2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Hi everyone!

Time to nominate books for July! The theme is Road Trip.

~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 May 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'd like to nominate Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad. It's about the authors roadtrip after she survived cancer.

The Road Trip

Because of the title haha!

I am nominating The Maze Runner by James Dashner


It's on the Listopia Best Books for a Roadtrip

I nominate November Road by Lou Berney a road trip thriller in the aftermath of the JFK assassination and caused by the same.

i nominate .

It is a road trip in that they are taking a road trip to Mordor. :))

I'd like to nominate The Lincoln Highway, a coming-of-age, historical fiction novel involving a 1950's road trip.

I'd like to nominate The Savage Detectives.
The story follows two poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, on their quest to find Cesárea Tinajero, a mysteriously vanished poet.

Their odyssey begins in Mexico City on January 1st, and traverses multiple continents.

I nominate Together We Will Go. It is about a road trip taken by a group of strangers who are all struggling. It was an incredible read and has over 4 stars on Goodreads!

I’ll nominate On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta. The link is the word Road being in the title!

Lisa wrote: "I'd like to nominate The Savage Detectives.
The story follows two poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, on their quest to find Cesárea Tinajero, a mysteriously vanished poet.

I'd like to second this book.

I second November Road

TerryJane wrote: "I'd like to nominate The Lincoln Highway, a coming-of-age, historical fiction novel involving a 1950's road trip."

I second this! I'm a big fan of Amor Towles plus this book fits very well :)

I nominate He Started It by Samantha Downing.

Link to the theme is in the plot:

Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons—we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message in his wake, the siblings and their respective partners must come together for a cross-country road trip to fulfill his final wish and—more importantly—secure their inheritance.

I would like to suggest « Here we go again » by Alison Cochrun :)
Here We Go Again
I quote : "Queer rom com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country..."

I nominate All Fours by Miranda July because the story starts with a road trip

Poll is up!

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