Choosing My Next Read | Scavenger Hunt Decides My TBR

[@iamgroot2495]

"I was going for it but I got distracted by joy" best sentence I've heard someone say this year 💜

[@jacsYT]

video series idea: read books with the same word in the title and the same genre, same as just did horror books with the word house 😂

[@moonbook12]

This idea if buzz world readathon

[@rainshadow605]

It's always a fun time hanging out with you, whether you like the books or not.

[@SallaKanerva]

When you mentioned you were doing this again I went back to rewatch your previous hunt and tried to do my own and it went worse than you could possibly imagine 😂 for the prompt about counting letters in book titles I landed on a book with THIRTY-EIGHT LETTERS. So you can imagine how fun that was. And for the one about finding a name on a page and finding an author with that name I landed on a fantasy book with only fully made-up names. And I did the final word search legit like 25 times and did not find a SINGLE WORD that existed in a book title 💀 safe to say I did not find a book to read lmao.

[@ComeUndun.]

😂 what an adventure.

[@beckyduff]

oh wow!

[@hannahjosmithheart]

I’m sorry that you didn’t love the books! I do think it would be really interesting to see the stats on how many of your 10 out of 10 first chapters end up as 5⭐️ or just their range of rating in general!

[@YW2324]

Ya you can't always find a great read every time 😊

[@julies_reading]

Hi I'm a Julie! My next reading vlog is reading from authors that have my name and I've had to expand it to Julias as well because there are so few of us lol

[@BooksandLala]

Omg I love it!!

[@blandface9957]

You just convinced me to subscribe to you 🙏 I'm too curious about how your vlog turns out

[@nicolecarta5983]

OMG- you HAVE to do more of these Kayla. I scavenged right alongside you today and had a BLAST! I'm addicted to this lol

[@espionagecommitment3440]

It was a lot of fun going through my shelves! 1. Favorite book of the year: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 2. "Arthur" in acknowledgements: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler 3. A man on the cover: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury 4. Word "one" found: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 5. Same color scheme on cover: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 6. 376 pages: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill 7. "Martin" found on random page: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin 8. 14 letters in title: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 9. Similar cover: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 10. "There" found randomly: There There by Tommy Orange

[@jacforswear18]

That thick necklace would look so nice on its own as a statement piece that is still subtle!

[@bobbinwithbrittany]

Tripping over the table book haha! The stars really had to align for that. Maybe in good fortune for the local beet farmer! 👩‍🌾 ✨

[@everythinglit9099]

This is so fun! If you want an excuse to read some of the new books you just bought there's a readathon the last two weeks of June called New Book Knockout 😎💖

[@heabooktubes]

I kinda love the thick, layered necklace look with the casual tee. ♥️

[@WandasBestLife]

So much fun to watch and participate in 😊 1. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano ❤ 2. Hendrix - so The Final Book Support Group by Grady Hendrix 3. Chair on cover so... The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kid 4. "Brother" - Brother by Ania Ahlborn 5. 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Bird Box by Josh Malerman 6. 262 pages - Crispin : The Cross of Lead by Avi 7. After lots of new pages due to the unusual character names I landed on John - A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving 8. 19 letters!!! So difficult! Robopocalypse : A Novel by Daniel Wilson (written on the spine so that's what I went with.) 9. Similar cover - Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor (A perfect cover match!!!) 10. "Of"!!! So many choices 😮 I'm thinking about picking one of my big book or intimidating reads. A Column of Fire by Ken Follett or way outside my comfort zone - an adult fantasy- The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty.

[@Emilywilson10222]

Go with Amina!! Such a great read!

[@lanej.6458]

Woo I love these! 😌 I’m barely awake post nap so my own hunt is going to have to wait a second haha. 😅

[@BooksandLala]

🤗🤗🤗

[@andreabootsma8478]

In a moment of pure drama I was watching this video during a thunder storm and the power flicked and my tv turned out right at the moment Kayla said "ready" and pointed at the book my tv turned off. I had to wait a moment and see if that was a dramatic editing thing or just the tech malfunctioning - what spontaneous fun!

[@BooksandLala]

😅😅😅

[@shannon7608]

I love the look of the thick gold necklace with your hair color. Its giving book goddess.

[@notaraventoolate]

Enjoyed the vlog, as always! You don’t feel the need to apologize for sharing about other parts of your life and family :) it’s comforting and fun to hear you talk

[@alaska7086]

Favourite book: Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason 1. Comfort me With Apples by *Catherynne* M. Valente 2. The *Woman* in the Window by A.J. Finn 3. *My* Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 4. Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (I only have one 5 star/favourite!) 5. Paper Towns by John Green 6. Maus by Art *Spiegelman* 7. Circe by Madeline Miller (close enough) 8. Ariadne by Jennifer Saint 9. Mrs *Death* Misses *Death* by Salena Godden

[@natalieharroch-harper7247]

Flowers for face - haunting of alejandra!

[@Elix90]

I love this video concept and am very happy that it's apparently an annual thing! My hunt went as follows: I'll Give You the Sun - gave me Carol (in the dedication, my edition didn't have acknowledgements) Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt - gave me (from my edition of the cover) Here's Looking at You - I had to pick "the" The Gracekeepers - same blue-ish cover The Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna Lejonhjärta) - at 228 pages Lord of Flies - (I didn't have either Roger or Jack, but I went for a John) Lilla Stjärna (Little Star) by John Ajvide Lindquist - 12 letters American Gods - My edition is red with a tree on the cover The Magician King - after six tries (including, "some" "vibrations" and "plain") in ended up on "space" - The Space Between the Stars by Anne Corlette!!

[@tosh_leef]

Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles -> Kate My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell -> Woman Woman First: First Woman by Selina Meyer -> Don't Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones -> Red & Black The Final Revival of Opal & Nev -> 368 pgs The Fishermen and the Dragon by Kirk W. Johnson -> David Status and Culture by David W. Marx -> 16 letters Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman -> two men Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart -> Last The Last Word by Taylor Adams

[@booksaftercollege6714]

- Doughnut Econmics - The Noonday Demon - A Farewell to Arms - A Court of Silver Flames - Dark Age (had to flip through so many pages here to find a non ancient greek name) - Parable of the Sower - Gathering Darkness - The Assasin's Blade - HER Soul for Revenge

[@astarreads4214]

This is fun :) - Fool’s Errand by Robin Hobb - doesn’t have acknowledgements…so I’ll go with Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse - First name was Elsa (definitely no Elsas) second one I saw was Rose, so I am going with Camp by Lev AC Rosen - Stories of Trees, Woods and the Forest edited by Fiona Stafford - What Girls Learn by Karin Cook - Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb - Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon Sanderson - A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin - Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - It Happened ONE Summer by Tessa Bailey.

[@sh36]

Love the scavenger hunt! You crafted such great prompts. I had to give it a go myself: Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins -> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams -> Stargrave by Joseph A. McCullough -> The Last Duel by Eric Jager -> Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb -> Sojourn by R.A. Salvatore -> Smashed by Junji Ito -> Doomed Queens by Kris Waldherr -> The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

[@shaundarae4507]

From Autumn to Ashes is an old love that I started listening to again ❤

[@BooksandLala]

Yessss I *just* added Sugar Wolf and Streamline back into my daily playlist and it brings me such joy !!

[@joytsai8050]

Loved this, Lala! I was able to go through the entire hunt digitally. Bunny > (Ken) Pillars of the Earth by Ken Fellett > (window) The Woman in the Window > (open) Open Water > The Fires of Vengeance > Middlegame > (Roger) Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson > Einstein's Dreams > A Deadly Education > (people) People We Meet on Vacation

[@awildernessofbooks]

1. The Collected Regrets of Clover 2. The Lake House by Kate Morton 3. In The Shadow Garden 4. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone 5. I Miss You When I Blink 6. The Golden Spoon 7. The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah 8. One True Loves 9. Live and Let Chai 10. Final book: The Secret Book of Flora Lea!

[@eliotopian]

the way you described house of cotton makes me glad I put it back three times on shopping trips

[@FromDebttoDreams]

I had to stop everything I was doing in my work morning to do this with you! Here's my journey: 1-Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree took me to.... 2- Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo...which took me to... 3- The Girl Who Smile Beads by Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil - which took me too.... 4- One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf - which took me to.... 5 - The House in the Cerulean Sean by TJ Klune - which took me to.... 6- Knit One Pearl One by Gil McNeil - which took me to.... 7- The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin - which took me to... 8- Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater - which took me to... 9- The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater - which took me to.... 10- Like No Other by Una LaMarche! I'm currently reading Finlay Donovan is Killing It, and I tried really hard to end there. But I don't think I'm going to read Like No Other right now, but this was super fun!

[@musicandloveismylive]

This was my journey:P We will see if I will actually read this book soon-ish. Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo How to Make Friends with the Dark - Kathleen Glasgow The Sun is also a Star - Nicola Yoon (her) Eliza and her Monsters - Francesca Zappia The Land of Stories: the Wishing spell - Chris Colfer Me, my Dad and the End of the Rainbow - Benjamin Dean (Dean) The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta Blue Lily Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater Felix Ever After - Kacen Callender What - feet (hehehe) - concentrate - so So this is Ever After - F.T. Lukens

[@janelbuckingham6292]

I had fun playing along! Fav book in 2023: The Bitter Twins by J Williams Name in acknowledgements: Frankie … Frank Herbert, Dune The cover has sand … Empire of Sand by T Suri P50 ln 5 has “smoke” … Hall of Smoke by H Long Same colors as Black Sun by R Roanhorse Same page count as The Hate U Give by A Thomas Flipped to first name: Lisa… Lisa Jewel, None of This is True Title with 16 letters: The Curse of Saints by K Dramis Similar cover: Kingdom of Souls by R Barronk Select a word: “tongue” … (really?) … oh heck ya! I just picked up The Blacktongue Thief by C buehlman a couple of months ago!

[@ramen8760]

* Favourite Book jar of hearts: alice * Alice feeny Daisy darker:home on cover * Home before dark: a (it was a short line and I didn’t own a book with any of the other words lol) * A good marriage: same colours as the island * The island: 369 pages (same as the house across the lake) * Katherine: no one will miss her by kat (katherine) rosenfield * 16 letters: The last time I lied * Similar cover: things we do in the dark * Have: Never Have I ever by Joshilyn Jackson I’m gonna choose to ignore that because I don’t wanna read it😃. This was super fun!

[@BooksandLala]

I haaaated that book, but I'm so happy you played along 🙊💕

[@ramen8760]

@@BooksandLala 😂I remember watching you read it and being so sad when u hated it lmfao. I think the butcher by that author has much more mass appeal (I feel like everyone loves it including me). Jar of hearts is decently controversial but personally I loved it. Plus it’s fun to support a Canadian author since I live in Vancouver!

[@ztoa9759]

What fun! Here’s my adventure: 1. Iron widow -> Rebecca 2. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse -> mouth 3. Death in the Mouth: Original Horror by People of Color -> dark 4. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein -> pink 5. The Future of Another Timeline -> 340 pages 6. Wild Beauty -> Dahlia 7. It’s a Whole Spiel (Dahlia Adler’s a contributor, it’s the best I could do) -> 14 8. Catherine House -> blue/purple with abstract floral motifs 9. Sorrowland -> of 10. A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions! - Z

[@kdonaldson7308]

Great video - I ended up with Triflers Need Not Apply (Need) being the word. I got there via I’m glad my mom died, Less, The good neighbours, Small things like these, Under the whispering door, Hamnet, Frankenstein, The Secretary, What Lies Between Us.

[@rachelsydd]

#1 Favourite book (so far this year): A River Enchanted --> Elizabeth #2 The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert --> Bones on cover #3 The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller --> Name #4 The Name of the Wind --> Blue and black swirling #5 The Raven Boys --> 409 pages #6 The Scorpio Races --> George #7 A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin --> 14 letters #8 Once Upon A River --> River with plants around it #9 A River Enchanted (Too perfect not pick, sorry if it's cheating!) -- > garden #10 In A Garden Burning Gold! ☺

[@kirbur]

This was so much fun to follow along with! My books were - The Mask of Mirrors by MA Carrick- The first name I saw was Kyle and I couldn't find anything but the next name was Emily - Happy Place by Emily Henry - people swimming on the cover - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry - pg 50 line 5 is "What's you problem with it? It's a great place to grow up." - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah - Orange cover with mountains - Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly - 384 pages - The Fool, The Lovers, The Devil by Riley Quinn - 24 letters in title (💀) - The Priory of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - Colorful dragon cover - A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon - The first word I saw was Love. All of that work to find a book with the word love in the title, I have so many options lol. I might pick one of these next: - The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren - A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young - The Love Wager by Lynn Painter

[@katecollins2471]

Obviously I don’t know your taste but the true love experiment was a 5 for me!!

[@pennyspreferences561]

1. Furiously Happy - Rory 2. Wilder Girls by Rory Power- Eye 3. The Bluest Eye- Love 4. Eat, Pray, Love- 5. The Personal Librarian 6. Our Crooked Hearts- Dana 7. Dana Schwartz Anatomy of a Love Story-17 8. Forgotten Citizens 9. Secret Garden- gone I will be reading Local Gone Missing

[@racquelmp4783]

started with Love from A to Z and ended up with The Three-Body Problem, passed by books such as peter pan, Mistborn hahaha it was fun to follow along

[@lauren_elizabethc]

Your hair is so stunning 🤩

[@Erin-rp3sy]

I’m a new book tube community member as I’ve been getting more and more into reading and I love your channel! I have been binging older videos and taking so many recommendations from you! We have such similar taste

[@BooksandLala]

Hey thanks so much for being here !! 🤗💕

[@elizalovestoread]

what a fun video concept 😄 so excited to enjoy this while i eat my dinner 💗

[@calamitywindpetal]

This was so fun! This is my first time doing one of the Scavenger hunt tbrs, and I don't have a huge physical library so I did a little stretching, but I ended up getting there! 1. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (I have many favorite books, that one was the closest) 2. Christopher, so I grabbed Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 3. London on the cover, but I stretched it and looked for a city. I got the City of Thirst by Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis 4. Real, but I stretched it a bit and grabbed Really Truly Ruthie by Valerie Tripp 5. Awkward by Svletana Chmakova because the two main characters are wearing pink and green on the cover, just like on Really Truly Ruthie. 6. 224 pages, the same as the Clueless Girl's Guide to being a Genius by Janice Repka 7. The first two names on the page were Miss Snipal and Mr. DeGuy, neither of which I had. But using the third name, Adam, I got to Sierra Summer from the Annette series, illustrated by Adam Szwejkowski 8. Sierra Summer is twelve letters, so is Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas 9. The cover has two people facing away from each other looking kinda scared with someone spooky in the background, and so does the cover for Iron Tide Rising 10. I pointed at the word Water, so the book from my physical tbr I'll be reading is Water Song by Suzanne Weyn!

[@sweeteliz]

This was SO fun! I followed along via my Kindle and Goodreads ... just lost my text trail by clicking the wrong darn key. I went from Demon Copperhead ... landed on the final book: The Sleeping Car Porter. (word: "sleep").

[@astellus]

When I saw you pull Wrong Place, Wrong Time I got super excited because I'm currently half way through the audiobook and am really enjoying it!

[@nicoleroles2018]

Love and other words- lauren Christina lauren- soulmate equation(heart) Every heart a doorway- one One italian summer- orange Hacienda- 336 without acknowledgments Such sharp teeth- scarlette Scarlett st clair- a touch of darkness (16) The river has teeth- once upon a river(story) Ghost story by Peter Straub

[@george-vk8ke]

i always love the scavenger hunt!!! it's always so entertaining to sort of kind of follow along with YOUR prompts (because i'm too lazy to get up and look at my books, i just do the thought experiment of like 'hm i probably also have a 16 letter title somewhere')

[@bihter3201]

I wasn’t expecting the vlog portion i am so happy

[@chelseakerns7058]

-Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia -John Dies at the End by David Wong -Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez -Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman & Caroline Tung Richmond -Pet by Akwaeke Emezi -Tex by S.E. Hinton -Sadie by Courtney Summers -Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson -Jackal by Erin E. Adams The word I got was "shadow". I have a few options but I think I want to choose Our Shadows Have Claws edited by Yamile Saied Mendez & Amparo Ortiz

[@stefanienordstrom6750]

Well that was a fun time! 1. Fav of Year Fahrenheit 451 had no acknowledgements, Fav ever A Tale of Two Cities, the edition editor had acknowledged Ian 2. Atonement by Ian McEwan movie edition had 3 people on cover 3. Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend accept, open, arms, real 4. Real Murders by Charlene Harris dark blue 5. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray 549 6. Scarlet Feather by Mauve Binchy Kenneth, Sara, Sally, Simon, Maude 7. Early Candlelight by Maude Hart Lovelace 16 8. The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb window, doors, wind, winter 9. The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan every TBR: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Funny enough Lauren Graham's Talking as Fast as I Can ALSO came up on my word search for 'every' but I already read that one!

[@dlindapearson4575]

Lol this was fun!! Will attempt to read The Ivory Key at some point🥴

[@louise5493]

Ninth House➡️AMY For Her Consideration-AMY Spalding➡️Her Body & Other Parties “an island off the coast of Georgia. We drifted in water as warm as”➡️ Warm Up by V.E Schwab (gold/red/black) House of Hunger(304pgs)➡️ Half Baked Murder (Chloe) Chloe Liese- Always Only You(13)➡️ The Spite House House on cover➡️ The House in the Cerulean Sea My bf picked out the words ‘Look’ and ‘Her’ and I’ve chosen Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward & The End Of Her by Shari Lapena! This was so much fun and took longer than I expected, highlighting even more the amount of effort you put into your content!🥹 Thank you for the fun TBR challenge!🩷

[@seaskies1502]

Ended up with The, sooo, just picked the first one I saw which was The Lost Apothecary. Looks like that's next for me !

[@FaeryLaume]

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - the name White The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White - light and shadows on the cover The Library of Light and Shadow by M. J. Rose - the word "the" The Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies by Heather Forest - colors of cover were primarily purple and green with bits of blue and gold Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Bloomsbury paperback edition) - 317 pages The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro - the name Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn - 16 letters in the title The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd - cover has a shadowy man with a top hat walking away from the viewer What the Devil Knows by C. S. Harris - the word "on" From my summer TBR pile - People we Meet ON Vacation by Emily Henry. Yay!

[@heathersbooks816]

I played along with you and I got: Tress of the Emerald Sea (Emily) Emily Henry - Happy Place (lake) The House Across the Lake (is) Who Is Maud Dixon? (Blue with gold) The Will of the Many (630 pages) The Sword of Kaigen (Robin) Robin Hobb - Ship of Magic (11 letters) Fevered Star (black & gold with a face) Black Sun (enchanting) I didn’t have a book with enchanting, so I’m reading Enchanted Hacienda instead.

[@BrebearMckae]

I love your energy in this video💕😝 And you gasping after every word you got 🤣

[@nessalossehelim5026]

Ohh I've wanted to do one of these for a while! Here we go: 1) Alone in Space - Tillie Walden (no acknowledgements) 1) Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers (Anne Perry) 2) Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories - Sarah Perry (House) 3) The House of One Hundred Clocks - A.M. Howell (The book's been a big help since Mr Westcott's cook left to take up a new position.) 4) Book Love - Debbie Tung (white) 5) Little - Edward Carey (464 pages) 6) Horizons - James Poskett (Hantaro Nagaoka/ Tanakadate Aikitsu/Joseph John Thomson) 7) The Natural History Museum - John C. Thackray (23 letters) 8) The Signature of all Things - Elizabeth Gilbert (woman in a pink dress surrounded by plants) 9) Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen (wire, watching, door, hold, here, space) 10) Empty Smiles (Small Spaces series) - Katherine Arden The paperback for this book is a pre-order, will read it as soon as it gets here! This took me so much longer than expected😂 Good times!

[@Literary_Liz]

Bable - Peng Shepherd Cartographers - Books The Librarian of Burned Books - light The Light of Paris - purple Ink Blood Sister Scribe - 416 pages Wrong Place Wrong Time - Jen The Invited by Jennifer McMahon Migrations - light blue cover with ice Winter of the World - about Reading: The Truth About Melody Brown

[@dobetterwithchristian4472]

This concept was fun! I wish you had enjoyed the books better, but I loved watching you choose.

[@aerynsun8273]

1. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 2. All Our Hidden Gifts - Caroline O’Donoghue 3. Check, Please! - Ngozi Ukazu 4. Cheer Up! - Frazier, Wise, & Jupiter 5. Blood Stain Vol 1 - Linda Šejić 6. The Unholy Cause - Joe Schreiber 7. In Deeper Waters - FT Lukens 8. So This Is Ever After - FT Lukens 9. You Brought Me the Ocean - Alex Sanchez This was so much fun!

[@eht367]

This was so much fun!!! Thank you for making this scavenger hunt. Duke Undone >(tara)> Scavange the Stars >(Ocean) > Sea of Shadows >(child)> Demon Child >(blue/white)> Gemina >(672)> Guns of the Dawn >(Nathaniel)> The Scarlet Letter >(16)> A Deadly Education >(border and general vibes)> The Diviners > and the magic word was... 'anything'. I feel like the universe is telling me to stop being indecisive and just pick a book off the TBR already. Any book at all 😂 Anyway, didn't have a book with 'anything' in the title, so I picked a second word and got 'wood' --- looks like Hazel Wood is my next read!

[@ShelbyPlatt]

My Scavenger Hunt: 1. Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings -> “William” in the acknowledgments 2. Jackaby by William Ritter -> “door” on the cover 3. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager -> “Home of the mysterious Ingrid. Even though I have no idea who” 4. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie -> golden/yellow cover 5. Beach Read by Emily Henry -> 358 pages 6. Tweet Cute by Emma Lord -> “Evans” 7. A Hopeless Romantic by Harriet Evans -> 17 letters 8. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (aka one of my favorite covers ever) -> purple, gold cover 9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (B&N classic editions) -> “everything” 10. I’m gonna read Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon! 🎉

[@michellemckimmey4338]

This was so much fun! All the books in order of the questions! The city of brass, skandar, the book of cold cases, the daughter of smoke and bone ,what lies Beyond the veil under the silver night fall ,house of hollows ,where dreams descend

[@carcajouse]

Ahh this is fun!! - Favorite book this year was the 9th and final book of The Expanse, Leviathan Falls > First name I saw was Danny. - I haven't read any books by a Danny apparently, but I HAVE read a book by Dani Bennett (Master of One) - There was a leaf on the cover of Master of One > Leaf Peepers (short horror comic by Mark Bouchard). - Page 50 was the very last page, and the fifth line was a song in the author's playlist : "Burning Desire To Draw Last Breath" Gulch > I chose Last > One Last Stop (Casey McQuiston) - One Last Stop is very pink, so I chose a very pink comic I loved called Don't Go Without Me (Rosemary Valero-O'Connell) - Don't Go Without Me is 116 pages > I haven't read anything else that's 116 pages but A Spindle Splintered (Alix E. Harrow) is 119 pages - Opened A Spindle Splintered and the first name I saw was Charm > Couldn't find anything I had read by someone called Charm, but Charmaine yes so I bent it a bit > Charmaine Wilkerson > Black Cake - Black Cake is 9 letters > Mooncakes (comic by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker) - The cover of Mooncakes features multiple people, food, a simple abstract yellow background > Similar to Meal (Blue Deliquanti) - Flipped to a random page and pointed the word Street > The Last House on Needless Street has a short wait at the library and is on my TBR, so we're going with that!! Thank you for the game, it was so fun

[@thisisbecauseimreading]

My journey!! Fave book: Fruit Punch First name in acknowledgments: Cassie Smith Author with that name: feel free Zadie Smith Something from that cover: Blue Title with that something: The bluest eye 50 line 5: love Book with that word: love in color Same colors: fruit punch Book w/ same pages (176): el club de comics de supergirl Any page - name: Lili Book that shares author name: a girl walks home alone at night Ana lily amirpour Book with same number of letters (26): the life of Alexander the Great A book with similar cover: the Iliad of homer Random word: No Read: Kaiju No. 8

[@fridahultgren8865]

1. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune - Taylor (and Hugo lol) 2. Evelyn Hugos sju Äkta Män by Taylor Jenkins Reid (the color green) 3. Across the Green Grass Field by Seanan McGuire - the word with 4. Folk med ångest by Fredrick Backman - (med = with, the English title is "Anxious People", but the original title in Swedish, which I own, is "People WITH Anxiety") 5. Sailor Moon vol 4. ( the cover of last book is not the same as in English, just saying lol) 6. Bokea - Inredning till döds by Grady Hendrix (243 vs 244 pages) (English title, Horrorstör, I prefer the Swedish one ;)) 7. How to stop time by MATT Haig 8. Blood For Blood by Ryan Graudin (13 letters, 5+3+5 easy!) 9. This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (same red, black and white) The Word was IN 10. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. So fun that it started and ended with the same author!! :D I have wanted to read this book forever.

[@emilyj401]

1. Babel - found Bennet in the dedication 2. The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett - women on the cover 3. A Lady for a Duke - “better than my own soul” was the line but “my” was the word I used lol 4. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife - Babel had the most similar cover (w black and gold) but I didn’t want to repeat so I just went w black 5. Gideon the Ninth - 492 pages, closest I could find was 496 6. The Invention of Nature - John Muir in the authors note 7. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (again didn’t want to repeat) - 14 letters 8. Spinning Silver - only similar cover I know is uprooted but haven’t read that yet so went with blue covers 9. The Two Towers - “wind” 10. Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri 🎉

[@ScooppyLise]

I tried to follow your prompts, 1. I started at Nettles by Adam Scovell since thats my most recent favorite book 2. from the acknowledgements I went with Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett 3. From the cover I picked found Fire and ice from Erin Hunter (yes thats a warrior cats book lol) 4. from the sentence I got I picked they cause thats an easy one lol and then decided on They both die at the end by Adam Silvera 5. The cover that I have of that books is orange and blue and while not an exact match i went with mr penumbra's 24 hour bookstore 6. that has 288 pages and i was really struggling so i took it quite liberally and picked something around 300 pages and went with geekerella 7. The name I got was Catherine and I don't have anything by an author with the name Catherine so I went to goodreads and just picked Snowed In by Catherine Walsh 8. The title has 8 letters so I picked Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff 9. Next was to pick something with a similar cover and perhaps this is cheating but I just picked Godsgrave from the same series 10. and then my hand landed on ministry at first which I don't have anything with so I tried again and got rising, I thought I didnt have anything with this on my TBR but I do actually, it was Rising storm by Erin Hunter which is yet again a warrior cats book except this is the fourth one and i have not even read the third one. I guess it might finally be time to continue reading warrior cats lol.

[@PurpleKya]

I played along and ended up with "Breathe the Sky" by Michelle Hazen, a 5 star that I already read but have on my TBR to reread soon! I just might pick it up after I finish my current read :)

[@psychedandlit]

Yellow Face (May Chen) Ace by Angela Chen The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren (Same colors on the Cover) This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub ->The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Both have rainbow colors on the cover) The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren (396 pages) Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend (Jessica) The Change (9 Letters) Horrid by Katrina Leno (Ominous Flowers vining out with a dark cover) Honey & Spice by Bolu Bablola (Honey in the title).

[@katiejosephine2755]

1) Mrs. Death, Misses Death - Salena Godden 2)Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson 3)Yellowface- RF Kuang 4) When Breath Becomes Air- Paul Kalanithi 5) We Spread- Ian Reid 6) The Sellout- Paul Beatty 7) Kill Creek- Scott Thomas 8) Affirming- Sally Gary 9) The Pact- Jodi Picoult The book I got as my reading selection was You’ve Lost A lot of Blood by Eric Larocca. I’m actually in the middle of one of the authors novella bind ups so perhaps I’ll tack it on since I’m already in that headspace.

[@barbarashireman6822]

I just read Twelve Nights at Rotten House last month and enjoyed it quite a bit.

[@gabbyreads]

I love these scavenger hunt videos so much 😍 when you were looking for a Julie I was screaming at the screen “Julia Bartz!!!!” the author of The Writing Retreat hahaha 😂

[@deathbylawschooldebt]

Twelve Nights in Rotter House is so good with the most amazing twist!

[@taravincent9699]

You are so creative with your videos. And your personality is so fun. I was so anxious by the time you finally successfully picked your book! 😩 😂

[@tiffinyvann9723]

You should do the Villain series. Evil queen, beast, and Ursula

[@RavenDevils]

The necklace looks good, but it’ll probably look better with a dress or something more dressed up.

[@KarenAndPaisley]

Not me trying to figure out the recipe for the braised beets... I love everything you mentioned in it.

[@hollyslibraryholds7392]

I had so much fun with this & took longer than I thought 😅! Babel > Peng The Cartographers > Door Under the Whispering Door > Great An Emotion of Great Delight > Teal/yellow Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow > 397 pgs The House in the Cerulean Sea > Lucy The Guest List > 12 letters A Fire Endless > Cover w/ fire Girls of Fate & Fury > Blade A Broken Blade 🎉

[@ainwena7595]

I did the scavenger hunt with you and my next book will be She Come By It Natural (Natural was my final word from prompt 9) -it is a book about Dolly Parton by Sarah Smarsh. The scavenger hunt was entertaining for sure.

[@LRoosa]

I guess I'll add my list here as well =D 1. Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, found a 'Lucy' in the acknowledgments 2. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, the cover has orange light shining from a door way 3. Bit of a stretch, but Punainen huone ('The Red Room') by Kaj Korkea-Aho, the only viable words in the page 50 sentence were 'was' and 'and' ^^' 4. Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris, chose a book with similar colour scheme 5. Windup Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami, had 800+ pages so I just went with a closest number 6. The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, found a 'John' 7. Star of the North by D. B. John (Finnish title 'Pohjoisen tähti', 14 letters) 8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Finnish title 'Kärpästen herra', 14 letters, although the English titles have the same number as well apparently) Cover had a pair of glasses 9. Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman, cover had an eye (Closest thing to glasses) Word I found was 'Voicelessly' Aaand the book I'll be reading next is The Assistant by S. K. Tremayne. The Finnish title 'Äänet' translates to 'voices' That was a ride

[@HiddenNuggetttv]

I love the scavenger hunt videos🥰

[@paperback_cat]

"my friend and enemy goodreads" relatable 😅

[@CheyeW13]

as someone who gets 95% of their books from the library, this was quite a feat of contortion 😅 but i ended up with "I Who Have Never Known Men" so i suppose i'll request *that* from the library and read it when it comes in. doesn't do anything for my physical tbr tho whoops

[@XOmangoXO]

The Last Flight > Christina > Christina Lauren (Love & Other Words) > Paper > Rock Paper Scissors (cheating bc didn’t have physical copy) > “Home” > Homecoming > (Blue & Gold) Little Black Lies > (368 pages) Everything I Know About Love (cheating again, traveling so only have a few books with me) > Charlie > Twenty Years Later > (16 letters) The Last Time I Lied > (shaded woman’s face) Never Saw Me Coming > “someone” > Everyone in my family has k-ed someone

[@shiannebowlin2736]

I did the scavenger hunt and it looks like my next book will be "Eyes Guts Throat Bones" by Moira Fowley. This was so much fun!

[@TLF77]

Ugh House of Cotton. I also was so excited for it. I ended up hating it.

[@cuddlewithbooks]

This was super fun! My books were: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - there were no acknowledgements so I used the Jacket artists which was Christine (I chose the closest author name I had!) Autoboyography by Christina Lauren - there was a city! The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty - the word was 'way' The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - it has a space, starry cover The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum - i didn't have the exact page number for the next choice but it was 378 pages All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir - the name I found was Ashlee The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk - it has 20 letters The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill - has stars on a mostly plain cover Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson - I went through a couple of words but eventually landed on 'the', not super exciting but I get a highly anticipated for my next read! The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport!

[@cameronaustin4843]

when i got to the last prompt, i opened to a page that just said “Part 2”. luckily i have a book on my shelf that’s called Boy Parts on my shelf, so i’m going to give that a go. but since i felt like that was too cheap, i went again and found the word ‘of’ and chose Portrait of a Thief as well. and i’m also going to attempt to read The Shadow Glass since I picked it up for the second prompt and i haven’t read it and it’s the only book i picked up in the entire scavenger hunt that i haven’t read

[@DecemberMagpie]

1) The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke. In The Acknowledgements, the first name you see _(Sue Manion)_ , find a book by an author with the same name: *Sue* Lynn Tan - Daughter of the Moon Goddess. 2) *Moon* Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch. 3) How *Far* the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler. 4) The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern. 5⭐'s 5) Settling Saskatchewan by Alan B. Anderson. _(485 pg)_ 6) The Second Sleep by *Robert* Harris. 7) Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans. _(14 Letters)_ 8) NPCs by Drew Hays. 9) When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of *Animals* by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

[@maggiemacgirr8238]

I did the challenge for the first time: 1. Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn 2. The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan 3. Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier 4. Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong 5. The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias 6. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 7. Hideaway by Nora Roberts 8. The Stand by Stephen King 9. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb 10: MY READ IS: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

[@megwithbooks]

ok i HAVE to do this soon it looks so fun!!!

[@KristinKravesBooks]

I'm reading a book with "from" in the title right now! It's From Below and I'm having a good time.

[@EclecticMind]

Perfect timing, couldn’t figure out what to read next. I ended up with… 📖 In my Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead on my TBR from a previous video!👍🏻

[@libraryofjonna]

this is so much fun! 1. The Secret History, found the name Erin. 2. The Night Circus, has a clock on the cover. 3. Red Clocks, found the word God. 4. Godsgrave, a black, white and blue cover. 5. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, 545 pages. 6. Crooked Kingdom, found the name Nina. 7. We Are Okay, nine letters. 8. Red Sister, a girl on the cover with a sword. 9. The Well of Ascension, found the word would. 10. Ended up choosing The Book That Wouldn’t Burn 🔥

[@courtspeachie]

1. Every Single Lie by Rachel Vincent - Jennifer was the first name in the acknowledgments that I had a matching author 2. Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan - Girls 3. The Castle School For Troubled Girls by Alyssa Sheinmel - Like 4. Friends Like These by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez - Blue with purple/red accents 5. I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick - 373 (The only one was Friends Like These again) 6. Friends Like These by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez - Jess 7. They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman - 18 8. They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman - Plaid 9. People Like Us by Dana Mele - You 10. You Can Trust Me by Wendy Heard!!! (I'm mainly a YA mystery/thriller reader who just likes watching your videos even though our tastes don't align!

[@themagpiem]

I played along and used Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour as the last prompt, and remembered in the process that it was the book I ended up choosing the LAST time you did one of these videos! the book I got on my TBR is Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon 😊

[@xxlipstickandlyricsx]

Super interesting to me that St. Ambrose is YA in Canada because it's being pushed out as adult in the US.

[@BooksandLala]

Oh now that's interesting!!

[@monkeyheadbonkers9303]

these videos are so fun!

[@elisereadsandwrites]

This is such a fun idea! I might have to do this for one book next month

[@camryn9377]

It took me 4 books of my all-time favorites to actually find one that had an acknowledgments page.