The Next Best Book Club discussion

Object of the Game: To have read off the most shelves from the official list below.

Start: May 1, 2011
*Any book that you finish after this date can be used for this challenge.
End: July 31, 2011

1. To have read a book off a shelf, you must read a book that is found on that particular shelf. ie. to have read book off the classics shelf, you must read a book that is found on "classics" shelf within the first page.
Here is how you find the page:
-Find the book you just read and click on it so you get to the orginal page. For example: Grapes of Wrath http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4395....
-After you get to this page, look all the way to the right hand side and find Popular Shelves, click on more shelves and you should get to this page: http://www.goodreads.com/book/shelves/43...
and cross off the shelves you 'touched' on the first page.

2. A single book may be found on several shelves however we will only count the first page of top shelves for this book. For example, you may find a book that has 148+ pages of shelves (such as Grapes of Wrath), but only count the first page.

3. You don’t have to read off the shelves in any particular order of shelves.

4. The name of shelves must MATCH EXACTLY to the shelf you are trying to count. No deviations are acceptable (check the spelling off the official list below). For example one shelf reads: 2008-books and another 2008-book or childrens or children-s.

5. It is permissible to read a book that is found on a shelf you've already counted. I may read 10 books that include the shelf "books-i-own". After you have found this shelf once, continue to check off the same shelf, but do not count it as an additonal shelf. At the end of the round, report the shelf you hit the most.

6. Reporting

All we want you to report on the thread is the number of books you've read and the number of shelves these books are found on. Do not report titles because that will give your competitors a strategic edge. I will be creating a another thread where people can post questions on where to find a shelf. So if someone is looking specifically for economics, they can ask other players where they found that shelf. Some of us would like to keep this a secret, as it may give the competitors who are trying to get the most shelves more of an advantage.

For example:
52 shelves
2 books

b. You must track the titles read and the shelves on your own. You can come up with your own method of tracking. I personally print the list and highlight the shelves I have hit, but someone out there may have made a excel spreadsheet, which can be requested by other players via email.

7.HOW DO I GET RID OF SHELVES I CAN'T TOUCH??
If you read a book with a certain amount of pages, you can cross off a shelf you are finding difficult to hit. If you cross off a shelf and later hit it, you cannot change your original shelf. You must choose another shelf to cross off.
* 400 pages - Mark off 1 extra shelf of your choice
* Over 500 pages - Mark off 2 extra shelves of your choice
* Over 600 pages - Mark off 3 extra shelves of your choice
* Over 700-1000 and over pages - Mark off 4 extra shelves of your choice
(Please include this in your reporting)
For example:
216 shelves
23 books
Book over 400 pages crossed off so and so shelf.

8.At the end of the first month, the top three shelvers will be allowed to cross off 3 shelves. I will also randomly (names out of a hat) pick 3 people to cross off 2 shelves of their choice. At the end of the second month, the shelvers with the biggest change in their number of shelves will be allowed to cross off 3 shelves. I will also do the 2 random shelvers thing again.

9.We will continue to celebrate GR authors, so if you read a book by a good reads author, you can eliminate one shelf.

9. Objective
The "winner" is one who has either read off all 350 shelves noted on the official list or who has read the most off these 350 shelves by the end date, July 31st.

*Also, please post the shelf you 'touched' the most at the end of the challenge.

This is still Angela's challenge, I'm just trying to keep it going til she's ready to take charge again. Hope it is smooth-ish sailing. - Adrienne

Round 8 Shelf list:

2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
-
2000s
2008-reads
2009-books
2009-read
2009-reads
2010-books
2010-read
2010-reads
2011-reads
20th-century
21st-century
4-stars
5-stars
abandoned
academic
action
action-adventure
adult
adult-fiction
adult-non-fiction
adventure
all-time-favorites
already-read
amazon-wishlist
american
american-history
and
animals
anthologies
anthology
anthropology
arc
art
at-library
audio
audio-book
audio-books
audiobook
audiobooks
autobiography
biographies
biography
biography-memoir
book
book-club
bookclub
bookcrossing
books
books-i-own
books-i-own-to-read
books-i-want
books-owned
books-read-in-2009
books-read-in-2010
books-to-buy
bookshelf
borrowed
british
business
chick-lit
chicklit
childhood
childhood-favorites
children
children-books
children-s
children-s-books
children-s-lit
children-s-literature
childrens
childrens-books
childrens-fiction
childrens-lit
childrens-picture-books
childrensbooks
christian
christian-fiction
christianity
classic
classics
collection
college
comedy
comic
comic-books
comics
coming-of-age
contemporary
contemporary-fiction
contemporary-romance
cookbooks
cooking
couldn-t-finish
crime
crime-fiction
criticism
culture
design
detective
did-not-finish
didn-t-finish
do-not-own
don-t-own
drama
e-book
e-books
ebook
ebooks
economics
education
electronic-library
england
english
erotic-romance
erotica
essays
europe
family
fantasy
fantasy-sci-fi
faves
favorite
favorite-authors
favorite-books
favorites
favourites
feminism
fiction
film
finished
first-reads
food
for-review
for-school
french
friendship
from-the-library
fun
funny
gay
general
general-fiction
german
glbt
graphic
graphic-novel
graphic-novels
guilty-pleasures
harlequin
have
have-read
health
high-school
historical
historical-fiction
historical-romance
history
home-library
horror
humor
humour
i-own
i-own-it
i-own-this
in-english
in-my-library
indonesian
inspirational
juvenile
juvenile-fiction
keepers
kids
kids-books
kindle
language
library
library-book
library-books
lit
literary
literary-fiction
literature
love
m-m
magic
manga
maybe
maybe-to-read
memoir
memoirs
middle-grade
military
mine
mm
modern
modern-fiction
music
must-read
my-books
my-favorites
my-library
mysteries
mystery
mystery-suspense
mystery-thriller
mythology
nature
need-to-buy
need-to-get
never-finished
non-fiction
nonfiction
nook
not-at-library
not-available-yet
not-owned
not-read
nothing-yet
novel
novels
on-hold
on-my-bookshelf
on-my-shelf
other
own
own---not-read
own-a-copy
own-but-not-read
own-it
own-to-read
owned
owned-books
owned-copy
paperback
paranormal
paranormal-romance
parenting
part-of-a-series
partially-read
personal-library
philosophy
photography
picture-book
picture-books
picturebooks
poetry
political
politics
print
psychology
public-library
queer
re-read
read-2008
read-2009
read-2010
read-2011
read-aloud
read-in-2007
read-in-2008
read-in-2009
read-in-2010
read-in-2011
read-more-than-once
realistic-fiction
recommended
reference
relationships
religion
religious
reread
research
reviewed
romance
romantic
school
sci-fi
sci-fi-fantasy
science
science-fiction
science-fiction-fantasy
scifi
scifi-fantasy
second-hand-bookshop-wishlist
self-help
series
sf
sf-fantasy
short-stories
signed
sociology
speculative-fiction
spiritual
spirituality
sports
stories
supernatural
suspense
tbr
teen
teen-fiction
textbooks
theology
theory
thriller
thrillers
to-acquire
to-buy
to-get
to-purchase
to-re-read
to-read-fiction
to-read-own
to-reread
to-review
travel
unfinished
unread
unsorted
urban-fantasy
vampires
want
want-to-buy
want-to-own
want-to-read
wanted
war
warehouse
we-own
western
wish-list
wishlist
women
writing
ya
ya-books
ya-fiction
ya-lit
young-adult
young-adult-fiction
youngadult
youth