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Why not be perverse and pick specific arbitrary required elements instead of generic category themes?
How about a month with books that include talking trees?
This could span YA (the trees are an imaginary friend!), suspense/thriller (the trees are a hallucination brought on by poisoning!), cozy mystery (the trees are a tacky 60s gift product being sold in the amateur sleuth's antiques shop), fantasy (the trees are magical!), science fiction (the trees are alien!), even literary fiction (dreams sequences; meta about writers thinking up scenarios of what to write in their next book), etc.
The only problem is that it may be hard to dig up a sufficent pool of quality candidates containing the required thing, but one can always think of it as a challenge. Or at least a way to expand one's list of quote-unquote "interesting" books to try, depending on how outré the theme element is.
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