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TBR TACKLER 2023Coathanger: Completed: 14/15
1 Backcountry Escape by Nicole Helm 3/7
4 The Girl with the Sweetest Secret by Betina Krahn DNF after 4 tries
120 Something Shady by Pamela Morsi DNF after 3 tries
506 Brighton Road by Susan Carroll 2/6
614 Death of a Blue Blood by Jessica Fletcher 2/14
559 A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde 3/5
617 Miss Mole by E.H. Young 2/1
665 Jubal Sackett
916 Destination Murder by Jessica Fletcher 2/27
974 Magic in Vienna by Betty Neels 1/29
1009 A Wee Murder in My Shop by Fran Stewart 5/30
1032 Knit or Dye Trying by Allie Pleiter 1/14
1217 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 4/12
16 Nanny by Chance by Betty Neels 5/9
28 The Magician's Daughter by H.G. Parry 5/14
DNF -
I am going to try this again. 24/27+
Jan 2
★7993 Kay’s Anatomy: A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body (12/3/2022) 7/1
★2686 Sky Song (14/7/19) 31/1
Feb 3
★8091 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (31/12/15) 7/2
★8095 Revolting Rhymes (31/12/15) 7/2
★8094 The BFG (31/12/15) 18/2
March 2
★2627 Heidi (31/12/15) 25/3
★5159 Bang.: A Novelette (27/4/21) 26/3
April 0
May 1
★2289 Speak (14/7/19) 23/5
June 0
July 0
August 2
★2182 Switched (22/6/19) 14/8
★8089 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (31/12/15) 31/8
September 0
October 0
November 2
★2169 A Shirtful of Frogs (12/3/19) 13/11
★0139: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse (10/4/16) 20/11
December 12
★2186 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (13/7/19) 13/12
★2189 An Eagle in the Snow (14/7/19) 17/12
★8074 A Little Princess (31/12/15) 16/12
★8092 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (31/12/15) 17/12
★8076 Island of the Blue Dolphins (31/12/15) 17/12
★2833 Zia (21/8/19) 17/12
★4170 Dark Fae Extinction 1 (19/12/20) 18/12
★8101 Signal Moon: A Short Story (1/7/22) 19/12
★1560 Twisted 28/2/17) 21/12
★5399 When the Cities Died, I Danced (28/4/21) 24/12
★8093 The Folk of the Faraway Tree (31/12/15) 31/12
★7549 Advent (27/12/21) 31/12
This sounds like fun!Coathanger 11/15
✔#179 The Toll
✔#57 Heartstopper: Volume One
✔#114 Frozen Beauty
✔#11 I.M.: A Memoir
#106 A Tale of Magic...
✔#16 Of Fire and Stars
✔#39 Little Women
✔#70 Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
✔#168 Roxy
#124 Strange the Dreamer
#222 A Single Man
✔#8 Unlovely
✔#173 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
#201 The Paradox Hotel
✔#140 All Your Twisted Secrets
Tackle Your TBR 2023Level:
Headlock: 1-8 books (2/8)
Coathanger: 9-17 books
1. #1726-Doctor Who: Royal Blood
2. #1956 -Escaping Demons
3. #1608 -Lights, Camera, Action
4. #1508 The Soul Thief
5. #804 -The Ghost and the Graveyard
6. #201 - Unbound
7. #226 - Bones Buried Deep
8. #758 -Dead Girl Walking
✔ 9. #1674 -Project Hail Mary 5/29/23
10. #733 -Finding Monsters
11. #1603 -The Pine Hill Inn
12. #1872 -Constance
13. #362 - Unholy Ghosts
14. #443 - Never Sleep with Strangers
15. #628 -False Memory
16. #420 -Shades of Gray
✔17. #1024 -Slade House- 2/9/23
TBR TacklerBooks on shelf Jan 2023: 175
Books on shelf Dec 2023:
1/30
1. The Secret History
2. Where the Forest Meets the Stars
3. The Testaments
4. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
5. The Night Diary
6. A Place for Us
7. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
8. An Anonymous Girl
9. Scythe
10. All the Light We Cannot See
11. You Are Not Alone
12. The Grace Year
13. Red, White & Royal Blue
✔ 14. The Inexplicable Logic of My Life 8/28/2023
15. The Friend Zone
16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
17. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
18. Paper Towns
19. Speak
20. Baby Monkey, Private Eye
21. Ghost Boys
22. The Bridges of Madison County
23. The Last Magician
24. The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
25. Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
26. Long Bright River
27. Special Circumstances
28. No One's Home
29. The Shadows
30. The Secret Life of Bees
TBR Tackler 20231/5/23-1/5/24
1. #37-Dracula 1/31/23
2. #1-Bossypants 2/21/23
3. #80 A Thousand Cuts 4/22/23
4. #57 The Social Experiment 5/25/23
5. #58 Bitter Exes 5/31/23
6. #91 Stone Cold 7/13/23
CCs (physical) TBR TACKLER 2023Trying to reduce by as many as possible (DNF & Letting go also counts for me), so shooting for 27 - picking 30 to have a little choice:
1/27
TBR shelf 1st January 2023: 200
TBR shelf 31st December 2023:
Headlock: 1-8 books.
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Coathanger: 9-17 books.
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Spear Tackle: 18-26 books.
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No Suspension: 27 + books
27
I had to create a TBR list that was significantly smaller than the real one (sitting at 2,020). For this challenge, I have a TBR – books added between Aug 2010 and Dec 2012 (400). I'm going to attempt to read 25, since my goal for this year is 52.10 The Great Gatsby (Scott)
39 The Happiness Project (Rubin)
47 Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)
67 Divine Misfortune (Martinez)
116 The Story of Beautiful Girl (Simon)
142 Who is He to You (Mensah)
148 Quiet Storm (Conn)
144 Freed by Love (Robinson)
146 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want (White)
158 Krik? Krak! (Danticat)
177 Go Put Your Strengths to Work (Buckingham)
178 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)
185 Skyscraper (Zane)
193 Candy Cane Murder (Fluke)
204 One Nation Under a Groove (Haskins)
246 Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me (Angelou)
257 Happy for No Reason (Shimoff)
252 The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent (Hicks)
303 The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships (Harper)
316 Diary of a Stalker (Parks)
318 Been There Prayed That (Joy)
346 Write Your Memoir (Hunter)
349 Red/Shift (Thorne)
355 The Career Survival Kit (Templar)
390 The Lake (Due)
TBR- 249 Books0/27
1. Cloud and Wallfish
2. Tell Me Everything
3. Worthy
4. The One
5. City Of Bones
6. The War That Saved My LIfe
7. Eggs
8. Towers Falling
9. Follow Me
10. The Iron Tomb
11. Rated
12. Legends of the Skies
13. Skyhunter
14. I am Princess X
15. With The Fire on High
16. Starsight
17. All Fall Down
18. Asylum
19. Brave New Girl
20. Soundbender
21. Save The Date
22. Scumble
23. Orphan Train
24. As Red As Blood
25. A Playdate With Death
26. Girl, Stolen
27. Promises to the Dead
I didn't do very well with this challenge in 2022, so I think I will lower my expectations.TBR Tackler 2023
Duration: 1/1/23 - 12/31/23
Level: Headlock (1-8 books)
Progress: 5 of 6 in 2023
Completed: 1/16/24
Drat, only read 5 in 2023. But close.
287 - Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk
📕 207 - Warcross by Marie Lu (3/29/23)
1973 - That Boy by Jillian Dodd
673 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
867 - Blair's Nightmare by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1449 - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
1363 - Bone Thief by Thomas O'Callaghan
📕 1066 - Billionaire in Wolf's Clothing by Terry Spear (3/2/23)
1731 - Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language by Deborah Fallows
1071 - A Very Vampy Christmas by Kerrelyn Sparks
📕 1095 - Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent (1/16/24)
1667 - Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder
📕 584 - Getting Hot with the Scot by Melonie Johnson (7/27/23)
1691 - Crewel by Gennifer Albin
1438 - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
1637 - The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron
1785 - The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
📕 678 - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (7/31/23)
1363 - You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye by Patricia Hermes
📕 1082 - You’ve Got Murder by Donna Andrews (1/31/23)
Goal: 357/35
32. The Cruel Prince
30. Truly Devious
23. The Song of Achilles
5. Kingdom of Ash
7. It Ends with Us
35.
22. The Inheritance Games
12. Love and Other Words
41. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
8. People We Meet on Vacation
37. From Blood and Ash
38. A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
31. The Poppy War
48. Caraval
52. Daisy Jones & The Six
51. It Happened One Summer
34. Crave
24. As Good As Dead
18.
29. From Lukov with Love
53. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
6.
40. The War of Two Queens
2.
26. If He Had Been with Me
49. Legendary
25. The Perfect Marriage
19. All Your Perfects
54. Hooked
33. November 9
9. Beach Read
43. Legendborn
TBR Tackler Challenge 20231st January 2023 to 31st December 2023
No Suspension - 27+
0/30
4 As God Commands
40 The Tenth Chamber
204 Catch-22
212 Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai
266 Dark Seduction
461 Sisters Red
638 The Mist and the Magic
655 Mine Till Midnight
813 The Boy in the Suitcase
873 My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir
942 Witch Child
946 The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
978 Switched
1012 A Slipping-Down Life
1017 The Ice Princess
1077 Just Like Heaven
1143 A Great Deliverance
1150 Simply Irresistible
1153 Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop
1220 Will Grayson, Will Grayson
1245 Beyond the Highland Mist
1278 Chorus Lines, Caviar, and Corpses
1294 Parker Pyne Investigates
1382 Rusty Nailed
1422 The Keeper of Lost Things
1568 A Christmas Cracker
1687 Landline
1808 What Belongs to You
1809 The Orphan's Song
1810 A Long Petal of the Sea
GOAL Spear Tackle: 20 booksCURRENT TBR: 574
1. 337 - The Demon in the Wood
2. 450 - A Broken Blade
3. 24 - Truly Devious
4. 504 - Arsenic and Adobo
5. 89 - Smoke and Stone
6. 108 - A Court of Silver Flames
7. 79 - Seasons of the Storm
8. 365 - Flames of Chaos
9. 118 - Hannibal: Enemy of Rome
10. 314 - You Deserve Each Other
11. 374 - From Lukov with Love
12. 123 - The Black God's Drums
13. 560 - Rebel of the Sands
14. 164 -Amberlough
15. 546 - The Deathless Girls
16. 101 - The Dreaming Tree
17. 292 - The Tangle of Awful
18. 229 - Lick
19. 288 -Tress of the Emerald Sea
20. 404 - Gideon the Ninth
Headlock: 1-8 books1. 139-The Girl with No Name
2. 132- Defenseless
3. 31- Kingpin
4. 153- The End Zone
5. 76- Unbelonging
6. 122- Anchor
7. 81- Where We Belong
8. 26- Zane
I'm really focusing on my owned books this year, so these are randomly selected from my owned & to-read combo shelf! I ended up using Goodreads' sort by random feature, so I don't have the actual randomly generated number.Headlock:
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2. The Mists of Avalon
3. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
4. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
5. The Blind Assassin
6. Bee Season
7. The Iron Knight
8. Uprooted
Nothing But Reading Challenges TBR Tackler Challenge 2023
Duration: 1/1/2023 - 12/31/2023
Progress: 0 out of 27
Levels:
Headlock: 1-8 books.
Coathanger: 9-17 books.
Spear Tackle: 18-26 books.
No Suspension: 27 + books
Have you noticed the longer you are active on Goodreads, the larger your “to-read” (TBR) shelf becomes?
How do you tackle it? In date order? Alphabetical? Or do you just ignore it and hope to get to the books “one day”?
Rules: For this challenge, you’ll use a randomiser* to randomly pick numbers. Use these corresponding numbers on your “to-read” shelf to challenge yourself to read those books.
❶ Step 1
Go to www.random.org/integers/ to get your random numbers. (Instructions under spoiler.)
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❷ Step 2
Go to your “to-read” shelf and find the books that match your numbers on your shelf. They are your selected books! (Example continues under spoiler.)
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*If you prefer not to use the randomiser, you may just choose random numbers yourself by rolling a dice, picking a number out of a hat, just choosing a number in your mind - up to you!!
Duration: One year from start date. (Though to keep with the original challenge each book selected should be read within one month.)
87 - Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction by Robert Silverberg
96 - The Company of Glass (Everien, #1) by Valery Leith
23 - Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1) by Suzanne Collins
50 - Perfect Love by Elizabeth Buchan
42 - Just Imagine by Suzan Elizabeth Phillips
49 - Beatrix Potter: The Story of the Creator of Peter Rabbit by Elizabeth Buchan
85 - The Courts of Love: Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
2 - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
64 - Stormy Weather (Skink #3) by Carl Hiaasen
68 - Native Tongue (Skink #2) by Carl Hiaasen
74 - Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
40 - The Betrayal of the Blood Lily (Pink Carnation, #6) by Lauren Willig
61 - As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
26 - Gregor and the Marks of Secret (Underland Chronicles, #4) by Suzanne Collins
59 - Spell of the Highlander (Highlander, #7) by Karen Marie Moning
3 - The Art of Happiness at Work by Dalai Lama XIV
9 - Mending Places (New Heights, #1) by Denise Hunter
54 - The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5) by Karen Marie Moning
72 - Kiss & Tell by Alain de Botton
73 - The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
100 - Owlknight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #3) by Mercedes Lackey
60 - Into the Dreaming (Highlander, #8) by Karen Marie Moning
46 - Wives Behaving Badly by Elizabeth Buchan
71 - The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
31 - Ladies' Night by Cecelia Ahern
51 - The Sunday Night Book Club by Wendy Holden
28 - Codex by Lev Grossman
TBR Tackler Challenge 2023
Duration: 1/1/2023 - 12/31/2023
4/27
1. The Golden Boys
2. Half-Blood
3. Wicked Saints
4. Rose Petal Graves
5. A Stone in the Sea
6. The Assassin's Blade
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8. The High Mountain Court
9. Crossbones
10. Godkiller
11. These Broken Stars
12. A Game of Malice and Greed
13. In the Ravenous Dark
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15. Change on the Fly
16.
17. The Reunion
18. Vicious
19. Hockey With Benefits
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21. Ashes of the Sun
22. House of Earth and Blood
23. Obsession
24. How the Heart Breaks
25. The Baby Blitz
26. Junk Mail
27. Not Your Ex's Hexes
Completed my challenge for 27, but I think I'll try for a few more in December.
Calling it a year, msg 27 read 6/8 so it's not terrible. I'm sure I'll be giving it a go in 2024 just gotta get this year's challenges wrapped.Updated that on 12/27 after I actually got to another book so now I've got 7/8 read.
Finished, just in time!TBR TACKLER 2023
Coathanger: 11/11, 1 DNF
4327 - If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier- 3/23/23
2270 - The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott - 6/11/23
557 - The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal - DNF, could not get into this one.
2491 - The Winter Horses -12/27/23
567 - Him Her Him Again the End of Him by Patricia Marx - 8/1/23
805 - Elegies for the Brokenhearted by Christie Hodgen - 6/14/23
260 -Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes - 2/11/23
2460 - Flight of the Sparrow - 6/23/23
1400 - The Story of Beautiful Girl - 6/28/23
689 - The Passion of Mary-Margaret by Lisa Samson - 3/12/23
329 - Hourglass by Myra McEntire - 3/26/23
Replacement for 557
14 - The Dead Path - 10/4/23
Challenge complete - just in time!Updated post: My TBR Tackler Challenge (msg 45)
Level🔹No Suspension🔹 27+ Books
Books Read🔹30
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1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023
No Suspension - 27+
Progress:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
2742 ~ Falling For You by Kelly Washington (kindle)
2611 ~ Jace by T.A. Grey (kindle)
741 ~ Barefoot in the Sand by Roxanne St. Claire (hoopla)
3534 ~ All the Lies by Rina Kent (ku)
3732 ~ A Cowboy to Remember by Rebekah Weatherspoon (hoopla)
3588 ~ Carried Away by P. Dangelico ~ see if library can borrow via loan shark, if not delete and replace on list
4060 ~ Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn (library)
2742 (on list twice) ~ pick later when other is replaced
230 ~ The Last Man in Texas by Jan Freed (book i own/hoopla)
493 ~ Moment of Truth by Lisa Scottoline (bookk i own/hoopla) ~ need to read prior books in series
3693 ~ Christmas in the City by L.J. Shen and others (kindle)
1667 ~ Captive By The Billionaire 1 by Nora Stone (kindle)
1529 ~ Cat Snips by Cat Johnson (kindle)
3616 ~ Cocky Carpenter by Maggie Mundy (ku)
3127 ~ The Darkest Angel by Gena Showalter (hoopla)
2942 ~ The Wild One: 50 Loving States, Montana now Her Ruthless Cowboy: 50 Loving States, Montana by Theodora Taylor (kindle)
2811 ~ Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (library)
2864 ~ Come When Called Complete Serial Box Set by Piper Trace (ku)
1992 ~ Nerd in Shining Armor by Vicki Lewis Thompson (see if library can borrow via loan shark)
1965 ~ Married by Morning by Lisa Kleypas (hoopla/library) ~ need to read book 3 first
1772 ~ Immortal Ops by Mandy M. Roth (hoopla)
550 ~ Chocolate Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology by Zane (library)
3480 ~ Sixth Sin by Cora Kenborn (kindle/hoopla)
2110 ~ One Skid Mark by April Ryder (kindle)
819 ~ Secrets of the Heart by Laurie LeClair (kindle)
2767 ~ Fire at Twilight by Lila Ashe now updated to Blaze by Rachel Herron (kindle)
2969 ~ Royal Date by Sariah Wilson (ku)
2717 ~ Cleopatra's Secret: Keepers of the Light by Lydia Storm (kindle)
3079 ~ Her Last Word by Mary Burton (ku) ~ need to read previous book first
1978 ~ As the Rock Star Desires by Alex Anders (kindle)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
All on Hoopla
294 ~ A Dark Guardian by Donna Grant
302 ~ Midnight Rainbow by Linda Howard
1 ~ Six Months by Dannika Dark
281 ~ The Mane Event by Shelly Laurenston
516 ~ Dangerous Secrets by Abbie Zanders
563 ~ Dark Domination by Lili Valente
513 ~ Capture by Rachel Van Dyken
228 ~ Breathless by Anne Stuart
138 ~ Firewalker by Allyson James
213 ~ Falling Down by Anne Mercier