The Randomiser Challenge - 2015

[Adriana]

I deleted so many books in my tbr list before this challenge. I am now at 990 books which is really low for me.

I'm going for ten!

#9

#80

#136

#367

#400

#558

#654

#748

#819

#979

[Amie]

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2015
Completed: 0/12

672 - Reflected in You
132 - Loyalty in Death
162 - Just Over the Mountain
594 - Midnight Sins
1002 - Mine to Keep
292 - Fade To Midnight
664 - Shoot to Thrill
944 - Rumor Has It
1261 - Fatal Flaw
1015 - Collide
972 - Break In Two
415 - Hard Evidence

[Dana]

Please sign me up for this one!

27) The Keeper of Secrets
75) A Thousand Splendid Suns
213) Defying Hitler
223) Rush Home Road
261) The List
323) All the Light There Was
328) The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
371) The Street Sweeper
454) One Summer: America, 1927
489) The Promise of Stardust
502) The Auschwitz Escape
560) Serendipity

8/12

[Victoria]

The Randomiser Challenge
1st January-31st December 2015
Goal 6

4. River of Destiny by Barbara Erskine Completed 06.07.15 Rating 4 stars

15. The Silversmith's Wife by Sophia Tobin Completed 06.10.15 Rating 3 stars

24. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Completed 28.01.15 Rating 4 stars

32. The White Lie by Andrea Gillies Completed 18.01.15 Rating 2 stars

17. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton Completed 10.12.15 Rating 2 stars

13. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Completed 15.03.15 Rating 3 stars

[Zara's Retreat]

Victoria I've added you.

[Jen]

I'm in! I am going to do 10 books.

1/10

1) 111 Free to Fall
2. 196 Astor Place Vintage
3. 108 unSweetined Completed 3/15
4. 115 The Sky is Everywhere
5. 7 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
6. 193 Pretty Little Liars
7. 15 The Casual Vacancy
8. 56 The History of Love
9. 120 One Breath Away
10. 76 Looking for Alaska

[Canadian Dragon]

Zara I am going to try for this one again. I wasn't successful last year so I am using the same list

4/10

The TBR Randomiser Challenge
Duration January 1-December 31 2015
1) 13 City of Ashes
2) 50 Unearthly
✔3) 61 May 9
✔4) 100 Feb 23,15
✔5) 139 Jan 4,15
6) 147 Level 2
7) 191 Fearscape
✔8) 267 Apr 13
9) 293 Marjorie Morningstar
10) 477 Night Pleasures

[Megan BG]

I increased mine to 12. Message 10.

[Antoinella]

I'm in for 5 books! Hope I will do better than last year.. :-)

Heart of Darkness
Don Quixote
A Place of Greater Safety
The Signature of All Things
Sarum: The Novel of England

[Traci]

I'm going for 10. And luckily, most of them are books that I've been wanting to read for a while.

138 - Sky Dragons
220 - DMZ, Vol. 1
268 - Burial Rites
339 - My Mom My Hero - Alzheimer's, A Mother and Daughter's Bittersweet Journey Completed 02/18/2015
355 - Wool Completed 02/08/2015
367 - The Scars of Ambition
403 - I'm Not Dead: The Journals of Charles Dudley
407 - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
413 - Aegis: Catalyst Grove
467 - Wickedly Wonderful Completed 06/23/2015

[Nadine]

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2015
Completed: 0/30

365 - The Day of the Triffids
602 - Galveston
398 - Ubik
541 - Captain Future and the Space Emperor
582 - The Silver Linings Playbook
282 - High Fidelity
379 - The Island of Dr. Moreau
569 - The Martian
308 - The Long Earth
544 - Captain Future's Challenge: Captain Future Magazine, Summer 1940
306 - Doctor Who: Shada
314 - Civil War
531 - Doctor Who: Silhouette
417 - Bad Blood
445 - Jamie & Sooz: Love Hurts
375 - The Road
447 - Chasers
556 - Kobayashi Maru
561 - Last Full Measure
560 - The Good That Men Do
20 - The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who
55 - The Feast of the Drowned
59 - Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons
24 - Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise
58 - The Art of Destruction
57 - Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island
23 - Doctor Who: Only Human
41 - Doctor Who: Winner Takes All
56 - Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
44 - Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

[Annika]

I'm in for 12.

Completed: 3/12

26 : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie✔
67 : The School for Scandal
114 : The Mysterious Affair at Styles✔
170 : The Charioteer
207 : Death in Venice
342 : Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings✔
532: Bel Canto
567: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
592 : The Yellow Wallpaper
614 : An Actor Prepares
634 : North and South
639 : Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

[These Violent Delights]

This sounds like fun! I'm in!

Here Is My List:

I'm going to go for 50 books in this challenge.

1.) 384-To Catch A Wolf
2.) 61-Crescendo
3.) 24-The Ward
4.) 300-Daughter Of Chaos
5.) 160-Crewel
6.) 108-Of Bone & Thunder
7.) 140-Frost Burned
8.) 339-Untraceable
9.) 52-Eternal Kiss Of Darkness
10.) 239-Murder Of Crows
11.) 48-Rebel
12.) 23-Kiss Of Darkness
13.) 18-Asunder
14.) 227-Ignite
15.) 218-Astral Bodies
16.) 36-Night Broken
17.) 332-The Iron Butterfly
18.) 326-The Island
19.) 113-Color Song
20.) 33-Alpha Goddess
21.) 381-The Light Within Me
22.) 324-Breakers
23.) 226-Ember
24.) 393-The Coldest Girl In Coldtown
25.) 112-Deaths Awakening
26.) 192-Half Blooded
27.) 64-Every Other Day
28.) 156-Kinslayer
29.) 120-Queen Of Someday
30.) 49-Kiss And Kin
31.) 190-Hummingbird
32.) 234-In Time
33.) 238-Trial By Fire
34.) 313-Willow
35.) 354-Captured
36.) 219-Hidden Wings
37.) 344-Just Breathe
38.) 202-Ignite
39.) 119-A Job From Hell
40.) 235-Twice The Growl
41.) 26-Born Wicked
42.) 142-Eve & Adam
43.) 328-The Soulkeepers
44.) 375-Cipher
45.) 16-The Crown Of Embers
46.) 163-Free To Fall
47.) 217-3:AM Kisses
48.) 243-Under A Raging Moon: Part One
49.) 22-Forbidden
50.) 263-Hunted

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

Simone, I'm glad that you like this challenge. It's a fun challenge.

[Chelsea]

I think I'll join this challenge, too! I have never "planned out" what I'm reading... I think I like the randomness of it, so this is perfect! I'll use books I own that are not part of a series. I'll try for 12 for now. And the numbers are...

114 - Cutting for Stone
69 - The Secret History
113 - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
22 - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
23 - Sleeping in Eden
9 - The Underside of Joy
141 - True Colors
44 - The Silmarillion
8 - The Secret Life of Bees
49 - A Confederacy of Dunces
126 - Every Last Cuckoo Finished 1/18
88 - The Night Journal

1/12

Whew... that's a list! Please feel free to tell me your opinions of any book on my list. I love to hear what other people think. :)

[Dana]

Chelsea wrote: "I think I'll join this challenge, too! I have never "planned out" what I'm reading... I think I like the randomness of it, so this is perfect! I'll use books I own that are not part of a series. I'..."

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America is amazing! Larson does a great job of combining both stories- I really enjoyed how he paced the book and drew you in. I could not put it down!

[Katy (Queen of the trash nerds)]

I'm in with 10 books.

491. Hero
360. Sweetly
297. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
207. DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1
381. A Feast for Crows
324. Locke & Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft finished Feb 2, 2015
331. Rush
418. Daughter of the Forest
16. Magic Strikes
276. Prophecy of the Sisters

(some of these are series so I will have to read the other books, which is good.)

[Zara's Retreat]

Chelsea I have added you.

[Jenn]

I'd like to try this and I like others' idea to do 12 (1 per month). So here are mine:

80 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (completed)
83 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (completed)
45 - The God Delusion (completed)
47 - Cutting for Stone (completed)
49 - Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (completed)
46 - The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (completed)
50 - Bad Science (completed)
120 - UnWholly (completed)
6 - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (completed)
79 - The Handmaid's Tale (completed)
82 - The Long Goodbye (completed)
102 - Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody (completed)

Woohoo! Challenge Complete!

[Wendi]

2015RC: Randomizer Challenge
Duration: 1-1-15 to 12-31-15

Books Read: 30/30

✔01 → 049 | The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells - Oct 29 - ★★☆☆☆
✔02 → 251 | Chalice | Robin McKinley - Jan 17 - ★★★☆☆
✔03 → 192 | Troubled Waters | Sharon Shinn - Dec 30 - ★★★★☆
✔04 → 182 | Full Steam Ahead | Karen Witemeyer - Dec 19 - ★★★☆☆
✔05 → 122 | If You Hear Her | Shiloh Walker - Dec 17 - ★★★☆☆
✔06 → 292 | Eon: Dragoneye Reborn | Alison Goodman - Jan 4 - ★★★☆☆
✔07 → 126 |Angels' Blood | Nalini Singh - Aug 8 - ★★★★☆
✔08 → 194 | The Splendour Falls | Susanna Kearsley - Dec 22 - ★★☆☆☆
✔09 → 191 | Ascend | Amanda Hocking - Oct 10 - ★★★★☆
✔10 → 042 | Consumed by Fire | Anne Stuart - Nov 25 - ★★★★☆



✔11 → 019 | No Rest for the Wicked | Kresley Cole - Dec 20 - ★★★☆☆
✔12 → 117 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald - Nov 15 - ★★★☆☆
✔13 → 281 | Scent of Darkness | Christina Dodd - Nov 11 - ★★★★☆
✔14 → 151 | The Cuckoo's Calling | Robert Galbraith - Dec 28 - ★★★★☆
✔15 → 253 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare - Nov 12 - ★★★★☆
✔16 → 080 | The Scribe | Elizabeth Hunter - Dec 18 - ★★★☆☆
✔17 → 223 | Cold Magic | Kate Elliott - Dec 30 - ★★★★★
✔18 → 103 | A Kingdom of Dreams | Judith McNaught - Nov 10 - ★★★☆☆
✔19 → 282 | Tithe | Holly Black - Dec 19 - ★★★☆☆
✔20 → 001 | The Time Machine | H.G. Wells - Oct 19 - ★★★☆☆



✔21 → 157 | Abby: Mail Order Bride | Verna Clay - Apr 23 - ★★★★☆
✔22 → 271 | The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer | Michelle Hodkin - Dec 7 - ★★★★☆
✔23 → 217 | Otherwise Alone | Shay Savage - Apr 21 - ★★☆☆☆
✔24 → 047 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson - Dec 5 - ★★★★☆
✔25 → 286 | Then Came You | Lisa Kleypas - Dec 26 - ★★★☆☆
✔26 → 104 | Deadly Curiosities | Gail Z. Martin - Dec 29 - ★★☆☆☆
✔27 → 115 | A Legacy of Light | Daniel Arenson - Dec 8 - ★★☆☆☆
✔28 → 233 | The Mark of the Tala | Jeffe Kennedy - Jul 25 - ★★☆☆☆
✔29 → 283 |Dragon Bound | Thea Harrison - Dec 24 - ★★★★☆
✔30 → 077 | Prince of Fools | Mark Lawrence - May 24 - ★★★☆☆

[Zara's Retreat]

Jane and Jenn I have added you both. Welcome and good luck.

[Zara's Retreat]

Jen I've added you. Welcome

[Mary-Ann]

Can you sign me up for 10.

0/10

157. NW – Zadie Smith
9. Hush Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick
58. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
199. The Blade Itself – Joe Abercrombie
237. Alone – Robert J. Crane
268. City Of Bones – Cassandra Clare
284. Daughter of Xanadu – Dori Jones Yang
364. Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett
1. Theif’s Magic – Trudi Canavan
97. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne

[Lorelei]

I'd like to join this challenge. Here's my books:
4/5

#41 A Little Princess***READ 4.3.15
#170 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
#78 The Princess Bride ***READ 2.5.15
#58 The Incredible Journey***READ 8.13.15
#24 The Inn at Eagle Point***READ 5.17.15

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here

[Freya]

I'm in too. I'd like to go for 10 books. It's part of my aim this year to read some books in both German and English, so I'm going to split my randomiser accordingly between the two shelves.

1 - 102. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
2 - 30. And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist & the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss & Betrayal - Christopher Ward
3 - 8. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
4 - 61. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
5 - 129. Jeder stirbt für sich allein - Hans Fallada
6 - 56. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith
7 - 105. A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov
8 - 118. Cockroaches - Jo Nesbo
9 - 5. (German shelf) Weiter leben. Eine Jugend. - Ruth Klueger
10 - 19. (German shelf) Mensch ohne Hund - Hakan Nesser

[Katy (Queen of the trash nerds)]

I have seen to be missed. Can I be added please?

[Meimei]

Since this year was a success, I'm gonna try read more books from my TBR.
0/15

[Zara's Retreat]

updated to here.

[E]

I'm in for this, but since my TBR list here of GR doesn't exactly correspond with the books I own, it might be a bit tricky. I'm gonna go for 10 and see what happens...

19 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
63 - The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
106 - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
183 - Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
225 - Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
390 - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
847 - That Time I Joined the Circus by J. J. Howard
881 - 1066 and All That by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
1062 - The Savages by Matt Whyman
1162 - Hashish by Henri de Monfreid

And as it turned out, I actually own most of these books and and the rest of them I really, really want to read! All is good, it's gonna be fun.

[DeNeal]

I will read 12

129: Flowers for Algernon
213: Breakfast at Tiffanys
226: Midnight Sun
388: Some Assembly Required
419: The Soldier's Wife
433: My Name is Mary Sutter
436: The Tudors
505: The Phantom Tollbooth
563: The Sound of Things Falling
597: The Property
681: Alone
708: Skippy Dies

[Ahtims]

10 books for me
The Poisonwood Bible
P.S. I Love You
Death at Wentwater Court
Tempest in the Tea Room
Deadly Sanctuary
A Flight Of Pigeons
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
The House Girl
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

[Maureen]

Updated message 9. I posted my books. I want to start now!!

[Zara's Retreat]

Maureen wrote: "Updated message 9. I posted my books. I want to start now!!"

LOL. I can really relate Maureen.

[Nidhi]

Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

Completed: 0/10
65. Disgrace by JM Coetzee
64. Beloved by Toni Morrison
59. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
20. And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer
55. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
19. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
50. You should worry says John Henry, by George Hobart
29. Gone with the Wind by Mitchell Margaret
16. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, by George Perkins Marsh
57. The Works of Edgar Allen Poe- Volume 4

Very happy with this list yay!

[Zara's Retreat]

Nidhi I have added you.

[Zara's Retreat]

Artemisia I have added you

[Nidhi]

Zara wrote: "Nidhi I have added you."
Thank you Zara!

[Sherry]

I'm in. Put me for 8.

[Zara's Retreat]

Sherry I've added you. Welcome.

[Agnes]

I liked this one, gets me to read 20 books off my TBR list!

24 The Crane Wife
46 Beautiful Creatures
77 Divergent
43 Outrage
17 Child 44
92 The Kalahari Typing School
58 Snowblind
5. The Return of the Dancing Master
77 Going Solo
34 The Fire Dance
45 Tequila Mockingbird
41 Operation Napolean
61 The Blue Book
7. The Sandman
1. Open Secrets
63 Ex Libris
2. Erased
36 Invisible Murder
75 A Thousand Mornings
12 The Girl in the Wall
Still have a way to go!!

[Zara's Retreat]

Agnes I have added you.

[Carrie]

I'm in for 4 :) I didn't do well last year. Many of the books on my list I do not own and my library didn't have them either :( Hopefully I'll have better luck this year!


67 - Love Anthony 6/30/15
167 - Under the Boardwalk: A Pajaro Bay Cozy Mystery + Sweet Romance
212 - Undead finished 3/1/15
278 - Eye Contact

I have since searched my local libraries and have found 3 of the 4!!! Not sure what I'm going to do about the 4th one.

[Zara's Retreat]

Carrie I have added you.

[Chelsi]

I'll do 12,1 a month.

My numbers were:
✓266- Slammerkin 4/5
92- The Rebel Wife
154- The Fourth Queen
✓269- Moloka'i 2/15
361-The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
394- The Emperor of All Maladies
406- Cuba
462- Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater
512- Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
1023-Mr Snack and the Lady Water: Travel Tales From My Lost Years
1096- Speak Rwanda
1102- The Secret Life of Violet Grant

[Kelsi]

I'm in for 10!!

192: The Wind in the Willows
215:Things Fall Apart
308: The Hound of the Baskervilles
25: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
294: Oryx and Crake
182:Murder at the Vicarage
327: Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
255: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
150:Flight Behavior
298: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

[Zara's Retreat]

Chelsi & Kelsi I've added you.

[ChrisR]

I'll try 10 books from my 91-book list.


Finished 10/10:

#7 #19 #25 #40 #45
#48 #52 #62 #84 #88

[Ian]

I am so glad this challenge is back! I am going to sign up for 15 this year....here is my list.

2. The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
14. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
31. Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
34. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
72. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
76. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
81. The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
88. Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
92. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
125. If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
140. The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
153. The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer
168. Sand Omnibus by Hugh Howey

4/15 complete

[Daphne]

Well, I totally bombed this one last year. I'm too finicky of a reader. I suppose that's why I have around 400 books at my house at all times that I haven't read yet. I never know what I will want to read next, so I need my options!

I'm going to go super low this time and try for 5. If I finish this before July, then I will add 5 more. I WILL finish 5 this year though.

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

2/5

✓#45. The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America by Keith S. Thomson
#57. Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom
#104. The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
#146. Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
✓#199. The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak