Happy June! Our “Science In The Summer” TEAM Readathon is scheduled to begin on July 17. The sign up thread will be available for two weeks starting JUNE 26. We’d love for you to join us!
Please be sure you have read and follow the group rules! Spam posts or any book promotion posts will be deleted and the user will be removed from the group. We love to have you in the group so please follow the rules! You can read them here!
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.
GAMES & EVENTS Welcome to a brand-new month of fun and games! Do you enjoy playing (or watching) Wheel of Fortune? Then you’re going to love this exciting new game: GUESS A LETTER! Don’t forget to join in on the fun with the older games as well! There’s plenty of fun to be had, so jump in and keep the good times going!
Scattergories (Round 3) category for your enjoyment! We hope you have fun playing along and can’t wait to see everyone join in! Alphabetical Add-On Story unfolds a story 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 (Round 2) and Word Chain (Book Edition) are still available to play as well.
Have a great idea for group fun? Please share your Game Suggestions with us!
GROUP READ Our June theme is Isolation, and our group read for this month is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, in which an astronaut, alone on a ship far from home, must piece together his identity and harness his scientific genius to save Earth from an extinction-level event.
CHALLENGES June brings new monthly challenges with the theme of Isolation, and it will be the last month of our second quarter challenges with the theme of Genre Gems.
Monthly Challenges There Can Only Be One is an open challenge to read books with one-word titles. Isolated in Ink is a prompt based challenge based on living in isolation.
Quarterly Challenges Build Your Own Hall of Fame: Genre Gems is an open challenge to add new genre-themed exhibits to your literary museum. The Lapidary List challenges you to spell out a gem name by reading award-winning books from the same genre award.
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 June, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for July 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.
Finally, welcome to all of our new members! We can't wait to get to know you. We encourage you to stop by the Start Here thread, which provides useful information on how everything within the group works. And be sure to say hello in theintroduce yourself thread. See you there!
Happy Reading, everyone! Winter, SarahKat, TerryJane, Carri Carey, Blagica, Theresa, JennH, and Susan
FROM THE MODS
Happy June!
Our “Science In The Summer” TEAM Readathon is scheduled to begin on July 17. The sign up thread will be available for two weeks starting JUNE 26. We’d love for you to join us!
Please be sure you have read and follow the group rules! Spam posts or any book promotion posts will be deleted and the user will be removed from the group. We love to have you in the group so please follow the rules! You can read them here!
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.
GAMES & EVENTS
Welcome to a brand-new month of fun and games! Do you enjoy playing (or watching) Wheel of Fortune? Then you’re going to love this exciting new game: GUESS A LETTER!
Don’t forget to join in on the fun with the older games as well! There’s plenty of fun to be had, so jump in and keep the good times going!
Scattergories (Round 3) category for your enjoyment! We hope you have fun playing along and can’t wait to see everyone join in!
Alphabetical Add-On Story unfolds a story 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 (Round 2) and Word Chain (Book Edition) are still available to play as well.
Have a great idea for group fun? Please share your Game Suggestions with us!
GROUP READ
Our June theme is Isolation, and our group read for this month is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir , in which an astronaut, alone on a ship far from home, must piece together his identity and harness his scientific genius to save Earth from an extinction-level event.
You can join the discussion or post your review of the book!
You can also vote for our July book with the theme of Heroes, as well as nominate a book for August with the theme of Rust!
CHALLENGES
June brings new monthly challenges with the theme of Isolation, and it will be the last month of our second quarter challenges with the theme of Genre Gems.
Monthly Challenges
There Can Only Be One is an open challenge to read books with one-word titles.
Isolated in Ink is a prompt based challenge based on living in isolation.
Quarterly Challenges
Build Your Own Hall of Fame: Genre Gems is an open challenge to add new genre-themed exhibits to your literary museum.
The Lapidary List challenges you to spell out a gem name by reading award-winning books from the same genre award.
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 June, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for July 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 books:
All the Colours of the Dark
Expiration Dates
His Road Home
The Hitchcock Hotel
The Kingdoms
Kraken #1: El libro negro de las horas
The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran
Rakesfall
Silo #1: Wool
Time Off for Good Behavior
Throne of Glass #5: Empire of Storms
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Yesteryear
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. We encourage you to stop by the Start Here thread, which provides useful information on how everything within the group works. And be sure to say hello in the introduce yourself thread. See you there!
Happy Reading, everyone!
Winter, SarahKat, TerryJane, Carri Carey, Blagica, Theresa, JennH, and Susan