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How about a Sub-Genres Challenge? Readers would choose a main genre, and then read books from several of the sub-genres. For example...
Main Genre: Science Fiction
Sub-genres: Dystopia, Steampunk, Time Travel, Aliens, Alternate History, Alternate Universe, Apocalyptic, Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Utopia, Near Future, Military Sci-Fi, Robots, Hard Sci-Fi, etc.
Main Genre: Mystery
Sub-genres: Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Detective, Cozy, Murder, Noir, Historical, Paranormal, Hard-Boiled, etc.
Main Genre: Science Fiction
Sub-genres: Dystopia, Steampunk, Time Travel, Aliens, Alternate History, Alternate Universe, Apocalyptic, Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Utopia, Near Future, Military Sci-Fi, Robots, Hard Sci-Fi, etc.
Main Genre: Mystery
Sub-genres: Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Detective, Cozy, Murder, Noir, Historical, Paranormal, Hard-Boiled, etc.
How about a challenge based around a specific year. In other words, if someone chooses 1990, they read as many books as they can that were published that year.
Love those both! Keep the great ideas coming!!!
I was thinking of doing a "Years of You" type thing. Pick important years to you (year you and family members were born, graduated, married, had kids, etc.) and read a certain number of books published or set in each year you pick.
SarahKat wrote: "I was thinking of doing a "Years of You" type thing. Pick important years to you (year you and family members were born, graduated, married, had kids, etc.) and read a certain number of books publi..."We are actually doing that challenge this year. The Every Year Challenge will be posted shortly, but thank you for the great idea SaraKat!
Places and spaces (not countries, more like terrain and topography and man-made places)...The book (novel, novella, historical fiction, historical account, biography) must take place primarily in the place (or space) listed - or the place listed must figure prominently in the plot (if fiction) or event (if history, historical fiction) or life (if biographical).
Read 20 - these are my suggested "places and spaces":
On the beach
On an island
On the water
In the water
On a river
Swamplands
In the desert
In outer space
On another planet (or satellite, such as our own moon)
In the upper atmosphere
Underground
Mountainous regions
In the woods
In heavy wilderness
On the plains or tundra
On an icecap
Near a volcano
Traversing time and space
Traversing 3 or more eco-systems
Entirely within a single building, room, or vehicle
And for the bonus - number 21:
Choose your own place or space - be original (try not to "borrow" from the list above)
What do you think?
Books that you are desperate to read or books that you don't want to put off any longer.The title's a bit sketchy but you're free to change it.
When I look at my bookshelves, there are always books that I really want to read this year. There may be a classic that you haven't got round to or a book where the film is coming out or a film you got as a present or a book that has been recommended to you. There are always books that appeal to us more than others.
I was thinking of a Rory Gilmore inspired reading challenge. In Gilmore Girls, Rory mentions 336 different book titles, most of them classics. I was thinking of picking 10-25 of the titles on the list and try to complete those in 2018.
I second the sub genre.How about Page to Screen. I also see challenges only for books to film which gets pretty annoying. There are some amazing mini-series made from books and they deserve love as well. And this way, people aren't limited to either just mini series or just films.
Great ideas everyone! Keep them coming!
"Everything is Connected" Challenge:Pick any book to start. The next book you read should have a tie in to the first. Keep selecting books that have a tie in to the one immediately before it. Any kind of tie in will do.
Examples of tie ins could be:
- One of the words in the title is the same as the previous book
- One of the words in the title starts with one of the same letters as the previous book
- The author is the same
- The author's first or last name starts with one of the same letters as the previous author
- The author is related to the previous author in some way (relative, colleague, etc.)
- One of the characters' names is the same
- It has the same number of pages
- One of the settings in the prior book is the same (pick from any of the locations if there are more than one)
- Both were translated to another media (movies or TV or other)
- It's in the same genre
- It contains one of the same tags
- It's on the same list in Listopia
- Both were made into films or television
- Both start with the same word
There are probably many more ways to establish a linkage so just state what the book has in common with the previous book read. I think this could be fun, similar to the game, "Telephone," the book you end up with could be completely different than the book you start with, keeping just one similarity along the way.
Joy D wrote: ""Everything is Connected" Challenge:Pick any book to start. The next book you read should have a tie in to the first. Keep selecting books that have a tie in to the one immediately before it. Any..."
Fun idea.
I like Joy D's suggestionHow about a publication date challenge.
Read a book that was published in Jan, Feb, March and so on
Pick it for Me challenge. You can still set a goal of how many you want to read. In your entry you can put down 3 books that you are interested in reading. The next person in the list picks one of the three books for you and puts their 3 books in their entry and so on. When you are finished your book, you update your goal and add in the next 3 books you are interested in reading.
Great idea Amanda!Wow, so many wonderful challenges to choose from!
Jennifer wrote: "How about a challenge based around a specific year. In other words, if someone chooses 1990, they read as many books as they can that were published that year."How about they choose the year they are born in?
The yearly challenge I've just completed is actually to take part in one monthly challenge for every month of the year.:)
You all are full of such wonderful ideas. I love them all! Unfortunately, some of them are too close to yearly challenge or themes we already have going for this year, so I have narrowed down the ideas that we can consider.Options:
Tina and Jennifer’s idea - Specific Subjects
You could choose a Sub Genre, a book Classification, or even a Year to explore.
RIque’s idea - Places and Spaces
Cerine’s idea - The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
Jennifer’s idea - Choosing Books with different Publication Months
Heather’s idea - Complete One Monthly Challenge
Please keep the ideas coming though because so far, every idea would make a wonderful yearly challenge (so much so that some of you predicted what we were going to post. Great minds think alike!).
we did a recommendations thread for the 10,000 members celebration what about doing a challenge where it's a chain of recommendations from members. where you commit to reading x number of recommendations out of your comfort zone per year? I have also started listening to books so how about committing to hours verses pages?
I've wanted to do this for a while - an 'Around the World in Books' challenge. There's a list of 12 countries, and you've to read a book by an author from that country. That simple.Members are free to swap out countries. But there are two restrictions for choosing a country -
1. There must be one country from each of the populated continents
2. You can not choose two countries that share a border
(I would write a program to randomly choose the suggested list or take a member's poll)
Sounds good Aparajita. I already boarded in a personal challenge, beginning mid december: reading through America (one book written by an author born in a each of the countries in America - South, Central and North - or one book whose story happened in these countries).
Both very interesting ideas! Thank you!
I like a fiction to reality challenge. Read a fiction book followed by a non-fiction book on a theme from the fiction book.
Rique wrote: "Places and spaces (not countries, more like terrain and topography and man-made places)...The book (novel, novella, historical fiction, historical account, biography) must take place primarily in..."
I love this idea!
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With over 14,000 members in our amazing group, we know you have great challenge ideas. You have shown us that over the years. This is your opportunity to create A 2018 Yearly Challenge for our 2018 Reading Challenge Group. As a challenge creator, you can choose a theme and create the challenge around that theme. You can choose any theme that inspires you. Yearly challenges generally have several options for members to select from and often ask members to read across several types of books.
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The winning challenge creator will see their challenge posted in the 2018 Yearly Challenge Folder. The challenge winner will be selected by the group moderators and may have some modifications for clarity and ease of use. All 2018 Yearly Challenge entries must be posted by December 10, 2017, and the winner will be selected by December 15, 2017. Please post your entry for the Challenge below. We look forward to seeing all of your creative ideas