Reading Randomizer 2022

 

The Reading Randomizer 2022 Challenge is sponsored on StoryGraph by texassizedreads, but it's easily adapted to GoodReads or any spread sheet that you might use to track your books. It's intended for folks who have obnoxiously large TBR piles (over 100 books)...do you think they had me in mind?

The prompts will help you randomly select 24 books (2 per month) from your TBR and work on whittling those piles down. Click on the link to see full details.

January Book 1: Generate a random number (1 - # of books on your TBR) and read the book that appears at that position on your TBR list. The Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories by Jacques Futurelle (1/16/22)

January Book 2: Sort TBR list by date (published, I'm guessing) in ascending order. Generate a random number and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Deathblow Hill by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1/21/22)

February Book 1: Sort TBR list by date (published, I'm guessing) in descending order. Generate a random number and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips (2/6/22)

February Book 2: Sort TBR list by author in ascending order. Generate a random number from 1-50 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Murder Begins at Home by Delano Ames (2/26/22)

March Book 1: Sort TBR list by author in ascending order. Generate a random number from 50-75 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The Mystery of the Talking Skull by Robert Arthur (3/15/22)

March Book 2: Sort TBR list by author in ascending order. Generate a random number from 75-100 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot by Robert Arthur (3/30/22)

April Book 1: Sort TBR list by author in ascending order. Generate a random number from 1-# of books on your TBR and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen (4/21/22)

April Book 2: Sort TBR list by author in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 1-50 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Always Lock Your Bedroom Door by Roy Windsor (4/10/22)

May Book 1: Sort TBR list by author in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 50-75 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Going Public by David Westheimer (5/16/22)

May Book 2: Sort TBR list by author in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 75-100 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The Corbin Necklace by Henry Kitchell Webster (5/26/22)

June Book 1: Sort TBR list by author in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 1-# of books on your TBR and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Murder Gone Minoan by Clyde B. Clason (6/17/22)

June Book 2: Sort TBR list by title in ascending order. Generate a random number from 1-25 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Alfred Hitchcock Presents A Month of Mystery as edited by Alfred Hitchcock (6/20/22)

July Book 1: Sort TBR list by title in ascending order. Generate a random number from 25-50 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous by Robert Arthur [ed] (7/22/22)

July Book 2: Sort TBR list by title in ascending order. Generate a random number from 50-75 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. And Left for Dead by Richard Lockridge (7/21/22)

August Book 1: Sort TBR list by title in ascending order. Generate a random number from 75-100 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The Bad Quarto by Jill Paton Walsh (8/10/22)

August Book 2: Sort TBR list by title in ascending order. Generate a random number from 1-# of books on your TBR and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Slow Dancing with the Angel of Death by Helen Chappell

September Book 1: Sort TBR list by title in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 1-25 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The World's Best 100 Detective Stories Vol. 9 by Eugene Thwing, ed (9/12/22)

September Book 2: Sort TBR list by title in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 25-50 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene (9/19/22)

October Book 1: Sort TBR list by title in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 50-75 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Welcome Death by Glyn Daniel (10/9/22)

October Book 2: Sort TBR list by title in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 75-100 and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Adventure in Outer Space by George E. Davie (10/10/22)

November Book 1: : Sort TBR list by title in reverse alphabetical order. Generate a random number from 1-# of books on your TBR and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Streaked with Crimson by Charles J. Dutton (11/12/22)

November Book 2: Sort TBR list by ISBN in ascending order. Generate a random number from 1-# of books on your TBR and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The King Is Dead by Ellery Queen (11/17/22)

December Book 1: Sort TBR list by ISBN in ascending order. Generate a random number from 1-50 of books on your TBR and read the book that appears in that position on your list. The Clue of the Velvet Mask by Carolyn Keene (12/12/22)

December Book 2: Sort TBR list by ISBN in ascending order. Generate a random number from 50-100 of books on your TBR and read the book that appears in that position on your list. Where Two Ways Met by Grace Livingston Hill (12/12/22)

Bonus: Read earliest added book on your list: Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge (since about 1977; my grandma sent it to me in a batch of books and I just never got around to reading it) [6/29/22]