Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This is the thread for March. Some of the instructions are posted below as well for your ease of reference.

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

C. Like for Like (L4L)
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).

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

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)

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)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

Amy

Bea

CassieV

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Joanna

Joyce

Lauren

LaurLa

LynnB

Marina

Meg

Susan

Tien

My Top 5 reads & shelves
Chill Factor (Weather Warden #3) by Rachel Caine : urban-fantasy, fantasy, paranormal, own, rachel-caine
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) by T.J. Klune : fantasy, 2024, fiction, lgbtq, audiobook
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao : fantasy, 2025-releases, 2025, romance, magical-realism
We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders #1) by Richard Osman : 2024, mystery, fiction, audiobook, 2025
Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper : 2023, mystery, fiction, 2024, crime

Like 4 Like

Top Shelf: urban-fantasy
🗸 Book 1: Windfall (Weather Warden #4) by Rachel Caine -Read 03/10

Top Shelf: audiobook
🗸 Book 2: Vilest Things (Flesh and False Gods #2) by Chloe Gong -Read 03/19

Top Shelf: fantasy
🗸 Book 3: Dark Inside (Dark Inside #1) by Jeyn Roberts -Read 03/07

Top Shelf: audiobook
🗸 Book 4: Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen -Read 03/04

Top Shelf: fiction
🗸 Book 5: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens -Read 03/23

D.1. Your TBR (all these books are on my TBR)
🗸 1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen >> Mar '11 >> Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol -Read 03/08

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
Windfall (Weather Warden #4) by Rachel Caine >> Firestorm (Weather Warden #5) by Rachel Caine

🗸 3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens >> CD >> Don't Let The Forest In by C.G. Drews -Read 06/27

🗸 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)
Vilest Things (Flesh and False Gods #2) by Chloe Gong >> THINGS >> The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan -Read 07/21

🗸 5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Dark Inside (Dark Inside #1) by Jeyn Roberts >> 336p + 50 = 386p >> Mistress of Amber and Flame by Maria Linwood -Read 03/31

D.2. new books
🗸 1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
Vilest Things (Flesh and False Gods #2) by Chloe Gong >> pub 2024 >> The Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow -Read 04/15

🗸 2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens >> The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg -Read 03/15

🗸 3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
Windfall (Weather Warden #4) by Rachel Caine >> RC >> CR >> The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan #1) by Caro Ramsay -Read 04/01

🗸 4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen >> shadows >> Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky -Read 04/14

🗸 5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
Dark Inside (Dark Inside #1) by Jeyn Roberts >> 336p >> 696p >> Victoria The Queen by Julia Baird -Read 03/23

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from January 2025 reads.
1. Deerskin by Robin McKinley
2. Palindrome by Stuart Woods
3. A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). Read a book for that shelf.
1. Deerskin: SFF, Magic, Romance
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2. Palindrome: Mystery, Suspense, Romance
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
3. A Year on Ladybug Farm: Womens Fiction, Contemporary, Southern
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

Options
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)

Project Hail Mary was added to TBR 7/17/24
On the same day, I also added The Accidental Book Club.

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

Ruth Ware (The Woman in Cabin 10) also wrote:
Zero Days

Her second book of the series is expected to be published 2025. I have chosen to read a stand alone book already on my TBR rather than wait for the publication.

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 Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (JC)
Another JC author: Jimmy Carter (The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.

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

1.
There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak, historical fiction, literary fiction, fiction
2.
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, Kirsten Miller, fiction, books about books, contemporary
3.
Brightly Shining, Ingvild H. Rishøi, contemporary, holiday, novella

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves.
Shelf 1: (There Are Rivers in the Sky)
Shelf: historical fiction
Read:
Where Lilacs Still Bloom, Jane Kirkpatrick, 14 Mar 2025

Shelf 2. (Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books)
Shelf: Humor
Read:
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson, 9 Mar 2025

Shelf 3: (Brightly Shining)
Shelf: Contemporary
Read:
Sweetness in the Skin, Ishi Robinson, 7 Mar 2025

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)

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)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
✔1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(Sweetness in the Skin)

Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman, Patrick Hutchison, 22 Mar 2025, both published 2024

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(Nothing to See Here)

The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading, Dwight Garner, 16 Mar 2025

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
(Where Lilacs Still Bloom), 371 pp.

Banned Book Club, Kim Hyun Sook, 26 Mar 2025, 199 pp.

Joyce's March TBR Bender: Completed

6/6 BOOKS

B. My Top January 2025 Reads

1. Hell Bent 1/30/25
2.The Masked City 1/9/25
3.Strange Magic 1/9/25

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. January Book - Hell Bent
The September House - Horror - 4/19/25
2. January book: The Masked City
Moving Pictures - fantasy - 3/20/25
3.January book: Strange Magic
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Fantasy 5/8/25

D.2. new books
1. L4L book: The September House
Series - new to me author -The Husbands 3/31/25
2. L4L book: Moving Pictures
Pages #4 - Sparrow Hill Road 432 pgs 5/26/25
3. L4L book: Dungeon Crawler Carl
Date 2020 - The Shattered Sword 3/14/25

March TBR Bender 2025
Read: 6/6

Top Reads from January:
* 4321 = Contemporary, Historical Fiction, America
* The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue = Fantasy, Romance
* Beautyland - Fantasy

L4L
January book: 4321
✅1. The Wishing Game - contemporary - 5/9/25

January book: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✅2. Babel - Fantasy - 3/11/25

January book: Beautyland
✅3. Piranesi - Fantasy - 3/17/25

D1 - TBR:
Pages: Piranesi - 272 pages
✅4. The Leftovers - 368 pages - 4/30/25

D2 - new:

Author: The Wishing Game = M-S
✅5. Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear = S-M - 3/29/25

Series: Babel
✅6. Deep Cuts - new author - 4/23/25

TBR Bender ❱❱ March ❱❱ COMPLETE
March - December 2025

My March TBR Bender (msg 8)

January Books
🔺The True Love Experiment ❱❱ romance; contemporary; audiobook; books-i-own; adult
🔺Undone ❱❱ historical-romance; erotica; fairy-tale; fairy-tale retelling; ebook
🔺Bound ❱❱ paranormal; romance; fantasy; mythology; demons

Like for Like



☑️books-i-own ❱❱ The True Love Experiment
🔺Bride ❱❱ 03.18 ★★★★
☑️fairy-tale retelling ❱❱ Undone
🔺Tangled Up in You ❱❱ 04.26 ★★★★
☑️paranormal ❱❱ Bound
🔺Go Fetch ❱❱ 04.07 ★★★★

Options - TBR



☑️Date ❱❱ Bride ❱❱ added Jan 2025
🔺Hour of the Lion ❱❱ 03.31 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Go Fetch ❱❱ initials SL ❱❱ LS
🔺Undercover Love ❱❱ 02.20 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Tangled Up in You ❱❱ you
🔺If I Were You ❱❱ 02.24 ★★★★

Options - New



☑️Date ❱❱ Bride ❱❱ published 2024
🔺Back in the Saddle ❱❱ 04.21 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Go Fetch ❱❱ new series The Book Waitress
🔺The Book Waitress ❱❱ 03.06 ★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Tangled Up in You ❱❱ initials CL
🔺Dirty Rowdy Thing ❱❱ 02.09 ★★★★

My top 3 reads from January 2025

North Woods historical fiction, literary fiction, nature
Babylonia historical fiction, mythology, fantasy
I'll Come to You historical fiction, literary fiction

Like 4 Like
1. literary fiction, nature == Wild Dark Shore✅
2. historical fiction == Learned by Heart✅
3. historical fiction == By Her Hand✅

D1 - TBR
1. Date: added in January 2025
By Her Hand == A Happy Marriage✅

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
Learned by Heart == Haven✅

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
Wild Dark Shore == In the Beautiful Dark✅

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

March Plan

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
✔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: 5/6

March

0/6

1. The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig 5 January 2025 ★★★★★ - Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical Romance, Mystery, Regency
2. The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas 11 January 2025 ★★★★★ - Fantasy, Young Adult, LGBT, Queer, Mythology
3. Book Lovers by Emily Henry20 January 2025 ★★★★★ Romance, Chic-lit, Books about books

L4L
1. Mystery - The Will of the Many by James Islington
2. LGBT - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
3. Book about books - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown



D1.

1. Word in the title: Will The Will of the Many
Let's Pretend This Will Work by Maddie Dawson

2.Author's initials: BC - A Closed and Common Orbit
A Thousand Recipes for Revenge by Beth Cato

3. Date added: 29 January 2024 - The Book of Doors
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn

My Top 5 Reads in January & shelves:

✔The Outcast Dead: mystery, crime, fiction, mystery-thriller, audiobook
✔City of Dragons(Rain Wild Chronicles, #3): fantasy, dragons, fiction, high fantasy, epic fantasy
✔The Sacrifice of Tamar: fiction, jewish, historical fiction, judaism, judaica
✔Traveler(Traveler #1): fantasy, young adult, time travel, science fiction, romance
✔The Girl in the Spider's Web: fiction, mystery, thriller, crime, audiobook

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (City of Dragons)
✔Book 1: The Wicked King - fin 3/7

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Traveler)
✔Book 2: Cascade Failure - fin 3/27

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Outcast Dead)
✔Book 3: The Jane Austen Project - fin 5/15

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Sacrifice of Tamar)
✔Book 4: Tug of War (Joe Sandilands #6) - fin 8/10

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Girl in the Spider's Web)
✔Book 5: The Ghost Fields - fin 3/8

D1 Your TBR

✔1. Date: Using one of your [Like 4 Like] books, read from closest date added
✔Cascade Failure, added 1/2/2025
✔The Blighted Stars, added 1/2/25 - fin 5/30

✔2. Series: Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or another book by the same author
✔The Ghost Fields, Elly Griffiths
✔Woman in Blue - fin 5/5

✔3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
✔Tug of War (Joe Sandilands #6), Barbara Cleary
✔ A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes #1), Brittany Cavallaro - fin 7/23

✔4. Title:Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
✔The Wicked King (king)
✔The Pirate King - fin 4/13

✔5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
✔The Jane Austen Project, 384 pages
✔The Hunter), 467 pages - fin 3/29

COMPLETED 8/10

My top 3 reads in January:

Riftmender - Fantasy
The Pastor's Wife - Fiction / Classics / Audiobook / British Literature / Germany
Killing Time - Time Travel / Science Fiction / Fantasy / Audiobook / Fiction

L4L

Riftmender by Zoé Perrenoud
Top shelf: Fantasy
Book #1: Piove per esigenze di trama: La prima indagine del Commissario Elfo - read 30/04

The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
Top shelf: Fiction
Book #2: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - read 23/03

Killing Time by Jodi Taylor
Top shelf: Fiction
Book #3: Cosima by Grazia Deledda - read 12/04

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Cosima (added 23/03/2025) -> Della donna aracnide (added 25/02/2025) - read 31/05

2. Series (maybe): Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia -> The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - read 10/06

5. Pages: Piove per esigenze di trama: La prima indagine del Commissario Elfo (399 pages) -> Racconti di demoni russi (473 pages) - read 13/07

Books Read: 6/6

March
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 9/9

January Books
1. Bad Liar by Tami Hoag
Shelves: 2024, Mystery, Thriller, 2025, Tami-Hoag
2. The Cliff's Edge by Charles Todd
Shelves: Mystery, 2023, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical
3. Protect the Prince by Jennifer Estep
Shelves: Fantasy, Romance, Magic, 2019, Favorites

Like for Like
✔︎ 1. Thriller - Listen To Me by Tess Gerritsen
Read: April 20, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 2. 2023 - Home at Night by Paula Munier
Read: March 18, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 3. Fantasy - Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn (292)
Read: February 14, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars

Options - TBR
✔︎ 1. Date Added (March 2022) - The Hidden One by Linda Castillo (January 2022)
Read: June 11, 2025
Rating: 3.5 Stars
✔︎ 2. Word in Title (Night) - Alpha Night by Nalini Singh
Read: March 26, 2025
Rating: 2.5 Stars
✔︎ 3. 50 Extra Pages (342+): Howl at the Moon by Christine Warren (352)
Read: February 23, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars

Options - New
✔︎ 1. Series w/New Author: Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan
Read: June 22, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 2. Publication Year (2023): Out of Nowhere by Sandra Brown
Read: March 14, 2025
Rating: 5 Stars
✔︎ 3. Pages (292-->352): Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey (352)
Read: April 29, 2025
Rating: 1 Star

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from January 2025 reads.
Magician: Apprentice
The Hills Have Spies
Eye Spy
C. Like for Like (L4L)
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).
One Good Knight----Fantasy
Shatter Me]----Fiction
Easter Basket Murder---Fiction
Memoirs of a Geisha
You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

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
Silverthorn
Prince of the Blood
The King's Buccaneer


3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

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)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
The Hills Have Spies-336pp-Acorna's People-403pp 68pp 3/15/25


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

March TBR Bender

Challenge Accepted: March 1, 2025
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: March 31, 2025

0/9 Complete

B. My Top January Reads

1. Hammer & Gavel
2. How to Hack a Hellhound
3. Inheritance

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

1. Barbarian (MM Romance)
D1. Date (Added Jan. 2025) Smoked & Spiced
D2. Date (Pub in 2025)

2. Dark Hope (Shapeshifters)
D1. Author Lure by C.W. Ford
D2. Title (hope shelf) Hope Burns

3. Deck the Palms (Romance)
D1. Pages (>296 p.)
D2. Author (AA) Spirits & Sunflowers by A.D. Armistead

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

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)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more. (hide spoiler)]


D2/New Books: (Use L4L books as starting point)
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1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages (hide spoiler)]

Goal: 3 books
Read: 6/6 - done!

January Books
1. Burnt Offerings
2. A Game of Lies
3. The Will of the Many

L4L
1. Horror - Bound in Blood: Stories of Cursed Books, Damned Libraries and Unearthly Authors 3/9
2. Mystery - West Heart Kill 2/22
3. Fantasy - The Lost Story 2/24

Options: D.1 TBR
1. Date - Brain Twister 4/1
2. Title - You May Now Kill the Bride 3/12
3. Pages - 352 + 50 = 402 - He Who Drowned the World 3/28

Top January reads
The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump fantasy; urban fantasy; fiction
The Saint of Bright Doors fantasy; fiction; 2024
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray fantasy; young adult; horror

L4L
fantasy City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
young adult Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
2024 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

D1 TBR
Date added using City at the End of Time added October 2016
The Gardener from Ochakov

Author initials - using Margo Lanagan
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

Title word - using Small Things Like These
A Spell of Good Things

D2 New
year pub Black Juice published 2004
About Grace read March 15

author initials using Claire Keegan
Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender

Title word using time from City at the End of Time
shelf - when I have time
TBD

I will have a go at this top 3 books are
Nephthys Historical Fiction, Mythology, Fantasy
Penshaw Crime, Audiobook, Fiction
Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love Romance Fiction , Chick Lit

C. Like for Like (L4L)
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).

a) Costanza Historical Fiction 07/03/2025
b) Glorious Exploits Audiobook 25/03/25
c) Three Days in June

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

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

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)
Using Penshaw added in January 16th 2025 I will read The Elopement January 28th 2025 18/03/2025


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 Cuthbert's Way: A DCI Ryan Mystery 11/03/2025

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position) Lucinda Riley = LJ Ross - one on order from Library also Audible options
The River Capture = Marianne Cronin
The Secrets of Summer House

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)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
The Silence In Between 352 pages Penshaw is 283 Pages

Pick a Shelf March

Goal: 6 books
Read: 0/6

January Books
The Donor - 2020, 2021, thriller, fiction, 2022
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel - graphic novel(s), non-fiction, comics, true crime
The Girls Who Disappeared - 2023, 2024, thriller, mystery, physical-tbr

L4L
1. Thriller
2. True Crime
3. 2023

D1. Your TBR
1. Date: Read from closest date added
2. Series: Next in series or same author
3. Author: Same initials
4. Title: Same title word
5. Pages: 50 more pages

D2. New Books
1. Date: Published same year
2. Series: New to you series or author
3. Author: Same initials (inverted)
4. Title: Shelf with title word
5. Pages: First number is last number of pages

Starting late

3/9

1. The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 276 p. 31 january 2025

2. Violeta Isabel Allende 322 p. Read: 25 january 2025

3. Alan Bennett 142 p.

4. Jennifer Hillier 384 p.

C L4L
1. Classics: book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn|14891] classics

✔️2.Historical fiction
Het witte meisje Tony Birch 336 p. 14 march
Thriller Never Lie

3. A book about books
Einde verhaal
✔️4. Thriller
Kat & muis Ian Rankin 231 p. 19 march

1. New books: De terugkeer van Sherlock Holmes.
2. TBR TBR De kleuren van magie
3.Boy
4.Ik zie je https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
✔️5. 5. Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Als wij schurken waren M.L. Rio 424 p. 15 march 50 p. More than Violeta Isabel Allende 322 p. Read: 25 january 2025

Completed!

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

1.
There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak, historical fiction, literary fiction, fiction
2.
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, Kirsten Miller, fiction, books about books, contemporary
3.
Brightly Shining, Ingvild H. Rishøi, contemporary, holiday, novella

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves.
Shelf 1: (There Are Rivers in the Sky)
Shelf: historical fiction
Read:
Where Lilacs Still Bloom, Jane Kirkpatrick, 14 Mar 2025

Shelf 2. (Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books)
Shelf: Humor
Read:
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson, 9 Mar 2025

Shelf 3: (Brightly Shining)
Shelf: Contemporary
Read:
Sweetness in the Skin, Ishi Robinson, 7 Mar 2025

D.2. new books
✔1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(Sweetness in the Skin)

Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman, Patrick Hutchison, 22 Mar 2025, both published 2024

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(Nothing to See Here)

The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading, Dwight Garner, 16 Mar 2025

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
(Where Lilacs Still Bloom), 371 pp.

Banned Book Club, Kim Hyun Sook, 26 Mar 2025, 199 pp.

March

Top 5 books Read
The Evolution of Annabel Craig
Make Room for Love
The Lion Women of Tehran
Crow Talk
Love You a Latke

L4L
The Evolution of Annabel Craig - Southern - Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books (pg5)
Make Room for Love - Queer - Upright Women Wanted (pg3)
The Lion Women of Tehran - Iran - Daughters of Smoke and Fire (pg5)
Crow Talk = Birds - Migrations (pg1)
Love You a Latke - Jewish - Man's Search for Meaning (pg1)