* Many thanks to the following group members who stepped up to join the mod team! Theresa will be in charge of Readathons; JennH will be our Cheerleader; and Susan will be handling Games & Events. You can learn more about them in the Meet Your Mods! thread. Our long-time mod, bailey, who has been managing Readathons, is moving into a role planning challenges! * Our second team readathon of the year is quickly approaching! Save the date for July 18th-27th for ten days of reading with the theme, Around the Decades! Sign-ups will open June 27th. Watch the Readathons folder for more info. We look forward to reading with you!
GROUP READ Our June theme is Sisterhood, and our group read for this month is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. An enduring American classic, this is a story of the joys, struggles, and family strength of four sisters living in 1860’s New England.
CHALLENGES We’re excited to introduce two new monthly challenges for June’s theme of Sisterhood, and we have one month left in our second quarter challenges!
Monthly challenges Sisterhood of the Traveling Books is an open challenge to travel from one book to another based on Goodreads’ Genre or Readers Also Enjoyed features. The Ties That Bind is a prompt-based challenge honoring women’s sisterly relationships.
Quarterly challenges A Recipe for Happiness is an open challenge where you embrace what brings you joy as a reader. A Pop of Joy explores references to joy in popular culture through a fun prompt-based challenge.
Yearly challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year in 2025. Check out A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges to learn more about our year-long 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 would love to hear 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 June, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together! You can also sign up for July 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 join 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 June!
FROM THE MODS
* Many thanks to the following group members who stepped up to join the mod team! Theresa will be in charge of Readathons; JennH will be our Cheerleader; and Susan will be handling Games & Events. You can learn more about them in the Meet Your Mods! thread. Our long-time mod, bailey, who has been managing Readathons, is moving into a role planning challenges!
* Our second team readathon of the year is quickly approaching! Save the date for July 18th-27th for ten days of reading with the theme, Around the Decades! Sign-ups will open June 27th. Watch the Readathons folder for more info. We look forward to reading with you!
GROUP READ
Our June theme is Sisterhood, and our group read for this month is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. An enduring American classic, this is a story of the joys, struggles, and family strength of four sisters living in 1860’s New England.
You can join the discussion or post your review of the book!
You can also vote for our July book with the theme of Island, as well as nominate a book for August with the theme of Sunflower!
CHALLENGES
We’re excited to introduce two new monthly challenges for June’s theme of Sisterhood, and we have one month left in our second quarter challenges!
Monthly challenges
Sisterhood of the Traveling Books is an open challenge to travel from one book to another based on Goodreads’ Genre or Readers Also Enjoyed features.
The Ties That Bind is a prompt-based challenge honoring women’s sisterly relationships.
Quarterly challenges
A Recipe for Happiness is an open challenge where you embrace what brings you joy as a reader.
A Pop of Joy explores references to joy in popular culture through a fun prompt-based challenge.
Yearly challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year in 2025. Check out A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges to learn more about our year-long 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 would love to hear 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 June, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for July 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 join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
We are reading the following stand-alone books:
All the Water in the World
Babel
The Bell Jar
Circe
The House of Eve
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
It
The Lost Story
There There
And we are starting or continuing these books that are part of a series:
Alex Cross #7: Violets are Blue
Ben Koenig #1: Fearless
Blindness #1
Boady Sanden #1: Nothing More Dangerous
Charlie Parker #2: Dark Hollow
Cotton Malone #7: The Jefferson Key
Hierarchy #1: The Will of the Many
The Hunger Games #0.5: Sunrise on the Reaping
Kate Waters #3: The Suspect
Kay Scarpetta #8: Unnatural Exposure
Les Années glorieuses #1: The Wide World
Lucas Davenport #4: Silent Prey
Maple Hills #3: Daydream
Nayir Sharqi & Katya Hijazi #1: Finding Nouf
Obama Biden Mysteries #1: Hope Never Dies
Rules of Civility #1.5: Table for Two
Shadow of the Leviathan #1: The Tainted Cup
Thursday Next #1: The Eyre Affair
Trilogía del Baztán #3: Offering to the Storm
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, Blagica, Theresa, JennH, and Susan