The Reading Challenge Group discussion

This is the thread where we can discuss which books we are planning to read for the Halloween Readathon. The Readathon will run from 12:01 a.m. on October 25th to 11:59 p.m. on October 31st.

This sounds great! Planning to read Agatha Christie Halloween or something by Stephen King. My favorite horror writer :)

I'm planning to read the shining... I've never read Stephen King and it's been sorting on my shelf for awhile

Glad to see you're excited Sarah and Maina! I was thinking of getting back to some King as well for the readathon. Any suggestions?

I think I'll read Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. Maybe some Hobbit/Lord of the Rings too.

I think I will read Halloween Party by Agatha Christie or Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Might be a great time to read Phantom of the Opera. I am open to suggestions for a great Halloween book.

I have lots of Stephen King to read, and I've already started reading my Halloween books by reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Planning on picking up the second and third on Wednesday, too.

Finally going to read The Shining and Carrie :D I'm so excited. I also have Ghost Story by Peter Straub

This is such a great idea!!!! I have a couple of Blake crouch books I can read....I've read most of Stephen Kings novels...Carrie is SUPER scary and the shining was an amazing book...the sequel Dr. Sleep is fantastic too! Pick that one up as well if you can!!!

Awesome! I have a stack of fresh horror reads just for to get in the Halloween spirit! So excited to start!

I am goanna save the first two Miss.Perigrines for this readathon, and finish wichever abarat I am on at that point. Heres to a cup of warm pumpkin spice tea or coffee and good books!

Don't know yet what I'm going to read, but I'm definitely IN!

Looks like I'm not the only one planning to read something by Stephen King. It will be Mr Mercedes and Finders Keepers for me.

Lots of spooky horrors and thrillers being planned for the readathon, I love it! I have a few on my shelf that I will save for that week, including some King and the second Miss Peregrine's.

I'm going to catch up on m ARC of Depraved heart and then start the last Miss Peregrine.

And Then There Were None and The Time Machine, maybe.

Everything on my list Neil Gaiman:

The Graveyard Book
Neverwhere

Already read Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Also got a book called Charleston Mysteries: Ghostly Haunts in the Holy City. How appropriate for Halloween!!

I guess it depends what will be up next from my TBR list at that time. I am trying to read through that list as much as possible as well as read the books that are/will be coming out that I am looking forward to.

I am going to read Dracula and The Turn Of The Screw.I have already started reading Dracula.October makes you want to read scary books.

Kjs wrote: "I am going to read Dracula and The Turn Of The Screw.I have already started reading Dracula.October makes you want to read scary books."

There is something about October that makes you want to read scary books. Wonder what it is?

I'll be reading Turn of the Screw at the end of the month for a buddy read as well as here. Not sure on others yet

I will be continuing my read of the Wheel of Time series. Anyone else currently reading this series?

I am going to continue with Dances With Dragons.

I'm going to read A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, because it's been on my tbr shelf for quite some time now, so I'll use the readathon as a motivation to finally pick it up.
And probably Carrie or It afterwards...

I think I'll read Lick the Razor. I don't even know how it got in my to read shelf but it looks good so why not.

I'll finish It around that time and then read The Haunting of Hill House

I think I'll finally finish my Alphabet Soup challenge (somehow there are always more interesting books to read):

I think I'm going to read some R L Stine and maybe House of Whispers

i have a few on the go...A Dance With Dragons is top of my list

I must confess, I cracked. I had decided to save for the read a thon but we started talking about it at work and got curious. Well I have now already read it. Oooops.

So I will read instead. If time permits I will also read some of the two I have started: and .

Haha. I've done that so many times. Thank goodness there are always more books!

Haha. I've done that so many times. Thank goodness there are always more books!

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
The Good Girl
Hopefully get some more Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking done, but it takes me forever to read nonfiction.
Might start The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao or John Adams

I have A BUNCH of fantasy and horror reads off of NetGalley, and a few Stephen King books I haven't read either! Maybe this year is the year I'll finally read The Shining...

First book I'm planning to read is Welcome To The Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz. Then I might move on to Crown Of Midnight By Sarah J. Maas

To wake the dead by Richard laymon

I recently finished reading several Halloween/Autumn themed books, so I'm going to finally tackle A Storm of Swords

The Phantom of the Opera is only 188 pages, so I will probably add Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie. That is the plan but I could change my mind several times before this readathon is over.

I'm not reading anything Halloween-related for the readathon, since I am doing a team challenge with another group and I need all the points I can get.
So I'm starting with Il latte è buono (There's no English translation, but it translates as "Milk Is Good"), by Garane Garane, a Somali author who lived in Italy for years and therefore writes in Italian, even though, if I'm not much mistaken, he lives in the US now. It's referred to as "the firts postcolonial novel of Italian literature, so I think this is going to be interesting. After that (it's a very short book) I think I'll be reading Dramen, that is, the collected theater by Elias Canetti, my favorite author. There's only one of the plays I haven't read yet, but it will be nice to re-read the other two. I still have to decide what I'll read afterwards...

I'm reading Broken, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Power in the Blood - also reading a few non-Halloween novels (starting with Nights in Black Satin)

Spent my extra hour last night after putting our clocks back starting Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

I read Turn of the Screw by Henry James, it left me asking more questions than getting answers I'm afraid.

-Halcyon- wrote: "Spent my extra hour last night after putting our clocks back starting Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children."

Oh geez. Thanks for the reminder to turn my clock back tonight. I completely forgot.