Well, hello to all you wonderful Reading Addicts. Thanks once again for all your support during 2024. It has been great to see so many of you join in and share all your reads.
We ran our usual quick poll in the Book Club group for ideas for 2025. A couple of you suggested we do something based on Women writers. It was also suggested that this year, we do the A-Z part of the challenge again but use book titles instead of the author’s name.
To make it a bit easier to plan again this year (we know how some of you like to plan the year and/or read ahead) we’re going to list below the category and letters for each month.
January
Happy New Year.
Read a debut novel written by a woman.
For A-Z the letters are titles starting with A and M.
February
Happy Valentine’s Day.
Read a book about love or a romance novel written by a woman.
A-Z letters are B and N.
March
Let’s celebrate St Patrick’s Day.
Read a book written by an Irish Woman.
A-Z letters are book titles starting with C and O.
April
One of the requests we received was for non-fiction, so read a non-fiction book written by a woman.
D and P are this month’s A-Z letters.
May
Read a Thriller or a Mystery book written by a woman.
The letters for May are book titles starting with E and Q.
June
Happy Pride Month.
Read a book by a LGBTQIA+ writer or about the LGBTQIA+ community written by a woman.
F and R are the letters for June.
July
Read a Biography about or written by a woman.
July’s letters are G and S.
August
August is South Asian Heritage month.
Read a book written by a South Asian woman.
A-Z letters are H and T
September
Celebrate the new academic year and read a Young Adult, or a Children’s book written by a woman.
September’s A-Z letters are book titles starting with I and U
October
October is Black History Month. Read a book written by a black woman.
A-Z letters for October are J and V
November
As the dark nights creep in where we are based, read a book of Folk Stories or about Mythology written by a woman.
November letters are K, W and X.
December
It’s Holiday Season. Read a book set in or about any of the Holidays celebrated in December written by a woman.
And the final letters for A-Z titles are L,Y and Z.
Before the start of each new month, in our Book Club, Cwts Club Discussion Group, we will open a discussion for suggestions on each theme. If you’d like to be part of the discussion head over and hit that join button.
We hope you all enjoy 2025’s new challenge, don’t forget to keep sharing what you are reading.
See you at book club! ~ Jacqui
