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I'm going to second the DNA prompt
Tracy, I see a pretty full list of phrases, starting with "we have seen better days" and ending with "melted into thin air"
Brittany, thank you for the excellent References list on your prompt lol. Your links are broken, though. If you copy and pasted them, it cuts off, so you need to copy the full link address then paste them in. Let me know when you've done that!
It's time for our next round of suggestions!Just a reminder that you can find a full list of prompts already on the 2025 list in the third post on this thread.
How Suggestions Work:
- The topics for the 2025 reading challenge list will be determined by a series of mini-polls, the number of which depends on the number of prompts winning in each mini-polls
- Suggestions for each poll will be opened until 15 suggestions are received and “seconded”.
- The voting thread will open the day after suggestions go live. You can find the schedule here.
Rules:
- Each member can only suggest OR second one prompt
- Suggestions close after 15 total seconded prompts
When suggesting and seconding, feel free to provide examples and descriptions that may help other members understand the prompt better. These descriptions and examples will be copied over to the voting thread for further discussion.
As always, please express any and all feedback (respectfully, of course), either here or in The Wild Discussion.
Moving on to Voting:
1. A book connected to one of the phrases attributed to Shakespeare
2. A book connected to mushrooms
3. A book related to National DNA Day
4. A book that comforts you
5. A book with a lock or keyhole on the cover
6. A book with a tv or film adaptation
7. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears
8. A book that deals with time travel, alternate universes, or alternate timelines
9. A book about or involving modern media
10. A book with an occupation in the title
11. A book about breaking up or breaking down
12. A book by an author whose publishing career spans at least ten years
13. A book set in a country bordering the Caribbean Sea
14. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time
15. A book involving an island
To Be Seconded:
- A book involving a secret
- A banned or challenged book
Nancy, we got your vote!
POLL 5BOTTOM
A book related to motels
A book that contains another book
A book whose cover looks like a collage
NO DESIGNATION
A party book
A book with “yesterday,” “today” or “tomorrow” in the title
A book by any author who was a winner, runner-up, or finalist of any of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards
A book with skull or bone imagery (or in the title)
A book that takes place during a holiday
A book involving one or more animals
A book that is number 2, 5, or 25 in a series
A book club recommendation
A book about books
Ellie, I came across that new book on the published in 2025 list and immediately added it to my TBR! I'm real excited to read it (I just read Migrations for the air prompt last week!)
Results have been posted for Poll 5!https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The next round of suggestions will open on Wednesday, July 31 around 9 am CDT.
Here's our next round of results, and we have three winners!Top:
A book with waves on the cover
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025
A haunting book
The listopia for the Best Book of the Month has been started and linked here for 2024, and the one for 2025 will begin in January.
Bottom:
A book related to motels
A book that contains another book
A book whose cover looks like a collage
The next round of suggestions will open on Wednesday, July 31 around 9 am CDT.
Liz, you definitely can apply any books that you read this year to the challenge!I ended up shifting my plans a bit once I got to the beach. I was looking at being 2 books behind on the challenge, and I decided to go for some lighter (physically lighter, and mentally lighter) books - Our Last Days in Barcelona for Mediterranean setting and The Briar Club for going for gold!
Ah yes, vacation brain and copy errors. Result will be posted Friday the 2nd.
I ended up downvoting single word title because we already have ten letters or less on the 2025 list, which will likely be a one word title for me.
It is now time to vote for our ANNIVERSARY LIST: Throwing it back to 2016!For more information about this special Anniversary List, see this thread.
Voting will open in the morning of Sunday, July 28 and results will be posted in the morning of Friday, August 2 (CDT time).
How it works:
- When the voting opens, follow the link to the mini-poll that will be added at the end of this post
- You have a total of 8 votes this poll to spread across your favorite and least favorite prompts (you can also use less than 8 votes)
- You can find examples of acceptable voting practices on the Introduction thread.
We are asking people to include their Goodreads profile address when they vote. To find this, just go to your own profile and then copy the URL/web address. If for some reason you can't link to your Goodreads profile, please post your full Goodreads name with enough identifiable information that we'll be able to access your profile.
As this is an ANNIVERSARY LIST poll, only ONE prompt will make the final list. Use your votes wisely!
Poll Prompts:
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
14. A book with a strong female character
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
19. A New York Times best-seller
24. A book written by at least two authors
25. A book about a famous historical figure
26. An adventure book
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
45. A book with a one-word title
46. A time travel novel
51. A collection
52. A book set in a fictional location
VOTE HERE: https://forms.gle/nndjMQgcxHk2ZqtV9
I was also surprised by it! I will make a listopia for these anniversary prompts when I get back to my computer.
Tracy, the formatting of the prompts on our list say that the prompt should start with “A book…” unless it’s a genre or something else (“A historical fiction book” for example). I think “a book” and “any book” in this scenario mean the same thing. “A book with blue on the cover” and “Any book with blue on the cover” have the same meaning there, and it does the same in your prompt, so I won’t be editing it unless other members express confusion. But I think the meaning is clear because then you go on to say “by any author…”
Sorry! That’s just the formatting tweaks we make as mods to keep our list clean.
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.
