52 Discussion Post Prompts for Your Book Blog in 2018

If you’re looking to add more discussion posts to your book blog in 2018, we have you covered! Here are 52 ideas to get you started, which is one for every week of the year! (Feel free to modify them as necessary.) You can also check out our previous post with 30 Discussion Post Ideas for Your Book Blog or our archive of discussion questions focused on classic literature. (Plenty of bloggers are still answering these questions, so don’t worry that the weekly meme is “over.”)

You can also check out my Bloggiesta mini challenge for creating a discussion post strategy and my post on writing a memorable discussion post.

52 Discussion Post Prompts for Your Book Blog

1. What are  your goals for your blog in 2018?
2. What advice would you offer to new book bloggers?
3. What are your favorite cozy winter reads?
4. Which books would you love to see made into musicals?
5. What book has had a significant impact on your life?
6. What are your favorite bookish items (besides actual books)?
7. What do you think makes a compelling romance in a book?
8. What are some of your bookish pet peeves?
9. Do you lend books to other people? Why or why not?
10. What are some of your favorite classic books?
11. How have your reading tastes changed over the years?
12. What are some of the prettiest books you want to feature?
13. What makes you follow other book blogs?
14. What types of characters would you like to see more of in books?
15. What are some of your favorite books from your childhood?
16. Do you think there should be more religion in mainstream fiction? Why or why not?
17. Who are some of your favorite book bloggers?
18. What do you think about representing sex in YA books?
19. Do you listen to audiobooks?  Why or why not?
20. What is great about your local library? (If you don’t have one, what would your ideal library offer in terms of books and services?)
21. How do you decide when to get rid of books?
22. Have you ever dressed up as a fictional character?
23. What do you think of representing “dark” topics like drugs and death in middle grade books?
24. What lessons have you learned since you started blogging?
25. Do you think any film adaptations are better than the book?
26. What books could you simply not get into?
27. If you could add one interactive feature to reading books, what would it be?
28. What do you like about your favorite genre?
29. Do you read nonfiction? Why or why not?
30. What do you love about reading?
31. What recipes from books would you love to try? (Real or fictional)
32. What do you think about adapting classic novels for children?
33. What do you think of required reading in schools?
34. What book did you receive as a gift that is really special to you?
35. What modern books do you think are going to become classics?
36. Do you write in books? Why or why not?
37. What books do you want to see more bookish merchandise for?
38. What does your ideal bookstore look like?
39. How do you acquire most of your books?
40. What book(s) were you surprised you ended up liking?
41. What books have you owned for a long time but haven’t read yet?
42. If you could teach a class about any topic in literature, what would it be?
43. What fun facts have you learned from reading?
44. What do you think of wordless picture books?
45. Who is the greatest villain in literature?
46. Do you need your protagonists to be “likable?”
47. What’s the most unusual book you own or have read?
48. What bookish items do you love to give as gifts?
49. What are some of your favorite opening lines from literature?
50. Have you always been a reader? What got you interested in reading?
51. What books are you looking forward to being released next year?
52. What have you changed about your blogging style in the past year?