2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Hi Everyone!

We're entering the last summer month. I hope everyone has had great vacations. We're ready to begin nominating for October 2016 group read! The theme of the month is Scare!

Please remember to state a connection to the theme when you nominate. Thank you :)

Here are some short rules for nominating books:

~ 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 include the name of the book and the author or link to the 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.

~ When nominating, please state a connection to the theme.

~ You cannot nominate a book which has previously been a group read. Past buddy reads are fine. (See Group Reads in the bookshelf)


This thread will be closed by August 25th, and we will choose ten books for the poll. If there are more than ten books nominated, we will choose the ten most nominated. 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 am going to start the n nominations off with

Room
The idea of spending your life in one room is truly scary to me.

Blagica wrote: "I am going to start the n nominations off with

Room
The idea of spending your life in one room is truly scary to me."

Ooh, good choice, Blagica! I was going to nominate a different book but now I'm going to second Room. I totally agree that being trapped in a room is a scary prospect.

I would like to nominate The Shining. There were so many I wanted to nominate for this one, but I figured I would go with the one that tops the best horror book listopia. So many good choices are possible for this month!

I am going to nominate Cat's Cradle. I have wanted to read it for a while and it is completely about what it is like to be facing the end of the world, which is totally scary. It is about facing the next phase of nuclear weapons, something that has the capability of freezing the entire world.

Rot & Ruin
Zombie series, book one!

So scare you say? I will go with Books of Blood: Volume One. These stories seem ok but then you are twisted and all you think is right... well, may not be it.. Also by being stories is easier to separate the reading by each story. Some of them had been made as movies, but they never manage to play with the mind as Barker does with the pen....The movies are actually quite bad, except the adaptation of Hellraiser that is ok. But books are always better

Cujo is one I would like to nominate.

Night by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator)

"Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again. "

I would like to nominate You by Caroline Kepnes the stalker/boyfriend/psychopath seems scary enough for the theme :)

I would like to nominate Pet Cemetry by Stephen King because I haven't heard anything but great things from this book plus, it's Stephen King (who else could it be?!)

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I say The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone,it's the perfect read for October

I don't think we've done a short story collection before. I'm going to recommend The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. These are dark retellings of fairy tales.

I nominate Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. The book is perfect for Scare and October.

I LOVED the book YOU. So so Creepy.

I would like to nominate Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I second You

maria wrote: "I would like to nominate Pet Cemetry by Stephen King because I haven't heard anything but great things from this book plus, it's Stephen King (who else could it be?!)"

I second Pet Cemetery! :) I haven't read a King book yet, and they're usually pretty scary or suspenseful. This is the only one I probably will read of his. And I've been meaning to read it since middle school lol.

I LOVE this month's theme. I'm really excited regardless of the results. :)

You was so creepy! Great book...sequel not so much. I would second (or third) Room.

Sue, Tiffany, Jo and Amelia. Could you please state connections to the theme? Sorry I am a little late.

* Actually they are all quite obvious. I only need a connection to Northanger Abbey. Can you state a connection Amelia? It doesn't have to be something really obvious :)

I second The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, both because I want to read Angela Carter and because short stories are an excellent vehicle for scariness!

I second Room

I would like to nominate As Night Falls by Jenny Milchman. It will keep you on the edge of your seat and wanting to not put it done. The main home invader is terrifying. You get a glimpse of the past for him and the wife in the home. As the story unfolds there is a snow storm raging. Perfect scary book.

Winter wrote: "Hi Everyone!

We're entering the last summer month. I hope everyone has had great vacations. We're ready to begin nominating for October 2016 group read! The theme of the month is Scare!

Please re..."I loved ROOM, but I don't think it qualifies as scary; heart wrentching yes, but not really scary in the October sense of the word.

I'll nominate A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS
It's the most recent winner of the Bram Stoker Award and it has an accessible page count 286.

Karina wrote: "I second The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, both because I want to read Angela Carter and because short stories are an excellent vehicle for scariness!"

I'll third this nomination!

Kara wrote: "I don't think we've done a short story collection before. I'm going to recommend The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. These are dark retellings of fairy tales."

I think this sounds very interesting so I will second this nomination

I would like to nominate There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. It is available on Kindle and is 206 pages long. They were originally written in Russian.

Another vote for You from me.

Ann wrote: "Night by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator)

"Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it th..."

I second this one, already on my TBR list!

Dracula i would say........
the beginning of "vampiric elements" in novel for the first time.
Which else can be more creepy?

Amelia wrote: "I would like to nominate Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen"

I second Northanger Abbey. Still wondering why I never read this one :-)

Agnieszka wrote: "Amelia wrote: "I would like to nominate Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen"

I second Northanger Abbey. Still wondering why I never read this one :-)"

There isn't really given a connection to the theme. Would you like to give one Agnieszka? I will count it as your nimunation :)

Michaël wrote: "Winter wrote: "Hi Everyone!

We're entering the last summer month. I hope everyone has had great vacations. We're ready to begin nominating for October 2016 group read! The theme of the month is Sc..."

It doesn't have to, the important thing is the connection each state :) It can be any connection really.

Thank you for your nomination! :)

Only two days more of nomination :)

Hello, Pigeon English is my nomination.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...

Winter wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "Amelia wrote: "I would like to nominate Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen"

I second Northanger Abbey. Still wondering why I never read this one :-)"

There isn't really given a con..."

Re: Northanger Abbey. The story focuses on a girl who's fond of gothic horror novels and begins to see a connection between the plots of those novels and the mansion she's visiting.

Thank you :)

is ms austen any good never read her?

Ania, I agree, a classic would be great. Each month has a theme however and in Octobervit is Scare. That doesn't mean every book has to be horror, but we ask you to each state a connection of why you think it fits the theme :)

Closing the thread now.

Ania, if you want to send me a connection, just PM me :)