Clear the Shelves - 2023

[Lindey]

Update to message 632

8/15 Love, Death, and The Prom by Jon Jory

[Lindey]

Update message 632

9/15: Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer

[Lindey]

Update to message 632

9/15 Eden by Jerome McDonough

[Jannene]

Updated message 58

64/50

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 66/60

[Chalmation]

Updated message #32

35/36

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

25 / 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 ✓
House Of Fortune : Jessie Burton ✓
Mother Country: Windrush : Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff et al ✓
Windrush Child : Benjamin Zephaniah ✓
A Phoenix Must First Burn : Patrice Caldwell et al ✓
The Fire Next Time : James Baldwin ✓
The Vanishing Half : Brit Bennett ✓
Secret Lives of Church Ladies : Deesha Philyaw ✓
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Marlon James ✓
The Shadowed Sun : N. K. Jemisin ✓
Frying Plantain : Zalika Reid-Benta ✓

[Lindey]

Update to message 632

11/15: Winnie-the-Pooh dramatized by Kirstin Sergei

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

26 / 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 ✓
House Of Fortune : Jessie Burton ✓
Mother Country: Windrush : Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff et al ✓
Windrush Child : Benjamin Zephaniah ✓
A Phoenix Must First Burn : Patrice Caldwell et al ✓
The Fire Next Time : James Baldwin ✓
The Vanishing Half : Brit Bennett ✓
Secret Lives of Church Ladies : Deesha Philyaw ✓
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Marlon James ✓
The Shadowed Sun : N. K. Jemisin ✓
Frying Plantain : Zalika Reid-Benta ✓
Children of Time : Adrian Tchaikovsky ✓

[Chalmation]

Updated message #32

36/36

Challenge complete

I have more books to read but I'm done counting for this challenge.

[Kristina]

Update to message 28 - 131/150 books read.

[Lina]

Update for message #260:
📚 Progress: 20/20 📚

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 67/60

[Margie]

Update to message #36:

Progress: 34/40

Physical book: 17/20
ebook: 17/20

[Craig]

Update to Message 57

21 out of 45

Bleachers (Read) - 11/25/23
Ford County (Read) - 11/22/23
World of Cycling (Read) - 12/2/23

[Lindey]

Update to message 632

12/15: The Beast by Katee Roberts

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 68/60

[Maria]

Updated msg 101

51/10

[luna ☾]

Message 95 updated!

Completed: 25 / 25

╰☆☆ Physical Books: 5 / 5
╰☆☆ eBooks: 10 / 10
╰☆☆ Audiobooks: 10 / 10

DONE! WHOOOOO

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

27 / 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 ✓
House Of Fortune : Jessie Burton ✓
Mother Country: Windrush : Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff et al ✓
Windrush Child : Benjamin Zephaniah ✓
A Phoenix Must First Burn : Patrice Caldwell et al ✓
The Fire Next Time : James Baldwin ✓
The Vanishing Half : Brit Bennett ✓
Secret Lives of Church Ladies : Deesha Philyaw ✓
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Marlon James ✓
The Shadowed Sun : N. K. Jemisin ✓
Frying Plantain : Zalika Reid-Benta ✓
Children of Time : Adrian Tchaikovsky ✓
On the Map : Simon Garfield ✓

[Megan]

Congratulations to Marta and Emily on completing the challenge!

[Megan]

Updated to here! Great progress and so many of you are really close!

Congratulations to luna ☾ , Chalmation, Jannene, and Lina and completing the challenge!

[Veronica]

Update to Message #96- 11/20

I don't think I'll hit my goal by the end of December :'( but I'm happy about what I did get done!

[Lindey]

Update to message 632

13/15: Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger

[[deleted user]]

Update to message 385

35/80

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 69/60

[Janine]

Update to message 64, 15/15 books. Challenge complete!

11. Mort
12. The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
13. Bruised
14. Lady Friday
15. Whiteout

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 70/60

[D.L.]

I didn't read quite as many ebooks as I wanted to this year, but I still finished the challenge with 84/75 books. I donated the physical books to the library. I am now finished. TY so much for hosting!!



Msg. 12

[Lindey]

Update to message 632

14/15: Shit,Actually by Lindy West

[Melissa]

I only have one book left in this challenge and I started reading it last night. Not sure I’ll be able to finish it by the end of this year as it’s over 600 pages but I’m going to give a good old try. It’d be the first year I’ve completed all my challenges is I can manage.

[Ranmali]

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

Completed 1/20 - Siege and Storm"

Completed 18/20

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
10. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
11. Tender Is the Night
12. The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14. Ready Player One
15. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
16. The Invention of Wings
17. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
18. Alias Grace

[Ranmali]

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

Completed 1/20 - Siege and Storm"

Completed 19/20

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
10. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
11. Tender Is the Night
12. The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14. Ready Player One
15. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
16. The Invention of Wings
17. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
18. Alias Grace
19. Women's Thoughts: Quotations Selected by Helen Exley

[Alta]

Message #105 updated

Progress: 25/50

This was harder to accomplish than I thought it was going to be!

[Sahira]

Updating message #454

37/30 read

[Ann]

Update #61

32/35

[Ranmali]

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

Completed 1/20 - Siege and Storm"

Completed 20/20

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
10. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
11. Tender Is the Night
12. The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14. Ready Player One
15. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
16. The Invention of Wings
17. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
18. Alias Grace
19. Women's Thoughts: Quotations Selected by Helen Exley
20. Animal Farm

[MysticMoods]

Progress update to message #106!

28 / 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 ✓
House Of Fortune : Jessie Burton ✓
Mother Country: Windrush : Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff et al ✓
Windrush Child : Benjamin Zephaniah ✓
A Phoenix Must First Burn : Patrice Caldwell et al ✓
The Fire Next Time : James Baldwin ✓
The Vanishing Half : Brit Bennett ✓
Secret Lives of Church Ladies : Deesha Philyaw ✓
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Marlon James ✓
The Shadowed Sun : N. K. Jemisin ✓
Frying Plantain : Zalika Reid-Benta ✓
Children of Time : Adrian Tchaikovsky ✓
On the Map : Simon Garfield ✓
A More Perfect Heaven : Dava Sobel ✓

[Sarah]

Message 21 Updated

Overall Total: 135/135
Physical Books: 45/45
E-Books: 45/45
AudioBooks: 45/45

CHALLENGE COMPLETED

[Leticia]

I updated message #97, 120 books total overall

🎧Audio Books (From various sources): 52\50

📖 Physical Books: 18\20

📱Ebooks: 44\40

📱ARCS: 6\15

[Sahira]

Updating message #454

40/30 completed

Happy New Year!

[Mindy]

Update to #46

Progress 16/23

Oh well...I bought a lot of books and borrowed some from the library this year. Will try again in 2024 to clear some of my shelves.

[Beth]

Final update (post 484) for 2023: 38/50 read.

I’m ok with that considering the total number of books I read this year!

[Lindey]

Update to message 632 - GOAL COMPLETED

15/15: Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

[Ana]

Update to message #10 - 8/40

[Tara]

Update to message 575

I did not reach the goal I set for this challenge but I did make some progress. 8/12
Thanks for hosting Megan!

Physical books:
1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2. Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Mayberry
3. The Wounded Spirit by Frank Peretti
4. Lighthouse Ghosts by Norma Elizabeth and Bruce Roberts

Ebooks:
1. The Haunting of Brynn Wilder by Wendy Webb
2. The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis
3. Terms of Use by Scott Allan Morrison
4. I Choose Darkness by Jenny Lawson

[Margie]

Update to message #36

Progress: 42/40 - Challenge Complete!

Physical book: 22
Ebook: 20

Thanks for hosting this challenge!

[Michelle]

Message #23 updated! 49/60 complete.

Once again I didn't finish, but this was probably the closest I've come.

[Amy]

Updated message 83-- 71/60

[Lina]

Updated message #260: 📚 Progress: 23/20 📚