The Randomiser Challenge - 2014

[Theo]

I'm in for 10!

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE

0/10

224. The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
820. Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
1727. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
153. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
475. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
2121. Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
725. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
1592. Ironskin by Tina Connolly
1265. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
2135. Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

[Carrie]

Ok - Updated my list and here's what the radomiser came up with -

10- Blame it on Paris Blame It on Paris
53 - Three Weeks with My Brother Three Weeks With My Brother
60 - The Rose Ghost ~ Paris The Rose Ghost ~ Paris
73 - The Pyramid Legacy The Pyramid Legacy
76 - Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone
140 The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap

[Lilac]

I got a kobo mini for Christmas and want to use it so for January I used my kobo shelf to pick books, which has both books already on my kobo and books from my tbr that are available in epub format at my library.

January: #24 - The Originals (kobo)

[Lilac]

In future depending on my moods I'll be using kobo, to-read, owned-to-read and looks-interesting to pick my random book for the month.

[Adriana]

Really enjoyed The Originals Lilac. It's more of a contemporary book than a sci-fi book in case you were wondering. Teen angst and all that but it's good (:

[Lilac]

Okay, thanks, I'll look forward to reading it :)

[Claire]

I'll do 12 from my list: (You can identify me as Claire P if it will make it easier to keep us straight!)

123 Journal of Eva Morelli by Maryann D'Agincourt
243 Silencing Orpheus by J. Warren
346 Finding Arun by Marisha Pink
242 Beyond God: A Scientist's Search for the Meaning of Life in the 21st Century by Emmanuel Papadakis
104 Extraordinary Retribution by Erec Stebbins
215 Killing Time by Joanne Clancy
488 Moonlight Sacrifice by Rob Cummings
037 Nostalgia by Dennis McFarland
510 Hard Land to Rule by Anthony Whitt
386 The Greatest Speech, Ever by James L. Cotton Jr.
420 A World That We Expect by J.D. O'Guinn
129 In This Moment by Autumn Doughton

[Jean]

I like this challenge. I always seem to be adding books to my TBR list instead of taking them off. I'll sign up for 20. My list is:

251 The Dog That Talked to God
051 The End of Everything — COMPLETED 2/1/14
196 The Confession
207 The Journal Keeper: A Memoir
349 Magyk
165 Ghost Trails
064 Cel & Anna: A 22nd Century Love Story
070 The Wedding Writer
380 Rooms
484 The Ocean at the End of the Lane
443 The Third Son: A Novel
158 Lights of Mankind: The Earth at Night as Seen from Space
068 In Search of Lucy
122 Anon
229 Midnight in Austenland
112 Never the Bride
411 Winter's Tale
030 Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money
449 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
001 Me Talk Pretty One Day

[Zara's Retreat]

Hi Jean,

I have added you. Welcome and good luck.

[Annika]

Hi Zara,
I'd love to take part.

The Randomizer Challenge 2014

0/13

5: The Glass Castle
16: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
29: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
48: The Sound and the Fury
177: The Key to Rebecca
225: Perfect Match
278: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
283: The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
352: Parade's End
373: The Da Vinci Code
392: The Chocolate War
399: Notes from Underground
437: The Master and Margarita

[Katee]

Oh this'll be fun! Put me down for 10.

Completed: 0/10

#93: Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
#14: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
#88: In the Woods by Tana French
#102: The Family by Mario Puzo
#74: The Passage by Justin Cronin
#118: Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
#119: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
#92: The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
#12: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
#52: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland

[Moth]

I'll do ten!

[Kara]

Put me down for 15, please!

THE RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2014

#3 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
#59 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
#67 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
#69 The Housekeeper and the Professor
#81 The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal: A Skeptical Inquirer Collection
#153 Elantris
#221 Time of Useful Consciousness
#251 Old Filth
#256 The Decameron
#268 Shards of Honour
#275 Warchild
#308 Twelve Views from the Distance
#346 Digger, Volume One
#375 The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas
#386 The People in the Trees

COMPLETED: 0/15

[Ian]

Sign me up for 8 please :)


#7 Valley of the Dolls
#18 State of Wonder
#26 Red Seas Under Red Skies - Finished!
#44 The Boy Who Dared
#57 The Red Tent
#71 Daughter of Smoke & Bone
#76 Mrs. Mike - Finished!
#122 A Place Of Execution

2/8

[Moth]

0/10
4. The House of Rumour
20. The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
29. The Chaperone
36. Code Name Verity
37. The Woman in Black
41. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
48. Pearl of China
53. The Diviners
99. The Bell Jar
120. Angelfall

[Zara's Retreat]

Ian and Reese you've both been added. Welcome and good luck.

[Anna]

Sounds like fun! Put me down for 20. I need to take a chunk out of my TBR list.

#22 - Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
#97 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
#65 - If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
#94 - The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
#46 - The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe
#118 - The Infernals by John Connolly
#119 - The Wanderer in Unknown Realms: A Novella by John Connolly
#69 - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
#125 - Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
#129 - Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
#86 - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
#48 - The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey
#98 - The Odyssey by Homer
#127 - Sycamore Row by John Grisham
#103 - The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
#136 - Snow White, Blood Red by Ellen Datlow
#121 - The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
#50 - Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
#30 - Looking for Alaska by John Green
#98 is a repeat so I'm rolling over to #99 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

[SleeplessBookExplorer]

15 books!
Completed: 0/15

I honestly don't know how I am going to do some of these..lol

#26--The Summer I Became a Nerd
#29--The Girl in the Converse Shoes
#33--The Playbook: Suit up. Score chicks. Be awesome.
#36--212
#43--1984
#53--Ladies' Night
#61--Pride and Prejudice
#71--The Perks of Being a Wallflower
#112--Like This, For Ever
#119--The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
#137--The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
#142--How Literature Saved My Life
#161--Pawn
#175--Walking Disaster
#181--The Elite

[Sherry]

I'll try this out and see....

984- Once We Were (The Hybrid Chronicles #2) by Kat Zhang Once We Were
455- Desperately Seeking a Duke (Heiress Brides, #1) by Celeste Bradley Desperately Seeking a Duke
33- The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire by Trisha Telep The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire
574- Ruthless (Faces of Evil #6) by Debra Webb
860- First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet #1) by Mary Balogh First Comes Marriage
27- True Betrayals by Nora Robert True Betrayals
525- Indecent Experiment by Megan Hart Indecent Experiment
789- Divorced, Desperate And Dating (Divorced, #2) by Christie Craig Divorced, Desperate And Dating

[Zara's Retreat]

Anna, Lacee and Sherry I have added you all. Welcome and good luck.

[Aparna]

This sounds interesting! I think I'll try one for each month..

172 - My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man's Best Friend by Matthew Inman
144 - How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
158 - Storm Front by Richard Castle
160 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
37 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
10 - Room by Emma Donoghue
145 - Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide by Gretchen Rubin
106 - A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow by George R.R. Martin
69 - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
46 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
173 - Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
114 - A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe by Faith Conlon

[Lianne]

I'm in! My goal is 8 books.

0/8

517. King Rat
451. The Bone Season
398. Persuasion
124. The Storyteller
105. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
353. The Godfather
475. The Song of Achilles
27. The Night Circus

[Alessia]

Great challenge! Please add me to the list :) Maybe I'll finally manage to read some non-fiction (other than my medical books)

105 Big Sur
407 On Chesil Beach
553 Snow
248 South Riding
346 La formula del professore
164 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
275 The Reluctant Fundamentalist
365 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
28 The Time Traveler's Wife
583 Come l'aria Read 13/08/2014
116 Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World
418 The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There

1/12

[Jodi]

Zara I updated message #4 to include Hatchet

[Zara's Retreat]

Aparna, Lianne and Alessia I have added you all. Welcome and good luck.

Jodi I have updated your goal in the listing.

[Bridget]

THE TBR RANDOMIZER CHALLENGE
DURATION jANUARY 1- DECEMBER 31, 2014
COMPLETED: 0/20.

23-
89-
88-
50-
81-
47-
64
91
233
38-Drop Dead Gorgeous
114-The Door to December
79-Willow
42-Half Past Dead
133-Little Face
135-The Lovely Bones
181-What Happens After Dark
2-Miracle Cure
105-Copycat
90-Angel Falls
145-No Second Chance

[Sarah]

Completed: 1/12

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

[Lynn]

Zara -- I've edited message 121. I read Night by Elie Wiesel as my first book for this challenge. I'm 1/10. Thanks.

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

[Jessica]

Sign me up for 10 please!

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2014
Completed: 0/10

1 - The Goldfinch byDonna Tartt
3 - The Circle byDave Eggers
14 - A Cook's Tour Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines byAnthony Bourdain
18 - The Psychopath Test A Journey Through the Madness Industy byJon Ronson
21 - Timebound The Chronos Files 1 byRysa Walker
25 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie byAlan Bradley
26 - How We Decide byJonah Lehrer
32 - David and Goliath byMalcolm Gladwell
37 - Linchpin Are You Indispensable bySeth Godin
38 - The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference byMalcolm Gladwell

[Jayne]

Completed 1/12.
The Night Circus - done 11/1/14

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

[Sarah]

Hmm. Can you update it again for me. I'd like to up my goal to 24 please =]

Extended list:
87) UnEnchanted
92) Enchantress
105) Gravity
132) A Moment
151) Beginnings
214) The First Book of Demons
218) Guardian
219) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There
222) The Picture of Dorian Gray
228) On an Edge of Glass
265)The Huntress
298) Glamour

[Victoria]

I have completed my first randomly chosen book The Lady of the Rivers

[Ashley]

I'm in for this one. I'm going for 10 books
stuff like this always makes me wish I would go through my TBR list more often

217- James Potter and the Crimson Thread by
137- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
10- Little Bee by Chris Cleave
18- The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
233- Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park
152- If I Could Tell You by Jing-Jing Lee
91- Delirium by Lauren Oliver
169- Coldheart by Justin Robinson
83- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
25- Savages by Don Winslow

1/10

[Jaclyn]

1/20

1. #46: SANDMAN by Morgan Hannah MacDonald- 01/12/14

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here. Welcome Ashley and good luck with your goal.

[Aparna]

1 / 12 completed

172 - My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man's Best Friend by Matthew Inman

[Jaclyn]

2/20

2. #5: Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin 01/14/14

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

[Alison]

I finished my first randomizer book... Peter Pan. It was pretty good!

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

[Erika]

I finished my first! The Color Purple. Great read!

[Jayne]

Jayne wrote: "Completed 1/12.
The Night Circus - done 11/1/14"

Hi Zara, I completed my first book and need updating. Thanks.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

I'm using the "To-Read-Home" shelf because I have a bunch of books at home that I really need to read.

My List
0/5:

#23 - Light A Penny Candle
#21 - The Survivors Club
#22 - Charlie All Night
#15 - Mystery Walk
#18 - Kill and Tell

[Ian]

I have finished my first book for this challenge -

#26 Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch.

It was brilliant! :). Also I have updated my original post.

I'm now 1/8

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

[Daphne]

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2014

9/30

#2. Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages 1/20/2014
#3. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded 1/25/2014
#9. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
#30. Ellen Foster
#32. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
#45. Passionate Minds
#47. The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
#49. A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others
#52. The Warrior Goddess: Athena 2/1/2014
#58. The Company of Wolves
#59. Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets
#64. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
#75. A Brief History of Witchcraft 3/3/2014
#84. The World Without Us 3/1/2014
#87. Bartleby, the Scrivener 1/23/2014
#97. Outlander
#98. A Discovery of Witches
#109. Struwwelpeter
#114. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
#116. The Complete Fairy Tales
#118. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
#120. Closure, Limited 1/23/2014
#127. Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" 1/29/2014
#136. Thunder, Flush, and Thomas Crapper: An Encycloopedia
#141. The Hidden Life Of Dogs
#142. Tails of Wonder and Imagination 2/7/2014
#144. Aristophanes and His Theatre of the Absurd
#149. Stardust
#151. American Gods
#154. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

[Jayne]

2/12
2.Delirium- 18/1/14
I finished this late last night and enjoyed it. I've read a few ' book ones' from newish YA dystopia but this is the first one that has made me want to read the next one.