2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Hi everyone!

Time to nominate books for November! The theme is Glass.

~Please remember to state a connection to the theme when you nominate.

~Books we have read less than three years ago are not eligble. To see which books are not eligble, see this google sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

~ Each person can nominate 1 book.

~ Book must be available both as a physical copy and as an ebook.

~ Authors: Please do not nominate your own book.

~ Please do not nominate books that are part of a series, unless it is the first book.

~ You can second someone else's nomination, but that will count as your nomination.


This thread will be closed by September 26th, and we will choose ten books for the poll. If there are more than ten books nominated, we will choose "seconded" books first. If there is still a tie to get into the top ten, we'll go back to the Goodreads average rating to see which is highest.

I nominate Greenglass House by Kate Milford. It's the first in a middle grade mystery series, that is delightful. It's mystery, fantasy: an old house, adoption, diversity in ethnicity and age, and other stuff I can't say because it gives some of the story away. I just finished reading it and loved it! The connection is the stained glass windows in the house (which play a significant role in the story) and the picture of the house on the cover.

I'd like to nominate Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. Glass is mentioned in the title.

I'd like to nominate The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, the connection is the title.

In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, the business of international shipping, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.

I’d like to second The Glass Hotel.

I would like to nominate The Glass Bead Play from Herman Hesse

I'd like to nominate Noon at Tiffany's. It is a historical fiction book based on Clara Wolcott, the genius designer behind Tiffany Studio lamps. Connection: the lamps are beautifully designed stained glass.

Erica wrote: "I'd like to nominate Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. Glass is mentioned in the title."
I second Erica and there is a castle made of glass

I would like to nominate The Sound of Glass by Karen White.

It's a contemporary mystery set on the South Carolina coast, in which a woman inherits the family home from her late husband's grandmother. Nominated for a GR Choice Award for 2015, it has earned a 4-star GR rating, has glass in the title and in the cover art.

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

I'd like to nominate The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara DouGLASS!

Glass is in the author's name

I'd like to nominate The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson. There is a butterfly in a glass jar on the cover.

I nominate Snow, Glass, Apples by Colleen Doran and Neil Gaiman

So many good nominations. I'm going to second Throne of Glass though.

I would like to second The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. Glass is in the title, and I assume it is about a game played with glass beads.

I'll nominate The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land...

The Glass Castke by Jeanette Walls

The Glass Castle. I think you mean this one Lauren

Nyssa Glass and the House of Mirrors by H.L. Burke

I could not resist - for obvious reasons! LOL

Gail wrote: "I nominate Greenglass House by Kate Milford. It's the first in a middle grade mystery series, that is delightful. It's mystery, fantasy: an old house, adoption, div..."

I second this book!

Ashleigh wrote: "I'd like to nominate The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara DouGLASS!

Glass is in the author's name"

second

Closing nominations :)

Poll is up! :D

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...