Completed Genres

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Finished a Genre? Do let us know here!

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[PAS, Moderator AC]

Genre: Cultural

Amy

Susan

Genre: Fantasy

Kristina Simon

Rebekah

Susan

Genre: Historical

Amy

Kristina Simon

Lauren

Lusie

Rebekah

Susan

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Genre: Horror

Susan (3 picks)

Susan (5 picks)

Genre: Humor

Amy

Kristina Simon

Lauren

Susan

Genre: Literature

Lauren

Susan

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Genre: Mystery

Amy

Bea

Jayme(theghostreader)

Susan

Genre: Nonfiction

Joanna

Lauren

Susan

Genre: Romance

Amy

Lusie

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Genre: Science Fiction

Lusie

Susan

Genre: Sequential Art

Susan

Genre: Thriller

Amy

[Lisette]

Lusie's Shelf Bender
Genre: Historical - completed
A Genre is completed when you have read a total of 6 (3 Picked Shelves) books

My Picks
1. Regency - p 2 When a Scot Ties the Knot [19-feb-2024] ★★★
NEXT PICK (Wacky Shelf Knot) p 2 Bride [22-feb-2024] ★★★★

2. Historical Mystery - p 1 Silent in the Grave [2-feb-2024] ★★
NEXT PICK (Best of 2006): p1 Angels Fall [27-feb-2024] ★★★★

3. Historical Romance - p 1 Romancing the Duke [26-jan-2024] ★★★★
NEXT PICK (similar authors): Lisa Kleypas - Dreaming of You [27-jan-2024] ★★★

[Lisette]

Lusie's Shelf Bender
Genre: Romance - completed
A Genre is completed when you have read a total of 6 (3 Picked Shelves) books

My Picks
1. Romance - p 1 Icebreaker [21-jan-2024] ★★★
NEXT PICK (Readers also enjoyed): Check & Mate [29-jan-2024] ★★★★

2. Interracial romance p 10 - The Unhoneymooners [25-jan-2024] ★★★★
NEXT PICK (Similar authors): A Million Junes [17-feb-2024] ★★

3. Time Travel Romance - p 1 The Surviving Trace [22-jan-2024] ★★★★
NEXT PICK (Object on cover): woman seen from the back The Reigning and the Rule [22-jan-2024] ★★★★

[Lisette]

Lusie's Shelf Bender
Genre: Science Fiction - completed
A Genre is completed when you have read a total of 6 (3 Picked Shelves) books

My Picks
1. Science Fiction - p 5 Upgrade [2-mar-2024] ★★★
NEXT PICK (Best of 2022): p1 Sweep of the Heart [24-feb-2024] ★★

2. Time Travel - p1 Timebound [5-mar-2024] ★★★★
NEXT PICK (Similar Authors): Charlie N. Holmberg Spellbreaker [10-mar-2024] ★★★

3. Steampunk - p 1 The Alloy of Law [4-feb-2024] ★★★★
NEXT PICK (item on cover): bowler hat - The Lost Metal [11-feb-2024] ★★★

[Amy]

Thriller - FINISHED! - 3/29/24

My Picks
1. Psychological Thriller p. 4 The Quiet Tenant - Completed 1/9/24
2. Mystery Thriller p. 6 The Box in the Woods - Completed 1/21/24
3. Spy Thriller p. 7 The Spy Coast - Completed 1/15/24
4. Legal Thriller p. 15 Flop Dead Gorgeous - Completed 1/18/24
5. Thriller p. 17 Chasing the Boogeyman - Completed 3/14/24

Next Picks
1. Readers also enjoyed: Flop Dead Gorgeous
Up on the Woof Top - Completed 3/16/24

2. Similar authors: Richard Chizmar who wrote Chasing the Boogeyman
Later by Stephen King - Completed 3/18/24

3. Object on cover: Streetlight - Completed 1/6/24

4. Best of the decade: 2020s for The Spy Coast published in 2023
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot p. 3 - Completed 3/29/24

5. Wacky Shelf: Box from The Box in the Woods
Below Zero p. 1 - Completed 3/26/24

[Susan]

Genre: Cultural

COMPLETED WITH THREE PICKS:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-China (p. 8): Dragon Bones (Red Princess #3) - fin 1/20
✔ ✔2-Cultural (p. 4): Infinite Country - fin 3/20
✔ ✔3-Israel (p. 1): A Pigeon and a Boy - fin 4/9

The Next Picks (prompts)
✔ 1. Similar authors: Dragon Bones (Red Princess #3):
Ann Patchett, The Magician's Assistant - fin 2/17
✔ 2. Best of: Infinite country
1981, p. 1 The Curse of the Pharoahs- fin 4/13
✔ 3. Object on cover: sky
- fin 4/9
- fin 4/12

[Rebekah]

My Completed Genres
Genres - 3 books per genre + 3 next pick books

Cultural

Fantasy Fairy TalesThe Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey & Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
Mythology The Mabinogion by Unknown & The Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford
Weird Fiction The October Country by Ray Bradbury & The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Historical - Victorian Silas Marner by George Eliot & Washington Square by Henry James
Historical The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray & The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
Historical Mystery A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear & A Dangerous Talent by Charlotte Elkins

Horror - Ghost Story The Vanishing by Wendy Webb & This House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Gothic The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Humor

Literature

Mystery

Nonfiction

Romance

Science Fiction

Sequential Art

Thriller

[Amy]

Genre: Romance - Finished 4/23/24

1. Contemporary Romance p. 7 Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin - Completed 11/12/24
2. Romantic Suspense p. 3 Identity - Completed 1/26/24
3. Interracial Romance p.1 Get a Life, Chloe Brown - Completed 1/21/24
4. Clean Romance p. 25 Hunted - Completed 1/27/24
5. Time-Travel Romance p. 2 What the Wind Knows - Completed 3/20/24

The Next Picks (prompts)
1. Readers also enjoyed: for Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Happy Place - Completed 4/5/24

2. Similar authors: to Meagan Spooner who wrote Hunted
Shades of Earth by Beth Revis - Completed 4/23/24

3. Object on cover: <--Rock--> - Completed 1/18/24

4. "Best of 2019" for What the Wind Knows which was published March 1, 2019
The Reckoning p. 3 - Completed 2/4/24

5. Wacky Shelf: using Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin
Shelf: Rhythm
p. 4 The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier - Completed 4/11/24

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Mystery finished 4/4/24
Mystery
7/10
Amateur Sleuth
A Murder Is Announced completed 2/11/24
Detective Mystery
Three Act Tragedy 02/21/24
Blue Shoes and Happiness 3/13/24
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built completed 03/27/24
Cozy mystery
Two for the Dough completed 2/14/24
Hard Eight completed 02/28/24
Twisted Twenty-Six completed 4/4/2

[Amy]

Genre: Mystery - Completed 4/26/24

1. Mystery p. 4 The Searcher - Completed 4/26/24
2. Suspense p. 3 None of This Is True - Completed 1/1/24
3. Thriller p. 11 Drowning - Completed 1/11/24
4. Crime p. 8 Vengeance in Death - Completed 1/16/24
5. Detective p. 8 The Running Grave - Completed 1/30/24

Next Picks
1. Readers also enjoyed: using The Running Grave
The Exchange: After The Firm - Completed 1/14/24

2. Similar authors: The Searcher by Tana French
Ann Patchett who wrote Tom Lake - Completed 1/28/24

3. Object on cover: <--Plane--> - Completed 4/9/24

4. Best of 2023 for None of This Is True which was pubished in July 2023
The Secret page 5 - Completed 1/10/24

5. Wacky Shelf: from Vengeance in Death
Shelf: Vengeance p. 4 The Pawn - Completed 1/20/24

[Susan]

Genre: Horror

COMPLETED FOR THREE:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Ghost Stories (p. 2): Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) - fin 1/4
✔ ✔2-Gothic Horror (p. 1): Coraline - fin 4/3
✔ ✔3-Lovecraftian (p. 2): A Study in Emerald - fin 1/31

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Readers also enjoyed Ninth House (Alex Stern #1)
A Study in Drowning - fin 5/11
✔ 2. Object on cover: man
- fin 3/18
✔ 3. Best of: Coraline
2002, p. 2 In the Bleak Midwinter (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #1) - fin 5/11

STILL TO COMPLETE FOR FIVE:

My Picks
4-Paranormal (p. 1): Magic Bites
5-Zombies (p. 4): San Diego 2014

The Next Picks
4. Similar authors: San Diego 2014
✔Orson Scott Card, Visitors (Pathfinder #3) - fin 2/28
5. Wacky Shelf: Magic Bites]
shelf: magic, p. 1: Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2)

COMPLETED 7/10 AS OF 5/11

[Amy]

Genre: Humor - Completed 5/12/24

1. Comedy p. 11 Starter Villain - Completed 4/4/24
2. Funny p. 13 As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - Completed 4/2/24
3. Humor p. 13 An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good - Completed 1/8/24
4. Comic Fantasy p. 3 Rivers of London - Completed 1/19/24
5. Comedians p. 2 All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business - Completed 5/12/24

Next Picks

1. Readers also enjoyed: from As You Wish...
The Wishing Game - Completed 5/1/24

2. Similar authors: John Scalzi who wrote Starter Villain
Alex Cross Must Die by James Patterson - Completed 1/2/24

3. Object on cover <--Heart--> - Completed 4/10/24

4. Best of 2021 for All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business published that year
p. 12 Her Name Is Knight - Completed 1/13/24

5. Wacky shelf for Rivers of London
Rivers: p. 4 The River We Remember - Completed 4/8/24

[Joanna]

Genre: Nonfiction
Read: 6/6 - Complete 5/15/24

My picks:
✅ 1. Nonfiction (p. 12) - Poverty, by America
✅ 2. Biography (p. 5) - Finding Me
✅ 3. Science (p. 2) - The Soul of an Octopus

Next picks:
✅ 1. Wacky shelf: Poverty --> (p. 12) Heavy - 1/28/24
✅ 2. Readers also enjoyed --> Hello Beautiful
✅ 3. Best of 2015 - Say My Name - 4/3/24

[Kristina Simon]

Fantasy ~ COMPLETE

✺ picked Feb 17 ✺

✓ 1. MY PICK Urban Fantasy (p. 4) ~ Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire Read: 3/21/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Similar authors) Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris Read: 5/16/24

✓ 2. MY PICK Magic (p. 4) ~ Dead Beat by Jim Butcher Read: 3/13/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Readers also enjoyed) System Collapse by Martha Wells Read: 3/23/24

✓ 3. MY PICK Dragons (p. 1) ~ Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Read: 3/1/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Best of 2023) Happy Place by Emily Henry (p. 1) Read: 4/19/24

[Lauren]

Genre: Non-Fiction
6/6

My Picks:
✔︎ 1. Music: Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover (p.2)
Read: February 22, 2024
Rating: 1 Star

✔︎ 2. Marriage: A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught (p.10)
Read: March 26, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 3. True Story: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (p.1)
Read: February 12, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

Next Picks
✔︎ 1. Similar Authors (Judith McNaught): Honor's Splendour by Julie Garwood
Read: April 8, 2024
Rating: 3.5 Stars

✔︎ 2. Best of 2014 (Colleen Hoover): Haunted by Kay Hooper (p.23)
Read: January 18, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 3. Wacky Shelf (David Grann) - FBI: Cold Deceit by Toni Anderson (p.16)
Read: May 20, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

[Susan]

Genre: Historical

COMPLETED FOR THREE:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Historical Fiction (p. 25): A Mercy - fin 1/8
✔ ✔2-Medieval (p. 6): A Rare Benedictine (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #0.5): The Advent of Brother Cadfael - fin 2/28
✔ ✔3-Victorian (p. 2):A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) - fin 5/21

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Object on cover: tree
- fin 1/13
✔ 2. Best of: A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) - fin 1/13
2017 (p. 1) #Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices #2) - fin 5/7
✔ 3. Wacky Shelf: A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #0.5)
brother, p. 1: Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #20) - fin 1/20

STILL TO COMPLETE FOR FIVE:

My Picks
★4-Historical (p. 2): She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1)
✔5-Historical Mystery (p. 4): The Language of Bees - fin 2/7

The Next Picks

4. Similar authors: She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1)
✔Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries #7) - fin 1/27
5. Readers also enjoyed The Language of Bees
★The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes(The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries #1)

[Lauren]

Genre: Historical
6/6

My Picks:
✔︎ 1. Historical Romance:A Summer to Remember by Mary Balogh (p.5)
Read: February 16, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 2. Regency: The Study of Seduction by Sabrina Jeffries (p.18)
Read: May 17, 2024
Rating: 4.5 Stars

✔︎ 3. Medieval: The Ranger by Monica McCarty (p.7)
Read: February 8, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

Next Picks
✔︎ 1. Readers Also Enjoyed (Monica McCarthy): Falling for the Highlander by Lynsay Sands
Read: March 1, 2024
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 2. Similar Authors (Mary Balogh): Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas
Read: April 23, 2024
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 3. Best of 2010s (Sabrina Jeffries): Shadow Rider by Christine Feehan (p.12)
Read: May 23, 2024
Rating: 3.5 Stars

[Susan]

Genre: Fantasy

COMPLETED FOR THREE:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Dragons (p. 1): The Dragon Keeper - fin 2/25
✔ ✔3-Fantasy (p. 21): The Secret Commonwealth(The Book of Dust, #2) - fin 2/2
✔ ✔4-Low Fantasy (p. 1): The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1)

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Object on cover: dragon's eye
- fin 5/2
✔ 2. Similar authors: The Secret Commonwealth:
Eugene Trivizas,The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig - fin 2/13
✔ 3. Best of: The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1)
2018, p. 2 Beneath the Sugar Sky(Wayward Children #3) - fin 5/29

[Amy]

Genre: Cultural - Completed 6/6/24

1. Romania p. 1 I Must Betray You - Completed 2/5/24
2. India p. 1 The Covenant of Water - Completed 1/8/24
3. Russia p. 8 The Last Russian Doll - Completed 2/3/24
4. Belgium p. 2 Code Name Sapphire - Completed 2/7/24
5. Ireland p. 18 The Bloomsday Dead - Completed 3/19/24

Next Picks
1. Readers also enjoyed from: The Last Russian Doll
Lady Tan's Circle of Women - Completed 6/6/24

2. Similar authors to Abraham Verghese who wrote The Covenant of Water
Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger - Completed 2/8/24

3. Object on cover: <--flag--> - Completed 2/8/24

4. "Best of 2007 for The Bloomsday Dead published that year
p. 1 The Raw Shark Texts - Completed 3/18/24

5. Wacky Shelf for Code Name Sapphire
Shelf: Code p. 7 Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II - Completed 4/20/24

[Amy]

Genre: Historical - Completed 6/14/24

1. World War II p. 7 Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II - Completed 4/28/24
2. Historical Mystery p. 16 Homecoming - Completed 4/17/24
3. Historical Fiction p. 20 Looking for Jane - Completed 4/7/24
4. Prehistoric p. 1 The Dog Master: A Novel of the First Dog - Completed 2/1/24
5. World War I p. 2 The Sandcastle Girls - Completed 4/2/24

Next Picks
1. Readers also enjoyed for Homecoming
Only the Beautiful - Completed 4/10/24

2. Similar authors to Chris Bohjalian who wrote The Sandcastle Girls
The Women by Kristin Hannah - Completed 6/14/24

3. Object on cover: <--Bag--> - Completed 5/10/24

4. "Best of 2015" for The Dog Master: A Novel of the First Dog published that year
The Summer Remains p. 2 - Completed 2/18/24

5. Wacky Shelf from Looking for Jane
Shelf: Looking p. 6 December Park - Completed 1/24/24

[Susan]

Genre: Sequential-Art

COMPLETED FOR THREE:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Graphic Novels(p. 3): Wires and Nerve(Wires and Nerve #1) - fin 1/10
✔ ✔2-Graphic Novels Comics (p. 1): The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (Sandman #1) - fin 5/8
✔ ✔3-Webcomic(p. 2): Hyperbole and a Half - fin 6/1

The Next Picks (prompts)
✔ 1. Object on cover: eye
] - fin 1/15
✔ 2. Similar authors: The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (Sandman #1)
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic(Discworld #1) - fin 5/28
✔ 3. Readers also enjoyed Hyperbole and a Half
Strange Planet (Strange Planet #1) - fin 3/3

COMPLETED FOR THREE PICKS AS OF 6/20

[Susan]

Genre: Humor

COMPLETED WITH THREE PICKS:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Comic Fantasy (p. 2): One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - fin 1/11
✔ ✔2-Funny (p. 4): Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum #12) - fin 1/17
✔ ✔3-Stand Up (p. 2): Chaos Theory - fin 2/9

The Next Picks (prompts)
✔ 1. Similar authors
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another(The Chronicles of St Mary's #1) - fin 6/21
✔ 2. Wacky Shelf:
Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum #12)
shelf: twelve (p. 1): If We Were Villains - fin 4/4
✔ 3. Readers also enjoyed: Chaos Theory
School Trip (New Kid #3)- fin 1/16

STILL TO COMPLETE FOR FIVE:

My Picks
★4-Comedy (p. 3): The Thursday Murder Club
✔5-Jokes (p. 2): Mummy Riddles - fin 1/1

The Next Picks (prompts)
✔ 4. Object on cover: horse

- fin 4/11
5. Best of: Mummy Riddles
★1997, p. 1: The Bat

COMPLETED 8/10 AS OF 6/22

[Lauren]

Genre: Literature
6/6

My Picks:

✔︎ 1. 18th Century: My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley (p.22)
Read: March 22, 2024
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 2. 19th Century: Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose (p.22)
Read: June 23, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 3. 21st Century: The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (p.6)
Read: March 23, 2024
Rating: 1 Star

Next Picks

✔︎ 1. Similar Authors (Jo Beverly): Slightly Wicked by Mary Balogh
Read: April 10, 2024
Rating: 3.5 Stars

✔︎ 2. Best of 2018: (A.J. Finn): Promise Not to Tell by Jayne Ann Krentz (p.4)
Read: June 20, 2024
Rating: 2.5 Stars

✔︎ 3. Wacky Shelf (Andrea Penrose) - Murder: Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb (p.21)
Read: June 16, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

[Kristina Simon]

Historical ~ COMPLETE

✺ picked Feb 1 ✺

✓ 1. MY PICK Historical Fiction (p. 1) - The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah Read: 2/5/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Similar authors) The Rose Code by Kate Quinn Read: 3/15/24

✓ 2. MY PICK Historical Mystery (p. 2) - A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King Read: 2/13/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Best of 1996) Jack & Jill by James Patterson (p. 2) Read: 2/20/24

✓ 3. MY PICK World War II (p. 1) - Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Read: 2/12/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Similar authors) Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley Read: 5/30/24

[Kristina Simon]

Humor ~ COMPLETE

✺ picked Jan 13 ✺

✓ 1. MY PICK Comic Fantasy (p. 1) ~ Sourcery by Terry Pratchett Read: 1/13/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Readers also enjoyed) Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree Read: 2/2/24

✓ 2. MY PICK Funny (p. 4) ~ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Read: 1/9/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Wacky Shelf Guide) A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (p. 4) Read: 6/4/24

✓ 3. MY PICK Humor (p. 15) ~ Changeless by Gail Carriger Read: 1/28/24
✓ NEXT PICK (Best of 2010) Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien (p. 1) Read: 2/8/24

[Bea]

Genre: Mystery

My Picks

1. Historical Mystery (p.1): A Duty to the Dead Read 6/4/24 - 4*

2. Paranormal Mystery (p.1): Killer Insight Read 6/13/24 - 4*

3. Cozy Mystery (p.1): The Secret, Book & Scone Society Read 3/4/24 - 4*


My Next Picks

1. Readers Also Enjoyed: (A Duty to the Dead)
Pardonable Lies Read 1/8/24 - 4*

2. Similar Authors: (Killer Insight)
Amanda M. Lee: Every Witch Way But Wicked Read 6/8/24 - 4*

3. Object on Cover:
scones: -> Read 3/10/24 - 4*

I actually completed one genre!

[Susan]

Bea wrote: "I actually completed one genre!"

Way to go, Bea!!!

[Lauren]

Bea wrote: "Genre: Mystery"

Well done, Bea!

[Lauren]

Genre: Humor
6/6

My Picks:
✔︎ 1. Funny: Love Hacked by Penny Reid (p.4)
Read: January 13, 2024
Rating: 2 Stars

✔︎ 2. Humor: Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren (p.16)
Read: January 17, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 3. Comedy: Book Lovers by Emily Henry (p.7)
Read: March 5, 2024
Rating: 3 Stars

Next Picks
✔︎ 1. Similar Authors (Emily Henry) - The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Read: June 29, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 2. Objects on Cover (Christina Lauren) - Cityscape: The Demon You Know by Christine Warren
---->
Read: March 27, 2024
Rating: 1 Star

✔︎ 3. Best of 2014 (Penny Reid) - Fatal Jeopardy by Marie Force (p.13)
Read: May 5, 2024
Rating: 3 Star

[Susan]

Genre: Science Fiction

COMPLETED FOR THREE:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Dystopia (p. 1): Requiem (Delirium #3) - fin 3/24
✔ ✔2-Hard Science Fiction (p. 6): Light Chaser - fin 5/8
✔ ✔3-Space Opera (p. 7): Translation State (Imperial Radch) - fin 6/8

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Object on cover: hair
✔ 2. Readers also enjoyed Light Chaser
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race
✔ 3. Similar authors: Translation State (Imperial Radch)
Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhallow Duology #1) - fin 5/29

COMPLETED FOR THREE PICKS AS OF 6/29

[Susan]

Genre: Literature

COMPLETED FOR THREE:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Asian Literature (p. 23): Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) - fin 5/16
✔ ✔2-Post Colonial (p. 3): Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - fin 2/4
✔ ✔3-African Literature (p. 2): Afterlives - fin 5/12

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Readers also enjoyed Into the Riverlands
The Mimicking of Known Successes
✔ 2. Similar authors: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions:
Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother - fin 4/1
✔ 3. Object on cover: person
Amy Zhang - fin 3/9

COMPLETED FOR THREE PICKS AS OF 6/24

[Susan]

Genre: Mystery

COMPLETED WITH THREE PICKS:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Crime (p. 9): Strip Jack (Inspector Rebus #4) - fin 5/29
✔ ✔2-Detective (p. 2): The House of Silk (Horowitz's Holmes #1)
✔ ✔3-Thriller (p. 18): The Empty Chair (Lincoln Rhyme #3) - fin 5/14

The Next Picks (prompts)
✔ 1. Best of: Strip Jack (Inspector Rebus #4)
1992, p. 1: A Cold Day for Murder - fin 1/28
✔ 2. Wacky Shelf: The House of Silk (Horowitz's Holmes #1)
house, p. 1: The Dutch House - fin 5/6
✔ 3. Similar authors: The Empty Chair (Lincoln Rhyme #3)
Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders - fin 2/19

[Susan]

Genre: Nonfiction

COMPLETED WITH THREE PICKS:

My Picks
✔ ✔1 Politics (p. 3) Poverty, By America - fin 3/25
✔ ✔2-Religion (p. 4) The Book of Longings - fin 6/17
✔ ✔3-Biography (p. 1): Becoming - fin 6/10

The Next Picks (prompts)
✔ 1. Wacky Shelf: Poverty, By America
shelf: poverty (p. 12) Heavy - fin 6/2
✔ 2. Readers also enjoyed The Book of Longings
Our Missing Hearts - fin 4/24
✔ 3. Similar authors: Becoming
Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter - fin 6/7

[Susan]

My first shelf completed with all five picks !
And actually one of my least favorite shelves of all. :)

Genre: Horror
COMPLETED FOR FIVE PICKS OK 7/7

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Ghost Stories (p. 2): Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) - fin 1/4
✔ ✔2-Gothic Horror (p. 1): Coraline - fin 4/3
✔ ✔3-Lovecraftian (p. 2): A Study in Emerald - fin 1/31
✔ ✔4-Paranormal (p. 17): Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2) - fin 6/12
✔ ✔5-Zombies (p. 4): San Diego 2014 - fin 7/7

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Readers also enjoyed Ninth House (Alex Stern #1)
A Study in Drowning - fin 5/11
✔ 2. Object on cover: man
- fin 3/18
✔ 3. Best of: Coraline
2002, p. 2 In the Bleak Midwinter (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #1) - fin 5/11
4. Similar authors: San Diego 2014
✔Orson Scott Card, Visitors (Pathfinder #3) - fin 2/28
✔ 5. Wacky Shelf: Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2)
shelf: storm, p. 5: Spy X Family 1 - fin 7/7

[Lauren]

Susan wrote: "My first shelf completed with all five picks !
And actually one of my least favorite shelves of all. :)..."

Well done Susan!
You are very brave going with 5 picks with a less liked theme.

[Susan]

Lauren wrote: Well done Susan!
You are very brave going with 5 picks with a less liked theme."

Thanks, Lauren!

What made it do-able was some of the unusual prompts, like wacky shelf and best of the year. And I planned all 5 at the beginning, so I wouldn't have to scramble if I finished 3 and wanted to go on. But I've still changed my mind several times and had to reshuffle when I decided a particular book just wasn't worth my time.

[Lauren]

Susan wrote: "Lauren wrote: Well done Susan!
You are very brave going with 5 picks with a less liked theme."

Thanks, Lauren!

What made it do-able was some of the unusual prompts, like wacky shelf and best of t..."

I've reshuffled a lot too!

[Lauren]

Genre: Romance
6/6

My Picks:
✔︎ 1. Historical Romance: Slightly Married by Mary Balogh (p.2)
Read: March 20, 2024
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 2. Paranormal Romance: Blood Magick by Nora Roberts (p.19)
Read: March 31, 2024
Rating: 3.5 Stars

✔︎ 3. Romantic Suspense: Beyond Limits by Laura Griffin (p.10)
Read: July 15, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

Next Picks
✔︎ 1. Readers Also Enjoyed (Laura Griffin) - Cold Snap by Toni Anderson
Read: June 30, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 2. Object on cover (Nora Roberts) - Decorative Filigree: The Art of Sinning by Sabrina Jeffries
--->
Read: April 15, 2024
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 3. Wacky Shelf (Mary Balogh) - Married: The Marriage Bed by Laura Lee Guhrke (p.2)
Read: May 11, 2024
Rating: 2 Stars

[Susan]

Genre: Historical

COMPLETED FOR FIVE PICKS 7/13

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Historical Fiction (p. 25): A Mercy - fin 1/8
✔ ✔2-Medieval (p. 6): A Rare Benedictine (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #0.5): The Advent of Brother Cadfael - fin 2/28
✔ ✔3-Victorian (p. 2):A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) - fin 5/21
✔ ✔4-Historical (p. 2): She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1) - fin 7/13
✔ ✔5-Historical Mystery (p. 4): The Language of Bees - fin 2/7

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Object on cover: tree
- fin 1/13
✔ 2. Best of: A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) - fin 1/13
2017 (p. 1) #Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices #2) - fin 5/7
✔ 3. Wacky Shelf: A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #0.5)
brother, p. 1: Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #20) - fin 1/20
✔ 4. Similar authors: She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1)
Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries #7) - fin 1/27
✔ 5. Readers also enjoyed The Language of Bees
The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes(The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries #1) - fin 6/24

[Susan]

Genre: Romance

COMPLETED WITH 3 PICKS:

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Historical Romance (p. 16): What the Wind Knows - fin 7/15
✔ ✔2-Romantic Suspense (p. 4): Kindred in Death - fin 7/20
✔ ✔3-Science Fiction Romance (p. 21): A Million Suns (Across the Universe #2) - fin 2/1

The Next Picks (prompts)
✔ 1. Readers also enjoyed What the Wind Knows
The Echo of Old Books - fin 3/29
✔ 2. Wacky Shelf: Kindred in Death
✔shelf: death, p. 1: Long Way Down - fin 7/8
✔ 3. Object on cover: "sky"-space
- fin 4/12

STILL TO COMPLETE FOR FIVE:

My Picks
★4-Fantasy Romance (p. 1): Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2)
✔5-Romance (p. 9) Last Night at the Telegraph Club - fin 6/9] - fin 6/9

The Next Picks (prompts)
4. Best of: Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2)
✔2013, p. 3: The Archived - fin 6/20
5. Similar authors: Last Night at the Telegraph Club:
★Orson Scott Card, Lost and Found

[Susan]

Genre: Science Fiction
COMPLETED FOR FIVE PICKS OK 8/1

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Science Fiction (p. 2): Ringworld (Ringworld #1) - fin 7/30
✔ ✔2-Alternate History (p. 1): The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe #2) - fin 7/8
✔ ✔1-Dystopia (p. 1): Requiem (Delirium #3) - fin 3/24
✔ ✔2-Hard Science Fiction (p. 6): Light Chaser - fin 5/8
✔ ✔3-Space Opera (p. 7): Translation State (Imperial Radch) - fin 6/8

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Best of: Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
1970 (p. 1) Breakfast of Champions - fin 7/6
✔ 2. Wacky Shelf: The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe #2)
shelf: stars, p. 3: Strange the Dreamer - fin 6/27
✔ 3. Object on cover: hair
- fin 4/7
✔ 4. Readers also enjoyed Light Chaser
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race - fin 6/29
✔ 5. Similar authors: Translation State (Imperial Radch)
Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhallow Duology #1) - fin 5/29

[Joanna]

Genre: Historical
Read: 6/6
Completed 7/31/24

My picks:
✅ 1. Historical fiction (p. 5) - Carrie Soto Is Back - 2/8/24
✅ 2. World War II (p. 14) - The Circus Train
✅ 3. Historical (p. 4) - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 5/28/24

Next picks:
✅ 1. Similar authors - The Women - 7/31/24
✅ 2. Moon on cover: ; Moon on cover: Rosemary and Rue
✅ 3. Readers also enjoyed: James - 6/20/24

[Joanna]

Genre: Cultural
Read: 6/6
Completed 7/20/24

My Picks
✅ 1. India (p. 5) - East, West
✅ 2. Italy (p. 9) - Mirror Mirror
✅ 3. Asia (p. 3) - The Covenant of Water - 5/15/24

Next picks:
✅ 1. Wheel on cover of East, West ; Wheel on cover of The Memory of Running - 7/20/24
✅ 2. Best of 2013 (p. 8) - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
✅ 3. Similar authors - Peony in Love

[Amy]

Genre: Literature - DONE!

1. 21st Century p. 10 Cloud Cuckoo Land - Completed 5/10/24
2. 18th Century p. 12 The Armor of Light - Completed 3/4/24
3. American p. 14 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Completed 1/20/24
4. Banned Books p. 19 You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell - Completed 7/31/24
5. Black Literature p. 3 Parable of the Talents - Completed 6/7/24

Next Picks

1. Readers also enjoyed for You Can't Say That
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner - Completed 4/21/24

2. Similar authors to Ken Follett who wrote The Armor of Light
The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth - Completed 2/1/24

3. Object on cover: <--Flower on table--> - Completed 3/23/24

4. "Best of 1998" for Parable of the Talents published that year
p. 1 Holiday in Death - Completed 1/30/24

5. Wacky Shelf using Cloud Cuckoo Land
Shelf: p. 2 It Ends with Us - Completed 3/24/24

[Lauren]

Genre: Sequential Art
6/6

My Picks:
✔︎ 1. Graphic Novels: Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen (p.7)
Read: March 9, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 2. Comics: Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis (p.1)
Read: March 7, 2024
Rating: 2 Stars

✔︎ 3. Graphic Novels Comics: Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen (p.1)
Read: April 12, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

Next Picks
✔︎ 1. Object on the cover (David Peterson) - Maple leaf: Flame in the Dark by Faith Hunter
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Read: August 5, 2024
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 2. Best of 2016 (Sarah Andersen) - Curse on the Land by Faith Hunter (p.9)
Read: May 12, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 3. Wacky Shelf (Garth Ennis) - Texas: The Texan's Wager by Jodi Thomas (p.4)
Read: July 3, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

[Susan]

Genre: Literature

My Picks
✔ ✔1-Asian Literature (p. 23): Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) - fin 5/16
✔ ✔2-Post Colonial (p. 3): Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - fin 2/4
✔ ✔3-African Literature (p. 2): Afterlives - fin 5/12
✔ ✔4-Canadian Literature (p. 2): The Heart Goes Last (Positron) - fin 8/7
✔ ✔5-Jewish (p. 1): Disobedience - 3/24

The Next Picks
✔ 1. Readers also enjoyed Into the Riverlands
The Mimicking of Known Successes - fin 6/24
✔ 2. Similar authors: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions:
Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother - fin 4/1
✔ 3. Object on cover: person
- fin 3/9
✔ 4. Best of: Disobedience
2006, p. 3 The Jury Master - fin 7/20
✔ 5. Wacky Shelf: The Heart Goes Last (Positron)
last, p. 3: The Night Tiger - fin 2/14

COMPLETED 10/10 AS OF 8/7