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Epic FantasyJournalism
Comedy
Appalachia
Pirates
Western
Dragons
Medieval
Mountaineering
Olympics
Revolutionary War
Translated
Women In History
FictionCarnivals and Circuses
Feminist Dystopian
1980s
Robots Are People, Too
Cabin in the Woods
The Book Was Better Than The Movie
Time Travel
Schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Non-Fiction
Fashion
Female Entrepreneurs
Death
Fiction:epic fantasy
nordic noir
fiction from the low countries (Netherlands and Flanders)
magic realism
fantasy (or other genre) originally not written in English
Non-fiction
biographies of female scientists
biographies of female artists
art history
ballet
epidemiology
history of games
history of sports
can we have something with cheer instead of doom and gloom maybe fan fiction, guilty pleasure, just for fun
we have had too much doom gloom and war let us live life be bright and enjoy
FICTIONYA Romance
Magic Systems
Book About Books
Superheroes
NON-FICTION
Discoveries/Inventions
Introverts
non-fiction: The Great Outdoorsfiction set in 1920s
written by someone from the global south (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...) - could be fic or non-fic
I really like that list! Especially:Epic Fantasy
Medieval
Translated
Women in History
Joanne wrote: "Epic Fantasy
Journalism
Comedy
Appalachia
Pirates
Western
Dragons
Medieval
Mountaineering
Olympics
Revolutionary War
Translated
Women In History"
We have done so much war and ancient history maybe we could tryPhilosophy
Travel
Midsummer
cultural
anthologies
steampunk
poetry
plays
thought provoking
society
love triangles
Fiction :Light reading
Chick lit
Islands
2020 bestsellers
France
Road trip
Fact to fiction
African authors
Nonfiction :
Happiness
Self help
Remarkable women
Essays
Strange places
Fiction:- historical fiction
- cultural
- philosophy
- classics
- parallel timelines
- mountain landscape
Non-fiction:
- leadership
- management
- self-help
- adventure
- health
- spirituality
FIction:Latinx literature
Southern lit
Literary fiction
WW2 - Pacific theater (could be NONfiction as well)
NONfiction
Civil War (could be fiction as well)
Immigrant experience (could be fiction as well)
River adventureMistaken identity
Twin fiction (featuring twins or with twins as characters)
Father-son fiction
conspiracy theory
Old Hollywood
Books turned into musicals
NF-chefs, foodies
Fiction:Graphic novel
Polynesian/Taking place in Polynesia
Low fantasy
Superheroes
Family saga
Nonfiction:
Experimental
Memoir
Essay collection
Poetry
Holocaust
Author's Debut (could be an author who has only published 1 book, or the first book an author with many books ever published)Happy Books - or - Books Where Nobody Dies
Quick Reads (less than 250 pages)
Small Town Setting
Food in Fiction (chef main characters or stories that focus around food and drink, like The Lager Queen of Minnesota or Julie & Julia or The City Bakers Guide to Country Living)
Lesser Known Books (less than 500 ratings on GR)
Nonfiction Travel
Mod
From the Randomizer:
Summer 2020
Fiction:
Anthology
Comedy
Nonfiction: Female Entrepreneurs
Fall 2020
Fiction:
Fantasy originally not written in English
The Book Was Better Than The Movie
Nonfiction: Health
Winter 2020
Fiction:
Southern Literature
Love Triangles
Nonfiction: Fashion
Spring 2021
Fiction:
Parallel Timelines
Cabin in the Woods
Nonfiction: Biography/Memoir of Female Artist
The ideas gathered from this thread will be used to build a list from which categories will be randomly chosen.
Each season's Group Reads will have 2 fiction categories and 1 non-fiction category. The year's categories will be posted in advance so Group Reads nominators will have time to research and select appropriate books. For more information about the nominating process, please see task 20.10 in the Rewards of the Challenge. As always, polls will be set up each season to choose between the nominated books for that season's Group Reads.
Choices from the past years we would prefer not to repeat:
Romantic Suspense
Hard Science Fiction
Adventure
Literature from South America
Arthurian Legends
Cozy Cafes
World War I Historical Fiction
Coming of Age
Medieval Fiction - set in 500- 1500 A.D.
Robot Fiction
Military
Urban Fantasy
Police Procedural
Paranormal Romance
Retellings
Seaside Settings
Non-Fiction- Modern True Crime
Climate and Weather
Space
On the Seven Seas - Naval history, sailing memoirs, etc.
History of Science
The Unexplained
Medicine
Animals
Travel
Psychology
Award Winners
Cryptology/Ciphers
Politics
Sports
Ancient Civilizations
Economics
Rebels With a Cause
Feel free to get creative and submit your ideas here! This thread will be open for ideas until March 31. We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with!