Monthly Recommendations discussion

Hello everyone! February's topic is Not Another Love Story. What we mean by this is Non-Romantic books, or Romance Alternatives.

Why we chose it:
It's still seasonally relevant to Valentine's Day without interfering with other groups that might be doing the more traditional Romance topic and it offers a great alternative for people who aren't into Valentine's Day or the romance genre.

Help:
You can go the route of books with little to no romance at all. (There are way more than you'd think!) Or, if you can't think of those, you can choose to emphasize other types of relationships such as parent/child, siblings, friendships. (BUT - heads up that we are planning to have Friendships as its own theme in the next few months so if you choose to focus on friendships you will end up doing this topic twice.)

If you still need help, here is a list of genres to look within to get your creative juices going:
-horror
-mystery/detective
-mental illness, or illness/accident (often very internal stories)
-science fiction
-middle grade
-non fiction

Here are some specific examples:


Remember that the point here is not necessarily that the books have ZERO romance, but just to have an alternative for people looking for something other than romance.

We forsee this topic being difficult for some, but remember that there is no minimum amount of books you have to have. And remember that this group is designed to help you FIND recommendations as well as give them.

Don't forget to link to your posts once they go up in February over on the share page: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Ohhh!! I'm quite excited about this one!!

Sarah wrote: "Ohhh!! I'm quite excited about this one!!"

ME TOO!!

I am intrigued to see what everyone recommends on this one! I'm glad that I have a month to think about it! I want to make sure it's good!

GREAT topic! I can't wait.

This one will be challenging but that makes me even more excited for it. I also love that it can be taken a few different ways! Even more excited to watch how people take this one.

I should be able to handle this one well considering I am not a romance reader.

This is going to be my first Monthly recommendations video and I am so excited!

Great topic!

I just realized that I have really few books with no or just a bit romance in it. Never realized this before since romance isn't really the thing I'm looking for in most books, so I'm really excited what books are there with no focus on romance!

I am getting so pumped about this topic! It's always nice to have a topic that people can really run with! We are going to have such a variety of books for February's recs!

It's going to be so hard for me to narrow down these recommendations. SO HARD.

Yes!!! I already have some books in mind!!

Eeck, this one is going to require some thought. Hum... I got a good few in mind but to narrow this one down...

I thought this would stump me, but it turns out I get to recommend some favorites :)