Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Please post your March 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.

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Joanna

Lynn

Meg

Rosemary

Susan

Tien

👀 Main Category: published in year ending...
👀 Number: 9

Goal: 5

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - MARCH

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: Published in year ending in ...
Number: 3

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Possibilities:
Palisades Park, own
Tale for the Time Being, own
Hang the Moon. Library
Rogue Justice, library
River Sing Me Home, own
Hello Beautiful, own
Storm Watch, library

Eyes on the TBR - February

Main Category: author's country
Continent: South America
Goal: 5

*1. Island Beneath the Sea
+2. Two Brothers
+3. Veronika Decides to Die
*4. Ficciones
5. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Wow! I had to search a lot to find authors that I might be willing to read. Most SA authors that I have tried has been in the 2-3* range.

A couple of books chosen were by authors that I have read and liked but whose chosen book is not on my TBR. (I have put a + sign before them.) Another two were actually on my TBR. (I have starred them.) The final book is a new to me author.

OK...I just reread the rules..."*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." So, I am assuming any book I added to my TBR today will count for TBR March. Therefore, I am keeping my current list.

March: Author's Initial W or T

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay
Charles Todd, Wings of Fire
Amor Towles,Rules of Civility
Paul Theroux: Kowloon Tong, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, A Dead Hand
Susan Trott, The Man on the Mountaintop
Regina Timothy, Full Circle
Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End
Robert Charles Wilson, The Chronoliths, Vortex

Eyes on TBR March
Read: 0/3

Main category: First word of title starts with
Letter: V or A

1. Violeta
2. The Age of Calamities
3. The Venus School

Goal: 3 books per month

Main category: First word of title starts with
Letter: W or T
I will not count The.

Read:
1.
2.
3.

Options:
They Shoot Horses Don't They by Horace McCoy
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Trouble for Lucia by E F Benson
Traps by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Twenty-third Man by Gladys Mitchell
Two-penny Bar by Georges Simenon
Welcome Death by Glyn Daniel
White Priory Murders by Carter Dickson
Wild Horses by Dick Francis
Water Room by Christopher Fowler
What Happened at Hazlewood by Michael Innes
Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami
Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Wings Above the Diamantina by Arthur W Upfield

MARCH
Goal: 3 books per month
Main Category: Published in year ending in ...
Number: 4

1.
2.
3.

Options:
The Long Way Home
The Lion Women of Tehran
The Fox Wife

March
Goal: 3 Books

Main category: Author's Country (Born/Living In)...
Continent: Europe

Books:
1. God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen (Bath, UK)

2. Cold Fury by Toni Anderson (Shropshire, UK)

3. Six Graves by Angela Marsons (West Midlands, UK)