Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Please post your August 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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Eyes on the TBR (2026) - august

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 continent
Continent: Oceania

1. Little World
2. You Must Remember This
3. I Love the Whole World!


Options:
Ash (NZ)
All Her Beautiful Deaths
She's a Doll
Bad Neighbours

Eyes on the TBR - August
Goal: 3 books per month
Finished 22 Aug 26

Main category: Published in year containing
Number: 5

✔ 1. The Final Vow by M.W. Craven, read 8 Aug 26, pub 2025
✔ 2. The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout, read 17 Aug 26, pub 1935
✔ 3. Once a Greek by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, read 22 Aug 26, pub 1955

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - AUGUST

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: first word of title starts with ...
Letter: K or S

1. Sunflower Sisters, Martha Hall Kelly, 28 Aug 2026
2.
3.

August

First word of title starts with D or J
Goal: 3 books minimum

1. Dreaming of Water - Completed 8/1/26
2. Dark Pattern
3. Dead Men Don't Play Fetch
4. Dark Witch

August 2026

Author 's initials
K or S
1
2
3.

Potential
Archangel's Lineage by Nalini Singh
The Beautiful Ones Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
99 Percent Mine bySally Thorne

August Spot

Main Category: Last word in title ends in
Letter: Y or O
Goal: 3

1. Platform Decay - Read 8/16/26
2. Paranormalcy - Read 8/31/26
3.

August: last word of the title ends with E or L

1. The Ministry for the Future
2. The Shattering Peace
3. The Brothers Hawthorne
4. Wings of Fire
5. Revelation Space

Eyes on the TBR - August
Main category: Published in a year ending in:
Secondary: 5

1. A Murder for Miss Hortense published 2025 Read 8/6/26
2.
3.

August - Complete
Goal: 3 Books

Main category: Published in year containing...
Number: 0

Books:
✔︎ 1. The Shop on Hidden Lane by Jayne Ann Krentz (2026)
Read: 24 July, 2026
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 2. The Secret of Flirting by Sabrina Jeffries (2012)
Read: 18 August, 2026
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 3. The Music of Love by Minerva Spencer (2019)
Read: 28 July, 2026
Rating: 4 Stars

Eyes on TBR - August
Read: 2/3

Main category: Published in year ending in...
Number: 0

✅1. Want by Lynn Steger Strong (2020) - July 2026
✅2. Dungeon Crawler Carl (2020) - Aug. 2026
3. An Artificial Night (2010)

👀 Main Category: Published in year containing
👀 Continent: 0

Goal: 5

Trell by Dick Lehr (pub 2017) -Read 08/03
Under Your Wings by Tiffany Tsao (pub 2018) -Read 08/12
The Dragon Heart Keeper (Dragon Heart #1) by L.L. Hunter (pub 2012) -Read 08/14
The Ambulance Girl (Devonshire Sagas #7) by Tania Crosse (pub 2014) -Read 08/20
A Very Medoran Kaldoras by Lynette Noni (pub 2019) -Read 08/20

Eyes on the TBR ❱❱ August
August 2026

My August Eyes on the TBR (msg 14)

Goal ❱❱ 3 books per month

Category Spin ❱❱ Author's country (born / living in)
Secondary Spin ❱❱ C or I

TBR only



💥Indian ❱❱ Shoma Narayanan ❱❱ Monsoon Wedding Fever ❱❱ 08.03 ★★★
💥Canadien ❱❱ Rachel Reid ❱❱ Game Changer
💥Canadien ❱❱ Vivian Arend ❱❱ Rocky Mountain Desire

New Books

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