constants:

• morning nonfiction
• character/agent research
• literature and/or AMW research
• special block lesson
• one currently reading, nighttime or other

don't pick all at once, just do one at a time!! starting in 2021, cycle through these and do Booklist blogposts for 3+ books

• color (January: Indigo)
• month's theme (Feb: Missouri)
• NF (light reading books) (March: light reading)
• target language media - anything (April: Norwegian)
• writing craft PLUS send a query (May: agents and writing craft time)
• Lit (classic or kids classic) (June: ...)
• an adult book from the special block (July: ...)
• 1 Mercy Challenge bay (August: ...)
• 12 week year (September: ...)
• Club reading list (October: ...)
• tv show supplement? (November: ...)
• YA book club (December: ...)
• Ruby book club __(: ...) __
• Middle Grade book club (: ...)
• NF book club (: ...)
• EHRTBM book club (: ...)
• blaze through a series i'm working on
• NF call number reading challenge

cycle again books

• 1.. a Henderson book i have out
• 2.. Bread/Salt
• 3.. any comic/graphic novel (see yellow list on main page)
• 4.. any kids book i have out
• 5.. any non-fiction i have out
• 6.. audiobook or classic with audiobook
• 7.. Sweet Valley or Forbidden Doors, probably ebooks
• 8.. manga
• 9.. Wheel of Time, next book
• 10. target language book
• 11. from A-Z Mercy Challenge
• 12. YA book club selection
• 13. something that fits this month's theme
• 14. comic book or graphic novel
• 15. a Las Vegas book i have out
• 16. any YA book i have out
• 17. any adult fiction i have out
• 18. any paperback i have out
• 19. a book i own
• 20. a book someone else owns

and again

• 1. series i'm currently on
• 2. redo child loves (see orange list in Kizzy)
• 3. library books, Hen
• 4. paperbacks uncataloged, Hen
• 5. library books, LVCC
• 6. paperbacks uncataloged, LVCC
• 7. books i own
  • in closet (2 places), downstairs (1 shelf), or in library (3 shelves)
• 8. books others lend me or own (like Paul, Cara)
• 9. random lists i have, so random
• 10. try to tackle my pile of lists in chronological order

and now for the list of the lists:

• 1. Mercy Challenge, always
• 2. YA or agent/author research lists for applying to agents/editors!
• 3. YA series list in my blackPP
• 4. stray papers in old Mead notebook folder
  • tackle one whole paper
• 5. black and white mini composition notebook
  • take from one whole page
• 6. gold and black mini work notebook
  • first everything in pencil
  • then postits
  • then written-in in pen
• 7. gray list on phone
  • one category at a time
• 8. lists upon lists in listography, both accounts
  • newest first
• 9. reading histories and 'for later' shelves on library accounts
  • in chonological order, starting with oldest
• 10. my .txt at the library
  • roll for a few (not counting picture books)
• 11. random lists on Keep app on phone
  • most recent first
• 12. (manila folder and BN catalog at home)
• 13. 2 Booklists
  • oldest one first
  • one page at a time
• 14. Goodreads 'want to read' list
  • whatever order they appear in the list
• 15. Hoopla Favorites list
  • in alphabetical order
  • roll for category Audiobook/Comics/Ebooks/Movies/Television/
• 16. 'BOOKS' folder in entries folder on computer
  • folder of goodreads awards
  • stray images of 2015 POC authors
• 17. primary color paul notebook with random lists
• 18. anything bookmarked in Chrome(computer) and Chrome(phone x2)

ways to choose:

• random color generator (by cover color only)
• random genre generator, online
• random genre/age generator, my flashcards
• by subject for HS this month
• by theme for HS this month
• by special block this month
• just work in order of the first paper trail i find
• purge all the library books and go with what i own