Book Besties discussion

Hello! This is our folder for the reading challenges, which will run every new season (spring, summer, autumn, winter.)

WHEN?
our spring challenge will begin on March 05 and run until June 01!

GROUPS
we have five groups, with the mods being group leaders:
group one: lilith https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
group two: millie https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
group three: anshika https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
group four: nyx https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
group five: fairuz https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

After you've been assigned your group, go and check out the information messages there!

HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS
Once the challenge begins, you will be able to record every book you read during the timeline of the challenge.
You CAN record books that you started in March and finished once the challenge started (i.e. I started a book on March 02 and finished it on March 06, I can record my points for this book / anything started BEFORE March 01 will not be eligible.
Go to your group's topic and use the format stated there to record your finished books.

POINTS SYSTEM
<100 pages -- 5 points
100 - 199 pages -- 10 points
200 - 299 pages -- 20 points
300 - 399 pages -- 30 points
400 - 499 pages -- 40 points
500 - 599 pages -- 50 points
600 - 699 pages -- 60 points
700 - 799 pages -- 70 points
800 - 899 pages -- 80 points
900 PAGES OR ABOVE -- 100 points

EXTRA POINTS
Including a Goodreads LINKED REVIEW to the book you are recording will give you an extra 10 points which you will add to your total in your comment. If your review is not linked in the correct format then the extra points will not count to your score.
Please additionally make sure that the review is linked correctly, and will take anyone clicking on it to your review and not just the book's description page.

Reading and recording our book of the month in any of the months that the challenge is active will also award you an extra 10 points (for April that book is: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett) please indicate in your comment that you have read the months BOTM and record the points as a '+10.'

WHAT BOOKS COUNT?
Physical books (childrens, middle grade, YA, adult)
Ebooks;
Audio books - use the page count from the physical copy or e-copy if there is no physical. If there is no physical or e-copy them take however long the audiobook is and search what it would correspond to in a physical/ebook;
Fiction and non-fiction;
Graphic novels;
Short stories/novellas;
Essay collections.

RE-READS DO COUNT. IF YOU ALREADY REVIEWED IT WHEN YOU READ IT BEFORE, DO NOT USE THAT OLD REVIEW IN YOUR RECORDING.

FANFICTION WILL NOT COUNT. TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED WORKS THAT USED TO BE FANFICTION DO COUNT
(e.g. manacled = no; alchemised = yes).

HOW TO FORMAT YOUR BOOK RECORDINGS
name of book: ___________
pages: ___
review: *must be a link to your goodreads review of the book*
points awarded: __

EXAMPLE
name of book: bloodmarked by tracy deonn
pages: 550
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
points awarded: 60

NOTE
Please let me know if you've changed your display name from what is recorded on the leaderboard.

hi! i don’t know if anyone has asked this yet, but do technical books count? in university i have to read a lot of books about design and art (not textbooks of course, just some reading about the major im taking!) and i wanted to ask if they count!

inês wrote: "hi! i don’t know if anyone has asked this yet, but do technical books count? in university i have to read a lot of books about design and art (not textbooks of course, just some reading about the m..."

non-fiction stuff counts, yes!

I have a question. Can I still get points even if I DNF a book? I got approximately 47% through my book but I could not finish it for the life of me. If not that’s fine just curious.

Alley wrote: "I have a question. Can I still get points even if I DNF a book? I got approximately 47% through my book but I could not finish it for the life of me. If not that’s fine just curious."

yep, just record how many pages you read out of the total pages (e.g. 150/400, you would get 10 points for having read between 100-199 pages)

SIGN-UPS for the WINTER READING CHALLENGE are now OPEN!

SIGN-UP IF
- you've read the information at the top of the information hub and wish to take part in the winter reading challenge;

DO NOT SIGN-UP IF
- you took part in the previous autumn challenge and recorded 100 points or more---you will stay in the same group you were in for that challenge, and do not need to sign-up again.


to sign-up, just comment your interest in taking part here on this topic!

Hi-I have a question! If I am currently reading a book (technically started before 12/5) but don’t finish it until after the challenge starts, can I use that for this challenge?

Tara wrote: "Hi-I have a question! If I am currently reading a book (technically started before 12/5) but don’t finish it until after the challenge starts, can I use that for this challenge?"

I'll be explaining that tomorrow before it starts, but if you started it on the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th of December and finish it during the challenge then yes you can record it

THE WINTER READING CHALLENGE HAS CONCLUDED

Check out the winning team here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

and feel free to chat in your current groups and congratulate each other on a successful challenge!
We will be completely clearing out every group for the spring 2026 challenge, which means anyone who took part in the winter challenge will need to sign up again for the spring one, when signups open later today.
Please don't try to sign up here before sign ups officially open.

How to sign up? And is this like a speed reading thing? “Who reads the most in a given time” type?

Aayat wrote: "How to sign up? And is this like a speed reading thing? “Who reads the most in a given time” type?"

signups arent open yet, but when they are you'll just comment on this discussion that you want to join, and you'll be put in a group.

we run reading challenges every season (spring summer autumn winter) so this one will last from march 05 - june 01, during which people will record each book they read and gain points depending on how long the book is

the format for recording books is:

name of book: ___________
pages: ___
review: *must be a link to your goodreads review of the book*
points awarded: __

So say I’m reading my second book of the season
Do I write the total number of pages I’ve read including the first book or just of that particular second book?

Aayat wrote: "So say I’m reading my second book of the season
Do I write the total number of pages I’ve read including the first book or just of that particular second book?"

so when you finish one book, you can record that one book on its own using the format, in which case you would use the total number of pages of that book alone, like:

book: book name
pages: 500
points: 50

some people decide to wait until they have a few books read and then record them in one comment, which is equally fine, and you would just list them out in that one comment like:

book: book name 2
pages: 350
points: 30

book: book name 3
pages: 460
points: 40

SIGN-UPS for the SPRING READING CHALLENGE are now OPEN!

SIGN-UP IF
- you've read the information at the top of the information hub and wish to take part in the winter reading challenge;
- even if you were part of the latest winter challenge, as we are completely re-doing all of the groups

to sign-up, just comment your interest in taking part here on this topic!

i would like to sign up

Sign me up please!

I would like to join please!

Please add me to the reading challenge!

I’d like to join!

I would like to sign up for the spring challenge! 🌸✨

I’d like to sign up for the spring challenge please ❤️

I’d like to join!

I would love to join!

Sign me in

I'm interested in the spring reading challenge!

I’d like to sign up again please :)

I’d like to join! :)

lilly ♡ wrote: "i would like to sign up"

you are in group three :)

Jordan wrote: "Sign me up please!"

group one :)

rennie wrote: "I would like to join please!"

group three :)

Brenda P wrote: "Please add me to the reading challenge!"

you are in group three :)

Hello ❁lilith❁, I wouold like to sign up again :)

water_bearer wrote: "I’d like to join!"

group five :)

Glenda wrote: "I would like to sign up for the spring challenge! 🌸✨"

group three :)

Alley ❤️ wrote: "I’d like to sign up for the spring challenge please ❤️"

group one :)

Destinnnyxo wrote: "I’d like to join!"

group five :)

destinysbookshelf331 wrote: "I would love to join!"

group three :)

Nina wrote: "Sign me in"

group four :)

Bri wrote: "I'm interested in the spring reading challenge!"

group one :)

Amanda wrote: "I’d like to sign up again please :)"

group one :)

Jess wrote: "I’d like to join! :)"

you are in group two :)

Adorria wrote: "Hello ❁lilith❁, I wouold like to sign up again :)"

absolutely, you are in group five :)

I want to sign in!!

Nehir wrote: "I want to sign in!!"

of course, you are group two :)

SIGN ME UUUPPP

Hello ❁lilith❁, I would love to join again :)

❁lilith❁ wrote: "Glenda wrote: "I would like to sign up for the spring challenge! 🌸✨"

group three :)"

It isn't a problem that I was already in group three during the previous challenges, right?

Sign me up for spring!!

Hello! I would like to join this season! Thank you!

I’d love to do this challenge again!