2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Hi everyone!

Time to nominate books for December! The theme is White.

~Please remember to state a connection to the theme when you nominate.

~Books we have read less than three years ago are not eligible. To see which books are not eligible, 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 October 25th, 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 would like to nominate The Snow Child because I was thinking of white covers and snow is white and the story looks good.

Susan wrote: "I would like to nominate The Snow Child because I was thinking of white covers and snow is white and the story looks good."
I just reread this and it’s a really good book.

I nominate The Frozen River this book fits the white/winter theme as it is set in the winter time, it is a mystery .as well

I second The Frozen River!

I would like to nominate Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher. The connection to the theme is that it supposed to be a Snow White retelling, which I think is a fun interpretation of the theme!

Susan wrote: "I would like to nominate The Snow Child because I was thinking of white covers and snow is white and the story looks good."

I second this

I’d like to nominate The White Castle. The connection is in the title.
The author has won a Nobel prize in literature, and the book sounds to be interesting, exploring topics of identity, relationships between East and West etc.

I second “The White Castle”

I nominate The Woman in White--the connection is in the title and also the woman in the book was wearing white.

This is a classic by one of the first real mystery writers written before Mystery awards or the Nobel prize, but worth the read :) The author was good friends with Charles Dickens from 1851 until his death.

Karin wrote: "I nominate The Woman in White--the connection is in the title and also the woman in the book was wearing white.

This is a classic by one of the first real mystery writers written befor..."

Seconding!

I second the white castle

I'd like to nominate White Mulberry, based on the title.

"A rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and must reclaim her true identity to provide a future for her family."

I nominate Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson.

Gilded age, nonfiction. looks good.

White in the title. Chicago World Fair 1893...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I'll nominate White Oleander. The connection is the title.

I would like to nominate Girls Made of Snow and Glass. reason is that snow is white and it's such a good book based on two FMCs and shows how similar their lives are despite being born years apart.

Carolyn wrote: "I nominate The Frozen River this book fits the white/winter theme as it is set in the winter time, it is a mystery .as well"

I second this

Nominating Persuasion by Jane Austen because of the white flowers on the cover of my kindle edition. (But to be honest also quite a bit because I’m planning to read it in December)

Closing nominations :)

Poll is up! Go vote for our white December read 😊

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...