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.

LynnB

Meg

Rosemary

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's continent
Continent: Oceania

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2.
3.

Options:
Ash (NZ)
I Love the Whole World!
All Her Beautiful Deaths
Little World
She's a Doll
Bad Neighbours

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

Main category: Published in year containing
Number: 5

1.
2.
3.

Options:
The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer (2025)
Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett (1958)
The Final Vow by M W Craven (2025)
Welcome Death by Glyn Daniel (1954)
The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout (1935)
Once a Greek by Friedrich Durrenmatt (1955)
& more...

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