Clear the Shelves - 2023

[Cordelia]

Update to #7, 36/50 read

[Maria]

Updated msg 101

21/10

[Emily]

Update to message #39

28/40

I read The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

[Chrissie]

Update message #13 - 15/30

[Lorraine]

update message 31

L'affaire Dreyfus. Zola
22/50

[Megan]

Updated to here! Congratulations to M (akaDarkBeauty73) and Veronica on completing the challenge! Welcome to our newest participants, Beth and Gwen!

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

14 / 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 ✓
Africa's Tarnished Name : Chinua Achebe ✓

[Emily]

Update to message #39

29/40

I read Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda

[Lorraine]

update message 31

La mer de la fertilité. Yukio Mishima

23/50

[Mindy]

Update to message 46

11/23

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 27/60

[Lorraine]

Update message 31

Le côté de Guermantes. Volume 2. Marcel Proust

24/50

[Ashley]

update message #18
30/60

[Lina]

Update for message #260:
Progress: 10/20

Thanks!

[D.L.]

50/75 complete :)

[Jeannine]

Update #89

3/11 physical
1/7 ebooks

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 29/60

[Lorraine]

update message 31

25 Siddharta. Hermann Hesse
26 Anne of Green Gables. L.M. Montgomery
27 La curée. Emile Zola

27/50

[Katy]

Updated message #84

7/10

[Jeannine]

Update #89

5/18

4/11 physical
1/7 ebook

[Cordelia]

Update to 7, 41/50 read

[Roevardotter]

Update to comment #371: 15/20

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 30/60

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

15 / 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 ✓
Africa's Tarnished Name : Chinua Achebe ✓
Who Fears Death : Nnedi Okorafor ✓

[Craig]

Update to message 57

11/45

Dreamcatcher (Read) - 6/23/23

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 31/60

[Lorraine]

update message 31

L'inconsolé. Kazuo Ishiguro
Les fils de la Medina. Naguib Mahfouz

29/50

[Janine]

Update to message 64, 10/15 books.

8. Her Majesty's Royal Coven
9. The Shadow of the Gods
10. Making Money

[Chalmation]

Updated message #32

19/36

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 32/60

[Kristina]

Update to message 28 - 74/100 books completed.

[Emily]

Update to message #39

30/40

I read Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa

[Carmen]

Update to message #22
PROGRESS: 185/50

[Sahira]

Updating message #454

28/30 read

[Lorraine]

update message 31

Le loup des Steppes. Hermann Hesse
30/50

[Margie]

Update to message #36:

Progress: 27/40
Paper: 13
ebook: 14

[Leticia]

I updated message #97

Read 66/110 Books

[Marcia]

Update message #42

8/12

[✨ jami ✨]

I am starting 6 months in because I realised 6 months in I've barely read any books from my actual TBR shelves!

I want to finish:
Physical Books: 10 (7/10)
Ebooks: 5 (3/5)
Audiobooks: 10 (8/10)
Total: 18/25

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Physical TBR (7/27)

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1: The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
2: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
3: More Letters of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
4: Howards End by E.M Forster
5: Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespheare
6: Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
7: Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
8: When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
9: The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
10: A Room with a View by E.M Forster
11: The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
13: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri ✅
14: The New Hite Report by Shere Hite ✅
15: Bruny by Heather Rose
16: Jane Austen & Crime by Susannah Fullerton
17: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ✅
18: One for the Master by Dorothy Johnston ✅
19: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier ✅
20: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
21: Lies by Enrique de Heriz
22: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
23: Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
24: We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
25: The White Album by Joan Didion ✅
26: Selected Poems from Williams Wordsworth
27: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen ✅
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Finished so far:


E-book TBR (3/16)
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1: The Drowning Faith by R.F Kuang ✅
2: The Monstrous Feminine by Barbara Creed
3: The Syndicate by Sophie Davis
4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
5: Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni
6: The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C Lee
7: This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
8: Summer of Salt by Katrina Leo
9: Swing Time by Zadie Smith
10: The Deal by Elle Kennedy
11: Heist Society by Ally Carter
12: The Reader by Traci Chee
13: Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
14: Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
15: The Divines by Ellie Eaton ✅
16: Sincerely, Carter by Whitney G ✅
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finished so far:


Audiobook TBR (8/26)

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1: Ruse by Cindy Pon
2: The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee ✅
3: Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
4: Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson ✅
5: Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutano
6: Love & Virtue by Diana Reid ✅
7: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
8: Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare ✅
9: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
10: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab
11: Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
12: Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
13: Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors ✅
14: A Song of Wraiths and Ruins by Roseanne A. Brown
15: Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
16: Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
17: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
18: Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley
19: Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
20: Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen
21: Legendborn by Tracey Deonn
22: Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
23: Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz
24: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf ✅
25: Icebreaker by Hannah Grace ✅
26: The Dry by Jane Harper ✅
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Finished so far:

[Jannene]

Updated message 58

39/50

[Cordelia]

Update to #7, 44/50 read

[Craig]

Update to Message 57

13/45

7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Audio) - 7/9/23
Roughing It (Audio) - 7/10/23

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 33/60

[Ali]

Update to message #9.

Progress: 22/75

[Lorraine]

update message 31

Phineas Finn. Anthony Trollope

31/50

[Darlene]

Update Message #6

16/20

[Lilli Gilliam]

I'd like to join this challenge!
I have 172 books in my TBR (all physical copies). I want to finish 60 by the end of the year.

Progress: 1/60

1.) They Both Die at the End
2.) A Day of Fallen Night
3.) The Priory of the Orange Tree
4.) Sisters of Sword and Song
5.) The Night Circus
6.) Time Travelling with a Hamster
7.) The Scorch Trials
8.) The Shining
9.) Don't Let in the Cold
10.) Me Before You
11.) The Dead and the Gone
12.) This World We Live In
13.) The Shade of the Moon
14.) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
15.) The Borrowers Aloft
16.) Granted
17.) Pax
18.) The Alchemyst
19.) A Wrinkle in Time

[Katy]

Updated message #84

8/10

[✨ jami ✨]

update to message 541 :)

[Louise]

Updated message 85 - 55/50!