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BEST OF THE YEARBest Dressed
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Sirens by Emilia Hart
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Most Likely to Leave You Guessing
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Sirens by Emilia Hart
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Most Likely to Make You Want to Join the Club
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Most Likely to Give You the Ick
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
Best Books to Finish Your GR Goal
Short and Sweet
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
HM: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
HM: Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
Most Likely to Make You Believe in Magic
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
The Sirens by Emilia Hart
HM: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Best Books to Help You Empathize
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
HM: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
HM: There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Most Likely to Make You Say WHAT?!
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
The Sirens by Emilia Hart
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Best Distraction from the World
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Most Likely to Leave You Sobbing
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
HM: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
HM: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
HM: Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Most Realistic Love Story
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Most Likely to Make You Appreciate Your Family
Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson
HM: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Most Wholesome
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
HM: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
Best #TBT
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester
HM: The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Jamie Chang
HM: There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
HM: Husbands & Lovers by by Beatriz Williams
HM: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Most Likely to Make You Cheer
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
Best Book Club Pick
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Best Not-a-Novel
The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
HM: Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky; What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
Best Series
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
HM: Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross, Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Best Audiobook
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
HM: Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera;None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Best Nonfiction
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
HM: Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar, Thicker than Water: A Memoir by Kerry Washington
Best YA Fiction
When the World Tips Over
HM: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
Best Adult Fiction
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
HM: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
FIVE STARS
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Thicker than Water: A Memoir by Kerry Washington
4.5 STARS
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
The Sirens by Emilia Hart
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Jamie Chang
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
FOUR STARS
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
James by Percival Everett
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Hanging City by Charlie N. Holmberg
56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis
Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Calypso by David Sedaris
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Husbands & Lovers by by Beatriz Williams
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Thanks for the response Jillian!Just to make sure it's clear:
The top section is for pages read. You would only include pages you've read since you woke up this morning.
The second section is for audio listened to. I typically round to the nearest quarter hour, so 2 hours and 40 minutes, I'd put 2.75 (knowing I'd eventually make up those 5 minutes the next day). I just personally prefer to have the minutes rounded like that for my own tracking (and my not-so-math brain).
Also, audio would be minutes of the book you read, not minutes you actually listened. If you listened to 10 minutes of the book on 2x speed, you would log 10 minutes listened, not 5 minutes. I hope that makes sense.
Once you finish the book, you place it under your column next to the prompt you are marking it for, and then you'd click the check box at the end of the row. These are flexible and can be adjusted as needed, but it's a good way to get a visual of how you are doing in the challenge.
I'd probably go with Stand-Alone or ARC for that one, Sheyanne, since it seems like those two have the least amount of book options on the Planning tab.
Updated through here!You can find your team selections here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
It's not too late! I am assigning people to teams as they post.
Welcome to the final read-a-thon of 2024. The read-a-thon starts from when you wake up on Saturday, December 7 until when you go to sleep on Sunday, December 15, and the goal is to read as much as you can and to have tons of fun. Feel free to participate in as few or as many games and challenges as you like.So let’s kick off this read-a-thon with some questions, and don’t forget to keep coming back to the Read-a-Thon folder throughout the week.
1. What are your goals for the read-a-thon?
2. Are there any books you're dying to start or finish?
3. Where will you be doing most of your reading?
4. Are you participating in the team challenge?
5. Is anything that's going to stand in the way of your reading this week? Let us cheer you on!
6. What are you most looking forward to with this read-a-thon?
When you click More, and then Show All, you will see the top 100 shelves for the book. This book has both "westerns" and "western" in the top 100, so you can use it for that!
I'm starting The History of Sound today on audio, which has 2025 tagged! Since that will likely be one of the more difficult tags, I'll use that book for this one.Also should finish The Vibrant Years today or tomorrow, but it fits lots of prompts. I'll likely use it for Humor since that one doesn't have any other planned reads.
Bea, for the planning tab, people generally mark all of the prompts that the book fits, then use the Possibilities column to see which tag has the least options and use the book for that tag. Of course your captains may have different instructions, but I wanted to pop in and clarify.
The goal is to have the exact same shelf name, Tammie, so no to the plural/not plural.There is... no difference lol. Just an oversight on my part. I will remove one of them from the list to minimize confusion.
Hey everyone, happy read-a-thon! A note on the spreadsheet:The Completion Sheet tab is your best friend here. You will log hours and pages read to earn wild cards, and you will mark book tags as completed here. To do that, simply write the book you've finished in the row for the book tag you are using it for and the column for your name. Then check off the checkbox at the end of the row. This will mark the whole row as completed. If you have any questions, please send them to the Intro & FAQs thread. Happy reading!
(And there's no difference, that is completely an oversight on my part, lol just read two books that have an "own" tag)
Hey everyone, happy read-a-thon! A note on the spreadsheet:The Completion Sheet tab is your best friend here. You will log hours and pages read to earn wild cards, and you will mark book tags as completed here. To do that, simply write the book you've finished in the row for the book tag you are using it for and the column for your name. Then check off the checkbox at the end of the row. This will mark the whole row as completed. If you have any questions, please send them to the Intro & FAQs thread. Happy reading!
Hey everyone, happy read-a-thon! A note on the spreadsheet:The Completion Sheet tab is your best friend here. You will log hours and pages read to earn wild cards, and you will mark book tags as completed here. To do that, simply write the book you've finished in the row for the book tag you are using it for and the column for your name. Then check off the checkbox at the end of the row. This will mark the whole row as completed. If you have any questions, please send them to the Intro & FAQs thread. Happy reading!
Updated through here!You can find your team assignments here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
It's not too late to join! I'll be adding people as you sign up.
Updated through here!
Hey y'all! Happy to be on a team with you guys! My life is VERY busy at the moment so I'm hoping this read-a-thon reminds me to slow down and read a bit when I can. Aiming for 3 books this week, but hoping for more!
Updated through here!
Yes, anything with illustrations is a 200 page requirement here!
updated through here!
