YA Addicted Book Club discussion

Starting in February, we are going to do the Book of the Month a little differently. Going to have themes for each month that the suggested books have to fit in some way. They will generally be fairly broad themes such as a genre. This way we wont have the same style of book every month and will hopefully help get some more interest.

February will be the obvious and be Romance

Suggestions for any of the other months are now open!

Themes: Bolded means set, not means tentatively

March: Sports theme, Incredible Kid Day (pick a middle grade book or one with a young MC), St Patricks Day (Pick a book with based in mythology or with a green cover)

April: New Beginnings, Humour, Children's books, books about books

May: Motherhood Cinco de Mayo

June: Fatherhood

July: Freedom, Summer nights

August: School

September: Travel

October: Horror/creepy/paranormal creatures

November: Mystery/Thriller, Families

December: Winter/Snow, Holidays

Oooh I like this idea!

My suggestion for October is obviously 'horror' 😉
And maybe 'mystery/thriller' for November?

Suggestions:

March: Sports related maybe? March Madness and all...
April: Books about new beginnings
May:Books about mothers
June: Books about fathers
July: Books about freedom/summer nights
August: Stories about schools/students
September: Books about travel as I think fall is a gorgeous time to travel
October: Horror/Monsters/Ghosts
November: Stories about families maybe as its the start of holiday seasons
December: Christmas/Holidays/Winter-Snow

Sounds good! Keep the ideas coming! They dont have to be a genre either. Broad themes also would work

HeatherH wrote: "Suggestions:

March: Sports related maybe? March Madness and all...
April: Books about new beginnings
May:Books about mothers
June: Books about fathers
July: Books about freedom/summer nights
Augus..."

Awesome ideas!

Can we have the october theme a bit broader than horror? Just because if there's anyone else like me I don't read horror books at all but read like paranormal romance with ghosts/vampires and other horror-type creatures.

I definitely think that the themes need to be quite broad or some people might find it difficult to think of some nominations. I know I would.

Horror can be whatever it is to you. But yeah I can update it. It just needs to have a "creepy" kind of aspect, whether its creatures, or dark fantasy or whatever.

Other ideas for March?

There's an Incredible Kid Day in March or something like that, so maybe books about children or middle grade books or something? And then there's the obvious St. Patrick's day, so maybe magic or mythology?

I like the idea of reading a middle grade book or book with children in it!

Good ideas Lili! Should we make a poll for the choices and let the group choose or just go for one?

Ohhh I love this idea!

Brittany wrote: "Good ideas Lili! Should we make a poll for the choices and let the group choose or just go for one?"

We can do a poll if you want, see what category they'd like to read most.

Liliana wrote: "Brittany wrote: "Good ideas Lili! Should we make a poll for the choices and let the group choose or just go for one?"

We can do a poll if you want, see what category they'd like to read most."

Go for it :)

Boom. Done 😉

Other ideas for the month of April?

April is National Humor Month so maybe a funny book/a book with humor, and then April 2nd is Children's Book Day, so there's that too.

World Book Day is in April (for the rest of the world anyway, we do it in March in the UK) so maybe we could do books about books/reading?

Any last ideas for April? One of us will try and put up a poll in the next few days

Poll for April is up

With April now decided, any other ideas for May?

-Free Comic Book Day - read a comic book or even a graphic novel/manga (I know they're not the same thing but 🤷‍♀️ lol)
-National Brothers and Sisters Day - books where the sibling relationship plays a major role.
-National Paranormal Day - Books that are urban fantasy or paranormal romance or just have something paranormal in them.
-Cinco de Mayo - Books written by Mexican/Hispanic author or a book where the main character is Mexican/Hispanic or a book that takes place in Mexico.
-National Nurses Day - Books where the main character is in the medical field or a book mostly set in a medical facility.
-Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books written by Asian authors or a book where the main character is Asian or a book that takes place somewhere in Asia.

-National Star Wars Day-Sci-fi books, or books set in space?
-Mothers Day (for the rest of the world anyway, the UK does it in March)-Book about mothers or featuring a strong mother-child relationship

Those are some excellent choices!!
I think we should do something comic related for that month Lili wanna try and plan something? There's enough of us that read them. Probably wont use it for the monthly theme though.

I really like using May the Fourth be with you. But Cinco de Mayo is such a great idea too.... many choices yay!

That could be pretty cool, Brittany. Although I have to be honest, I haven't read a comic book probably ever. Lol.

Yes! I'm really liking the Cinco de Mayo one! And Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month too!

comics/manga/graphic novels could do something for all of them? I dont know... Let's think on it.

Poll for May is up

I really like the Cinco de Mayo idea!

Me too! If it isn't used for BoTM it wil be for PIFM or the quarterly challenge I am sure :)

I don't know why I didn't think of it before, it's pretty great if I do say so myself 😉 Lol. Last month I bought and it sounds incredible! I am definitely gonna be reading it in May! Hopefully 😅

That sounds really neat Lili!

May is decided and the suggestion thread is up.

Now ideas for June!

National Best Friends Day-Books with a central focus on friendship.
Fathers Day-A book about dads/with a strong father/child relationship.
National Higher Education Day-Books set at/with characters in University

Great ideas thanks Jo!

Aquarium Month/World Ocean Day: Books set at sea or near a body of water or books about sea creatures such as mermaids!
Gay Pride Month: Books with a LGBTQ+ protagonist.
Summer: Books set during summer/summer vacation.

MERMAIDS!!!!

Great suggestions Lili

Poll is up for June.

Suggestions for July?

-National Disability Independence Day-book with disabled main character/written by disabled author?
-July 1st is Canada Day, so maybe a book set in Canada or written by a Canadian author? Could do a similar thing for US Independence Day
-International Joke Day-Books that are funny?

Nice choices Jo! Love that you added in Canada day :)

Brittany wrote: "Nice choices Jo! Love that you added in Canada day :)"

Thanks! So many authors I read come from the US, thought it might be nice to discover some Canadian ones too :)

Agreed!!

Oooh I love the idea of Canadian authors, too!

Some more suggestions:
World UFO Day: sci-fi books/books about aliens.
Moon Day: sci-fi books/books set in space... this one and the first one pretty much go hand in hand, I think 🤷‍♀️ lol.
National Bikini Day/Shark Awareness Day: beachy reads/books set at the beach/ocean.
Video Games Day: there are a lot of sci-fi books out there with a VR premise to them (like Ready Player One), so maybe something like that?
Bastille Day: books set in France.

Nice Lili! I particularly like the one for video games day

I also love the Canadian theme (never read any and want to diverse a bit). And books set in France or books set at the beach also sounds pretty nice.

I'm all for the UFO one... I love sci-fi books.

Poll for July is up.

Unless anyone has any objections, I think for August I am going to do a runner up poll.

I think that's a great idea Britt.

Runner up poll is up for August! A couple days early but I had time

Now searching for September theme ideas