TBR Jar - 2023

[Rachel]

Update: MSG # 10 8/15

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Update to Message 9: 33/44

Since last update:

Randomizer:
5. The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction
6. Wizard for Hire
7. The Quarry Girls
10. The Sparrow
11. The Elephant Whisperer
12. The Almost Sisters


1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
The Bone Orchard Mythos Prelude by Jeff Lemire
10. Read a book with a cover you love.
Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover.
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name.
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list).
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
Space, the Final Frontier: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

updated message 105 : 23 of 52

[Barry]

Updated Post #22: Only 2 remaining

1. Ultimate Power: A Thriller - Stephen Frey - COMPLETED
2. Hiding the Past - Nathan Goodwin - COMPLETED
3. Privileged Information - Stephen White
4. The Last Victim - Kevin O'Brien - COMPLETED
5. Eight Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson - COMPLETED
6. The Devil Tree - Keith Rommel - COMPLETED
7. Nightwatching - John Zunski - COMPLETED
8. Whispers from the Dead - Karen Hopkins - COMPLETED
9. The Maze - Jason Brannon - COMPLETED
10. Rogue - J.B. Turner

[TCampbell]

Update to Message 42
39/40 Read
Young Mungo READ ★★★
Feral READ ★★

[Nisanka]

Updated message #57.
8/25 books read.

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 36/100

[Rachel]

Update" MSG #10 9/15

[Darlene]

Update Message #5

20/20 books

Challenge Completed

[Dubhease]

Update to message 6

3/7

[Echo]

Message 52 updated: 11 of 15 completed

[Nisanka]

Updated message #57
9/25 books read.

[Patty]

Update message 56

24/25 books completed

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

updated message 105 : 25 of 52

[Patty]

Updated Message 56

Completed the challenge 25/25!!

[Rachel]

update: MSG #10 10/15

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

updated message 105 : 26 of 52

[Sarah]

Message 25 Updated

Progress: 35/50

[D.L.]

5/15 now complete :)

[Kristina]

Update to message 21 - 73/100 books read.

[Rachel]

Update: MSG # 10

11/15

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

updated message 105: 27 of 52

[Lilili]

Updated msg 4

Progress 18/45

[Echo]

Message 52 updated: 12 of 15 completed!

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to message #7 - 20/32 books read!

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 37/100

[Jodi]

I updated message #44. I am at 22/20 books

[TCampbell]

Update to Message 42
40/40 Read CHALLENGE COMPLETE

1. Murder at Beechwood READ ★★★★★
2. Yeshiva Girl READ ★★★★★
3. Never Meant to Meet You READ ★★★★
4. The Bookstore Sisters READ ★★★★
5. The Quarry Girls READ ★★★★
6. An Impossible Return READ ★★★★
7. Nature Noir READ ★★★
8. This Place of Wonder READ ★★★★★
9. The Road to Paradise READ ★★★★
10. Q are Cordially Uninvited READ ★★★
11. Unworthy READ ★★★★★
12. The Maid READ ★★★★★
13. How to Stop Time READ ★★★★★
14. Lost Souls READ ★★★★
15. Hide READ ★★★★★
16. Mere Mortals READ ★★★
17. Crying in H Mart READ ★★★★
18. Night READ ★★★★
19. One Italian Summer READ ★★★★
20. Young Mungo READ ★★★
21. Rough Beasts of Empire READ ★★★
22. Losing the Peace READ ★★★★
23. Children of the Storm READ ★★★★
24. The Red King READ ★★★★
25. Paths of Disharmony READ ★★
26. The Last Lie Told READ ★★★
27. Signal Moon READ ★★★★
28. Death at Paradise Palms READ ★★★★★
29. The Light Pirate READ ★★★★
30. The Secret Life of Bees READ ★★★★★
31. Night Road READ ★★★★★
32. Night Angels READ ★★★★
33. Feral READ ★★
34. The Reading List READ ★★★★★
35. Middlesex READ ★★★★★
36. Hokuloa Road READ ★★★
37. The People We Keep READ ★★★★★
38. We Are The Light READ ★★★★★
39. Hidden Pictures READ ★★★★
40. Hester READ ★★★★

[Julie]

updated message 33
3/15

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 39/100

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 40/100

[Echo]

Message 52 updated: 13 of 15 completed

[Megan]

Updated to here! Congratulations to Darlene, Patty, and TCampbell on completing the challenge!

[Megan BG]

message 36

3/6

A Year of Biblical Womanhood - Rachel Held Evans

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 41/100

[Nisanka]

Updated message #57.
10/25 books read.

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 42/100

[Nisanka]

Updated message #57.
11/25 books read.

[Julie]

updated message 33

4/15

[Cordelia]

Update to #20, 9/20 read.

[Roevardotter]

Update to comment #204: 23/32

[Kristina]

Update to message 21! I'm almost to my goal, so I'm upping my book goal to 150 books instead of 100. Current total is 98/150 books read.

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to message #7 - 25/32 books read!

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 44/100

[Kendra]

Update to post no. 30:

Finished! 32/32

[Nisanka]

Updated message #57.
12/25 books read.

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 45/100

[Ashleigh]

Updated to #12

3/7

I read The Trouble with Hating You and Revenge, Murder in Three Parts which were both selected randomly off my tbr

[Lilili]

Updating msg 4

Progress 22/45

Thanks :-)

[Nisanka]

Updated message #57.
13/25 books read.