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Apr 12, 2014 12:48PM
I'm. i need to clean out my books anyway. As of right now i have 423 books to read and all of my shelves are for challenges from different book clubs.
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I'm going to try to do this too. I'm going to have to start later though. Hopefully soon!Duration: 4/19/14 - 8/20/14 (used 2 extension gift cards, post # 175)
Completed: 0/?
Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? - 668
How many bookshelves do you have? - forgot to count before I started editing, but I currently have 46. I may edit them more as I go through the books. :)
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? - Yikes... I estimate about 250 ebooks and 325 books (hardcover & paperback, not including cookbooks or school books)
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? - haven't decided yet. I'll do the cleaning first, then decide.
The Cleaning
*Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.
Removed:
individual challenge shelves
Separated:
nonfiction & biography
mystery & thriller
Added:
netgalley
holocaust
*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their
appropriate shelves.
*While going through your to-read books delete the ones that no longer
interest you. (You may be surprised by how many books no longer
interest you).
The Reading
*Make a list of all the books you own but are unread.
*After 'cleaning' up your TBR book shelf make a list of the books that you
want to read the most.
*After completing the list making process, come up with a game plan to
read as many books as possible.
Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list?
Mod
Well, I'll start this too:Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 415
How many bookshelves do you have? 9
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? I didn't know they actually have a shelf for that on here.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 20, to start
REMOVED May 24
Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead
The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Bright Young Things by Anna Godberson
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Evermore by Alyson Noel
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Pretties by Scott Westerfield
Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
My Fake Boyfriend Is Better Than Yours by Kristina Springer
The Espressologist by Kristina Springer
Just Your Average Princess by Kristina Springer
Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris
Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson
Raziel by Kristina Douglas
Sword and Sorceress by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman
You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World by Gayle Forman
Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand by Mik Everett
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns by Elizabeth Kelly
The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh
Drop Dead, Gorgeous by J.D. Mason
Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
Unwritten by Charles Martin
The Cottage At Glass Beach Heather Barbieri
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Sailor Moon, Vol. 01 by Naoko Takeuchi
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Sphinx's Princess by Esther Friesner
The Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson
Kitchen Princess, Vol. 01 by Natsumi Ando
Pirate of My Heart by Jamie Carie
Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
Obsidian by Jennifer Armentrout
Onyx by Jennifer Armentrout
Opal by Jennifer Armentrout
Origin by Jennifer Armentrout
Opposition by Jennifer Armentrout
Shadows by Jennifer Armentrout
Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys by Kate Bryan
'Til The World Ends by Julie Kagawa
Dawn of Eden by Julie Kagawa
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead
Adrian's Lost Chapter by Richelle Mead
The Fiery Heart by Richelle Mead
Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead
Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
The Pledge by Kimberly Derting
Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
REMOVED June 4th
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
NEW SHELVES
BOOKS READ
The Nanny Diaries read
Shiver
Something Borrowed
Mod
Starting late, but this should be useful to me. Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 614
How many bookshelves do you have? 43
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? I would have to count and come back.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 30
Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
How many of them were already owned?
On your TBR list?
Did you create any bookshelves?
If so, how many?
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf?
If so, how many?
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list?
Mod
Oh my GOSH was this helpful! It took me the better part of a week, but at least now I'm MUCH more organized, and I can actually FIND the book I'm looking for!
THANKS for thinking this one up!
Glad you liked it, Pat. It was Sashana's idea. It is a good one. I haven't done everything on the list, but I've made a huge dent in doing what I planned with my shelves.
Pre Challenge SurveyHow many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
-- 1540! I do not like how books have to be added to a shelf in order to be on your goodreads list. I am doing the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die group, & imported the books for it, so approximately 1297 of the books are from that list.
How many bookshelves do you have?
-- 165! (I like to sort by genre)
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
-- Unknown, not that many hard copies, but I hoard eBooks
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
-- I am going to organize my TBR list based upon whether or not it's available via ebook or library & go from there. Want to read at least 2 a month, so 12 this year
Welcome to the challenge, Rebekah! I like to sort by genre, too.
I was doing so well reading all of the books I own (but haven't read), but then I went to two cheap book sales...Used to be only 12, now I have over 40 to read...
Mod
Hey mods! Just a quick question, does this challenge run for 3 months from your start date or begin and end with spring regardless of when you start? I had to postpone starting until I finished school and want to know if I have 3 months or if I should use my extension gift cards before they expire. Thanks!!
Mod
Good one on which to use an Extension Gift Card.
Thank you! :) I will do that. I'll post it soon.
Ok, so I finally finished school and am going to be starting this one. I will extend it two months using my extension gift cards! :) New end date is August 20. Original post # 159.
Mod
Message 174:I am going to use the birthday extension cards to extend this challenge till August 20th :)
Mod
Finally started cleaning out my to-read shelf. I started with 701 TBR and have only made it through the first 100, but my shelf is down to 687 already! This is going to take a while. lol
Mod
Wow, I finally finished the organization part!How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
- I am doing the TBR Tackler challenge, and hope to read 12. I have already read 3, and abandoned 1
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
- I whittled my TBR List from 1540 to 838 based upon if I already owned the book or have online library access
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
- I created 2 library shelves for each of the online libraries I use
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
- Yes, I removed 702 books!
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list?
- Yes, big time! Now I know easily where to find books that I want to read.
Mod
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges (All the Mods) wrote: "Wow, Rebekah. Good job of whittling down your number - 702!!"Yes I am a book hoarder. ;)
Also most of those were I had imported a list of the 1300+ books on the combined 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. A lot of those books just aren't easily available, so they went bye bye.
How many books did you read overall for this challenge?25
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
6 were new releases soo idk if those count.
but out of the other 19 i think 13?
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
12
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
8
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list?
it did but then i didnt learn and it just piled up again
pre-survey with new in bold
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
1582 yikes/2258 whoops
How many bookshelves do you have?
15/19
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
216/232
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
40/25
I got rid of 609 books through either reading or deleting books I was no longer interested in.
Mod
Spring Cleaning Reading ChallengeDuration: 3/20/17 - 6/20/17
Progress: 12/12 Questions; 23/20 Books
Completed: 6/21/17
It's definitely time for me to do this again.
Pre-Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
to-read - 1650; bbc-suggestion - 503; caudill-nominee - 444; maybe - 218; not-for-me - 31; playaway - 328; reference - 7; short-list - 8; to-finish - 6; to-listen - 274; to-read-someday - 87
How many bookshelves do you have? 168
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
ekindle - ; enook - ; paperback - ; hardcover -
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
14 to-reads, 2 bbc-suggestion, 1 playaway, 2 short-list, 1 to-listen
to-read (15/14)
The Body Finder by Kimberly Dertling (4/24/17) - The Body Finder #1
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (5/10/17) - The Checquy Files #1
Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts (5/13/17) - Circle Trilogy #1
Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels (5/23/17) - Sisterhood #1
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (6/21/17) - Mercy Thompson #1
next-in-series
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (3/23/17) - The Dresden Files #4
Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn (3/28/17) - Bridgertons #4
The Reckoning by Kelley Anderson (3/28/17) - Darkest Powers #3
Princess Mia by Meg Cabot (3/30/17) - Princess Diaries #9
Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler (3/31/17) - Dirk Pitt #16
Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward (4/5/17) - Black Dagger Brotherhood #3
Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Maberry (4/12/17) - Rot and Ruin #5
Susannah's Garden by Debbie Macomber (4/29/17) - Blossom Street #3
Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton (5/3/17) - Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #3
The Iron Traitor by Julie Kagawa (6/15/17) - Iron Fey, Call of the Forgotten #2
bbc-suggestion (2/2)
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (4/26/17)
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Anderson Brower (6/9/17)
playaway (1/1)
Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag (4/13/17)
short-list (3/2)
Stars Above by Marissa Meyer (4/17/17) - Lunar Chronicles #4.5
The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen (6/1/17) - Rizzoli & Isles #2
Glory in Death by J.D. Robb (6/20/17) - In Death #2
to-listen (2/1)
The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry (4/7/17) - Cotton Malone #1
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (6/7/17) - Mickey Haller #1
Post-Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge? 23
How many of them were already owned? 0 On your TBR list? 23
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many? 0 shelves
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
to-read - 1769; bbc-suggestion - 481; caudill-nominee - 442; maybe - 219; not-for-me - 31; playaway - 321; reference - 7; short-list - 9; to-finish - 6; to-listen - 273; to-read-someday - 83
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list? barely
My TBR list got out of control a long time ago. But attempting to clean it out is important so I will do what I can for this challenge!Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 5876
How many bookshelves do you have? 56
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? About 400
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 5
Be sure to list all of the books you read for this challenge below. Let us know if they were pre-owned or on your TBR list Timeline
This challenge will begin on March 20, 2011 and end on June 20, 2011. This is when Spring officially begins and ends.
pre-challenge survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
315 (owned & not)
How many bookshelves do you have? 9
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 22 according to my own-to-read shelf
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? I will aim for 10.
Progress so far (started April 9) 4 books
Eifelheim (TBR list) audio CD, 4/29
Two Plays for Voices (TBR list) - audio CD, 4/29
Acceptance 5/9/2017 (TBR list)
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (TBR list) - finished 5/27 (TBR list)Reason & Persuasion: Three Dialogues By Plato (TBR list)
Currently reading The Man in the High Castle (own)
NBRC Spring Cleaning ChallengeDuration: March 20 - June 20, 2017
Pre-Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 1701
How many bookshelves do you have? 183
How many unread books do you own? (ebooks, Audible, paperback, hardback) approx 500
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 20
The Cleaning
Make new bookshelves and eliminate irrelevant ones
---Shelves Removed---
tbr-2017-feb-mar
tbr-2017-mar
tbr-2017-june
on-hold
read-before
holidays
read in 2017 (already have 2017 individual challenge)
need to review
z-loc-usa-boston (already have z-loc-usa-mass)
z-loc-usa-chicago (already have z-loc-usa-illinois)
---Shelves Added and/or Redesigned---
added "books-electronic" and deleted kindle, hoopla, overdrive
changed z-cover-automobiles ---> z-cover-vehicles
changed z-cover-cats ---> z-cover-animals
added z-cover-people ---> deleted z-cover-man, z-cover-woman
added "genre" in front of travel, science, true crime, historical
fiction, mystery, western, young adult & others to keep them
joined together
Did I move all books to appropriate shelves? Status?
Need to add some specific tbr subject shelves to find books easier, such as "tbr ww2", "tbr presidential/first ladies
While going through your to-read books delete the ones that no longer interest you. Status?
On 4/19 total tbr books reduced to 1675. Will need to further evaluate this this month particularly related to the amount of presidential/first ladies books I'm amassing for an in-depth study.
The Reading
Make a list of all the books you own but are un-read.
--- I will do this in either OneNote or Evernote. Status?
After cleaning up your tbr bookshelf make list of books you want to read the most. Status?
Now set up a game plan to read as many books as possible. Status?
Read!
Revelations
Post-Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
Did you create any bookshelves? How many?
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? How many?
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to wheedle down your TBR list?
Brilliant Challenge! I have been looking to clean up my stash and organize things for my upcoming move.How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 525 books
How many bookshelves do you have? only three
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? too many to count
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? Ten I'm hoping
I realized that I have completely forgotten I'd sign up for this one and was wondering if I could go ahead and make a new list for this year. Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
I originally had around 530 books (maybe more) and I have now brought it down to 489 books.
How many bookshelves do you have? 13
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? about 10 books
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? I will go for 50 books right now but I might be able to add more.
I am going to try and read most of the books that i have started but not finished along with books that have been on my TBR the longest.
Books read: 4/50
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5. Talon by Julie Kagawa - currently reading
6. The Body Electric by Beth Revis - currently reading
7. Inescapable - currently reading
8. Mostly Good Girls -
9. Sweet Evil -
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Here's my pre-challenge survey:TBR list?6275
Bookshelves? 7 pages worth
unread books owned? At least 1500 but have been working on getting these marked as owned since January
how many for the challenge? I would like to do 25 off TBR and owned list
1 Liam by LeAnn Ashers 3.1
2. When She's Mine by Dani Wyatt 3.22
3 In a Badger Wayby Shelly Laurenston 3.25
4. Ryker by Megan O'Brien 4.20
5 The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe 4.20
6 Security Breach by Evan Grace 4.23
7. Gabe by Evan Grace 4.30
8 The Hookup by Kristen Ashley 5.21
9 Claiming the Highlander by Kinley MacGregor 5.18
10 Bentley (Hawthorne Brothers) by ML Young 5.27
11. Venus in Blue Jeans by Meg Benjamin 6.5
Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge? 11
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list? 5
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many? Yes 7 pages with
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many? Yes 4
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list? A little bit
Spring Cleaning Duration: March 20 - June 20
🔳 Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? ➡ 696
How many bookshelves do you have? ➡ 40
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? ➡ Ebooks: 107, paperback: 4, audiobooks: 3
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? ➡ 15
🔳 Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list?
Mod
Spring Cleaning Duration: March 20 - June 20
Complete! 15 books
🔳 Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 329
How many bookshelves do you have? on GoodReads? 2 pages worth (many of them are for already-read books though) physical shelves: 2 shelves of unread books!
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 32 (I think)
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 15, including 5 books I own
OWNED: 4
1. The Black Tides of Heaven 3/26/19 (ebook)
2. Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry 4/7/19
3. The Happy Prince & Other Stories 3/26/19
4. The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz 3/26/19
LIBRARY TBR: 11
1. Citizen: An American Lyric 3/23/19
2. Cloud Atlas 4/2/19
3. City of Bones 4/6/19
4. Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood 4/7/19
5. Why Poetry 4/21/19
6. Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven 5/4/19
7. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 4/28/19
8.Declare 5/18/19
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude 5/19/2019
10. Spinning Silver 5/29/19
11. Tigana 6/18/2019
🔳 Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
15
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
4 were already owned, the rest were from my library TBR
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
n/a
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
5
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to whittle down your TBR list?
Yes, a little bit!
Mod
I am constantly buying new books and adding to my TBR pile so rather than reading books to fit a specific challenge and not reading those that have been on my TBR list for ages, I am using this challenge to get some off that darn list! Timeline
April 1st 2020 - June 30, 2020
Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 500+ on my Kindle
How many bookshelves do you have? 1 TBR list but no longer add to it as it was getting too long! Many others for books I have read though!
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? Probably 3000+ - on my kindle I have about 2000 and then in paperback and hardback, who knows as they are all in boxes in the attic!
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 25 at least!
To Read
READ 19/25
Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge? 19
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list? 12 previously owned, 7 were ARCs that arrived during the challenge, so had to be read
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many? Nope
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many? Nope, added more if anything!
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list? A little bit. Finished a series completely, finished another up to the book published so far, discovered a couple of new series through the ARCs that are now on my wishlist to read the rest of.
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