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message 51: by Hardcover Harlot (last edited Nov 12, 2018 11:09AM) (new)

Hardcover Harlot (hardcoverharlot) My favorite challenge!! I'm in for 40 this year.

Progress: 40/40

✓1. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace - Feb. 14, 2018
✓2. The Man Who Forgot How To Read - Feb. 24, 2018
✓3. Ultraluminous: A Novel - Jan. 28, 2018
✓4. The Divorce Papers - Feb. 10, 2018
✓5. Freaky Green Eyes - Jan. 28, 2018
✓6. Dietland - Apr. 8, 2018
✓7. Cartwheel - Mar. 10, 2018
✓8. The Readymade Thief - Mar. 25, 2018
✓9. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar - Jan. 27, 2018
✓10. A Good Year for the Roses - Apr. 17, 2018
✓11. My Name Is Lucy Barton - Apr. 8, 2018
✓12. The Promise of Amazing - Mar. 19, 2018
✓13. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine - Feb. 6, 2018
✓14. Maybe in Another Life - Mar. 16, 2018
✓15. Being Henry David - Feb. 6, 2018
✓16. Borrowed Finery: A Memoir - Apr. 27, 2018
✓17. The Ice Queen - Feb. 5, 2018
✓18. Over Easy - Jan. 28, 2018
✓19. The Headmaster's Wife - Apr. 29, 2018
✓20. Enter Sandman - Apr. 24, 2018
✓21. You Will Know Me - Feb. 27, 2018
✓22. The Marriage Lie - Jan. 19, 2018
✓23. Britney Spears Is a Three-Headed Alien: The Inside Story - Jan. 27, 2018
✓24. One of Us Is Lying - Jan. 9, 2018
✓25. Swimming at Night - Mar. 17, 2018
✓26. Above - Apr. 4, 2018
✓27. Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged - Feb. 13, 2018
✓28. Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits - Feb. 21, 2018
✓29. The Widow Waltz - Mar. 17, 2018
✓30. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers - Apr. 14, 2018
✓31. The Woman Upstairs - Feb. 9, 2018
✓32. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Jan. 13, 2018
✓33. The Girl in the Red Coat - Jan. 16, 2018
✓34. Music for Torching - Mar. 12, 2018
✓35. Best Day Ever - Mar. 26, 2018
✓36. The House We Grew Up In - Mar. 11, 2018
✓37. One Plus One - Jan. 22, 2018
✓38. Behind Closed Doors - Mar. 14, 2018
✓39. Love Letters to the Dead - Feb. 23, 2018
✓40. Still Alice - Feb. 2, 2018
Orbiting the Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie The Man Who Forgot How To Read by Howard Engel Ultraluminous by Katherine Faw The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates Dietland by Sarai Walker Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose Tiny Beautiful Things Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed A Good Year for the Roses by Gil McNeil My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid Being Henry David by Cal Armistead Borrowed Finery A Memoir by Paula Fox The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman Over Easy by Mimi Pond The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene Enter Sandman by Stephanie Williams You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Britney Spears Is a Three-Headed Alien The Inside Story by Mel Gilden One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus Swimming at Night by Lucy Clarke Above by Isla Morley Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik Boozehound On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits by Jason Wilson The Widow Waltz by Sally Koslow The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer Music for Torching by A.M. Homes Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell One Plus One by Jojo Moyes Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira Still Alice by Lisa Genova


Since I finished my first goal so quickly, I'm going to up my goal and add 20 more.

20/20
✓1. Armada - Oct. 23, 2018
✓2. Naomi's Room - Oct. 12, 2018
✓3. Days of Awe - Nov. 12, 2018
✓4. An American Marriage - June 11, 2018
✓5. Straight Man - Sept. 20, 2018
✓6. Losing the Light - Oct. 20, 2018
✓7. Vanishing Acts - Oct. 14, 2018
✓8. Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere - Oct. 12, 2018
✓9. The Folded Clock: A Diary - Sept. 11, 2018
✓10. The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir - Oct. 30, 2018
✓11. The Mystics of Mile End - Oct. 10, 2018
✓12. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Sept. 14, 2018
✓13. Small Admissions - May 24, 2018
✓14. A Window Opens - Sept. 30, 2018
✓15. Secrets of Southern Girls - Nov. 1, 2018
✓16. The Ten-Year Nap - Oct. 21, 2018
✓17. Quicksand - July 25, 2018
✓18. The Patron Saint of Ugly - Sept. 16, 2018
✓19. The Moviegoer - Sept. 13, 2018
✓20. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland - June 11, 2018

Armada by Ernest Cline Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe Days of Awe by Lauren Fox An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Straight Man by Richard Russo Losing the Light by Andrea Dunlop Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult Judging a Book by Its Lover A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere by Lauren Leto The Folded Clock A Diary by Heidi Julavits The Kids Are All Right A Memoir by Diana Welch The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel Hunger A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito The Patron Saint of Ugly by Marie Manilla The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt


message 52: by Mindy (last edited Aug 31, 2018 02:51PM) (new)

Mindy Jones (mindyrecycles) 10 for me!

TBR Jar Challenge

8/10

2 from Kindle-tbr list

1. The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things COMPLETED JAN 8
2. Alien Abduction

8 from Audible-tbr list

3. Anna and the Swallow Man COMPLETED JAN 19
4. Strangers on a Train COMPLETED JUNE 16
5. Greyhound COMPLETED MAY 11
6. Interpreter of Maladies COMPLETED MAR 21
7. Slow Horses COMPLETED AUG 19
8. Olive Kitteridge
9. The Turner House COMPLETED JULY 25
10. The Pecan Man COMPLETED JAN 19


message 53: by CrazyAsACupcake (last edited May 14, 2018 05:30AM) (new)

CrazyAsACupcake | 438 comments I'm in for 24, please.

01. Orbiting Jupiter (Read: Jan 06, 2018)
02. A Gathering of Shadows (Read: Jan 12, 2018)
03. My Best Friend's Exorcism (Read: Jan 19, 2018)
04. The Day of the Triffids (Read: Jan 20, 2018)
05. Stealing Snow (Read: Jan 29, 2018)
06. Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Read: Feb 20, 2018)
07. Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index (Read: Feb 15, 2018)
08. Fangirl (Read: Feb 19, 2018)
09. How to Stop Time (Read: Feb 24, 2018)
10. Landline (Read: Feb 28, 2018)
11. Fans of the Impossible Life (Read: Mar 8, 2018)
12. Scythe (Read: Mar 26, 2018)
13. It Only Happens in the Movies (Read: Mar 30, 2018)
14. Obsidio (Read: Apr 05, 2018)77
15. How to Hang a Witch (Read: Apr 07, 2018)
16. People Like Us (Read: Apr 12, 2018)
17. Red Queen (Read: Apr 13, 2018)
18. Heather the Violet Fairy (Read: Apr 14, 2018
19. To All the Boys I've Loved Before (Read: Apr 16, 2018)
20. The Threepenny Opera (Read: Apr 18, 2018)
21. The Exact Opposite of Okay (Read: Apr 21, 2018)
22. Ready Player One (Read: Apr 25, 2018)
23. Glass Sword (Read: Apr 29, 2018)
24. The Bear and the Nightingale (Read: Apr 30, 2018)

24/24
COMPLETED


message 54: by Nina (last edited Jul 31, 2018 04:30AM) (new)

Nina | 354 comments I'm in for 12 books.
I will make a TBR jar of the Popsugar reading challenge and the book Riot's read harder challange. I will spontaneously decide which book I will read for the task.

1. Illuminae
2.Entrissen
3.Rachsucht
4. Orange 2
5. Ink
6. The Bronze Horseman
7. AchtNacht
7/12


message 56: by Heli (last edited Dec 30, 2018 09:44AM) (new)

Heli | 69 comments I'm in for 10!

1. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison / Read 7/3/2018
2. Muistilabyrintti by Arttu Tuominen / Read 24/2/2018
3. Pääkallovaras by Anna Jansson / read 10/3/2018
4. Tarhapäivä by Eve Hietamies / Read 12/3/2018
5. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny Read 9/16/18
6. Sinä päivänä by David Nicholls Read 12/30/18
7. The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood Read 7/8/18
8. Britt-Marie kävi täällä By Fredrik Backman Read 9/17/18
9. Peto by Anders Roslund Read 12/2/18
10. Purppuravirrat By Jean-Christophe Grangé Read 12/22/18

10/10


message 57: by Audrey (new)

Audrey Foreman | 33 comments I'll go for 10 :)


message 58: by Winter, Group Reads (new)

Winter (winter9) | 4998 comments Message 63

Winter - 0/5


message 60: by Chetara (new)

Chetara (crivers) | 140 comments Count me in.


message 62: by Elaine (last edited Jan 30, 2018 09:23AM) (new)

Elaine | 162 comments The TBR Challenge

Challenge Accepted: January 1, 2018
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: December 31, 2018


message 63: by Wolf (Alpha) (last edited Dec 12, 2017 10:45AM) (new)

Wolf (Alpha) | 317 comments I'm in for 25.

1. Moon Spell
2. Hot Sinatra
3. The Iron Trial
4. Kiss of the Night
5. Deadly Curiosities
6. Darkness Becomes Her
7. Spelbound
8. Dream Warriors
9. Crown of Midnight
10. Gypsy
11. Invincible
12. Wind Catcher
13. Touch the Dark
14. Daughter of Smoke and Bone
15. The Iron Knight
16. One Silent Night
17. Born of Fire
18. Bad Moon Rising
19. Cast in Shadow
20. Sabriel
21. The Hollow
22. First Test
23. Slumber
24. The Mists of Avalon
25. Forsaken


message 64: by JackAttack (last edited Dec 07, 2017 11:01AM) (new)

JackAttack | 29 comments Joining in!

TBR Challenge
Start: Jan 1 2018
End Dec 31 2018

Will be doing traditional TBR Randomizer Challenge. Goal to start is 20 books

1. The Never-Open Desert Diner #1009
2. The Perfect Stranger #1331
3. The Aeronaut's Windlass #622
4. Endsinger #299
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey #1216
6. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl #637
7. Zodiac #959
8. Fire Falling #910
9. The Grownup #679
10. Pawn #171
11. The Emperor's Blades #1005
12. Six Wakes #1384
13. Stolen Songbird #709
14. Odd Thomas #1350
15. Coraline #498
16. Outrun the Moon #1015
17. Schindler's List #370
18. Of Poseidon #79
19. Outcast #113
20. The Alice Network #1373

The Never-Open Desert Diner by James Anderson The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1) by Jim Butcher Endsinger (The Lotus Wars, #3) by Jay Kristoff 2001 A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews Zodiac by Neal Stephenson Fire Falling (Air Awakens, #2) by Elise Kova The Grownup by Gillian Flynn Pawn (The Blackcoat Rebellion, #1) by Aimee Carter The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1) by Brian Staveley Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty Stolen Songbird (The Malediction Trilogy, #1) by Danielle L. Jensen Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1) by Dean Koontz Coraline by Neil Gaiman Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally Of Poseidon (The Syrena Legacy, #1) by Anna Banks Outcast by Adrienne Kress The Alice Network by Kate Quinn


message 65: by Blagica , Challenges (new)

Blagica  | 12941 comments i'm in for 7 i always go for 12 and only finish 6 so we will try 7


message 66: by Kadijah Michelle (new)

Kadijah Michelle (kadmich) | 2176 comments Everyone is added up to here. Welcome to the challenge!


message 67: by Libby (last edited Aug 29, 2018 11:18AM) (new)

Libby  (adjoas) | 90 comments I'm in for 4 books. I put 8 slips paper in a hat (all of them had to be books on my TBR that I did not purchase in 2017) and these are the results:

1. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
2. Devices And Desires
3. Don't Cry Now
4.The Ransom Game


message 68: by Libby (new)

Libby  (adjoas) | 90 comments Jacki wrote: "Joining in!


TBR Challenge

Start: Jan 1 2018
End Dec 31 2018

Will be doing traditional TBR Randomizer Challenge. Goal to start is 20 books

1. The Never-Open Desert Diner #100..."


I read Coraline this year and really liked it. I've also seen the movie which is just as good!


message 69: by Juana "Darkness" (last edited Jun 29, 2018 08:54AM) (new)

Juana "Darkness" Duran | 83 comments I'm in for 30.

The 2018 TBR Jar Challenge

1. Girl with Guitar by Caisey Quinn 1/4/18

2. Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton 1/7/18

3. Shadow on the Hill by Diana Staresinic-Deane 1/14/18

4. Grigori by Lauren Smith 1/18/18

5. Can't Hurry Love by Molly O'Keefe 1/20/18

6. All Shook Up by Susan Andersen 1/22/18

7. Loving From Afar by Mona Ingram 1/26/18

8. Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands 1/28/18

9. Never Cry Wolf by Cynthia Eden 1/30/18

10. Boss Man by Diana Palmer 2/2/17

11. Never Let Go by Cynthia Eden 2/7/18

12. Her Rogue Alpha by Paige Tyler 2/10/18

13. Her Dominant Seal by Caitlyn O'Leary 2/12/18

14. Wolf Unleashed by Paige Tyler 2/16/18

15. Eternal Hunter by Cynthia Eden 2/18/18

16. Good Guys Love Dogs by Inglath Cooper 2/20/18

17. Burn for Me by Cynthia Eden 2/24/18

18. Hotter After Midnight by Cynthia Eden 2/27/18

19. Rurik by Lauren Smith 2/28/18

20. Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden 4/14/18

21. The Shadows of Stormclyffe Hall by Lauren Smith 4/22/18

22. Taste of Temptation by Cheryl Holt 4/28/18

23. Undead or Alive by Cynthia Eden 4/30/18

24. Burns Like Fire by Mandy Rosko 5/13/18

25. Keep Me Close by Cynthia Eden 5/28/18

26. Love Your Entity by Cat Devon 6/2/18

27. A Shock to Your System by Mandy Rosko 6/21/18

28.

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30.

Girl with Guitar (Kylie Ryans, #1) by Caisey Quinn Q is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone, #17) by Sue Grafton Shadow on the Hill The True Story of a 1925 Kansas Murder by Diana Staresinic-Deane Grigori (Brothers of Ash and Fire, #1) by Lauren Smith Can't Hurry Love (Crooked Creek Ranch, #2) by Molly O'Keefe All Shook Up by Susan Andersen Loving From Afar (The Women of Independence, #1) by Mona Ingram Single White Vampire (Argeneau #3) by Lynsay Sands Never Cry Wolf (Night Watch, #4) by Cynthia Eden Boss Man (Long, Tall Texans, #28) by Diana Palmer Never Let Go (Lazarus Rising #1) by Cynthia Eden Her Rogue Alpha (X-Ops #5) by Paige Tyler Her Dominant SEAL (Midnight Delta, #6) by Caitlyn O'Leary Wolf Unleashed (SWAT, #5) by Paige Tyler Eternal Hunter (Night Watch, #1) by Cynthia Eden Good Guys Love Dogs by Inglath Cooper Burn For Me (Phoenix Fire, #1) by Cynthia Eden Hotter After Midnight (Midnight, #1) by Cynthia Eden Rurik (Brothers of Ash and Fire, #3) by Lauren Smith Midnight's Master (Midnight, #3) by Cynthia Eden The Shadows of Stormclyffe Hall A Modern Gothic Romance (The Dark Seductions Series Book 1) by Lauren Smith Taste of Temptation (Novel of Sensual Destiny, #2) by Cheryl Holt Undead Or Alive (Bad Things, #3) by Cynthia Eden Burns Like Fire (Dangerous Creatures #1) by Mandy Rosko Keep Me Close (Lazarus Rising #2) by Cynthia Eden Love Your Entity (Entity, #3) by Cat Devon A Shock to Your System (Dangerous Creatures, #2) by Mandy Rosko


message 71: by Nurai (last edited Jan 13, 2018 11:17AM) (new)

Nurai I loved this challenge, so I'll participate again for 30 books (maybe too ambitious but we'll see).
3/30

1. Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood.
2. The World of Pooh by A. A. Milne.
3. The Mystical Poems of Rumi by Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi.
4. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler.
5. White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
7. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.
8. The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma.
9. Shrill by Lindy West.
10. Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman.
11. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb.
12. The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
13. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid.
14. The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt.
15. Als We Vlammen Waren by Toon Tellegen.
16. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
17. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge.
18. The Tao Of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff.
19. Autumn by Ali Smith.
20. De Oude Kustlijn by M. Vasalis.
21. Tot Het Ons Loslaat by Rutger Kopland.
22. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.
23. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
24. Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard.
25. Zeik Niet Zo by Anouk Kemper.
26. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.
27. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
28. Idaho by Emily Ruskovich.
29. Een Jihad van Liefde by Mohamed El Bachiri.
30. Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky.


message 72: by Kirsty (last edited Nov 18, 2018 05:15PM) (new)

Kirsty | 149 comments Sign me up for 20 please! I love the idea of reducing my TBR pile. I used the Goodreads TBR Randomiser and will read the following:

√ = read (12/20)

√1. Pachinko (read 5 March)
√2. Beloved (read 28 July)
√3. The Sisters Brothers (15 Aug)
√4. Of Mice and Men (read 7 Jan)
5. Asking For It
√6. The Paris Wife (11 Nov)
7. Alias Grace
√8. Lily and the Octopus (4 Aug)
√9. We Were the Lucky Ones (read 30 Mar)
10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
√11. A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other (read 15 Feb)
12. Orphan Train
√13. Before We Were Yours (21 Apr)
14. What Maisie Knew
15. The Master and Margarita
16. Homegoing
√17. Missing (25 Sep)
18. Moll Flanders
√19. Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy (read 12 Jan)
√20. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (24 Oct)


message 73: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer Burton | 234 comments I'll go for 15

some on my list I cannot find for free so I'll just read the ones that I'm able


message 75: by Alison (new)

Alison Chorney-Dubien (alisonchorney-dubien) Can anyone give me instructions on how to post a picture from my computer? I'd like to post my TBR jar.

Thanks


message 76: by Susan (last edited Dec 12, 2017 11:16AM) (new)

Susan | 13 comments I would like to join this TBR Challenge for 2018. I would like to read 12 books (1 a month). My list is as follows:-

1. Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
2. Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde
3. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1) by Jane Elizabeth Howard
4. Queen of Sorcery (The Belgariad, #2) by David Eddings
5. Another Day Gone by Eliza Graham
6. The Yorkshire Pudding Club by Milly Johnson
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson
9. Closer Home by Anne Kerry King
10. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
11. The Food of Love by Amanda Prowse
12. Life and Laughing: My Story by Michael McIntyre


message 77: by Ilona (new)

Ilona | 4698 comments Alison wrote: "Can anyone give me instructions on how to post a picture from my computer? I'd like to post my TBR jar. "

To host the image on Goodreads:
1. On your profile, click: "more photos" under your profile picture
2. Click "add more photos"
3. Upload your image file
4. Click "largest size" to the upper right of your image
5. Copy the web address for the image and post using the image tag: [img src="image url"] but replace []s with <>s

Hope this helps, Alison!


message 78: by Erin (last edited Sep 30, 2018 12:38PM) (new)

Erin Young (erinzo) | 177 comments I'm going for 20 books!

1. Sleeping Beauties
2. Little Fires Everywhere
3. After You'd Gone
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
5. The Help
6. Scythe
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message 79: by Nikki (last edited Dec 02, 2018 08:47AM) (new)

Nikki (nikki_framke) | 276 comments My TBR list has gotten obnoxious, and I've not even been reading books on it lately. I'm going to try and do more Goodreads challenges for 2018, so for this challenge, I will aim for lucky number 13!

13/13 --- CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

1. Caraval
2. Memoirs of a Geisha
3. Eleanor and the Iron King
4. Nothing
5. The Iron King
6. The Glittering Court
7. As Old As Time
8. A Gate of Night
9. We Were Liars
10. House of Royals
11. Legend
12. Orange Is the New Black
13 Wool


message 80: by Mar (last edited Dec 17, 2017 11:50AM) (new)

Mar Santibáñez I'm (initially) going for these books that I've been DYING to read!

1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2. Ensayo sobre la Ceguera
3. Ficciones
4. The Power
5. The Gunslinger
6. 11/22/63
7. Fangirl
8.The name of the wind


message 81: by Alison (new)

Alison Chorney-Dubien (alisonchorney-dubien) Ilona wrote: "Alison wrote: "Can anyone give me instructions on how to post a picture from my computer? I'd like to post my TBR jar. "

To host the image on Goodreads:
1. On your profile, click: "more photos" u..."



Thanks IIona!!! Worked perfectly!


message 82: by Ilona (new)

Ilona | 4698 comments You're welcome Alison, and I love your jar!
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to it myself yet. My current mission is to actually find a jar :)


message 83: by Eirelyn (new)

Eirelyn (ladyeirelyn) | 1244 comments I'm in for 10. :D


message 84: by Gretchen (new)

Gretchen (eab2012) | 596 comments I would like to join this challenge with a goal of ten books.


message 85: by Karina (new)

Karina (karinargh) | 807 comments Signing up!



(The Sadness character is not a response to the TBR!)

That jar contains these 20 titles - I used random.org to pick them from a list of unread books currently on my kindle. Not even going to say how many of them there are in total...

0/20

1. All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault
2. Gemini Cell
3. Taste of Marrow
4. The Brightest Fell
5. Karen Memory
6. The Magpie Lord
7. Deep Navigation
8. Home
9. Jacaranda
10. Summer in Orcus
11. Passing Strange
12. Genrenauts: The Complete Season One Collection
13. An Ember in the Ashes
14. The Burning Light
15. The Games
16. The Future Chronicles: Special Edition
17. A Criminal Magic
18. The Eisenberg Constant
19. The Lonely Dark
20. After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall


message 86: by Lauri (last edited Jan 07, 2018 01:33AM) (new)

Lauri (otwlauri) | 152 comments Lauri's Spot!

0 / 12


I'll start with 12 books -- to be taken from my GINORMOUS TBR list before the end of next week.

1. Daughter of Smoke and Bone
2. Yes, Please!
3. The Blessing Way
3. Thirteen Moons
4. Ash and Quill
5. The Nightingale
6. Perfume **
7. Secondhand Souls
8. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
9. The World of Suzie Wong
10. The Quest
11. Eve
12. The Rebel Queen


message 87: by Vicki (new)

Vicki Johnson | 81 comments I'm going to start with 24. My TBR list just keeps growing so hopefully I can at least read as many as I add.


message 88: by Rashmi (last edited Dec 15, 2017 04:27AM) (new)

Rashmi | 105 comments Sign me up for 20 books, please :)

1. Shutter Island - Lehane, Dennis
2. The Stand - Stephen King
3. The Bleeding Season - Gifune, Greg F
4. Franny and Zooey - Salinger
5. Abbadon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3) - James SA Corey
6. Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King, Owen King
7. End of Watch - Stephen King
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. The Poet - Michael Connelly
10. The Virgin Suicides - Eugenides, Jeffrey
11. A Clockwork Orange -Burgess, Anthony
12. The Great Gatsby -Fitzgerald, F. Scot
13. Disappearance at Devil's Rock - Paul Tremblay
14. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
15. Things Fall Apart - Achebe Chinua
16. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
17. The Plague - Camus
18. Rebecca - du Maurier, Daphne
19. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
20. Prelude to Foundation - Asimov


message 90: by Linda (new)

Linda | 94 comments love this challenge.

I have over 100 on goodreads TBR.
and I have 6 notebook pages ,

I will go for 4.
would like to do more, but, am also in a F2F book club.

linda


message 91: by Gail (last edited Dec 26, 2017 06:48PM) (new)

Gail | 195 comments I am in for 12.

I will update as I pull one book from my jar each month!


message 92: by Helen (new)

Helen (hfhill) | 10 comments ooh im in for this one! i really need to stop buying more and read the pile Ive got. Ill go for 8! will go with a randomizer approach i think!


message 93: by Pamela (last edited Mar 09, 2018 12:25PM) (new)

Pamela | 91 comments I'm gonna do this challenge for those times when I can't decide what to read next. I will be making a Jar to draw a title from.

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message 94: by Tiffany (last edited Feb 03, 2018 01:51PM) (new)

Tiffany Herndon | 74 comments Ok, I'm in! I'm going to go for 25 books. I'm going to pull them from my TBR jar. I have 109 titles in the jar. Ill add them here as I pull.

2/25

1. The Midwife's Revolt
2. My Lady Jane


message 95: by Kaleigh (new)

Kaleigh Norkum-Mathieu (kaleighnorkum) I want to read 5 books, although my list is so long that I should be reading way more haha


message 96: by Ann (last edited Dec 16, 2018 08:03AM) (new)

Ann (hammiam) | 221 comments I will attempt 2 a month for a total of 24 and will generate titles randomly once a month.

1. FINISHED. Lilac Girls. Martha Hall Kelly.
2. FINISHED. The Hate You Give. Angie Thomas.
3. FINISHED. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. Kathleen Rooney.
4. FINISHED. The Bone Clocks. David Mitchell.
5. FINISHED. Everything Beautiful is not Ruined. Danielle Younge-Ullman
6. FINISHED. Truly Madly Guilty. Liane Moriarty
7. FINISHED. Rose Madder. Stephen King
8. FINISHED. The Long and Faraway Gone. Lou Berney
9. FINISHED. What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Rachel Botsman
10. FINISHED. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khalid Hosseini
11. FINISHED. Nevertheless: A Memoir. Alec Baldwin
12. FINISHED. The Traveling Cat Chronicles. Hiro Arikawa
13. FINISHED. The Immortalists. Chloe Benjamin
14. FINISHED. Brit Marie Was Here. Fredrik Backman.
15. FINISHED. Tin Man. Sarah Winman
16. Up and Down. Terry Fallis
17. FINISHED. Red Queen. Victoria Aveyard
18. FINISHED. Straight Man. Richard Russo
19. FINISHED. The Westing Game. Ellen Raskin
20. FINISHED. The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell
21. FINISHED. Emma in the Night. Wendy Walker
22. FINISHED. Goodbye, Vitamin. Rachel Khong
23. FINISHED. Son of a Trickster. Eden Robinson
24. FINISHED. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. Stuart Turton

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message 97: by Gretchen (last edited Feb 21, 2018 11:21AM) (new)

Gretchen (eab2012) | 596 comments I'm in this challenge with a goal of 10. I will list my books at a later date. The only books I'm putting in my "jar" will be books that I own.

1.) The Winter Queen
2.) Bitter Greens
3.) The Lily and The Lion
4.) Within the Hollow Crown: A Reluctant King, a Desperate Nation, and the Most Misunderstood Reign in History
5.) Lionheart
6.) Roma
7.) Let the Great World Spin
8.) Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors
9.) The Signature of All Things
10.) The Princeling


message 99: by Monica (last edited Sep 24, 2018 11:59AM) (new)


message 100: by Susan C (last edited Dec 11, 2018 04:23AM) (new)

Susan C (sacorwin) | 906 comments THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2018


I'm in for 20 books. I'm on a mission this year to read books and ebooks that I own. I'm going to randomize books from my Books I Own to read (10), Kindle Books to read (5) and Nook Books to read (5) shelves.

✓ Books I own
✓ 1. The Half Wives read 1/6/2018
✓ 2. The Hidden Light of Northern Fires read 4/4/2018
✓ 3. Missing You read 5/31/2018
✓ 4. Late One Night read 10/15/2018
✓ 5. A Reliable Wife read 4/16/2018
✓ 6. Bloodsucking Fiends read 3/14/2018
✓ 7. The Great Westward Walk: From the Front Door to the End of the Earth read 6/17/2018
✓ 8. High Plains Tango read 7/22/2018
✓ 9. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine read 2/19/2018
✓ 10. Breakfast Tea & Bourbon read 3/11/2018

✓ Kindle books
✓ 1. All the Lasting Things read 9/3/2018
✓ 2. The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow read 12/11/2018
✓ 3. A Small Revolution read 2/1/2018
✓ 4. The Things We Wish Were True read 3/2/2018
✓ 5. Little Boy Lost read 9/6/2017

✓ Nook Books
✓ 1. Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! read 1/4/2018
✓ 2. American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee read 6/5/2018
✓ 3. Practical Jean read 7/30/2018
✓ 4. Adelaide Confused read 5/17/2018
✓ 5. Worn Me Down read 2/3/2018

20/20 Challenge completed!


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