Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Please post your February plan here.

Below is the main part of instruction including links to the wheels:

B. TBR only 👀

We are going to specifically focus on a random category per month and all the books read for this section must be from your TBR*

*TBR - the books must have been added to your TBR at the very least the last day of the previous month. For example, for November, I can read a book I added on 31 October.

You can spin the wheels on the 15th of current month for next month's category to allow for your planning.

For the Main Category, you can follow the below link and spin the wheel:

https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...

There are only 6 Main Categories for which then you will need to spin another wheel, depending on what you need for the Main Category you've spun:

For letters: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...

For numbers: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...

For continents: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...

You will then ONLY read books that fit this category for the month.

You may have 2 categories per month, if you like, BUT each book must meet both categories to qualify for the challenge.

C. New Books ✨ (Optional)

The only "New Books" you can read for this challenge are those you can make a connection to your "TBR only" books. You may be as creative as you like with these connections BUT note that total of "New Books" read must be LESS than total of "TBR only" books read.

By "New Books", it would mean the book wasn't or hasn't ever been on your TBR so if you have discovered a new author whom you'd like to read all the backlist for, this is the space for it

You make make connections to any "TBR only" books you've read throughout the year and each of these books may have multiple connections.

Amy

Bea

CassieV

Charity

Christina (AKA Babbling)

christene-littlelibrary

Coralie

Joanna

Lagullande

LynnB

Meg

Rosemary

Susan

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - FEBRUARY

Books must have been added to your TBR at the very least the last day of the previous month.


Goal: 5 books per month
Main Category: Author's Initial (any position)
Letters: F or M

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Some possibilities:
The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee, AMS, own
The Paris Girl, FBW, ebook
The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, MS, ebook
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times, NFK, own
A Good Neighborhood, TAF, own
The Drowning Kind, JM, own
Sunflower Sisters, MHK, own
The Paris Apartment, LF, library
The Half of It, JF, own
The God of the Woods, LM, own
Circle of Days, KF, library

Goal: 3 books per month
Main Category: Author's Initial (any position)
Letters: J or D

Read:
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Options:
Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones
The Gambler by J.P. Pomare
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim

February 2026

Last word in the title ends
U or G
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2.
3..

Potentials
The Raven King
Ten Thousand Skies Above You
Rock Wedding
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Ashfire King

Goal: 3 books per month

Main category: Published in year containing
Number: 0
This seemed too easy (any 21st century book) so I added another category:
Main category: Published in year containing
Number: 1

Read:
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2.
3.

Options:
*On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle, 2021
*Frostquake by Juliet Nicholson, 2021
There Came Both Mist and Snow by Michael Innes, 1940
The Man Without Qualities I by Robert Musil, 1930
The Killing Bay by Chris Ould, 2017
The Fire Pit by Chris Ould, 2018
... and lots more

Eyes on the TBR - February

Main Category: author's country
Continent: Africa
Goal: 5

1. Boy, Snow, Bird
2. Beneath the Lion's Gaze
3. Even When Your Voice Shakes
4. The Missing American
5. The Deep Blue Between

Eyes on the TBR

Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2026

Using both TBR & considering shelves; new books also ok

MUST BE READ DURING THE MONTH THEY'RE DRAWN
AIMING FOR 5 EACH MONTH

February:Last word of the title ends with E or L

from LOST:
Vengeance
Untouchable
Feb BTM:
Bright Hair About the Bone
Cutting for Stone
The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
Ghost of a Chance
The Great Alone
Stars Above
Stations of the Tide
This golden Flame
The Spies of Shilling Lane

February
First word of the title begins with Z or P.

Books to consider (no books on my TBR shelf begin with Z)

Pod
Parasol Against the Axe
The Paradox Hotel
The Path of Thorns

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - FEBRUARY

Goal: 5 books per month
Main Category: Books Published in Year ending in
Numbers: 5

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2.
3.
4.
5.

February

Goal: 3 minimum
Author's Initial C or I

1. The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
2. Darkwater Lane by Rachel Caine
3. Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli
4. The Cuckoo by Camilla Läckberg
5. Gathering Dark by Candice Fox
6. Falling Apart and Other Gifts from the Universe by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Eyes on the TBR

Main Category: Published in year containing ....
Number: 4
February Books Goal: 2

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2.

Eyes on the TBR

Main Category: Author's Initial
Letter: C or I
February Books
Goal: 3

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2.
3.

Eyes on TBR
February 2026
Read: 0/3

Main category: Last word of title ends with
Letter: F or M

1. Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
2. AcClaim
3.

February - Goal 3 books
Author's Initial - Z or P

1. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
2. Death and What Comes Next - Terry Pratchett
3. Among the Enemy - Margaret Peterson Haddix