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For the site's monthly topic challenge posts, inviting users to read and ask/answer questions about specific works of literature in a specific timeframe, or for questions about these topic challenges.

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Announcing the May 2017 topic challenge: Icelandic Sagas!

In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, seeing that the votes have stabilised, April is nearing its end, and it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout May 2017 …
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Announcing the May 2017 topic challenge: Icelandic Sagas!

List of all questions asked as a part of this challenge: What is a beacon? by Hamlet Why is there so much legalese in Egil's Saga? by Matt Thrower far too few :-( The highest-voted of these is Wh …
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Announcing the April 2017 Topic Challenge: "Hard to Be a God"

Some statistics for answers posted during this challenge: Each question received an answer, except the last one. The eleventh question received two answers. A total of 14 answers have been posted; …
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Announcing the November 2017 reading challenge: "Tower of Secrets"

As October nears its end, it's time to announce the next month's challenge! At the time of writing this, the leading suggestion is... Tower of Secrets, by Victor Sheymov, suggested by BESW. To provide …
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Announcing the July 2018 reading challenge: "The Assault"

July has begun, and it is time to announce this month's reading challenge, which is... The Assault by Harry Mulisch suggested by Martin Tournoij. What is a topic challenge? The topic challenge …
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Monthly Topic Challenges aren't getting much attention. How can we change them?

I think one of the reasons here lies in the way the challenges were framed and the intention they were founded on. The idea was to diversify the site, to make people read something they wouldn't have …
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Suggest your Lit.SE reading challenges here!

Batman: Noёl This graphic novel is different from (most?) other Batman comics - for one thing, because Batman is not the hero here. Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, this story (written …
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Suggest your Lit.SE reading challenges here!

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters The Dream Hunters is a standalone novella in The Sandman universe, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated, exquisitely, by Yoshitaka Amano. The story, while inspired b …