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

Joyce

Lagullande

LaurLa

Lauren

LynnB

Meg

Nat

Rosemary

Susan

Tien

Vanessa

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

1. F - Fugelsang, John, Separation of Church and Hate, 3 Feb 2026, added to TBR Sept 2025
2. F - Fowler, Therese Anne, A Good Neighborhood, 9 Feb 2026, added to TBR Nov 2025
3. F - Finkbeiner, Susie, The All-American, 13 Feb 2026, added to TBR Jan 2025


Some possibilities:
The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee, AMS, own
The Paris Girl, FBW, 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:
1. Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones
2. An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister
3. The Gambler by J.P. Pomare


Options:
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim

February 2026

Last word in the title ends
U or G
1.
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:
1. The Blood Strand by Chris Ould, 8 Feb 26 (2016)
2. On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle, 13 Feb 26 (2021)
3. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson, 24 Feb 26 (2021)

Options:
*On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle, 2021
*Frostquake by Juliet Nicolson, 2021
There Came Both Mist and Snow by Michael Innes, 1940
The Man Without Qualities I by Robert Musil, 1930
The Blood Strand by Chris Ould, 2016
... 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

Books read
The Praxis read Feb 12
Polostan red Feb 26

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - FEBRUARY

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

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

February - DONE!

Goal: 3 minimum
Author's Initial C or I

1. The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly - Completed 2/1/26
2. Darkwater Lane by Rachel Caine - Completed 2/7/26
3. Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli - Completed 2/8/26
4. The Cuckoo by Camilla Läckberg - Completed 2/5/26
5. Gathering Dark by Candice Fox - Completed 2/3/26
6. Falling Apart and Other Gifts from the Universe by Catherine Ryan Hyde - Completed 2/8/26
7. Badlands by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - Completed 2/6/26

Eyes on the TBR

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

1.
2.

Eyes on the TBR

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

1. The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner - Read 2/25/26
2. The Sweet Smell of Murder by Cindy Bell - Read 2/28/26
3.

Eyes on TBR
February 2026
Read: 1/3

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

✅1. Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism - 2/28/26
2. AcClaim
3. Onyx Storm

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

Eyes on the TBR: February 2026
Duration: Feb 1 - Feb 28, 2026

GOAL: 1-3 books

TBR only 👀
Main Category: Main Category: First word of Title Starts With
W or T
W Witching Hour Theatre by Jonathan Janz 2/7/26
T The Tenant by Katrine Engberg 2/21/26

New Books ✨ (Optional)
Must connect to/read less than TBR books

👀 Main Category: published in year ending...
👀 Number: 1

Goal: 5

Wild Place by Christian White (published 2021) -Read 02/08
Way of the Argosi (Argosi trilogy #1) by Sebastien de Castell (published 2021) -Read 02/10
The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough (published 2021) -Read 02/17
Dark Rise (Dark Rise ##1) by C.S. Pacat (published 2021) -Read 02/19
The Frenchman (The Frenchman #1) by Jack Beaumont (published 2021) -Read 02/23

Eyes on the TBR ❱❱ February
February 2026

My February Eyes on the TBR (msg 18)

Goal ❱❱ 3 books per month

Category Spin ❱❱ Author's initial
Secondary Spin ❱❱ D or J

TBR only



🫧Deborah Harkness ❱❱ Time's Convert ❱❱ 02.11 ★★★★
🫧J.R. Rain ❱❱ Vampire Games ❱❱ 02.28 ★★★
🫧J.D. Robb ❱❱ Stolen in Death

New Books


connection ❱❱ Time's Convert ❱❱ historical genre
🫧What Ho, Automaton! ❱❱ 02.28 ★★★★

February
Goal: 3 Books

Main category: Published in year containing ...
Number: 6

Books:
✔︎ 1. Beast Business by Ilona Andrews (2026)
Read: 21.2.2026
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 2. Her Darkest Nightmare by Brenda Novak (2016)
Read: 14.2.2026
Rating: 2 Stars

✔︎ 3. Someone to Love by Mary Balogh (2016)
Read: 19.2.2026
Rating: 2 Stars

February Eyes on the TBR DONE

The first word of the title starts with
B or R
Goal 3 books

1.Bring Out Your Dead 2/10/26
2.Blackwater Falls 2/12/26
3.Blueberry Muffin Murder 2/25/26

Goal: 5

Completed: 0/5

Main category: Last word of title ends with
Letters: C or I

I thought this was going to be impossible to come up with, but there are a surprising number of books that actually manage to fit this

1. Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction For A Time of Pandemic
2. The Maniac
3. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
4. Gun, With Occasional Music
5. A Disappearance in Fiji