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13/30 Physical Books
1. A Very Large Expanse of Sea
2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: MinaLima Edition
3. The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
4. Broadcast
5. To Be Taught, If Fortunate
6. How to Make Friends with the Dark
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Dear Evan Hansen
9. A Closed and Common Orbit
10. One of Us Is Next
11. Be More Chill
12. Eliza and Her Monsters
13. Illuminae

I’ve got so many classics stacking up on my shelves that I though I’d get through some methodically! I’ll read 20 books, one from each decade of the last 200 years, and a..."
Very cool idea! I like it!

12/25- Physical
1. Indian in the Cupboard- Lynne Reid Banks
2. A Higher Calling- Harold & Rachel Earls
3. Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
4. For Men Only- Jeff Feldhahn
5. Good Wives- Louis May Alcott
6. The BFG- Raold Dahl
7. The Twits- Roald Dahl
8. James & the Giant Peach- Roald Dahl
9. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
10. Where'd You Go, Bernadette- Maria Semple
11. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
12. Bible
6/15- Kindle
1. Anne of Green Gables, My Daughter, & Me- Lorilee Cracker
2. The Lost Princess of Oz- L. Frank Baum
3. The Tin Man of Oz- L. Frank Baum
4. Young Zaphod Plays it Safe- Douglas Adams
5. The Four Year Career for Women- Kimmy Brooke
6. David Copperfield- Charles Dickens
19/30- Audio
1. Middlemarch- George Eliot
2. Never Never- James Patterson
3. Fish in a Tree- Lynda Mullaly Hunt
4. From the Kitchen to Carnegie Hall- Marie Noriega Rachwal
5. Leaving Time- Jodi Picoult
6. The Story Peddler- Lindsay A. Franklin
7. Educated for Freedom- Anna Mae Duane
8. The Girls Who Went Away- Ann Fessler
9. The Story Raider- Lindsay A. Franklin
10 The Story Hunter- Lindsay A. Franklin
11. Where the Crawdads Sing- Delia Owens
12. Tess of the D'Ubervilles- Thomas Hardy
13. The Charmer- C. J. Archer
14. The Guest List- Lucy Foley
15. Eragon- Christopher Paolini
16. The Last Bookshop in London- Madeline Martin
17. The Shipwreck Hunter- David L. Mearns
18. City of Brass- S.A. Chakraborty
19. Manners & Monsters- Tilly Wallace

15/15 - Completed!
1. You Can Negotiate Anything: The World's Best Negotiator Tells You How To Get What You Want
2. Absolute Power
3. Mindfulness in Plain English
4. How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
5. Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
6. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
7. Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion
8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
9. Montaigne
10. The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
11. Adam, One Afternoon
12. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
13. Nabokov's Butterfly: And Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
14. Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
15. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Here are some ideas on how to choose your books:
1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished.
2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.
3. Read a book you have started, set aside for a while, and now want to finish.
4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a yearly challenge.
5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelters, Goodwill, etc.
List the number of
Physical Books:
Ebooks:
Audible Books:

Just cleared my first book - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. I have been avoiding this book since it came out, as I represent kids in the system who are sent to kid prison. Almost every detail was accurate, from the terrible food, to the egg-water, to the physical abuse. The thing is, this is historical fiction but this crap is still happening today. These facilities were not shut down after the atrocities at Dozier were finally unearthed and the truth couldn’t be shutout anymore. They now are operated by for-profit companies. Most of the stories this book contains could have been told by children who came out of the facilities last year. We have to stop treating people as disposable. We have to recognize systemic racism and root it out. “I know there’s nothing in here that changes people. In here or out there are the same, but in here no one has to act fake anymore.” “That’s what the school did to a boy. It didn’t stop when you got out. Bend you all kind of ways until you were unfit for straight life, good and twisted by the time you left.” I appreciate everything the author does in this book. Maybe, one day, this will truly be historical fiction in Florida. Definitely worth reading! 5 stars
1/30

Just cleared another book - Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnes Martin-Lugand, translated by Sandra Smith. Well, this book has a misleading title! Not what I expected at all. Not sure if it was the writing or translation, but the emotions of the characters jumped around so much, it was hard to be sympathetic for them. The plot itself was interesting. Worth reading with the above caveats. 3.5 stars
2/30

Updated Post #114
25/25 Challenge Complete!!!!
1. The Names of the Dead READ
2. Thief River Falls READ
3. In an Instant READ
4. The Other Family READ
5. The Price of Paradise READ
6. Golden Poppies READ
7. Opium and Absinthe READ
8. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster READ
9. Across the Winding River READ
10. The Last of the Moon Girls READ
11. Interference READ
12. The Haunting of H. G. Wells READ
13. This Magnificent Dappled Sea READ
14. The Cipher READ
15. Last Scene Alive READ
16. Open House READ
17. Looking Glass READ
18. Fearless Fourteen READ
19. Hercule Poirot's Christmas READ
20. Behind the Door READ
21. The Lost Hero READ
22. When We Believed in Mermaids READ
23. Midnight Sun READ
24. A Splendid Ruin READ
25. Murder Theory READ

Completed Challenge: As of December 31, 2021, I've completed 82/30.
Physical: 6/6
√1. The Golden Scales (Makana, #1) - Parker Bilal
√2. Not a Creature was Stirring (Gregor Demarkian, #1) - Jane Haddam
√3. The Inside Ring (Joe DeMarco, #1) - Mike Lawson
√4. The Ninja's Daughter (Shinobie Mystery, #4) - Susan Spann
√5. The Dime (Betty Rhyzyk, #1) - Kathleen Kent
√6. Gold Dust (The Red River Mysteries, #7) - Reavis Z. Wortham
Ebooks: 46/12
√1. Riana's Revenge - Dale Mayer
√2. Kicker (The Frankie Scarmazino Trilogy, #1) - Cy Young
√3. The Limping Murderer (The One With Blue Eyes, #3) - Seryna Asola
√4. And the Mom Ran Away With the Moon - J.R. Nichols
√5. His Fiery Love: Book 1 - Rebecca S.L. White
√6. Guiding Light: A Short Story (The Shadow's Creed Saga, #0.1) - Noelle Nichols
√7. Chasing Casey (Off-Limits Duet, #2) - Jane Anthony
√8. Gorgeous Baller: A Wild Ballers Novel - Melissa Belle
√9. Wine: Become A Wine Connoisseur - Learn The World Of Wine Tasting, Pairing and Selecting - Harry Lockwood
√10. The Me Monster - Timothy L. Carver
√11. Maggie Dewdrop: The Feather of Flight (Maggie Dewdrop, #1) - G. Wayne Mello
√12. Maggie Dewdrop: The Haunted Hagstone (Maggie Dewdrop, #2) - G. Wayne Mello
√13. Brielle’s Birthday Ball: A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story for Young Movers - Once Upon a Dance
√14. Pineapple and Poison (Sticky Sweet Cozy Mysteries, #1) - Allyssa Mirry
√15. The Secret Diary of a Transylvanian Princess: A Vampire Romance For Teens - A.K. Brooke
√16. Animals Laughing: Twenty-Five Caught-on-Camera Scenes to Warm You and Your Child's Heart (Ages 0-4). Share a Laugh Kids Books. - James Mayrose
√17. The Tiniest Tumbleweed - Kathy Peach
√18. The Little Book of Capital Cities: A Quiz - Peter Keyne
√19. Solar System for Kids - Dr. Dhoot
√20. Halloween with Snowman Paul - Yossi Lapid
√21. MINECRAFT COMIC: Steve and the Mysterious Village! - Just Steve
√22. Walter the Farting Dog - William Kotzwinkle
√23. The Shark in the Park - Mark Watson
√24. Red Cat, Red Cat, Red Cat, Blue - Billie Webb
√25. I Love My Dog - David Chuka
√26. Hot Soup (The Adventures of Little Gou, #1) - Robyn Paterson
√27. Exposed (Battlefield Z - Mini-series, #1) - Chris Lowry
√28. Shelter in Place - a post apocalyptic action thriller: Battlefield Z series (Battlefield Z - Mini-series, #2) - Chris Lowry
√29. A Match Made for Thanksgiving (Holiday with the Wongs, #1) - Jackie Lau
√30. The Intergalactic Space-buggy Diary or an Unexpected Series of Events (The Further Travels of Hran, #1) - Jimmy Solo
√31. The Cat and the Whaler (The Adventures of Little Gou, #2) - Robyn Paterson
√32. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco
√33. How I Started the Zombie Apocalypse: The Confession of Dr. David Kohlberg (Z-Factor, #The On Call Midwife at Christmas1) - Michael K. Clancy
√34. Table 10: Part 1 (Table 10, #1) - Jiffy Kate
√35. The Iron Maiden (Anja Toussaint, #1.5) - M.A. Petterson
√36. Suffer the Poisoner (The Adventures of Little Gou, #2) - Robyn Paterson
√37. The On Call Midwife at Christmas (The Lessons of a Student Midwife, #2.5) - J.E. Rowney
√38. The Uncovered Policeman: A Romantic Naturist Comedy (Rags to Riches, #1) - Ted Bun
√39. Rome for the Holidays: A Novella (The Bad Boy Billionaires, #13.5) - Judy Angelo
√40. The Xyania Project (The Xyania Project, #1) - J.V. Nolan
√41. Quench - Xondra Day
√42. The Xyania Project - Part 2 of 2 (The Xyania Project, #2) - J.V. Nolan
√43. Turkey Takes the Christmas Case (Hillcrest Witches Mystery, #12.5) - Amorette Anderson
√44. Mystery Sleigh Ride - Mara Purl
√45. A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas (Holidays With the Wongs, #2) - Jackie Lau
√46. Mrs. Betty Jones: Lady Vigilante - Hayley Camille
Audiobooks: 30/12
Overdrive - 4/4
√1. Dead Ground - Gerald Seymour
√2. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2) - Alan Bradley
√3. Zone One - Colson Whitehead
√4. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Audible - 22/5
√1. The Right Side of Wrong (Red River Mystery, #3) - Reavis Z. Wortham
√2. Vengeance Is Mine (Red River Mystery, #4) - Reavis Z. Wortham
√3. Dark Sky (Joe Pickett, #21) - C.J. Box
√4. Dark Places (Red River Mysteries, #5) - Reavis Z. Wortham
√5. Unraveled (Red River Mystery, #6) - Reavis Z. Wortham
√6. The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) - Richard Osman
√7. Whodunnit? Murder in Mystery Manor (Whodunnit, #1) - Anthony E. Zuiker
√8. The Purity of Vengeance (Department Q, #4) - Jussi Adler-Olsen
√9. Tomato Can Blues - Mary Pilon
√10. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
√11. The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent (Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent, #1) - Larry Correia
√12. A Murder of Manatees (Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent, #2) - Larry Correia
√13. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
√14. Zero Day (Slow Burn, #1) - Bobby Adair
√15. Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1) - Anthony Horowitz
√16. Best in Snow (Andy Carpenter, #24) - David Rosenfelt
√17. Down the Hatch (Agatha Raisin, #32) - M.C. Beaton
√18. Black Cop's Kid: An Essay - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
√19. The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
√20. The Jewel of Dantenos: A Lee Starfinder Adventure (The Godling Chronicles, #0.5) - Brian D. Anderson
√21. Snow Day - Julie Lipson
√22. Mistletoe Magic (Copper Mountain Christmas, #3) - Melissa McClone
Books on CD/Tape! - 4/3
√1. The Roommate - Rosie Danan
√2. Death by Chocolate Lab (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery, #1) - Bethany Blake
√3. An Equal Justice (David Adams, #1) - Chad Zunker
√4. Man Overboard (Ali Reynolds, #12) - J.A. Jance

- 31 books are books I have had for a long time and have not had a chance to read yet
- 27 books that I got for xmas
1/58 completed

UPDATE: bumping up my goal to 50 books altogether.
FINAL: Well... I made my first goal, but didn't quite get to my second. At least I'm making progress on clearing my shelves of audiobooks!! ;)
Progress so far: 46/50
4/5 physical, 16/20 ebooks, 26/25 audiobooks
physical books: 4/5
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5. Malice
The Heart of Thomas
The Factory
Territory of Light
Killing Kanoko
Jackaby
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
ebooks: 16/20
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17. A Thousand Strands of Black Hair
18. The Emissary
Basara, Vol. 1
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Five Midnights
The Interpreter
The Penguin Book of Haiku
Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Bashō
The Nakano Thrift Shop
audiobooks: 26/25
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Scatterbrain: How the Mind's Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative and Successful
A Pho Love Story
The Only Black Girls in Town
Parable of the Sower
A Match Made in Mehendi
When Stars Are Scattered
Genesis Begins Again
Tornado Brain
Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD
A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus): The Struggle for African American Voting Rights
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy
Patternmaster
We Came Here to Shine
Swing Time
The Gravity of Us
Punching the Air
Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters
Love in English
Roman and Jewel

0/10

Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Count me in for 20 books please!
Progress: 20/20 (Completed)
1 - Corrupted Humours, A Novel
2 - Our Little Cruelties
3 - Invisible Girl
4 - A Good Father
5 - Love in Lockdown
6 - Yes & I Love You
7 - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
8 - The Cabin
9 - Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
10 - Aftermath
11 - Eagles Fly Alone Vol. 1
12 - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
13 - Anne of Green Gables
14 - The Road Trip
15 - Shopaholic and Sister
16 - The Dawn of Life
17 - Shopaholic & Baby
18 - Velvet Was the Night
19 - Echoes of War
20 - 56 Days

Goal: 17/20
1. Sto jmen ****
2. Výhled na hvězdy ***
3. Jediné pravé lásky ***
4. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child ***
5. Vanishing Acts **
6. Ztráty a nálezy
7. This Adventure Ends
8. V jakém jazyce sním?
9. Kočka na cestách
10. Vzestup a pád agentury DODO
11. Šest vran
12. Ranní přání
13. A Torch Against the Night
14. La bomba. L'incredibile storia vera della bomba atomica
15. Red Rising
16. Život na míru
17. game
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Progress
Physical- 15/20
Audio - 7/10
Total -22/30
1 The Girl with the Louding Voice ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2 The House of the Spirits ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3 The Vanishing Half ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5 Under the Wide and Starry Sky ⭐️⭐️⭐️
6 Life of Pi ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7 The Nightingale ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
8 Agent Running in the Field ⭐️⭐️⭐️
9 Queen of the North ⭐️⭐️
10 After You'd Gone ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
11 Burial Rites ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
12 The Wonder ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
13 A Thousand Splendid Suns ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
14 A Gathering Light ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
15 The Miniaturist ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Audio
1 Dominicana ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2 The Siege ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3 Stay with Me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4 Americanah ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5 Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
6 Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7 The Thing Around Your Neck ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sign me up for: 10 total. 4 audiobooks, 6 ebooks.
Progress
Audiobooks: 0/4
Ebooks: 3/6
Dusty Audiobooks: 4
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Cobwebbed Kindle books: 2
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Worst-Offender - my Neglected NetGalley =x: 4
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Original Message 134
List the number of
3/50
Physical Books:10
The Familiar Dark
Ebooks:30
Little Disasters
Audible Books:10
One to Watch

Physical books: 13
E-books: 13
Audiobooks: 0
Thanks :)
(Detailed book list in my Personal Challenge thread)
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I'm committing to reading a total of 30 for the Clear the Shelves challenge. Here's my breakdown:
23 physical books
5 ebooks
2 audiobooks

I did 27 out of 30 last year! If I knew I was so close, I would have made a push to get it done!

Ebooks
1.The Heart Always Wins by Iris Bolling
2. Creatures Here Below by Oscar H. Bennett

✔️1. The Titan's Curse
✔️2. The Battle of the Labyrinth
✔️3. The Last Olympian
4. Revolución
5. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
6. La historia interminable
7. El atlas esmeralda
8.
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10.


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 book..."
I would like to read 25 books. I have finished 1 e-book that was on my TBR shelf.

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 book..."
List the number of
Physical Books:
1. Different Not Less-
2. Famous Last Words-
Ebooks:
1. The 5th Avenue Story Society- read
Audible Books:
1. Where the Crawdad Sings-finished
2. A Voice in the Wind
3.An Echo in the Darkness
4.As Sure as the Dawn
5. Behind Closed Doors-Read
6. The Breakdown-Read

1. The Alien's Mate (k)
2. Relic (p)
3. My Side of the Mountain (p)
Total of 1 kindle and 2 physical so far.


duration: jan 1 - dec 31
progress: 0/3 physical book read :))

Thanks

Physical: 4
E-book: 1
Total: 5
January
The Book Thief
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Six Years
Everything I Never Told You
March
Reconstructing Amelia

5/70
1. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
2. The Bell Jar
3. How to Cook a Wolf
4. Once Upon a River
5. You Need a Budget
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