Play Book Tag discussion

This activity is based on the top tag list for 2026:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

The idea is pretty simple - - read/grab as many tags on the list that you can in the year, but there would be some parameters:

1. Each book must be tagged 5 times with the tag(s) in question.

2. A single book can cover up to 10 tags. These tags need to be specified in your challenge tracker before the book is read/reviewed.

3. Each month, people can nominate tags that aren't on the list of the top tags, and we will throw those into a randomizer and 5 additional "lesser used" tags will be available for capture too. These special tags count for double. i.e. if you read one of them, it counts as two.

4. Goal is to read the most tags by end of the year. If you read all the tags by year end, you get 30 participation points and a raffle entry. There will be participation points given for reading 25% and 50% of the tags as well.

See messages #2 and #3 for quick access to the relevant links

January Read:
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - Erik Larson
2015, american-history, history, military, non-fiction, politics, survival, travel, usa, war

The Big Four - Agatha Christie
2-stars, agatha-christie, classics, meh, short-stories, suspense-thriller, 2012, 2013, action, adventure

Ghost Talkers - Mary Robinette Kowal
2016, 2017, 2018, england, historical-mystery, magical-realism, mystery-thriller, romance, speculative-fiction, thriller

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History - Margalit Fox
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, biography, book-club, dnf, true-crime

The Names
abuse, botm, dark, death, drama, grief, made-me-cry, mental-health, parenting, feminism

The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa
asia, booktok, cultural, dystopian, emotional, found-family, japan, japanese, post-apocalyptic, translated

This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron
cozy, diversity, fairy-tales, lesbian, mythology, retellings, sapphic, teen, ya, ya-fantasy

February Read

Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun - Elle Cosimano
chick-lit, comedy, fun, funny, humor, mafia, rom-com, romantic-suspense, series, summer-reads

The Wedding People - Alison Espach
21st-century, american-literature, female-author, friendship, literary, love-triangle, modern, realistic-fiction, relationships, self-help

The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal
american, disability, recommendations, sci-fi-fantasy, science, science-fiction, social-justice, space, technology, sword-and-laser

March Read

Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything - Justine Pucella Winans
coming-of-age, contemporary, crime, favorites, high-school, horror, horror-thriller, lgbtq, mystery, young-adult

Escape! - Stephen Fishbach
adult, suspense

The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji
2019, 20th-century, 4-stars, crime-fiction, dark-academia, detective, first-in-series, murder, murder-mystery, mystery-crime

Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney
5-stars, crime-thriller, female-protagonist, ghosts, halloween, psychological-thriller, summer, supernatural, dual timeline

The Daughters of Block Island - Christa Carmen
family, fiction, gothic, mystery-suspense, paranormal

The Wise Women - Gina Sorell
contemporary-fiction

A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher
animals, magic, nature, novella, small-town, urban-fantasy, witches

The Mistress of Bhatia House - Sujata Massey
cozy-mystery, historical-fiction, india, women

April Planned

Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography - David Ulrich
art, philosophy

Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann
2008, 2010, 2014, europe, fantasy, german, women-authors,

Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution - Menno Schilthuizen
2020


April Read