Reading with Style discussion

Here's the place for general questions about the Fall 2025 season.

We have styles!

Prizes for women authors:

Orange Prize
Women's Prize for Fiction
Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Reading Women Award
Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature

All of the awards on Goodreads can be found here:

Book Awards

Here is a list from Wikipedia of mystery/crime fiction awards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

You can look here to find a listing on Goodreads, since the Style requires the award be on Goodreads. If you don't see the award listed on the first page, a key word can be entered in the search box upper right and it will go right to that award listing.

Book Awards

Are there bonuses for the 15-Point Tasks (Sweet Sixteen Bingo) this season?

I can help with that, Nick:

Per Book Bonuses:
Big: 500 pages or more: 5 pts
Old: first published 2000 or earlier: 5 pts

Sweet, no?

Does MPG (main page genre) include the genres displayed after clicking “More”?

Owlette wrote: "Does MPG (main page genre) include the genres displayed after clicking “More”?"

Yes! But not "show all", which takes you to another page.

Rosemary wrote: "Owlette wrote: "Does MPG (main page genre) include the genres displayed after clicking “More”?"

Yes! But not "show all", which takes you to another page."

That’s what I thought, but best to check with the mods. Thanks!

I have a copy of

Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists, 2003 by Ian Jack

As well as several other issues of Granta. Does it quality as a “book” for RWS? It is a periodical but really looks and feels like a book. Compare to

The Best American Short Stories 2007 by Stephen King

Which has a similar look and feel but I think is more likely considered to be a book issued periodically as opposed to a periodical/magazine.

Thanks for the help

Is Granta the same as McSweeney's? McSweeney's has always been accepted. I've never seen either one.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Is Granta the same as McSweeney's? McSweeney's has always been accepted. I've never seen either one."

Yes, they are both literary journals.

I'm familiar with Granta, but not McSweeney's. They do sound very similar (book-length quarterly literary periodicals), and as McSweeney's is accepted, we will take Granta.

Rosemary wrote: "I'm familiar with Granta, but not McSweeney's. They do sound very similar (book-length quarterly literary periodicals), and as McSweeney's is accepted, we will take Granta."

Thank you very much. I just started this today, excellent! I will have to look for other issues.

Hi. Question: For Group Reads, the explanation says:

“Other Rewards*

1. Group Reads: the Winter 2025-26 "group reads" books will be chosen by a combination of moderators, mega-finishers, and members that read at least 5 books and earn the highest number of Prize-Worthy points in the Fall 2025 Challenge.”

So, the highest number of Prize-worthy points determines the winner and not the highest number of books that earned prize-worthy points? I am not sure since the latest Readerboard post looks like the number of books was considered.

That's a good point, Owlette - it looks like it goes by the number of books earning Prize-worthy points. That was me not knowing exactly how the database would calculate it when I wrote the Styles & Bonuses post. I will update it. But anyway, usually we take about 10 people to pick group reads, so there are plenty of winners :)

Maybe you are thinking of the "Most Strategic Reader" who gets to create a task? There's only one winner for that. It doesn't depend on Prize-worthy points but on average total points per book claimed. (It's a little more complicated than that - the details are in point 3 under "Other Rewards".) This works the same way it always did.

Thanks, Rosemary. Confusion cleared!

I'm back home and had a chance to look at the Readerboard. As much as I would like to have 315 points(!), I think the spreadsheet accidentally credited me with 50 more points than I've earned. Perhaps an extra bingo finish was added.

Valerie wrote: "I'm back home and had a chance to look at the Readerboard. As much as I would like to have 315 points(!), I think the spreadsheet accidentally credited me with 50 more points than I've earned. Perh..."

I think 315 is right, Valerie! Maybe you haven't counted the points from your post #79? We have:

Post Task Book Points Total
3 20.10 Before We Say Goodbye 35 35
9 15.01 Italian Shoes 15 50
20 10.09 Lost and Fondue 30 80 (adjusted +10)
27 15.02 First Comes Scandal 15 95
47 15.03 Grey Wolf, The 15 110
57 10.08 Sandy Page Bookshop, The 30 140
68 15.04 Couturier of Milan, The 15 155
69 20.01 Punks: New & Selected Poems 45 200
79 30.01 Rock, The 45 245 (adjusted -5)
113 15.05 Flying Finish 20 265
113 Bingo Line Finish 50 315

Rosemary wrote: "Valerie wrote: "I'm back home and had a chance to look at the Readerboard. As much as I would like to have 315 points(!), I think the spreadsheet accidentally credited me with 50 more points than I..."

Oh my goodness, Rosemary! That is correct. Sorry about the bad math. Clearly, I wasn't focused on my spreadsheet when I was entering the last book.

I can’t quite figure out my score.
I have two posts post 166 For 50. Joanna found +5 for a prize I missed
And post 183 for 40.
I come up with
+50
+5
+40
For a total of 95 rather than 80.

Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "I can’t quite figure out my score.
I have two posts post 166 For 50. Joanna found +5 for a prize I missed
And post 183 for 40.
I come up with
+50
+5
+40
For a total of 95 rather than 80."

Looks like two style points were left off--one for female and one for review. it'll be fixed in the next update. Thanks for checking!