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[2023] Reading List - Introduction, Schedule, and FAQs
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As always, our first rule is the Golden Rule. We expect all group members to treat each other with respect and dignity. Let’s remember that we’re all doing the challenge differently and for different reasons, so avoid judging others� choices or suggestions.
Voting Rules
- Each person may only suggest or second one topic per poll.
- Each person may only vote once in each poll. The survey site allows us to identify people who vote multiple times and duplicate votes will be excluded. Surveys that we receive without links to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ profiles will also be excluded.
- Prompts that are in the bottom of any poll cannot be resubmitted in later polls unless substantially reworked.
- Prompts that are submitted in 3 polls and do not make it to the final list cannot be resubmitted in later polls unless substantially reworked.
Multi-Week Polls
- We will have one dedicated poll for multi-week prompts.
- Multi-week prompts are NOT allowed to be submitted in any other poll.
- This year, we will cap the amount of weeks used by multi-week prompts at 6 weeks total. This could be filled by a combination of three 2-week prompts, a 4-week prompt and a 2-week prompt, or two 3-week prompts.
This is not a requirement to meet, however. If the winning prompts are a 2-week and a 3-week, putting us at a total of 5, we will allow that to stand. We will just restrict the total weeks used to 6 maximum.
Pre-Poll
- We will have one pre-poll with a few prompts that make it on to the list frequently.
- Unless one of these is expressly in the bottom votes, they may all be renominated for the list if they do not make it in during the pre-poll.
- This poll will occur before the formal voting process begins.
When Voting
We are asking people to include their Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ profile address when they vote. To find this, just go to your own profile and then copy the URL/web address. If for some reason you can't link to your Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ profile, please post your full Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ name with enough identifiable information that we'll be able to access your profile. We’ve introduced this for two reasons:
1. On a few occasions in each poll, people have used more than the allotted number of votes, either because they aren’t familiar with the rules or just by mistake. When this happens our only option is to disregard the vote as we can’t identify the voter to ask them to resubmit. By asking for your profile address we’ll be able to message you and ask you to vote again if you’ve accidentally used more than the allotted number of votes.
2. Unfortunately a very small number of people have voted more than once per poll and so we are asking for this information to prevent duplicate votes.
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This post will be updated after each mini-poll as topics are confirmed. Please note this is not the final reading order, that will be decided after all 52 prompts have been selected.
LIST PROGRESS: 52/52 Prompts Selected
TITLE
A book with a body of water in the title
A book with a full name in the title
A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title
A book with a school subject in the title
A book with an unusual or surprising title
COVER
A book with a faceless person on the cover
A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
THEME/GENRE
A book where books are important
A book related to pride
A book that is dark
A book that is light
A book that involves a murder
A book related to science
A book related to the arts
A book with a con, deception, or fake
A western
A book with the theme of returning home
SETTING
A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
Three books, each of which is set in a different century
A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
A book with a tropical setting
CHARACTER
A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
A book with an interracial relationship
A book about a person/character with a disability
A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
AUTHOR & PUBLISHING
A book published in 2023
An author's debut book
A book that has been translated from another language
A book by an author from continental Europe
A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
A novella
A book whose author has published more than 7 books
A book by an author you read in 2022
A book by an Asian diaspora author
GOODREADS & RECOMMENDATIONS
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
AWARDS, CHALLENGES, & LISTS
A book nominated for an award beginning with W
A book from the NPR “Books We Love� lists
A book found by inputting a favorite author on
OTHER
A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the list this year
A book related to a chess piece
A book related to a geometric shape
A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
A second book that fits your favorite prompt
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Questions will be pulled from the Wild Discussion thread. Please see that thread to ask questions.
Q: What's a pre-poll?
A: The pre-poll is a poll of commonly suggested prompts that we vote on before the suggestion process starts, kind of to get them out of the way.
Q: What's a multi-week poll?
A: Multi-week prompts are a set of prompts (usually 2-4) that are connected somehow. We vote on these prompts in a separate poll because members found it difficult to vote for them when they were up against single-week prompts. This poll will usually be in the first half of the polling.
Q: How long do polls stay open?
A: The polls will stay open from the date on the schedule (when the voting thread opens) through the date that the results are announced. We suggest getting your vote in the day before results are announced to make sure your vote is counted!
Q: What time will the threads be posted?
A: The mods are all in the US, but we try to vary when things go live. We will usually post on the threads when the next one will go live (so we will post on the results thread for poll 1 when the suggestions will open for poll 2, etc.)
Q: Do we have themes for the polls?
A: Aside from the multi-week poll (and, sometimes, a Close Calls poll), we try not to limit the polls to certain types of prompts. Occasionally, as we get to the end of the process, we may mention prompt types that we are low on, like genre prompts or character-based prompts. However, we typically don't restrict polls to a certain type of prompt unless we feel it necessary.
Q: Is there a word limit for prompts?
A: No. But we have noticed that shorter, more concise prompts are more likely to make it into the final list, so we encourage you to workshop your suggestion in the Wild Discussion before submitting if you think it is too long or wordy.
Q: What's a Wild Card?
A: Wild Cards exist so that if there is a prompt you don’t connect with or can’t find a book for, you can use a Wild Card for that prompt. We generally say you have one Wild Card per challenge. That being said, no one is policing your reading, and we encourage you to tackle the challenge in a way that best fits your lifestyle and reading habits, so you can use Wild Cards however you’d like.
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*The number of polls we have will depend on the amount of prompts voted in during each poll. It could be less than 19 or more than 19.
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Link to the pre-poll:
As a reminder, for each round of voting, we'll post the suggestions, voting, and results threads in the 'ATY 2023' folder. We'll also make announcements here and in the discussion thread. If you prefer to get notifications rather than refreshing the page endlessly, click the "notify me when people comment" button just above the comment box on the 2023 info thread. You can adjust that to send you an email or to just give you a GR notification depending on your preferences.
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The first round of suggestions will open in the morning of July 1 (CST).
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The next round of suggestions will open around noon CST tomorrow (Thursday, July 7)!
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The next round of suggestions will open tomorrow, Wednesday, July 13 around 2 PM CST.
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As a reminder, Poll 4 will be for multiweek prompts ONLY. Please see this thread for more information about multiweek prompts, and feel free to ask questions in the Wild Discussion.
The next round of suggestions will open around 5 PM CST on Tuesday, July 19.
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As a reminder, you have the same amount of votes for this poll as others, but we will be capping the winner at six weeks max.
If you have any questions about voting, please put it in the thread below!
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Suggestions will open today, between 9 and 10 am CST.
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The next round of suggestions will open tomorrow, Sunday, July 31 whenever I wake up (between 7 and 8 am CST).
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The next round of suggestions will open Saturday, August 6 around noon CST.
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The next round of suggestions will open around 7 pm CST on Friday, August 12.
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The next round of suggestions will open between 9 and 10 am CST Thursday, August 18.
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The next round of suggestions will open on Tuesday, August 30 around 10:30 am CST.
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The next round of suggestions will open when I wake up on Sunday (probably between 7 and 8 am CST).
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Jackie will open the next round of suggestions around 8 am CST on Saturday, September 17.
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The entire Around the Year challenge list is generated by the group members. We enjoyed the process so much in the past seven years that we are creating another list for 2023.
The process will start on July 1 and we aim to have a completed list by sometime in September or October. Everyone is very welcome to participate, whether this is your first or eighth year.
How it will work:
The topics will be chosen through a series of mini-polls. For each mini-poll there will be a suggestion thread where you can propose a topic. A suggestion needs to be seconded by one other person before it’s included in the poll. Once the required number of suggestions have been seconded the thread will close for new suggestions. There will be a break of around 24 hours between the suggestions thread closing and the poll opening for voting. This is to allow people to discuss the options before voting opens.
The mods will create a poll for members to choose their favorite suggestions. Each member has eight votes, which you can use to vote for your “top� and/or “bottom� choices. (See below for an example.) Polls will stay open for three days, and the mods will announce the results shortly after. The number of winning suggestions from each poll may vary depending on the distribution of votes.
Then a new suggestion thread will open and we’ll repeat the process until we have chosen 50 topics for the 2023 list (two topics will be chosen by winners of two reading competitions within the group).
How to participate:
*If you want to suggest a topic you can do so whenever a new suggestion thread opens. You don’t have to suggest a topic in order to participate in the poll.
*When a new poll is posted follow the link to the survey site and vote for your favorite and/or least favorite prompts.
*Look out for the results and the opening of a new suggestion thread.
*The topics chosen for the 2023 list will be posted in this thread and the topics that were suggested but not chosen will be posted on a separate thread (to be linked here later).
Voting Process
You have eight votes in total which you can use to vote for your top and bottom choices. You can use less than eight votes if you wish.
For example:
Voter 1
Top: Suggestions 1, 4, 7, 9
Bottom: Suggestions 2, 10, 11, 12
Total: 8 votes
Voter 2
Top: Suggestions 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14
Bottom: None
Total: 8 votes
Voter 3
Top: Suggestions 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14
Bottom: Suggestions 3, 10
Total: 8 votes
Voter 4
Top: Suggestions 1, 6
Bottom: Suggestion 12
Total: 3 votes