Completion

[Amy]

MARCH - Completed 9/2/25

Like for Like (L4L)

1. Shelterwood - historical-fiction
The Night Tiger - Completed 2/13/25

2. The Silent Wife - audiobook
James - Completed 2/2/25

3. The Whole Time - romance
My Not So Perfect Life - Completed 2/7/25

4. A Farewell to Arfs - dogs
Citizen K-9 - Completed 3/8/25

5. The Waiting - mystery
Grave Danger - Completed 3/5/25

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: James (added January 22, 2025)
First Degree (added Jan 11, 2025) - Completed 3/16/25

2. Series: Citizen K-9
Good Dog, Bad Cop (next book in the series) - Completed 3/10/25

3. Author: My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
Coming Dawn by Steven Konkoly - Completed 3/29/25

4. Title: Grave Danger
Dangerous Play - Completed 9/2/25

5. Pages: The Night Tiger - 384 pages
Dead Eye - 479 pages - Completed 3/7/25

D.2. new books
1. Date: James (published 2024)
The Last Party (published August 20, 2024) - Completed 4/4/25

2. Series: Grave Danger (Jack Swyteck, #19)
The Missing (Darby McCormick #1) - Completed 3/11/25

3. Author: My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
The World We Burn by Kyla Stone - Completed 2/9/25

4. Title: Citizen K-9
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/k-9
The Wedding Plot - Completed 7/5/25

5. Pages: The Night Tiger - 384 pages
The House We Grew Up In - 416 pages - Completed 4/13/25

[Lauren]

May
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 9/9

March Books
1. Out of Nowhere by Sandra Brown
Shelves: 2023, 2024, Sandra Brown, Romance, Mystery
2. The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer
Shelves: Fantasy, Kindle, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romance
3. Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
Shelves: Romance, 2023, Contemporary, 2023, Contemporary Romance

Like for Like
✔︎ 1. 2024 - Random in Death by J.D. Robb
Read: May 28, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 2. Romance - You're So Vein by Christine Warren (336)
Read: April 1, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 3. Contemporary Romance - Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis
Read: April 14, 2025
Rating: 4 Star

Options - TBR
✔︎ 1. Date added (December 2024): Hidden Salem by Kay Hooper (October 2024)
Read: July 12, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars
✔︎ 2. +50 Pages (+386): Circle of the Moon by Faith Hunter (400)
Read: August 31, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 3. Next in Series: At Last by Jill Shalvis
Read: June 2, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars

Options - New
✔︎ 1. Published in 2024 - A Merry Little Murder Plot by Jenn McKinlay
Read: July 10, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 2. New Series w/New Author - All Our Tomorrows by Catherine Bybee
Read: June 5, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 3. Author: Fabulous Beast by Stephanie James
Read: June 25, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars

[Joyce]

Joyce's June TBR Bender: COMPLETED

B. My Top April 2025 Reads

1. The Husbands 4/13/25
2. Infinite 4/26/25
3. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops 4/29/25

C. Like 4 Like (numbers correspond with books as listed above)
(view spoiler)[For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).

You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR). (hide spoiler)]

1. April Book - The Husbands 4/13/25 - FANTASY - Whispers Under Ground 6/30/25
2. April Book - Infinite- SCIENCE FICTION - System Collapse 7/2/24
3. April Book - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops BOOKS ON BOOKS - The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep 8/7/25

D1/TBR: (Use L4L books as starting point)

1. L4L book-YOUR TBR Whispers Under Ground ADDED 10/2021 - Chapter and Curse ADDED 10/14/2021 rEAD 8/13/25
2. L4L book -PAGES System Collapse 248 PGS - Thief of Lies 6/11/25 348 PGS.
3. L4L book - TITLE -The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep UNLIKELY - American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot 9/9/25

[CassieV]

March Plan FINISHED :D

B: My Books - January
1. Cress - Favorites / Fantasy / Young Adult
2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Mystery / Fiction / Favorites
3. The Rebels of Ireland - Historical Fiction / Fiction / Ireland

C. Like for Like
✔1. The Midnight Library Shelf: Favorites Added: Dec 12, 2020 Read 9/22/25
✔2. And Then There Were None Shelf: Mystery Added: Dec 20, 2024 Read 8/6/25
✔3. My Dear Hamilton Shelf: Historical Fiction Added: Aug 24, 2018 Read 7/18/25

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

✔3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
The Queen of Blood (by Sarah Beth Durst matches with My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray) Read 7/31/25

✔4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
The Invisible Library (using The Midnight Library) Read 7/24/25

✔5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (339 pages, using And Then There Were None - 264 pages) Read 4/2/25

Read: 6/6

[Susan]

JULY

My Top 5 Reads in January & shelves:
✔Babel-17: science fiction, fiction, classics, space opera, science fiction fantasy
✔The Harbors of the Sun: fantasy, fiction, high fantasy, adventure, epic fantasy
✔The Jane Austen Project: historical fiction, time travel, fiction, science fiction, romance
✔The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway #8): mystery, crime, fiction, british literature, mystery thriller
✔The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds #1): science fiction, romance, fantasy, space opera, fiction

Like 4 Like : a book on one of the 3-5 top shelves

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Woman in Blue)
✔Book 1: Mississippi Blood - fin 7/7

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Babel-17)
✔Book 2: Gravity Lost - fin 7/22

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Blighted Stars)
✔Book 3: Muse of Nightmares - fin 6/17

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Jane Austen Project)
✔Book 4:Waiting on a Bright Moon - fin 5/31

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Harbors of the Sun)
✔Book 5: Steal the Sky - fin 8/14

D1 Your TBR

1. Date: Using one of your [Like 4 Like] books, read from closest date added
✔Muse of Nightmares, added 6/27/24
✔Leviathan Wakes, added 6/3/2024 - fin 6/14

2. Series: Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or another book by the same author
✔Mississippi Blood
✔Southern Man - fin 9/15

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
✔Steal the Sky, Megan O'Keefe
✔The First Omega, by Malka Ann Older - fin 7/21

4. Title:Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
✔Waiting on a Bright Moon, moon
✔Relentless Moon - fin 9/28

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
✔Gravity Lost, 387 pages
✔Some Desperate Glory, 438 pages - fin 4/4

COMPLETED 9/28

[Joanna]

TBR Bender July
Read: 6/6 - Completed 9/28/25

Top Reads for May:
* The Wishing Game - Fantasy, Romance, Contemporary
* Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth - Nonfiction, Adventure, Family
* We Do What We Do in the Dark - LGBT, Romance, Contemporary

L4L:
The Wishing Game - Fantasy, Romance, Contemporary
✅1. The Measure - Fantasy - 6/30/25

Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth - Family
✅2. Amy and Isabelle - Family - 7/31/25

We Do What We Do in the Dark - LGBT
✅3. The Pull of the Stars - LGBT - 7/19/25

TBR:
Title: The Pull of the Stars
✅4. The Calculating Stars -7/15/25

Pages:The Measure - 353pp
✅5. Feel Free: Essays - 464pp - 9/28/25

New:
Pages: Amy and Isabelle - 304pp
✅6. The God of the Woods - 478pp - 7/31/25

[LaurLa]

TBR Bender ❱❱ July ❱❱ COMPLETE
July - December 2025

My July TBR Bender (msg 14)

May Books
🔺A Very Friendly Valentine's Day ❱❱ friends-lovers; romance; holiday; forced prox
🔺Gage ❱❱ romance; contemporary romance; new adult; erotica; western
🔺Edge of the Enforcer ❱❱ bdsm; erotica; romance; contemporary romance; suspense

Like for Like



☑️romance ❱❱ A Very Friendly Valentine's Day
🔺Heir Untamed ❱❱ 06.05 ★★★★
☑️western ❱❱ Gage
🔺Native Silver ❱❱ 06.19 ★★★
☑️suspense ❱❱ Edge of the Enforcer
🔺Slow Burn ❱❱ 08.16 ★★★★

Options - TBR



☑️Date ❱❱ Native Silver ❱❱ added June 2014
🔺Invisible Fears ❱❱ 06.16 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Slow Burn ❱❱ slow
🔺Slow Tango with a Prince ❱❱ 08.12 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Heir Untamed ❱❱ 312 pp ❱❱ 368 pp
🔺Wicked Lust ❱❱ 10.01 ★★★★

Options - New



☑️Date ❱❱ Native Silver ❱❱ published 2013
🔺Evie ❱❱ 06.30 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Slow Burn ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Magic Happens
🔺Shadow Magic ❱❱ 06.24 ★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Heir Untamed ❱❱ 312 pp ❱❱ 292 pp
🔺Playing With Her Heart ❱❱ 06.04 ★★★

[LaurLa]

TBR Bender ❱❱ April ❱❱ COMPLETE
April - December 2025

My April TBR Bender (msg 12)

February Books
🔺A SEAL's Salvation ❱❱ romance; contemporary; military fiction; military romance
🔺Nobody's Darling ❱❱ contemporary romance; romance; strong-female-character; social-justice-issues
🔺Undercover Love ❱❱ romance; contemporary; romantic suspense; chick lit; new adult

Like for Like



☑️military fiction ❱❱ A SEAL’s Salvation
🔺Gideon ❱❱ 06.14 ★★★★
☑️strong-female-character ❱❱ Nobody's Darling
🔺Breaking Badger ❱❱ 03.22 ★★★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ Undercover Love
🔺Strangers on This Road ❱❱ 05.14 ★★★

Options - TBR



☑️Series ❱❱ Strangers on This Road ❱❱ series Strangers on This Road
🔺Danger in Academia ❱❱ 08.27 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Gideon ❱❱ initials CA ❱❱ AC
🔺The Unexpected Wedding Guest ❱❱ 03.24 ★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Breaking Badger ❱❱ badger
🔺Born to Be Badger ❱❱ 09.04 ★★★★

Options - New



☑️Date ❱❱ Gideon ❱❱ published 2015
🔺What Lies Behind ❱❱ 03.27 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Strangers on This Road ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Pucking Wrong
🔺The Pucking Wrong Number ❱❱ 03.30 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Breaking Badger ❱❱ initials SL ❱❱ LS
🔺The Reluctant Vampire ❱❱ 03.05 ★★★★

[Amy]

APRIL - DONE!

Like 4 Like

Top Shelf: Shadows of Pecan Hollow - fiction
Book 1: Dept. of Speculation - Completed 9/10/25

Top Shelf: All the Glimmering Stars - historical-fiction
Book 2: A Place Called Freedom - Completed 4/24/25

Top Shelf: James - 2025
Book 3: PS: I Hate You - Completed 4/18/25

Top Shelf: The Dark Corners of the Night - crime
Book 4: Reunion in Death - Completed 3/20/25

Top Shelf: This Is Why We Lied - thriller
Book 5: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Completed 4/6/25

D.1. Your TBR (all these books are on my TBR)
1. Date: PS: I Hate You (added Mar 2, 2025) -read from closest date added
Murder at Haven's Rock (added Mar 1, 2025) - Completed 3/19/25

2. Series: Reunion in Death - read the next book in the series
Purity in Death - Completed 3/28/25

3. Author: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill - read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer - Completed 5/31/25

4. Title: A Place Called Freedom - read a book with an identical word in title
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party - FREEDOM - Completed 10/5/25

5. Pages: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (264 pages) - read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Force Of Nature (385 pages) - Completed 3/9/25

D.2. new books
1. Date: Dept. of Speculation (published in 2014) - read a book published in the same year.
Under Locke (published Jan 19, 2014) - Completed 7/31/25

2. Series (maybe): A Place Called Freedom - for stand alone book read another book by a new-to-you author
Dead Man’s Grave - Completed 4/9/25

3. Author: Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb - read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
Mercy Kill by Robin James - Completed 5/16/25

4. Title: PS: I Hate You - read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/hate?page=2
A Curse So Dark and Lonely - Completed 4/28/25

5. Pages: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (264 pages) - read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
The Children of Eve (464 pages) - Completed 6/24/25

[LynnB]

September TBR Bender 2025
Completed 2 Oct 2025

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from July 2025 reads.

1.
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Judy Batalion
Nonfiction, history, world war II

2.
Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, Shaun Bythell
Nonfiction, books about books, Scotland

3.
The Memory of Lavender and Sage, Aimie K. Runyan
Magical realism, romance, France

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. (The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, nonfiction)
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life, Helen Whybrow, 29 Sept 2025


2. (Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, nonfiction)
It Rhymes With Takei, George Takei, 11 Sept 2025


3. (The Memory of Lavender and Sage, France)
Last Twilight in Paris, Pam Jenoff, 10 Sept 2025


D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
✔5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Last Twilight in Paris, 336 pp.)
The Woman With the Cure, Lynn Cullen, 21 Sept 2025, 400 pp.


D.2. new books
✔1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(It Rhymes With Takei, pub June 2025)
The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle, Erika Robuck, 25 Sept 2025, pub. Aug 2025


✔2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(The Salt Stones, pub. June 2025))
The Great Mann, Kyra Davis Lurie, 2 Oct 2025, pub. June 2025

[Joyce]

Joyce's July TBR Bender: - COMPLETED

B. My Top May 2025 Reads

1. Friend of the Devil 5/25/25
2. Sparrow Hill Road 5/26/25
3. Mickey7 5/15/25

C. Like 4 Like (numbers correspond with books as listed above)

1. May Book - HORROR Friend of the Devil- The Haunted Forest Tour 7/25/25
2. May Book - GHOST Sparrow Hill Road- Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper 9/15/25
3. May Book -SCIENCE FICTION Mickey7 -System Collapse 7/2/25

D2

1. L4L book- PAGES The Haunted Forest Tour 375 Pages - The Devils 560 pages 8/26/25
2. L4L book - SERIES Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper - Casting Call for a Corpse 9/18/25
3. L4L book - DATE System Collapse 2023 The Hexologists 9/19/25

[Nat]

May complete!
Goal: 3 books

March Books
1. Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
2. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
3. The Last Hour Between Worlds

L4L
1. Nonfiction - Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language 5/10
2. Mystery - Head Cases 4/23
3. Fantasy - The Curse of Chalion 6/11

Options: D.1 TBR
1. Date - Eastbound - both added 21 Nov 2023 5/19
2. Pages - 341 + 51 = 391 - Last Argument of Kings, 536 8/2
3. Title - This Cursed House 10/18

[LynnB]

TBR Bender October 2025
Completed 20 Oct 2025

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.
1. The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick
historical fiction, book club, books about books


2. The Spoon Stealer, Lesley Crewe
historical fiction, fiction, Canada


3.The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore
nonfiction, history, feminism


C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves

1. (The Book Club for Troublesome Women, historical fiction)
The Company Daughters, Samantha Rajaram, 8 Oct 2025


2. (The Spoon Stealer, fiction)
The Disappeared, C.J. Box, 5 Oct 2025


3. (The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, nonfiction)
A Bookshop in Berlin, Françoise Frenkel, 4 Oct 2025


>D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
(A Bookshop in Berlin, both added to TBR 9/25)
The Retirement Plan, Sue Hincenbergs, 11 Oct 2025


5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Disappeared, 388 pp.)
The Girl in the Woods, Camilla Läckberg, 17 Oct 2025, 580 pp.

D.2. new books

✔2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books (for stand alone book), read another book by a new-to-you author.
(The Company Daughters)
The Way of Beauty, Camille Di Maio, 20 Oct 2025