I'd like for us to choose six categories per week through the month of December.
First round results:
(Please see this post for more info on vote totals and other info.)
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Paranormal/Urban Fantasy/Supernatural
Mystery/Crime
Published the year you were born
Children's or YA book
One Word Title
Fanfic of at least 100k words
Second round results:
(Please see this post for more.)
Comic/Graphic Novel
Favorite Re-read
Diverse Reads
Recommended by a friend, family member, or colleague
Published this year (2018)
Non-Fiction
Comments will be screened until time to tally the votes.
Categories
(Some of these I tweaked the wording on, but these are all the ones suggested)
- Journal/Periodic Publication
- Biography/Autobiography
- Script/Screenplay
- True Crime
- Poetry/Play
- Horror
- A Classic
- Blind Book (pick a random free ebook, or possibly even letting a random generator pick a book from your TBR list)
- Out of your comfort zone (a book outside of your preferred genres)
- Number or color in the title
- Animal on the cover
- TV tie-in/Turned into a TV show
- Set on or near a holiday
- A Romance
- Never judge a book by its movie (basically any book that has been turned into a movie, regardless of the movie's quality)
- Humor/Satire
- Re-read a book you disliked
- Main character shares your name
- A book at or near the bottom of your "to read" pile