Read Women discussion

Our 2025 Plan:

Monthly Group Read Themes (OC = Open Choice; F = Fiction; NF = NonFiction; RatW = Read around the World)

Jan F and NF: Change
Feb F: OC; RatW - Europe
March: F: Authors from Wales or Ireland; NF: Immigrants, Refugees and/or the Experience of Displacement
April: F: Translated (from its orig pub language); NF: OC
May F: Dystopian; NF: Science, Nature, Environment
June F: Major Lit Prize Nominee or winner* - we’ll read the top 2 voted works
July F: Music or Art; NF: RatW: South Asia**
Aug F: Translated; NF: POC/BAME author (any topic)
Sept F: OC (<200 pages); NF: Indigenous authors or communities anywhere in the world (includes First Nations)
Oct F: Horror or Gothic; NF: OC
Nov F: Indigenous Author; RatW: MENA (Middle East & North Africa)
Dec F: OC; NF: Food, cooking, restaurants, agriculture

Annual Challenges
Black Authors
Create Your Own Challenge – set up threads for any and all women-author challenges you want to achieve this year, ask for recs, share your faves.

Quadrimester Challenges (thank you Wiktionary - 4-month themed challenges that include F or NF)
1 - Read Around the World (RatW)- Europe and/or Translated Works (Jan – April)
2 – SciFi (including dystopian) and/or Fantasy (May – August)
3 – RatW – South Asia* and Southeast Asia** (author origin, descent, takes place in) (Sept – Dec)

*Booker, Booker International, Caine, Costa, Dublin Literary Award, Edgar, Hugo, Neustadt International Prize for Lit, Nebula, Pulitzer, Scotiagiller, Stella, Womens Prize
**South Asia –Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Jumma, Kashmir, the Maldives, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
***Southeast Asia – Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore Thailand, and Vietnam

BINGO. The BINGO card of prompts is at this link,
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The BINGO challenge will run from 1 Jan through 30 June. It includes a few substitution options and members are free to read selections for all of the prompts for a more robust challenge.

Author Focus. Between early February and mid-May, we will be reading and discussing works by Edwidge Danticat at this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

We made add a second Author Focus later in the year depending on member interest.

I wanted to post a clean initial message as a resource for members, but will add more commentary in the 2025 looking back, looking forward thread, for discussion.

Yay, thank you, moderators! This should be fun!

Carol & Anita,

Thanks for your time and 2025 game plan. It looks great and has something for everyone. So many ideas, options and flexibility, with plenty of potential choices to suit the wide reading diversity of all group members. Kudos to both of you and thanks again for your time and effort. Very Well Done imho!!!

This should be fun!

Carol and Anita,
There isn't a non-fiction prompt listed for November. Should the prompt listed for fiction be for both? Thanks!

GailW wrote: "Carol and Anita,
There isn't a non-fiction prompt listed for November. Should the prompt listed for fiction be for both? Thanks!"

I do see there's a second prompt though- RATW: MENA (Middle East/ North Africa).
Moderators, is it open choice as far as fiction or non?

Jen wrote: "GailW wrote: "Carol and Anita,
There isn't a non-fiction prompt listed for November. Should the prompt listed for fiction be for both? Thanks!"

I do see there's a second prompt though- RATW: MENA ..."

Yes, it is. So long as it's got the tie to MENA, either NF or F meets the theme.