Skyward, by Brandon Sanderson October 2026 Theme BOM (the 2010s) Start 2 October 2026

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Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul.

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Nominator: Lexi (She is on fire 🔥)
Official Page Count: 528

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Chapter Breakdown

  
    
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Guidance for DQ setters
1. Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!

2. Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.

3. Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!

4. Please don't use AI to generate your questions. It is fine to get it to help out with your wording, but we want a genuine conversation and not a literary discussion with a robot.


Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?

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Where we have more volunteers than DQ days;
>If we have more than one volunteer from the same team, only one team entry will go into the randomiser to be selected to write DQs. (the other volunteers will be 'back ups')
>The nominator of the BOM is automatically assigned a DQ day

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There was a tie for the August Theme BOM. After discussions with the mod group and the nominator, we elected to have one book in August and one in October which is why this is the same theme as the August Theme BOM.

[Alysa]

I just saw this but...there is also a thread open for nominating themed BOM for October. Will there be two?

[Catherine]

I wondered if we get both since, they tied. Let's hope there are no ties in October, or maybe we do 🤣

I am good for DQ's as I got the Audio in preparation.
(Team Trilos)

[Judith]

Yes, we'll have two themed (so really 3 BOMs) in October because I made two nomination threads out of habit for October completely spacing (<- see what I did there) that we did this for the tie situation.

[Alysa]

Judith wrote: "Yes, we'll have two themed (so really 3 BOMs) in October because I made two nomination threads out of habit for October completely spacing (<- see what I did there) that we did this for the tie sit..."

Spacing! Lol I see you Judith.

I probably won't do this one (generally avoiding rereads) but will come back if I change my mind. Might depend on what the other Oct BOMs end up being... 😄

[Mary]

Volunteering for DQ's

Team Alurya

[Imke]

Volunteering for DQs Team Minna

[Charlotte]

Volunteering for DQ's as well!

[Brittany]

Volunteering for Team Eton

[Teddie]

Volunteering for Team Ferrol

[Lexi]

Mine again - Team Brin

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Volunteering for Team Turin

[Jenny]

Back up for Team Minna (Imke)

[Angie ☯]

Another backup for Team Minna

[Catherine]

Judith wrote: "Yes, we'll have two themed (so really 3 BOMs) in October because I made two nomination threads out of habit for October completely spacing (<- see what I did there) that we did this for the tie sit..."

Ooh maybe we all need to vote for the shortest book then 🤣🤡

[Melissa]

Love this book.
Volunteering for Team Turin

[Juliana]

Volunteering for DQ's

Team Alurya