Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Genre: Nonfiction

Nonfiction
Academic
Anthropology
Architecture
Art
Biography
Business
Christianity
Cookbooks
Crafts
Criticism
Design
Economics
Education
Environment
Food and Drink
Gardening
Health
History
Humanities
Labor
Law
Leadership
Marriage
Music
Parenting
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Reference
Religion
Science‎
Self Help
Social Issues
Social Science
Sociology
Spirituality
Sports and Games
Travel
True Story

The Next Picks (prompts)

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

1. Readers also enjoyed: Using one of your books, read from the "Readers also enjoyed" section.

2. Similar authors: Using one of your books, read from a similar author. On the author's page, click on the 'similar authors' link for a list of authors.

3. Object on cover: Using one of your books, read another book which cover has a similar specific object*. Object must be obvious so if it's something you're not sure of, that you have to ask someone for their opinion, it does not qualify.
*object
noun
a thing that you can see and touch and that is not alive

4. Best of: Using one of your books, read from a "Best of" list for the year/decade/century that book is published (this will depend on date of publication and availability of list)

5. Wacky Shelf: 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

Amy

Bea

Charity

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Christina's Book

Coralie

Dee

Elvenn

Jayme

Joanna

Joyce

Kristina Simon

Lagullande

Lauren

LaurLa

Lyn (Readinghearts)

Marina

Meg

Nat

Rebekah

Susan

Tawallah

Tien

Five shelves:
1 Music p4 The Woman in Me
2 Religion p1 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
3 Sociology p3 Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
4 Science p2 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
5 Environment p3 World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments


The Next Picks (prompts)

1. Readers also enjoyed: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
The Hurting Kind: Poems

2. Similar authors: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Dead Astronauts

3. Object on cover:
road - ✔️

4. Best of: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
2010 p3 - Bury Your Dead

5. Wacky Shelf: The Woman in Me✔️
woman p15 - My Name Is Lucy Barton

Three Shelves:

- Biography
- Psychology -> p9 Muchas vidas, muchos maestros (Many Lives, Many Masters)
- Science

Next Picks:

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- Object on cover: Sea Shell -> Una corona de rosas (A Wreath of Roses)
->
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Genre: Nonfiction

My Picks

1. Travel (p.1): Notes from a Small Island Read b>7/16/24

2. History (p.6): Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission Read b>3/27/24

3. Philosophy (p.1): Walden Read b>8/8/24


My Next Picks

1. Readers Also Enjoyed: (Notes from a Small Island)
A Year In Provence Read 8/16/24

2. Similar Authors: (Walden)
Kate Jacobs: The Friday Night Knitting Club Read 6/18/24

3. Object on Cover:

4. Best of:

5. Wacky Shelf: (Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission)
ghost: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (p.3)
The Book of Cold Cases Read 2/21/24

HELP!

For the shelf benders game: I am working on the Nonfiction genre.

Since I have so much nonfiction on my Lost shelf for next year, I was looking to cross-plan with this game.

I am trying to plan Staying Well With Guided Imagery: How to Harness the Power of Your Imagination for Health and Healing for the Self-Help shelf of this genre. However, I have been through 25 pages and can't find it listed even though it has Self-Help as its first MPG. AND GR will not let me go beyond p. 25.

Nor does the book page show any addition helps: lists that the book is on, a list of genres beyond the main page and thus no notes on how many listed it for self-help.

Can I use it for this game?

Three Shelves:

1. History: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
2. Science: The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 3/22
3. Social Issues: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Next Picks:

1. Best books of 2017: Gwendy's Button Box 8/30
2. Similar authors - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 4/5
3.

Nonfiction

✺ picked Feb 17 ✺

✓ 1. MY PICK Food and Drink (p. 2) ~ Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken Read: 4/23/24
➠ NEXT PICK (Wacky Shelf People) Wonder by R.J. Palacio (p. 6)

2. MY PICK Religion (p. 1) ~ The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
➠ NEXT PICK (Best of 2006) The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (p. 1)

3. MY PICK Psychology (p. 7) ~ Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
➠ NEXT PICK (Readers also enjoyed) You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Bea wrote: "HELP!

For the shelf benders game: I am working on the Nonfiction genre.

Since I have so much nonfiction on my Lost shelf for next year, I was looking to cross-plan with this game.

I am trying to..."

Sorry, Bea, there's barely any shelvers for this book so it probably won't fit on anything... can only work with 25 pages per shelves. Should've thought of this earlier on, sorry

https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Read: 0/10 books as at 01/01

Your Picks
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2.
3.
4.
5.

The Next Picks (prompts)
1. Readers also enjoyed:

2. Similar authors:

3. Object on cover:

4. "Best of"

5. Wacky Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/

My Picks
1. Art p. 3 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession - Completed 1/15/24
2. True Story p. 10 Shout - Completed 3/11/24
3. Environment p. 5 Damnation Spring - Completed 4/25/24
4. Biography p. 18 Somebody's Daughter - Completed 4/17/24
5. Social Issues p. 13 Burned - Completed 1/10/24

The Next Picks (prompts)
1. Readers also enjoyed for Damnation Spring
Once There Were Wolves - Completed 6/21/24

2. Similar authors to Somebody's Daughter
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano - Completed 3/8/24

3. Object on cover: <--Leaf--> - Completed 5/14/24

4. "Best of 2006" for Burned published that year
Blindsight p. 1

5. Wacky Shelf for The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Shelf: Thief p. 12 Three-Edged Sword - Completed 4/30/24

Three Shelves

My Picks
1. Philosophy p13
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Read Sept 4
2. Travel p7
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
3. Science p5
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong read March 26

Next Picks
2. Similar authors
from Paul A. Offit
Wild Fire read June 17

4. Readers also enjoyed - using Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites

5. Wacky shelf
pleasures p3 Luck in the Shadows

Genre: Nonfiction

My Picks

1. Academic (p. 3): The Symposium
2. Psychology (p. 1): Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
3. Travel (p. 5): The Lost Heart of Asia

Next picks

1. Readers also enjoyed (The Symposium):
The Iliad
2. Wacky shelf (Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams):
sleep (p. 1): Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night
3. Similar authors (The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron):
Erika Fatland - Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

Genre: Nonfiction
Read: 6/6 - Complete 5/15/24

My picks:
✅ 1. Nonfiction (p. 12) - Poverty, by America
✅ 2. Biography (p. 5) - Finding Me
✅ 3. Science (p. 2) - The Soul of an Octopus

Next picks:
✅ 1. Wacky shelf: Poverty --> (p. 12) Heavy - 1/28/24
✅ 2. Readers also enjoyed --> Hello Beautiful
✅ 3. Best of 2015 - Say My Name - 4/3/24

Genre Nonfiction

My picks
1 History : pg 10 : The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
2 Science pg 5 : The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses by Peter Brannen
3 True Story pg 9: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

Next picks
1
2
3

Genre: Nonfiction

COMPLETED WITH THREE PICKS:

My Picks
✔ ✔1 Politics (p. 3Poverty, By America - fin 3/25
✔ ✔2-Religion (p. 4) The Book of Longings - fin 6/17
✔ ✔3-Biography (p. 1): Becoming - fin 6/10

The Next Picks (prompts)
✔ 1. Wacky Shelf: Poverty, By America
shelf: poverty (p. 12) Heavy - fin 6/2
✔ 2. Readers also enjoyed The Book of Longings
Our Missing Hearts - fin 4/24
✔ 3. Similar authors: Becoming
Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter - fin 6/7

STILL TO COMPLETE FOR FIVE:

My Picks
★1-History (p. 7): March (March #3)
✔2-Nonfiction (p. 10): They Called Us Enemy

The Next Picks (prompts)
3. Object on cover: person
✔ - fin 1/18
★ 4. Best of: They Called Us Enemy
2019, p. 1:King of Scars

Genre: NONFICTION
# Reading: 3 + 3 (Listing 5+5 Just in Case)

My Picks:

1. Sociology: p1 - Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
NEXT PICK (Wacky Shelf): The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

2. Marriage: p2 - Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
NEXT PICK (Object on Cover: House): Other People's Houses by Abbi Waxman

3. Business: p1 - Start with Why by Simon Sinek
NEXT PICK (Also Enjoyed): The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

4. Psychology: p1 - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
NEXT PICK (Best of 2012): p2 - The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

5. Humanities: p1 - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie READ 01/05
NEXT PICK ( Similar Author ): Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood


All My Genres:

CULTURAL
FANTASY
HISTORICAL
HORROR
HUMOR
LITERATURE
MYSTERY
NONFICTION
ROMANCE
SCIENCE FICTION
SEQUENTIAL ART
THRILLER

NON-FICTION
Shelves
1.PSYCHOLOGY- pg 1 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
2. CRAFTS- pg 3 Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop
3. BIOGRAPHY pg 3 - Stories I Only Tell My Friends

Pick 3 tasks
1. Readers also enjoyed: Using one of your books, read from the "Readers also enjoyed" section.
2. Similar authors: Using one of your books, read from a similar author. On the author's page, click on the 'similar authors' link for a list of authors.
3. Object on cover: Using one of your books, read another book which cover has a similar specific object*. Object must be obvious so if it's something you're not sure of, that you have to ask someone for their opinion, it does not qualify.
*object
noun
a thing that you can see and touch and that is not alive
4. Best of: Using one of your books, read from a "Best of" list for the year/decade/century that book is published (this will depend on date of publication and availability of list)
5. Wacky Shelf: 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

Shelf Bender🚦Genre: Nonfiction
January - December 2024

My Shelf Bender Nonfiction Genre (msg 20)

Shelf Picks



✅The Library Book🚦nonfiction page 2🚦01.28 ★★★★
✅Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake🚦nonfiction page 14🚦03.10 ★★★
✅Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back🚦spirituality page 3🚦02.07 ★★★★

Next Picks



✅3. Object on cover
🚥book used: The Library Book🚦object: flame
🚥Kitty Raises Hell🚦04.10 ★★★★

✅4. Best of
🚥book used: Heaven is for Real🚦list: list: #437 Best Books of 2011
🚥Unclaimed🚦05.26 ★★★★

5. Wacky Shelf
🚥book used: Catch Me If You Can🚦word: fake page 3
🚥Tempting the Player

Shelves:

1
2
3

The Next Picks

I was just looking at the Music shelf here and noticed that a preponderance of the books on the list are fiction instead of non-fiction. Do they still count here, or does it have to be a non-fiction book?

Lyn (Readinghearts) wrote: "I was just looking at the Music shelf here and noticed that a preponderance of the books on the list are fiction instead of non-fiction. Do they still count here, or does it have to be a non-fictio..."

Lyn, I think this is an advantage of the definition in terms of shelves (which maybe makes up in part for our not being able to use books with smaller numbers of readers?) - if people shelved it there, it's eligible. As an even broader example, I'm going to be reading a book for Humor that's been shelved in "Stand-Up" though it has nothing at all to do with comedy. It's about standing up for yourself or a cause.

10/10 books as at 09/11

Your Picks
1. anthropology (p5) - Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe -Read 01/14
2. politics (p19) - Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder -Read 02/01
3. travel (p13) - Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist (pub 2017) -Read 02/09
4. environment (p18) - The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott -Read 05/30
5. history (p13) - Femina by Janina Ramírez -Read 06/11

The Next Picks (prompts)
1. Readers also enjoyed: Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe >> Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton -Read 07/23

2. Similar authors: Janina Ramírez --> Lee Mi-ye - DallerGut Dream Department Store -Read 07/08

3. Object on cover:
<< chair >>
Game of Mirrors (Commissario Montalbano #18 by Andrea Camilleri -Read 06/11

4. "Best of"
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott >>> Best of January 2020
Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau -Read 09/11

5. Wacky Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/
Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist
Two - The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi -Read 02/24

Biography
1. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

Non-fiction

1. History (pg 12) The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

2. Biography (pg 4) The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

3. Law (pg. 3) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann



1. Wacky Shelf: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
Librarians The Midnight Library

2. Best of 2020 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord by Emma Lord

3. Also enjoyed Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Susan wrote: "Lyn, I think this is an advantage of the definition in terms of shelves (which maybe makes up in part for our not being able to use books with smaller numbers of readers?) - if people shelved it there, it's eligible. ."

Thanks Lyn and Susan. This answered a question that I had as well.

Genre: Non-Fiction
6/6

My Picks:
✔︎ 1. Music: Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover (p.2)
Read: February 22, 2024
Rating: 1 Star

✔︎ 2. Marriage: A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught (p.10)
Read: March 26, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 3. True Story: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (p.1)
Read: February 12, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

Next Picks
✔︎ 1. Similar Authors (Judith McNaught): Honor's Splendour by Julie Garwood
Read: April 8, 2024
Rating: 3.5 Stars

✔︎ 2. Best of 2014 (Colleen Hoover): Haunted by Kay Hooper (p.23)
Read: January 18, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 3. Wacky Shelf (David Grann) - FBI: Cold Deceit by Toni Anderson (p.16)
Read: May 20, 2024
Rating: 4 Stars

My Genres (borrowed from Christina's Book)

Cultural
Fantasy
Historical
Horror
Humor
Literature
Mystery
Non-Fiction
Romance
Science Fiction
Sequential Art
Thriller

I really need to see if any of the LOST non-fiction books that I am reading will fit here. - NOPE! To few shelvings.

slowly fleshing out my genres :)

here are my non-fiction books:

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow (psychology, pg1) Finished - 2/23/24
- NEXT (similar author) - Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die- Chip Heath is a similar author as Daniel Kahneman (as of Feb 8, 2024)

2. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (anthropology, pg3)
- NEXT (similar books) - The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (as of Feb 8, 2024)

3. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (travel, pg4)
- NEXT (item on cover - barbed wire) - Velvet Cruelty

4. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (history, pg2)
- NEXT (best of...2019) - A Single Thread (pg2)

5. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (environment, pg2)
- NEXT (wacky shelf - heat) - Knot Guaranteed (pg1)

Joanna wrote: "Genre: Nonfiction

Joanna, How did you like Heavy? I've definitely going to read Poverty, so I'm wondering about choosing Heavy as a wacky shelf next pick for it.

I've been rethinking my choices above (message 17). I'm just not sure I'm up for reading 400+ pages in The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. It's really helped me to look at the choices the rest of you have made. There are some good options there.

But I've discovered how tough it is to make changes in this particular challenge. If I replace that book, I also have to replace the Next Pick book that goes with it. Which raises a question I hadn't thought of before: Can the word for Wacky Shelf be in the subtitle of the "My Pick" book rather than the main part of the title?

Susan wrote: "I've been rethinking my choices above (message 17). I'm just not sure I'm up for reading 400+ pages in The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. It's..."

this would be one of those books i draw out and read like a chapter a day - maybe that is how you could get through it

Susan wrote: "Can the word for Wacky Shelf be in the subtitle of the "My Pick" book rather than the main part of the title?"

I've used FBI which is in the subtitle of the book I chose. I just assumed it would be OK because it is part of the Goodreads title. Hopefully its OK. Crossing fingers.

Dee wrote: "this would be one of those books i draw out and read like a chapter a day - maybe that is how you could get through it"

I've requested it from the library, and will give the one-chapter-a-day idea a shot. But meanwhile, I found that I liked the idea of a book Joanna chose. So I might switch to that.

Your Picks
1. Non-Fiction - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
2. Academic - The Origin of Species
3. Anthropology - The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
4. Architecture - Loving Frank - Read 8/31/2024
5. Art - Girl with a Pearl Earring

The Next Picks (prompts)
1. Readers also enjoyed: A Brief History of Time - Read 9/30/24

2. Similar authors: The Turn of the Screw

3. Object on cover: Next

4. "Best of" Popular NonFiction Anthropology Books - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

5. Wacky Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/ - Devil in the Deadline Read 2/18/24

Non-Fiction
1. Non Fiction

2. Biography - Spare pg 2
Next Pick - similar books I'm Glad My Mom Died

3.Economics
4.Humanities
5. Politics
6 psychology
7. Religion
8 Social Issues
9. Social Science
10. Socialogy
11. Spirituality
12. Travel

Susan wrote: "Joanna wrote: "Genre: Nonfiction

Joanna, How did you like Heavy? I've definitely going to read Poverty, so I'm wondering about choosing Heavy as a wacky shelf next pick for it."

Just saw this...I really liked Heavy. Way more than I expected to actually.