Literaire Studentenvereniging Flanor

Suggestions for reading challenges: The Theme is love!

This winter we’re again organizing a Winter Readathon! The readathon will run from the 3rd of February until the 9th of February. Check out the blogpost with rules on this website for the specifics and how to take part. This year’s readathon is special because the theme is Love, of course romantic love but also our love for reading, love for our friends, our love for Flanor and our fellow Flanorians. 

1. Book by a Flanor guest

• Shine, darling by Ella Frears
• De maat van alle dingen by Johannes Westendorp 
• Waar iemand woont by Richard Nobbe
• Verloren grond by Murat Isik

2. Book a reading group is currently reading

We did our best to make an accurate list, but if you want to be sure the reading group is reading the book join their Whatsapp Group and ask. 

• Brooding Books — A Study in Drowning, Ava Reid
• Cult of Dionysus 2.0 — The Snow Ghost and Other Tales, Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki
• Dronken Boot — Aan tafels, Joke van Leeuwen
• Egel en Haas — Futuria, Suzanne Wouda
• Fellowship of Flanor — The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Flanor Redemption — First Lie Wins, Ashley Elston
• House of Leaves — House of Leaves, Mark. Z. Danielewski
• LEES! — Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
• Midnight Dreary — Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
• Oui Oui Baguette — Les Fiancés de l’hiver, Christelle Dabos
• Romance Junkies — Bride, Ali Hazelwood
• Sappho and Achilles — I’ll Be Gone for Christmas, Georgia K. Boone
• Sarah J. Maas — Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas
• Shakespeare & Co — Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
• SpeechBubble — Witch Hat Atelier volume 1-3, Kamome Shirahame
• Terra Ignota — Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
• These Adjective Nouns — The Unspoken Name, A.K. Larkwood

3. A book a Flanorian loved

Everything on this list counts and any of the books shown on our social media. Also the recommendations from the previous readathons and books added to this prompt on the Storygraph Challenge. 

4. Read the Readathon short story 

The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu available here and multiple free and paid for audio versions available. 

5. Participate in a Flanor activity

Check our website and the Whatsapp Group for this week's activities! 

6. A book that includes a Sapphic relationship

Sapphic describes relationships between women loving women. Women and all other vaguely or decidedly fem people. Includes means it could be the main character themselves, their friends, their parents, their companions, their deities etc.

• Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson 
• Une femme m’apparut by Renée Vivien 
• A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee
• Murder Most Actual by Alexis Hall
• Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon

7. A book that includes an Achillean relationship

Achillean describes relationships between men loving men. Men and all other vaguely or decidedly masc people. Includes means it could be the main character themselves, their friends, their parents, their companions, their deities etc.

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 
• The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen
• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 
• Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1) by Alice Oseman

8. A book with an animal you love (magical or not) 

• Bunny by Mona Awad 
• The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E.M. Anderson
• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
• The Left Hand of Dog by Si Clarke
• If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura
• Lucky in Love by Cara Malone

9. A book where you fell in love with the cover first

• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo 
• The Bromance Book Club by  Lyssa Kay Adams 
• Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth

10. A book with the enemies to lovers/friends trope (OR the reverse lovers/friends to enemies) 

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry 
• The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts by Annie Darling
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
• Vicious by V. E. Schwab

11. A book with found family

• A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 

12. A book you love that you’ve been meaning to reread 

13. A book on friendship/platonic love 

• The friendship by Connie Palmen
• Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie

14. A non-fiction book on love, relationships, sexuality and/or gender

• Factfullness by Hans Rosling 
• Invisible women: Data bias in a world designed for men by Criado Pérez
• De mythe van het gezin by Lotte Houwink ten Cate
• Nieuwe Namen by Eveline van de Putte
• FAQ Gender by Thorn de Vries, Mandy Woelkens
• Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine

15. A book with two bipoc characters on the cover

• Take a hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert 
• The Unmatchmakers by Jackie Lau
• Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto
• Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
• Lady Eve's Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow
• Mijn buurvrouw is een ninja by Inge Marleen Swinkels

16. From a language you love 

You can read the book in translation if you do not speak the language

• Sous un ciel étoilé by Classire Sabard (French)
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo (Korean)
• Die Wand by Marlen Haushofer (German)
• Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson (Icelandic)