2025 Reading Challenge discussion

The theme of November is togetherness.

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

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 September 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've been wanting to read Midwinter for a while, and it looks like the father/son relationship central to the story would fit right in with the theme of "togetherness".

Well, I can't find that book in ANY nearby library catalog, so I'm changing my nomination to Moonglow. It seems like conversations between a father and son are central, as the adult son gets to know more about his father's life.

I nominate Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos. It's about three friends who grow close in college, fall apart as adults, and are then brought back together for their college reunion when one of them sends out a desperate plea.

How about The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain? A drifter and a young woman would like to be together...if only it wasn't for her inconvenient husband.

I nominate The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. It's the story of a Chinese-American family staying together across the centuries, generations and continents.

I nominate Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's about how the present plays with the past; friendship, family and choices

I would like to nominate Commonwealth by Ann Patchett. It is a story about two families who are joined by marriage and spend many summers together.

Randy wrote: "How about The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain? A drifter and a young woman would like to be together...if only it wasn't for her inconvenient husband."

I will second The Postman Always Rings Twice.

How about Hello From the Gillespies? It is literally about a family who has to pull itself together after their matriarch is afflicted with amnesia.

I third Falling Together. :D

katie wrote: "I nominate The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. It's the story of a Chinese-American family staying together across the centuries, generations and continents."

I second this book!

I'd like to second "Everything is illuminated" by Foer.

You...Together for all the wrong reasons.

I fourth Falling Together. :)

Keep nominating guys! Closing this thread later today.

Edit: Closing tomorrow. This day didn't turn out too great so I will do it tomorrow instead :)

I'm going to nominate Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym. It's a beautiful little novel of how even though people work together for years they might still be strangers and lonely. It's about all the small things you don't know about those around you. It impacted me a lot when I read it.

Poll up :) Go vote for our November read! :)

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...