Clear the Shelves - 2021 Showing 51-100 of 1,068

[Megan]

Welcome back to those who participated in last year's challenge! To the newcomers, welcome! A new year, a new challenge, and hopefully some cleared shelves in the process:)

[RaeRae]

I'm going to give this one a shot. I'm in for 20. A mix of hard copies and kindle and audible.

[Jennifer]

Mark me down for 72 please.

Audible
1.Educated
2.Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
3.Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love
4.In the Bleak Midwinter
5.The Ocean at the End of the Lane
6.Steve Jobs
7.The Round House
8.12.21.12
9.The Little Drummer Girl
10.Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
11.The Call of the Wild
12.The Agony and the Ecstasy
13.Bossypants
14.Around the World in Eighty Days
15.Left Neglected
16.One for the Money
17.Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
18.Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
19.Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
20.Eleanor & Park
21.The Hound of the Baskervilles
22.Becoming
23.The Art of Fielding
24.The Brethren
25.The Woman in White
26.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


Physical
1.An Unwanted Guest
2.My Not So Perfect Life
3.Wildflower Hill
4.Children of Blood and Bone
5.Little Fires Everywhere
6.Angelfall
7.The Fountain
8.The Long Flight Home
9.A Modern Hero
10.Before I Say Goodbye
11.The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

Ebook
1.Talented
2.The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
3.Blood Debt
4.Treasure Island
5.The Night Circus
6.Caleb's Crossing
7.Lark Ascending
8.These Things Hidden
9.Paydown
10.Saving Karma: A full-throttle thriller throughout Asia
11.Vampire Academy: The Graphic Novel
12.The Passion According to Carmela
13.Dead Hill
14.Deputy: 35 Years as a Deputy Sheriff from Upstate NY to LA
15.Wilderness
16.Getting Out of Hand
17.If She Knew
18.The Giver

[Debra]

Sign me up for 75 books
60 ebooks
1. The Ghost of Old Coal House 1/1/21
2.Girls in Trucks 1/3/21
3.The 9th Hour 1/8/21
4.The Glass Admiral 1/11/21
5.The Snowdonia Killings 1/11/21
6.Clothed With the Sun: Might as Well Repent and Believe 1/11/21
7.Death at Hilliard High 1/15/21
8.Copper King 1/15/21
9.Hot Six 1/17/21
10.Fire in the Bones 1/17/21
11.Bloody Mary1/18/21
12.Mystery at Washte 1/19/21
13. The Secret River 1/24/21
14.We Journey No More 1/26/21
15.Larger Than Life 1/28/21
16.Justice for All 1/28/21
17.The Academy 1/28/21
18.The Keeper of Lost Things 1/30/21
19.The Winter Ghosts1/30/21
20.Rusty Nail1/30/21
21.The Absurdity Of It2/2/21
22.Murder at Yappy Hour2/2/21
23. apple pie a la murder 2/5/21
24.Suicide By Death 2/5/21
25.Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-18502/6/21
26.Whiskey Devils2/7/21
27.Killer Green Tomatoes 2/11/21
28.Looks Could Kill2/11/21
29.The Bear Trap2/15/21
30.Boys that Bite2/15/21
31.Until Forever2/15/21
32.Full Wolf Moon2/17/21
33.Dragonfly Dreams2/17/21
34.Miss Polly had a Dolly2/19/21
35.Immaculate Conception: A Novel2/19/21
36.Carnivores2/19/21
37.The Whole of the Moon2/23/21
38.Love, Second Time Around: A Summerfield Village Sweet Romance 2/23/21
39.Prelude 2/23/21
40.Flowers in the Snow2/24/21
41.One Snowy Night 2/25/21
42.Greensmith Girls2/26/21
43.Ruby Milk2/28/21
44.Men of the Otherworld3/3/21
45.Fail: A Carlo Gabriel Mystery3/5/21
46.American Girls3/5/21
47.Just Let Time Pass3/7/21
48.Nobody Cared for Kate3/7/21
49.Ruled3/10/21
50.Supernatural 3/15/21
51.Foresight3/15/21
52.The Whispering House3/15/21
53.Laurel's Safe Harbor3/18/21
54.Seventeenth Summer4/5/21
55.The Forgotten Girls4/11/21
56.Dance By Midnight5/5/21



15 paper books
1.The Girl Next Door 1/15/21
2.Jane Doe3/10/21
3.My Sister, the Serial Killer3/20/21
4.Sharp Objects4/5/21
5.The Woman Upstairs4/19/21
6.The Book Charmer6/22/21
7.The Darkest Evening6/27/21

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[Katy]

Sign me up for 10 to start, please! I picked the 10 oldest that I have on my Goodreads "Want to Read" list that I already own. 7 physical books and 3 e-books.

Progress: 6/10

1) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2) The Midnight Witch - Finished January 17, 2021
3) The Sword of Shannara
4) The Night Sister - Finished March 28, 2021
5) The Other Queen - Finished May 15, 2021
6) Shadow of Night - Finished April 27, 2021
7) Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
8) The Widow - Finished February 24, 2021
9) All the Lies We Tell
10) The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter - Finished January 29, 2021

[manni]

I’m in for 30 books, all ebooks :)

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
This challenge is a way to clean out all of your bookshelves: your physical, your electric, and your audible ones! The books you read for this challenge are books that are already in your possession. Whatever you do for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after December 31, 2020 unless you have read at least 5 books you already own.

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[Morgan]

I'm in: My goal is to complete 20 physical books.

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[Lorraine]

I am going to try this challenge. I will aim for 60 books.

[Diane]

I am in for 24 please.

Goal: 8/24

Physical
1. The Sparrow

Audible
1. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
3. This Telling
4. The Midnight Library

Kindle
1. All This I Will Give to You
2. Go: A Coming of Age Novel
3. A Single Swallow

[Clare]

Sign me up for 15 books please (5 Physical & 10 Ebooks)


CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Total : 6 / 15

Physical Books:
1. Please Look After Mom - 11/01
2. The Catcher in the Rye - 26/01
3. Illuminae - 08/02
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Ebooks:
1. Every Note Played - 02/01
2. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao - 11/02
3. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - 16/02
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Physical Books:
The Dry
Five Feet Apart
Illuminae
Please Look After Mom
The Catcher in the Rye

Ebooks:
The Stranger
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Sand
The Vegetarian
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Homegoing
Call Me By Your Name
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Outrage

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[Gwen S.]

First time attempting this 'Clear The Shelves 2021 Challenge!', in for 35 total combined!

Physical books: 0/3
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Ebooks: 0/25 (from my 2020 TBR List)
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Audiobooks: 0/7
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Will update this message as the year and my reading & listening progress!

[Julie]

I'm in for 10 physical books

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1. Suttree
2. Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within
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[Ashley]

I am going to try for 50 books.
1. The Wife Upstairs
2. Winter Counts
3. Naughty Wish
4. Imaginary Friend
5. Witchnapped in Westerham
6. Girl A
7. False Light
8. Slow Burning Lies
9. In a Book Club Far Away
10. Those Who Disappeared
11. Long Bright River
12. Riding the Bullet
13. Arsenic and Adobo
14. They Will Be Coming for Us
15. Necessary People
16. Black Boy
17. Falling
18. The Controller
19. The Island Curse
20. The Lost Apothecary
21. Girls of Brackenhill
22. The Last Thing He Told Me
23. The Dante Connection
24. The Whisper Man
25. The House in the Cerulean Sea
26. The Maidens
27. Canaryville
28. The Nightingale
29. The Girl Who Lived
30. Voodoo Hideaway
31. Sisters in Arms
32. Key Man
33. I DON'T BELONG HERE
34. Ninth House
35. The Kite Runner
36. A Thousand Miles from Spokane
37. A Billion Dollar Secret: The Truth Will Always Find You
38. The Surrogate
39. The Turn of the Key
40. Girl Last Seen
41. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
42. The Sun Down Motel
43. Jurassic Park
44. Bittersweet
45. Rock Paper Scissors
46. Blind Run
47. Can't Tie Me Down!
48. Missing and Presumed Dead
49. The Fiery Cross
50. The Last Time I Lied
51. Holes

[Beverly]

I forgot to sign up for this but want to...certainly not too late!!! I'm going to shoot for 75 this year. 75/75

Audible: 11 Kindle: 33 Paperback: 22 Hardback 9

1. The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate (Audible)
2. The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harmon (Kindle)
3. Baby by J. K. Accinni (Kindle)
4. Backlash by Nancy Fulda (Kindle)
5. Round Robin by Joseph Flynn (Kindle)
6. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (Paperback)
7. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Paperback)
8. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (Kindle)
9. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Audible)
10. Cabal by Clive Barker (Hardback)
11. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Kindle)
12. The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins (Paperback)
13. Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile (Hardback)
14. The Baby Farm by Karen Harper (Hardback)
15. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim (Kindle)
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Hardback)
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker (Kindle)
18. Stiff by Mary Roach (Paperback)
19. Mine by Robert R. McCammon (Audible)
20. The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole (Kindle)
21. A Murderer's Music Box by Manuel Rose (Audible)
22. A Common Death (was Festering Lilies by Natasha Cooper (Paperback)
23. The Art of Forgetting by Peter Palmieri (Kindle)
24. The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell (Kindle)
25. A Dab of Dickens A Touch of Twain by Elliot Engel (Paperback)
26. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Kindle)
27. Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim (Kindle)
28. The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol (Paperback)
29. A Portal in the Storm by Robert Anton (Kindle)
30. Tales of Deadly Matrimony by Edgar Allan Poe (Audible)
31. A Bullet for Carlos by Giacomo Giammatteo (Kindle)
32. The Sword of Gabriel by Tom Holloway (Paperback)
33. The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (Paperback)
34. Cain by Jose Saramago (Audible)
35. Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Kindle)
36. The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra (Paperback)
37. Flora and Grace by Maureen Lee (Kindle)
38. The Baby-Catcher Gate by Wendy Jo Cerna (Kindle)
39. Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Paperback)
40. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (Kindle)
41. Lost City of Z by David Grann (Paperback)
42. The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver (Paperback)
43. Cajun Chameleon by Jimmie Martinez (Kindle)
44. A Strange Encounter by Steve Fellick (Kindle)
45. Daisy has Autism by Aaron J. Wright (Paperback)
46. Mind Games by Polly Iyer (Kindle)
47. A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer (Kindle)
48. The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe (Hardback)
49. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (Paperback)
50. The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken (Paperback)
51. Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard (Hardback)
52. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg (Paperback)
53. The Babysitter by Nancy Bush (Paperback)
54. Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep (Paperback)
55. Abandon by Blake Crouch (Kindle)
56. Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson (Hardback)
57. Ghost A La Mode by Sue Ann Jeffarian (Kindle)
58. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Kindle)
59. The Babysitter by Liza Rodman (Audible)
60. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Kindle)
61. All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald (Kindle)
62. One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke (Audible)
63. The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Paperback)
64. The Man Who Watched the World End by Chris Dietzel (Kindle)
65. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Paperback)
66. Abducted by T. R. Ragan (Audible)
67. The Corrections by Jonathan Frazen (Hardback)
68. Seven Skeletons by Lydia Pyne (Hardback)
69. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Audible)
70. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins (Audible)
71. Back by Henry Green (Paperback)
72. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale (Kindle)
73. Dakota Blues by Lynne Spreen (Kindle)
74. Caleb by Charles Alverson (Kindle)
75. The Apollo Illusion by Shari Lopatin (Kindle)

[Tomethee Chalamet]

I definitely want to try and participate! I don't aim to complete all of these books next year BUT I would like to prioritise as many of them as possible! I'll make a list of all the books that I have owned for more than a year and hope to read as many as possible! (in chronological bought order)

Books Read: 0/20

1. Death Note, Vol. 8: Target
2. Death Note, Vol. 9: Contact
3. Death Note, Vol. 10: Deletion
4. Death Note, Vol. 11: Kindred Spirits
5. Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis
6. If I Stay
7. Rare Beasts
8. Wonder
9. A Wrinkle in Time
10. One of Us Is Lying
11. Stardust
12. Animal Farm
13. The Fellowship of the Ring
14. The Two Towers
15. The Return of the King
16. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
17. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
18. History Is All You Left Me
19. Always and Forever, Lara Jean
20. Everything, Everything

[Ann]

I will try for 30

Physical Books: 10
1. FINISHED. BINTI. Nnedi Okorafor
2. FINISHED. Small Great Things. Jodi Picoult
3. FINISHED. Armada. Ernest Cline
4. FINISHED. Loving Day. Mat Johnson
5. FINISHED. Finding Dorothy. Elizabeth Letts
6. FINISHED. The Dry. Jane Harper
7. FINISHED. The Illegal. Lawrence Hill
8. FINISHED. 84 Charing Cross Road
9. FINISHED. All We Leave Behind. Carol Off
10. Saint Mazie. Jami Attenberg

Ebooks: 8
1. A Book of Bone. John Connolly Abandoned. Does not Count
1. FINISHED. Benson's Beetle. Rachel Joyce
2. FINISHED. Never Have I Ever. Joshilyn Jackson
3. FINISHED. Here and Now and Then. Mike Chen
4. FINISHED. I'd Give Anything. Marisa de los Santos
5. FINISHED. The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War
II. Madeline Martin
6. Surprise Me. Sophie Kinsella. Abandoned. Does not count.
6. FINISHED. If You Want to Make God Laugh. Bianca Marais.
7. FINISHED. The Queen's Gambit. Walter Tevis
8. The Kindest Lie. Nancy Johnson

Audio Books: 12
1. FINISHED. Sing, Unburied, Sing. Jesmyn Ward
2. FINISHED. Trick. Emanuel Bergmann
3. FINISHED. Searching for Sylvie Lee. Jean Kwok
4. The Night Watchman. Louise Erdrich Abandoned. Does not count
4. FINISHED. One of Us Is Lying. Karen M. McManus
5. FINISHED. Are Called to Rise. Laura McBride
6. FINISHED. The Book of Longings. Sue Monk Kidd
7. FINISHED. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens
8. FINISHED. The Saturday Night Ghost Club. Craig Davidson
9. FINISHED. Loneliest Girl in the Universe. Lauren James
10. FINISHED. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell. Nadia Hashimi
11. FINISHED. After the End. Clare Mackintosh
12. FINISHED. Hearts in Atlantis. Stephen King

28/30

[Lynette]

I am so completely in this one again!

This year I want to clear 50 of my physical books on my owned-but-not-read-bookcase.

17/50 as of August 25th



1. Jan 1 - The Hyde Park Murder
2. Jan 5 - Phebe Fairchild: Her Book
3. Feb 18 - Blackout
4. Apr 1 - All Clear
5. Apr 15 - Davy Crockett
*** Now I can get We Dream of Space (finished May 30) ***


6. Apr 24 - The Moved-Outers
7. May 4 - Somewhere in Heaven: The Remarkable Love Story of Dana and Christopher Reeve
8. May 13 - Jane's Island
9. May 16 - When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
10. May 23 - The Question of the Missing Head
*** Now I can get An Indigenous People's History of the United States for Young People ***


11. June 2 - Journey Outside
12. June 13 - Pecan Pies and Homicides
13. June 29 - New Found World
14. July 9 - Americans Before Columbus
15. Aug 10 - The Dovekeepers
*** Now I can get The Road of Resistance ***


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17. Aug 25 - The Last Curtain Call
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[Maria Hill]

I am going to try 50 from my owned TBR list (which is approaching a thousand!!!).

Current progress 0/50

[Jessica]

too many books on my shelf!! I'm in for 25 of them!

[Leticia]

Goal: 67/5 Audiobooks✔️, 20 Physical Books✔️, 35/40 E-books, 12 ARCs✔️
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[Chiara.L]

Sign me in.
I'll try to read:

- 6 Physical books.
- 30 e-books.
- 5 mangas.

Total: 41

Progress: 0/41

[Barb]

I'm in! I plan to do 60 physical books and 15 Ebooks this year.

[Nina]

I'll try for 15 books, not focusing on a specific formate.

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[Gretchen]

Gretchen L 26/50
Books on my lists before 2021. ebooks and physical books

1. Wolfhunter River - 1/2/21
2. Rage - 1/8/21
3. Big Little Lies - 1/10/21
4. The Housekeeper - 1/16/21
5. Naked in Death - 1/26/21
6. Deadly Cry - 2/9/21
7. Dark Sky - 3/5/21
8. The #1 Ladies Detective Agency - 3/16/21
9. Fer-de-Lance - 3/21/21
10. The Wolf at the Door - 4/6/21
11. Where the Sidewalk Ends - 4/6/21
12. Island of the Blue Dolphins - 4/8/21
13. A Minute to Midnight - 4/14/21
14. Ocean Prey - 4/28/21
15. The Defendants - 5/13/21
16. The Whisperers - 5/20/21
17. In Her Tracks - 5/30/21
18. The Cold Dish - 6/7/21
19. The Cold Trail - 6/9/21
20. Death Without Company - 6/12/21
21. The Passage - 6/18/21
22. The Twelve - 6/26/21
23. It Worked for Me - 6/28/21
24. Where the Crawdads Sing - 7/8/21
25. This Tender Land - 7/19
26. Triptych - 8/23/21 (Second read)

[Kathy]

I’d love to join this challenge! Love to clean up my bookshelves - then pass the books along to others to enjoy. Would love to listen to the MANY Audibles I have in the Audible APP. Will follow the rules, scout’s honor. Can’t wait!!!📚🥰🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[Kathy]

Question: how do I edit my own post? Wanted to add goal #’s and can’t figure out how to edit. Am on my iPhone thru the Goodreads APP. Thanks!😊

[Tara]

My goal for this challenge is to clear my shelves of 48 books.
28/48

16/24 e-books
1. Sadie Sprocket Builds a Rocket by Sue Fliess
2. Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze by Karla Deel
3. Everybody Loves Kamau! by W. Kamau Bell
4. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
5. Relative Fortunes by Marlowe Benn
6. Passing Fancies by Marlowe Benn
7. The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club by Duncan Whitehead
8. Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas
9. Snakes Can't Run by Ed Lin
10. One Red Bastard by Ed Lin
11. Single Asiatic Male Seeks Ride or Die Chick by Eddie Huang
12. Dead Man Talking by Jana Deleon
13. The Glamourist by Luanne G Smith
14. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
15. Shivaree by J D Horn
16. The Haunting of H. G. Wells by Robert Masello


12/24 physical books
1. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
2. The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4. Not Your Idol, Vol. 1 by Aoi Makino
5. Shopgirl by Steve Martin
6. Spotted in France by Gregory Edmont
7. Uncle Sam's by Jay Humphreys
8. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
9. When They Come Calling by Sarah Fleming Mountford
10. When They Come True by Sarah Fleming Mountford
11. When They Come Alive by Sarah Fleming Mountford
12. The Death Collector by Justin Richards

[Ilona]

Kathy wrote: "Question: how do I edit my own post? Wanted to add goal #’s and can’t figure out how to edit. Am on my iPhone thru the Goodreads APP. Thanks!😊"

Kathy, it is not possible to edit comments in the app. You can do so on the website by clicking edit in the right bottom corner of your comment.

[Marta]

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE 2021

I will read 35 physical books I already own.

Msg #84
Progress: 0/35

[Amanda]

Clear the Shelves
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

1. The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
4 stars Completed 6/1/21
2. The Tea House On Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens
3 stars Completed 27/1/21
3. The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
4 stars Completed 8/2/21
4. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
2 stars Completed 11/3/21
5. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
4 stars Completed 20/3/21
6. Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
3 stars Completed 8/4/21
7. The Reunion by Simone van der Vlugt
3 stars Completed 26/4/21
8. If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
3 stars Completed 30/4/21
9. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
4 stars Completed 14/5/21
10. The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain
3 stars Completed 21/5/21
11. Five on Kirrin Island Again by Enid Blyton
3 stars Completed 5/7/21
12. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
3 stars Completed 22/7/21
13. Tales of Ancient Greece by Enid Blyton
4 stars Completed 24/7/21
14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
3 stars Completed 29/7/21
15. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
3 stars Completed 2/8/21
16. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
4 stars Completed 8/8/21
17. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
5 stars Completed 26/8/21
18. Serpentine by Philip Pullman
4 stars Completed 29/8/21
19. Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency by Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie 3 stars Completed 13/9/21
20. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
3 stars Completed 16/10/21
21. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 4 stars Completed 27/11/21
22. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley 4 stars 12/12/21
23. Firestarter by Stephen King 3 stars 15/12/21

23/40

[NuNu]

Please sign me up for 55 books .

[Gabriella]

I'm in for 24 physical books and 2 audiobooks.

Clear the Shelves Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Progress: 33/36

✔26/26 - 09/05/2021

Physical books I own:
1. Amoras, Emicida
2. The Composer is Dead, Lemony Snicket
3. Ghoulia and the Mysterious Visitor, Barbara Cantini
4. Beastars 10, Paru Itagaki
5. Beastars 11, Paru Itagaki
6. Orion and the Dark, Emma Yarlett
7. Ghoulia and the Ghost with No Name, Barbara Cantini
8. Mummy Fairy and Me, Sophie Kinsella
9. The Princess Saves Herself in This One, Amanda Lovelace
10. The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One, Amanda Lovelace
11. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
12. Mummy Fairy and Me: Fairy-in-Waiting, Sophie Kinsella
13. Dracula, Bram Stoker
14. Who Could That Be at This Hour?, Lemony Snicket
15. The Ickabog, J.K. Rowling
16. Contos Maravilhosos Infantis e Domésticos #2, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
17. Pumpkinheads, Rainbow Rowell
18. Stars of Fortune, Nora Roberts
19. Shouldn't You Be in School?, Lemony Snicket
20. Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?, Lemony Snicket
21. Bad Dad, David Walliams
22. Caçadas de Pedrinho, Monteiro Lobato
23. The Wizards of Once, Cressida Cowell
24. Bay of Sighs, Nora Roberts
25. Twice Magic, Cressida Cowell
26. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
27. O Mundo de Vidro, Maurício Gomyde
28. Island of Glass, Nora Roberts
29. Knock Three Times, Cressida Cowell
30. Beastars 12, Paru Itagaki
31. Beastars 13, Paru Itagaki
32. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice
33. The Midnight Gang, David Walliams

Audiobooks:
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain

[Holly]

in for 50 physical. I have to clear these shelves BIG time....

[Jessica]

I've done so well but at the same time I never updated it in the group threads! So I'ma do it again :D
I'll take 30 for 2021 please, Alex! Xxx

0/30

[Megan]

Welcome everyone! Just a few days left until we can start clearing those shelves for 2021!!! Everyone's added to here

[Chris]

I did not do well at all in 2020 so trying again 52 books this year certainly hope I do better this year.

[Gail]

Sign me up for 10 books please.

Ebooks: 0/5

Physical: 0/5

[adel]

Hi, can you please sign me up for 20 books.
Physical books 0/10
Ebooks 0/10

[Ross]

I didn't do well in my CTS challenge, as I keep buying new ones or going off down rabbit holes!

[Elizabeth]

I’d like to get through 25 physical books.

0/25

[[deleted user]]

I'm signing up for 56 physical books for 2021.

0/56

Read:

[Lindsay]

I am in for 30 books - physical

[Felicia]

Hi, I'd like to join in and be signed up for 79 books, a mix of paper & Ebook.
0/70

[Margie]

Please sign me up for 60 books. Thanks, Megan!

Progress: 60/60 - Challenge Complete!

Paper: 30/30

1. When Rain Clouds Gather
2. Lot: Stories
3. Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past
4. The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
5. Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
6. The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
7. Days in the Caucasus
8. The Fire Next Time
9. There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
10. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
11. The Mountain and the Wall
12. Links
13. Adua
14. Before the Birth of the Moon
15. Augustown
16. Sabrina & Corina: Stories
17. Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
18. Life at the Edge of the Empire: Oral Histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan
19. Paradise of the Blind
20. Fever and Spear
21. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
22. Cowboys and East Indians
23. Midnight's Children
24. Howards End
25. Shatila Stories
26. Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
27. If Venice Dies
28. The Only Ones
29. The Madonna of Notre Dame
30. The Year of the Comet

ebook: 30/30

1. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
2. This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
3. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
4. Hard Rain
5. Passing
6. What is Not Yours is Not Yours
7. Freshwater
8. Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
9. Naked in Death
10. The House of Mirth
11. Northanger Abbey
12. The Heartsick Diaspora and other stories
13. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
14. Disoriental
15. The Eighth Life
16. Citizen: An American Lyric
17. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
18. Villette
19. Attachments
20. The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts
21. Overkill
22. Tajikistan: A Political and Social History
23. Agnes Grey
24. The Perfume Collector
25. Foreign Affairs
26. The Last Policeman
27. This Side of Murder
28. Scorpionfish
29. A Memory Called Empire
30. The Reader

[Janine]

Please sign me up for 20 books. This challenge worked really well to motivate me to read my physical books this year, but my kindle is still crammed!

[Kat]

I‘m in for 23 physical books (different genres).

[Nell]

My goal is 25 books.

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE - DONE!!
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021 September 26, 2021

The books you read for this challenge are books that are already in your possession. Whatever you do for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after December 31, 2020 unless you have read at least 5 books you already own.

1 The Saddlemaker's Wife by Earlene Fowler 1/02/21
2 Murder on a Silver Platter by Shawn Reilly Simmons 1/10/21
3 The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory 1/18/21
4 The Diva Sweetens the Pie by Krista Davis 1/31/21
5 The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory 2/11/21



6 Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert 2/17/21
7 Sealed Off by Barbara Ross 2/21/21
8 Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron 2/28/21



9 A Family Reunion by Brenda Jackson 3/07/21
10 Switch Back by Kendel Lynn 3/27/21*
11 Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Wayne W. Dyer 3/28/21



12 Death Dances to a Reggae Beat by Kate Grilley 5/04/21
13 An Appetite for Murder by Lucy Burdette 5/15/21
14 The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic): by David Emerald 5/16/21
15 Letter From Home by Carolyn G. Hart 5/31/21



16 Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen 7/07/21
17 Be My Fantasy by Alisha Rai 7/16/21



18 Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid 8/01/21
19 Death Rides an Ill Wind by Kate Grilley 8/15/21
20 Stayin' Alive by Julie Mulhern 8/21/21
21 Killer Queen by Julie Mulhern 8/22/21



22 The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith 9/06/21
23 Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien 9/12/21
24 Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge by Ovidia Yu 9/20/21
25 Copy Cap Murder by Jenn McKinlay




Print books: 10
E-books: 15

[Carrie]

I'm in.
5 Physical, 5 E-book and 3 audio.

Physical 3/5

1The Haunting of Maddy Clare 1/1/21
2 Paper Towns 1/24/21
3 The Silent Wife 3/19/21
4
5

E Book 0/5

1
2
3
4
5

Audio 2/3
1 Lair of Dreams 1/2/21
2 Where the Crawdads Sing 2/24/21
3

[Jannene]

I’m in for 20.