2024 Yearly Challenge Poll + Suggestions

[Ashleigh]

YEARLY CHALLENGES SUGGESTIONS AND POLL
Duration: October 1 to October 15, 2023

The five most active yearly challenges of 2023 will automatically return in 2024. The top five that will return for next year:
1. Let's Turn Pages
2. Bibliopoly
3. Popsugar Challenge
4. Clear the Shelves
5. A-Z Challenge

Among our group's remaining 10 yearly challenges, you are able to vote for one you'd like to see return.
The remaining 10 yearly challenges are:
- United in Reading
- To Boldly Go
- TBR Jar
- Serial Reader
- Piled High
- I Spy
- Bookworms Take Shelfies
- 100 Years of Wonder
- Genre Bingo
- Magical Mystery Tour

To vote in the 2024 Yearly Challenges poll from October 1st to Oct 15th, click on the link: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Please feel free to suggest ideas for additional yearly challenges for 2024 in this discussion in the comments below. These can be ones that you've enjoyed in the past, monthly or quarterly ones you'd like to see made into yearlies or brand new ones you've thought up by yourself.

Again, this poll opens on October 1st PDT and closes on October 15th, but you may comment in this thread for new ideas any time.

We can't wait to see what you can come up with!

[Debra Diggs]

I would like to see the October monthly challenge, Where Dreams Come True, made into a yearly challenge.

[Rachael]

A spell it out challenge inspired by whichever yearly theme is picked? Like the Spell a Better World challenge from a couple of years ago.

I also have an idea based around the Dewey Decimal system. Reading fictional or non-fictional books that fit the following classes:
000 – Computer science, information and general works
100 – Philosophy and psychology
200 – Religion
300 – Social sciences
400 – Language
500 – Pure science
600 – Technology
700 – Arts and recreation
800 – Literature
900 – History and geography
If anyone wanted to challenge themselves more, they can go even more specific e.g. a sub-category of arts and recreation is 750 Painting.

[Carmen]

I loved the May monthly challenge "Up & Atom", I think it would make a great yearly challenge or something on those lines where we have to find letters/symbols into the titles.
The 2022 Q4 "Word Hunt" would also make a wonderful yearly challenge (words related to the yearly theme )

[Lisa]

While I didn't participate in the 100 Years of Wonder (because I had to draw the line somewhere), it still sounded like a very fun challenge, that I kinda wish I had joined. However, if the idea were to come back next year, it doesn't make sense to make it about Disney again, in my opinion.

Instead, I'm suggesting taking the concept and adapting it to books that have a centennial celebration coming up in 2024. It could, for example, classics that were originally published 100-years ago (e.g. A Passage To India), or it could focus on books written by authors who have a 100-year anniversary of their birth (e.g. James Baldwin), or death (e.g. Joseph Conrad)

[Lorraine]

I am thinking of a yearly challenge where you chose a number of banned books you will read across the year. Like 2 a month- 3 a month. Any amount you want. Or a challenge like the 100 years but based on the banned book. Like the year the were published or banned?

[TerryJane, Challenges]

I would like to see a longer Idioms challenge (The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread). So fun!

[Carol]

I'd like to second the Dewey Decimal System idea! I can see lots of possibilities there.

[Theresa, Readathons]

I wouldn't mind seeing something similar to Give Us A Clue.

[Kristina]

I've liked challenges in the past where the goal is to try to finish or start a sentence with a book title. For example:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of... The Feeling of Falling in Love

It could be fun to make the sentences particularly famous book passages or quotes/idioms.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Based on a monthly a few years ago. Branching Out

The instructions in that post would work but I was thinking you could make any connection work for your branches. People could have one tree with connections to the trunk or a whole forest with multiple trees. We could even have those artistically inclined post pictures of their forests at the end of the challenge!

[Ilona]

Thank you all so much for your ideas! You'll definitely see some of these as yearly, quarterly, or monthly challenges in 2024.