The Twelve Towers Challenge

[Helen]

THE TWELVE TOWERS CHALLENGE FINISHED!

Fast and Furious - up to 1 year from 12-16-20
Finished September 21, 2021
78 out of 78

◈ The Twelve Towers

12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date) FINISHED
1) C Is for Canada Michael Ulmer 1-30-21
2) A is for Acorn: A California Indian ABC Analisa Tripp 1-30-21
3) Dog Days Karen English 2-11-21
4) Don't Lie to Me: And Stop Trying to Steal Our Freedom Jeanine Pirro 2-12-21
5) One Smile Cindy McKinley 2-14-21
6) Dogs Are People, Too: A Collection of Cartoons to Make Your Tail Wag Dave Coverly 2-14-21
7) The Last Kids on Earth Max Brallier 2-14-21
8) Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Tyson Yunkaporta 2-21-21
9) Bad Dog Mike Boldt 2-22-21
10) Can I Be Your Dog? Troy Cummings 2-24-21
11) Dog Loves Books Louise Yates 2-25-21
12) The Sacred Banana Leaf Nathan Kumar Scott 2-25-21


11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest FINISHED
1) The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling James Hillman 1-11-21
2) The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Dr. Seuss 1-13-21
3) On Christmas Eve Ann M. Martin 1-13-21
4) The Cove Catherine Coulter 1-17-21
5) The Cat at the Wall Deborah Ellis 1-17-21
6) Furry Logic: A Guide to Life's Little Challenges Jane Seabrook 1-18-21
7) Interventions Noam Chomsky 1-28-21
8) Chicken Soup for the Soul: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries: 101 Stories of Hope, Healing, and Hard Work Amy Newmark 2-11-21
9) The Superior Cat: I.Q. Tests for Cats and Their Two-Legged Companions Melissa Miller 2-14-21
10) A Star Witness Carolyn Keene 2-24-21
11) Good People Marcus Sakey 2-28-21

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose) FINISHED
1) Amazonia James Rollins 1-15-21
2) "A" is for Airplane / "A" es para Avion Theresa Howell 1-18-21
3) Terrorist John Updike1-28-21
4) Christmas Mice! Bethany Roberts 1-30-21
5) How the Penguins Saved Veronica Hazel Prior 2-2-21
6) The Boy Who Loved All Living Things: The Imaginary Childhood Journal of Albert Schweitzer Sheila Hamanaka 2-3-21
7) Newborn Puppies: Dogs in Their First Three Weeks Traer Scott 2-3-21
8) "A" is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet Richard Michelson 2-6-21
9) C Is for Coyote: A Southwest Alphabet Book Andrea Helman 2-6-21
10) The Breadwinner Deborah Ellis 2-6-21



9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs FINISHED
1) Conversations with God Book 3: An Uncommon Dialogue Neale Donald Walsch 1-11-21
(Conversations with God #3)
2) Conversations with God, Book 4: Awaken the Species Neale Donald Walsch 1-11-21 (Conversations with God #4)
3) Sacred Leaf Deborah Ellis 2-2-21 (Cocalero Novels #2)
4) Click, Clack, Surprise! Doreen Cronin 2-3-21 (Farmer John's Barnyard Adventures #11)
5) Parvana's Journey Deborah Ellis 2-11-21 (The Breadwinner Trilogy #2)
6) Mud City Deborah Ellis 2-11-21 (The Breadwinner Trilogy #3)
7) My Name Is Parvana Deborah Ellis 2-12-21 (The Breadwinner Trilogy, #4)
8) Marley: Snow Dog Marley John Grogan 2-24-21 (Marley : I Can Read It! #2)
9) Princess in the Spotlight Meg Cabot 3-3-21 (The Princess Diaries #2)

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case. FINISHED
1) In from the Cold Deborah Ellis 2-21-21 (novella)
2 to 7) Cruel Miracles Orson Scott Card 3-12-21 (6 short stories)
8) Project Princess Meg Cabot 3-13-21

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you FINISHED
1) The Firm John Grisham 1-12-21
2) Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man Mary L. Trump 2-22-21
3) The Institute Stephen King 4-20-21
4) The Dalai Lama's Cat David Michie 5-11-21
5) Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 5-29-21
6) The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 7-7-21
7) The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde 7-10-21

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date) FINISHED
1) A Shot in the Arm! Don Brown 4-30-21 (Published April 20, 2021)
2) Walking Toward Peace: The True Story of a Brave Woman Called Peace Pilgrim Kathleen Krull 8-8-21 (Published March 23, 2021)
3) We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know Traci Sorell 8-11-21 (Published April 20, 2021)
4) Nothing Personal James Baldwin 9-3-21 (Published May 4, 2021)
5) New Zealand Alicia Z Klepeis 9-7-21 (Published 1-1-21)
6) The Quiet Boy Ben H. Winters 9-21-21 (Published 5-18-21)

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads FINISHED
1) Burglars Can't Be Choosers Lawrence Block 4-20-21
2) Cowboy & Octopus Jon Scieszka 6-16-21
3) Furry Logic Laugh at Life Jane Seabrook 6-16-21
4) Hi, Pizza Man! Virginia Walter 6-22-21
5) Cat Talk Patricia MacLachlan 6-25-21

4 books that you started but never finished FINISHED
1) Ok Boomer, Let's Talk: A Millennial Defense of Our Generation Jill Filipovic 3-16-21
2) The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 3-16-21
3) The Wit & Wisdom of Jack London Jack London 3-16-21
4) Green Dolphin Street Elizabeth Goudge 3-16-21

3 books that you've already read before FINISHED
1) Dog Heaven Cynthia Rylant 2-18-21 (in 2017)
2) The Pigeon Needs a Bath! Mo Willems 5-1-21 (Read in 2017)
3) Therapy Dogs Linda Tagliaferro 5-3-21 (Read in 2020)

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
FINISHED
1) I Am a Taxi Deborah Ellis 1-15-21 (The cover shows a scene which does not take place in the book, at all!)
2) Salvador Joan Didion 6-12-21 (It has nothing to do with the book)

1 book that intimidates you FINISHED
1) The Restless Atom: The Awakening of Nuclear Physics Alfred Romer 2-24-21 (Hard to understand the difficult science experiments!)

[Nele]

This time I'm going to take more time for this
Eyes on Target - up to 3 years

Books 32/78
Towers 2/12

12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Nachtlichter
Fool on the Hill
Das Gleißen der Nacht
Komm, ich erzähl dir eine Geschichte
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
The Fifth Season
The City of Brass
Wasserfarben
We, the Drowned

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Name of the Wind
Der Name der Rose
Peter Pan
Sophie's World
Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem
Dragonfly in Amber
Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee
Das Glasperlenspiel
Die Brautprinzessin


10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
pre chosen:
A Wolf for a Spell
She Who Became the Sun
A Deadly Education
Ink & Sigil
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Warrior of the Wild
The Lost Girls of Paris
The Glass Sentence
1984
The Faceless Ones

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs


8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.


7 books that everyone seems to have read but you


6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)


5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads


4 books that you started but never finished


✔ 3 books that you've already read before


2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books


✔1 book that intimidates you

[LaurLa]

Finished 2020!!! I may be back again for another round in 2021.
Updated post: My Twelve Towers Challenge (msg 136)

Level ~ Fast and Furious : 12 Towers | 78 Books Read

[LaurLa]

The Twelve Towers Challenge
January - December 2020

My Twelve Towers Challenge (msg 155)

Level ~ Fast and Furious : 12 Towers | 78 Books Read

✔✔12 books that you've acquired most recently


✔🔹Selkies Are a Girl’s Best Friend - 10.16 ★★★★
✔🔹Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues - 01.01 ★★★★
✔🔹Gimme Some Sugar - 08.26 ★★★★
✔🔹White Heat - 01.22 ★★★★
✔🔹Whiskey Chick - 01.16 ★★★★
✔🔹Emerald Blaze - 01.17 ★★★★
✔🔹Fatal Fraud - 02.01 ★★★★
✔🔹Unwanted Stars - 06.30 ★★★
✔🔹The Summer Deal - 03.23 ★★★★
✔🔹Razed Glory - 03.05 ★★★★
✔🔹Lady Luck - 07.15 ★★★★
✔🔹Nordic Lessons - 07.18 ★★★

✔✔11 books never found time to get to or that have been on your shelves the longest

✔🔹A Son - 01.25 ★★★
✔🔹Flirting with Disaster - 04.29 ★★★★
✔🔹Miracle Pie - 05.29 ★★★
✔🔹Love's Wild Desire - 05.03 ★★★
✔🔹Wilde for Him - 04.11 ★★★
✔🔹Coming Home - 04.13 ★★★★
✔🔹Honeymoon Hotel - 10.08 ★★★
✔🔹More Than Memories - 10.10 ★★★
✔🔹More Than a Promise - 10.01 ★★★
✔🔹Beneath a Texas Star - 08.23 ★★★
✔🔹Sins & Second Chances - 08.05 ★★★

✔✔10 books you randomly select from your shelves

✔🔹Law Man - 12.09 ★★★★
✔🔹A Heart Decision - 05.15 ★★★
✔🔹The Truest Thing - 02.03 ★★★★
✔🔹Sleeping with the Enemy - 09.24 ★★★
✔🔹Until Trevor - 06.27 ★★★★
✔🔹Guardian's Grace - 08.19 ★★★★
✔🔹By the Pricking of My Thumbs - 01.08 ★★★
✔🔹Valorous - 05.23 ★★★★
✔🔹The Laughing Corpse - 07.25 ★★★
✔🔹Picturing Perfect - 04.21 ★★★

✔✔9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

✔🔹Sex, Lies and Valentines - 08.26 ★★★
✔🔹The Heat of a Kiss - 03.29 ★★★
✔🔹In Love Again - 02.21 ★★★★
✔🔹Can't Fight This Feeling - 05.23 ★★★★
✔🔹Historically Yours - 09.02 ★★★
✔🔹One Good Dragon Deserves Another - 10.26 ★★★★
✔🔹Reeling in the Redneck - 07.27 ★★
✔🔹Kiera's Sun - 056.12 ★★★
✔🔹Master of the Abyss - 10.22 ★★★★

✔✔8 novellas or short-stories

✔🔹Dawn of Surrender - 01.09 ★★★
✔🔹Sinful Surrender - 01.22 ★★★★
✔🔹Before She Dies - 03.13 ★★★
✔🔹Falling to Pieces - 08.29 ★★★
✔🔹The Gravedigger’s Son - 06.25 ★★★★
✔🔹Mistletoe in Paradise - 04.22 ★★★★
✔🔹The Library of Unrequited Love - 04.08 ★★★
✔🔹Ambush - 08.07 ★★★

✔✔7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

✔🔹A Discovery of Witches - 03.28 ★★★★
✔🔹Beautiful Stranger - 04.07 ★★★★
✔🔹Lover Reborn - 04.27 ★★★★
✔🔹Equal Rites - 05.07 ★★★
✔🔹Alice in Zombieland - 05.24 ★★★★
✔🔹Twice Tempted - 05.12 ★★★★
✔🔹Kitty Takes a Holiday - 07.09 ★★★★

✔✔6 anticipated releases

✔🔹Marrying Mr. Wrong - 07.19 ★★★★
✔🔹The Forever Girl - 11.14 ★★★★
✔🔹Vampire - 12.02 ★★★★
✔🔹A Good Day for Chardonnay - 08.07 ★★★★
✔🔹Much Ado About You - 03.26 ★★★★
✔🔹The Soulmate Equation - 09.04 ★★★★

✔✔5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

✔🔹Faking Ms. Right - 01.16 ★★★★
✔🔹Settling the Score - 03.12 ★★★★
✔🔹A New Leash on Love - 02.25 ★★★★
✔🔹Getting Schooled - 03.18 ★★★★
✔🔹Hot and Badgered - 01.28 ★★★★

✔✔4 books that you started but never finished
Note: I didn't have any in this category so I chose series I had neglected for over a year

✔🔹Dagger's Edge - 10.23 ★★★★
✔🔹Courted by Karma - 12.29 ★★★★
✔🔹When Snow Falls - 01.05 ★★★★
✔🔹Love, Diamonds, and Spades - 10.19 ★★★★

✔✔3 books that you've already read before

✔🔹Faking It - 10.13 ★★★★
✔🔹4th of July - 03.13 ★★★★
✔🔹Pride and Prejudice - 07.16 ★★★★

✔✔2 books with covers you don't think fit the storyline or you don't like

✔🔹Baptism by Blood - 05.09 ★★★
✔🔹30 Pieces of Silver - 10.09 ★★★★

✔✔1 book that intimidates you

✔🔹The Phantom of the Opera - 06.30 ★★★

[Heather]

Twelve Towers Challange #1
Level: Eyes on the target
Duration from 1/1/21-1/1/24

Total Completed Towers: 5/12
Total Completed books: 46/78


12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date):

11/12 Completed
1. Devotion-2/24/21*
2. Something Blue
3. The Wives*-12/26/21
4. Seven Up-1.24.21*
5. White Oleander-3/27/22*
6. Going for Gold-4.4.21*
7. A Christmas Wish-12/12/21*
8.Blood Bound-3/5/21*
9. Fifty Shades of Grey-12/31/21*
10. Fifty Shades Darker-1/2/22*
11. Fifty Shades Freed-1/5/22*
12. A Killer Cupcake-10/20/21*

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)

3/11 Completed
1. Voyager-8/6/22***
2. A Game of Thrones
3. A Clash of Kings
4. A Storm of Swords
5. A Feast for Crows
6. The One You Love
7. Betting on You
8. Concrete Evidence-1/27/25**
9. Witches of East End Nook
10. City of Bones Nook
11. The Maze Runner-10/10/21*

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)

2/10 completed
1. From Blood and Ash-1/7/23
2.Slow & Steady #1
3. Love Unscripted
4. The Surgeon
5. Fangirl
6.Neanderthal Seeks Human-3/2/22**
7. The Portrait of a Lady
8. Heather nook
9. Awaken His Eyes kindle
10. Dark Lover


9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

9/9 completed****
1. Those Summer Nights Sweet Cravings #2-1.1.21
2. Hold Me Close Last Frontier Lodge #7- 1.5.21
3. You Drive Me Crazy Blackwells of Crystal Lake #2- 1/11/21
4. You Rock My World Blackwells of Crystal Lake #3- 1/15/21
5. Hard Eight Stephanie Plum #8-1/24/21
6. You Own My Heart Blackwells of Crystal Lake #4-1/30/21
7. Twice a Wish Goddess Isles #2-2/15/21
8. Third a Kiss Goddess Isles #3-2/20/21
9. Fourth a Lie Goddess Isles #4-2/28/21

**8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

8/8 completed
1. Lone Wolf (series unbound shifters 4.5)-1.4.21*
2. Bewitch (London Vampires #5-3/22/21*
3. Darkness Falls (Revelers #1-5/9/21*
4. Ashes To Ashes (Ministry of Curiosities #5-5/13/21
5. Feral Heat (Shifters Unbound #5.5)-10/8/21
6. Undateable-3/30/22
7. Bear Attraction (shifters unbound #6.5)-4/8/22
8. Visions of Sugar Plums #8.5 Stephanie Plum series-4/24/22


7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

3/7 Completed
1. Eat, Pray, Love don't own
2. The Time Traveler's Wife don't own
3. The Notebook-11/20/21*
4. The Lord of the Rings kindle
5. Sharp Objects-8/31/22**
6. It-12/15/23**
7. Dune paperback

***6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

6/6 completed
1. Matchmaker by Ivy Smoak-12/28/21*
2.The Society #StalkerProblems-12/29/21*
3. Cold Cruel Kiss (Crossfire #4) by Toni Anderson-10/4/21*
4. Think Like a Girl: 10 Unique Strengths of a Woman's Brain and How to Make Them Work for You-7.3.21*
5. Cold As Ice-10/25/21*
6. Runaway-1/8/23

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

3/5 completed
1. The Help don't own
2. Moon Called-1.3.21*
3. The Silent Girls-Nook
4. Girl in Trouble-1.8.21*
5. Falling for You- 1.9.21*

4 books that you started but never finished

2/4
1. The Passage-kindle
2. The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food-PB
3. Eruption-2/13/21*
4. The Five Love Languages of Children-2/23/21*

***3 books that you've already read before
3/3
1. Guilty Pleasures Nook-2/2/22*
2. Written in Red nook-4/29/24
3. Something Borrowed-7/18/21*

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

0/2 completed
1. The Fault in Our Stars don't own
2. Where the Crawdads Sing don't own

1 book that intimidates you

1/1 completed
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë-7/22/22***

[Nanci]

Vicki Willis wrote: "I am doing pretty good with this one. I think I will be on track to finish by the time I wanted to.
I just had to move my "intimidating" book to my DNF catagory, because I have officially given up..."

You're not alone, Vicki! I also moved War and Peace to my DNF from "intimidating". I even bought the book for this, but maybe I'll finish it another time. Hmmm...probably not! :)

[Nanci]

Nanci wrote: "I'm joining! I'll be quick as a bunny!
Start date: 5/2/2019
End date: 5/2/2021
Goal: 75/78 (as of 1/9/2021)

◈ The Twelve Towers
✔12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
1. ..."

I completed my list! Man oh man that feels so good!

[Bobbi]

April 8, 2021 - April 8, 2024
Level: Eyes on Target
Goal: 63/78

✔️12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
🦄Girl A 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Only Good Indians 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄Enclave 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄Later 🌠🌠🌠
🦄They Called Us Enemy 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Farm 🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Good Sister 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄Project Hail Mary 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Quiet Girl 🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Dinner Guest 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Push 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
🐾Shutter Island
🐾Déjà Dead
🐾The Lightning Thief 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐾Once Burned
🐾Some Girls Bite
🐾Spider's Bite
🐾Firelight
🐾Darkness Unbound
🐾Unwind 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐾Time Thief
🐾A Darker Shade of Magic

✔️10 books you randomly select from shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
🐺Drop Dead Gorgeous 🌠
🐺Of Potions and Portents 🌠🌠🌠
🐺The Last Dragonslayer 🌠🌠🌠
🐺Kill Me Softly 🌠🌠🌠
🐺Haunted Flint 🌠🌠
🐺The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐺Hex Hall 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐺Shadow and Bone 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐺The Troop 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐺Circe 🌠🌠🌠🌠

✔️9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
👸Second Grave on the Left 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸The Unbound
👸Cry Wolf 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸Immortally Yours 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸Rogue Protocol 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸Magic Burns 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸Frostbite 🌠🌠🌠
👸Ex-Patriots 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸The Hawthorne Legacy 🌠🌠🌠🌠

✔️8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
🤴The Demon in the Wood 🌠🌠🌠
🤴"The Soldiers of the 115th Regiment" from The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories 🌠
🤴"Dark Carousel" from Full Throttle 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
🤴"Duel" from Road Rage 🌠🌠🌠
🤴The Accident 🌠🌠
🤴"The Thing About Cassandra" from Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🤴"A Guidebook for the Newly Sired Desi Vampire" from Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
🤴"Monkey House" from Zombie Zoology 🌠🌠🌠

✔️7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
👑The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 🌟🌟🌟🌟
👑The Midnight Library 🌠🌠
👑Divergent 🌠🌠🌠
👑City of Bones 🌠🌠🌠
👑Eragon 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👑Kindred 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
👑The Eagle of the Ninth 🌠🌠🌠

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)
🐲Survive the Night 🌠🌠🌠
🐲The Mary Shelley Club
🐲Ophie's Ghosts 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐲The Final Girl Support Group 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐲The Maidens 🌠🌠🌠
🐲Meant to Be Immortal

✔️5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
🐉The Broken Girls 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐉The Last Final Girl 🌠🌠
🐉If We Were Villains 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐉The Passengers 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐉Find Layla 🌠🌠

✔️4 books that you started but never finished
🎭The Long Walk 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🎭The Maze Runner 🌠🌠🌠
🎭The Selection 🌠🌠🌠
🎭The Giver 🌠🌠🌠

✔️3 books that you've already read before
🔔Welcome to Deadhouse 🌠🌠🌠
🔔Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🔔Uglies 🌠🌠🌠

✔️2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
🗝The Forest of Hands and Teeth 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🗝Thirteen Reasons Why 🌠🌠🌠

1 book that intimidates you
🏹House of Leaves


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[Paula]

I just discovered this challenge hahaha
I'm going for Slow and Steady hahaha
Start date: april 8th, 2021
Deadline: april 7th, 2026

The Twelve Towers

12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)


11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
La Sombra del Viento
Cuentos
The Bear and the Nightingale
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
Cuentos Completos
Career of Evil
Injusticia Poética
The Hearts we Sold
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Diary of a Young Girl
Babette's Feast



10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)



9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs



8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.



7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
✔️Kim Ji-young, nacida en 1982 - Read april 10, 2021


6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)



5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads



4 books that you started but never finished
Mujercitas


3 books that you've already read before



2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books



1 book that intimidates you
Anna Karenina

[Vicki Willis]

My 2 year goal for this one is almost up.
I have 16 books left and I am going to continue it for the third year and see if I can finish it!
The one I am struggling with is an "intimidating" book. Maybe I will pick a book that is more than 500 pages for that. I can't think of another way a book would be intimidating, unless I picked a genre I don't normally read?
What have some of you done with that tower?

[Nele]

@Vicki Willis for me at least long classics are the way to go for that tower. I started Dune this year and it is intimidating because it is so long and only the start of a series, plus the edition I own is in English which isn't my first language

[Christina]

◈ The Twelve Towers
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
1. A Happy and Healthy Pregnancy: The first-time mom's guide to taking control of her health and overcoming common pregnancy challenges 1/1/22
2. The Match 1/7/22
3. Mindful Eating For Lasting Weight-Loss: Surround Yourself with Mindful Moments for Long-Term Weight-Loss
4. Container and Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners and Beyond: A Guide to Growing Your Own Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit and Cut Flowers
5. Beauty and the Professor
6. Your Pregnancy, Your Way: Everything You Need to Know about Natural Pregnancy and Childbirth 4/19/22
7. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America 1/23/22
8. The Chronicles of Narnia
9. The Deal
10. Strong Is the New Beautiful: Embrace Your Natural Beauty, Eat Clean, and Harness Your Power
11. Rapture 1/14/22
12. The Bachman Books

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1. Inferno 2/26/22
2. Wicked Nights
3. Hidden
4. First Drop of Crimson
5. This Side of the Grave
6. Sweet Peril
7. Sweet Reckoning
8. The Iron King
9. Darkest Mercy
10. Faery Tales & Nightmares 2/11/22
11. Moonshine

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
1. The Art of Racing in the Rain
2. The Fever Code
3. The Ruins
4. UnWholly
5. The Gender Game 2/28/22
6. Republican Like Me: A Lifelong Democrat's Journey Across the Aisle 3/7/22
7. The How and the Why 1/10/22
8. The Starless Sea
9. Of Poseidon
10. Immaculate Corruption

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
1. Mortar and Murder
2. Dead of Winter
3. Dead Ice
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. Beautiful Redemption
6. Blood of My Blood
7. Blood Promise
8. Maximum Ride Forever
9. Lasher

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
1. Like the First Time 1/3/22
2. Down Time 1/7/22
3. Carnival of Lies
4. UnStrung
5. Wounded
6. The Before
7. Roar and Liv 3/19/22
8. Into the Garden

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1. Memoirs of a Geisha 1/11/22
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns
4. The Secret Life of Bees
5. The Devil Wears Prada
6. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
7. Eldest

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)
1. Dark Sun
2. Mr. Wrong Number
3. Vik
4. Beasts of Prey
5. The City of Dusk
6. Book Lovers

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
1. The Love Hypothesis
2. The Soulmate Equation
3. Speak of the Demon
4. The Flame and the Blade
5. The Wedding Date

4 books that you started but never finished
1. We Need to Talk About Kevin
2. An Unforgettable Lady
3. A Clash of Kings
4. I Am the Weapon

3 books that you've already read before
1.
2.
3.

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
1. Get Shorty
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


1 book that intimidates you
1.The Greatest Adventures of Sherlock Homes

[Tari]

Updated msg. 138 to completed

[LaurLa]

Finished 2021! Happy New Year!! Be back for 2022 :-)
Updated post: My Twelve Towers Challenge (msg 155)

Level ~ Fast and Furious : 12 Towers | 78 Books Read

[Chava]

Slow & Steady
01/01/2022 - 12/31/2026

The Twelve Towers
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
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2)
3)
4)
5)
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12)

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.


10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

4 books that you started but never finished

3 books that you've already read before

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

1 book that intimidates you

[LaurLa]

The Twelve Towers Challenge
January - December 2022

My Twelve Towers Challenge 2022 (msg 168)

Level ➺ Fast and Furious ➺ 78 Books Read

12 books that you've acquired most recently


🔹The Bromance Book Club ➺ 04.12 ★★★★
🔹Well Matched ➺ 03.23 ★★★★
🔹Forbidden Spirits ➺ 11.27 ★★★
🔹The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating ➺ 12.24 ★★★★
🔹Love for Beginners ➺ 01.16 ★★★★
🔹Professor Feelgood ➺ 01.17 ★★★★
🔹Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door ➺ 02.18 ★★★★
🔹The Devil You Know ➺ 01.29 ★★★★
🔹It Had to Be Them ➺ 06.23 ★★★
🔹It Had to Be Fate ➺ 03.27 ★★★
🔹My Favorite Half-Night Stand ➺ 01.02 ★★★★
🔹The King ➺ 02.11 ★★★★

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest

🔹Days like This ➺ 01.26 ★★★★
🔹A Fine Madness ➺ 06.28 ★★★
🔹Dry Adultery, Wet Ambition
🔹Rusty Nail ➺ 08.23 ★★★★
🔹Something Wild ➺ 04.05 ★★★
🔹Making You Mine ➺ 01.31 ★★★
🔹The Unholy ➺ 02.27 ★★★★
🔹Night Secrets ➺ 06.05 ★★★★
🔹The Twelfth Night Bride ➺ 06.30 ★★★
🔹Ghouls Night Out ➺ 05.21 ★★★
🔹When Summer Comes ➺ 05.10 ★★★★

10 books you randomly select from your shelves

🔹Down for the Count ➺ 03.20 ★★★★
🔹Undead and Unemployed ➺ 01.17 ★★★
🔹Boots & Dirty Tricks ➺ 08.17 ★★★
🔹Sex Machine ➺ 09.10 ★★★★
🔹Lethal Balance ➺ 09.20 ★★★★
🔹Whiskey Flick ➺ 03.03 ★★★★
🔹Sweet Stuff ➺ 04.09 ★★★★
🔹Trying to Score ➺ 07.11 ★★★
🔹9 Bodies Rolling ➺ 04.08 ★★★
🔹Crave ➺ 01.13 ★★★

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

🔹Duncan ➺ 08.20 ★★★★
🔹No One Like You ➺ 03.17 ★★★★
🔹Between Faith and Fear ➺ 08.21 ★★★★
🔹Savor Me Slowly ➺ 06.22 ★★★★
🔹Fate's Edge ➺ 05.13 ★★★★
🔹Kitty and the Silver Bullet ➺ 02.13 ★★★★
🔹Meant to Be Yours ➺ 10.29 ★★★★
🔹Chasing Fire ➺ 02.14 ★★★★★
🔹Touch Me And Tango ➺ 05.14 ★★★

8 novellas or short-stories

🔹Zola's Pride ➺ 03.11 ★★★
🔹Scrooge's Bear ➺ 12.18 ★★★
🔹Rebound ➺ 01.08 ★★★
🔹Wicked Weekend ➺ 09.30 ★★★
🔹Phantom Kiss ➺ 03.17 ★★★★
🔹True Colors ➺ 07.12 ★★★★
🔹Adored ➺ 11.24 ★★★
🔹Love in Short Order ➺ 06.19 ★★★

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

🔹Circus of the Damned ➺ 03.15 ★★★★
🔹Blood Heir ➺ 01.13 ★★★★
🔹Get a Life, Chloe Brown ➺ 11.11 ★★★★★
🔹Motorcycle Man ➺ 11.06 ★★★★
🔹Breathe ➺ 08.21 ★★★★
🔹Bared to You ➺ 07.03 ★★★★
🔹The Kiss Quotient ➺ 05.08 ★★★★

6 anticipated releases

🔹Shifters in the Night ➺ 11.25 ★★★★
🔹Off-Duty Saint ➺ 12.24 ★★★
🔹Under One Roof ➺ 06.11 ★★★★
🔹Love on the Brain ➺ 09.02 ★★★★
🔹The Girl in the Mist ➺ 07.13 ★★★★
🔹Getting Real ➺ 01.30 ★★★★

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

🔹Crashed ➺ 02.02 ★★★★
🔹Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs ➺ 11.22 ★★★★
🔹Bad Cruz ➺ 04.25 ★★★★
🔹Beach Read ➺ 10.19 ★★★★
🔹When Stars Collide ➺ 02.07 ★★★★

4 books that you started but never finished
Note: I didn't have any in this category so I chose series I had neglected for over a year

🔹Pecan Pie and Deadly Lies ➺ 06.04 ★★★★
🔹In Your Dreams ➺ 09.12 ★★★
🔹8 Bodies is Enough ➺ 03.16 ★★★
🔹California Wine ➺ 02.09 ★★★

3 books that you've already read before

🔹The 5th Horseman ➺ 05.21 ★★★★
🔹Hot Six ➺ 08.22 ★★★
🔹By the Pricking of My Thumbs ➺ 07.15 ★★★

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like

🔹Curiosity Killed the Kat ➺ 07.22 ★★★
🔹Tamed by the She-Wolf ➺ 09.25 ★★★

1 book that intimidates you

🔹Fortune ➺ 08.16 ★★★★

[Jenn]

Slow & Steady
01/01/2022 - 12/31/2026

The Twelve Towers
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10
11)
12)

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.


10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

4 books that you started but never finished

3 books that you've already read before

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

1 book that intimidates you

[Ana]

◈ Levels and Duration
Slow and Steady - up to 5 years
start date: 03/01/022

◈ The Twelve Towers
✅12. books that you've acquired most recently (03/01/2022)
✔1. Ruth's Bonded - 25/01/2022 (acquired on 15/01/2022)
✔2. Gron's Fated - 29/01/2022 (acquired on 25/01/2022)
✔3. Batman, Vol. 1: The Court of Owls - 19/02/2022 (acquired on 15/02/2022)
✔4. Gilded - 17/02/2022 (acquired on 19/01/2022)
✔5. All Systems Red - 14/02/2022 (acquired on 11/01/2022)
✔6. Garotos Mortos Não Contam Segredos - 13/03/2022 (acquired on 12/03/2022)
✔7. Garotos Mortos Não Contam Mentiras - 21/03/2022 (acquired on 13/03/2022)
✔8. Artificial Condition - 13/03/2022 (acquired on 16/02/2022)
✔9. Sinestesia - 12/03/2022 (acquired on 24/02/2022)
✔10. Todas as suas meias noites - 12/03/2022 (acquired on 5/03/2022)
✔11. JoAyyn - 04/03/2022 (acquired on 27/01/2022)
✔12. A Influencer que Conquistou o CEO: LIVRO ÚNICO - 06/04/2022 (acquired on 06/04/2022)

11. books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Mr Mercedes
3. The Lady Rogue
4. The Kiss of Deception
5. Ayesha at Last
6. If There's No Tomorrow
7. Altered Carbon
8. Serpent & Dove
9. The Foxhole Court
10. The Lightning Thief
11. O Morcego

10. books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go)
1. Firespell
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

9. sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
1. The Alien's Mail-Order Bride - Risdaverse, #0.5
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

✅8. novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
✔1. Finna
✔2. Unnatural Selection
✔3. Forged in Blood
✔4. Kicking It
✔5. A Luz que Há Entre Nós
✔6. Get Your Shift Together
✔7. Margaridas na Primavera
✔8. Até o Natal Acabar

✅7. books that everyone seems to have read but you
✔1. Girl, Serpent, Thorn - 08/01/22
✔2. The Magic Fish: A Graphic Novel - 19/01/2022
✔3. O Homem de Giz - 27/02/2022
✔4. Fused in Fire - 17/02/2022
✔5. I Wanna Text You Up - 15/03/2022
✔6. London's Perfect Scoundrel - 19/03/2022
✔7. Dark Needs at Night's Edge - 03/03/2022

6. anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

✅5. books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
✔1. Runed - 19/01/2022
✔2. Kindling the Moon - 04/04/2022
✔3. The Risk - 22/04/2022
✔4. Zombie-Loan, Vol. 1 - 05/05/2022
✔5. Monkey High!, Vol. 1 - 09/05/2022

✅4. books that you started but never finished
✔1. Biting Cold - 6/01/2022
✔2. A Discovery of Witches - 11/01/2022
✔3. O Colecionador de Ossos - 5/02/2022
✔4. A senhora do lago: Volume I - 19/02/2022

3. books that you've already read before
1. Heartstopper: Volume Four - 13/05/2022
2.
3.

✅2. books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books.
✔1. 13/01/2022 (I don't like the cover)
✔2. 23/01/2022 (I don't like the cover)

✅1. book that intimidates you
✔1. Vicious Prince - 31/03/2022

[Vicki Willis]

I am starting to make progress with this one again.
So far this year I have read 5 more and have 12 to go.
The ones that are bogging me down are the ones on my shelf the longest. I have 6 more of those to go! I am going to try to read one for each of the next 6 months and get them out of the way.

[Tricia]

I'd love to join this.
Fast and furious - 12 months
Start Date - 1/1/22
**COMPLETED - 12/4/22**

12 books you've acquired most recently. (I don't buy books, but I'll count the ones I've checked out of the library.) (12/12)
1. Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës - READ 1/31/22
2. The Orchard: A Memoir - READ 2/3/22
3. Wonderful Women of the World - READ 2/9/22
4, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - READ 2/14/22
5. Gender Queer - READ 2/24/22
6. Legendborn - READ 2/26/22
7. The Keeper of Happy Endings - READ 2/28/22
8. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind - READ 3/7/22
9. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 - READ 3/15/22
10. Ugly Love - READ 3/29/22
11. The Witches Are Coming - READ 4/1/22
12. Bear Town - READ 4/13/22

11 books that you never find time to get around to or have been on your shelves the longest. (11/11)
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God - READ 3/19/22
2. The Light Between Oceans - READ 5/13/22
3. The Rook - READ 4/24/22
4. One Second After - READ 6.11/22
5. The Bell Jar - READ 6/17/22
6. Leviathan Wakes - READ 2/23/22
7. On Basilisk Station - READ 6/4/22
8. Storm Front - READ 3/26/22
9. The Fault in Our Stars - READ 7/20/22
10. The Deal - READ 9/3/22
11. The Goldfinch - READ 10/24/22

10 books randomly selected from your shelves (10/10)
1. The Four Winds - READ 1/1/22
2. Vicious - READ 1/15/22
3. Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1 - READ 1/25/22
4. Firekeeper's Daughter - READ 2/8/22
5. Aniara - READ 2/15/22
6. Her Name Is Knight - READ 4/27/22
7. The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II - READ 3/9/22
8. Show Me a Sign- READ 3/16/22
9. The Spanish Love Deception - READ 3/25/22
10. Piranesi - READ 4/3/22

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs (9/9)
1. The Jackal - READ 1/22/22
2. ExtraOrdinary - READ 3/4/22
3. The Expanse: Origins- READ 2/24/22
4. A Breath of Snow and Ashes - READ 3/24/22
5. Caliban's War - READ 5/7/22
6. The Butcher of Anderson Station - READ 5/8/22
7. Heartstopper: Volume Two - READ 5/10/22
8. Heartstopper: Volume Three - READ 5/10/22
9. Heartstopper: Volume Four - READ 5/11/22

8 novellas or short-stories (8/8)
1. Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess Book 1: Captain Raven and the All-Girl Pirate Crew - READ 1/2/22
2. A Spindle Splintered - READ 2/5/22
3. Warm Up - READ 2/8/22
4. 84, Charing Cross Road - READ 3/5/22
5. Tower of Babylon - READ 4/16/22
6. Story of Your Life - READ 4/16/22
7. Sixteen Minutes by Premee Mohamed - online - READ 1/2/22
8. Wish You Were Here by Nadia Bulkin - online - READ 1/4/22

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you (7/7)
1. People We Meet on Vacation - READ 2/12/22
2. Anxious People - READ - 1/24/22
3. Hamnet - READ 1/16/22
4. The Song of Achilles - READ 3/4/22
5. The Library of Babel - READ 4/13/22
6. The Lathe of Heaven - READ 4/20/22
7. Heartstopper: Volume One - READ 5/10/22

6 anticipated releases (6/6)
1. The Maid - READ 2/19/22
2. Olga Dies Dreaming - READ 5/6/22
3. The Paris Apartment - READ 5/9/22
4. Sea of Tranquility - READ 5/16/22
5. Book Lovers - READ 7/10/22
6. Elektra - READ 7/18/22

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads (5/5)
1. Theodor Seuss Geisel - READ 1/8/22
2. This Place: 150 Years Retold - READ 1/21/22
3. Don't Call Us Dead - READ 1/22/22
4. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future - READ 1/30/22
5. Live and Let Chai - READ 2/8/22

4 books that you started but never finished. (4/4)
1. Ring Shout - READ 3/3/22
2. The Iliad - READ 4/7/22
3. The Diamond Eye - READ 8/8/22
4. Rule Breaker - READ 11/7/22

3 books that you've already read before (3/3)
1. Of Mice and Men - READ 5/22/22
2. Station Eleven - READ 7/27/22
3. Roman - READ 8/3/22

2 books with covers that you don't like but everyone raves about the book (2/2)
1. Bittersweet - READ 4/14/22
2. The Cheat Sheet - READ 6/26/22

1 book that intimidates you (0/1)
1. A Little Life - READ 12/4/22

[[deleted user]]

Twelve Towers Challenge
0/78

12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

4 books that you started but never finished

3 books that you've already read before

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

1 book that intimidates you

Completed

[Marie (UK)]

The Twelve Towers Challenge #2
Level: Fast and Furious from 11/04/2022


12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)

1. The Fake Up 12/04/2022
2. Cocaine Blues 13/05/2022
3. Recursion 21/05/2022
4. Gallows Court 23/05/2022
5. The Carnival Of Ash 03/06/2022
6. Reputation 05/06/2022
7. One Last Secret: A Novel 12/06/2022
8. Hope to Die 29/06/2022
9. Heaven Adjacent 08/07/2022
10. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind 09/07/2022
11. The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I 24/07/2022
12. The Signature of All Things 05/09/2022


11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest
1. Clap When You Land 22/08/2022
2. The Missing Sister 25/09/2022
3. The Nihilesthete 25/09/2022
4. Appointment with Death 28/09/20002
5.. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 30/09/2022
6. Fragile 01/10/2022
7. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax 30/10/2022

10 books you randomly select from your shelves
1. The Wolf and the Woodsman 17/04/2022
2. The Scorpio Races 23/04/2022
3. The Puzzle Women 29/05/2022
4. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession 05/06/2022
5. One Enchanted Evening 21/08/2022
6. Long Gone 18/10/2022

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
1. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd 26/04/2022
2. Anne's House of Dreams 28/04/2022
3. The Last Graduate 08/05/2022
4. Dark in Death 08/05/2022
5. Leverage in Death 12/05/2022
6. Companion Piece 03/06/2022
7. Secrets in Death 04/06/2022
8. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place 04/06/2022
9. Crazy Love You 08/06/2022

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

1. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland 14/05/2022
2. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good 06/06/2022
3. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
Read on 21/07/2022
4. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death 13/09/2022
5. 253 30/09/2022
6. 7 and 8 mercury, arsenic and Tin in The Periodic Table 23/10/2022

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1. The Witches of Eastwick 27/04/2022
2. Under the Greenwood Tree 21/05/2022
3. The Glass Hotel 30/05/2022
4. Born Free 06/06/2022
5. Project Hail Mary 09/08/2022
6. The Testaments 13/08/2022
7. The Sentence 30/10/2022

6 anticipated releases
1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 20/05/2022
2. Lessons in Chemistry 25/05/2022
3. The Dance Tree 08/06/2022
4. The Lion 22/06/2022
5. All The Broken Places 16/07/2022
6. Joan 18/10/2022

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
1. Blacktop Wasteland 22/04/2022
2. Bellman & Black 28/05/2022
3. When Elephants Fly 11/06/2022
4. The Summer House 23/07/2022
5. Death at the Voyager Hotel 22/08/2022

4 books that you started but never finished
1. The Atlas Six

3 books that you've already read before
1. Shades of Grey 27/06/2022

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

1. 21/05/2022
2. 29/05/2022

1 book that intimidates you
1. Under Milk Wood 03/06/2022

[LaurLa]

Finished this year's challenge!
Updated post: My Twelve Towers Challenge 2022 (msg 168)

Level ➺ Fast and Furious ➺ 78 Books Read

[LaurLa]

The Twelve Towers Challenge
January - December 2023

My Twelve Towers Challenge 2023 (msg 174)

Level ➖ Fast and Furious ➖ 78 Books Read

✅12 books that you've acquired most recently


➖Home Sweet Christmas ➖ 01.20 ★★★★
➖Royal Holiday ➖ 08.16 ★★★★
➖Hansel's Bear ➖ 01.06 ★★★
➖Sit, Stay, Love ➖ 05.14 ★★★★
➖Extra Quiet ➖ 08.28 ★★★★
➖Bear's Snow ➖ 07.01 ★★★
➖Wild Hunger ➖ 11.13 ★★★★
➖No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished ➖ 01.18 ★★★★
➖Hot Single Dad ➖ 04.02 ★★★★
➖The Collector ➖ 05.20 ★★★★
➖Window Shopping ➖ 12.08 ★★★★
➖The Buzz Kill ➖ 04.01 ★★★


✅11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest

➖The Miles Between Us ➖ 03.21 ★★★
➖The Bride Came C.O.D. ➖ 02.16 ★★★
➖All Good Things... ➖ 09.03 ★★★
➖Ice Cold ➖ 06.19 ★★★★
➖Fuzzy Navel ➖ 02.25 ★★★★
➖The Night Is Watching ➖ 03.29 ★★★★
➖Second Chance Boyfriend ➖ 03.18 ★★★★
➖Accidentally Married to...a Vampire? ➖ 03.19 ★★★★
➖Home Fires ➖ 06.09 ★★★★
➖Destiny ➖ 12.10 ★★★★
➖Home to Whiskey Creek ➖ 03.12 ★★★★


✅10 books you randomly select from your shelves

➖Beyond Innocence ➖ 05.07 ★★★★
➖Racked and Stacked ➖ 05.09 ★★★★
➖Lethal Lies ➖ 01.15 ★★★★
➖Badland Bride ➖ 04.24 ★★★
➖Deeper Than The Ocean ➖ 08.22 ★★★★
➖Slaying It ➖ 07.09 ★★★★
➖Dakota Wedding ➖ 11.11 ★★★
➖Bigger Than Beckham ➖ 01.23 ★★★★
➖A Game of Persuasion ➖ 01.18 ★★★★
➖A Scandal in the Headlines ➖ 05.06 ★★★


✅9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

➖James ➖ 03.14 ★★★
➖Always You ➖ 03.31 ★★★★
➖Just Stop Me ➖ 01.27 ★★★★
➖Temptation After Dark ➖ 01.29 ★★★★
➖Imperfect Chemistry ➖ 01.08 ★★★★
➖I Belong With You ➖ 03.02 ★★★★
➖Take Me All the Way ➖ 10.29 ★★★★
➖Aphrodite's Passion ➖ 11.08 ★★
➖Secret Obsession ➖ 07.21 ★★★★


✅8 novellas or short-stories

➖Targeted ➖ 01.07 ★★★★
➖Love Over Cappuccino ➖ 05.04 ★★
➖Teasing Trent ➖ 08.20 ★★★
➖Two Turtle Island Doves ➖ 01.08 ★★★
➖The Natural ➖ 12.09 ★★★
➖Kismet ➖ 01.09 ★★★
➖Yanked ➖ 06.13 ★★★★
➖The Game ➖ 04.16 ★★★


✅7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

➖Undercover Bromance ➖ 06.28 ★★★★
➖Bone Crossed ➖ 02.07 ★★★★
➖Devil in Winter ➖ 07.20 ★★★★
➖The 6th Target ➖ 11.18 ★★★★
➖Book Lovers ➖ 03.23 ★★★★
➖Hook, Line, and Sinker ➖ 12.12 ★★★★
➖Finlay Donovan Is Killing It ➖ 02.27 ★★★★


✅6 anticipated releases

➖‎A Vampire's Kiss ➖ 01.15 ★★★★
➖The Grave Robber ➖ 10.28 ★★★★
➖Only You ➖ 11.27 ★★★★
➖Magic Tides ➖ 05.20 ★★★★
➖Secretly Yours ➖ 10.25 ★★★★
➖Magic Claims ➖ 11.22 ★★★★


✅5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

➖Suddenly Psychic ➖ 04.20 ★★★★
➖Bittersweet ➖ 10.31 ★★★★
➖Homecoming King ➖ 05.01 ★★★★
➖Boss in the Bedsheets ➖ 05.18 ★★★★
➖Barking Up the Wrong Tree ➖ 05.28 ★★★★


✅4 books that you started but never finished
Note: I didn't have any in this category so I chose series I had neglected for over a year

➖Treasure Island ➖ 11.18 ★★★
➖Summer Love Box Set ➖ 06.24 ★★★
➖Shopaholic to the Stars ➖ 10.22 ★★★
➖The Phantom of the Opera ➖ 04.17 ★★★


✅3 books that you've already read before

➖Touch of Frost ➖ 01.11 ★★★★
➖Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ➖ 02.09 ★★★★
➖Hot Six ➖ 08.17 ★★★


✅2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like

➖Judge vs Nuts ➖ 06.17 ★★★
➖Love Me Always ➖ 06.18 ★★★


✅1 book that intimidates you

➖Storm Front ➖ 01.03 ★★★

[Gabby]

1/1/23-
Slow and Steady - up to 5 years
Eyes on Target - up to 3 years
Quick as a Bunny - up to 2 years
Need for Speed - up to 18 months
75/78

◈ The Twelve Towers
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date) 12/12★
★Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery 14/1
★Mirabelle and the Magical Mayhem 14/1
★Prophets of Waaagh! 15/1
★Kitty and the Vanishing Act 8/3
★Kitty and the Star Stone Robber 8/3
★Yesterday Crumb and the Teapot of Chaos 21/3
★Isadora Moon and the New Girl 26/3
★The Boy With Wings: Attack of the Rampaging Robot - World Book Day 2023 28/3
★Woodwitch 31/3
★Death Dates The Oracle 19/4
★The Nymph's Realm 30/4
★Mad Master Alchemist 30/4

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these) 9/11
★Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (31/12/15) 31/8
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (31/12/15)
★Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (31/12/15) 7/2
★The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (31/12/15) 17/12
★The Folk of the Faraway Tree (31/12/15) 31/12
★Heidi (31/12/15) 25/3
★The BFG (31/12/15) 18/2
★Revolting Rhymes (31/12/15) 7/2
★A Little Princess (31/12/15) 16/12
★Island of the Blue Dolphins (31/12/15) 17/12
Hagbane's Doom (31/12/15)

10 books you randomly select from your shelves 10/10★
★How to Survive Summer Camp 7/2
★Lord Brocktree 18/3
★Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? 5/3
★Second Hand Curses 23/3
★The 101 Dalmatians 24/3
★Upping the Ante 27/3
★Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 7/4
★City of Lifestone 9/4
★Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients 21/4
★The Ocean at the End of the Lane 22/4

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs 9/9★
★The Vampire's Cursed Kiss(2) 21/1
★The Forgettable Miss French(3) 21/1
★Moody and the Beast(4) 24/1
★Her First Taste of Fire(5) 25/1
★Love and Other Wild Things 10/2
★Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend 11/2
★Always Be My Banshee 11/2
★Shifters in the Night 17/2
★Revenging Dungeon 18/2

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case. 8/8★
★The Seventh Dwarf 14/1
★The Bone Knife 30/1
★The Tears of a Dragon 31/1
★Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues 10/2
★One Fine Fae 12/2
★WeSa and the Lumber King 12/3
★The Early Years 12/3
★Kits 16/3

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you 7/7★
★Selected Just So Stories 15/1
★Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 7/2
★The BFG 18/2
★The Small Hand 28/2
★Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories 5/3
★The Cat in the Hat 18/3
★Howl’s Moving Castle 19/3

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date) 6/6★
★Karen's Birthday 6/1
★Lily and Luna: A heartwarming adventure of a Little Girl and her Kitten 16/1
★Golden 16/1
★Monster in the Mirror 28/1
★Kitty and the Runaway Train 28/2
★Emerald and the Ocean Parade 8/3
★The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour 8/3

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads 5/5★
★Fairy Tail, Vol. 01 4/2
★That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon 22/4
★Spirit Farmer Season 1 25/4
★Double Act 13/5
★Lo and Behold: 14/5

4 books that you started but never finished (previously) 4/4★
★Stories on the Go: 101 Very Short Stories by 101 Authors 17/11
★Merry & Bright: A Christmas Anthology 4/8
★Monsterkontrolle: die Schonzeit Für Mutanten Ist Vorbei! 15/12
★Peaceful Tomorrows: A graphic novel by Shane W Smith 11/3

3 books that you've already read before 3/3★
★Hearts for Sale 3/1
★How to Date Your Dragon 4/2
★Signatures of the Dead 16/3

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books 2/2 ★
★The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 8/8
★H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education 4/10


1 book that intimidates you
The Wandering Inn: Volume 2 (p1718)
The Game: A graphic novel by Shane W Smith (p403 Highly political and black and white art style)

[Patty]

I'm excited to start this one!

Twelve Towers Challenge
Start Date: 01/01/2024
Progress: 78/78

◈ The Twelve Towers
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
1. Crochet Your Own Dog: 14 Lifesize Amigurumi Pups to Make & Love! by Mieko Shindo
2. Crocheting Reversible Amigurumi Projects: Adorable 2-Way Patterns Using Fur Yarn by Jessie Van In
3. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
4. The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
5. Baby X by Kira Peikoff
6. A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
7. Westfallen by Ann Brashares
8. Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
9. Queen Song by Victoria Aveyard
10. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
11. Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
12. King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
2. Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
3. The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren
4. Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward
5. Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
6. Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars
7. Sex, Lies & Serious Money by Stuart Woods
8. Help Is On the Way by Mindy Kaling
9. Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
10. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
11. Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
1. The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson
2. The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall
3. Pillow Talk: What's Wrong with My Sewing? by Craig Conover
4. The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
5. Dark Matter by Dark Matter
6. You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life by Neil Pasricha
7. The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
8. What You Wish For by Katherine Center
9. Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
10. A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like by Ashley Graham

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
2. Down World by Rebecca Phelps
3. A Vintage Death by Mary Ellen Hughes
4. One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
5. Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
6. Shadowland by Alyson Noel
7. Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
8. Night Star by Alyson Noel
9. Everlasting by Alyson Noel

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
1. The Recital by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
2. Eternal Flame
3. Darius by J.R. Ward
4. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
5. Second First Date by Rachel Lynn Solomon
6. Tigers in the Cage by Rachel Caine
7. Stormcrow by Rachel Caine
8. Say You'll Stay by Susan Mallery

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
2. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
3. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
4. The Institute by Stephen King
5. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
6. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
7. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)
1. One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall
2. House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
3. The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
4. Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner
5. Past Present Future by Rachel Lynn Solomon
6. Hum by Helen Phillips

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
1. Until the Day I Die by Emily Carpenter
2. The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
3. Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger
4. Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia
5. Stag's Leap: Poems by Sharon Olds

4 books that you started but never finished
1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
3. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life by Lori Gottlieb
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab

3 books that you've already read before
1. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
2. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
3. Evermore by Alyson Noel

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
1. Lone Wolf by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
2. Allegiant by Veronica Roth

1 book that intimidates you
Blindness by José Saramago

[Jenn]

Ready to try again in 2024

Twelve Towers Challenge
Start Date: 01/01/2024
Progress: 0/78

◈ The Twelve Towers
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

4 books that you started but never finished

3 books that you've already read before

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

1 book that intimidates you

[LaurLa]

Finished for 2023! Love doing this challenge every year - I'll be back!
Updated 2023 post: My Twelve Towers Challenge 2023 (msg 174)

Level ➖ Fast and Furious ➖ 78 Books Read

[Sammy]

Ohhhh, this one has been a while! Why not? 😁

◈ The Twelve Towers - Fast & furious (in 1 year)

12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)

1. A Winter Grave
2. The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater
3. The Beautiful Ones
4. How to Kill Your Family
5. The A.B.C. Murders
6. The Sun Also Rises
7. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
8. Herland
9. Earth Abides
10. Legend
11. Time's Convert
12. A Disaffection


11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)

1. Demon Sword
2. Demon Rider
3. Demon Knight
4. The Demolished Man
5. Against the Light
6. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
7. H is for Hawk
8. The Alamo
9. Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
10. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
11. The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)

1. Sun Damage
2. City of Last Chances
3. Eating for England:
4. The Embroidered Book
5. The Way of All Flesh
6. Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland
7. Escape to Darling Cove
8. The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural
9. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
10. The World Inside

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

1. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel
2. The Sicilian
3. The Last Colony
4. The Stolen Heir
5. If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe
6. Queen High
7. Tarantula
8. Playing with Monsters
9. Call of the Raven


8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

1. The Passion
2. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
3. The Expert System's Brother
4. Foe
5. Ragnarok
6. Chess Story
7. The Awakening and Other Stories
8. The Vegetarian

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

1. Divergent
2. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
3. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
4. Hamnet
5. A Court of Mist and Fury
6. A Court of Wings and Ruin
7. Sabriel

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

1. Killing time
2. Storm Christopher
3. The Cut
4. Lone Wolf
5. Empire of the Damned
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

1. Covenants (rec was so long ago I can't remember from who! Possibly Dirk)
2. Shards of Honour (rec from Cat)
3. Together We Will Go (rec from Kalin)
4. Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen (rec from Jenny)
5. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen rec from Lexi

4 books that you started but never finished

1. The Blade Itself
2. The Burning City
3. Total Recall
4. The Writer's Map

3 books that you've already read before

1. Robinson Crusoe
2. Elantris
3. Interesting Times

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

1. A Gate at the Stairs
2. Strangers

1 book that intimidates you

1. Devils

[LaurLa]

The Twelve Towers Challenge
January - December 2024

My Twelve Towers Challenge 2024 (msg 180)

Level🚦Fast and Furious
Books Read🚦78

✅12 books that you've acquired most recently


🚥Fractured🚦09.18 ★★★★
🚥Hard To Handle🚦07.06 ★★★★
🚥The Little Flower Shop🚦05.20 ★★★★
🚥How Much I Love🚦06.09 ★★★★
🚥Champagne and Lemon Drops🚦01.21 ★★★
🚥Fated🚦05.23 ★★★
🚥Silver Borne🚦03.28 ★★★★
🚥Hideaway🚦07.30 ★★★★
🚥Drama King🚦03.17 ★★★★
🚥Wolf Hunt🚦08.03 ★★★
🚥Axel🚦01.22 ★★★
🚥March🚦01.04 ★★★

✅11 books that you never find time to get around to; have been on your shelves the longest

🚥Little White Sins🚦05.02 ★★★
🚥Shot of Tequila🚦02.26 ★★★★
🚥Loving Tessa🚦02.27 ★★★
🚥Let's Make It Legal🚦04.01★★★
🚥Dixie Rebel🚦02.19 ★★★★
🚥A Date With The Devil🚦02.17 ★★
🚥The Rancher🚦05.29 ★★★
🚥Turnagain Love🚦03.19 ★★★
🚥The Pride of Jared MacKade🚦07.01 ★★★★
🚥One More Day🚦04.29 ★★★
🚥Pies and Potions🚦04.13 ★★

✅10 books you randomly select from your shelves

🚥A Time for Change🚦02.01 ★★★
🚥Her Secret Wish🚦01.12 ★★★
🚥Bailed Out🚦03.26 ★★★
🚥Maya And The Tough Guy🚦05.27 ★★★★
🚥A SEAL's Seduction🚦05.05 ★★★★
🚥Catch Me If You Can🚦03.10 ★★★
🚥Brax🚦12.15 ★★★
🚥Shucked🚦03.23 ★★★★
🚥Roommaid🚦08.31 ★★★★
🚥Hearts Awakened🚦07.15 ★★★★

✅9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

🚥The Hippopotamus Pool🚦10.02 ★★★★
🚥Majesty🚦08.04 ★★★★
🚥The Lunatic Cafe🚦08.11 ★★★
🚥Passion & Ponies🚦01.18 ★★★
🚥About a Dragon🚦06.17 ★★★★
🚥Death in Kew Gardens🚦04.13 ★★★★
🚥The Shadows🚦05.24 ★★★★
🚥The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy🚦02.18 ★★★★
🚥7th Heaven🚦08.20 ★★★★

✅8 novellas or short-stories

🚥Ambushed🚦01.28 ★★★
🚥Ian's Dream Girl🚦01.06 ★★★★
🚥Ice Planet Honeymoon: Vektal and Georgie🚦01.17 ★★★
🚥Reclaiming the SEAL🚦02.09 ★★★
🚥Chased🚦04.08 ★★★
🚥Not Safe for the Bank(er)🚦08.27 ★★★
🚥Undateable🚦08.17 ★★★
🚥The Trouble With Tony🚦01.09 ★★★

✅7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

🚥The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry🚦07.10 ★★★★
🚥A Murder Is Announced🚦03.25 ★★★
🚥Love, Theoretically🚦04.25 ★★★★
🚥Artificial Condition🚦03.18 ★★★★
🚥The Wishing Game🚦06.26 ★★★★★
🚥Below Zero🚦07.10 ★★★★
🚥The Awakening🚦09.14 ★★★★

✅6 anticipated releases

🚥Random in Death🚦09.17 ★★★★
🚥The Exception to the Rule🚦03.05 ★★★★
🚥The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan🚦01.07 ★★★★
🚥The Love Shack🚦08.08 ★★★★
🚥A Vampire’s Mate🚦09.11 ★★★★
🚥Rock Chick Rematch🚦09.25 ★★★★

✅5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

🚥One Week With You🚦02.04 ★★★★
🚥Only When It's Us🚦06.28 ★★★★
🚥Recipe for Second Chances🚦02.03 ★★★★
🚥Something Unexpected🚦10.05 ★★★★
🚥Check & Mate🚦04.30 ★★★★

✅4 books that you started but never finished

🚥Finlay Donovan Is Killing It🚦05.31 ★★★
🚥The Library Book🚦01.28 ★★★★
🚥The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog🚦07.04 ★★★★
🚥Steel's Edge🚦11.17 ★★★★

✅3 books that you've already read before

🚥No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished🚦02.09 ★★★★
🚥The Kite Runner🚦04.05 ★★★★
🚥Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets🚦02.05 ★★★★

✅2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like

🚥Blasphemous🚦05.05 ★★★
🚥The Golden Dragon🚦07.31 ★★★

✅1 book that intimidates you

🚥Storm Front🚦08.27 ★★★

[Alaina]

The Twelve Towers Challenge

Start Date: 10/20/2024
End Date: 10/20/2027 (or sooner)
Level: Eyes on Target - up to 3 years
Completed: 9/78


12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)

An Academy for Liars (11/20/24)

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (11/25/24)
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (12/1/24)

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

Graveyard Shift (11/3/24)

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

The Haar (10/30/24)
Hollow Kingdom (12/14/24)
The Lost Bookshop (12/27/24)

4 books that you started but never finished

Dune (1/11/25)

3 books that you've already read before

Red Rising (11/13/24)

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

1 book that intimidates you

[Patty]

Loved this challenge - it really helped me keep reading! Back for 2025

Date Started: 01/01/2025
Completed: 55/78

◈ The Twelve Towers
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
1. In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros
2. Command and Control by Marc Cameron
3. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
4. El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
5. The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
6. Nemesis by Gregg Hurwitz
7. The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
8. Never Say Die by James Patterson
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11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
2. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
3. Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
4. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
5.The Broker by John Grisham
6. The Selection by Kiera Cass
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10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
1. Love at First by Kate Clayborn
2. The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
3. God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments by Hannah Brown
4. Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner
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9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
1. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
2. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
3. One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
4. Yesterworld by Rebecca Phelps
5. City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
6. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
7. The Reality of Everything by Rebecca Yarros
8. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
9. The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
1. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
2. Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent
3. Six's Legacy by Pittacus Lore
4. Until Midnight by Melissa Landers
5. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
6. Five's Legacy by Pittacus Lore
7. How to Play the Guitar and Y: Words + Music, Vol. 21 by Elvis Costello
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7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
2. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
3. Inside Out by Demi Moore
4. The Awakening by Caroline Peckham
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6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)
1. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
2. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
3. Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
4. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
5. Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
6. It's a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
1. Quicksilver by Callie Hart
2. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
3. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
4. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
5.

4 books that you started but never finished
1. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
2. Green Lights by Matthew McConaughey
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3 books that you've already read before
1. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
3. Down World by Rebecca Phelps


2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Last Days of Lorien by Pittacus Lore


1 book that intimidates you
1.

[LaurLa]

Another annual favorite for me - finished up for 2024!
Updated post: My Twelve Towers Challenge 2024 (msg 180)

Level🚦Fast and Furious
Books Read🚦78

[LaurLa]

The Twelve Towers Challenge
January - December 2025

My Twelve Towers Challenge 2025 (msg 184)

Level ❱❱ Fast and Furious
Books Read ❱❱

12 books that you've acquired most recently


🔺Adverse Possession ❱❱ 04.09 ★★★★
🔺Building Family
🔺A Dragon of a Different Color
🔺Catching Fire
🔺Gideon
🔺Hal
🔺Happy After All
🔺Hello Stranger
🔺Hidden in Smoke ❱❱ 05.18 ★★★
🔺Hunter's Season
🔺A Partridge and a Pregnancy
🔺The Wrong Bridesmaid

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest

🔺Carolina Rebel ❱❱ 05.17 ★★★
🔺Charmed By Knight
🔺The Heart of Devin MacKade
🔺Karma ❱❱ 02.01 ★★★★
🔺Midnight Run
🔺My Runaway Heart
🔺My Sweet Valentine
🔺Second Chance
🔺Songs for Perri ❱❱ 01.04 ★★★
🔺Sun God Seeks…Surrogate?
🔺A Willow Creek Christmas ❱❱ 04.30 ★★★★

10 books you randomly select from your shelves

🔺Always Only You
🔺Back in the Saddle ❱❱ 04.21 ★★★★
🔺Fourth and Goal
🔺The Reluctant Vampire ❱❱ 03.05 ★★★★
🔺Shades of Wicked
🔺Shot Across the Bow
🔺The Simple Wild ❱❱ 05.06 ★★★★
🔺Sweet Destiny ❱❱ 03.13 ★★★
🔺Trauma Plan
🔺Zombie's Bite

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

🔺Bound ❱❱ 01.29 ★★★★
🔺Dirty Rowdy Thing ❱❱ 02.09 ★★★★
🔺Fire in Her Eyes ❱❱ 02.04 ★★★
🔺Irish Rose ❱❱ 01.25 ★★★★
🔺Once Upon a Cowboy ❱❱ 02.02 ★★★
🔺System Collapse ❱❱ 02.11 ★★★★
🔺Taking a Shot ❱❱ 02.03 ★★★★
🔺This Year's Love ❱❱ 02.06 ★★★★
🔺Whiskey, You're The Devil ❱❱ 04.20 ★★★

8 novellas or short-stories

🔺Bones and Arrows ❱❱ 02.12 ★★★
🔺Dragon Around ❱❱ 01.25 ★★★
🔺The Grisly Grizzlies: Kneecap ❱❱ 02.15 ★★★
🔺Hard to Serve
🔺The Ice Dragon ❱❱ 01.19 ★★★
🔺Nathaniel ❱❱ 01.15 ★★★
🔺Perfect Stranger
🔺The Three Wise Guides ❱❱ 04.17 ★★★

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you

🔺Bride ❱❱ 03.18 ★★★★
🔺The Heart Principle ❱❱ 03.08 ★★★★
🔺How to End a Love Story
🔺Shadowfever
🔺The Takeover ❱❱ 02.09 ★★★★
🔺The True Love Experiment ❱❱ 01.10 ★★★★★
🔺Wreck the Halls

6 anticipated releases

🔺Bonded in Death ❱❱ 05.12 ★★★★
🔺The Charlie Method
🔺A Kowalski to Count On ❱❱ 04.12 ★★★★
🔺On Loverose Lane
🔺Once Smitten, Twice Shy
🔺The Woman Left Behind

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

🔺Beyond the Bases
🔺Famous in a Small Town
🔺Flame
🔺The Pucking Wrong Number ❱❱ 03.30 ★★★★
🔺Up Close and Personal ❱❱ 05.05 ★★★

4 books that you started but never finished

🔺The Hippopotamus Pool
🔺Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
🔺My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
🔺The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians ❱❱ 05.24 ★★★

3 books that you've already read before

🔺Blood Brothers ❱❱ 04.19 ★★★★
🔺Just A Taste
🔺Seven Up

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like

🔺Kitty's House of Horrors
🔺The Long Way Home

1 book that intimidates you

🔺Fool Moon

[Angel **Book Junkie**]

Levels and Duration: July 29, 2025 -
Fast and Furious - up to 1 year

◈ The Twelve Towers
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
1. July 30, 2025 | The Hanged Man | H.P. Bayne | 07.31
2. August 7, 2025 | Two by Two | Nicholas Sparks | 08.08
3. August 17, 2025 | The Summer I Turned Pretty | Jenny Han | 08.18
4. August 23, 2025 | Catch the Sun | Jennifer Hartmann | 08.24
5. September 5, 2025 | Easy Prey | A.B. Whelan | 09.07

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1. Onyx Storm | 08.08
2. Powerless | Lauren Roberts | 08.01
3. A Spell to Wake the Dead
4. A Good Mother | Michelle Dunne | 09.01
5. Parents Weekend
6. The Sister Switch | Charlotte Butterfield | 08.01
7. Psychosis Diagnosis
8. The Missing Ones
9. The Love Haters | Katherine Center | 08.28
10. For Better, For Worse
11. The Tradwife’s Secret

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
1. Calling Clarissa | Beth Worsdell | 08.09
2. The Club | Ellery Lloyd | 09.05
3.

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
1. The Powerless Trilogy #1.5 | Powerful | Lauren Roberts | 08.03
2. Sookie Stackhouse #5 | Dead as a Doornail | Charlaine Harris | 08.11
3. Lancaster Prep #2 | A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime | Monica Murphy | 08.17
4. The Powerless Trilogy #3.5 | Fearful | Lauren Roberts | 09.07

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
1. The New Year's Party | Daniel Hurst | 08.06
2. Devil's Pass | Caroline Peckham | 08.14
3. Kill Joy | Holly Jackson | 08.17
4. Flow | Kennedy Ryan | 08.25
5. Catch Her in a Lie | Jess Lourey | 08.27

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1. Credence | Penelope Douglas | 08.05
2. Things I Wanted to Say | Monica Murphy | 08.07
3. Reckless | Lauren Roberts | 08.09
4. Fearless | Lauren Roberts | 08.10
5. Small Great Things | Jodi Picoult | 08.17

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)


5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
1. The Echo of Old Books | Barbara Davis | 07.31
2. When I'm Gone | Emily Bleeker | 08.26
3. The Forgotten Book Club | Kate Storey | 08.27

4 books that you started but never finished
1. Started in 2010ish | Born in Fire | Nora Roberts | 08.21

3 books that you've already read before
1. Read in 2017 | A Vampire's Soul | Angel Lawson | 08.20

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
1. Layla | Colleen Hoover | 09.03

1 book that intimidates

[Angel **Book Junkie**]

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