Clear the Shelves - 2023

[Roevardotter]

Update to comment #371: 10/20

[Sahira]

Hello. I would like to join for 30 books.

Physical books: 12
Ebooks: 9
Audiobooks: 9

As of December 21st:

[Jannene]

Updated message 58

29/50

[Louise]

Updated message 85 - 44/50

[Sahira]

Updating message #454

7/30 read (from January to April)

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 25/60

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

Updated message 216 read 22 of 26

[Emily]

Update to message #39

23/40

I read Life of Pi by Yann Martel

[Marcia]

Update message #42 - 7/12

[Megan]

Welcome to the challenge, Lilac and Sahira! Updated to here!

[Craig]

Update to Message 57

8 out of 45

Nine Lies About Work (Read) - 5/15/23

[Veronica]

Murder most royal by Jean Plaidly
DNF

[D.L.]

40/75 complete :)

[Craig]

Update to Message 57

9/45

Five Levels of Leadership (Read) - 5/17/23

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

Updated message 216 read 23 of 26

[Ranmali]

Ranmali wrote: "I'm in for 20 physical books!

Completed 1/20 - Siege and Storm"

Complete 8/20
01 Siege and Storm
02 Hidden Figures
03 Puck of Pook's Hill
04 Measure What Matters
05 Love Story
06 Educated
07. The Slave Girl
08. Why Women Will Save the Planet

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

11 / 28 read:

Penitent : Dan Abnett ✓
The Light We Carry : Michelle Obama ✓
The Gallows Curse : Karen Maitland ✓
Stone Blind : Natalie Haynes ✓
Maybe I Don't Belong Here : David Harewood ✓
Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View ✓
The Enemy : Charlie Higson ✓
Book Of The Moon : Maggie Aderin-Pocock ✓
The Autobiography of Malcolm X : Malcolm X, Alex Haley ✓
We : Yevgeny Zamyatin ✓
Patternmaster : Octavia E Butler ✓

[Cordelia]

Update to #7, 31/50 read.

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

12 / 28 read:

Penitent : Dan Abnett ✓
The Light We Carry : Michelle Obama ✓
The Gallows Curse : Karen Maitland ✓
Stone Blind : Natalie Haynes ✓
Maybe I Don't Belong Here : David Harewood ✓
Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View ✓
The Enemy : Charlie Higson ✓
Book Of The Moon : Maggie Aderin-Pocock ✓
The Autobiography of Malcolm X : Malcolm X, Alex Haley ✓
We : Yevgeny Zamyatin ✓
Patternmaster : Octavia E Butler ✓
The Storyteller : Dave Grohl ✓

[Emily]

Update to message #39

24/40

I read Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

[Chalmation]

Updated message #32

18/36

[Roevardotter]

Update to comment #371: 11/20

[Louise]

Updated message 85 - 47/50

[Mindy]

Updated #46

Progress 8/23

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

13 / 28 read:

Penitent : Dan Abnett ✓
The Light We Carry : Michelle Obama ✓
The Gallows Curse : Karen Maitland ✓
Stone Blind : Natalie Haynes ✓
Maybe I Don't Belong Here : David Harewood ✓
Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View ✓
The Enemy : Charlie Higson ✓
Book Of The Moon : Maggie Aderin-Pocock ✓
The Autobiography of Malcolm X : Malcolm X, Alex Haley ✓
We : Yevgeny Zamyatin ✓
Patternmaster : Octavia E Butler ✓
The Storyteller : Dave Grohl ✓
Dark Days : James Baldwin ✓

[Emily]

Update to message #39

25/40

I read A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

Updated message 216 read 25 of 26

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

Updated message 216 read 26 of 26

challenge completed but I am going to keep going and see how many more I can read

[Roevardotter]

Update to comment #371: 12/20

[Cordelia]

Update to #7, 34/50

[Sarah]

Message 21 Updated

Overall Total: 95/135
Physical Books: 45/45
E-Books: 45/45
Audio-Books: 5/45

[Beth]

Here's a start. Let's see how I do. All were in my possession prior to Jan 1, 2023. I really doubt I'll finish them all, but let's see what happens!

Update, Dec 28: Total: 38/50

Those last 12 will have to shift ahead to 2024.

Audible 7/7 woo hoo!
✅ A Farewell to Arms
✅ Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
✅ Lincoln in the Bardo
✅ Little Women
✅ The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
✅ Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
✅ Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

Physical 24/33
✅ A Gentleman in Moscow
✅ All the Queen's Men (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #2)
✅ Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
✅ Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
✅ Doctor Turner's Casebook
Fear: Trump in the White House
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
✅ Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War
✅ Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
How to Be an Antiracist
✅ How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
✅ I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
✅ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11)
✅ John Adams
✅ Johnny Tremain
✅ Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
✅ Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
✅ Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
Schindler's List
✅ Shah of Shahs
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
✅ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1)
✅ The Joy Luck Club
✅ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
✅ The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
✅ The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
✅ The Souls of Black Folk
✅ The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
✅ Their Eyes Were Watching God
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
William Wallace: The King's Enemy

Digital 7/10
Belfast Noir
✅ Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash's Greatest Album
✅ Jane Eyre
✅ Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
✅ My Life in France
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill & My Mother
✅ Skeleton Crew
The Baker's Secret
✅ The Last Woman Standing
✅ The Second Mrs. Astor

[Kristina]

Update to message 28 - 60/100 books read

[Carmen]

Update to message #22
PROGRESS: 155/50

[Gwen]

I have 115 on my TBR for this year
Progress: 47/115

Gwen's 2023 Reading

[Ranmali]

Ranmali wrote: "I'm in for 20 physical books!"

Complete 9/20

01 Siege and Storm
02 Hidden Figures
03 Puck of Pook's Hill
04 Measure What Matters
05 Love Story
06 Educated
07. The Slave Girl
08. Why Women Will Save the Planet
09. Green Island

[Chrissie]

Update message #13 - 13/30

[Sahira]

Thanks so much Megan for the welcome!

Updating message #454

15/30 read

[Emily]

Update to message #39

26/40

I read Desperation by Stephen King

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 26/60

[Veronica]

Goal Ten

Murder most royal by jean Plaidy was 8/10

Stephen Kings Dark tower #1 9/10 It was a DNF I don't think the rant helped.

Through the Glass darkly is 10/10 DNF Love to continue

I say 15/10 now. I'm going through my bookcase and found Old books that have either been read put aside or DNF and I forgot.

[Lorraine]

update message 31
17. La fortune des Rougon. Emile Zola
18. Son excellence Eugène Rougon. Emile Zola
19. Les Trois Mousquetaires. Alexandre Dumas
20. Le côté de Guermantes Volume 1. Marcel Proust
21. One story,One song. Richard Wagamese

21/50

[Louise]

Updated message 85 - 49/50
Almost there!

[Ali]

Update to message 9: 17/75 completed

[Katy]

Updated message #84

6/10

[Marta]

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE
Msg #145

Goal: 30 Physical books I already own
17/30

1 - Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret
2 - The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
3 - Letters from an Age of Reason
4 - The Book of Fate
5 - I, Richard
6 - The Good Daughter
7 - Game of Queens: A Novel of Vashti and Esther
8 - Say No More
9 - Death on the D-List (Hailey Dean, #2)
10 - “O” is for Outlaw
11 - All the Beautiful Girls
12 - Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam
13 - Cop Town
14 - R is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone, #18)
15 - Mistress of the Ritz
16 - With No One As Witness (Inspector Lynley #13)
17 - A Banquet of Consequences (Inspector Lynley #19)

[Roevardotter]

Update to comment #371: 13/20

[Emily]

Update to message #39

27/40

I read The Regulators by Richard Bachman

[Craig]

Update to message 57

10/45

A Column of Fire (Audio) - 6/7/23

[Roevardotter]

Update to comment #371: 14/20