Clear the Shelves - 2018

[Nurai]

Update message 48: 1/40

Autumn by Ali Smith.

[Nancy from NJ]

I am going to read 38 books for this challenge.


The books are the following:

E books - 27 Titles

Physical Books - 11 Titles

[Chalmation]

Updated message #19

4/50

[Christina]

Message 128 updated
physical 1/10
ebooks 0/5

[Leah]

Update to message 82:

Completed 1 of 50 physical books

1) Joy of Nature

[Lindsay]

Update msg 8

4/30

Ironically I had 30 books I planned to read this year and my first 4 were not on that list.

[Nancy from NJ]

I aim to read 38 books for this challenge. If I declare the titles in a message and don't like one of them, can I change it for a new title.

[Lori]

Completed my first book for the challenge. Updated post 102.

[Cynthia]

Edit to post 135

1/10 Ebook

Finished The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Susy]

Nancy from NJ wrote: "I aim to read 38 books for this challenge. If I declare the titles in a message and don't like one of them, can I change it for a new title."

Of course Nancy! Nothing is set in stone!

[Nancy from NJ]

Thanks for the answer, Susan.

[Cindy Heaton]

I'd love to join this challenge. I'm going to start with 38 physical books that I own already and take it from there (hopefully I will be adding more to this list than my original 38).
1. The Alice Network
2. Blood Magick
3. Coldbrook
4. Midnight Crossroad
5. Day Shift
6. Young Bess
7. Elizabeth, Captive Princess
8. Follow the River
9. The Genius Plague
10. How to Be an American Housewife Finished 3.27.18
11. The Immortals
12. Julia's Chocolates
13. Kings of the Wyld
14. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
15. The Nameless Day
16. Orphan Train
17. Pray for Dawn finished 2.5.18
18. The Queen's Rival
19. Revenge of the Rose finished 1.25.18
20. Shadow Spell finished 1.1.18
21 Trailer Park Fae
22. Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
23. Vicious Circle
24. White Trash Zombie Gone Wild
25. White Trash Zombie Unchained
26 Ex-Communication
27. The Zookeeper's WifeFinished 1.6.18
28. The White PrincessFinished 3.4.18
29. Boy, Snow, Bird
30. All the Birds, Singing
31. Big Little Lies Finished 3.18.18
32. Man Walks into a Pub
33. The Good Girl
34. American Gods finished 1.10.18
35. The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace
36. Scourged by Kevin Hearne (not yet published, but I'll be buying it)
37. Fire Touched
38. Silence Fallen

[Cindy Heaton]

For my challenge update I've finished Shadow Spell by Nora Roberts, The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman and American Gods by Neil Gaimen as of today. Thanks!

[Kiriko]

Just finished my first book, an ebook I downloaded in Dec 2017:

[Kadijah Michelle]

Nancy from NJ wrote: "I aim to read 38 books for this challenge. If I declare the titles in a message and don't like one of them, can I change it for a new title."

Yes, absolutely!

[Eirelyn]

Update!

Progress: 2/10

1) A Court of Thorns and Roses (ebook)
2) Caraval (ebook)
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[[deleted user]]

Updated #24

[Alicia]

I would like to participate in this challenge! It was already one of my goals to read those books that have been languishing on my bookshelves for years. I am in for 20 books.

E-Books: 2
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Outlander

Physical Books: 18
Cell
Cold Mountain
A Death in the Family
Dune
Everything Is Illuminated
Firestarter
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit
Interview with the Vampire
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Life of Pi
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Monkey Wrench Gang
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Player Piano
Sons and Lovers

Progress:
E-Books: 2/2
Physical Books: 4/18

[Muntazir]

Owned and not read
Physical Books-

1. The Book Thief
2. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
3. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
4. The God of Small Things
5. Rafa: My Story
6. Playing It My Way
7. Byculla to Bangkok
8. One Life is Not Enough
9. The Prophet
10. 4.50 from Paddington
11. The Siege of Krishnapur
12. Lolita
13. Wings of Fire
14. Pakistan: A Personal History
15. Mein Kampf
16. A Brief History of Time
17. All the Light We Cannot See
18. Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years
19. The Art of War
20. Manuscript Found in Accra
21. India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
22. The Guest Cat
23. And the Mountains Echoed

Already finished one book this year, i.e. The Book Thief.

[TCampbell]

YAY! FINISHED!!
COMPLETED 16 of 16 digital

1. The Naturalist ( COMPLETED 1-12)
2. Daughters of the Night Sky (COMPLETED 2-8)
3. Tower of Dawn (COMPLETED 8-16)
4. Song of Edmon (COMPLETED 6-12)
5. The Blue Sword (COMPLETED 9-27)
6. Labyrinth (COMPLETED 9-8)
7. Secondborn (COMPLETED 9-21)
8. Tier One (COMPLETED 5/25)
9. The Book Thief (COMPLETED 1/22)
10. The 5th Wave (COMPLETED 4/16)
11. Frostbite (VA) (COMPLETED 2/28)
12. Vampire Academy (COMPLETED 1/14)
13. The Blessing Way (COMPLETED 2/1)
14. Under The Never Sky (COMPLETED 3/17)
15. Face of Evil (COMPLETED 1/29)
16. Before I Go to Sleep (COMPLETED 5/5)

[Barbara]

Finished ebook #1 Cinder
Update message 25

[Jeana]

updated message #131

[Lara]

Read Embrace The Grim Ready Judy Clemens (Audiobook)

[TCampbell]

Edited post 231: Finished The Naturalist

[BlurryBug]

I like to be down for 20 books
at least 12 of them should come from my own shelves and not the library or ebook,
1 of them will be a book I borrowed from a friend and forgot about

[Kadijah Michelle]

A new update is posted! Welcome to all the new members.

[Sean]

5/50

To Have and Have Not

OP #77

[Heather]

I will join this one too! I'll sign up for 10.

5 physical books
5 ebooks

I need to check my bookshelves for specific titles.

Completed 4th ebook
1. The Custom of the Country
2. The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
3. Ethan Frome
4. On the Origin of Species

Physical books
1. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
2. Mistborn

[D.G.]

3/41
✔ 2. Night School - 1/4 ★★★

Updated msg 40

[Kimberly]

I shall join. I'll sign up for 10 books.

[Tara]

I finished my second book for the challenge and it is my first paper book of the year. Moonlight in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles was a random book I found while cleaning out some of my Mom's many MANY books and it just caught my eye. So glad it did because I thought it was wonderful! If you would like to have this book please message me and I will send it to you. Otherwise, it's going to my neighborhood little free library in a week.

Physical books: 1/12
Ebooks: 0/6
Audio: 1/6

[Jakob]

Oh jeez. I'm the worst at buying books (seriously, can't be trusted in bookstores) and then just... not reading them. I'm moving soon and I've already packed many of the books I've already read (and some that I hadn't yet, but only a couple) but left most of the TBRs on the shelf still. So this is a perfect challenge.

Will not be promising that I won't run off to the store and come home with something new though, but ideally I'd also like to make a dent in what I already have. Let's be reasonable and aim for 8 shall we.

Here's a list of all the books I have on my shelf right now that I bought before December 31st 2017 (we're just two weeks into the new year and I've already gone shopping...). I'll be crossing off the ones I read.

Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer — bought on sale in summer 2017
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders — bought on sale in summer 2017
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer — bought on sale in summer 2017
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith — bought on sale in summer 2017, which forced me to buy the first two books, which I've already read
The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg — Christmas present 2016
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess — picked up at the secondhand store shortly before Christmas 2017
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell — bought for class in August 2016 but then the class was cancelled and I stopped reading, I think I was like 40 pages in?
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery — Christmas present 2015
Made in America by Bill Bryson — I feel like I've had this forever... at least five years, probably closer to a decade
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers — stolen off my mum in May 2017, she started reading it but got bored so I declared it mine
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara — bought in the fall of 2016
Reamde by Neal Stephenson — bought in April/May 2017, started reading it but didn't have the time for it
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari — borrowed from a friend in December 2016, have to return it soon, read part one last September
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker — bought on sale in summer 2016
The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys by Jenny Nordberg — bought on sale in summer 2016

THE TALLY: 1/8

[Nurai]

Update message 48: 2/40

Autumn by Ali Smith.
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard.

[Jennifer]

Update msg 10

2/50-

[Sahira]

Challenge completed! 5 more read.

I will say this... there have been some ebooks that I've been wanting for a while now and they went on sale this week. I'd remembering the rule of not to purchase books until at least 5 books were read and cleared off the shelf. I was so happy that I had already cleared 5 books because I was holding myself to that rule. lol

12/12 books read

✅ A Brewing Storm
✅ A Raging Storm
✅ A Bloody Storm
✅ Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide
✅ John Doe

[Sean]

6/50

Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity And The Emergence Of Life

OP #77

[Susy]

Update message 151


3. De vreugde en gelukclub by Amy Tan


Books read: 3/24

[Laura]

Updated message 47.
I have also upped the total number of books for this challenge to 75 (physical and kindle mixed).

Read 7 out of 75

[Deb]

Update message 139

I decided to declutter my books if I owned a copy of a book and so did my public library. With that in mind, I have sorted through and donated 123 books from my shelves in the past 2 weeks. I've moved every book out of my hall shelves and now I have set my sights on my office and bedroom.

[Chelsea]

Update: Message 64
2/15
Physical book: The Nest

[Charity]

Updated message 9.

5/30

[Erika]

I'd like to sign up for 50 please!

[Jenn]

Update to message 193: First physical book complete The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

[Eirelyn]

Update!

Progress: 3/10

1) A Court of Thorns and Roses (ebook)
2) Caraval (ebook)
3) Ready Player One (ebook)
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[Chelsea]

Update: Message 64
2/15
Physical book: Behind Closed Doors

[Kelly]

Updated message 126
3/20
3. Scumble

[Karianne]

I'm going to commit to 50! Format and specific books TBD as I go.

8/50

Physical books:
- What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Batgirl vol. 1 by Gail Simone
- Batgirl vol. 2 by Gail Simone
- Batgirl vol. 3 by Gail Simone
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Ebooks:
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

[Stefani - SpelingExpirt]

I have read my first two of my 75, I'm counting ones that I've had more than six months to try and cut down on the number of books just gathering dust on my shelves unread!

[Kiriko]

Finished with my second book:

Jacob Have I Loved

[Lady]

update message 187