Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Please post your June 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

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Joanna

Joyce

Lauren

Laurla

LynnB

Meg

Rosemary

Tien

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - JUNE

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: title starts with...
LETTER: D or J

1 Dandelion Is Dead
2 Dominion
3 The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Eyes on TBR -June

Main Category: Author's Initial
Letter: B or R
Goal: 5

1. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
2. Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
3. Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
4. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
5. Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo

June

Author’s initial: E or L
Goal: 3 minimum

1. The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout - Completed 6/17/26
2. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy - Completed 6/21/26
3. No One Is Safe by Ellie Marney - Completed 6/19/26
4. I Don't Wish You Well by Jumata Emill - Completed 6/27/26
5. The System: A Novel of the Deep State by Barry Eisler - Completed 6/21/26

Eyes on TBR - June
Read: 1/3

Main category: First Word of Title Starts with
Letter: B or R

1. Bearing the Body: A Novel
✅2. Black Velvet
3.

Eyes on the TBR - June
Goal: 3 books per month

Main category: Published in year ending in
Number: 6 (again!)

✔ 1. The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain, read 13 Jun 26, pub 2016
✔ 2. Wings Above The Diamantina by Arthur W. Upfield, read 21 Jun 26, pub 1936
✔ 3. Living Dead by Jordan Castillo Price, read 25 Jun 26, pub 2026

June
Goal: 3 books

Main Category: First word of title starts with
Letter: H or Q

1. Husbands & Lovers - Read 6/10/26
2. Hope in an Anxious World: 6 Truths for When Things Feel Overwhelming - Read 6/25/26
3. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - Read 6/27/26

June
Goal: 3 Books

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

Books (2023):
1. A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn

✔︎ 2. An Evil Heart by Linda Castillo
Read: July 8, 2026
Rating: 4 Stars

3. A Gentleman Fallen on Hard Times by Grace Burrowes

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - JUNE

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: published in year containing...
Number: 4

1. The Secret Keeper, Genevieve Graham, 31 May 2026, pub 2024
2. When the Cranes Fly South, Lisa Ridzén, 4 June 2026, pub 2024
3. The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams, Karen Hawkins, 3 July 2026


Possiblilities:
The Paris Girl, 2014
Mockingbird Summer, 2024
Lady With the Dark Hair, 2024
The Secret Keeper
Long Island, 2024
Mademoiselle Eiffel, 2024
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams, 2024
When Cranes Fly South, 2024
Here One Moment, 2024
The Elements of Marie Curie, 2024
After the Ocean, 2024
A Man on Fire, 2024

👀 Main Category: Author's initial
👀 Continent: Y or O

Goal: 5

Yesterday by Felicia Yap -Read 06/27
The Book of Shhh by Lauren Oliver -Read 06/27
The No-Show by Beth O'Leary
The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows #3) by Adrienne Young
Marigold Mind Laundry (Marigold #1) by Yun Jung-eun
War Flower by Mary-Anne O'Connor

Eyes on the TBR ❱❱ June
June 2026

My June Eyes on the TBR (msg 12)

Goal ❱❱ 3 books per month

Category Spin ❱❱ Last word of title ends with
Secondary Spin ❱❱ Y or O

TBR only



💥letter Y ❱❱ The Astral Library ❱❱ 06.06 ★★★★
💥letter Y ❱❱ On the Fly ❱❱ 06.08 ★★★★
💥letter Y ❱❱ Platform Decay ❱❱ 06.20 ★★★★

New Books



connection ❱❱ The Astral Library ❱❱ magical realism genre
💥The Magic of Us ❱❱ 06.12 ★★★★

June 2026

Last word in the title ends
K or S

1.
2.
3.

Potential
The Forgotten Book by Mechthild Gläser
Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Good Spirits by B.K. Borison

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - JUNE completed

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

Published in a Year Ending: with 5


1.Coffin Moon Published 2025 on TBR 2/12/26 Read 6/5/26
2.Only Forward Published 2015 on TBR 11/8/18 Read 6/11/26
3.A Head Full of Ghosts Published 2015 Read 6/26/26

June: Titles beginning with W or T

READ:
1. Written on the Dark
2. We Burned So Bright
3. There are Rivers in the Sky
4. Trent's Last Case
5. Thornhedge