The TBR Randomiser Challenge - 2016

[Kadijah Michelle]

Hello All, Happy October! I'm sorry this one didn't get done until the 3rd, but sometimes that's what happens when you have kids. This is my 5th attempt to post this message! The end of the year is approaching, so count up how many books you have to read so you can finish your goal! .

Here are September's statistics, as of today, we have 136 participants. We have read 453 books of the 2000 pledged, and 6 participants have completed the challenge!

Great job everyone!

[Sarah]

Happy October to all, can't believe how far we are through the year!!!

Update to message 66 - I'm now on 6/12, so halfway through!

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

8/20. I better get a move on if I'm going to finish this!

[❀ Sabina]

I've gone through my TBR and deleted a lot of books. Some of them were on this list (almost half of them), which I've also crossed off. I'll probably add new random book to this list (but it'll be from my Next-to-read-in-series-list).

So I'm at 6/50.. but I've got only 30 books on my list right now that I actually want to read ^^"

[Victoria]

October up date 10/12 completed

Full list at page 1 message 41

[Susan C]

Updated message 8

22/30

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

9/20

[Ann]

update 323

5/5. Finished!

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

10/20

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

11/20

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

12/20

[Agnieszka]

updated message 161 => finished 9/15

[MysticMoods]

Update to Message 134: 10/10.

I've finally finished my challenge! 10/10!! It's been brilliant fun, once again! Good luck everyone! :)

[Bookworm with Kids]

Kadijah Michelle wrote: "Bookworm with Kids wrote: "I was wondering if your randomiser threw up later books in a series than you had actually read, would it be acceptable to substitute the early books in the series for thi..."

Just to clarify - was your reply "Absolutely not." to my question about it being acceptable to substitute books or to the question 'any problems with me substituting earlier ones? I originally took it to mean you didn't have a problem with it but now I think that you were saying it is not acceptable - can you enlighten me please?!?

[Aless]

I finished Alanna: The First Adventure! My challenge is complete!

10/10


^Bookworm with Kids I've seen several people in this thread do that where they swap it for the first unread book in a series.

[Cheri]

Update: 4/5
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris (added Sept. 15, 2012) - 5 stars

[Cheri]

Update: 5/5 - Challenge complete!
The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade S tudy by Howard S. Friedman (2 stars)

[Alexander]

Update msg 111:

+ The Soddit: Or, Let's Cash in Again
6/10

[Megan BG]

I finally finished the 6th book!

The Timekeeper's Son

[✨ jami ✨]

Update message 264. Now at 6/10

[Ann]

Hello. Is the moderator still here??

[Candiss]

I finally finished my tiny list! I updated message 23.

Read: 3/3

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

13/20

[Katzi]

Message 166 updated

Read 5/10

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

14/20

[Susan C]

Updated message 8

24/30

[Jenn]

I'm overdue for an update. I've completed five more books with:

The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
The Meaning of Human Existence
The Shock of the Fall

The Unbearable Lightness of Being was my favorite of the year so far. I have three more to go! 15/18 complete!

[Sarah c]

Please update message 17 2/10

[Sarah c]

Please update message 17
3/10

[Jenn]

Update to message 21: I've completed 16/18 with How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

It was a hard slog, but I finally finished it! Only two more to complete my challenge - I think I can do it!

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

15/20

[Amanda]

Updated #156

The Help by Kathryn Stockett Completed 9/12/16 Rating 4 stars

2/10

Adding the rest into my 2017 reading pile

[Alisia]

10/10 Completed!!!

1. Of Mice and Men
2. The Help
3. Guts
4. 11/22/63
5. Columbine
6. Carrie
7. The Contortionist's Handbook
8. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
9. The Joy Luck Club
10. Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery

[Zita]

Update msg. 43 - 13/25

[Hardcover Harlot]

Message #303 updated.

20/20

COMPLETED!

[Katharine]

message 59 complete

[Flora]

I wanna read 4 books.
1.
2.
3.
4.

[Reija]

[x] 47. Let the Great World Spin

4/10

This is so not my challenge, I'm reading one book for this challenge so I might get half of my goal. I think I read over 10 book from my tbr pile but, of course, not these books. Oh well.

[Karen]

This sounds like a lot of fun! I'd like to participate with 50.

[❀ Sabina]

This challenge wasn't it for me. I've read only 6/50 and removed 21/50 from my TBR, because I don't want to read them anymore..

Well, now I know that I'd rather decide in the spur of the moment what I'ld like to read.

[Reija]

❀ Sabina wrote: "This challenge wasn't it for me. I've read only 6/50 and removed 21/50 from my TBR, because I don't want to read them anymore..

Well, now I know that I'd rather decide in the spur of the moment w..."

I came to exactly same conclusion.

[Kadijah Michelle]

Bookworm with Kids wrote: "Kadijah Michelle wrote: "Bookworm with Kids wrote: "I was wondering if your randomiser threw up later books in a series than you had actually read, would it be acceptable to substitute the early bo..."

It's no problem.

[Kadijah Michelle]

Karen wrote: "This sounds like a lot of fun! I'd like to participate with 50."

This challenge is ending in just a few days. I encourage you to sign up for the 2017 challenge.

[Sam F]

Update:

Message 34

18/20 completed

[Jenn]

Update to message 21: I have completed my challenge with 18/18! The last two books were The Driven Organization, And What We Need to Be Happy and Productive at Work and Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

I'm looking forward to starting my 2017 books now!

[Jessica]

Updated message #402. Challenge completed in the nick of time!

[Reija]

I read half of my goal.

[] 129. 1968: The Year That Rocked the World
[x] 219. Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
[] 133. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
[x] 6. Casting Norma Jeane: A Starlet is Transformed Into Marilyn Monroe
[] 227. Aurora
[x] 64. The Long Earth
[] 169. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
[x] 47. Let the Great World Spin
[x] 208. Paperweight
[] 231. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

5/10

[Mary Pat]

UPDATE:


10/15

1. Prodigal Summer
2. Foundation
3. The Gathering Storm
4. A Game of Thrones
7. League of Dragons
11. Letters From People Who Hate Me
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
13. God Help the Child
14. The Outlaw Demon Wails
15. The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska

[Susan C]

Updated message 8 - fell slightly short of completing the challenge

✓ 1. A Dog's Journey read 1/26/2016
✓ 2. The Fashion Police (aka Fashion, Lies, and Murder) read 7/31/2016
✓ 3. Bird in Hand read 1/9/2016
✓ 4. Necessary Lies read 2/25/2016
✓ 5. Girlchild read 1/19/2016
✓ 6. Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin read 1/6/2016
✓ 7. The Long and Faraway Gone read 7/23/2016
✓ 8. Shooting Kabul read 4/5/2016
✓ 9. Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge read 12/3/2016
10. Alice I Have Been
✓ 11. Where We Belong read 3/6/2016
✓ 12. Orkney read 2/6/2016
✓ 13. A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty read 1/14/2016
✓ 14. The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics 6/19/2016
✓ 15. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't read 11/12/2016
✓ 16. A Mother's Day to Remember read 2/13/2016
17. Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat
✓ 18. Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City read 11/24/2016
✓ 19. The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness read 9/21/2016
✓ 20. The Road from Gap Creek read 6/10/2016
✓ 21. The Museum of Extraordinary Things read 12/10/2016
✓ 22. The Master's Muse read 8/3/2016
✓ 23. Life Among Giants read 6/25/2016
✓ 24. Frog Music read 9/27/2016
✓ 25. The Angry Woman Suite read 12/19/2016
✓ 26. The Other Story read 6/27/2016
✓ 27. Coincidence read 8/15/2016
✓ 28. The House of Rumour read 12/4/2016
✓ 29. 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life read 2/5/2016
✓ 30. Someone read 8/15/2016

28/30

[Debra H]

Finished 0 out of my goal of 10. The TBR challenge is def not for me. I just end up reading whatever I get my hands on vs planning it out.