The Randomiser Challenge - 2014

[Zara's Retreat]

Hi Jennifer. I have added you to the list. Welcome and good luck with your goal.

[Victoria]

Randomiser Challenge
1st January 2014-31st December 2014
Goal 12
Challenge Completed 22.12.2014

The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory Completed 12.01.14
The Witches by Peter Curtis Completed 31.01.14
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder Completed 12.03.14
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Completed 25.03.14
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Completed 18.04.14
The Long Song by Andrea Levy Completed 30.04.14
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie Completed 22.11.14
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes Completed 26.11.14
The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James Completed 30.11.14
The Haunting of Highdown Hall by Shani Struthers Completed 03.12.14
UnSouled by Neal Shusterman Completed 11.12.14
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Completed 22.12.14

[Zara's Retreat]

Victoria,

I have added you to the list. Welcome and good luck.

[Sarah]

I'd like to join in this challenge also. I will do 8:

24) A Game of Thrones
68) Ship of Magic
116) Sense and Sensibility
227) Collide
250) Prince of Wolves
361) Death's Hand
400) Remembrance
515) The Picture of Dorian Gray

Also if it's easier, you can list me as Sarah Lou =]

[Zara's Retreat]

Sarah I've added you. Welcome and good luck

[Sarah]

Thank you =]

[Kelsi]

I'm in, I believe I will go for 10!

[Helena]

I am in for 12 - One for each month (hopefully).

#21 - A Girl Like You - Gemma Burgess
#95 - The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
#84 - Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light - Amy Thomas
#105 - A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary - Anonymous
#10 - 11/22/63 - Stephen King
#163 - The Engagements - J. Courtney Sullivan
#134 - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (In French - Quatre filles et un jean) - Ann Brashares
#93 - How I Lost You - Janet Gurtler
#22 – The Happy Introvert: A Wild and Crazy Guide to Celebrating Your True Self – Elizabeth Wagele
#116 – The Honest Life: Living Naturally and True to You – Jessica Alba
#162 - Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story – Kurt Eichenwald
#172 – Shakespeare and Company – Sylvia Beach

[Laura Jane]

Please put me down for 12. Going to read one a month. Generated my list then tweaked the order a little bit to fit with other challenges. There's definitely quite a few on this list that I may have put off forever in favour of other books.

38.
106.
84.
94.
238.
147.
164.
12.
39.
137.
108.
44.

[Zara's Retreat]

Helena, Kelsi and Laura Jane I have added you all to the list. Welcome and good luck with your goals.

[Nancy from NJ]

Please put me down for 12 books.

0/12

1. Far Side of the Sky by Daniel Kalla
2. Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balson
3. Someone by Alice McDermott
4. Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebein
5. The German Suitcase by Greg Dinallo
6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
7. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
8. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
9. The Lemon Orchard by Luanne Rice
10. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
11. The Wanting by Michael Lavigne
12. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity

[Zara's Retreat]

Nancy I have added you. Welcome and good luck

[Nancy from NJ]

Thanks Zara. I plan on adding my list today. I can hardly wait to hear the stroke of midnight turning 2013 into 2014 so I can begin reading my books.
Happy reading to all.

[Kelsi]

Kelsi's Randomizer Challenge 2014
January 1-Dec 31

Goal: 0/20

48: 11/22/63
82: Catch-22
86: The Tempest
106: Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child
113: The Stand
154: The Baker's Daughter
175: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
186: Outliers: The Story of Success
190: The Man in the Brown Suit
216: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
224: On the Road
226: Things Fall Apart
226: House of Leaves
233: The Jane Austen Book Club
243: Marie Antoinette: The Journey
251: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
258: Ulysses
267: The Right Stuff
271: The Dressmaker
299: Brisingr

[Kelsi]

Zara, I've decided to go for 20 :)

[Pat]

Please add me to the list. I'm going to read 5

I deleted some books from my to read list, so this is an update.

1/5
10.]James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing by G. Norman Lippert

16. The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks

27.The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards complete

33.Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

41.The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro

[Sarah]

I've had a look at my TBR list and I'd like to up it to 12 please. I have soo many ebooks on my kindle and I keep downloading more (they are free =D I just can't help myself). So my new list:

48) Six Moon Summer
87) Earth
92) Whispers of a Legend: Shadows of the Past
113) Force of Nature
121) Enchantment
138) Amaranth
188) Alone
196) Just One Damned Thing After Another
221) Death Comes Home
229) The Lies that Save Us
278) Dissever
297) Cursed

[Zara's Retreat]

Sarah I have updated your goal. Good luck.

[Sarah]

Thanks =]

[Jodi]

I totally want to up mine too. I have come back and forth many times to tell you to up my goal Zara. I just love the idea of some random computer gizmo choosing my books for me. I am going to get through my first 10 and then will probably up it later on.

[Zara's Retreat]

Jodi wrote: "I totally want to up mine too. I have come back and forth many times to tell you to up my goal Zara. I just love the idea of some random computer gizmo choosing my books for me. I am going to get t..."

I know the feeling Jodi. It can be addictive. I was planning at one stage to go for 50 but then I thought about the work in posting them and decided that 20 would work better. lol.

Just let me know what figure you want me to put down for you.

[Jodi]

Wow, Christine! That is impressive. I can't wait to see what books get chosen.

[Zara's Retreat]

Christine, I have added you. Welcome and good luck with your massive goal.

[Jaclyn]

I would like to edit my goal to 20 please. :)

[Chloé]

Impressive list!

[Zara's Retreat]

Jaclyn I have updated your goal to 20.

[Karina]

There... I generated my list from my "owned, but not read"-shelf. It looks like a good pile!

1. Galileo's Dream
7. Robopocalypse
18. House of Suns
30. Alas, Babylon
45. Story Engineering
52. The Word for World is Forest
57. Nine Princes in Amber
67. Foundation's Edge
84. Thinking, Fast and Slow
86. As I Lay Dying
90. Changes
92. Fortunately, the Milk
100. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
107. Dimension of Miracles
119. Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain
130. The Strain
139. The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
142. Sandman Slim
148. Sucker's Portfolio
165. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities
166. Bagombo Snuff Box
173. Jailbird
211. The Wordy Shipmates
223. Catch-22

[Kaitlin]

I'm already overcommitting for 2014 - please take me off the list for now. Thanks!

[Zara's Retreat]

Kaitlin I have removed you.

[Chloé]

Hi think, probably there's a mixed up in challenge. I sais 10, but in the list I'm at 50. Maybe somebody aimed at 50 and is at 10?

[Alison]

I'll sign up for 5! :)

60. The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas

32. Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

46. The Boyfriend Thief by Shana Norris

11. Farsighted by Emlyn Chand

93. The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams

[Zara's Retreat]

alison (m191) I have you added. Welcome and good luck.

[Marianne]

Sounds fun! I'll do ten books.

Books read: 2/10

277. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1
276. The Bell Jar
1574. Vicious
618. The Silence of Tree
1320. Visitation Street
1368. The Necromancer's House
689. Perfune: The Story of a Murderer
1319. Burial Rites
1443. The Way of Kings
289. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

[Zara's Retreat]

Marianne I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

[Jenn]

I'm in. I want to do 20 books.
4/20 books read

78. Witches of East End
207. Neverwhere 4/22/14
269. Bound to You
184. Darkling
230. The Apothecary 3/15/14
225. Scorch
65. My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store
142. Onyx
233. Ruby Red
254. Takedown Twenty 1/14/14
320. Unlucky 13:
308. Killer Crust
296. The Trouble With Magic
240. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
69. Wings of the Wicked
377. The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision 1/9/14
87. Fever
239. Beautiful Redemption
177. Fury: A Memoir
71. Matched

[Zara's Retreat]

Jennifer I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

[Nancy from NJ]

Zara - a quick question.

I have added my randomizer list here but want to know if I edit my post and cross off or check my books once I've finished them.

[Zara's Retreat]

Nancy wrote: "Zara - a quick question.

I have added my randomizer list here but want to know if I edit my post and cross off or check my books once I've finished them."

Yes Nancy that's right.

[Casey]

Zara,
Add me in for 5.
Will I keep up with them on this thread?
Doing randomizer now.

[Casey]

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38
30
25
50

[Chelsea]

I'll do 15!

[Zara's Retreat]

Hi Chelsea. I've added you. Welcome and good luck.

[Chelsea]

Completed 0/15
12. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
30.Persuasion by Jane Austen
65.Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
67.Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
77. Amerika by Franz Kafka
125. The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
144. The Trial by Franz Kafka
194. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
208. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
216. Immortality by Milan Kundera
218. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
222. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
320. My Point... And I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres
321. The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
328. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

[Sandra]

Sign me up for 12:


77. Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill
444. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
459. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
736. Fly Away by Kristin Hannah
809. [book:The Magnificent Century by Thomas B. Costain
934. Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson
956. Is This Tomorrow: A Novel by Caroline Leavitt
1012. The Wander Year: One Couple's Journey Around the World by Mike McIntyre
1198. The Hearth and Eagle by Anya Seton
1342. The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
1366. Killing Floor by Lee Child
1375. Apology: A Novel by Jon Pineda

[Missy]

This seems like a great way to knock off some of those TBR books that keep piling up. Sign me up for 5!

#158 The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
#264 The Truth About Butterflies A Memoir (Nancy Stephan)
#340 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic (Steven Johnson)
#345 Deja Dead (Kathy Reichs)
#392 The Ocean At the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)

Looking forward to this coming year!

[Zara's Retreat]

Hi Missy. I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

[Zara's Retreat]

Sandra I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

[Carrie]

Let's see.... I'll try 6. I've got to clean up my TBR list then I'll be back with my list :) THANKS!

[Lindy]

Don't know how this will work for me, only have 32 books on it, but I will try

[Zara's Retreat]

Carrie and Lindy I have added you both. Welcome and good luck.