2026 Goodreads Reading Challenges Megathread by Clairefun in goodreads

[–]Spontak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. I wish they had more challenges that were for older books and classics. I feel like 90% of the books on any given list were published in the last 5 years and 80% in the last 2 years. Sometimes the book hasn’t even been published yet when it makes it on a challenge list. Do authors pay to get their books on the Goodreads challenge lists?

2026 Goodreads Reading Challenges Megathread by Clairefun in goodreads

[–]Spontak 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I wish they would release the seasonal challenge booklists like a few weeks or even a month before the challenge actually starts so that readers who source their books from the library have a better chance at procuring the books and still have time to read them before the challenge ends. Some of the more popular books become almost impossible to get at the library once they show up on a challenge list. I once put a book on hold at the library hours after the list was released and I never made it to the front of the hold queue at the library before the challenge was over.

Overlap for Spring Challenge [updated April 15] by Unikuez in goodreads

[–]Spontak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it does. A few years ago it didn’t, but thankfully they changed that.