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The TBR Randomiser Challenge - 2016
I have to skip so many because they aren't in my library :/ but here are the books available on top of my random list:1.
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So many old books and some I don't even remember putting on my tbr...
Kadijah Michelle wrote: "Candiss wrote: "Kadijah Michelle, my To-Read shelf is at least half books I can't actually access without buying new books just for the challenge - don't own, not available at the library, etc. - s..."Just wanted to let the moderator know that I have updated my user name. Since Stephanie is so common, I wanted to make it easier to identify myself. Stephanie in message 76 and Stephanie (Chinchillita) are one and the same!! Thanks!!
I'd like to sign up for 10. 1. Salt, Sugar, Fat
2. East of Eden
3. Hotel du Lac
4. Why Read the Classics?
5. Skippy Dies
6. The Job: True Tales of an NYC Cop
7. Between the World and Me
8. The Wind in the Willows
9. On Literature
10. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Sign me up for 30 books
1. Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
2. Big Bang Generation
3.A Real Guide to Really Getting It Together Once and for All:
4.The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
5.Ten
6.I'll Meet You There
7.The Taking
8.Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization
9.You Don't Have to Live Like This: A Novel
10.The Singular and Extraordinary Tale of Mirror and Goliath
11.Twain's End
12. Rumble
13.The Boyfriend App
14. Inland
15.Stitching Snow
16.Geek Girl
17.Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
18.Unclaimed
19.The Detective's Secret
20.Night School
21.They All Fall Down
22.When Reason Breaks
23.White Collar Girl
24.The Danish Girl
25.The Pretty App
26.American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures
27.Avalon
28.All These Lives
29.Linchpin
30. Pretty Little Liars
1. Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
2. Big Bang Generation
3.A Real Guide to Really Getting It Together Once and for All:
4.The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
5.Ten
6.I'll Meet You There
7.The Taking
8.Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization
9.You Don't Have to Live Like This: A Novel
10.The Singular and Extraordinary Tale of Mirror and Goliath
11.Twain's End
12. Rumble
13.The Boyfriend App
14. Inland
15.Stitching Snow
16.Geek Girl
17.Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
18.Unclaimed
19.The Detective's Secret
20.Night School
21.They All Fall Down
22.When Reason Breaks
23.White Collar Girl
24.The Danish Girl
25.The Pretty App
26.American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures
27.Avalon
28.All These Lives
29.Linchpin
30. Pretty Little Liars
16/16Read:
1. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa
2. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
3. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. The Tokaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson
5. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
6. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
7. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosely
8. Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
9. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
10. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
11. A Tale for the Time Being
12. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
13. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
14. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
15. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
16. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Koenigsberg
DNF: The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Diviners
Add me to the challenge. I'll do 12 books from my list. I chose the first 6 books that I have on Audible and the first 6 that I own.7/12
✔️1 - And Then There Were None #72
✔️2 - The Rainmaker #74
✔️3 - The Chimes #66
4. Christmas in Paris by Anita Hughes # 71
✔️5 - Rogue Lawyer #68
6 - 14th Deadly Sin #14
✔️7 - Deeper Water #24
8 - The Sea of Monsters #6
✔️9 - We Bought a Zoo #71
10 - The Help #1
✔️11 - The Magician's Lie #63
12 - A Midsummer Night's Dream #2
** changed book #4 **
The last two years I did not manage to finish this challenge... This year I will add a twist.... I will do this challenge but with books that I already own... Like this I do not have a excuse to not read them, and also is an excellent method to clean my shelfs.. Have too many books in my TBR that I did not touch! So in order to do this one I will read one book per month for this Challenge....
Let's see
1. Ghost Summer: Stories
2. The Devil in Silver
3. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
4. Feed
5. Kindred
6. Lumberjanes #1
7. Instructions for a Heatwave
8. Classic Goosebumps: Stay Out of the Basement
9. Americanah
10. La cocinera de Himmler
11. NOS4A2
12. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oh, this one is great! My To-Read folder gets too big and some of the books have spent too much time there. I'll go for ten books for this challenge:Alice
The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
The Heaven Makers
Not necessary in that order, though.
I will do 5 for this, possibly add more as the year goes.
This sounds so good! - I'm in for 12 I'm going to randomize from my owned-TBR shelf because I really should read what I so badly wanted that I bought it, but then got side-tracked by another shiny book or recommendation pile!
7/12
Submerged
The Girl Who Chased the Moon - June 1st - ♥♥♥♥♥
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear - February 27th - ♥♥♥♥♥
The Insiders
Girl, Stolen - May 16th - ♥♥♥
Easy Pickings: A Selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror - March 4th - ♥♥♥
Heart and Soul - April 9th - ♥♥♥
Rush Home Road
Kept in the Dark
Life Itself - June 24th - ♥♥♥♥♥
Everything, Everything - March 10th - ♥♥♥♥
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I'm going in for 3. Many of the books on my list I do not own and have difficulty finding at the library!! I'll keep trying though!We Fought Back Teen Resisters of the Holocaust
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls
Blame It on Paris
I would like to participate with 12 books (one per month :P)! But I want to be surprised each month, so I will randomize at the beginning of each month and keep updating this post.Progress: 10/12
✓January - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy ★★★✩✩
✓February -Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard ★★★★✩
✓March - Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop ★★★★✩
✓April - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes ★★★★✩
✓May - More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera ★★★★✩
✓June - The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North ★★★✩✩
✓July - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo ★★★★★
✓August - Sex Criminals, Volume 3: Three the Hard Way by Matt Fraction
✓September - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins ★★★★★
October - The Ruby Circle by Richelle Mead
November - Saga, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughn
✓December - At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen ★★★✩✩
Will love to do this @ 45 books will post as I go...# Book
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I'll go for 50 book :D Throne of Glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of Fire
Queen of Shadows
The One
The Heir
The Prince
The Guard
The Queen
Catching Fire
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Mockingjay
Cinder
Winter
Burn for Burn
Fire with Fire
Ashes to Ashes
Six of Crows
Cress
Fairest
Library of Souls
The Beginning of Everything
The Martian
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
The Lost Herondale
The Whitechapel Fiend
Nothing but Shadows
The Evil We Love
Pale Kings and Princes
Bitter of Tongue
The Fiery Trial
Born to Endless Night
Angels Twice Descending
The Infinite Sea
The 5th Wave
The Devil's Only Friend
I Don't Want to Kill You
Mr. Monster
I Am Not A Serial Killer
Saint Odd
Odd Thomas
Forever Odd
Brother Odd
Odd Hours
Odd Apocalypse
Deeply Odd
Untold
Unspoken
The Night After I Lost You
Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
I'm was going to do this challenge on my own, so I guess I'll participate here. Put me down for 5
Ohnna wrote: "I would like to join this challenge, but I have a bit of a question. What if the TBR list shows a book from a series (like the 3rd of the 4th book) and you haven't started that series yet? Is it ok..."Yes, I think that would be the best thing to do.
Stephanie (Chinchillita) wrote: "Kadijah Michelle wrote: "Candiss wrote: "Kadijah Michelle, my To-Read shelf is at least half books I can't actually access without buying new books just for the challenge - don't own, not available..."While at first I did not like having to type such a long name, I have grown to appropriate you adding the Chinchillita. Especially since it is not difficult to spell. Thank you Stephanie (Chinchillita). You do realize though, that you are going to have to explain it ;)
I'll do 20 books
Date read: 02/03
Rating: 5 stars
Brill! I'd like to try for 10 please! :)
I did this last year but chose too many and wound up with some I didn't ever feel like reading. Going to just go for a more manageable 6 this year. 1. We Never Talk about My Brother Peter S. Beagle
2. Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds
3. The Pilgrims Will Elliott
4. Those Above Daniel Polansky
5. Towers Fall Karina Sumner-Smith
6. A Reunion of Ghosts Judith Claire Mitchell
I'll do 10. 4/10
3. Landline
4. Hunting and Gathering
6. Praga piccola
7. Sputnik Sweetheart
9. Atonement
10. Spalovač mrtvol
I'm in. I'm committing to reading: 1. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
2. The Distant Hours
3. A Trail of Fire
4. On Our Way: Christian Practices for Living a Whole Life
5. Living on the Border of the Holy
6. Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America
7. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
8. Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
9. The Shell Seekers
10. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
I'm in. I will go ahead and read 20 book. Start date: 1/3/15
End date:
Books read: 3/20
1. Tiger's Voyage
2. Past Perfect
3. I Am the Messenger
4. Hunger
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6. The Rosie Project
7. Night Star
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10. Tangled
11. After the End 9/10/16
12. The Replacement
13. The Thief - currently reading
14. Ten Thousand Skies Above You
15. Crushed
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17. The Diviners
18. Crimson Bound
19. Mostly Good Girls
20. You Against Me
I'm in for 20 for 20161. A Bell for Adano
2.The Shipping News
3.Testimony
4.The Stone Diaries
5.The Red Tent
6.The Good Earth
7.Out of Oz
8.Waiting
9.The Gargoyle
10.The Lost Symbol
11. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
12.The Woman Upstairs
13.The Secret Chord
14.Cannery Row
15.Saturday
16.Pearl of China
17.Insurgent
18.The Orphanmaster
19.The Late George Apley
20.The Blind Assassin
I'll do 20 books0/20
1.We Are Called to Rise: A Novel
2.Picnic at Hanging Rock
3.The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
4.Post Office
5.The Sun Also Rises
6.Memoirs of a Professional Cad
7.Comfort Food
8.The Namesake
9.Gulliver's Travels
10.The Kitchen House
11.In Watermelon Sugar
12.This Side Of The Sky
13.Perfect Peace
14.The Beauty of Humanity Movement
15.Threads
16.A God in Ruins
17.For the Win
18.Always Watching
19.The Children's Book
20.A Marker to Measure Drift
I'll start with 10 and see how I go throughout the year!1st Jan - 31st Dec 2016:
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I'm in for 20 books. There is another Maureen, you can put me down as Maureen de Wit if you want. THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2016
Brought back for another year because we know that sometimes it can be tough to choose what to read next.
Let Goodreads decide for you!
Step 1: Select the number of books you want to read for this challenge.
Step 2: Go to the “My Books” tab on the top of the Goodreads Page.
Step 3: Bring up your “To-Read” shelf.
Step 4: On the bottom of the page in the middle, go to the “sort” field and select “Random.”
Step 5: Goodreads will generate a random list of books for you.
I'm going to do 20
Books: 0/20
1. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
2. Shadow of the Giant - Orson Scott Card
3. Fool's Assassin - Robin Hobb
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
5. Imager - L.E. Modesitt Jr.
6. The Walking Dead Vol 20. - Robert Kirkman
7. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
8. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
9. Blood of Dragons - Robin Hobb
10. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
11. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
12. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
13. The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
15. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
16. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
17. The Mad Ship - Robin Hobb
18. Alchymist: A Tale of The Three Worlds - Ian Irvine
19. Books of Blood Vol 1. - Clive Barker
20. Noorsche Mythen uit de Edda's en de Sagen - H.E. Guerber
I want to join! This sounds fun! Since it's my first challenge I'll go for 10.2/10:
2) The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
3) Dissonance by Erica O'Rourke
4) Dance Upon The Air by Nora Roberts
5) Reboot by Amy Tintera
6) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
7) In The Woods by Tana French
8) The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey
10) Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
Hmmm I like what Goodreads chose for me :D
I'm giving this one a try!1. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
2. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
3. No Will But His: A Novel of Kathryn Howard
4. Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
5. The Secret History of Wonder Woman
6. The Witches: Salem, 1692
7. Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror"
8. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
9. An Ember in the Ashes
10. The Night She Disappeared--finished 1/13
I'm going to try for 102016 Annual TBR Randomizer (0/10)
Updated Mar 6, 2016
Outland Exile: Book One of Old Men and Infidels *
Ender in Exile
28 Days Later Omnibus
Brain Rules
East West Vol 1
The Valkyrie Project *
The Jungle
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Last Runaway *
Heroics #1 *
* = Goodreads Giveaway books
Please add me for 50/5
TO BE READ Randomiser Challenge 5 Books total
17 Friendship Bread by Gee, Darien
18 Women of a Dangerous Age: A Novel by Blake, Fanny
19 The All You Can Dream Buffet by O'Neal, Barbara
20 Little Lady, Big Apple (The Little Lady Agency, #2)
21 Deep Dish by Andrews, Mary Kay
Such a fun challenge! I'm in. I will read 10 books:4/10
1. Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge
2. Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
3. Barbablù by Amélie Nothomb
4. La signora di Milano: Vita e passioni di Bianca Maria Visconti by Daniela Pizzagalli
5. 1st to Die by James Patterson
6. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
7. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
8. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
9. The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
10. Caligula by Albert Camus
Kadijah Michelle wrote: "THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGEDuration: January 1st - December 31st 2016
I will do 10 for this challenge, But I am instead going to do 10 randomized of my owned tbr shelf instead of just tbr (hope that' s ok)
Andy wrote: "Kadijah Michelle wrote: "THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGEDuration: January 1st - December 31st 2016
I will do 10 for this challenge, But I am instead going to do 10 randomized of my owned tbr shelf ..."
That's more than fine. I'm not doing this challenge, but if I did, that's how I would have done it too.
This has been one of my favorites for 3 years +! In for 10! THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2016
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1.Stephen KingIt
2. Many WatersMadeleine L'Engle
3. The Jungle BooksRudyard Kipling
4. Fall of GiantsKen Follett
5. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah StoryJohn Berendt
6. InheritanceChristopher Paolini
7. Bleak HouseCharles Dickens
8. Tender Is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Catch-22Joseph Heller
10. BossypantsTina Fey
Updated as of 1/11/16 Book #2 Completed
Status: 2/45
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Completed 20/30
✔️1. What She Left Behind 4/15/16
✔️ 2. At Bertram's Hotel 3/17/16
✔️ 3. And Then There Were None 4/26/16
4. Blood Magick
✔️ 5.The Shape of Water 3/18/16
✔️ 6. Cinder 2/8/16
✔️ 7. The Murder House 2/6/16
8. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
9. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
✔️10. The Diva Paints the Town 5/18/16
✔️ 11. Scarlet 1/3/16
✔️ 12. It Takes a Witch 3/28/16
✔️ 13. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories 5/14/16
✔️ 14. Unravelling Oliver 1/17/16
✔️ 15. The Witness for the Prosecution: A Short Story 4/21/16
✔️ 16. The Chaperone 3/14/16
✔️ 17. The Under Dog: A Short Story 4/21/16
18. The House on Tradd Street
✔️ 19. Nighttime is my Time 5/23/16
✔️ 20. Ghost of a Potion 3/1/16
✔️ 21. There Was an Old Woman 4/27/16
22. The Miniaturist
23. The Name of the Wind
✔️ 24. The Enchanted 5/6/16
25. The Santangelos
✔️ 26. One Potion in the Grave 2/26/16
27. The Witches: Salem, 1692
✔️ 28. The Good the Bad and the Witchy 5/13/16
29. Tricky Twenty-Two
✔️30. A Potion to Die For 2/19/16