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[2020] Reading List - Introduction & Announcements
List of topics for the 2020 reading list
This post will be updated after each mini-poll as topics are confirmed.
Please note this is not the final reading order, that will be decided after all 52 prompts have been selected.
Title and cover
- A book with an emotion in the title
- A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
- A book with an "-ing" word in the title
- A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
- A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
- A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
- A book with a place name in the title (town/city, state/province, country, continent, planet...)
- A book with a silhouette on the cover
Reading List/Goodreads/People/Recommendations
- A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
- An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
Theme
- A book related to the arts (eg. literature, performing arts, visual arts)
- A book related to time
- A book inspired by a leading news story
- A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (death, war/conquest, famine, plague/pestilence)
- A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
- A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We didn't Start the Fire"
- A book with a major theme of survival
- A book related to witches
Setting
- In honor of the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica, a book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live (dangerous, inhospitable, etc)
- A book set in a global city
- A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
- A book set in the southern hemisphere
Character
- A book with a neurodiverse character
- A book about a non-traditional family (eg. grandparents raising grandkids, LGBTQ+)
Genre
- A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
- A classic book you've always meant to read
- A history or historical fiction
- A mystery
- A fantasy
Author & publishing
- A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
- A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
- A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
- A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealander author
- A book published in 2020
- A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
- A book that is between 400-600 pages
- A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
- A book by an author you've only read once before
Awards, challenges, adaptations, best of lists, etc
- A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
- A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
- A book that was nominated for one of the 10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World
- A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
Mix
- To celebrate the Leap Year, a book that can be read in a day
- The 20th book (eg. on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list)
- The first book in a series that you have not started
- Multi-week prompt: Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites (e.g. hot/cold, top/bottom, high/low, etc.)
- A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720 (eg his name, astronomy, religion or the year of his birth).
- A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
- A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
Hi Sophie: I am new to this...When you say 8 votes total or do we have 8 votes for each mini poll? What does second mean?
Yes we have 8 votes each for each mini-poll to spread between your favourite and your least favourite prompts.Second means that somebody else than the person who suggested a prompt needs to support it for it to make it to the mini-poll. You can see examples in the first mini-poll thread here.
Voting for the 1st mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 1st mini poll will be posted on June 9.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Voting for the 3rd mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 3rd mini poll will be posted on June 29.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Voting for the 4th mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 4th mini poll will be posted on July 6.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
4th mini poll results are now posted. Ther next round of suggestions will open on Sunday July 7 at 8pm EDT.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Voting for the 5th mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 5th mini poll will be posted on July 14.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
5th mini poll results are now posted. The next round of suggestions will open on Monday July 15 at 6am EDT.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Voting for the 6th mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 6th mini poll will be posted on July 22.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Sorry guys, I forgot to announce that the 6th mini-poll results are in.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The next round of suggestions will open tomorrow July 23 at 3:00am EDT.
The suggestion thread for the 7th mini-poll has just opened: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The results for the 7th mini-poll have been posted.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The next round of suggestions will open tomorrow, Wednesday, July 31 at 8 am EDT/12 pm GMT and it will be for multi-week prompts only.
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Voting for the 8th mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 8th mini poll will be posted on August 7.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Voting for the 9th mini-poll is now open. The link will be posted in the main topic shortly. Until then, it may be found in comment 87 on page 2.
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9th mini poll results are now posted. The next round of suggestions will open on Thursday August 15 at 9am EDT.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Voting for the 10th mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 8th mini poll will be posted on August 21.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
10th mini poll results are now posted. The next round of suggestions will open on Thursday August 15 at 6:30pm EDT.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Please vote for how many suggestions should be included in the upcoming 11th mini poll. https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
Please vote for how you want to use your votes in the 11th mini poll. https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
The suggestion thread for the 11th mini poll is now open. This poll will close after 15 prompts are suggested.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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11th mini poll results are now posted. The next round of suggestions will open on Friday August 30 at 10pm EDT.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The suggestion thread for the 12th mini poll is now open. This poll will close after 15 prompts are seconded.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Voting for the 12th mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 12th mini poll will be posted on September 6 after 8pm EDT.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
12th mini poll results are now posted. The next round of suggestions will open on Saturday, September 7 around 12am EDT.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The suggestion thread for the 13th mini poll is now open. This poll will close after 15 prompts are seconded.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Voting for the 13th mini poll is now open. Link to the poll has been posted in message 1 at the link below. Results of the 13th mini poll will be posted on September 14 after 11am EDT.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Results of the 13th mini poll are now posted: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...The next round of suggestions will open on Sunday 15 September at around 6am GMT.
The suggestion thread for the 14th mini poll is now open. This poll will close after 15 prompts are seconded.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Congratulations to Sara who was the winner of the summer reading challenge prize draw. The prize was to choose one prompt for our 2020 reading list and Sara has chosen the following prompt:A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720 (eg his name, astronomy, religion or the year of his birth).
The list of all the prompts chosen so far can be found in message 2 of this thread.
Voting for the 14th mini poll is now open: https://www.surveymoz.com/s/Q2VIC/To view all the suggestions and join the discussion before you vote please go to this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Results of this mini poll will be announced on Saturday 21 September.
Results of the 14th mini poll are now posted: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...The next round of suggestions will open at 7pm GMT on Sunday 22 September.
The suggestion thread for the 15th mini poll is now open. This poll will close after 15 prompts are seconded.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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To view all of the suggestions and join the discussion before you vote, please go to this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Results of this mini poll will be announced on Saturday, September 28
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The next round of suggestions will open at 10 AM EST on Sunday, September 29.
The suggestion thread for the 16th mini poll is now open. This poll will close after 15 prompts are seconded.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Voting for the 16th mini poll is now open: https://www.surveymoz.com/s/G3G42/
Results of this mini poll will be announced on Saturday, October 5.
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We will be opening the next suggestion thread after our Close Call poll closes. You can vote on the Close Call poll here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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The entire Around the Year challenge list is generated by the group members. We enjoyed the process so much in the past four years that we are creating another list for 2020.
The process will start on 1 June and we aim to have a completed list by sometime in October or November. Everyone is very welcome to participate, whether this is your first or fifth year.
How it will work:
The topics will be chosen through a series of mini-polls. For each mini-poll there will be a suggestion thread where you can propose a topic. A suggestion needs to be seconded by one other person before it’s included in the poll. Once 15-20 suggestions have been seconded the thread will close for new suggestions. There will be a break of around 24 hours between the suggestions thread closing and the poll opening for voting. This is to allow people to discuss the options before voting opens.
The mods will create a poll for members to choose their favourite suggestions. Each member has eight votes, which you can use to vote for your “top” and/or “bottom” choices. (See below for an example.) Polls normally stay open for one week, and the mods will announce the results shortly after. The number of winning suggestions from each poll may vary depending on the distribution of votes.
Then a new suggestion thread will open and we’ll repeat the process until we have chosen 51 topics for the 2020 list (one topic will be selected by the person who wins the summer reading challenge draw).
How to participate:
* Follow this thread as the mods will post here when new suggestion threads are opened, when mini-polls start, and when the results of a mini-poll are available.
* If you want to suggest a topic you can do so whenever a new suggestion thread opens. You don’t have to suggest a topic in order to participate in the poll.
* When a new poll is posted follow the link to the survey site and vote for your favourite and/or least favourite prompts.
* Look out for the results and the opening of a new suggestion thread.
* The topics chosen for the 2020 list will be posted in this thread and the topics that were suggested but not chosen will be posted here.
Rules
- The mods may add additional rules as necessary, therefore please always read the rules in each suggestion thread before participating.
- Each person may only suggest or second one topic per poll.
- The number of suggestions included in each poll may vary and will be stated in each suggestion thread.
- If a suggestion has been included in three polls and has not been selected then it may not be submitted again.
- Each person may only vote once in each poll. The survey site allows us to identify people who vote multiple times and duplicate votes will be excluded.
- Please be respectful of other people when participating in discussion. Let’s remember that we’re doing the challenge differently and for different reasons, so avoid judging others’ choices or suggestions.
Multi-week suggestions
Later in the process there will be an opportunity to suggest multi-week prompts. Multi-week suggestions may only be submitted in this poll. The poll will also include the option of voting against including any multi-week prompts.
Default prompts
This year we have chosen not to include any default prompts (in previous years these included a book published in the year the challenge took place and a book from the Goodreads Choice Awards). You’re welcome to suggest a topic that’s previously been included by default and it will be voted on in a mini-poll like any other suggestion.
Voting examples
You have eight votes in total which you can use to vote for your top and bottom choices. You can use less than eight votes if you wish.
For example:
Voter one
Top: Suggestions 1, 4, 7, 9
Bottom: Suggestions 2, 10, 11, 12
Total: 8 votes
Voter two
Top: Suggestions 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14
Bottom: None
Total: 8 votes
Voter three
Top: Suggestions 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14
Bottom: Suggestions 3, 10
Total: 8 votes
Voter four
Top: Suggestions 1, 6
Bottom: Suggestion 12
Total: 3 votes