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As my first suggestion:Have a week where you read just the FIRST and LAST book of your favorite series.
How about a "Reader's Choice" category for something that wouldn't fit into the others? I'm having a hard time fitting some of the books I want to read into the categories since I've used up my favorites so far!!
This is very timely, because I was just thinking about next year this morning. I was also thinking about having already read 27 books for this year's challenge, and wondering how many books I will get to read after I finish each of these categories before I start again!
What about 'Favorite book from your childhood'? I'm dying to re-read some of my childhood favorites again.
A book written the same year and month of your birth
A book with a "great opening line".
Read a book in which it's title begins with the first letter of your name.
A book that you've seen the movie of but haven't read (because you either didn't know it was a book first, didn't get around to reading the book first or just didn't bother to)
A book that has more than one author (2 or more) :)
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A book about mental illness (substance abuse, alzheimer's, autism, bipolar, etc.)
A book picked for you by someone else. You could ask this person to choose from your TBR!
A book that requires you to complete activities or experiments. Example: Journal assignments, running challenge, spiritual practice.
-an existentialist themed book
We could have one book per continent that would make 6 books : one for North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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As it went really fast, I think for the next we'll add a rule like "don't submit a week in the first 2 days, if you submitted the last time".
Narma: one suggestion only please, edit your post ;)
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2. A book you want to read (aka the Reader’s Choice)
3. A book about sports
4. Two books with the same title
5. One of you favorite books from your childhood
6. A book written the same year and month of your birth
7. A book with a "great opening line"
8. A book in which the title begins with the first letter of your name
9. A book sets on another planet
10. A retelling
11. A book that you've seen the movie of but haven't read
12. A book that has more than one author (2 or more)
13. A book about mental illness (substance abuse, alzheimer's, autism, bipolar, etc.)
14. A book picked for you by someone else (You could ask this person to choose from your TBR)
15. A book that requires you to complete activities or experiments (Journal assignments, running challenge, spiritual practice...)
16. A book based on an ancient epic
17. A play
18. A book sets in a specific continent (possibility: read one book per continent, so 6 weeks)
19. A historical biography
20. An existentialist themed book
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A novella
A book your spouse/significant other/partner picked for you to read.
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Submissions are closed, there will be a new topic for the next suggestions later this month :)
Zaz wrote: "And 20! It's closed.As it went really fast, I think for the next we'll add a rule like "don't submit a week in the first 2 days, if you submitted the last time".
Narma: one suggestion only please..."
Sorry all. Got a little carried away with the suggestions. Alright updated.
Zaz wrote: "Hey Mariah, there are single people out there :pYeah, I think any challenge topics that requires you to have a specific person in your life (ie. mother, father, partner, sibling, grandparent, best friend) need to be scrapped. There's a difference between narrow topics with regards to the books themselves & narrow topics that involve someone's actual life, if that makes any sense?
These are some great suggestions!!! I also think we should keep some of the topics from this year (Memoir, nonfiction, book published this year, etc.).
Manda wrote: "A book with a "great opening line"."I second this one!or a book with your favorite opening line
My suggestion is that you read a book that really pushes your comfort zone or it goes against the grain. To read a genre that you haven't read before, purely for exploration purposes.
A book about royalty.A fiction book written by a celebrity
Some great suggestions here! Looking forward to next year's list being user/reader created. Can't wait to see what topics the group decides on.For everyone posting suggestions after to first 20 - don't forget to pay attention and post them in a future suggestion thread! There are some good suggestions in there!
Thanks to the mods/other people taking the time to set this all up!
100% Random: blindly choose from your bookshelf/store/library/list
this is a great idea, to let the readers have input into what they want to read. I love it!
Can the poll be sooner? I think the longer the poll is up, the better because not all members are online everyday. This would give them more time to see that they should actually vote.
In the first post of this topic, it is written that the poll will be open from the 14th til the 20th of June, I'm sure that leaves plenty of time for everyone to enter.
Zaz wrote: "Hey Mariah, there are single people out there :pSubmissions are closed, there will be a new topic for the next suggestions later this month :)"
Sorry. I wasn't trying to leave people out or not think of certain groups. My bad.
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The 2016 Reading Challenge will continue the concept of this year's challenge, with 52 weekly topics. Users then choose a book fitting each topic in order to complete the challenge.
How it will work:
The topics for the 2016 RC list will be determined through 13 mini-polls. Each user will vote for their favorite 4 topics in each mini-poll, which will then add up to the 52 topics (13 polls x 4 topics/poll=52 weekly topics). Suggestions for each poll will be open for one week (or until 20 suggestions are received) and then opened up for voting for one week. This timeframe allows for a completed list at the beginning of December and, for each month, we'll try to have one category with a short book, so it will be easier to catch-up.
First poll:
Suggestions: Closed!
Voting: June 14-June 20
Rules:
- One suggestion per poll per user
- Suggestions close June 13 or after 20 total suggestions, whichever comes first
- 4 votes per poll per user
**Disclaimer: Rules and details were the consensus of the users in the 2016 discussions. There were previously over 100 suggestions, a count that would be very unmanageable for voters and survey creators.