Welcome, new members! We encourage you to stop by the Start Here thread, which provides useful information on how everything within the group works.
The first team readathon of 2026 will begin this month, starting on February 20th and ending on March 1st. Sign-up in this thread from now until February 13th.
Messaging is no longer available on Goodreads. You may communicate with the mods in the Questions and Comments for Mods thread. If you have a concern that needs to be addressed privately, you may email us.
We have created a separate folder for our Member Challenge Leaders. If you have been or would like to be a volunteer challenge leader, visit the folder, mark the threads to receive notifications, and comment/email via the Roll Call thread. (We may need to create a secret group for our Challenge Leaders. If so, we will email invitations privately.)
GAMES With a new month upon us, the Valentine’s Day Word Search is ready to play! 💕🔍 Alphabetical Add-On Story. In this creative challenge, a story unfolds one letter at a time, with each new addition following the alphabet from A to Z. Every contribution builds on what came before, turning simple letters into an imaginative journey. Five Letters is still going strong and the fun isn’t slowing down. Swing by, pick up your five letters and see what hilarious or clever sentence you can create. Scattergories and Word Chain (Book Edition) are still available to play. Have a great idea for group fun? Please share your own Game Suggestions with us!
GROUP READ Our February theme is Gold, and our group read for this month is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, a literary fiction novel about a young man haunted by a painting, and his struggles with loss and guilt.
CHALLENGES We’re excited to introduce new monthly challenges for February’s theme of Gold, and we will continue our quarterly challenges with the theme of Literary Legacy.
Monthly Challenges Shades of Gold is an open challenge to read books with gold shades in their covers, titles, or author names. Radiant Voices is a prompt based challenge based on the lyrics of Golden by Huntrix.
Quarterly Challenges Build Your Own Hall of Fame: Literary Legacy is an open challenge to create a literary museum with award winning exhibit rooms of your choice. Awards Across Time challenges you to read award-winning books across eight time periods, based on either the date they won or the date the award was established.
Yearly Challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year. Check out A Guide to the 2026 Yearly Challenges to learn more about our year-long challenges!
Do you have an idea for a challenge? Or would you like to try leading a challenge? The Member Challenge Ideas thread is the place for both! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members’ suggestions. We would love to hear your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for February, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together! You can also sign up for March TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members. Feel free to join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
FROM THE MODS
Welcome, new members! We encourage you to stop by the Start Here thread, which provides useful information on how everything within the group works.
The first team readathon of 2026 will begin this month, starting on February 20th and ending on March 1st. Sign-up in this thread from now until February 13th.
Messaging is no longer available on Goodreads. You may communicate with the mods in the Questions and Comments for Mods thread. If you have a concern that needs to be addressed privately, you may email us.
We have created a separate folder for our Member Challenge Leaders . If you have been or would like to be a volunteer challenge leader, visit the folder, mark the threads to receive notifications, and comment/email via the Roll Call thread. (We may need to create a secret group for our Challenge Leaders. If so, we will email invitations privately.)
GAMES
With a new month upon us, the Valentine’s Day Word Search is ready to play! 💕🔍
Alphabetical Add-On Story . In this creative challenge, a story unfolds one letter at a time, with each new addition following the alphabet from A to Z. Every contribution builds on what came before, turning simple letters into an imaginative journey.
Five Letters is still going strong and the fun isn’t slowing down. Swing by, pick up your five letters and see what hilarious or clever sentence you can create.
Scattergories and Word Chain (Book Edition) are still available to play.
Have a great idea for group fun? Please share your own Game Suggestions with us!
GROUP READ
Our February theme is Gold, and our group read for this month is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt , a literary fiction novel about a young man haunted by a painting, and his struggles with loss and guilt.
You can join the discussion or post your review of the book!
You can also vote for our March book with the theme of Birds, as well as nominate a book for April with the theme of Daisy!
CHALLENGES
We’re excited to introduce new monthly challenges for February’s theme of Gold, and we will continue our quarterly challenges with the theme of Literary Legacy.
Monthly Challenges
Shades of Gold is an open challenge to read books with gold shades in their covers, titles, or author names.
Radiant Voices is a prompt based challenge based on the lyrics of Golden by Huntrix.
Quarterly Challenges
Build Your Own Hall of Fame: Literary Legacy is an open challenge to create a literary museum with award winning exhibit rooms of your choice.
Awards Across Time challenges you to read award-winning books across eight time periods, based on either the date they won or the date the award was established.
Yearly Challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year. Check out A Guide to the 2026 Yearly Challenges to learn more about our year-long challenges!
Do you have an idea for a challenge? Or would you like to try leading a challenge? The Member Challenge Ideas thread is the place for both! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members’ suggestions. We would love to hear your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS
Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for February, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for March TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS
Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members. Feel free to join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
We are reading the following stand-alone books:
Geisha, a Life
The Hounding
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Intermezzo
Local Woman Missing
Marcovaldo
The Moon-Voyage
The Names
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
The Reading List
We will be reading these books from a series:
Alex Cross #15: Alex Cross’s Trial
Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation #1: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Bramble Falls #1: Falling Like Leaves
Commissario Brunetti #17: The Girl of His Dreams
Courtney #9: Birds of Prey
Kay Scarpetta #16: Scarpetta
Nora Breen Investigates #1: Murder at Gulls Nest
The Three Musketeers #1
Throne of Glass #1
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Finally, welcome to all of our new members! We can't wait to get to know you. Please stop in and introduce yourself or say hello to our new members!
Happy Reading, everyone!
Winter, SarahKat, TerryJane, Carri Carey, Blagica, Theresa, JennH, and Susan