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[2022] Reading List - Introduction, Schedule, and FAQs
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As always, our first rule is the Golden Rule. We expect all group members to treat each other with respect and dignity. Let’s remember that we’re all doing the challenge differently and for different reasons, so avoid judging others’ choices or suggestions.
Voting Rules
- Each person may only suggest or second one topic per poll.
- 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. Surveys that we receive without links to Goodreads profiles will also be excluded.
- Prompts that are in the bottom of any poll cannot be resubmitted in later polls unless substantially reworked.
- Prompts that are submitted in 3 polls and do not make it to the final list cannot be resubmitted in later polls unless substantially reworked.
Multi-Week Polls
- We will have one dedicated poll for multi-week prompts.
- We will have as many winners as the poll calls for.
- Multi-week prompts are NOT allowed to be submitted in any other poll.
Pre-Poll
- We will have one pre-poll with a few prompts that make it on to the list frequently.
- Unless one of these is expressly in the bottom votes, they may all be renominated for the list if they do not make it in during the pre-poll.
- This poll will occur before the formal voting process begins.
When Voting
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. We’ve introduced this for two reasons:
1. On a few occasions in each poll, people have used more than the allotted number of votes, either because they aren’t familiar with the rules or just by mistake. When this happens our only option is to disregard the vote as we can’t identify the voter to ask them to resubmit. By asking for your profile address we’ll be able to message you and ask you to vote again if you’ve accidentally used more than the allotted number of votes.
2. Unfortunately a very small number of people have voted more than once per poll and so we are asking for this information to prevent duplicate votes.
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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.
LIST PROGRESS: 52/52 Prompts Selected
TITLE
- A book with a language or nationality in the title
- A book with a time-related word in the title
- A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
- 2 books with the same word in the title
- A book with 22 or more letters in the title
COVER
- A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
- A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
- A book without a person on the cover
- A book with handwriting on the cover
THEME
- A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
- A book related to mythology
- A book with a theme of food or drink
- A book related to a game
- A book related to Earth Day
- A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
SETTING
- 3 books set on three different continents
- A book set in a small town or rural area
- A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1950
- A book set on or near a body of water
- A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
CHARACTER
- A book where the main character is a female detective or police officer
- A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
- A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
- A book about a woman in STEM
- A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
GENRE
- A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
- A book with gothic elements
- A book from the historical fiction genre
AUTHOR & PUBLISHING
- A book published in 2022
- A book published at least 10 years ago
- A book by a Latin American author
- A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
- A book with a Jewish character or author
- A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
GOODREADS & RECOMMENDATIONS
- A book posted in the 2021 or 2022 ATY Best Book of the Month threads
- A book connected to a book you read in 2021
- A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
- A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
AWARDS, CHALLENGES, & LISTS
- A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards
- A book from NPR's Book Concierge
- A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
OTHER
- A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
- 2 books related to flora and fauna
- The next book in a series
- A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
- A book related to glass
- A book related to inclement weather
- A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
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Questions will be pulled from the Wild Discussion thread. Please see that thread to ask questions.
Q: What's a pre-poll?
A: The pre-poll is a poll of commonly suggested prompts that we vote on before the suggestion process starts, kind of to get them out of the way.
Q: What's a multi-week poll?
A: Multi-week prompts are a set of prompts (usually 2-4) that are connected somehow. We vote on these prompts in a separate poll because members found it difficult to vote for them when they were up against single-week prompts. This poll will usually be in the first half of the polling.
Q: How long do polls stay open?
A: The polls will stay open from the date on the schedule (when the voting thread opens) through the date that the results are announced. We suggest getting your vote in the day before results are announced to make sure your vote is counted!
Q: What time will the threads be posted?
A: The mods are all in the US, but we try to vary when things go live. We will usually post on the threads when the next one will go live (so we will post on the results thread for poll 1 when the suggestions will open for poll 2, etc.)
Q: Do we have themes for the polls?
A: Aside from the multi-week poll (and, sometimes, a Close Calls poll), we try not to limit the polls to certain types of prompts. Occasionally, as we get to the end of the process, we may mention prompt types that we are low on, like genre prompts or character-based prompts. However, we typically don't restrict polls to a certain type of prompt unless we feel it necessary.
Q: Is there a word limit for prompts?
A: No. But we have noticed that shorter, more concise prompts are more likely to make it into the final list, so we encourage you to workshop your suggestion in the Wild Discussion before submitting if you think it is too long or wordy.
Q: What's a Wild Card?
A: Wild Cards exist so that if there is a prompt you don’t connect with or can’t find a book for, you can use a Wild Card for that prompt. We generally say you have one Wild Card per challenge. That being said, no one is policing your reading, and we encourage you to tackle the challenge in a way that best fits your lifestyle and reading habits, so you can use Wild Cards however you’d like.
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*Pre-Poll will be listed at the end of June before the official voting begins.
*Number of polls will depend on the amount of prompts voted in during each poll. It could be less than 19 or more than 19.
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The first round of suggestions will open on July 1st.
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The poll will open tomorrow (July 3rd) morning and you will have until Tuesday (July 6th) morning to vote.
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Poll 2 suggestions will open tomorrow morning
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Suggestions for Poll 3 will open tomorrow (July 13) around 7 am central time!
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Suggestions for Poll 4 Multi-Week Poll will open around midday CST tomorrow (July 19).
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Suggestions for Poll 5 will open Sunday, July 25th in the morning (CST).
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Check this thread to find the link to vote and to catch up on all the discussion:
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If you missed it, results for Poll 7 are available here.
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The next round of suggestions will open on Wednesday, August 18 around 10 am CST.
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Suggestions for Poll 10 will open around 1 PM CST tomorrow, August 24
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The next round of suggestions will go live in the late afternoon on Monday, August 30.
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Catch up on the discussion and find the voting link here:
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The next round of suggestions will open tomorrow (Sept 17) around 8 am CST.
The entire Around the Year challenge list is generated by the group members. We enjoyed the process so much in the past six years that we are creating another list for 2022.
The process will start on July 1 and we aim to have a completed list by sometime in September or October. Everyone is very welcome to participate, whether this is your first or seventh 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 the required number of 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 favorite 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 will stay open for three days, 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 50 topics for the 2022 list (two topics will be chosen by winners of two reading competitions within the group).
How to participate:
* 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 favorite and/or least favorite prompts.
* Look out for the results and the opening of a new suggestion thread.
*The topics chosen for the 2022 list will be posted in this thread and the topics that were suggested but not chosen will be posted on a separate thread (to be linked here later).
Voting Process
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 1
Top: Suggestions 1, 4, 7, 9
Bottom: Suggestions 2, 10, 11, 12
Total: 8 votes
Voter 2
Top: Suggestions 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14
Bottom: None
Total: 8 votes
Voter 3
Top: Suggestions 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14
Bottom: Suggestions 3, 10
Total: 8 votes
Voter 4
Top: Suggestions 1, 6
Bottom: Suggestion 12
Total: 3 votes