2026 Reading Challenge discussion
2026 Yearly Challenges
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Read & Roam - 2026
How to Participate:
1. Post here telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
You may choose your books at the beginning, or add them as you go. You may join any time during the year, and may change your goal whenever needed.
2. When you finish books for the challenge, edit your original post or member’s corner thread to add them.
Instructions are in the how-to link below.
3. To have your progress updated, post a new comment here to let the challenge leader know.
Every time you post an update, be sure to include your original (sign-up) message number, the number of books you have completed, and your goal. We use your original message number to identify you, since multiple members may have the same profile name.
Example:
Update to message 32: 2/25 books read!
For more information about how our challenges work, visit this how-to thread or ask your challenge leader.
P.S. Please do not delete posts! It changes the message numbers, complicating the update process for both leaders and participants. If you wish to leave the challenge, simply post a comment here to let us know. You may edit your original post to say {deleted}. Thank you!
Participants
Amanda #41 - 0/12
Amy #16 - 8/12
Angel **Book Junkie** #11 - 0/60
BarbaraBrubru_gingertiger #27 - 0/10
Becky Q. #134 - 3/15
Beth #30 - 0/0
Brianna #57 - 0/15
Bubbles #39 - 0/12
Caraina #31 - 12/12 - Completed! 🗺️
Carolyn #19 - 3/12
Carrie #49 - 0/36
Charlston #71 - 0/26
Chrissie #40 - 17/20
Cordelia #6 - 7/10
D.L. #21 - 0/6
Debra Diggs #7 - 4/10
Denise #29 - 29/30
Ela (Mouse333) #22 - 0/12
GailW #13 - 10/10 - Completed! 🗺️
Gina Marie #12 - 5/6
Janine #14 - 37/50
JennH #9 - 11/36
Jill #17 - 0/12
Kristina #18 - 14/36
Lina #28 - 0/10
LinaVer #56 - 7/6 - Completed! 🗺️
Linda #68 - 4/12
Margie #48 - 6/25
Michelle #5 - 0/10
Min #43 - 4/12
Missy #33 - 20/47
Nat #20 - 0/20
Pat #46 - 6/12
Rachael #8 - 6/12
Rachel #42 - 0/25
Renee #51 - 0/10
Rosaline #126 - 20/20 - Completed! 🗺️
Sarah #26 - 6/10
Serenity #15 - 1/12
Shari #25 - 0/30
Susan #10 - 5/30
Susanna #119 - 12/25
Suzanne #94 - 0/20
Syd #34 - 0/10
TerryJane #24 - 67/30 - Completed! 🗺️
Vanessa #52 - 0/12
Vivien #123 - 20/20 - Completed! 🗺️
STATS
Participants: 47
Books Read: 344
Books Pledged: 880
Challenges Completed: 6
Updated through Message #186 on Jul 03, 2026.
Reserved by backup moderator
I'm in! This looks like fun. I'll go for 10.Goal: 10
Progress 0/10 (0%)
7/101. To Say Nothing of the Dog
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3. Troubled Waters
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6. The Tainted Cup
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(alternatively, 10. Thistlemarch, 11. The Unicorn Hunters)
Read & Roam 4/10
Road Trip Style - Readers Also Enjoyed
✔ 1. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (Goodreads Choice Award, Readers' Favorite Horror)
✔ 2. Such Quiet Girls by Noelle W. Ihli
✔ 3. Too Old for This by Samantha Downing
✔ 4. Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden
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Might do 2 short road trips.
Road Trip Style - Readers Also Enjoyed
1. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Edgar Award, Best Novel)
2. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
3. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
4.
Please sign me up for 12 books.COMPLETED: 9/12
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion
1. Award Winner (Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction 2018): Kingdom of Ash finished 10 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. Genre (Fantasy): Fallen City finished 17 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. Readers Also Enjoyed: Alchemy of Secrets finished 20 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Literary Award (She Reads Best Of): Death of the Author finished 24 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
5. Literary Award (She Reads Best Of): A Language of Dragons finished 25 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
6. Readers Also Enjoyed: The Dagger and the Flame finished 31 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. Genre (Romantasy): Spectacular finished 21 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
8. Genre (Young Adult): The Reappearance of Rachel Price finished 3 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. Literary Award (Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award): Gwen & Art Are Not in Love finished 13 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Genre/Readers Also Enjoyed/Literary Awards
Please sign me up for 36.READ & ROAM
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
12/36
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Genres, Readers Also Enjoyed, or Literary Award
1. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden 1/12/26 - ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original Novel (2023)
2. Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley 1/17/26 - Genre: Mystery
3. Rain Dogs: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel by Adrian McKinty 1/22/26 - Readers Also Enjoyed
4. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara 1/22/26 - Literary Award
5. The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis 1/24/26 - Genre: Mystery
6. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid 1/26/26 - Readers Also Enjoyed
7. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry 3/1/26 - Literary Award
8. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 3/17/26 - Genre: Contemporary
9. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 4/7/26 - Readers Also Enjoyed
10. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons 6/27/26 - Literary Award
11. Laying Down the Latte by Ellie Alexander 6/29/26 - Genre: Fiction
12. At Death's Dough: A Deep Dish Mystery by Mindy Quigley 7/12/26 - Readers Also Enjoyed
READ & ROAMDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
Progress: 5/30
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Readers Also Enjoyed
1. Too Old for This - Finished 1/15/26
2. We Are All Guilty Here - Finished 3/4/26
3. She Didn't See It Coming - Finished 3/27/26
4. Dear Debbie - Finished 4/30/26
5. Don't Let Him In - Finished 5/14/26
READ & ROAMDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
Completion: 10/60
I would like to set a goal of 60 with a goal of 5 Per month
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or Literary Award
January
1. The Girls in the Cabin | Caleb Stephens | 01.01 🌟🌟🌟
Readers Also Enjoyed...
2. The Butcher | Jennifer Hillier | 01.07 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Readers Also Enjoyed ...
3. A Happy Marriage | A.R. Torre | 01.12 | 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Readers Also Enjoyed...
3. You Must Be New Here | Katie Sise | 01.17 | 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Readers Also Enjoyed...
4. The Fix | Mia Sheridan | 01.18 | 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Readers Also Enjoyed...
5. Please Don't Lie | Christina Baker Kline | 01.22 | 🌟🌟🌟
❤️🔥February❤️🔥
1. The Memory Watcher | Minka Kent | 02.02 | 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Readers also enjoyed:
2. The Ex | Shalini Boland | 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Readers also enjoyed:
3. What My Mother Hid | Daniel Hurst | 02.10 | 🌟🌟
Readers Also Enjoyed
4. It's Me or Her | Victoria Jenkins | 02.18 | 🌟🌟
Readers Also Enjoyed
5. The Wife I Was: I watch them move on. But I'm still here. | Maria Frankland | 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 | 02.22
☘️March☘️
The Ten Year Lie
Readers Also Enjoyed
1. The Stranger in My Bed | Amanda McKinney | 🌟🌟🌟🌟 | 03.03
Readers Also Enjoyed
2. The Happy Family | Daniel Hurst | 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟| 03.04
Since the book is so new there is no Readers Also Enjoyed so I went back to the 1st book in the Series
3. The Family Secret | Caleb Crowe | 🌟🌟🌟 | 03.07
Readers Also Enjoyed
4. Pretty Little Lies | Jessica Huntley | 🌟🌟🌟🌟 | 03.09
Readers Also Enjoyed
5. The First Wives | S.E. Reed | 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 | 03.15
Please sign me up for 6 to start. I may add more as I go.🗺️Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Progress = 7/6
I'm going to track my progress in my 2026 Reading Corner.
READ & ROAMDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion. Linked by Award, Genre, Reader recommendation.
☀ Progress 10 / 10
☀ 1. All the Colors of the Dark
link: mystery genre
☀ 2. Gone Before Goodbye
link: mystery genre
☀ 3. Symphony of Secrets
link: historical fiction genre
☀ 4. The Orchard of Lost Souls
link: historical fiction genre
☀ 5. We Do Not Part
link: historical fiction genre
☀ 6. The Good Life Elsewhere
link: historical fiction genre
☀ 7. Moon Tiger
link: literary fiction genre
☀ 8. Maru
link: readers also enjoyed
☀ 9. The Visit
link: alternate history genre
☀ 10. Bozambo's Revenge
boxed myself into a corner here. There are no "readers also enjoyed" listed for this book. I have no other books slated that can follow this one. Stopping here.
I really enjoyed the Sisterhood of the Travelling Books challenge so I'm thrilled to see this.Sign me up for 30. I'll be doing it road trip style.
Starting book: Detransition, Baby (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
Genre tags: Queer, LGBT, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Full journey under spoiler tag as it's so long:
(view spoiler)
47/50
Genre links so far:
Romance: 19
LGBT: 3
Contemporary: 6
Queer: 3
Fantasy: 22
Paranormal: 1
Young Adult: 2
Dark Romance: 1
Crime: 3
Mystery: 6
Thriller: 2
Classics: 1
Detective: 1
Murder Mystery: 1
Cosy: 1
Science Fiction: 7
Romantasy: 2
Fantasy Romance: 1
Enemies to Lovers: 1
Adventure: 1
Science Fiction Fantasy: 2
Speculative Fiction: 1
Goal 1/12🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
January: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder GoodReads Choice Award
Readers Also Enjoyed
February: Plan: Abundance
I will read 12 books!9/12
Road Trip Style (readers also enjoyed)
Starting Book: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Stop 1: Wild Dark Shore
Stop 2: The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel
Stop 3: My Friends
Stop 4: Great Big Beautiful Life
Stop 5: Say You'll Remember Me
Stop 6: Our Perfect Storm
Stop 7: Mad Mabel
Stop 8: Yesteryear
READ & ROAMJanuary 01 - December 31, 2026
Progress: 14/36
Sign me up for 36!
Member Corner Tracking Post
I will join the staycation and start with 12 books.3/12
1. Atmosphere,Taylor Jenkins Reid 22 Feb
2. Wild Dark ShoreCharlotte McConaghy 18 April
3. The Correspondent Virginia Evans 30 April
4. Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke 1 June
5. The Academy
6. The Heir Apparent
7. My Husband's Wife
8. The Night We Met
9. And Now, Back to You
10.Game On
11. Fever Dream
12. Broken Dove
13. Fury Bound
14. Rites of the Starling
15. We Who Will Die
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I'm in for 20!Completed: 7/20
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Lit:
1. Prophet Song (Booker Prize)
2. The Bone People (award)
3. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (genre - fiction)
4. Time Shelter (award - International Booker)
SFF:
6. A Sorceress Comes to Call (Locus Award)
7. Jade Legacy (award)
9. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over (award - Ursula K Le Guin Prize)
10. No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories (genre - fantasy)
Horror/Mystery
13. Where I End (genre - horror)
15. The Book of X (award - Shirley Jackson Award)
Nonfiction
16. A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters (Royal Society Science Book Prize)
17. There Is No Blue (genre - nonfiction)
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion (Readers Also Enjoyed)COMPLETED: 0/6
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Road Trip Style (probably Readers Also Enjoyed) - 7/121. Goodnight
2. Truth and Tinsel: A Marriage In Crisis Romance
3. Ashes of Forever: A Victorian Romance of Lost Love and Second Chances
4. The Wild Valley
5. Forgotten Pain
6. The Christmas Break: A Seasonal Betrayal & Grovel
7. Don't Let Go
D.L. wrote: "But I am not sure I understand the staycation vs. road trip style. What's the difference?"A real life Staycation has "home" as its base, taking multiple day trips and returning to stay at home each night.
home --> zoo --> home --> hike --> home -->museum --> home --> amusement park
The Staycation option in this challenge means that all secondary books are based on the first book (A).
A --> B
A --> C
A --> D
For a real life Road Trip, once you leave home, you stay in various places as you make your way cross-country to a destination, or maybe a big loop back to home. In the original Vacation movie, the Griswolds stayed at a motel, Cousin Eddie's house, a campground, and a hotel on their Road Trip to Wally World.
home --> town 1 --> town 2--> town 3
For the Road Trip option in this challenge, each book after the first is based on the previous book.
A --> B --> C --> D
Glad you came back to join! Hope this helps explain it better.
🗺️ READ & ROAM - Yearly ChallengeDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
Progress: 67/30
A. Road Trip Style (50)
🗺️ The Murders in Great Diddling (Edgar Award Winner) --> Mystery --> The Long Call
🗺️ The Long Call --> Mystery --> The Miniaturist
🗺️ The Miniaturist --> Mystery --> Snow Falling on Cedars
🗺️ Snow Falling on Cedars --> Mystery --> The Lie Tree
🗺️ The Lie Tree --> Mystery --> Shine
🗺️ Shine --> Mystery --> We Begin at the End
🗺️ We Begin at the End --> Mystery --> Girl, Stolen
🗺️ Girl, Stolen --> Mystery --> The Third Policeman
🗺️ The Third Policeman --> Mystery --> Nine Lives
🗺️ Nine Lives --> Mystery --> Claw Back
🗺️ Claw Back --> Mystery --> King of Ashes
🗺️ King of Ashes --> Mystery --> Force of Nature
🗺️ Force of Nature --> Mystery --> The Swallows
🗺️ The Swallows --> Mystery --> The Family Chao
🗺️ The Family Chao --> Mystery --> The Man with the Golden Arm
🗺️ The Man with the Golden Arm --> National Book Award --> The Great Gilly Hopkins
🗺️ The Great Gilly Hopkins --> National Book Award --> All That She Carried
🗺️ All That She Carried --> History --> Challenger
🗺️ Challenger --> History --> The Only Plane in the Sky
🗺️ The Only Plane in the Sky --> History --> The Blood Countess
🗺️ The Blood Countess --> Biography --> Nobody's Girl
🗺️ Nobody's Girl --> Biography --> Humankind
🗺️ Humankind --> Biography --> Sunshine
🗺️ Sunshine --> Biography --> Truth and Beauty
🗺️ Truth and Beauty --> Nonfiction --> How to Attract Money
🗺️ How to Attract Money --> Religion --> Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
🗺️ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit --> Religion --> Wartime Lies
🗺️ Wartime Lies --> Religion --> What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
🗺️ What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank --> Pulitzer Prize --> The Stone Diaries
🗺️ The Stone Diaries --> Pulitzer Prize --> Three Tall Women
🗺️ Three Tall Women --> Pulitzer Prize --> Night Watch
🗺️ Night Watch --> Literary Fiction --> Jealousy
🗺️ Jealousy --> Literary Fiction --> Waiting for the Barbarians
🗺️ Waiting for the Barbarians --> Historical Fiction --> The Safekeep
🗺️ The Safekeep --> Historical Fiction --> Skylark
🗺️ Skylark --> Historical Fiction --> Chains
🗺️ Chains --> Historical Fiction --> Foster
🗺️ Foster --> Historical Fiction --> The Ministry of Time
🗺️ The Ministry of Time --> Science Fiction --> Crank Palace
🗺️ Crank Palace--> Short Stories --> Reasons to Live
🗺️ Reasons to Live --> Contemporary --> The Heir Apparent
🗺️ The Heir Apparent --> Contemporary --> Jonny Appleseed
🗺️ Jonny Appleseed --> Contemporary --> The Door-to-Door Bookstore
🗺️ The Door-to-Door Bookstore --> Contemporary --> How to Read a Book
🗺️ How to Read a Book --> Contemporary --> One & Only
🗺️ One & Only --> Contemporary --> Vernon God Little
🗺️ Vernon God Little --> Contemporary --> Rain Reign
🗺️ Rain Reign --> Children --> A Whale of the Wild
🗺️ A Whale of the Wild --> Children --> The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
🗺️ The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (End of this trip)
B. Staycation Style (9) - Edgar Award Winners (more to come)
🗺️ She Rides Shotgun
🗺️ Girl Forgotten
🗺️ The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
🗺️ Postmortem
🗺️ LaBrava
🗺️ Bent Road
🗺️ Glory Be
🗺️ Eye of the Needle
🗺️ The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
C. Staycation Style (8) - Barry Award Winners
🗺️ Killers of a Certain Age
🗺️ The Chain
🗺️ Winter Counts
🗺️ Ordinary Bear
🗺️ November Road
🗺️ Mystic River
🗺️ In the Woods
🗺️ The Last Child
Please sign me up for 30.READ & ROAM
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
Progress: 5 / 30
🔹 Begin your trip by reading any Award Winner.
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: the Readers Also Enjoyed
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
The Nightingale to:
Great Big Beautiful Life to:
The Correspondent to:
Theo of Golden to:
Lady Tremaine to:
Possibilities:
Buckeye
The Names
This Book Made Me Think of You
The Calamity Club
Kin
Sign me up for 10 books6/10
Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book’s page in a linear or cross-country fashion. - Readers Also Enjoyed
✅1. All the Light We Cannot See (3/1/26)
✅2. The Book Thief (7/3/26)
✅3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (4/5/26)
✅4. The Giver (24/5/26)
✅5. The Giving Tree (7/4/26)
✅6. Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Lost Christmas! (9/5/26)
7. Walt Disney's Peter Pan
8. Disney's Sleeping Beauty
9. Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
10. Lady and the Tramp
Hi, I am in for 10, road trip style :), thanks !
Starting with Kolkhoze : Medicis Prize 2025
Staycation style :
Then
I am in for 10 as well, road trip style, thanks!🗺️ Read & Roam - Yearly Challenge 🗺️
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
🗺️ Progress: /10 🗺️ -
Tracking my books read for this challenge in my corner
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I'll try for 10, road trip style1. The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht 9 Jan (Women's prize)
2. Tom Lake Ann Patchett 25 Jan (MPG historical fiction)
3. The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden 31 Jan (MPG historical fiction)
4. Plainsong Kent Haruf 7 Feb (MPG literary fiction)
5. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir Griffin Dunne 15 Feb (MPG family)
6. The Door-to-Door Bookstore Carsten Henn 5 Mar (MPG Book club)
7. First Lie Wins Ashley Elston 7 Mar )(MPG Book club)
8. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Fredrik Backman 15 Mar (MPG Book club)
9. A Cat Café Christmas Codi Gary 19 Mar (MPG contemporary)
10. Six Feet of the Country Nadine Gordimer 30 Mar (MPG fiction)
11. A Month in the Country J.L. Carr 31 Mar (MPG literary fiction)
12. The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution Marc Weingarten (MPG literary fiction)
13. Great Circle Maggie Shipstead 11 Apr (MPG literary fiction)
14. The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 19 Apr (MPG fiction)
15. The Heartbeat Library Laura Imai Messina 23 Apr (MPG fiction)
16. Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 24 Apr ( MPG literary fiction)
17. Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper 24 Apr (MPG fiction)
18. Ragtime E.L. Doctorow 29 Apr (MPG fiction)
19. Passing Nella Larsen 12 May (MPG historical fiction)
20. Eventide Kent Haruf 15 May (MPG Literary fiction)
21. Earthlings Sayaka Murata 21 May (MPG literary fiction)
22. The Names Florence Knapp 30 May (MPG contemporary)
23. Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan 6 Jun (MPG book club)
24. Moloka'i Alan Brennert 11 Jun (MPG Book club)
25. The Cat and The City Nick Bradley 11 Jun (MPG fiction)
26. The Astral Library Kate Quinn 14 Jun (MPG magical realism)
27. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 19 Jun (MPG fiction)
28. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 24 Jun (MPG classics)
29. Paris Edward Rutherfurd 30 Jun (MPG literature)
READ & ROAMDuration: January 1, 2026 - December 31, 2026
🔹 Begin your trip by reading any Award Winner.
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: one of its Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or a book that won the same Literary Award. (See note.)
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Completed: 12/12
1. The Project - Courtney Summers 1/1/26 (ITW Thriller Award for Young Adult Novel – 2022)
2. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice 1/2/26 (Genre: Horror)
3. The Seed Keeper - Diane Wilson 1/2/25 (Genre: Historical Fiction)
4. The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen 1/4/26 (Genre: Contemporary)
5. Lover Awakened - J.R. Ward 1/5/26 (Genre: Fantasy)
6. Lover Revealed - J.R. Ward 1/5/26 (Genre: Romance)
7. Brambleberry Bay Murder Club - Addison Moore 1/6/26 (Genre: Paranormal)
8. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 1/6/26 (Genre: Book Club)
9. My Christmas Fiancé - Serenity Woods 1/7/26 (Genre: Fiction)
10. Cream Puff Murder - Joanne Fluke 1/8/26 (Genre: Adult)
11. Sweet Little Lies - Caz Frear 1/9/26 (Genre: Mystery)
12. The Compound - Aisling Rawle 1/10/26 (Genre: Thriller)
Welcome, everyone! 👋I'm so excited for a new year of reading! Just two more weeks until we can hit the road. 😎
Please check the Participant List and let me know if there are errors in your name, goal, or original post number.
Sign me up for 5 for now. I'll try it.The Last Cuentista is my starter book (Newbery Medal Award). If I'm reading the explanation comment right, then I'm going Road Trip Style. I don't want to keep returning back to LC just for newer books. I'll search the Genre/Readers Also Enjoyed/Literary Awards section for books I might already own or fall on a list I have.
The Last Cuentista (Newbery Medal Award)
-> The Dragonet Prophecy vol 1 (Middle Grade genre)
-> Where the Red Fern Grows (Childrens genre)
-> One of Us is Lying (School genre)
-> The House of the Scorpion (South Carolina Book Award)
[all 5 are from my TBR Jar list - took some searching to find something from that]
Update to msg 33 (back on mobile). Change my number from 5 to 17 please. Managed to find links for the other 12 from my TBR Jar list. I tried not to repeat genres or awards for these which took awhile.From previous: The House of the Scorpion (South Carolina Book Award)
-> Scythe (Rhode Island Teen Book Award)
-> Dread Nation (Gateway Readers Award)
-> Lovely War (Historical Fiction genre)
-> Samurai Rising (Historical genre)
-> The Whydah (YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction)
Prismatic site says most of this cover is grey even though it was clearly blue and green in color boxes
-> The Orpheus Plot (Adventure genre)
-> The Unidentified (Science Fiction genre)
-> The Story That Cannot be Told (Fiction genre)
-> The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora (Vermont Golden Dome Book Award)
-> The Wednesday Wars (Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award)
-> Illusionarium (Young Adult genre)
-> A Soul as Cold as Frost (Magic genre)
Question from msg 33: if I decide to do a second round later in the year, would I pick up from book 17 or start over with a new chain?
Missy wrote: "Question from msg 33: if I decide to do a second round later in the year, would I pick up from book 17 or start over with a new chain?"It's your choice, Missy. You can have one long chain if you wish, or create multiple shorter chains. Do whichever best suits your reading needs. 😊
Also, I've updated your goal to 17.
TerryJane wrote: "Missy wrote: "Question from msg 33: if I decide to do a second round later in the year, would I pick up from book 17 or start over with a new chain?"It's your choice, Missy. You can have one long..."
Thank you for responding (and updating score)! I might do chains for each book list I try then. The 2026-27 ones usually get released around summer.
READ & ROAMDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or Literary Award
Completed: 0/12
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I'll try with 5.🔹 Begin your trip by reading any Award Winner.
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: one of its Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or a book that won the same Literary Award.
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Progress: 17/20
1. Lázár by Nelio Biedermann (Lieblingsbuch der Unabhängigen 2025) ✓ 01/23
→ MPG Fiction
2. Wenn sie wüsste by Freida McFadden ✓ 01/25
→ MPG Audiobook
3. Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid ✓ 02/14
→ MPG Sports
4. The Long Game by Rachel Reid ✓ 02/15
→ MPG LGBT
5. Verwirrung der Gefühle by Stefan Zweig ✓ 02/18
→ MPG Queer
6. Game Changer by Rachel Reid ✓ 02/21
→ MPG Hockey
7. Tough Guy by Rachel Reid ✓ 02/24
→ MPG Romance
8. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster ✓ 02/28
→ MPG Fiction
9. Common Goal by Rachel Reid ✓ 03/01
→ MPG MM Romance
10. Role Model by Rachel Reid ✓ 03/03
→ MPG Contemporary
11. Der letzte Sommer der Tauben by Abbas Khider ✓ 03/06
→ MPG Fiction
12. Sula by Toni Morrison ✓ 03/09
→ MPG Classics
13. Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka ✓ 04/01
→ readers also enjoyed
14. Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig ✓ 05/05
→ MPG Novella
15. We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune ✓ 05/17
→ MPG LGBT
16. Time to Shine by Rachel Reid ✓ 06/10
→ MPG Contemporary
17. Richtig gutes Essen by Takasa Junko ✓ 06/16
READ & ROAMDuration: January 1, 2026 - December 31, 2026
🔹 Begin your trip by reading any Award Winner.
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: one of its Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or a book that won the same Literary Award. (See note.)
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Completed: 0/12
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READ & ROAMDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
🔹 Begin your trip by reading any Award Winner.
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: one of its Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or a book that won the same Literary Award. (See note.)
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
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1Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman By Robert K. Massie
2The Life of Elizabeth I By Alison Weir
3The Wives of Henry VIII By Alison Weir
4The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn By Eric Ives
5Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII By Gareth Russell
6Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII By Linda Porter
7Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe By John Guy
8 Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey By Nicola Tallis
9The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty By Tracy Borman
10The Six Loves of James I By Gareth Russell
Hello! Please sign me up for 12 books, road trip style.🔹 Begin your trip by reading any Award Winner.
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: one of its Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or a book that won the same Literary Award.
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Progress: 4/12
1. Butter by Asako Yuzuki [British Book Award for Debut Fiction, 2025] - Completed 15/3/2026
2. Orbital by Samantha Harvey [Readers also enjoyed | Genre: Science Fiction] - Completed 12/5/2026
3. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers [Genre: Science Fiction | Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2022] - Completed 18/5/2026
4. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett [Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2025] - Completed 22/6/2026
5. The Devils by Joe Abercrombie [Readers Also Enjoyed | Genre: Horror]
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I don't understand the difference between road trip and staycation selection styles. Can someone explain that to me please?Thanks.
Pat, for Staycation, all book choices are based on your initial book. For Road Trip, each book is based on the previous book.I explained it more thoroughly in post #23, I think, but I'm currently using the phone app and can't give you the link.
Scroll up and see if that post to D.L. helps. If not, I can try again when I'm back home and on my computer.
EDIT: Here's a link to the post I mentioned: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Message #46ROAD TRIP OPTION
Goal ~ 12 Books
Current ~ 6/12
Book #1 (Award Winner)
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
Finished ~ 1.9.26
Pages ~ 306
Awards ~ Locus, Mythopoeic Fantasy, Andre Norton, & Lodestar Awards
Genre (Cozy Fantasy) >
Book #2 (New Releases Tagged Cozy Fantasy)
Snake-Eater
Finished ~ 1.18.26
Pages ~ 267
Genre (Paranormal) >
Book #3 (New Releases Tagged Paranormal)
Persephone's Curse
Finished ~ 1.22.26
Pages ~ 336
Genre (Magical Realism) >
Book #4 (New Releases Tagged Magical Realism)
Cursed Daughters
Finished ~ 2.16.26
Pages ~ 384
Genre (Literary Fiction) >
Book #5 (New Releases Tagged Literary Fiction)
Women of a Promiscuous Nature
Finished Reading ~ 3.12.26
Pages ~ 368
Genre (Historical Fiction)
Book #6 (New Releases Tagged Historical Fiction)
Family Drama
Finished Reading ~ 3.24.26
Pages ~ 320
Genre ~ (Family) >
Book #7 (New Releases Tagged Family
TerryJane wrote: "D.L. wrote: "But I am not sure I understand the staycation vs. road trip style. What's the difference?"A real life Staycation has "home" as its base, taking multiple day trips and returning to st..."
That explains it well - ty!
Please add me for 25 road trip books.Visit book's Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: one of its Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or a book that won the same Literary Award.
Progress: 8/25
√1. Theft - Gurnah is a Nobel Prize laureate --> Africa genre
√2. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Africa genre --> Memoir genre
√3. Forest of Noise: Poems - Memoir genre -->History genre
√4. Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation - History genre --> Middle East
√5. My Friends - Middle East --> Middle East
√6. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation - Middle East --> Politics
√7. The Baghdad Eucharist: A Novel - Politics --> Politics
√8. The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon - Politics -->
Please sign me up for 36!I will do 12 for three different styles using 3 different starting books (one for each style).
READ & ROAM
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
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It's almost time to head out on our trips. Yeehaw!You may have heard by now, but Goodreads is doing away with DMs. If you spot an error in the participant list, or have a goal change, question, or problem, please leave a comment in this thread.
As we enter 2026, I wish each of you a healthy and happy year full of fabulous reads!
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2026 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Calamity Club (other topics)Kin (other topics)
Gwen & Art Are Not in Love (other topics)
At Death's Dough: A Deep Dish Mystery (other topics)
Platform Decay (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Mindy Quigley (other topics)Ava Rani (other topics)
Edward Rutherfurd (other topics)
Jenna Ramirez (other topics)
Ellie Alexander (other topics)
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Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2026
Expanding on a crowd favorite monthly challenge, Read & Roam is an open-ended yearly challenge that takes readers on a journey through the pages of books that are linked by Award, Genre, or Reader recommendation. Feel free to travel on one long adventure, or take multiple smaller excursions throughout the year. Set a goal and book your travel plans!
🔹 Begin your trip by reading any Award Winner.
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: one of its Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or a book that won the same Literary Award. (See note.)
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.
🗺️ Staycation Style: Each book is selected from the starting book's page in day trip or weekender fashion.
🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Note: The Goodreads features used for this challenge are available on the website, but not in the mobile app. If you don't have access to a computer, try visiting Goodreads using a browser on your device.
Genres are located below the book blurb.
Readers Also Enjoyed is located below About the Author and is scrollable.
Literary Awards are listed below the First published date.
To see a sample Goodreads page showing where these features are located, (view spoiler)[