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I'm in for 100!2015 Randomiser Challenge
1/1/15-12/31/15
117/100
Updated: 11/18/15
1.(772)Since You've Been Gone-1/3/15-♥♥♥
2.(349)Between Heaven and Texas-1/6/15-♥♥♥♥
3.(2)The Book Thief-1/11/15-♥♥♥♥
4.(808)The Silent Sister-1/16/15-♥♥♥♥
5.(336)Magnolia Wednesdays-Wendy Wax-1/22/15 - ♥♥♥♥
6.(592)We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir-1/25/15-♥♥♥♥♥
7.(725)Heroes Are My Weakness-1/29/15 -♥♥
8.(147)The Samurai's Garden-2/4/15-♥♥♥♥♥
9.(197)Angelology-2/12/15-♥
10.(602)The Secret History of the Pink Carnation-3/5/15-♥♥
11.(23)How I Came to Sparkle Again-3/10/15-♥♥♥
12.(725)Fly Away Home-3/21/15-♥♥♥
13.(297)The Language of Flowers-2/21/15-♥♥♥♥
14.(75)Home Front-3/29/15-♥♥♥♥
15.(204)Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee-3/27/15-♥♥♥♥♥
16.(930)My Father at 100-5/20/15-♥♥
17.(420)The Perfect Play-3/13/15-♥♥♥
18.(674)The Night Garden: A Novel-4/28/15-♥♥
19.(895)One for the Money-1/19/15-♥♥♥♥
20.(619)Immortal-4/6/15-♥♥♥
21.(382)The Rosie Project-3/15/15-♥♥
22.(373)The Winter Sea-3/25/15-♥♥♥♥
23.(769)The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar-5/24/15-♥♥♥♥♥
24.(456)Fin & Lady - 9/1/15 - ♥♥♥♥
25.(128)Virgin River-7/5/15-♥♥♥♥
26.(62)Code Name Verity-5/17/15-♥♥
27.(644)Pray for Silence-9/7/15-♥♥♥♥
28.(476)Gemini-5/3/15-♥♥♥
29.(26)Sworn to Silence-8/29/15-♥♥♥♥♥
30.(332)Dark Bites-4/2/15-♥♥♥
31.(915)Two for the Dough-1/31/19-♥♥♥♥
32.(720)Not My Father's Son-2/9/15-♥♥♥
33.(578)The Lost Recipe for Happiness- 2/15/15-♥♥♥♥♥
34.(40)On Dublin Street-2/17/15-♥♥
35.(919)Three to Get Deadly-2/18/15-♥♥♥♥
36.(576)The Garden of Happy Endings-2/23/15-♥♥♥♥♥
37.(368)You Dropped a Blonde on Me-2/25/15-♥♥
38.(923)The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires-2/26/15-♥♥
39.(878)Driving Mr. Dead-2/27/15-♥♥♥♥
40.(453)South of Superior-2/28/15-♥♥♥♥
41.(889)A Witch's Handbook of Kisses and Curses-3/5/15-♥♥♥
42.(455)Crazy for You-3/8/15-♥♥
43.(894)Four to Score-3/12/15-♥♥♥♥
44.(925)I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas-3/13/15-♥♥♥♥
45.(923)The Firefly Dance-3/18/15-♥♥♥
46.(922)Old Haunts-3/25/15-♥♥♥♥
47.(920)The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire-4/2/15-♥♥♥
48.(933)Blind Faith-4/3/15-♥♥
49.(26)The Night Circus-4/11/15-♥♥
50.(725)The Second Sister-4/14/15-♥♥♥♥
51.(384)That Part Was True-4/14/15-♥♥♥♥
52.(131)A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty-4/18/15-♥♥♥♥
53.(21)Firefly Lane-4/22/15-♥♥♥♥♥
54.(956)Deep in the Valley-4/24/15-♥♥♥♥
55.(429)Fly Away-4/26/15-♥♥♥
56.(960)Just Over the Mountain-5/3/15-♥♥♥♥
57.(379)Changing the Game-5/6/15-♥♥♥
58.(233)Lost Lake-5/8/15-♥♥♥♥
59.(957)Down by the River-5/10/15-♥♥♥♥
60.(384)Up at Butternut Lake-5/12/15-♥♥♥♥
61.(834)Backseat Saints-5/19/15-♥♥♥♥
62.(1065)The Epic of Gilgamesh-5/23/15-♥♥♥♥♥
63.(374)The Museum of Extraordinary Things-5/23/15-♥♥♥♥
64.(519)The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry-5/26/15-♥♥♥♥♥
65.(357)Sea Creatures-6/1/15-♥♥♥
66.(157)The Queen of Kentucky-6/12/15-♥♥♥♥
67.(438)The Nightingale-6/21/15-♥♥♥♥♥
68.(566)The Arrivals-6/27/15-♥♥♥♥
69.(203)How to Eat a Cupcake-6/29/15-♥♥♥♥
70.(910)For You-7/2/15-♥♥♥♥
71.The Russian Concubine-7/9/15-♥♥♥
72.(731)Chance of a Ghost-7/11/15-♥♥♥♥
73.(863)Silver Girl-7/13/15-♥♥♥♥
74.(3)The Jewish State-7/13/15-♥♥♥♥
75.(8)In Country-7/17/15-♥♥♥
76.(729)The Thrill of the Haunt-7/21/15-♥♥♥♥
77.(295)Under the Wide and Starry Sky-7/24/15-♥♥
78.(49)Sugar Daddy-7/26/15-♥♥♥
79.(910)The Sound of Glass-8/3/15-♥♥♥♥♥
80.(47)Blue-Eyed Devil-8/4/15-♥♥♥♥
81.(6)The Shadow of the Wind-8/4/15-♥♥
82.(322)Taking a Shot-8/8/15-♥♥♥
83.(281)Anya-8/10/15-♥♥♥
84.(587)The Quaker Café-8/13/15-♥♥♥♥
85.(587)The Dress Shop of Dreams-8/13/15-♥♥♥♥
86.(722)The Witch of Painted Sorrows-8/19/15-♥♥♥♥
87.(88)Emily and Einstein-8/22/15-♥♥♥♥♥
88.The Idea of Love-8/22/15-♥♥♥♥
89.(127)Down London Road-8/25/15-♥♥♥
90.(394)Whispering Rock-8/26/15-♥♥♥
91.(920)Losing the Moon-9/2/15-♥♥♥♥
92.(347)Shelter Mountain-Robyn Carr-7/11/15-♥♥♥♥
93.(830)The Unexpected Waltz-9/11/15-♥♥
94.(819)A Virgin River Christmas-9/12/15-♥♥♥♥♥
95.(484)The Zone of Interest-9/16/15-♥
96.(11)Deep Down True-9/18/15-♥♥♥♥
97.(878)-Night of the Living Deed-9/20/15-♥♥♥♥
98.(32)The House on Tradd Street-9/24/15-♥♥♥♥
99.(878)Dr. Texas-9/25/15-♥♥♥
100.(37)The Beach House-9/27/15-♥♥♥♥
101.(4)Merry Ex-Mas-10/2/15-♥♥
102.(847)The Art of Keeping Secrets-10/7/15-♥♥♥♥
103.(471)The Bones of Paris-10/9/15-♥♥♥
104.(449)Home Safe-10/10/15-♥♥♥♥
105.(411)Labor Day-10/13/15-♥♥♥♥
106.(6)A Wedding in Apple Grove-10/17/15-♥♥♥
107.(595)Driftwood Summer-10/20/15-♥♥♥♥
108.(870)Driving with the Top Down-10/22/15-♥♥♥♥
109.(877)Where the River Runs-10/22/15-♥♥♥♥♥
110.(344)A Vintage Affair-10/25/15-♥♥♥♥♥
111.(378)The Light in the Ruins-11/2/15-♥♥♥
112.(58)The Piano Teacher-11/9/15-♥♥♥♥
113.(391)The Ruby Brooch-11/10/15-♥♥♥♥
114.(272)The Winter Ghosts-11/13/15-♥♥
115.(846)Wife by Wednesday-11/14/15-♥♥♥
116.(132)Shōgun-11/15/15-♥♥♥♥♥
117.(716)The Cupcake Queen-11/18/15-♥♥♥♥
THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGEDuration: January 1st - December 31st 2015
0/20
391 The Wall
299 The Zone of Interest
303 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
320 Like Water for Chocolate
52 Ice Whale
23 Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
170 The Art of Racing in the Rain
180 Wintergirls
304 They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
16 I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
406 Strikers
33 The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1)
1 Someone Knows My Name
152 The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
346 Somebody Else's Kids
353 The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde Mysteries, #1)
103 Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
337 Girl in Translation
249 The Gardener of Baghdad
416 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
I am signing up...for 8 books.43 The Art Forger by B.A.Shapiro
80 Mercy by Jodi Picoult
71 A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert
87 Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
68 Summer House by Nancy Thayer
94 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
26 The Flower Boy by Karen Roberts
25 Emma by Jane Austen
This challenge I'll do, Zara. I am busy working at school with my school readers until Feb and have books I want to finish before I start.
My first ten of this challenge.3 Mysterious Benedict Society
232 The Thief Taker
337 With a Name Like Love
224 To Love anew
553 Gray Mountain
289 Redwall Abbey
349 Galapagos George by Craighead
295 Mary queen of Scots & Darby by Weir
64 house of sprits
171 Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
add me but I'll only do 15, I'll add the choices later
3 Mysterious Benedict Society232 The Thief Taker
337 With a Name Like Love
224 To Love anew --finished
553 Gray Mountain finished
289 Redwall Abbey
349 Galapagos George by Craighead
295 Mary queen of Scots & Darby by Weir
64 house of sprits
171 Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
I'm only doing this 10 finished 2 of 10. I ordered 4 more 3 are children's books quick reads
3 Mysterious Benedict Society--reading232 The Thief Taker
337 With a Name Like Love
224 To Love anew --finished
553 Gray Mountain-- finished
289 Redwall Abbey--finished
349 Galapagos George by Craighead--finished
295 Mary queen of Scots & Darby by Weir
64 house of sprits
171 Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict --reading
I'm only doing this 10 finished 4 of 10. I reading 2.
I am in for 5 books!1354 (yes I know I have a gigantic TBR pile) Bad Trip South - 2/4/15 ***
1197 Scorpion - 2/9/15 (don't read it the ending was horrible) ***
351 The Last Bride in Ballymuir - 2/15/15 ****
1786 The Voice of Your Beloved
854 The Good Knight - 3/2/15 ****
I love this challenge because it makes me look at items that I had long ago forgotten about.
301- Crewel World1- Inferno...done
220- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon..done
288- How to Murder a Millionaire
18- Honeymoon
86- The Book of Fate
213- Midnight Bayou
327- Pasta Imperfect...done
78- Marked
104- The Faerie Path. done
26- Guilty Wives
271- Some Girls Bite
333- Spending Spree
141- Dark Places
66- Finding Nouf
Is it too late to join? I didn't finish my 2014 Randomiser Challenge, but really enjoyed the books that I did read! I will try for 12 again... Now that the baby is older, I might be able to squeeze more reading in!
Kelly wrote: "Is it too late to join? I didn't finish my 2014 Randomiser Challenge, but really enjoyed the books that I did read! I will try for 12 again... Now that the baby is older, I might be able to sque..."It's definitely not too late to join. Welcome.
Thank you, Zara. Here are my 12:11 – The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
completed 2/26/15 - review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
93 – Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show : A Novel of Ireland by Frank Delaney completed 7/26/15 - review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
131 – shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Comleted 9/16/15 -review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
277 – The Tourist…damaged goods by Jack Everett, David Coles OOP, switched for 114 - The Girl Who Chased the Moon completed 12/29/15
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
387 – A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David L. Chappell completed 11/16/15 review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
400 – An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era by Charles Debenedetti
NOTE: I went to go put the last two outstanding books on hold so that I could finish up over Christmas break. I had previously marked this book as available at my library, but it does not appear to be so anymore. I don't have the budget to purchase it at this time, so I switched it out for another randomly generated book: #695 Death Turns a Trick. I will keep the original on my TBR, but read the replacement for this challenge!
462 – Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
completed 3/17/15 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
580 – Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson
completed 2/24/15 see review here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
591 – Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
completed 6/9/2015 see review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
597 – Storm Front by Jim Butcher completed 12/25/2015
review here:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
635 – A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
completed 11/29/15 review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
751 – Infinite in All Directions by Freeman Dyson
I changed one from 129 to 131, because it had me reading the last book of a trilogy, and I switched it to the first. :)
Ok, it looks like I have to replace The Tourist by Jack Everett as it is no longer available anywhere (I checked Amazon, Thriftbooks.com and BetterWorldBooks.com), so I replaced it with a new randomized pick... See above for change
So I am nearly done with the 5 that I committed to so I thought I would add another 6 since the first round was such a success.85 Jane Doe's Return by Jenni Holbrook
526 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1071 Creating YOUR Plan for Weight Loss Success by P. Seymour
594 Lady Iona's Rebellion by Dorothy McFalls
1201 Zombie Apocalypse 2012: A Political Horror Story by Ian McCellan
1787 Dying to Read by Lorena McCourtney
Cathy wrote: "So I am nearly done with the 5 that I committed to so I thought I would add another 6 since the first round was such a success.85 Jane Doe's Return by Jenni Holbrook
526 [book:Lit..."
Well done Cathy.
Have finished one of mine....The Flower Boy by Karen Roberts. So glad I finally read it!
I am swapping Mercy by Jodi Picoult for Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Tried Mercy...not the depth I expected at all
Mallory Heart wrote: "Can I still join?"You certainly can still join Mallory. You can also include books that you have read since January this year (2015).
Sorry to say I left goodreads awhile ago due to being pregnant, exhausted working full time. I had the baby in july and my life finally calmed down enough that I came back. and realized I took apart of this challenge so hopefully I can read these 15 books I picked lol.
Congratulations, Sandra! And welcome back!!
Sandra wrote: "Sorry to say I left goodreads awhile ago due to being pregnant, exhausted working full time. I had the baby in july and my life finally calmed down enough that I came back. and realized I took apar..."Welcome back Sandra and congratulations.
I tried but only got 4 out of the 15 done. Hopefully we make this one again for 2016.
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Death Turns a Trick (other topics)The Cupcake Queen (other topics)
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Robyn Carr (other topics)Elinore Pruitt Stewart (other topics)
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Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015
Sometimes it can be tough to choose what to read next. Instead, let this challenge decide for you!
Step 1: Go here: http://www.random.org/integers/
Step 2: Put your goal of the number of books you want to read off of your TBR list in the first box
Step 3: Put 1 in the second box and the total number of books you have on your to-read list in the third box so that it reads "Each integer should have a value between 1 and x" where x is the total number of books on your list
Step 4: Click "Get numbers"
Step 5: Look at your to-read list on Goodreads and read the books that correspond to the numbers generated*
*If you do not see any numbers on your to-read list, click "shelf settings," check "position," and change Sort to "position."
Post your list of books to read here!
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This challenge has been copied, with permission, from the 2014/2015 Reading Challenge Group on GRs.