The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion
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Banned Books -- Book banning, a form of censorship, occurs when private individuals, government officials, or organizations remove books from libraries, school reading lists, or bookstore shelves because they object to their content, ideas, or themes.
Cryptids - Cryptids are animals presumed by followers of the cryptozoology pseudoscientific subculture to exist on the basis of anecdotal or other evidence considered insufficient by mainstream science. Entities that may be considered cryptids by cryptozoologists include Bigfoot, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, or Mokele-mbembe
Strong Women-could be either fiction or non
FictionGenre bending
Beach read
Set in the 1800s
Witches
Australian crime
Non fiction
Essays
Women-focused history
Social media
Mental health
fiction - heist storynon-fiction - witch trials
Fiction - VictorianNon-fiction - European History (or something more specific, such as English History, French History, etc.)
fiction - musicals - books that have had a musical based on them (i.e. Wicked, Water for Elephants - opening soon)
non fiction - architecture/engineering
Non-fiction: Epigenetics
Neuroscience
Survival
Asia
Journalism
Fiction:Feel Good Fantasy
Humorous Mystery
Contemporary Rural Setting
Magical Realism
Ghosts
Dragons
Gothic Novels
Historical Mystery
Aliens
Hackers
Video Games
Espionage
Nonfiction:
Living Abroad
Music
Virtual Reality
Award Winners
Lisa MDFiction:
Winter Blues - Set in winter or the cover is at least 50% blue.
Historical Fantasy - Combines historical fiction with elements of magic.
Celebrity Book Club Picks - Reese Witherspoon (Hello Sunshine), Jenna Bush Hager (Read With Jenna), Oprah's Book Club, Emma Roberts (Belletrist Book Club)
New Adult
Novels Set in the Wilderness
NPR: Books We Love List: https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#tags...
Captivating Covers
Foodie Fiction - set in restaurant, cafe, bakery or involves food in plot
Non-Fiction:
Celebrity Memoirs
Inspirational - self-help, christian. faith, spiritual, religion
Wanderlust - books that make you want to pack up and go, whether to visit another place or explore new terrain
Seasonings: Themed to one of the seasonal challenges
Ketchup: Catch-up on reading your backlog of books. Any book published at least 3 years prior to start of seasonal challenge.
Salt & Pepper: What's black and white and READ all over? A newspaper. Read a NF book published by a journalist or reporter.
Mustard: Read a book on a MUST READ book list, like: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9... https://www.rd.com/list/books-read-be... https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/186
Fiction:Vengeful women
The love of food
Non-fiction:
Cults
About books or writing
Mod
Summer
Fiction- Cryptids
Fiction - Victorian
Non-Fiction- True Crime
Fall
Fiction - Musicals
Fiction - Magical Realism
Non-Fiction- Journalism
Winter
Fiction - Australian Crime
Fiction - Celebrity Book Club Picks
Non-Fiction- Witch Trials
Spring
Fiction - Historical Fantasy
Fiction - Strong Women
Non-Fiction- Cults
Each season's Group Reads will have 2 fiction categories and 1 non-fiction category. The Guttenberg Classics will continue.
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 5 years we would prefer not to repeat:
Fiction
Medieval Fiction
Robot Fiction
Urban Fantasy
Military Fiction
Paranormal Romance
Police Procedural,
Retellings
Seaside Settings
Anthologies
Comedy
Fantasy Not Originally Written in English
The Book Was Better Than The Movie,
Southern Literature
Love Triangles,
Parallel Timelines,
Cabin in the Woods
Continuation Novel
Young Adult Science Fiction
Bad Girls
Locked Room Mystery,
Knights/Middle Ages
Pun Titles,
Time Travel
Non-US Based Mystery
Cozy Mystery
Translated Short Stories
Asian Fiction
Murder Mystery
Animals, Historical Fiction 1900-1939
Popular Book Group Fiction
Feminist Dystopia
Aviation
Canadian Fiction
Families
Books Turned Into TV Shows
Indigenous
Road Trips
Biographical Fiction
Space Opera
Non fiction:
Ancient Civilizations
Sports
Economics
Rebels With a Cause
Female Entrepreneurs
Health,
Fashion,
Female Artists
Food,
Disability,
Social Justice
Travel
Nature,
A President or President's Spouse
A Comedian's memoir/biography
Animals
Poetry
Medicine
Treasure Hunting
Extreme Survival
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.