This is going to be my first readathon, and I’m super excited!! I first saw this over at Wonderless Reviews and thought it looked like a really cool idea. It’s hosted by Tea and Titles, and here’s the gist of it:
What is #MakeMeRead?
Look at the books you own, either physical, e-book or ones you’ve borrowed from the library and pick out a few you really want to read, or feel like you should read. It’s up to you how many you pick, personally I’d pick a few more than you expect to be able to read in a week. Example: if you think you’ll only read two, pick out five books or if you think you can read seven, pick out ten.
Make a list of these books on your blog, or make a video, or a Goodreads shelf or post a picture on Instagram—whatever is easiest for you. Then get friends, other bloggers/booktubers/bookstagrammers etc. to vote on which books you HAVE to read.
When the readathon comes along, you read the books in the order of most votes. For example, if one book gets 10 votes—you read that first, then the one that got 7 and so on. If there’s a tie, then it’s your preference. The goal is to read as many as possible.
When is it?
This year the read-a-thon will be running from August 6th through to August 13th. You can start reading as soon as it hits 12am in your timezone, or whenever you’d like.
Remember that the idea is to have people vote on your books, so try and get that post/Twitter poll/photo up as soon as possible in order to give your fellow participants the chance to vote!
My poll is below! They’re all books I own and have not read yet (save for one reread) and you can choose up to three. I’m super excited about this and I really hope I’m able to get a lot of books read!!
Are you participating in this readathon? Please let me know in the comments below! And link me to your polls so I can vote too. 🙂 You can also follow me on Twitter and Goodreads.
Sarah Ames-Foley 
I actually had to look up all of those books except one! Good luck with your readathon!
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Thanks! A lot of them were books I’ve picked up at used book sales or were gifted, so they’re not ones I know much about either.
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Yay, I love this readathon! I picked Wicked because it was the only one I recognized haha. I hope you enjoy whatever gets picked! 😉 My poll is currently my most recent post on my blog. 🤗
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I’ll go check it out now! 🙂 And yeah, mine is kinda weird, it has books I don’t really know anything about!
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Thank you! Hahaha, that’s often the best way to read them! 🙂
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Yay! So glad you’ll be joining in ♥
I haven’t read any of these and have actually only heard of Wicked. Since you said that would be a reread though I thought I’d vote for something new so I ended up choosing Lost at Sea (and adding it to my own TBR!), Dancing After Hours and The Atlantis Gene because they all sound really interesting!
Good luck 😀
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Those sound the most interesting to me, too! I think the one I’m most excited to read is Lost at Sea, so this would be a good reason for me to read it finally. 🙂
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I’m doing this readathon too! I like that you don’t have many well-known books on your list – sometimes it is really nice to read books that you know very little about 🙂
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Yes! I’ve only been reading books I’ve heard a ton about or ARCs recently, so I think it’d be interesting to delve into some stuff that’s been out for a while and is lesser known.
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