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Brainstorming for 2024
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Artificial Intelligence
Space Opera (to align with Space Opera September)
Gothic
Trains
Escape
It is not uncommon for me to be looking over my TBR and see some similarity and think "that could be a Genreland category". Let's see what strikes me today Animals
Body Parts
Q, X, or Z word in the title
Multiple Authors
Natural Wonders (I have a book set in Yellowstone, but I can see this being interpreted broadly to include rainbows or meteors or such)
Colors
Numbers
Who, What, Where, When, Why, or How in the title
It's About Time (or simply Time)
Health, Wellness, or Spirituality
Title of 10 words or more (not including subtitle)
A book you dread (I am thinking of ones I keep putting off reading because they look heavy or scary or depressing or long, but I keep them on TBR, i.e., Night by Elie Wiesel)
Dragons
Written more than 100 years ago
Book that was translated into your language
I've been waiting on this since August 😄.Speculative Fiction
Fantasy
Artificial Intelligence!
Far Future!
Alien!
Gothic Classic [1500's through 1900's]
Science Fiction (this more specific than the broader term "Speculative Fiction"
Classic Mystery (1800's through 1960's)
Robots/Robotics
Astrophysics/Space
Horror
Nonfiction
Science
Future Shock (as in, "Whattttt is this World Coming to?"
Climate
Ecotage
Armchair Ecotravel
EcoThriller
Cephalopods and Cetaceans!
Wilderness.Set in a place you love.
Music industry memoir.
Vehicle in title.
“I hate this cover!”
Andy wrote: "“I hate this cover!”"
Now THAT'S going to be a good one!😁
Here is my list (granted I copied from a few other lists but those books sounds really interesting to read. I'm game if you all are too!)Who, What, Where, When, Why, or How in the title
Speculative Fiction
Fantasy
Gothic Classic [1500's through 1900's] (this would be great for my next semester class on Gothic Literature and Film in January)
Science Fiction (this more specific than the broader term "Speculative Fiction"
Classic Mystery (1800's through 1960's)
Horror
Nonfiction
Dragons
Written more than 100 years ago
Book that was translated into your language
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Some of these may be duplicates from recent years. Feel free to edit. Dragons
Jewelry (in the title or central to the story)
Medieval times
Author who is your age
Food history
The frontier (any frontier…)
Design of a certain decade (interior, industrial, clothing)
Classical literature from a non Western canon
what an interesting idea. i love these:
Wilderness.
Set in a place you love.
also, Near Future Fiction
and, Far-Fetched Natural Disasters
and, Bands and Musicians as Characters
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The name of the game is still GenreLand, but over the years we've morphed a bit and now we tend to assign prompts or themes to each month of the game. The "rules" of the game are for each player to read something fitting the monthly assignment, or to instead play their wildcard for the year and read whatever they like, and report back to the group how it went. Do we keep score? Uh, no, not really. We're just here to talk books and have fun.
But we do need some fresh prompts for the coming year! So use this thread to share your ideas for prompts you would like to see. Ideally, they are concepts that can be summarized in one to two words or at most a short phrase. I'll start by listing some below, and I hope you will follow suit.
After awhile (I will post a deadline before I lock this post), I will start a thread for a sort of semifinals round where each of you can upvote a certain number (depending on how many there are in total) of the suggestions. Then sometime in December we will do a final picks round. (The format will be determined by the level of participation.)
This is an open group, so please invite your bookish friends to play. As reading challenges go, this is pretty laid-back and low-pressure. And even if you are new here, do not hesitate to jump in with suggestions! We would love to hear from you!