
It’s time to mark your calendar and sign up for our annual Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon. During the thon we encourage you to read or listen to as many holiday or winter themed books as you can. There will be fun events, contests, prizes and more. Get all the details below, then sign up and invite your bookish friends!
Ninth Annual Ho-Ho-Ho Read-A-Thon
This year the #HoHoHoRAT will begin at 12:01 am Thursday, November 18th and will end Monday, November 30th at 11:59 pm in your time zone.
That’s twelve days of reading with two weekends wrapped in-between!

So grab your holiday reads, your winter books, your yuletide murder-mysteries, your naughty & nice romances and even your holiday horror and get ready for some fun! Audiobook, library book, ebook, old book or new book. Don’t forget the hot chocolate!

Host A Challenge
BE AN ELF: We need Challenges hosts. Please email me, if you’d like to host a challenge for the event. You will need to provide a small international prize. Create a festive puzzle, exchange recipes, create a spine poem, make a bingo board or come up with your own clever idea.
Read-a-thon Rules & Guidelines
- Link-up! It is unnecessary to link to goal post but of course we love them. You can link to the social media platform you will be using to track your reading. This can be your blog, a Goodreads Shelf you create -labeled HoHoHo2020 or any other account. (I must be able to see it. So be sure we are friends there)
- Declare your intentions on your blog or through social media. Be sure and link back to this #HoHoHo Readathon Sign-up page. Linky will close November 24th, so be sure to link up even if you will only take part for a few days.
- Grab the image and share! Tell your friends, post the image and link on social media using Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr or Instagram. Be sure to include a link to this page, so others may join.
- Take part in at least one challenge and complete one book to be eligible for grand prize
- Read or listen to as many Holiday or Winter themed books as you can from any genre. If you are unsure, contact me. Goodreads is an excellent source for finding Winter & Holiday reads. Ask your librarian.
- Tweet your progress using #HoHoHoRAT
- Challenge schedule and Grand Prize widget will post on Thursday November 18th at/by 8 am (EST)
- Read-a-thon starts on Thursday, November 18th 12:01 am (your time zone) and ends on Monday, November 30th at 11:59 pm (your time zone)
- Challenges will be open from 8 am (EST) on the 18th and stay open until Nov 30th at 11:59 pm (EST)
- Grand Prize Raffle will be open until December 1st at 11:59 pm (EST) to allow you to submit last minute entries. You will only be able to submit two books in a twenty-four-hour period.
- All winners of challenges and the grand prize will be notified by December 3, 2020.
Austin
Yay!! This is so awesome! I love holiday stories!
Kimberly
Delighted to have you join us! Happy reading 📚
Melissa @ CloudsGirl27 Reads Books
I completely forgot to share my post! I just added it 🙂
Kimberly
Awesome!!
Lark @ The Bookwyrm's Hoard
Thank you for hosting again! Ho-ho-ho!
Jacqueline Lee
Hi
So happy to be taking part!! Holiday romances are my favourite and I have an entire bookcase waiting to be read!
Kimberly
That is outstanding. Happy reading! Be sure to take part in the fun challenges too!
Janice Williams
I messed up and used the wrong URL Did a second entry and put in my goodreads URL.
Kimberly
I deleted the incorrect one, you are all good!
Janice Williams
Thank you. Looking forward to this!
Nadene
Looking forward to having fun.
Kimberly
Wahooo!!
Carla
I’m in. I sent you an email, Kimberly. I have done my signup post. I am looking forward to seeing what activities the elves come up with.
Kimberly
Excited to have you hosting and participating!
Sarah
I messed up and used my Facebook URL instead of Goodreads on my first entry. So I did a second entry using my Goodreads shelf URL. Sorry about the mixup!
Kimberly
All fixed. Thank you 🙂
Sarah
Signed up! This is my first year, and I’m looking forward to reading some good Christmas novels!
Kimberly
Yay! Welcome Sarah. We have a lot of fun.
Rebecca
Signed up and can’t wait! Starting to stockpile my Christmas reads now.
Kimberly
Yay! It’s going to be fun 🙂
vvb
Exciting! my first one 🙂
Kimberly
Delighted that you chose ours as your first!
Cindy Davis
I have never done this before but I am excited to join and I look forward to participating!!!
Kimberly
Yay..welcome. We have a lot of fun.
Cindy Davis
Thanks, I’m excited and made sure I wrote it down so I will remember, LOL!
Marie Landry
I’m so excited about this! I look forward to it every year.
Kimberly
Me too. Glad you are joining in the fun.
Nicci @ Sunny Buzzy Books
Yeeessss! I love this one! Properly kicks off one of the best times of the year. 🙂
Kimberly
Agreed. Glad you enjoy it.
Vi @Inkvotary
I just signed up and hope it will be as much fun as it was the last time.
Barbara Strickland
You always seem to be involved in the most interesting things.
Carla
I will post my sign up post later this weekend, Kim. I will email you about being a host again.
Kimberly
Yay1 Look forward to your email 🙂