The list is out!!!

[Christy]

Given what this year has been like with shelter in place, I am fairly certain that almost ANY book would have a place I would like to visit barring war zones and further natural disasters.

[Bekky]

Wow! very pumped about this list -- just read through it. It might be the best one yet.

[Karin]

Thanks! I missed this, busy with other things. I have posted my list, but haven't yet decided if I'll do the Advanced one yet or not.

[Kristy]

Tanvi wrote: "Not only do I agree with Kristy about the different format thing... I read in almost every format!"

yup! I read primarily in paper (library books) or on my Kindle (most of my purchased books are in Kindle format), and when I feel an eye strain headache come on (usually because I've been on my phone or a computer screen for too long, which as I age is becoming a shorter and shorter time) I switch to audio so I can read with my eyes closed.

I'm probably going to have to bend this one a little. Perhaps a graphic novel or a choose-your-own-adventure.

[Edie]

Laura wrote: "Love the TBR theme for the advanced list!"

Love that the advanced prompts will help me reduce my overflowing TBR list by 1.25%. Having finished the PopSugar and several other challenges, I have been reading from my TBR lists. There are so many great books there and this will be a great way to get to a few more of them.

[Laura]

Yes! So excited for this. I love these prompts!

[Hannah]

Are we going to do monthly reads again?! Would love to pick a January book soon!! :)

[Teri]

Hannah wrote: "Are we going to do monthly reads again?! Would love to pick a January book soon!! :)"

Look under Polls. There isn't much time left to pick January's book.

[Nicole]

Kelly wrote: "As a disorganized, ADD, never-had-a-TBR-in-my-life person, the advanced prompts feel like a slap in the face. I started doing this challenge two years ago and it's made reading more accessible to m..."

Oh my gosh! I am so, so happy that someone else feels this way. Seeing everyone else's excitement made me feel so shitty. I keep my TBR shelf for upcoming releases only, so seeing 10 prompts that all had to do with that shelf broke my heart.

[Verkiezen]

Nicole wrote: "Kelly wrote: "As a disorganized, ADD, never-had-a-TBR-in-my-life person, the advanced prompts feel like a slap in the face. I started doing this challenge two years ago and it's made reading more a..."

I'm so sorry you feel this way. You might be just looking to vent and not problem solve so you can totally ignore this. However, I think sometimes people get to into "book world" and minor details. I think anything can count as a TBR - looking at a book and thinking huh I'd like to read that counts to me. Maybe the longest amount of time is from today that's fine. Maybe you've been thinking about reading something giant but have just never picked it up...great. I don't think it needs to be on a Goodreads shelf or official list of any kind. I hope you find some flexibility in the prompts and still find ways to read and enjoy.

[Johanne]

As I think I said before I'm using my physical shelf and stacks of library books and owned books lying around waiting to be read. Maybe you have something similar?

[poppy]

I am so excited about these prompts! Not only I loved the advanced ones being from my TBR shelf, I actually tried to select most of the books for the other prompts from my TBR shelf as well so I can de-clutter it as much as possible. Feels exciting that PopSugar is giving me a reason to finally go over them.

[Nicole]

Johanne wrote: "As I think I said before I'm using my physical shelf and stacks of library books and owned books lying around waiting to be read. Maybe you have something similar?"

With the COVIDness of 2020, I literally read my entire stack of TBR this year. It was just frustrating to see such a list focused on TBR. I'll figure out some way to make it work. (Though I'm still confused by the DNF thing, but oh well. Treating that like a free space on Bingo.)

[Nicole]

Verkiezen wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Kelly wrote: "As a disorganized, ADD, never-had-a-TBR-in-my-life person, the advanced prompts feel like a slap in the face. I started doing this challenge two years ago and it's made..."

That's a helpful way to look at it. Thanks for the suggestion! :)

[Johanne]

Nicole wrote: "Johanne wrote: "As I think I said before I'm using my physical shelf and stacks of library books and owned books lying around waiting to be read. Maybe you have something similar?"

With the COVIDn..."

Arh, okay. I don't see that happening to me ;)
For the DNF prompt, someone (Christine I think) made a common shelf for books we have DNF'ed and then if you've been thinking of reading one of those, voila a DNF'ed tbr book.

[Novels and Neckties -]

The advanced prompts are FANTASTIC! Finally a reason to purposely include my TBR. <3

[Ali]

Nicole wrote: "With the COVIDness of 2020, I literally read my entire stack of TBR this year. It was just frustrating to see such a list focused on TBR. I'll figure out some way to make it work. (Though I'm still confused by the DNF thing, but oh well. Treating that like a free space on Bingo.)"

Maybe it's because basically 100% of my reading is library books but I stop reading a fair few books that I need to return before I finished them. If I don't get them straight back out they do tend to get forgotten. So I'm happy to choose one of those for this. Have you never lost access to a book or something? I do totally understand not wanting to force yourself through something you were actively not enjoying!

[Arunimaa]

I am so excited. I love the prompts so much. Will go and make my checklist in my journal right now.

[Frogli]

Nadine wrote: "Go nuts.

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I'm getting a Goodreads error when I try to create new discussion posts for each category - if everyone..."

Hmmm, I'm not thrilled at some of the prompts, but on the other hand I love the tbr theme for the advanced prompts,

We'll see how it goes, hopefully a new year's challenge will get me out of my epic reading slump *fingers crossed*

[Errlee]

I too am struggling with the advanced prompts. The whole reason I do a bunch of challenges every year is to make my TBR list for the upcoming year, and then I’m done. So these prompts are completely the wrong thing for me.

Need to do some thinking about how to make them work ... but kind of bummed to have to rejig the whole advanced prompts section of the challenge. Reconfiguring one prompt is one thing but 10 is a lot of work.

I’m sure I’ll figure something out.

[Alicia]

Errlee, maybe there are books you really want to fit in, but don’t seem to fit a prompt. Or another fits better. You can save those to the side and use them for the TBR.

Or for me there is always something unexpected that comes out in the new year that I wasn’t expecting. Or books I’ve been meaning to read, Anna Katerina, but just never had. Those are some others that you can put in that section.

[Brandon]

Errlee wrote: "I too am struggling with the advanced prompts. The whole reason I do a bunch of challenges every year is to make my TBR list for the upcoming year, and then I’m done. So these prompts are completel..."

My approach in your case would be to find interesting titles that people are using for the 10 advanced prompts in the 10 discussion threads and weekly check-in threads. Even though the category does not apply exactly, you would still be exposed to new book ideas.

[Karen]

Are there any other anti-listers out there trying to figure out what to do with 10 TBR prompts? I don't really keep a TBR list, and like to use prompts to discover new things I wouldn't typically pick up.

[Karen]

Nevermind, I see that I scrolled the wrong direction in the feed on my phone and the no TBR comments are right above mine

[Nadine in NY]

Karen wrote: "Are there any other anti-listers out there trying to figure out what to do with 10 TBR prompts? I don't really keep a TBR list, and like to use prompts to discover new things I wouldn't typically p..."


I've been quite surprised at the number of readers who do not have a TBR list!


I think the easiest thing for all of you to do is to just do the 40 main challenge categories and ignore the "advanced" ten that involve TBR lists. And if you need more Challenge in your life (and who doesn't want more Challenge?!), do BookRiot or Around the Year or Modern Mrs Darcy, etc.