2025 Reading Challenges

[Emily_Stephens]

Please share the challenges you're participating in for 2025! Please read over those that have already been posted to avoid duplicates. Enjoy!

[Emily_Stephens]

Chewie's Reading Challenge Bingo for 2025: Standard Version
Set your own goal: Get one or more Bingos, or complete the entire card.

B1 Full name in the title
B2 Color in the title (the name of a color is in the title)
B3 One word title
B4 Before or after in title
B5 Author first name: Chris, Matt, Jason, or Wade
I1 Mammal on the cover
I2 Ocean(s), River(s), or Lake(s) in the title
I3 Name of a mammal in title
I4 Book(s), Bookshop, or Bookmobile
I5 Country name in title
N1 City name in title
N2 Lost or Found in title
N3 Stars on the cover
N4 Short stories by one author
N5 King, Queen, Price, or Princess in the title
G1 Life or Death in the title
G2 Books on the cover
G3 Season in the title
G4 Title is white
G5 Title is in gold or silver
O1 Mostly red cover
O2 's in title
O3 Killer, Liar, or Thief (or plurals) in title
O4 Day or night in the title
O5 Bird on the Cover

This challenge is also available on StoryGraph; search "Chewie" to find it!

[Emily_Stephens]

Chewie's Reading Challenge Bingo for 2025: Difficult Version
Set your own goal: Get one or more Bingos, or complete the entire card.

B1 Name of a food in the title
B2 First name only in title
B3 Specific bird in the title
B4 & or $ sign in the title
B5 Author last name starts with Q, X, or Z
I1 Eye(s), ear(s), nose(s) or mouth(s) in title
I2 Instrument on the Cover
I3 Whole body but no head on cover
I4 4-letter title
I5 3 or more birds on the cover
N1 Person wearing mainly green on the cover
N2 Pulitzer Prize winner
N3 Author's last name is: Alexander, Brown, Fisher, or Gaiman
N4 Author's last name is: Haig, Hill, Lee, or Sanderson
N5 Chapters not traditionally numbered
G1 Number in numeric form
G2 ? Or ! In title
G3 author's first name is initials only
G4 Somebody "and the" Something
G5 Number spelled out
O1 Short story anthology (multiple authors)
O2 Lamp, lantern, light fixture on the cover
O3 Fairy tale retelling or inspired
O4 Ordinal number in title (1st, 2nd, etc.)
O5 Sunglasses on the cover



This challenge is also available on StoryGraph; go to "Challenges", scroll to "Browse", then search "Chewie" to find it!

[Samantha Lasko]

The 52 Book Club always has an interesting book challenge for the year so I usually pick that one. The challenge is as follows:

The 2025 Goodreads Lists:
1) A pun in the title
2) A character with red hair
3) Title starts with letter “M”
4) Title starts with letter “N”
5) Plot includes a heist
6) Genre One: Set in Spring
7) Genre Two: Set in Summer
Genre Three: Set in Autumn
9) Genre Four: Set in Winter
10) Author’s last name is also a first name
11) A prequel
12) Has a moon on the cover
13) Title is ten letters or less
14) Climate fiction
15) Includes Latin American history
16) Author has won an Edgar award
17) Told in verse
18) A character who can fly
19) Has short chapters
20) A fairy tale retelling
21) Character’s name in the title
22) Found family trope
23) A sprayed edge
24) Title is a spoiler
25) Breaks the fourth wall
26) More than a million copies sold
27) Features a magician
28) A crossover (Set in a shared universe)
29) Shares universe with prompt 28 *same list as prompt 28*
30) In the public domain
31) Audiobook has multiple narrators
32) Includes a diary entry
33) A standalone novel
34) Direction in the title
35) Written in third person
36) Final sentence is less than 6 words long
37) Genre chosen for you by someone else *No Goodreads list*
38) An adventure story
39) Has an epigraph
40) Stream of consciousness narrative
41) Cover font is in a primary color
42) Non-human antagonist
43) Explores social class
44) A celebrity on the cover
45) Author releases more than one book a year
46) Read in a “-ber” month *No Goodreads list*
47) “I think it was blue”
48) Related to the word “puzzle”
49) Set in a country with an active volcano
50) Set in the 1940s (Books that do NOT include WWII)
Set in the 1940s (Books that includes WWII)
51) 300-400 pages long
52) Published in 2025

I've done 6 so far and am always looking for suggestions. Hope you enjoy!

[Annika porter]

The 52 Book Club always has an interesting book challenge for the year so I usually pick that one. The challenge is as follows:

The 2025 Goodreads Lists:
1) A pun in the title
2) A character with red hair
3) Title starts with letter “M”
4) Title starts with letter “N”
5) Plot includes a heist
6) Genre One: Set in Spring
7) Genre Two: Set in Summer
Genre Three: Set in Autumn
9) Genre Four: Set in Winter
10) Author’s last name is also a first name
11) A prequel
12) Has a moon on the cover
13) Title is ten letters or less
14) Climate fiction
15) Includes Latin American history
16) Author has won an Edgar award
17) Told in verse
18) A character who can fly
19) Has short chapters
20) A fairy tale retelling
21) Character’s name in the title
22) Found family trope
23) A sprayed edge
24) Title is a spoiler
25) Breaks the fourth wall
26) More than a million copies sold
27) Features a magician
28) A crossover (Set in a shared universe)
29) Shares universe with prompt 28 *same list as prompt 28*
30) In the public domain
31) Audiobook has multiple narrators
32) Includes a diary entry
33) A standalone novel
34) Direction in the title
35) Written in third person
36) Final sentence is less than 6 words long
37) Genre chosen for you by someone else *No Goodreads list*
38) An adventure story
39) Has an epigraph
40) Stream of consciousness narrative
41) Cover font is in a primary color
42) Non-human antagonist
43) Explores social class
44) A celebrity on the cover
45) Author releases more than one book a year
46) Read in a “-ber” month *No Goodreads list*
47) “I think it was blue”
48) Related to the word “puzzle”
49) Set in a country with an active volcano
50) Set in the 1940s (Books that do NOT include WWII)
Set in the 1940s (Books that includes WWII)
51) 300-400 pages long
52) Published in 2025

I've done 6 so far and am always looking for suggestions. Hope you enjoy!

I’m doing this challenge too! It’s super fun to check off each book. I’d love some recommendations for 14, 15, 16, 17, and 31 if anyone has some! I think this is such a fun way to do my yearly reading challenge and I hadn’t heard of 52 Book Club before this! I just finished 15 so far and would love to hear what books you picked!