2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

This month we will be reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

This book was nominated by Rachael for our monthly theme Moon!

The Moonstone is a page-turner", writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.

Are you excited to read this book? Have you read it before or is it your first time?

It's my first time reading this book and I'm quite excited it won the poll! It's a book I have long thought I should get to, but I guess this was the right time :)

I’ve always meant to get around to reading this book too, so I’ll definitely join in with this read. I’ve only read The Woman in White so far, but I really enjoyed that one.

We'll see if I get to this because I'm actually currently reading The Woman in White by this author as a buddy read with some friends but this is funny timing because I actually just bought this book at a library sale yesterday!

I nominated this book because it had moon in the title and also because I've owned it for a while and thought a group read would inspire me to finally pick it up.

One of the classics I’ve never read. Looking forward to it.

Cordelia wrote: "We'll see if I get to this because I'm actually currently reading The Woman in White by this author as a buddy read with some friends but this is funny timing because I actually just bought this bo..."

What a coincidence!

I'm hoping to start this one later today, and was so surprised when this one won the poll because I'm not sure that I had ever heard of it before.

I read this when I was in my late teens/maybe early 20s -- so long ago I can't remember the exact time I read it. I enjoyed it, but ended up not keeping the copy I had. And since I don't remember much of anything about it, I've been wanting to read it again; thus, when it was nominated for this month I voted for it; and am glad it won. Hopefully, the copy I've ordered will arrive before the end of Oct =D

I wanted to read this book after reading Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India last month. He mention this book. Couldn't be more perfectly timed!!

I'm in.
I mean, why the hell not. I "only" have 13 other books I have to get to this month :D

Didn’t have this book on my massive tbr, so of course I added it😉. Hoping to get started sometime next week

I’m going to start this tomorrow.

I have been wanting to read this in forever. Anxious to see what I think of this classic!