SECRET SANTA! It’s time again for one of our most popular activities: the Secret Santa gift exchange. Sign up HERE by November 30 to spread some holiday cheer by gifting a book and receiving one in return!
2025’s Yearly Theme is Emotional Rollercoaster! Thank you to everyone who suggested themes and voted in the poll! Check out the full list of quarterly and monthly themes here.
Have a great idea for 2025’s new Masthead and Logo? The contest has now begun! Submit your design in this thread before November 30.
The group is beginning its final readathon of 2024 today! Find more information about our End of the Year individual sprint HERE and when you’re ready, join us in the discussion thread HERE!
GROUP READ Our November theme is Voice and our group read for this month is The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, a powerful and gripping Young Adult novel about one girl’s struggle for justice, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. You can join the discussion or post your review of the book! You can also vote for our December book with the theme of Kindness, as well as nominate a book for January with the theme of Cozy!
CHALLENGES We have two new monthly challenges with the theme of Voice and we also continue the two final quarterlies for 2024.
Monthly challenges Voices Unbound, is an open challenge to explores diverse voices and perspectives. Raising Our Voices is a prompt-based challenge to read various types of narrative voices.
Quarterly challenges With Balancing It Out, based on the five elements in Chinese culture, you may choose a prompt or open-ended challenge. Fall Into Books: Autumn Reading Party is an open challenge celebrating Autumn’s festive party themes.
Yearly challenges can help you reach your 2024 reading goals. Any books you’ve read since the start of the year count for these, so it’s not too late to join. Visit the Guide to the 2024 Yearly Challenges to learn more.
Do you have an idea for a new challenge? Please let us know! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members’ suggestions. We love hearing your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for November, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together! You can also sign up for December TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members.
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Happy November!
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SECRET SANTA! It’s time again for one of our most popular activities: the Secret Santa gift exchange. Sign up HERE by November 30 to spread some holiday cheer by gifting a book and receiving one in return!
2025’s Yearly Theme is Emotional Rollercoaster! Thank you to everyone who suggested themes and voted in the poll! Check out the full list of quarterly and monthly themes here.
Have a great idea for 2025’s new Masthead and Logo? The contest has now begun! Submit your design in this thread before November 30.
The group is beginning its final readathon of 2024 today! Find more information about our End of the Year individual sprint HERE and when you’re ready, join us in the discussion thread HERE!
GROUP READ
Our November theme is Voice and our group read for this month is The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, a powerful and gripping Young Adult novel about one girl’s struggle for justice, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.
You can join the discussion or post your review of the book!
You can also vote for our December book with the theme of Kindness, as well as nominate a book for January with the theme of Cozy!
CHALLENGES
We have two new monthly challenges with the theme of Voice and we also continue the two final quarterlies for 2024.
Monthly challenges
Voices Unbound, is an open challenge to explores diverse voices and perspectives.
Raising Our Voices is a prompt-based challenge to read various types of narrative voices.
Quarterly challenges
With Balancing It Out, based on the five elements in Chinese culture, you may choose a prompt or open-ended challenge.
Fall Into Books: Autumn Reading Party is an open challenge celebrating Autumn’s festive party themes.
Yearly challenges can help you reach your 2024 reading goals. Any books you’ve read since the start of the year count for these, so it’s not too late to join. Visit the Guide to the 2024 Yearly Challenges to learn more.
Do you have an idea for a new challenge? Please let us know! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members’ suggestions. We love hearing your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS
Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for November, find your TBR Twin here . Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for December TBR Twins here , and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS
Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members.
We are reading the following stand-alone books:
American Psycho
Baby Teeth
The Baker’s Secret
Finn
The Inmate
The Island of Books
A Little Life
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
The Museum of Ordinary People
The Safekeep
Tell Me What I Am
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn’t Food
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
What I Know About You
We will start or continue the following series:
Asian Saga #5: Noble House
Cotton Malone #1: The Templar Legacy
Detective Max Rupert #2: The Guise of Another
Dragonriders of Pern #1: Dragonflight
Emily Wilde #1: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries
Goon Squad #1: A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Housemaid #3: The Housemaid Is Watching
Kay Scarpetta #1: Postmortem
We’ll Prescribe You a Cat
Wrexford & Sloane #8
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Finally, welcome to all of our new members! We can't wait to get to know you. Please stop in and introduce yourself or say hello to our new members!
Happy Reading, everyone!
Winter, SarahKat, TerryJane, Carri Carey, bailey, Sunny, Blagica, and Lisa.