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I'm in for 10. I'll be using my next-in-a-series list.

THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2018
Completed: 0/10

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Chetara wrote: "Count me in."

I'm aiming for 30 for 2018
See tracking @ Try Something Different 2018

I'm in for 15

There's some really good celebrity that have memoirs from the classic age of Hollywood to today's biggest stars, so there's some that I would like to read.



Completed: 7/15

1. Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs by National Geographic Society...Finished...1/12/18
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy...Finished...1/18/1/
3. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman...Finished...1/21/18
4.Arsenic and Old Books by Miranda James...Finished...1/23/18
5. Cress...Finished...1/26/18
6. Cat Playing Cupid...Finished...1/31/18
7. The Vegetarian...Finished...2/7/18
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I'm in but unsure how many yet... But I will say 5 for now to start off

Hello! Please sign me up for ten.

I'll go for 20 books, but I might increase if I still have time. I'll use an actual jar (or container) and pick them when I'm done with the previous book.

TBR Jar Challenge 2018
Duration: 1/1/18 - 12/31/18
Completed: 2/20

1. Going Down in Flames - 2/5/18
2. Magic Bites - 2/11/18
3. Love Letters to the Dead

I'll go for 25 in 2018.

Susy wrote: "Using my TBR-owned-for-a-long-time list (shelf now called to-read 2018) I’m in for 24 books (it’s actually 26 but 2 books on that shelf won’t count towards this challenge: one is a travel guide whi..."

Hi Kadijah, I'll be doing the Clear the Shelves Challenge instead of this one, so I will be able to spread the longer and shorter books over the year. Can you please take me of this list? Thx!

I'm going to join in with 20 books :) My goal for the year is to knock down my TBR pile a bit and this challenge is perfect for that! :)

Anne's TBR Challenge

Put me down for 20. I will come up with the titles later.
9/20 complete

Picking them as I go:
1. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Read Jan 2018
2. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 Read February 2018
3. The Cuban Affair Read February 2018
4. The Return of the King 2/24/2018
5. Red Rabbit 3/17/2018
6. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 4/17/2018
7. Victoria 5/3/2018
8. The Lightning Keeper 5/28/2018
9. The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House 8/5/2018

I'm definitely in this year too. Aiming at 10 and doing the traditional Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ TBR randomizer.

1. Neverwhere
2. Meningen med hela skiten
3. The Madman’s Daughter
4. Being Committed
5. Dr. Fell and the Playground of Doom
6. The Geek Feminist Revolution
7. Mary Poppins
8. Cooking Up Murder
9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10. Det krävs tusen vackra ord

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I'll do this one for 12.....and some really good books came up in my list!

1. Uncharted: Story for a Shipwright 2/23
2. The Nines 11/7
3. A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers 8/11
4. Journey to Sand Castle 10/19
5. The River's Memory 7/19
6. Excavation: A Memoir 9/16
7. Improvement 7/27
8. Amy and George 12/14
9. The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation 7/21
10. When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over 5/30
11. Pasta, Poppy Fields and Pearls 4/30
12. Broken Angel 9/09

Challenge complete!

I'm in for 35
1. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial: in His Adventure on Earth
2.Godplayer
3. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
4. Love in the Time of Cholera
5. The Cat Who Saw Red
6.Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
7. Can't Quit You, Baby
8. Number the Stars
9. Loves Music, Loves to Dance

10. The Cat Who Wasn't There
11. The Client
12. At Home in Mitford
13. Songs in Ordinary Time
14. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
15. Memoirs of a Geisha
16. The Locket
17. Girl with a Pearl Earring
18. The Thief Lord
19.Blessed Child

20. A Man Called Blessed
21. Pompeii
22. The Kite Runner
23. No Place Like Home
24. The Meaning of Night
25. The Company of the Dead
26.Ghost Cats of the South
27. If I Stay
28. Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
29.Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir. . . of Sorts

30.Murder And God's Redeeming Love
31.The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
32.Rooms
33.Who Buries the Dead
34.The Orphan Mother
35. Every Breath You Take

please count me in with 30 books :)

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Im in for 6! I will make a jar from books I own and never seem to get to and will pick from it as I go :) I put 23 book names in a cup and when I am completely unsure of what to read I am pulling one. These are all books I have owned in hard copy for far too long.
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on shelf since June 2011
on shelf since July 2011
On shelf since August 2012

I am in for 10, going to up this to 12 and pick one a month

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I'll give this a try, going for 12. I completed my 12 as of 30-July.

Using the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ randomizer, my list looks like this:
1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway, Ernest Finished 3-January
2. Mao: The Unknown Story, Chang, Jung Finished 24-January
3. Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin, #3), LaFevers, Robin - Finished 29-January
4. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Flagg, Fannie - Finished 14-February
5. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Snyder, Timothy Finished 16-February
6. Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Kagan, Robert Finished 5-April
7. Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, Norwich, John Julius Finished 30-April
8. Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, Bailey, Kenneth E. Finished 10-June
9. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Clark, Christopher Munro - finished 28-June
10. Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster, Grant, James - finished 9-July
11. The Ouroboros Cycle, Book Three: A Long-Awaited Treachery, Falksen, G.D. - finished 21-July
12. Great Lion of God, Caldwell, Taylor - finished 30-July

And, three designated alternates, just in case I just flat out can't stand one or more of the above:

1. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, Levine, Amy-Jill - finished 22-Sept-2018
2. The Sympathizer, Nguyen, Viet Thanh - finished 24-Nov-2018
3. The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century, Miller, Scott

I would love to join and did a random Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ selection. I will try to read 24 books from the random Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ selection and another 16 from books I have here on my shelves. So 40 books altogether.

The Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Random Selection picks are;
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1.Small Great Things
2. Wintersong
3. Fear the Drowning Deep
4.Rain Reign
5. The Geography of You and Me
6. Emma in the Night
7. Sloppy Firsts
8. The Wicked Girls
9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
10. The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
11. Gone
12. Crown of Three
13. Maybe Not
14. All the Light We Cannot See
15.Truth or Dare
16. Flawed
17. Orange: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
18. The Dark Days Club
19. The Names They Gave Us
20. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
21. Girl Out of Water
22. Ethereal
23. Too Late
24.Moon Chosen

TBR Jar List:
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1. Mad
2. A Court of Wings and Ruin FINISHED 7/30/18
3. Perfection
4. Red Rising
5. Linger
6. The Alchemists of Loom FINISHED 3/18/18
7. The Great Hunt
8. Model Misfit
9. The Raven Boys
10. When Dimple Met Rishi
11. Kisses from Hell
12. Royce Rolls
13. Forbidden
14. Beauty Queens
15. Cinder
16. Final Girls FINISHED 1/6/2018

Books Read:

Everyone is added. Welcome to the challenge.

I'm in for 10. I will post my jar later.

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CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

1. A Reliable Wife
2. The Sweet Shop Owner
3. Savvy
4. Nightfall
5. Fever
6. Fragile Edge: A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest
7. Breakfast at Tiffany's
8. Less Than Zero
9. Thirteen Reasons Why
10. Lifeguard

I'm in for 4!

Winkie
Three Weeks With My Brother
Mistaken Identity
Wildwood Road

Going in for 10 this year and will fill in as I go:
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I've had a TBR jar for a couple years. This will help me dig in. I'm in for 6 this year. I'll fill in as I go.

1. Ten White Geese by Gerbrand Bakker
2. The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas
3. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
4. The Angel Makers by Jessica Gregson
5. The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
6. The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo
7. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
8. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
10. One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
11. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
12. Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
13. Jackaby by William Ritter

I’m combining some of my personal challenges to fill the jar.

Please count me in for 36 books selected from my TBR folder:
� 8 of these are at the bottom of the TBR,
� 8 books I’ve own for more than 5 years,
� 6 selected from the longest books in the list
� 6 books from the shortest in the list
� 8 biographies/memoirs.

And because I like Doris� idea for alternatives, in case I can’t force myself to finish one or two books, I’ve chosen 4 alternatives.

I'm in for 20. I'll make the jar and the list when I get home in a few days.

5 books for the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Randomizer

1)To All the Boys I've Loved Before (Read)
2)By Your Side
3)Love & Gelato
4)The Heir (Read)
5)The Love That Split the World

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5 for TBR jar (first 5 books that i picked)
1)Girl in Pieces
2)The Forgetting
3)Replica
4)A List of Cages
5)Our Chemical Hearts

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Very exciting! I'd like to join for 30 books please - I'm going to combine Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge and my randomised Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ TBR list.

THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2018

Progress: 26/30 (Incomplete)

Random Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ TBR
Subprogress: 11/15

[Done] 1 - The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - read: 22 Nov
[Done] 2 - Warm Bodies - read: 28 Dec
[Done] 3 - Final Girls - read: 16 Jan
[Done] 4 - Court of Fives - read: 24 May
[Done] 5 - Carve the Mark - read: 15 Dec
[Done] 6 - The Alchemist - read: 5 Oct
7 - Salt to the Sea
[Done] 8 - Stranger Than Fanfiction - read: 1 May
9 - Black-Eyed Susans
10 - Lightning
11 - The Harder They Come
[Done] 12 - Written in Fire - read: 23 Dec
[Done] 13 - A Tragic Kind of Wonderful - read: 31 Dec
[Done] 14 - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - read: 20 Dec
[Done] 15 - All the Bright Places - read: 4 Aug


Subprogress: 15/15

1. A book published posthumously
2. A book of true crime
3. A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)
--- Ender's Game - sci fi
4. A comic written and illustrated by the same person
--- Drama
5. A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)
--- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - set in India
6. A book about nature
7. A western
8. A comic written or illustrated by a person of color
--- Detektif Conan vol. 91
9. A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
10. A romance novel by or about a person of color
11. A children’s classic published before 1980
--- Anne of Green Gables - published in 1908
12. A celebrity memoir
--- Brave
13. An Oprah Book Club selection
14. A book of social science
--- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
15. A one-sitting book
--- A surprise for dingo
16. The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series
--- The Outliers
17. A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
--- Gemina - by Amie Kaufman. Protagonist is Hanna Donnelly.
18. A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image
--- Rivers of London, Volume 4: Detective Stories by Titan Comics
19. A book of genre fiction in translation
--- The Scandal - translated by Neil Smith
20. A book with a cover you hate
--- - the cover is very cliched, and does not match the rest of the series I have.
21. A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author
--- A Quiet Place
22. An essay anthology
23. A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60
--- A Spool of Blue Thread
24. An assigned book you hated (or never finished)

I don't have any books in the "My Books" tab so I will make up my own list. Will need more time to do this than I have tonight.

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I'm in for 3 books

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I would like to join this challenge. I can pretend that I am actually making a dent in the books I want to read.

I am in for 8, please.

THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2018
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January 1 book
The Virtues of Oxygen

I'd like to join the challenge. I'm in for 12, please.

I will make my jar when I have a chance :)

As this is the first time I’m doing this, I’ll use the traditional randomizer (it seems simple enough). I have 28 books on my to-read list, a mix of fiction and non-fiction. But now that I started this challenge, I am sure the list will grow!
I will read at least 5 books from the list.
I will randomize again after each book I read.

1. Haaienkoorts
2. Homegoing
3. The Last Hours
4. Londen
5. The Woman in the Window

I'm in for 12 books :)

I would like to join this challenge with 12 books.
I will choose 6 books from my GR to read list and 6 from the books I own. Each book will be chosen just prior to reading to allow for new additions to each list.

4/12 read

6 books from the GR Randomizer
1. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez read 2/5/18
2. Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh read 2/8/18
3. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege read 2/15/18


6 books I own
1. The Book of Dog by Lark Benobi read 2/16/18

THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2018
Completed: 7/30

All of the books selected are featured on my TBR list. I own all of them and they're a mixture of physical books and e-books.

1. Red Sister by Mark Lawrence - 500 pages � COMPLETED: 7/1/18
2. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - 337 pages � COMPLETED: 19/1/18
3. Z-Minus I by Perrin Briar - 172 pages � COMPLETED: 16/1/18
4. The Gondola Maker by Laura Morelli - 298 pages
5. Vegas to Varanasi by Shelly Hickman - 235 pages
6. Qualify by Vera Nazarian - 600 pages
7. The Five Warriors by Angela J. Ford - 423 pages
8. The Leopard Unleashed by Elizabeth Chadwick - 376 pages
9. The Ice King by M.K. Hume - 576 pages
10. Cujo by Stephen King - 420 pages
11. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - 438 pages
12. Stop Talking, Start Doing: A Kick in the Pants in Six Parts by Shaa Wasmund - 181 pages
13. Through the Zombie Glass by Gena Showalter - 480 pages � COMPLETED: 17/2/18
14. The Nearness of You by Sareeta Domingo - 320 pages
15. Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan - 416 pages
16. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence - 314 pages � COMPLETED: 27/1/18
17. Worked Up by Tessa Bailey - 230 pages
18. This Love by Dani Atkins - 466 pages
19. The Year of Saying Yes by Hannah Doyle - 363 pages
20. Truth or Beard by Penny Reid - 382 pages
21. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - 438 pages
22. It by Stephen King - 1166 pages
23. Red Rising by Pierce Brown - 382 pages � COMPLETED: 5/2/18
24. Morning Star by Pierce Brown - 524 pages
25. A Song of War: A Novel of Troy by Kate Quinn - 444 pages
26. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne - 387 pages
27. Caraval by Stephanie Garber - 407 pages � COMPLETED: 14/1/17
28. The Flame Never Dies by Rachel Vincent - 343 pages
29. Vivian's List by Haleigh Lovell - 290 pages
30. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - 653 pages

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THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE

I'll go for 50 since this fits really well with what I was planning to do anyway. I'll update every time I've started one of the books.

Duration: 1 January to December 31, 2018
Completed: 0/50

1. The Book Thief (52/554)

Brianna wrote: "I didn't quite make my goal for 2017 so I'm going to downsize and aim for 6. I'll probably do a virtual jar - with tasks/specific books/prompts that are numbered and use random.org to pick for me.
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My first pick out of my TBR jar was: read a play!

I'll probably end up picking up William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back for this one.

I'm going to shoot for 10 this year. Added challenge, they need to be TBR from my already owned pile. I'll up date that list in my corner soon

I'm in for 20; however, I pulled from a list of 44. If I finish the 20, I'll try to knock some additional ones off that list as well. Here they are:

1) Before We Were Yours
2) Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
3) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
4) A Gentleman in Moscow
5) The Book of Negroes
6) The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
7) The Cilantro In Apple Pie
8) The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
9) Always and Forever, Lara Jean
10) Even this Page is White
11) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
12) One of Us Is Lying
13) Star Wars: Jedi Academy
14) The Vegetable Butcher: How to Select, Prep, Slice, Dice, and Masterfully Cook Vegetables from Artichokes to Zucchini
15) A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
16) Little Fires Everywhere
17) Every Ugly Word
18) The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
19) Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It
20) How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Completely Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition

I'm in for 10 books using the traditional method, and they are:


Into the Land of the Unicorns
Atomic Robo #1
I am the Messenger
Wildwood Dancing
Runaways, Vol 1, Pride and Joy
Captain Bligh and Mr Christian
Common Phrases and Where They Come From
Dragonflight
The Nixie's Song
Three Theban Plays

I just finished book number one on my list: Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Yay!

I would like to participate in this challenge please! There are a total of 24 book titles in the jar, filled with books sitting on my shelf at home that I've been wanting to read for a while, and we'll pick two of those per month! I can't wait to see the combinations~

Didn't quite manage to complete last year - waiting for the last one to reappear in the library.
I'm in for 5 using the traditional method

Finally got round to selecting from the 66 books scattered in piles around the bedroom. Entered on goodreads and randomised:

1 The Girls in the Garden read
2 Standing in Another Man's Grave
3 The Elephant Keeper
4 The Humans
5 The Alchemist's Secret

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I'm in for 10 books.

1. The Happiness Trap
2. Rainwater

Progress:2/36

I just finished The Circle !

completed: 1/30

I'm in for 10 (even though last year was surprisingly challenging).

1. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
2, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
3. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Lauren Hillenbrand
4. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
5. This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin
6. After You by Julie Buxbaum
7. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
8. The Book of Jane by Anne Dayton
9. Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
10. The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

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I`m going for the traditional randomizer option. I`m in for 6.
January 1st-December 31st, 2018
Progress:0/6
1. Naked in Death
2. The Blind Assassin
3. Fantasy Lover
4. The Wolf Within
5. The Island of Dr. Moreau
6. The Strain