Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Please post your October 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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CassieV

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Joanna

Joyce

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Meg

Rosemary

Susan

Vanessa

Eyes on the TBR (2026) - october

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....
Number: 3

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2.
3.

The Bee Sting (2023)
We Are Green and Trembling (2023)
Cairo (2013)
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire (2023)
The Humans (2013)
Long Division (2013)
In the Lives of Puppets (2023)

October :)

Main Category: Published in year ending in...
Number: 1
Goal: 3

1. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (pub 2001) - Read 10/29/26
2. Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion (pub 2011) - Read 10/22/26
3. A Hidden Fire (pub Oct 2011) - Read 10/28/26

Meg wrote: "Eyes on the TBR (2026) - SEPTEMBER

Meg, did you mean to change this to OCTOBER?

Eyes on the TBR (2026) OCTOBER
Completed

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 country (born)...
Category: Europe

1. Land, Maggie O'Farrell, 2 Oct 2026, Ireland
2.A Case of Life and Limb, Sally Smith, 6 Oct 2026, UK
3. The Dying Light, Ann Cleeves, 11 Oct 2026, UK
4. The Keeper, Tana French, 28 Oct 2026, Ireland



Possibilities:
A Catalogue of Catastrophe, Eng.
The Ferryman and His Wife, Nor.
Unaccustomed Earth, Eng.
Tata, Fra.
The Book of Fire, Eng.
Death in Brittany, Ger.
The Boy from the Sea, Ire.
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary, Ukr.
The Twilight Garden, Eng.

Eyes on the TBR - October - Complete
Goal: 3 books per month

Main category: First word of title starts with
Letter: Z or P

✔ 1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 4 Oct 26
✔ 2. Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester, 13 Oct 2026
✔ 3. Platform by Michel Houellebecq, 17 Oct 2026

Possibilities:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Persuader by Lee Child
Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester

October

First word of the title starts with W or T

1. Wings of Fire
2. Table for Two
3.
4.
5.

🎃 October 2026

Last Word in the Title
Ends with a B or R

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.

1.
2.
3.

Potential
Death of a Mad Hatter
So I Married a Sorcerer
Murder Mystery Book Club

Eyes on TBR - October
Read: 0/3

Main category: Published in year containing...
Number: 8

1. Chocky (1968)
2. The Transit of Venus (1980)
3.

Eyes on TBR - October
Read: 0/3

Main Category: Published in year ending in
Secondary: 3

1.
2.
3.

Eyes on TBR: October 2026
Duration: October 1 - 31, 2026

GOAL: 1-3 books

TBR only 👀
Main Category: Published in Year Ending in
Number: 5

October - DONE!

Goal: 3 minimum
Author's initial X or N

1. Shadow Spell by Nora Roberts - Completed 10/10/26
2. Blood Magick by Nora Roberts - Completed 10/16/26
3. Tear It Down by Nick Petrie - Completed 10/24/26
4. A Voice in the Dark by Barbara Nickless - Completed 10/24/26
5. Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina - Completed 10/25/26

Eyes on the TBR ❱❱ October
October 2026

My October Eyes on the TBR (msg 14)

Goal ❱❱ 3 books per month

Category Spin ❱❱ Last word of title ends with
Secondary Spin ❱❱ X or N

TBR only


💥letter N ❱❱ Frozen ❱❱ 10.01 ★★★★
💥letter N ❱❱ Heroic Abduction ❱❱ 10.06 ★★★
💥letter N ❱❱ Never Forgotten ❱❱ 10.28 ★★★★
💥letter N ❱❱ One in Vermillion ❱❱ 10.23 ★★★★

New Books

None