Romance TBR Clean Out Part 7 of 8 - Taste Test

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21 participants (79 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

8 part challenge, if you complete all 8, you'll get at least 100 books off your TBR. 

Note: Books you did not finish ABSOLUTELY COUNT for these challenges, since cleaning up your TBR is the whole point! However books cannot be counted for multiple parts of the challenge. 

Part 7 - Taste test

Read the sample for 12 books on your TBR, and either finish the book or DNF to remove it from your TBR. 

Challenge Books

All books added
Negative Space by B.R. Yeager

Negative Space

B.R. Yeager

382 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction horror dark mysterious sad medium-paced
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett

The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

200 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction horror short stories adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Horrorstör

Grady Hendrix

248 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction horror thriller dark tense fast-paced
You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann

You Should Have Left

Daniel Kehlmann

128 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction contemporary horror thriller dark fast-paced
The Cipher by Kathe Koja

The Cipher

Kathe Koja

356 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror science fiction dark tense slow-paced
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

505 pages • first pub 1861 (editions)

fiction classics literary mysterious reflective slow-paced
Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini

Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba

Futures Past

Basma Ghalayini

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Rebound Guy by Hannah Jayne

Rebound Guy

Hannah Jayne

224 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

lighthearted medium-paced
No Strings Attached by Jiffy Kate

No Strings Attached

Jiffy Kate

190 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction contemporary romance sad medium-paced
Craving Flight by Tamsen Parker

Craving Flight

Bound by Ink

Tamsen Parker

182 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional medium-paced