Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Please post your July 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

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Joanna

LynnB

Meg

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - JULY

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 initial ...
Letters: Y or O

1.
2.
3.

Possiblilities:
The Women in White Coats
The Lotus Shoes
An Immense World
Land (O'Ferrell)
A Tale for the Time Being
Cursed Daughters
Fire and Ore
We Chase Shadows
Maine Characters

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - JULY

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 a year including....
Letters: 8

1. American Wife (2008)
2. Heidi (1880)
3.

Options:
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
A Fraction of the Whole
The Lace Weaver
The Next Girl
The Psychology of Time Travel
You Let Me In
Man Out of Time
Before Your Memory Fades
The Last Summer of Ada Bloom
The Au Pair
The Sentence is Death

July 2026

Title starts with
K or S
1.
2.
3.

Potential
Salvation in Death
Kiss Me, Catalina
Ship Wrecked
A Spy Unmasked
The Seven Year Slip

Eyes on TBR - July
Read: 0/3

Main category: First Word of Title Starts with
Letter: C or I

1. The Cliff House
2. The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev
3. In the Province of Saints: A Novel

July

Goal: 3 minimum
Last word of title ends with E or L

1. My Husband's Wife
2. Almost Criminal
3. Don't Even Breathe
4. In the Age of Love and Chocolate
5. Her Cold Justice
6. In His Wake
7. The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
8. Imposter Syndrome

July

Main Category: Last word in title ends in
Letter: B or R
Goal: 3

1.
2.
3.