SuBsalabim [SuB = the German acronym for TBR pile & Simsalabim = another German word for abracadabra] is a TBR challenge a couple of friends and I started in 2016. Every month, we do rounds in picking books from the respective TBR piles for each other so that we all end up with a monthly TBR of three books. The goal is to read as many of these as possible during the month to score points. We do this in order to read books that are not necessarily on top of our TBR lists even though they are on our TBR piles. It’s fun. And I always fail horribly in keeping up.

	Alex’s Pick	Andrea’s Pick	Eva’s Pick	Steffi’s Pick	Isi’s Pick	Points
Jan		With the Fire on High	A Winter’s Promise		Sword of Destiny	2
Feb		Im Schatten des Dämons		Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know	Come On In	4
Mar		If I Tell You the Truth	To Kill a Kingdom	Die unendliche Geschichte		3.5
Apr	The Hidden Girl and Other Stories		This Light Between Us		Void Black Shadow	1
May	Clanlands		Crooked Kingdom		A Pho Love Story	1
Jun	These Violent Delights	The Vanishing Game		Belgravia		0
Jul		The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo			Lovely War	1
Aug			Winter’s Orbit		Wicked Fox
Sep	XOXO			The Sea of Monsters
Oct	A Thousand Beginnings and Endings		Girls of Paper and Fire
Nov		Iron Widow	Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Dec

 

 

Only participated in the first half of 2020. It got a bit too much in-between the things I had to read for work and my general tbr list, so I wanted some time to try to catch up. Didn’t quite work out but I did indeed manage to finish a couple of past picks.

	Alex’s Pick	Andrea’s Pick	Eva’s Pick	Steffi’s Pick	Isi’s Pick	Points
Jan		The Hazel Wood	Middlegame		Winter Rose	3
Feb	Because You Love to Hate Me		Entwined		The Diary of a Bookseller	4
Mar	Craic Baby		The Flight of the Silvers		I Was Here	2
Apr	The Fifth Season	Red, White & Royal Blue		Six of Crows		0.5
May			Ein Pony müßt’ man haben	The Calculating Stars	This Is How You Lose the Time War	1.5
Jun	White Fox	Scythe		Uncommon Criminals		1.5
						12.5

 

	Alex’s Pick	Andrea’s Pick	Eva’s Pick	Steffi’s Pick	Isi’s Pick	Points
Jan	How to Be Irish	Armada	The Crown’s Game			4
Feb	Tyler Johnson Was Here			Soundless	The Lightning Thief	4
Mar		All the Birds in the Sky	The Dark Days Club	The Lost & Found		3.5
Apr	Goth Girl and the Mouse	Renegades		We Were Liars		3.5
May			The Immortalists	Wicked Saints	Fire and Thorns	4
Jun	First & Then	The Sin Eater’s Daughter			The Buried Giant	4
Jul	Watch Us Rise			Leviathan	All the Crooked Saints	1
Aug	Leia: Prinzessin von Alderaan	Love & Gelato	Hold Back the Stars			1
Sep			That Inevitable Victorian Thing	Summer of Salt	Tales from Watership Down	1
Oct	Beren and Lúthien		Partials		So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish	2
Nov		Unearthly	Falling Kingdoms	Heist Society		0.5
Dec		Die Gabe des Winters		Girls Made of Snow and Glass	Spinning Silver	0.5
						29

 

	Alex’s Pick	Andrea’s Pick	Eva’s Pick	Steffi’s Pick	Isi’s Pick	Points
Jan	Die Geisterseher	Heartless		Burial Rites		0.5
Feb	When Dimple Met Rishi	Written in the Stars			Wonders of the Invisible World	1
Mar	Dingle Peggy		Midnight at the Electric	The Indigo Spell		0.5
Apr		A Berlin Love Song		Invisible Planets	Life, the Universe and Everything	4
May	All Our Yesterdays		Revolution		Dear Martin	4
Jun		The Ship Beyond Time		Out of the Easy	Every Falling Star	4
Jul	Nocturna: Die Nacht der gestohlenen Schatten	Everything All at Once	Tell the Wolves I’m Home			0.5
Aug			Other Words for Love	Cavaliersreise	The Wide Window	4
Sep	Space Opera			The Rabbit Back Literature Society	The Female of the Species	3.5
Oct	And I Darken	Prince of Thorns	Easy			2.5
Nov	P.S. I Still Love You	Far from You		Die seufzende Wendeltreppe		1.5
Dec	The Way Past Winter	The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily			Since We Last Spoke	4
						33

 

	Alex’s Pick	Andrea’s Pick	Eva’s Pick	Steffi’s Pick	Isi’s Pick	Points
Jan	Wonder	Ready Player One	Bloodlines	The Winner’s Curse		5
Feb	Sommer voller Schatten	Coraline	An Abundance of Katherines	The Vanishing Season		4.5
Mar	A Gathering of Shadows	A Conjuring of Light	A Darker Shade of Magic	Paris, du und ich		1
Apr	Lirael	The Girl from Everywhere	Zweilicht	Tinder		2.5
May	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	This Shattered World	A Court of Mist and Fury	Ascheherz		1.5
Jun	Gemina	The Star-Touched Queen	Der Glanz des Mondes	The Golden Lily		5
Jul	Looking for Alibrandi	Gefahr auf Sable Island	Grave Mercy	Salt to the Sea	Red Queen	5
Aug	The Dark Horse	The Shadow Queen	The Invisible Library	The Raven Boys	Three Dark Crowns	2
Sep	Was ein Pferd nicht alles kann	Ultraviolet	Manners & Mutiny	On the Fence	The Song of Achilles	5
Oct	Every Heart a Doorway	Deception’s Princess	The River of No Return	Laura und das Labyrinth des Lichts	Norse Mythology	2.5
Nov	The Secret Garden	Mondprinzessin	The Winner’s Crime	Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone	The Light Between Oceans	3
Dec	The Twistrose Key	Breadcrumbs	Grimm	What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours	Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas	1.5
						38.5