The TBR Randomiser Challenge - 2017

[Sue]

Count me in for 10. Be back to post the list.

[Hallie]

What's one more challenge?
I'm down for ten books!
2/10
1. The Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
2. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
3. The Awakening - Kate Chopin COMPLETED
4. Bel Canto - Ann Pratchett
5. One Summer; America 1927 - Bill Bryson
6. The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford - COMPLETED
7. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir
8. Holding Up The Universe - Jennifer Niven
9. Mother, Come Home - Paul Hornschemeier
10. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

[[deleted user]]

twelve books : not only from my to read shelf ... I have these chosen from the ones that I already own shelf because I want something to read while waiting on books I've requested from the library.

0/12

1. Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

2. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

3. Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women

4. The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality

5. All Over But the Shoutin'

6. Skylight Confessions

7. Ready Player One

8. Bastard Out of Carolina

9. The Poisonwood Bible

10. Mrs. Dalloway

11. People of the Book

12. Love, Sex, And Other Miscommunications

[Becky]

I'm in for 5.

1. Scrappy Little Nobody
2. Prince Caspian
3. The Last Camellia
4. Orange Is The New Black
5. Distant Shores

[Kate]

I would like start with 5 for 2017.


1. The Wishing Thread
2. Secrets to Happiness
3. The Book of Speculation
4. The Whole Town's Talking
5. The Midnight Witch

[Karoline]

I am going for 5 - I have excluded those books I have to buy or are not available at libraries here in Oslo. I have quite a few academic/nonfiction books on my TBR list so this also ties in nicely with the Dewey challenge!

Completed: 0/5

1. Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction - Paul Farmer
2. Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination - J.K. Rowling
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
4. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen
5. The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS . Helen Epstein

[Artemisia]

2017 TBR Randomizer Challenge
I'm Going for 7!

1. The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klaven
2. The Declaration by Gemma Malley
3. The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgewick
4. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
5. The Horses of Proud Spirit by Melanie Sue bowles
6. Clarity by Kim Harrington
7. My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent

[Maureen]

Ang Figgy-Pudding wrote: "From last year, PLUS!

0/20

1. Queen of Shadows Kindle
2. Spider's Bite TBR - home bookshelf
3. The Mechanical TBR - Kindle
4. [book:I Know Why the C..."

Hope you enjoy Lilac Girls! I like what you did noting where the book was.

[Claire]

I'm going for ten. I hope I did it right.
1.Go Tell It on the Mountain
2. Veronika Decides to Die
3. Martin Eden
4. The Power and the Glory
5.Under the Skin
6. Corelli's Mandolin
7. Dead Babies
8. Oscar and Lucinda
9. Cancer Ward
10. City Primeval

[Kina]

I'm in for 13

0/13

1. The Light Between Oceans
2. The Austere Academy
3. The Mist
4. The Awakening
5. Holding Up the Universe
6. What You Left Behind
7. Those Girls
8. The Liar
9. Luxe
10. Last One Home
11. I'll Tell You Mine
12. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
13. Reconstructing Amelia

[Suzanne]

Winter wrote: "Participants:

Adriana - 0/10
Agnieszka - 0/15
Aless - 0/10
Alexxy - 0/5
Amanda - 0/10
Amie - 0/12
Ang - 0/20
Ann - 0/15
Anna - 0/10
Annie - 0/10
Annie (80) - 0/10
Annie (87) - 0/5
Becky - 0/5
Blag..."

Suzanne 0/6

[Suzanne]

Suzanne 0/6

Laughing at My Nightmare by Burcaw, Shane
Home from Within
Every Last One by Quindlen, Anna
This World We Live In (Last 3) Pfeffer, Susan Beth
The Secret Place (Dublin Murdin Squad)
Second Time Around

[Jo]

Ooooh I like the sound of this challenge!! I have an awfully large TBR pile so am definitely up for this.

I'm going to be kind in myself (& realistic!) and set myself a goal of 10 books please! I'm going to choose my books as I go along - I'm not very good when I give myself a list to read!

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[*Layali*]

I'd like to try for 10 this year!

Completed: 2/10

1. The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer
✓ 2. Overwatch #10: Reflections by Michael Chu
3. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
4. The Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye
✓ 5. Cure for the Common Universe by Christian McKay Heidicker
6. Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
7. Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Colthurst
8. Bared to You by Sylvia Day
9. A Crucible of Souls by Mitchell Hogan
10. Every Last Breath by Jennifer L. Armentrout

[Gail]

I would like to participate in this challenge. I like the idea of being surprised one book at a time so I will be posting the titles as I go. I will go with 12 books. I love the idea of this challenge. It is a great motivator for me to read off of a list I have been creating for years!

12/12 - (complete)

1. Twisted - Andrew Kaufman. (January)
2. The Gift - Louise Jensen. (February)
3. Love You to Death -Shannon Butcher (March)
4. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins (April)
5. The Passenger Lisa Lutz (May)
6. The Butterfly Garden - Dot Hutchison (June)
7. Beautiful Bastard - Christina Lauren (July)
8. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson (August)
9. What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarity (September)
10. The One I Left Behind. - Jennifer McMahon. (October)
11. The Breakdown - B A Paris ( November)
12. AHouse For Happy Mothers - Ampulla Malladi. (December)

[Ju]

I'm in for 10 books:

578 - Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day - Seanan McGuire
308 - The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
112 - Green Rider - Kristen Britain
289 - Laurinda - Alice Pung
237 - Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
5 - A Man and Two Women: Stories - Doris Lessing
82 - Full Moon Rising - Keri Arthur
135 - Liesmith - Alis Franklin
98 - Trade Secret - Sharon Lee
147 - The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi

[Julia]

I'm in for 12! I am also going to randomly generate the choices one at a time. Last year, I didn't meet my goal but I doubt I would have read East of Eden otherwise so I'm counting that as success.

1. We Were Liars

[Tiffany]

Going for 30. I narrowed it down to books I owned.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

[Amanda]

4/10

1. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
2. The Namesake READ
3. The Underground Railroad READ
4. Songs in Ordinary Time
5. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore READ
6. The Moon and More
7. The Corrections
8. Island of a Thousand Mirrors
9. Norwegian Wood
10. The Pearl READ

[Claire]

I'll do 10:

1. The Sound of Songs Across the Water
2. A Heart for Grace
3. Where Evil Waits
4. 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy
5. Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
6. Wissahickon Souls
7. The Cleansing
8. The Glass Arrow
9. Letters from the Apocalypse
10. Man V. Nature

[Winter, Group Reads]

Updated you all, welcome! :)

[SibylM]

I'm going for 12, ideally 1 each month:
1. Before Wilde: Sex between Men in Britain’s Age of Reform
2. The Children's Book
3. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
4. Dancer
5, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
6. Long Man
7. Shelter
8. 750 Years in Paris
9. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
10. The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
11. Leaving Lucy Pear
12. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

[Emma]

I'm going to go in for 20!

1. Dragon Wing
2. Euphoria
3. Leviathan
4. A Dance With Dragons
5. Hamlet
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. A Wrinkle in Time
8. All the Light We Cannot See
9. Glass Sword
10. A Dream of Spring
11. The Dark
12. The Iron King
13. Magyk
14. Artemis Fowl
15. Impulse
16. Say What You Will
17. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
18. Jane Eyre
19. Of Mice and Men
20. Looking for Alaska

[Caro]

Always something happens and I do not manage to finish this one... I hope that the third will be the charm this time :)

As last time I will only use books in my own shelf so it will not cost me some extra money but instead will help me to reduce my TBR list... I will go for 12...

And the winners are:

1. Vanishing Girls
2. war/lock
3. On Beauty
4. Mr. Splitfoot
5. Underground
6. Burn Baby Burn
7. Feed
8. Oryx and Crake
9. 1984
10. Objetivo 4
11. La sombra de lo que fuimos
12. Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again

[Leisa]

I'm in for 5.

2/5

1. A Midsummer Night's Dream
✔️2. Taking the Titanic
3. Happily ​Ever After
✔️4. Gray Mountain
5. Angels Walking

[Chetara]

I'll try for 20 this year. See tracking @ Chetara’s Try Something Different

[Miriam]

I am going for 7:
1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. The Goldfinch
3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
4. The Rosie Project
5. Fates and Furies
6. Never Let Me Go
7. A Spool of Blue Thread

[Helen]

I'm in for 5

0/5 Completed

0/5 Completed

#501 Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer
#344 The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
#721 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
#760 The Mystery of the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
#644 Joyland by Stephen King

[Tefek]

I'm in for 15

3/15 Done

1- صميمانه با جوانان وطنم
2- انسان طاغى
3- حاج مم جفر در پاريس
4- كافه پاريس
5- هزار خورشيد تابان
6- باشگاه مشت زنى
7- كشتى پهلوگرفته
8- غرور و تعصب
9- مرواريد
10- روى ماه خداوند راببوس
11- Aquamarine
12- آهستگى
13- سوييت فرانسوى
14- اتحاديه ابلهان
15- زندگى در پيش رو

[zandrama]

I'm in on this! 10 would probably be a good number.

Update June 3rd

1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Done!
2. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - Done!
3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children -Done!
4. The Colour Of Magic - Done!
5. I kroppen min: Resan mot livets slut och alltings början - Done!
6. Nattvandraren - Done!
7. Interview with the Vampire
8. The Light Fantastic
9. Last Chance to See - Done!
10. Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales

Completed: 7/10

[Lotte]

I like this one! I will do 10 books. And I will draw as I am ready for a new book.

6/10 total

The Snow Child
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Mistress of the Art of Death
The Outcast
The Storyteller
The Sound of Glass

[Debra]

updated msg 19

[Melanie]

I'm gonna try for 30 random books from my TBR list!

1 - The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2) - McKinley, Robin

2 - Last Summer - Ford, Michael Thomas

3 - Plague of the Dead (Morningstar Strain #1) - Recht, Z.A.

4 - Mary Barton - Gaskell, Elizabeth

5 - Wes and Toren - Colail, J.M.

6 - Skunk Girl - Karim, Sheba

7 - Romancing the Duke (Castles Ever After, #1) - Dare, Tessa

8 - ttyl (Internet Girls, #1) - Myracle, Lauren

9 - Saints Astray (Santa Olivia, #2) - Carey, Jacqueline

10 - The Introspective Debate of Owen Brody - Gray, Dart

11 - A Book - Arnaz, Desi

12 - The Mermaid's Madness (Princess, #2) - Hines, Jim C.

13 – Ascheherz - Blazon, Nina

14 - Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life - McCarthy, Maureen

15 - Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen - Valentino, Serena

16 - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson - Ellis, Joseph J.

17 - Reality Check - Abrahams, Peter

18 - Summers at Castle Auburn - Shinn, Sharon

19 – Entangled - Clarke, Cat

20 - The Empty Family - Tóibín, Colm

21 - Sweet Venom (Medusa Girls, #1) - Childs, Tera Lynn

22 - Curse of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #2) - Lutz, Lisa

23 - Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical - Noyes, Deborah

24 - The Summoning (Darkest Powers, #1) - Armstrong, Kelley

25 - Ella Enchanted - Levine, Gail Carson

26 - The Barefoot Queen - Falcones, Ildefonso

27 - Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) - Maas, Sarah J.

28 - A Need So Beautiful (A Need So Beautiful, #1) - Young, Suzanne

29 - Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2) - Taylor, Laini

30 - In the Time of the Butterflies - Alvarez, Julia *

[Nurai]

Update message #9: 1/20

[Brianna]

01.01.17 - 01.07.17

read → 01 | 12

01 → Falling into Place by Amy Zhang | ★★★

[zandrama]

Update to message 136. 1/10

[Jenn]

Update to message 47: completed 2/20 with The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else and The Kitchen House

[Cindy III]

I'm in for 7.

[Lindsey]

Please count me in for 20! Thank you :)

[Greg]

I guess I will give this a try. Put me down for 12 books.

1. Governor Ramage R. N.
2. The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
3. A Fine Boy for Killing
4. Last Carpathian Wolf
5.Assassin's Apprentice
6. The Black Company
7. Alien
8. The Broken Lands
9. Lord of Emperors
10. The Day After Tomorrow
11. Gerald's Game
12. Blood and Honor

[Claire]

10 books please.

1. Twittering from the Circus of the Dead by Joe Hill
2. The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
3. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
4. Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
5. Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
6. Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix
7. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
8. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Manna from Hades by Carola Dunn
10. A Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse

[Diana]

update:

1 / 8

1.Anotimpul regasirii by Sarah Jio

[Stephanie]

I am going to join this one too, officially. I am aiming for 25 again. I really like the idea of picking 25 books randomly, even if I never seem to actually read that many. I will probably finish this challenge in 2018, but something about shooting for 25, lol.

My Random List Is:

1. Mistress Shakespeare Finished 3/3/2017
2. The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
3. Folly and Glory (#4 The Barry Bender Narration)
4. Slow Motion Riot
5. Well-Schooled in Murder (#3 Inspector Lynley)
6. To the Ends of the Earth
7. Curses! Foiled Again (#2 Foiled)
8. Black Wings and Blind Angels
9. Sappho's Leap
10. In Cold Blood
11. Notes of a Dirty Old Man
12. Light in August
13. Alanna: The First Adventure
14. A Face Like Glass
15. A Tangle of Gold (#3 The Colors of Madeleine)
16. Hello From the Gillespies
17. The Assassin's Curse
18. The Lottery and Other Stories
19. We Remember the Holocaust
20. Red Rising
21. Leah
22. City on Fire
23. Empire in Black and Gold
24. The Breadwinner
25. The Great St Mary's Day Out (#7.5 of The Chronicles of St. Mary's)

Total Read: 1/25

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 31 with Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb - ****

1/10

[Meagan]

I'm going to try for 10 books
1. The Map of True Places
2. The People of Paper
3. Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess
4. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
5. Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
6. Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
7. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
8. An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
9. Baking Cakes in Kigali
10. The American Heiress

[Gail]

I have read Twisted. By: Andrew Kaufman.

1/12

[Lauri]

Lauri's Most Random Challenge Ever!
0 / 15

1. Birds of a Feather
2. Lady of Ashes
3. Nobody's Princess
4. Girl at War
5. So Far from God
6. The China Lover
7. Snow Hunters
8. The Witching Hour
9. Wanderlost
10. Not Tonight, Honey: Wait 'Til I'm A Size 6
11. Last Light over Carolina
12. Hollow City
13. A Beautiful Place to Die
14. Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge
15. Staked

[Ann at the Beach]

I am going with a modest 5 ! and boy is it random!

1. The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry
2.2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks
3.March by Geraldine Brooks
4.The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
5.Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 31 with The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff - ****

2/10

[Lindsay]

I'm in for 15. I have some many on my list I forget about what I have. This will be a good way to remind myself some I may have forgotten about!