* Choose your favorite art for the yearly theme of Emotional Rollercoaster in the 2025 Masthead & Logo poll, which will be open for 10 days.
* It is time to set your goals for 2025! Set up your Personal Challenge to keep track of your reads, and/or your Member Corner where you can organize challenges.
* If you have signed up for Secret Santa this year, be sure to check your email over the next few days! You will receive information about your recipient by December 3. Once you receive your gift, post here!
* General information about our readathons and a tentative schedule for 2025 can be found here.
GROUP READ Our December theme is Kindness and our group read for this month is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a celebrated classic set during the Great Depression, that is in part a young girl’s coming-of-age story, and in part a drama that explores racial injustice and prejudice, the loss of innocence, as well as the moral nature of human beings. You can join the discussion or post your review of the book! You can also vote for our January book with the theme of Cozy, as well as nominate a book for February with the theme of Time!
CHALLENGES We end the year with two monthly challenges with the theme of Kindness, plus our traditional Advent Calendar Challenge. We have one month left in our fourth quarter challenges, and we’ll post our 2025 yearly challenges this month!
Monthly challenges Kindness Counts, is an open challenge to read books about kindness to self, family, others, or the planet. Spreading Kindness has prompts inspired by Random Acts of Kindness. Advent Calendar, is perfect for gifting yourself a daily poem, short story, or chapter through the season.
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 before the end of the year. Any books you’ve read since the start of the year count for these, so it’s not too late to join. Check out A Guide to the 2024 Yearly Challenges to learn more!
Start planning your 2025 reading as we introduce next year’s fifteen yearly challenges this month. Learn more about them in A Guide to 2025 Yearly Challenges.
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 December, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together! You can also sign up for January 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. Feel free to jump into any discussion even if you didn’t sign up!
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 December!
FROM THE MODS
* Here is a list of our Yearly, Quarterly and Monthly themes for 2025.
* Members may submit Quarterly and Monthly challenge ideas in the Challenge Idea thread.
* Choose your favorite art for the yearly theme of Emotional Rollercoaster in the 2025 Masthead & Logo poll , which will be open for 10 days.
* It is time to set your goals for 2025! Set up your Personal Challenge to keep track of your reads, and/or your Member Corner where you can organize challenges.
* If you have signed up for Secret Santa this year, be sure to check your email over the next few days! You will receive information about your recipient by December 3. Once you receive your gift, post here!
* General information about our readathons and a tentative schedule for 2025 can be found here.
* A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges briefly describes our 15 year-long challenges for next year.
GROUP READ
Our December theme is Kindness and our group read for this month is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a celebrated classic set during the Great Depression, that is in part a young girl’s coming-of-age story, and in part a drama that explores racial injustice and prejudice, the loss of innocence, as well as the moral nature of human beings.
You can join the discussion or post your review of the book!
You can also vote for our January book with the theme of Cozy, as well as nominate a book for February with the theme of Time!
CHALLENGES
We end the year with two monthly challenges with the theme of Kindness, plus our traditional Advent Calendar Challenge. We have one month left in our fourth quarter challenges, and we’ll post our 2025 yearly challenges this month!
Monthly challenges
Kindness Counts, is an open challenge to read books about kindness to self, family, others, or the planet.
Spreading Kindness has prompts inspired by Random Acts of Kindness.
Advent Calendar, is perfect for gifting yourself a daily poem, short story, or chapter through the season.
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 before the end of the year. Any books you’ve read since the start of the year count for these, so it’s not too late to join. Check out A Guide to the 2024 Yearly Challenges to learn more!
Start planning your 2025 reading as we introduce next year’s fifteen yearly challenges this month. Learn more about them in A Guide to 2025 Yearly Challenges .
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 December, find your TBR Twin here . Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for January 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. Feel free to jump into any discussion even if you didn’t sign up!
We are reading the following books:
Alex Cross #1: Along Came a Spider
Asian Saga #5: Noble House
Cotton Malone #2: The Alexandria Link
Detective Max Rupert #3: The Heavens May Fall
The Echo Maker
Emily Wilde #2: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
The Inmate
Kay Scarpetta #2: Body of Evidence
The Lacuna
Matthew Shardlake #4: Revelation
Philip Taiwo #1: Lightseekers
Study for Obedience
The Vegetarian
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!
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