Clear the Shelves - 2026 > Likes and Comments
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1. Post here telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
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Participants:
Alan #70 - 31/30 - Completed!
Alia #60 - 3/10
Allie #410 - 10/15
Amanda #30 - 7/80
Amy #59 - 42/40 - Completed!
Amy (Other Amy) #134 - 0/12
Angel **Book Junkie** #55 - 0/100
Ann #90 - 0/40
Anna #153 - 2/10
Ashley #47 - 10/40
Ashly #25 - 0/10
Barb #82 - 3/10
Becky Q. #419 - 19/75
Beth #26 - 0/0
Billie #67 - 0/20
Brittany #54 - 17/30
Caraina #36 - 25/25 - Completed!
Carly #480 - 3/10
Carolyn #17 - 20/26
Chalmation #7 - 17/40
Chiara #75 - 2/20
Chrissie #10 - 0/0
Chrissie #46 - 0/7
Cordelia #5 - 23/50
CrazyAsACupcake #20 - 0/10
D.L. #21 - 20/70
Debra Diggs #8 - 2/10
Denise #34 - 21/40
Doe #37 - 0/10
Dolores #12 - 4/40
Echo #57 - 5/15
Emily #35 - 45/60
Frankie #32 - 45/50
GailW #45 - 15/40
Gem #49 - 0/5
Gisele #108 - 0/40
Gretchen #213 - 1/20
Jaida #15 - 23/40
Jenn #71 - 0/20
Jessica #282 - 2/9
Jill #24 - 0/30
Jill #40 - 0/40
Jodi #150 - 7/20
Julie #523 - 5/10
Kara #83 - 31/50
Karin #81 - 0/12
Kayleigh #6 - 0/10
Kim #56 - 21/50
Kristen #58 - 0/12
Kristina #16 - 52/100
Kyle #296 - 8/25
Kylie #65 - 0/10
La_mariane #64 - 3/7
Laura #14 - 49/50
Laureen #48 - 9/12
Leah #98 - 0/100
Lena #91 - 43/50
Lexi #9 - 0/26
Lina #31 - 0/20
LinaVer #79 - 4/24
Linda #68 - 0/10
Lotte #157 - 11/15
Luisa #73 - 0/12
Margie #74 - 2/40
Margo #97 - 0/10
Maria #85 - 3/15
Marielle #106 - 17/40
Marry #62 - 0/20
Martha #11 - 0/20
Martha #22 - 5/30
MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) #102 - 0/10
Megan BG #43 - 12/40
Michelle #29 - 0/50
Mindy #42 - 7/15
Missy #44 - 43/43 - Completed!
Monica #111 - 11/48
MysticMoods #84 - 12/12 - Completed!
Nat #41 - 0/10
Natasha #95 - 1/6
Pat #119 - 13/26
Patty #87 - 41/50
Rachael #18 - 49/60
Rachel #86 - 0/20
Rae #88 - 0/10
Ranmali #76 - 7/12
Renee #93 - 1/30
Samantha #33 - 20/20 - Completed!
Sara #534 - 810
Sarah #72 - 0/50
Sarah #99 - 114/190
Sarah c #13 - 0/10
Serafima #27 - 2/10
Shari #19 - 0/60
Shelley #80 - 1/6
Stephanie #100 - 0/20
Susan #23 - 29/50
Suzanne #272 - 1/20
Tammie #28 - 0/50
Taya #434 - 0/12
TCampbell #66 - 24/29
Teresa #106 - 1/40
Turning #142 - 26/50
Ula #77 - 6/30
Vanessa #101 - 0/15
Whitney #61 - 21/25
Willow #92 - 1/20
STATS
Participants: 106
Books Pledged: 3,208
Books Read: 1,059
Challenges Completed: 6
Updated through Message #536 on Sept 1, 2026.
30/501. Scandal in Spring
2. The Curse of Chalion
3. Codename Charming
4. Bring Up the Bodies
5. The Wild Hunt
6. World Without End
7. Cold Blooded Liar
8. What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
9. The Jasad Heir
10. Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
11. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
12. The House in the Cerulean Sea
13. The Bone Season
14. The Raven Scholar
15. This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
16. Jackaby
17. Family of Spies
18. Paladin of Souls
19. Dreamer's Pool
20. The Hebrew Teacher
21. Where the Forest Meets the Stars
22. Visions of Heat
23. Blood and Moonlight
24. The Weight of Ink
25. The Will of the Many
26. Shadow Reaper
27. This Is Happiness
28. The Bones Beneath My Skin
29. A Land So Wide
30. The Rom-Commers
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0/10New to these challenges but count me in for 10 books! (this will probably increase after Christmas)
I'm in for 40.17/40
A Tramp Abroad
Tom Sawyer Abroad
The Adventure of the Blue Belt Buckle (New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries #9)
Into Thin Air (Detective Allan Stanton #4)
The Cornwall Mermaid (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #33)
Just After Sunset
Mockingbird
The Pickwick Papers
Code Breakers: Alpha (Code Breakers #1)
Code Breakers: Beta (Code Breakers #2)
Code Breakers: Gamma (Code Breakers #3)
Code Breakers: Delta (Code Breakers #4)
King John
The Bastard Hand
The Witch's Stone
Supreme Betrayal
In Search of the Castaways
Clear the Shelves Deleted
Decided not to do this.
Progress: 13/26🌻2025 ARCs:🌻 (1/13)
(1) Our Vicious Descent-Hayley Dennings
🥀2026 ARCs:🥀 (12/13)
(1) Beth Is Dead-Katie Bernet
(2) Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief-Benjamin Stevenson
(3) A Deadly Inheritance-Kelley Armstrong
(4) What We Did to Survive-Megan Lally
(5) Dead Fake-Vincent Ralph
(6) The Anniversary-Alex Finlay
(7) Night TerrorNight Terror-Vincent Ralph
(8) The Neighbors Are Watching-Aggie Blum Thompson
(9) Fancy Dogs-Tini Malina
(10) Buttercup: The Queen of Kindness-Kristie Zoller, PsyD
(11) Death Was Not on the Guest List-Jenni .L. Walsh
(12) To Drown a Witch-Lindsey Olsson
Count me in. Goal follows soon.I still need to tackle some borrowed books from my family. I want to finish 7 at least.
TBR
Currently Reading: -
finished: 1/7
I'm in for 20 books. I have a backlog of book subscription books to catch up on. I'll be prioritizing my Aardvark books. I suspect half of these will go into my own Little Free Library.0/20
1. Wandering Stars
2. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
3. The Garden
4. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
5. The Last Murder at the End of the World
6. Catalina
7. Red River Road
8. Memorials
9. The Resurrectionist
10. Private Rites
11. Canticle
12. The Pretender
13. Saltcrop
14. Moderation
15. The Mad Wife
16. The Hounding
17. Salt Bones
18. The Tainted Cup
19. Junie
20. We Lived on the Horizon
0/40I'm in. My commitment for 2026 is no new books. So I'm going to commit to reading 40 books from my existing collection and donating them to Little Free Libraries.
Put me down for 10 please0/10
The Mixtape
Without Her Consent
The Good Neighbor
Lie, Lie Again
A Man
In the Far Pashmina Mountains
A Marriage in Dog Years
The Night Bird
Blackwater Lake
Fire & Chasm
Progress: 49/50Five Star Reads
1. Upon Waking: 60 Daily Reflections to Discover Ourselves and the God We Were Made For by Jackie Hill Perry
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Into the Uncut Grass by Trevor Noah
7. Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been by Jackie Hill Perry
15. Engaging God's Word: Romans by Community Bible Study
31. Starfish by Lisa Fipps
35. You're Not Enough (and That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love by Allie Beth Stuckey
36. Murder Road by Simone St. James
40. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
41. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
44. Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
46. Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed by Alisa Childers
Hated It (One Stars)
6. Smart Journaling: How to Form Life-Changing Journal Writing Habits that Actually Work for Reaching Any Goal and Getting Your Life on Track by MacKenzie Reed
24. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
28. Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark by Stephanie K. Smith
47. Find Another Dream by Maysoon Zayid
Meh (Two Stars)
14. The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman
18. Out of My Mind by Alan Arkin
19. Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney
21. Hollow by Caroline Peckham; Susanne Valenti
26. You Ought to Know Adam Wade by Adam Wade
27. Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper
Not too hot, not too cold... (Three Stars)
10. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future... by Michael J. Fox
16. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
17. Nim's Island by Wendy Orr
25. Cloaked in Red by Vivian Vande Velde
37. Postmortem by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
39. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
42. Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth: And Other Pop Culture Correspondences by John Moe
43. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
45. Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
48. Newly Wed and Slightly Dead by Danielle Garrett
Would have been 5 Stars if only for that one thing... (Four Stars)
2. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
3. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
8. Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been by Jackie Hill Perry
9. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
11. James by Percival Everett
12. If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
13. Kindness Goes Unpunished by Craig Johnson
20. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
22. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
23. Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World by Max Lucado
29. You Can Thank Me Later by Kelly Harms
30. The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan
32. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
33. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
34. The Dented Head of Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos
38. Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross
49. Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss by Kyra Davis
hi, sign me up for 40 books!books owned for 2+ years
1. A Nearly Normal Family⭐️
2. Keeping Faith⭐️
3. Prodigy ⭐️
4. The Lucky One ⭐️
5. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It ⭐️
6. Renegades ⭐️
7. Archenemies ⭐️
8. The Queen of the Tearling ⭐️
9. The City of Brass ⭐️
10. Champion ⭐️
11. Hidden Bodies ⭐️
12. The Invasion of the Tearling ⭐️
13. Illuminae ⭐️
14. Shatter Me ⭐️
15. Perfect Ruin ⭐️
16. The Fate of the Tearling ⭐️
17. A Thousand Pieces of You ⭐️
18. The Subtle Knife ⭐️
19. Once Upon a Broken Heart ⭐️
20. The Last Namsara ⭐️
21. Murder on the Orient Express ⭐️
22. The Testing ⭐️
23. The Recovery of Rose Gold ⭐️
CLEAR THE SHELVESJanuary 1 - December 31, 2026
Progress: 52/100
As always, I'll be working to clear out books I own that I haven't read yet. Signing up for 100 to begin with!
Member Corner Tracking Post
Put me down for 26 books for this challengeProgress 8/26
Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros, 5 Jan
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, 9 Jan
Wild Side, Elsie Silver 11 Jan
Circe, Madeline Miller 15 Jan
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White, 23 Jan
We'll Prescribe You a Cat, Syou Ishida, 26 Jan
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi 30 Jan
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling 7 FEB
Happy Place, Emily Henry, 11 Feb
Dating After the End of the World, Jeneva Rose 13 Feb
Southpaw Sully Steven Carman 16 Feb
Rebel Witch, Kristen Ciccarelli 24 Feb
The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2 March
James Percival Everett 3 March
Lessons in Love at the Seaside Salon Sophie Green 10 March
Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl 10 March
Two Can Play Ali Hazelwood 14 March
The Witches Roald Dahl 15 March
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo 19 March
Of Flame and Fury Mikayla Bridge 20 March
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 29 March
Cobalt Blue Matthew Reilly 18 April
Please sign me up for 60 booksCOMPLETED: 49/60
1. The Atlas Complex finished 4 January, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since December 2025
2. Unraveller finished 15 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since July 2022
3. The Assassin's Blade finished 21 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2024
4. Crown of Midnight finished 24 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2024
5. Heir of Fire finished 27 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2024
6. Queen of Shadows finished 31 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2024
7. Empire of Storms finished 2 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2024
8. Tower of Dawn finished 7 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2024
9. Kingdom of Ash finished 10 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2024
10. Fallen City finished 17 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since July 2025
11. The Persephone Code finished 19 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since October 2024
12. Verity finished 21 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since June 2023
13. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books finished 22 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since April 2024
14. The Fallen Queen finished 27 February, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since June 2014
15. Here's Looking at You finished 1 March, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since January 2016
16. The Blackbird Oracle finished 10 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since September 2024
17. The Mage & the Magpie finished 16 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since April 2017
18. Death of the Author finished 24 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since November 2024
19. Medici Heist finished 28 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since February 2024
20. The Poppy War finished 31 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2025
21. A Study in Darkness finished 8 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since August 2020
22. A Study in Ashes finished 12 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since August 2020
23. The Island of Doctor Moreau finished 19 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since May 2015
24. The Bookbinder's Secret finished 22 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since October 2025
25. Tales From Shakespeare finished 26 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2022
26. The Invisible Man finished 9 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since December 2022
27. Lips Touch: Three Times finished 11 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since January 2025
28. The Merciless Ones finished 14 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2025
29. Wolf by Wolf finished 17 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since September 2023
30. The Whispering Muse finished 21 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since August 2022
31. A Language of Dragons finished 25 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since September 2025
32. The Power finished 28 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2023
33. The Dagger and the Flame finished 31 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2025
34. Faebound finished 4 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2024
35. Anarchy finished 7 June, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since April 2022
36. Nemesis finished 12 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since May 2022
37. Starcrossed finished 15 June, ⭐⭐⭐. Owned since June 2021
38. Spectacular finished 21 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2024
39. Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die finished 29 June, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since October 2025
40. The Reappearance of Rachel Price finished 3 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since March 2025
41. Death on the Isle finished 8 July, ⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since August 2024
42. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love finished 13 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2023
43. Doctor Who: The Pirate Loop finished 16 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review. Owned since September 2025
44. Nevernight finished 21 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2018
45. Among the Burning Flowers finished 10 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since December 2025
46. Lady’s Knight finished 17 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since September 2025
47. The Paper Magician finished 20 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since July 2015
48. TimeRiders finished 23 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since March 2014
49. The Forbidden Queen finished 29 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Owned since June 2014
Please sign me up for 60 books.I will be reading books I already own and will donate or trade with friends when completed.
Progress: 29/ 60
What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas
Her Small-Town Cowboy
Caring for Her Amish Family
Texas Cold Case Threat
The Major's Family Mission
An Amish Holiday Courtship
The Summer Guests
The Lonely Hearts Book Club
Annie's Truth
Quilt of Joy
Down a Dark Road
Murder Island
The Bluest Eye
The Last Child
Turbulence
Joy
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
The Writer
Private
Child's Play
Inharmonious
The Vineyard at Painted Moon
A Place to Belong
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Hard to Kill
The Hamptons Lawyer
Outrageous Joy
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
Lifeguard
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i’ll join for 10 please! (to start >.<) i have a lot of manga that i haven’t touched since i fell off reading last year, so hopefully this might get me back on track :)
I will aim for 30 books, all from my e-reader library.9/30
16 fiction
✅️The All of It
✅️All That Is Mine I Carry With Me: A Novel
Barbara Isn't Dying Yet
The Bee Sting
The Bird Hotel
The Eighth Detective
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Extinctions
House Made of Dawn
Idaho
✅️Pachinko
✅️The Quality of Silence
✅️Sh*tshow
Shine, Pamela! Shine!
✅️The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
So Long, See You Tomorrow
14 non-fiction
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
✅️The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph
✅️The Children's Blizzard
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food
Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat
A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
✅️Fox & I
How to Examine a Wolverine: More Tales from the Accidental Veterinarian
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
There is no Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells
CLEAR THE SHELVESJanuary 1 - December 31, 2026
Progress: 29/50
1. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton - 1/8/26
2. Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell - Finished 1/12/26
3. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion - 1/18/26
4. The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares - Finished 1/23/26
5. Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman- Finished 1/29/26
6. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain - Finished 2/6/26
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 2/13/26
8. Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell - Finished 2/17/26
9. The One by John Marrs - Finished 3/1/26
10. Ward D - Finished 3/2/26
11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Finished 3/12/26
12. Mother Rocket by Rita Ciresi - Finished 3/24/26
13. She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena - Finished 3/27/26
14. Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell - Finished 3/31/26
15. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris - Finished 4/15/26
16. Captivated by Nora Roberts - Finished 4/22/26
17. Entranced by Nora Roberts - Finished 4/25/26
18. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh - Finished 5/5/26
19. Don't Let Him In - Finished 5/14/26
20. The Color Purple - Finished 5/16/26
21. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks - Finished 5/22/26
22. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - Finished 5/26/26
23. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock - Finished 6/5/26
24. Beloved by Toni Morrison - Finished 6/9/26
25. Left Neglected by Lisa Genova - Finished 6/28/26
26. 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows by Ann Brashares - Finished 7/17/26
27. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson - Finished 7/20/26
28. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston - Finished 8/15/26
29. Baby Proof by Emily Griffin - Finished 9/2/26
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3. A discovery of witches
4. The Lost Symbol
5. Origin
6. Inferno
7. Pachinko
8. The red tent
9. Deception Point
10. My name is Malala
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I'm in for 50!From My Shelf (10):
Audiobooks (40):
CLEAR THE SHELVESThe aim is to prioritize books you already own, so for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after December 31, 2025.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Here are some ideas on how to choose your books:
1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished.
2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.
3. Read a book you have started, set aside for a while, and now want to finish.
4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a monthly or quarterly challenge.
5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelter, Goodwill, etc.
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✅ 1/21Amanda E.'s Corner
Signing up, thanks!📚 Clear the Shelves - Yearly Challenge 📚
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
📚 Progress: /20 📚 -
Read books that you have owned before January 1st 2026
Tracking my books read for this challenge in my corner
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📚 Clear the Shelves - Yearly Challenge 📚Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
45/50 Completed
01.Plays Well With Others-Lauren Blakely 3/08/26
02.The New Girl-A.J. Rivers 1/22/26
03.The Problem with Players-Brittainy C. Cherry 4/22/26
04.Score-Kennedy Ryan 6/04/26
05.The Watson Girl-Leslie Wolfe 4/26/26
06.Take My Love-Brooke Montgomery 4/05/26
07.Love You, Mean It-Laura Pavlov 4/21/26
08.Thaw of Spring-Rebecca Zanetti 3/04/26
09.A Little Too Close-Rebecca Yarros 1/14/26
10.Single Dad Dilemma-Karla Sorensen 2/26/26
11.True Crime-Elle Gray 1/04/26
12.The Convict-A.J. Rivers 2/22/26
13.Believe in Me-Alexandria House
14.Edge-Tracy Clark 2/24/26
15.Sunshine & Sinful-Bink Cummings 6/07/26
16.The Lost Children-Elle Gray 2/11/26
17.It's Not Forever, It's For Now-Elle Wright 7/03/26
18.From Nowhere-Jewel E. Ann 2/18/26
19.Justified-Carolyn Arnold 2/12/26
20.Her Hidden Grave-Pamela Fagan Hutchins 5/13/26
21.Whisper Sweet Nothings-Laura Pavlov 7/02/26
22.Die Again-Tess Gerritsen 6/11/26
23.The Cottage on Plum Island-Amy Rafferty 1/31/26
24.Stone Hearts-Amber Kelly 1/25/26
25.Creed-Kristen Ashley
26.Hate, Rinse, Repeat-Whitney Dineen 1/11/26
27.Guess Again-Charlie Donlea 6/18/26
28.Don't Look Back-Rachel Grant 4/17/26
29.Find My Girl-Willow Rose 5/27/26
30.Forgotten Girls-D.K. Hood 3/27/26
31.Celebrity Skin-L.T. Vargus 2/27/26
32.Devoted Enough-Kelly Elliott 6/24/26
33.A Very Snowed In New Year-Kayley Loring 2/13/26
34.Crazy-Adriana Locke 5/05/26
35.Sweet-Adriana Locke
36.Heaven Sent-Delaney Diamond 3/09/26
37.So This Is War-Meghan Quinn 3/17/26
38.Up Close-Danielle Girard 3/23/26
39.Everything to Lose-Danielle Girard 5/27/26
40.Hold On-Kristen Ashley
41.Love...It's Wild-Jeannine Colette 1/24/26
42.The Reality of Everything-Rebecca Yarros 1/22/26
43.Crazy Love-Willow Aster 2/12/26
44.Twisted Truths-Rebecca Zanetti 4/16/26
45.Winter's Legacy-Mary Stone 1/31/26
46.Shadow's Reckoning-Mary Stone 4/07/26
47.Gaining Miles-Claire Kingsley 2/27/26
48.Bourbon & Proof-Victoria Wilder 2/19/26
49.The Body in the Backyard-Lucy Score
50.A Little Naughty-Tia Louise 1/23/26
I'm in for 20!Progress: 25/20
01. Immortal Consequences
02. The Silent Patient
03. Dangerous Women
04. One Day in December
05. Heat of the Everflame
06. Empire of Shadows
07. Black Woods Blue Sky
08. The Beach at Summerly
09. Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore
10. The Lady Tempts an Heir
11. The Return of Ellie Black
12. The Duchess Takes a Husband
13. The Awakening
14. How Freaking Romantic
15. Spitting Gold
16. Foul Heart Huntsman
17. Ruthless Fae
18. The Reckoning
19. Shadow Princess
20. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
21. Empire of Storms
22. Tower of Dawn
23. The League of Gentlewomen Witches
24. Bright Young Women
25. America's First Daughter
26. Kaikeyi
27. The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
I am in for 40. ✔️1: The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht 9 Jan
✔️2: The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 18 Jan
✔️3: Tom Lake Ann Patchett 25 Jan
✔️4: The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden 31 Jan
✔️5. Plainsong Kent Haruf 7 Feb
✔️6. The Secret Garden: The Original 1911 Unabridged and Complete Edition Frances Hodgson Burnett 14 Feb
✔️7. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir Griffin Dunne 15 Feb
✔️8: North and South Elizabeth Gaskell 20 Feb
✔️9: True to Form Elizabeth Berg 25 Feb
✔️10: The Door-to-Door Bookstore Carsten Henn 5 Mar
✔️11: A Cat Café Christmas Codi Gary 19 Mar
✔️12: Emily of New Moon L.M. Montgomery 22 Mar
✔️13: The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 30 Mar
✔️14: Six Feet of the Country Nadine Gordimer 30 Mar
✔️15: The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution Marc Weingarten 31 Mar
✔️16: Great Circle Maggie Shipstead 11 Apr
✔️17: The Heartbeat Library Laura Imai Messina 23 Apr
✔️18: Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper 24 Apr
✔️19: Ragtime E.L. Doctorow 29 Apr
✔️20: Eventide Kent Haruf 15 May
✔️21: The Names Florence Knapp 30 May
✔️22: Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan 6 Jun
✔️23. Moloka'i Alan Brennert 11 Jun
✔️24: Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 19 Jun
✔️25: Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 24 Jun
✔️26: Paris Edward Rutherfurd 30 Jun
✔️27: The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman 6 Jul
✔️28: The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen Yuta Takahashi 7 Jul
✔️29: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford 24 Jul
✔️30: The Fifties David Halberstam 31 Jul
✔️31: Death on the Beach: Essays from a Marginal World Per Högselius 31 Jul
✔️32: One Italian Summer Rebecca Serle 3 Aug
✔️33: Expiration Dates Rebecca Serle 8 Aug
✔️34. Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 15 Aug
I'll sign up for 60.46/60
1. When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
2. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
3. Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman
4. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
5. The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
6. This Much is True by Miriam Margoyles
7. 1984 by George Orwell
8. Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
9. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . . A Love Story by Jason Reynolds
10. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
11. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
12. The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
13. Cujo by Stephen King
14. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
15. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
16. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
17. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
18. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
19. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
20. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
21. The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
22. Model Home by Rivers Solomon
23. Black House by Stephen King
24. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
25. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
26. Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby
27. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
28. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
29. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
30. Yearbook by Seth Rogen
31. Very Dangerous Things by Lauren Munoz
32. Fireblooms by Alexandra Villasante
33. An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
34. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy
35. Mr. X by Peter Straub
36. Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford
37. Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
38. Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
39. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
40. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
41. The Sentence by Christina Dalcher
42. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
43. All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
44. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
45. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
46. Last Breath by Karin Slaughter
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CLEAR THE SHELVESJanuary 1, 2026 - December 31, 2026
*This challenge is a way to clean out all of your bookshelves, whether that be your physical, your electronic, or your audible shelves! The aim is to prioritize books you already own, so for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after December 31, 2025.
Completed: 25/25
1. The Project - Courtney Summers 1/1/26
2. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice 1/2/26
3. The Seed Keeper - Diane Wilson 1/2/26
4. The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen 1/4/26
5. The Gunslinger - Stephen King 1/4/26
6. Lover Awakened - J.R. Ward 1/5/26
7. Lover Revealed - J.R. Ward 1/5/26
8. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 1/6/26
9. Cream Puff Murder - Joanne Fluke 1/8/26
10. Sweet Little Lies - Caz Frear 1/9/26
11. A Game of Retribution - Scarlett St. Clair 1/12/26
12. The Book of Sheen - Charlie Sheen 1/14/26
13. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill 1/14/26
14. The Second Mrs. Astor - Shana Abe 1/15/26
15. It Had to Be You - Susan Elizabeth Phillips 1/15/26
16. Every Dead Thing - John Connolly 1/16/26
17. The Hollows - Jess Montgomery 1/19/26
18. Rabbit, Run - John Updike 1/22/26
19. Black Boy - Richard Wright 2/5/26
20. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks 2/22/26
21. Night Road - Kristin Hannah 4/16/26
22. Regretting You - Colleen Hoover 2/24/26
23. Invisible Life - E. Lynn Harris 2/25/26
24. V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton 3/15/26
25. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul 3/26/26
0/10 books from my TBR list.Looking forward to this yearly challenge!!
(Asked to drop challenge. Too many very old TBR books I need to read that I didn't enter in Goodreads before this year. My bad.)Please sign me up for 10 TBRs. I'll be using ideas #2 and #3 to select them.
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2. A Man Called Ove
3. My Dark Vanessa
4. Tender Is the Night
7. Brothers in Arms
8. Mystic River
9. The Hunter
10. Prophet Song
Sign me up for 15 books please!5/15
1. The New Year's Party
2. Love, Rosie
3. Battle of the Bookstores
4. How Freaking Romantic
5. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
6. P is for Peril
7. The Cousins
Goal: 4012/40
10 Audiobooks
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10 Physical
2. A Winter in New York
3. Listen for the Lie
5. The Heartbreak Hotel
6. Mini Shopaholic
9. Love Your Life
10. The Hunger Games
10 eBooks
11. Game Time: A Coach's Devotional for Life and Leadership
10 Books that have been in progress for a while
1. The Screwtape Letters
8. The Viscount Who Loved Me
I went to Barnes yesterday so my TBR pile is large. Sign me up for 21 for now (same 19 from Serial Reader - won't buy the last two until after January so wouldn't count toward this challenge - and then 2 others from my current pile).Update 12/26: number is still 21 but I bought one of the 2 today because of the 35% sale Barnes has. Taking away one of the * extras from my pile since I have volume 4 now.
Update 12/28: Book list and reading goal is different now (in update message below)
My TBR 2025 pile is currently at 149 so this list will grow.
Books owned and then donated☀ Progress 27/ 40
The Berry Pickers
Bozambo's Revenge
Catalina
Elena Knows
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Ghost
A Ghost in My Suitcase
The Good Life Elsewhere
Heartwood
History. A Mess.
I Who Have Never Known Men
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Lady Cop Makes Trouble
The Lost Story
Mother-Daughter Murder Night
The Other Bennet Sister
Perfect Reader
The Queens of Crime
A Replacement Life
Simone
So Far Gone
Symphony of Secrets
The Underground Railroad
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
The Vanishing Half
We Do Not Part
What Was the March on Washington?
Update message #10 - please set my goal to 7 for a start, thanks.
I will try for 40 books10/40
1. Les Miserables
2. All the Missing Girls
3. Cheat the Hangman
4. The Secret of Secrets
5. Roses Are Red
6. Violets Are Blue
7. Four Blind Mice
8. The Hallows
9. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
10. Such Charming Liars
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I'm going to try for at least one already owned book per month so let's go for 12. Thank you!
I'm in for 5.CLEAR THE SHELVES (message 49)
January 1 - December 31, 2026
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Here are some ideas on how to choose your books:
1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished.
2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.
3. Read a book you have started, set aside for a while, and now want to finish.
4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a monthly or quarterly challenge.
1). The Princess and the Pea - Hans Christian Andersen
5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelter, Goodwill, etc.
Welcome to Clear the Shelves for 2026! 📚📚📚📚
January 1 - December 31, 2026
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This challenge is a way to clean out all of your bookshelves, whether that be your physical, your electronic, or your audible shelves! The aim is to prioritize books you already own, so for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after December 31, 2025.
To join, post a message telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, take a moment to check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information on how our challenges are run.
Here are some ideas on how to choose your books:
1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished.
2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.
3. Read a book you have started, set aside for a while, and now want to finish.
4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a monthly or quarterly challenge.
5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelter, Goodwill, etc.
Happy Reading!