* Our first individual readathon of the year is fast approaching! Save the date for May 16-18 for a weekend of reading themed around Continents and Heritage (or anything else on your TBR)! More information is available here.
GROUP READ Our May theme is Mother, and our group read for this month is Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, a riveting and layered novel about motherhood, identity, and the weight of secrets, set in a seemingly perfect suburban community where rules are everything — until they aren't."
CHALLENGES We’re excited to introduce two new monthly challenges for May’s theme of Mother, along with continuing our quarterly challenges!
Monthly challenges Mothers & Others is an open challenge to celebrate mother figures by finding gifts on book covers or by writing a message with their titles. The Sweetest Gift is a prompt-based challenge honoring a mother’s unconditional love.
Quarterly challenges A Recipe for Happiness is an open challenge where you embrace what brings you joy as a reader. A Pop of Joy explores references to joy in popular culture through a fun prompt-based challenge.
Yearly challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year in 2025. Check out A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges to learn more about our year-long challenges!
Do you have an idea for a new challenge? Please let us know! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members’ suggestions. We would love to hear your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for May, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together! You can also sign up for June TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members. Feel free to join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Happy May!
FROM THE MODS
* Our first individual readathon of the year is fast approaching! Save the date for May 16-18 for a weekend of reading themed around Continents and Heritage (or anything else on your TBR)! More information is available here.
GROUP READ
Our May theme is Mother, and our group read for this month is Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, a riveting and layered novel about motherhood, identity, and the weight of secrets, set in a seemingly perfect suburban community where rules are everything — until they aren't."
You can join the discussion or post your review of the book!
You can also vote for our June book with the theme of Sisterhood, as well as nominate a book for July with the theme of Island!
CHALLENGES
We’re excited to introduce two new monthly challenges for May’s theme of Mother, along with continuing our quarterly challenges!
Monthly challenges
Mothers & Others is an open challenge to celebrate mother figures by finding gifts on book covers or by writing a message with their titles.
The Sweetest Gift is a prompt-based challenge honoring a mother’s unconditional love.
Quarterly challenges
A Recipe for Happiness is an open challenge where you embrace what brings you joy as a reader.
A Pop of Joy explores references to joy in popular culture through a fun prompt-based challenge.
Yearly challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year in 2025. Check out A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges to learn more about our year-long challenges!
Do you have an idea for a new challenge? Please let us know! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members’ suggestions. We would love to hear your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS
Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for May, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for June TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS
Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members. Feel free to join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
We are reading the following stand-alone books:
Anna Karenina
By Any Other Name
The House of Eve
In a Dark, Dark Wood
In the Distance
Meddling Kids
Playground
Reluctant Immortals
A Tale of Two Cities
There There
Wild Dark Shore
The Woman They Could Not Silence
And we are starting or continuing these books that are part of a series:
Alex Cross #6: Roses Are Red
Charlie Parker #1: Every Dead Thing
Golden Girls #1: Murder by Cheesecake
The Hunger Games #0: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Kate Waters #1: The Widow
Kate Waters #2: The Child
Kay Scarpetta #7: Cause of Death
Little Women #1
Lucas Davenport #3: Eyes of Prey
Trilogía del Baztán #2: The Legacy of the Bones
Wayward Pines #3: The Last Town
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Finally, welcome to all of our new members! We can't wait to get to know you. Please stop in and introduce yourself or say hello to our new members!
Happy Reading, everyone!
Winter, SarahKat, TerryJane, Carri Carey, bailey, and Blagica