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2025 Reading List Creation
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[2025] The Anniversary List Info, FAQs, & Schedule
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2016: A book originally written in a language other than English
2017: A book whose title doesn't contain the letter "E"
2018: An author's debut book
2019: A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
2020: A book with an emotion in the title
2021: A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
2022: A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
2023: A book whose author has published more than 7 books
2024: A book that has been on your TBR for over a year
2025: A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family
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ooh that's awesome. Thank you mod for thinking of these creativeness for us
Cool idea! Is the idea that we read these 10 any time in 2025?
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Oh how exciting!! Thanks for the great idea!
This sounds fun :)
I love it !!!!I might even do it twice! Once now, and once in 2025. I’ll read the official list in 2025, but for my current reading I might choose my own pick.
Can you provide a link to all the lists? I saw them but I don’t recall where . I understand that they won’t show the 15 we will be voting on.
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Edit: They are all posted!
Such a cool idea. Makes me wonder if I should favor prompts where I really liked the book the first time around (double down) or the ones where I really didn't (redo).
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I apologize if this is mentioned elsewhere but I couldn't find it - will there be Listopias for the anniversary 10? Or should we just use the original Listopias?
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I love this idea. I also love that the ALL the voting on this will be on a Sunday to Friday schedule. Looking forward to the choices for 2017 tomorrow.
Emily wrote: "There will be listopias! I am on vacation and my laptop is on the fritz, but I’ll post the 2016 listopia when I get home on Monday."What does the expression "is on the fritz" mean? Curious since my last name is Fritz.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the...This says, the expression is from the German name Fritz - didn't know that... we don't say that here, that's for sure!
Sibylle wrote: "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the...This says, the expression is from the German name Fritz - didn't know that... we don't say that here, that's for sure!"
Oops, I better change my name then 😂😏
Sibylle wrote: "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the...This says, the expression is from the German name Fritz - didn't know that... we don't say that here, that's for sure!"
It's an anglophone idiom, so you wouldn't use it in Germany :)
Since Wikipedia is not allowed for university papers (and for many, but not all, you have to use Google scholar and use your university/college's academic subscriptions) I decided to check elsewhere, not that this guarantees truth.
There are many stories as to how this idiom started! The earliest appearance in a dictionary is in 1903 in the Oxford English Dictionary; it appears in the States in 1905, so it did NOT start in WW I as some say. Some say that it's not from the German name but is an onomatopoetic term from the sound of a faulty electric wire. However, there was a comic strip called The Katzenjammer Kids that started around the same time as the OED entry with 2 kids named Hans and Fritz who made trouble for their captain. https://www.straightdope.com/21342040... for the UK one, https://digitalcultures.net/slang/on-... for two others.
Procrastinate? Moi?
Karin wrote: "Sibylle wrote: "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the...This says, the expression is from the German name Fritz - didn't know that... we don't say that here, that's for sure!"
It's an angloph..."
Interesting!
When is the last (2025) anniversary prompt going to be chosen?
JessicaMHR, it already has been chosen: "A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family"
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The mods have a SURPRISE CHALLENGE for you! This year, in honor of our 10th year of our reading challenge, we are tacking on an extra 10 prompts - one from each year of our reading list.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
This is an extra challenge - a side quest if you will. We will still have our traditional 52 prompt challenge, but this is an extra bonus for anyone who wants to play along and celebrate our anniversary.
Each week, the mods will post a poll featuring 15 prompts from each year's reading challenge. The poll (and voting thread) will go live on Sunday, and the results will be revealed on Friday, with the next year's poll going up the following Sunday.
These polls will overlay with the regular polling schedule - they are two separate things happening at the same time! We are not adjusting the regular polling schedule!
ONE PROMPT will win from each poll. This will be the prompt that gets the highest number of net votes (up votes - down votes).
HOW ARE THE PROMPTS CHOSEN?
Each mod (me, Jackie, and Robin) picked 5 prompts we wanted to include!
THE SCHEDULE:
Sunday, July 21: 2016 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, July 26: 2016 Results Posted
Sunday, July 28: 2017 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, August 2: 2017 Results Posted
Sunday, August 4: 2018 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, August 9: 2018 Results Posted
Sunday, August 11: 2019 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, August 16: 2019 Results Posted
Sunday, August 18: 2020 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, August 23: 2020 Results Posted
Sunday, August 25: 2021 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, August 30: 2021 Results Posted
Sunday, September 1: 2022 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, September 6: 2022 Results Posted
Sunday, September 8: 2023 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, September 13: 2023 Results Posted
Sunday, September 15: 2024 Voting Thread Opens
Friday, September 19: 2024 Results Posted
WHAT ABOUT 2025?
Well... we will cross that bridge when we get to it, but the mods have a few ideas up their sleeve.
WHAT LISTS ARE WE CHOOSING FROM?
You can find the previous lists with all 52 prompts in these archived posts:
2016 List
2017 List
2018 List
2019 List
2020 List
2021 List
2022 List
2023 List
2024 List
Follow the announcements thread for more info on when these go live, and enjoy the voting!