2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Hi everyone!

Time to nominate books for February! The theme is Gold.

~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 December 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 nominate Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The link is that the lead character and a team of pirates go on a treasure hunt on an island after the lead character finds a treasure map. When the treasure is found it is full of gold.

Nominating Chasing Perfect : the first book in the Fool's Gold series by Susan Mallery

Nominating The Goldfinch, Gold in the name

I nominate A Curse Dark as Gold. Besides the obvious reference in the title, it is a Rumplestiltskin retelling and what speaks more golden than that? XD

Susan wrote: "Nominating The Goldfinch, Gold in the name"

Gotta second this one. I've been meaning to read this for ages!

I second “Treasure island”

I would like to suggest The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren. The link is in the title. It also won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1950.

Lorraine wrote: "I would like to suggest The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren. The link is in the title. It also won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1950."

I'll second this one. It will fit the award-themed challenges nicely and it's been on my TBR for years. 🏆

I would like to nominate based on the golden book cover:

I second “Treasure Island”

I nominate “The Outsiders” by SE Hinton. “Stay gold” This Robert Frost poem is the inspiration. Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

I second The Outsiders. I've been wanting to read that for ages.

The Outsiders The Briar Club Just putting the links for these two books to make decisions easier.

I'd like to nominate The Inheritance Games. The entire premise revolves around immense wealth (gold), inheritance, and greed. Gold represents money, legacy, and power.