2025 TBR Cleanup Challenge

[Stephen]

✔️****19. Bold Look - The Blue Star.

14/20

[CBRetriever]

finished

12. Twelfth = ✔️Fledgling by Sharon Lee
Reason = couldn't find anything else with a 12 and it's the 12th book in the series plus the book has the title of Fledgling (Theo Waitley, #1; Liaden Universe, #12) in my Goodreads list

completed: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, & 20 = 12 out of 20

[CBRetriever]

finished

5. Special Effects = ✔️I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Reason =won an Oscar for Visual Effects for the movie based on this book

completed: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, & 20 = 13 out of 20

[Economondos]

1. Welcome to the Red Carpet - A Company of Stars by Christopher Stasheff
Reason: Taking live plays to the stars, a new opening every planet.

18. Avant-garde - Stranger at the Wedding by Barbara Hambly
Reason: Kyra is well-known as a designer of outre gowns and dresses.

[CBRetriever]

finished

19. Bold Look = ✔️Dressed for Death by Donna Leon
Reason = corpse (male) is dressed in a rather bold red dress and shoes

completed: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, & 20 = 14 out of 20

[CBRetriever]

finished

7. Strike a Pose = ✔️The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
Reason = 12 figures on the cover striking poses

completed: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, & 20 = 15 out of 20

[CBRetriever]

finished

15. Punk vs Prep = ✔️Don't Hate the Player by Alexis Nedd
Reason = Goth pre-teen vs "regular" pre-teen

completed: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, & 20 = 16 out of 20

[Stephen]

✔️****1. Welcome to the Red Carpet - Vermilion Sands.

15/20

[CBRetriever]

finished

17. Modern vs Traditional = ✔️The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
Reason = Modern Youth against their MAGA elders

completed: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, & 20 = 17 out of 20

[Economondos]

6. Six of One … Half a Dozen of the Other = The War God's Own by David Weber
Reason: Six characters in the party.

13. Cottagecore = Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Reason: The witches live in quintessential country cottages.

[Stephen]

✔️****9. Global Inspiration - Osama

16/20

[CBRetriever]

finished

3. All That Glitters = ✔️Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
Reason = fighting over a discovery of jewels

completed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 = 18 out of 20

looks like I forgot to list some of them in this thread, so check out the list here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Meredith]

I took stock at the beginning of August and realized I was very behind on this challenge. So, I did some strategic alterations to my picks and prioritized reading for this challenge as well for the rest of the year.

So, now I've read two more, and I'm up to 11/20, plus I have 4 others in progress.

1. Welcome to the Red Carpet - changed my pick to Radiance, by Cat Valente, space opera alt-history featuring movie makers and the Oscars are even mentioned.

20. Loungewear - changed my pick to All Out of Leeds, by Kim Watt. This author, and her various fun series, is a real comfort read for me.

[Economondos]

20. Loungewear - Servant of the Empire by Raymond Feist and Janny Wurtz
Reason - Almost everyone wears robes, unless they are in armor.

[CBRetriever]

finished

11. Slay = ✔️Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
Reason = slay = kill and they're killing gods in this book

and I only lack this book to complete the challenge

9. Global Inspiration = Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
Reason = four science fiction novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future.

and I'm on the third of the four novellas in it

[Meredith]

I've read two more and I'm up to 13, plus I'm currently reading 3 and I shuffled my picks a bit more - I'm determined to finish this challenge!

9. Global Inspiration - Crucible of Gold, Temeraire & co. are constantly boating all over the world and this book definitely does not disappoint in that respect.
16. Organic vs Synthetic - changed my pick to Tidal Creatures, some people are made and others are 'natural'.

[April]

April wrote: "Reserved

Ok, I was trying this on StoryGraph, but since I only joined there in like May or June of this year, i dont have much of a tbr list. I have many, however, on Goodreads, so going to do it ..."

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