
8
7
2

my spot

Seriously Serial 2026
Read: 7/26

7
✅2- Changeling # 2 in series Read 1/31/26
7
✅4- Bring Out Your Dead #4.5 in series Read 1/31/26
✅6- Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo #6.9 in series Read 2/19/26
8
9
✅3- Ship Wrecked #3 in series Read 1/31/26
2
✅5-First Among Sequels #5 in series Read 1/29/26
8
4
6
4
6
2
2
8
2
6
7
✅3- A Spelling Mistake #3 in series Read 2/18/26
5
7
3
✅1- Blackwater Falls #1 in series Read 2/12/26

I always do terribly at this challenge, but am always hopeful!

Seriously Serial 2026
Read: 1/26

1
6
5
9
7
9
4
3
9
7
✔2 Three Men on the Bummel (#2 Three Men) - Read 14/2/26
3
4
2
7
7
4
3
3
8
1
3
6
9
9
2

Seriously Serial 2026
Read: 8/26

✅6 = The Yellow Dog (Maigret 6) - 1/19/26
✅4 = 2 + 2
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Singing Hills Cycle 2) - 12/13/25 (carryover from SS 25)
The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency 2) - 1/10/26
9
4
✅1 = Fourth Wing (The Empyrean 1) - 1/9/26
6
9
✅1 = Inferno (Beneath the Blaze 1) - 1/17/26
✅3 = 2 + 1
Iron Flame (The Empyrean 2) - 1/28/26
Great Sky Woman (Great Sky Woman 1) - 2/1/26
6
✅1 = Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan 1) - 2/3/26
5
5
1
5
5
1
✅8 = 4.5 + 3.5
The Seduction Epilogue (The Seduction 4.5) - 2/5/26
Pieces of Stronghold (Stronghold Doms 3.5) - 2/6/26
1
8
✅4 = Breaking the Chain (Stronghold Doms 4) - 2/13/26
1
5
3
4
4

Need additional books to complete:


Future possibilities:
The Venus School (Venus Rising 1)
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache 1)
Moon Witch, Spider King (Dark Star Trilogy 2)
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier 2)
The Last Emperox (Interdependency 3)
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean 3)
Bound to the Past (Stronghold Doms 5)
Twelve Months (Dresden Files 18)
She Who Knows (She Who Knows 1)
Falls From Grace (Graceless 1)
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham 1)
Stripping the Sub (Stronghold Doms 6)
Tempting the Domme (Stronghold Doms 7)
Hardcore Vanilla (Stronghold Doms 8)

☕️📚Seriously Serial '26📚☕️
Period of Challenge: January 1 - December 31, 2026

3/26 Numbers Completed ✔️
6/?? Books Completed

🔲7 =
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🔲9 =
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🔲4 =
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🔲7 =
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🔲4 =
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🔲9 =
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🔲3 =
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🔲1 =
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✔️5 = #5
-✔️The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5) - Read Jan 15th
🔲9 = #2 + #7
-🔲
-✔️Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) - Read Jan 29th
🔲1 =
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🔲6 =
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🔲8 =
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✔️3 = #3
-✔️The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3) - Read Jan 7th
🔲7 =
-🔲
✔️4 = #4
-✔️The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4) - Read Jan 13th
🔲7 =
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🔲6 =
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🔲3 =
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🔲8 =
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🔲9 =
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🔲4 =
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🔲2 =
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🔲7 =
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🔲5 =
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🔲7 =
-✔️The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) - Read Jan 5th
-✔️Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) - Read Jan 21st

Late getting this one started! But will see how it goes.

2 - On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God (#2)
3 - Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas (#3)
5 - Away Laughing on a Fast Camel (#5)
9 - Stop in the Name of Pants! (#9)
2 - How to Make Any Twit Fall in Love With You (#10.5) = (1+0+0.5=1.5) The Dismal Dinner (#0.5)
1 - Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (#10) = (1+0=1)
5 - Among the Brave (#5)
2 - Among the Imposters (#2)
6 - Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers (#6)
1 - The Eyre Affair (#1)
5 - The Daughter of Time (#5)
1 - First Contact (#1)
5 - First Among Sequels (#5)
2 - Idoru (#2)
2 - Lost in a Good Book (#2)
4 - Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants (#4)
2 - The Light Fantastic (#2)
1 - The Raven Boys (#1)
2 - The Dream Thieves (#2)
4 - A Shiloh Christmas (#4)
9 - Startled by His Furry Shorts (#7) + Girls Under Pressure (#2)
4 - Among the Barons (#4)
9 - Love Is a Many Trousered Thing (#8) + Girls in Love (#1)
2 - The Grim Grotto (#11) = (1+1=2)
2 - Pretties (#2)
5 - Survival (#5)