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message 1: by Denise, Manufacturing Director (new)

Denise (destiny_chan) | 7458 comments Mod
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message 2: by Denise, Manufacturing Director (new)

Denise (destiny_chan) | 7458 comments Mod
📚NOVEMBER 2025 Dusty Bookshelf Challenge:💈

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Please post your shelves. NO COMMENTS in this thread please. You can add discussion comments after pairs are posted.

How It Works:
1) Please post up to 10 books that you would like to read this month.
*minimum 5 books.

2) CHOOSE TURTLE (one book) or HARE (two books) to indicate your reading speed so your picker will know whether to choose one book or two books.

3) An assigned person will pick ONE or TWO BOOKS (depending on the indicated reading speed) from your shelf.

4) BONUS BOOK: Specify "another book from my shelf" OR Pick a Genre and the assigned person will pick a book from that specific genre.

5) You have one month: NOVEMBER 2025 to try to read the chosen books. (*if you don't read your book(s) this month, it's okay because this challenge is for YOUR ENJOYMENT)

6) Please try to select for your pair ASAP as we all get excited and waiting is torture to some.


TIMELINE
OCTOBER 25th-28th, 2025:
Participants will post their shelves
*If you do not list a shelf, I will not pair you with anyone
***Cut off on OCTOBER 28th, 11:59pm (US Central Time)
OCTOBER 29th-30th: Pairs will be posted & then selection of the books and posting it for the person you are choosing for
*Again, as I said earlier, please try to select for your pair ASAP.

**OCTOBER 31st: Re-picks for those who didn’t get the pick

**MOD ASSIST: In addition to myself (Denise), the TCF Mods are also around for assistance.


message 4: by Denise, Manufacturing Director (new)

Denise (destiny_chan) | 7458 comments Mod
PAIRS


message 5: by Erica, Quality Control Supervisor (last edited Oct 27, 2025 04:56AM) (new)

Erica | 4724 comments Mod
Erica's November Dusty Bookshelf

Speed: Switching to TURTLE plus a bonus of one of your favorite reads because I've fallen so badly behind...

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2) by Andrew Sean Greer The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler Romantic Outlaws The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon There There by Tommy Orange The Good Lord Bird by James McBride


message 6: by Jamie (new)

Jamie | 102 comments Jamie's November 2025 Dusty Bookshelf


Filthy King (The Five Points' Mob Collection, #7) by Serena Akeroyd Pretty Rings & Broken Things (Black Tie Billionaires, #2) by Kat Singleton Bad Saint (All The Pretty Things, #1) by Monica James Accidental Hero (Marriage Mistake, #1) by Nicole Snow Beautifully Damaged (Shine Design, #1) by Laura Pavlov Selfless (Selfish #3) by Shantel Tessier Insatiable (The Edge of Darkness, #1) by Leigh Rivers Only For Tonight (Only For, #1) by Natasha Madison The Silversmith (The Selvaren, #1) by L.J. Claren Undeniably You by Jewel E. Ann

Reading speed: HARE
Bonus: Please select another book from my shelf :)


message 7: by Chelle_Rydz (last edited 4 hours, 27 min ago) (new)

Chelle_Rydz (chellerydz) | 627 comments Chelle's November Dusty Bookshelf-

Hare this month 🐰 (2 Books, 1 Bonus)

The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) by Agatha Christie We'll Prescribe You Another Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #2) by Syou Ishida Tales from the Cafe (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong The September House by Carissa Orlando The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley Rabbits (Rabbits, #1) by Terry Miles Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

BONUS: Please pick another from the above list or from my VERY DUSTY BOOKS bookshelf. Thank you.

This year's dusting progress -
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message 8: by Amanda (last edited Oct 25, 2025 09:19AM) (new)

Amanda  Edgar (amandaedgar) | 1 comments Amanda's November 2025 Dusty Bookshelf

The Women by Kristin Hannah The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Díaz Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Twice by Mitch Albom The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1) by Abby Jimenez I, Medusa by Ayana Gray Home Before Dark by Riley Sager 1984 by George Orwell

Reading Speed: Hare
Bonus: Suprise me with a book that you loved that you think I'll like based on my shelves :) (doesn't need to be listed on my shelf)


message 9: by Aspa (new)

Aspa | 43 comments Aspa's Dusty Bookshelf (November 1st - November 30th)

Daughter of the Empire (The Empire Trilogy, #1) by Raymond E. FeistThe Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1) by Jonathan StroudA Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1) by Deanna RaybournThe Hike by Drew MagaryDreams of the Dying (The Twelfth World, #1) by Nicolas LietzauThe Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1) by Christopher BuehlmanThe Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard OsmanThe Shadow Glass by Josh WinningMurder at Spindle Manor (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #1) by Morgan StangThe Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic #1) by India Holton

Reading Speed:
Hare
Bonus Pick: Please pick another from my list above

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message 10: by Elizabeth (last edited Oct 25, 2025 08:36AM) (new)

Elizabeth (aconight) | 7 comments 🍁 November Dusty Bookshelf 🍁
Speed: Hare

Blood of My Monster (Monster Trilogy, #1) by Rina Kent God of Pain (Legacy of Gods, #2) by Rina Kent Leave Me Behind by K.M. Moronova In the Shadows (Shadows, #1) by J.A. Owenby Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) by Sarah J. Maas Between Life and Death (Between Life and Death, #1) by Jaclyn Kot Voracious (The Edge of Darkness, #2) by Leigh Rivers Curiouser and Curiouser Steampunk Alice in Wonderland (Steampunk Fairy Tales #1) by Melanie Karsak Uprooted by Naomi Novik The Crimson Wolf (Wolfish Love Stories) by G.M. Fairy

Bonus: Pick another from shelf above.

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I picked for :

's picks for me:


message 11: by Karen ♐ (new)

Karen ♐ (kmk1214) | 2378 comments Karen♐'s November Dusty Bookshelf - Reading Speed - Hare

I picked for :
picked and bonus: for me

Ruby Tears (The Jewelry Box, #1) by Pepper Winters Heart of the Wolf (The Wild Hunt Legacy #6) by Cherise Sinclair Roar by Kallypso Masters Boss of the Year (Belmont Billionaires #2) by Nicole French Dan & Kara (Downeast, #.5) by Marie Force Love on a Spring Morning (Pine Harbour #3) by Zoe York Once a Hero (Band of Brothers, #2) by Barbara Ankrum Lily and the Duke (Sex and the Season #1) by Helen Hardt Shattered With You (Stark Security, #1) by J. Kenner Heat (Parker Reed, #1) by J.M. Walker

Bonus Pick: Please pick another from my list above


message 12: by Denise, Manufacturing Director (new)

Denise (destiny_chan) | 7458 comments Mod
Denise's November Dusty Bookshelf
Reading Speed: Hare


Joan A Novel of Joan of Arc by Katherine J. Chen Dragon Rider (The Soulbound Saga, #1) by Taran Matharu The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1) by Evan Winter Legally Yours by Melissa Morgan Stealing Glass (Tales of Bones and Roses, #1) by Liv Strom Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernández Castillo Stormwarden (The Cycle of Fire, #1) by Janny Wurts The Envoys of War (The Envoys of Chaos #1) by Dave Lawson Truth and Other Lies (The Nine Worlds Rising #1) by Lyra Wolf The Born Queen (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, #4) by Greg Keyes

Bonus: Another from my list, please!


I pick for ?:
? picks for me:


message 13: by Jennifer (last edited Oct 25, 2025 09:07AM) (new)

Jennifer (jhaltenburger) | 1175 comments I love doing this every month!

October Dusty

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li Behind the Throne A Domestic History of the British Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood Statue of Limitations (A Goddess of Greene St. Mystery, #1) by Kate Collins Our Mothers' War American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II by Emily Yellin The Called Shot Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 by Thomas Wolf Ladies of the Canyons A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest by Lesley Poling-Kempes Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by K.J. Whittle Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out by Ryan Love Every Brilliant Eye (Amos Walker #6) by Loren D. Estleman The Last American Heiresses by Stephen Greco

HARE!

Bonus -- pick a third book from my above list, please?


message 14: by Susan A (new)

Susan A | 2105 comments Susan A's November Dusty Bookshelf
Reading Speed: Hare
Bonus: Another from shelf please



Check The Halls (The Ottawa Otters, #2) by K.M. Gillis Snowed in With the Yeti by Lara Reagan Christmas with an Alien (Holidays with an Alien #1) by Tana Stone Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal by Meghan Quinn You Can Count On Me (Christmas Daddies, #2) by Fae Quin A Winter Romance Holiday Codas 3 by Josh Lanyon A Very Merry Mistake (Very Merry, #1) by Lyra Parish The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter On Circus Lane (The Wright Brothers, #1) by Lily Morton North Star (Yule Lads, #2) by T.A. Moore


message 15: by Zuzana (last edited 23 hours, 50 min ago) (new)

Zuzana | 1226 comments Zuzana's November 2025 Dusty Bookshelf
Speed: hare + bonus

Bleak House by Charles Dickens Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Jane Austen A Life by Claire Tomalin My Dear Cassandra Selections from the Letters of Jane Austen (The Illustrated Letters) by Penelope Hughes-Hallett Jane Austen's World The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Author (Y) by Maggie Lane Who Was Jane Austen? Sorting Fact from Fiction by Stephanie Insley Hershinow Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century by Patricia A. Mathew Děvčátko, rozdělej ohníček by Martin Šmaus Tady Vorel, pitevna Kramný, Stodolovi a další případy soudního lékaře by František Vorel Kniha o staré Praze by Jiří Horák

Bonus - one of these:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Persuasion by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen


message 16: by Severina (last edited Oct 25, 2025 02:59PM) (new)

Severina | 516 comments Severina's Dusty Bookshelf: November 2025

Speed: Hare

Duel Terror Stories by Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson Gentle Writing Advice How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself by Chuck Wendig Partials (Partials Sequence, #1) by Dan Wells Boardwalk Empire The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson Tucker vs. the Apocalypse by Jay Allan Storey The Hike by Drew Magary Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift Why We Love Die Hard by Kim Taylor-Foster Double Dead (Tomes of The Dead, #1) by Chuck Wendig Bits & Pieces (Rot & Ruin, #5) by Jonathan Maberry

Bonus: please pick another book from above.

**

I picked for ___:

___ picked for me:


message 17: by Marty (last edited Oct 25, 2025 04:22PM) (new)

Marty (martymill) | 1308 comments Marty's November Dusty Bookshelf

I picked for_________________
_______________picked for me

Theo and Matilda by Rachel Billington The Butcher's Daughter The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett by Corinne Leigh Clark Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Langbein Rosewater by Liv Little They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher, #5) by Kerry Greenwood Shark Heart by Emily Habeck Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi Found An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Andrew Cull

Bonus: pick from the list above.


message 18: by ☘KathyD☘ (last edited Oct 25, 2025 10:27PM) (new)

☘KathyD☘ | 1236 comments ☘KathyD’s☘ 2025 Dusty Bookshelf
reading speedturtle

A Beautiful Mess (Beautiful Mess, #1) by T.K. Leigh BOOKED A Collection of RomCom Novellas for Book Lovers by Jenn McKinlay Dirtiest Secret (S.I.N., #1) by J. Kenner Dark Surrender (The Dark Ones Saga, #3) by Rachel Van Dyken Dirty Dom (Valetti Crime Family, #1) by Willow Winters My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1) by Robert Dugoni No Limits (Ultimate, #1) by Lori Foster Ride Rough (Raven Riders, #2) by Laura Kaye Shielding Kinley (Delta Team Two, #2) by Susan Stoker Winter of the Wolf (The Wild Hunt Legacy, #2) by Cherise Sinclair
*for the bonus, please choose another from this list.


message 19: by Sallie(GeorgiaGirl) (last edited 9 hours, 15 min ago) (new)

Sallie(GeorgiaGirl) (shuga) | 128 comments Im in Please...Hare
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Zbig The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet by Edward Luce The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton The Last One (Vallendor, #1) by Rachel Howzell Hall On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1) by Briar Boleyn The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6) by Dan Brown To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage The Violet Hour (A Lowcountry Tale, #2) by Victoria Benton Frank Under the Stars by Beatriz Williams
Bonus - pick from the list above...please


message 20: by Michelle (last edited 1 hour, 10 min ago) (new)

Michelle | 1645 comments November Dusty Bookshelf
Speed - Hare + Bonus

Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy Reckoning (Indian Hill, #2) by Mark Tufo Girl in the Glass Coffin The Tonkin Affairs by Lee Ellen Hickey Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1) by Hana Lee Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly, #2) by Charlaine Harris The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8) by Kathy Reichs

Please pick bonus from above


Danielle  Gypsy Soul (afdaniellet) | 1953 comments November Dusty Bookshelf
Speed - Hare plus bonus

Give Yourself Away by Barbara Elsborg The Yearning by A.J. Rose Bowling for Turkeys by Amy Lane I Destroyed the Elf Prince's Harem (Fortune Favors the Fae, #13) by Jocelynn Drake Ascension of the Pack (The Other Wolf, #6) by Heather G. Harris Guardian Spirits (Spirits #3) by Jordan L. Hawk What the Hex (Blackhaven Manor #11) by Arden Steele Gray Dawn (Black Hat Bureau, #10) by Hailey Edwards Fractured Hope (Hope's Ridge #1) by Kady Cordova Someone Like You (Inevitably You, #1) by Lyla Dane

Please pick bonus from above


message 22: by Cathy (last edited Oct 27, 2025 07:06AM) (new)

Cathy Galloway | 557 comments November Dusty Bookshelf
Speed - hare- no bonus

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Savage Run (Joe Pickett, #2) by C.J. Box Designs on You by Carrie Pack Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend by M.J. Wassmer Murder at Half Moon Gate (Wrexford & Sloane, #2) by Andrea Penrose The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren Secrets of Willow House (Sandy Cove, #1) by Susanne O'Leary The Friend by Sigrid Nunez The Blackbird Oracle (All Souls #5) by Deborah Harkness The Geography of Bliss One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner


message 23: by Susan (last edited Oct 27, 2025 11:04AM) (new)

Susan | 40 comments Susan's November Dusty Bookshelf

Speed: Hare
One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1) by Karen M. McManus So I Lied by Chelsea Ichaso Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Needful Things by Stephen King Undone (Will Trent, #3) by Karin Slaughter The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma The Coworker by Freida McFadden The Library by Bella Osborne Walking Home (The Barefoot Sisters, #2) by Lucy Letcher
Bonus: Choose from my TBR


message 24: by Carrie (new)

Carrie  (icanhasbooks) | 597 comments Carrie's Dusty November Bookself

Speed: Turtle
Bonus; from this list

The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) by Richard Swan Wrath (The Faithful and the Fallen, #4) by John Gwynne Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire, #3) by Mark Lawrence Priest of Bones (War for the Rose Throne, #1) by Peter McLean Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) by Hannah Kaner Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1) by Jay Kristoff Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court, #1) by Marie Brennan Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) by Rachel Gillig


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