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goals_on_dwThere are all kinds of reading challenges and goals that people like to do. Some are individual, others are group events. Some are all year, others shorter. Some have speculative fiction themes, others are ordinary. They span a great many different formats including but not limited to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and fanfic. Here are some for your inspiration. On Dreamwidth, see communities for books.
You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2025 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Reading challenge ingoals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Reading Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Reading, Fiction, Meta, Science Fiction, Fanfic, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.
For printables to track your progress, see Books & Reading in Thematic Trackers or Challenges by Numbers.
See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to review every book you read all year, or compile a list of favorite fanfics you've found, go for it. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g.50books_poc and Fannish 50.
Do you know of any other reading challenges in 2025? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.
Challenges
* 2024-2025 Reading Challenge Idea List -- Larsen-Sant Public Library
* 2025 Adult Reading Challenge -- O'Fallon Public Library
Get ready for a fresh twist this year, packed with exciting themes, creative prompts, and endless book inspiration. Whether you're a reading challenge pro or a curious first-timer, we’re thrilled to have you on this journey. Join us and discover new stories, explore different genres, and reignite your love for reading. Let’s make 2025 a year of literary adventures!
This year, it’s all about Book Bingo—25 unique themes to inspire your reading.
* 2025 Book Bingo bykingstoken
In addition to the public card, there is a long list of substitution prompts you can use.
* 2025 Book Lover's Reading Challenge
The Book Lover’s Challenge includes twelve monthly reading prompts related to different aspects of reading that we all love, from browsing the aisles of our favorite bookstore or library to losing ourselves in the world of a story. You’ll find a recommended monthly reading schedule below.
Every month, you will choose a book related to the monthly reading prompt from our curated list of highly-rated books. Each list includes a synopsis of every book, as well as additional notes to help you select your perfect read.
* 2025 Build Your Library Reading Challenge
This year’s challenge encourages you to read from a variety of diverse perspectives, with emphasis on books that have been banned or challenged in libraries over the years. Let’s fight back against censorship in 2025!
2025 Reading Challenge Prompts in color PDF
Download the 2025 Reading Challenge Prompts in black and white PDF
* 2025 Challenges -- Reading Challenge Addict
There are 23 challenge options as of 12/25/25!
* 2025 Classics Reading Challenge
This reading challenge is meant to help you discover new genres, authors, and regions for classic books, as well as to circle back to old favourites or finally get around to reading books you’d always meant to read. Follow along to read a classic book per month!
* 2025 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge
You can read any book that is from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime/true crime genres. Any sub-genres are welcome as long as they incorporate one of these genres.
* 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge
Annual Fanfiction Challenge - All fandoms. All ships. No judgment. No signups. No obligations. No requirements to comment (unless you want to - it’s nice!) Reporting based on the honour system (no one is going to check your work) Prize badges for Regular/Hard/Extreme Levels and one for Participation too! You’ll be reading fanfic anyway (don’t lie to yourself), so why not feel even more like you’re accomplishing something?
* 2025 Fantasy/SciFi Reading Challenge -- Book'd Out
12 monthly prompts.
* 2025 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Reading Challenge -- Rachel Agreco
Welcome to the 2025 fantasy/sci-fi reading challenge! This bookish challenge is perfect for you if:
You love reading fantasy and/or sci-fi books
You want to broaden your reading horizons
You love a (bookish) challenge
You need help figuring out what book to read next
This challenge will help you explore more fantasy and sci-fi genres, authors, and of course, new worlds and characters. Each month, there will be a new prompt, and often I’ll post an article with plenty of ideas. The best way to find out about those posts and to get a reminder is to sign up for my bimonthly newsletter. When you do, you’ll also receive a handy checklist of the challenge to help you keep track of what you’ve read.
* 2025 Horror Reading Challenge -- Books in the Freezer
12 monthly prompts.
* 2025 Horror Reading Challenge -- Death by TBR Books
12 monthly prompts.
* The 2025 PopSugar Reading Challenge Is Here: Are You Ready For It?
Welcome to the 2025 PS Reading Challenge, a different kind of book club where we introduce 50 new prompts to inspire your next read. We hope you're just as excited as we are. This year, we decided to change things up and tap you, our dedicated and loyal fan base, for book prompt ideas — and your creativity did not disappoint.
Some of those are reflected on our PS Reading Challenge list, like "a book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma" and "a book mentioned in another book," to name a few.
* 2025 Reading Challenge -- Massachusetts Center for the Book
* 2025 Reading Challenge -- Read With Lindsey
Choose from monthly or weekly themes.
* 2025 Reading Challenge -- Santa Clara Public Library
Read 12 books from 12 categories to complete the 2025 Santa Clara City Library Reading Challenge!
* 2025 Reading Challenge Group on Goodreads (30482 Members)
Are you ready to set your 2025 reading goal?
This is a supportive, fun group of people looking for people just like you. Track your annual reading goal here with us, and we have challenges, group reads, and other fun ways to help keep you on pace. There will never be a specific number of books to read here or pressure to read more than you can commit to. Your goal is five? Great! You think you want to read 200? Very cool!
* 2025 Winter Reading Challenge: Cozy Books for the Season
Snowy settings and cozy mysteries.
* 2025 Yearlong Reading Challenges -- Book Girls Guide
Multiple options.
* 2025 Yearly Challenges: Magical Mystery Tour -- Goodreads
Do you love reading crime genres and solving mysteries? Join the Magical Mystery Tour, where you can rise through the ranks of our Criminal Investigation Department. All crime fiction qualifies – mystery, suspense and thriller – as well as crime nonfiction. Books in other genres may qualify as well, if the protagonist investigates and tries to resolve some evildoing.
Solve our cases by answering these questions: who, what, when, where, how, and why? After you complete all 42 standard cases, you may attempt eight bonus Interpol cases. Prompts may not be repeated.
* 13 Moons Reading Challenge 2025
The rules for this reading challenge are simple. First of all, this is just for fun so no need to feel pressured into doing anything or reading anything you don’t want to. You can also be flexible with the prompts if you choose to do so. The challenge will run from January 1st, 2025 till December 31st, 2025.
There are a total of 104 reading prompts divided into 13 categories. There is a list of levels given and you can choose which level you wish to participate in based on your preference. The levels you can participate in are as follows:
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 13 books — fulfill one prompt from each category
Partial Lunar Eclipse: 26 books — fulfill at least one prompt from each category
Central Lunar Eclipse: 52 books — fulfill at least one prompt from each category
Total Lunar Eclipse: 104 books — fulfill all the prompts
*50books_poc
The point of this comm is to read works by people of color. (Preferably fifty of them! Or more!)
There are three ways to participate in the comm. Choose what best suits you:
Do the 50 Books Challenge: read fifty books by authors of color in the course of a year. Read your books, count your books, and post your write-ups/reviews/impressions.
Do a variant of the challenge: commit to fifty books, but take more than a year if you need to. Or read fifty poems or short stories in a year. Or don't set a target number, but keep count of the books by authors of color that you read in a year. Or some other variant that makes sense for you and pushes you to read more authors of color.
Skip the counting/challenge aspect, but post recommendations and/or reviews, and otherwise encourage people to read works by authors of color.
* The 52 Book Club's 2025 Reading Challenge
The 52 Book Club’s annual reading challenge is made up of 52 unique reading prompts. The goal is to match one book to each prompt, for a total of fifty-two books over the year.
Prompts are related to everything from specific words in the title, to cover design, authors, genres, settings, themes, characters, etc. (Think of it like a giant bookish scavenger hunt!) We encourage participants to try books outside of their regular reading comfort zones and push themselves to read more, read differently, and get creative with it!
* A-Z Women Authors 2025 -- Goodreads
Discover the brilliance of women writers across genres and generations with our A-Z Female Authors Edition! Pick one female author for each letter of the alphabet and immerse yourself in their unique stories, perspectives, and worlds.
* Become an expert on anything. Reading just 3 books on a topic can make you an expert, for the purpose of about 90% of needs, until you reach the level where advanced expertise is required. Frex, start with a general introduction to gardening. Then read two detailed books on different aspects such as fruit and vegetables, arid and humid, square foot and vertical, etc. Alternatively, you could find a beginning, intermediate, and advanced book on the same topic. While the tiny number of titles sounds silly, if you choose them mindfully, you actually can get an excellent introduction to the topic that will suffice for many practical purposes.
Do you want a relatively modest goal? Just aim for those 3 books, and they add up to a substantial accomplishment.
How fast do you read? If you read a book per month, then you could finish 4 sets of 3 in a year. Either pick 4 different topics, or 4 aspects of the same topic: say, start with beginner, intermediate, and advanced general gardening books then do a set each on other topics such as herbs, building garden structures, and troubleshooting pests. But maybe you read faster. A book per week is 52 books, or 17 topics ... about like a college degree, without the slowpokes holding you back. This is akin to the 50 book challenges, plus 2 extras. Want to learn worldbuilding? 15 science sets plus a couple of writing sets will set you up very well, and put the extra book into worldbuilding as a practice of its own. At a book or more per day, you can inhale whole libraries or bookstores. People have done it.
* Black Horror Reading Challenge '25
* Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge
Let’s first go over the basics: the challenge is made up of 24 tasks (an average of two per month) that invite readers to explore formats, genres, and perspectives that might go beyond their reading comfort zones. How you approach Read Harder is up to you: you can read one book per task or count one book for multiple tasks. The point of the challenge is to push yourself to diversify your TBR, so we hope you’ll discover a whole bunch of wonderful books you might not have otherwise chosen for yourself. And as always: have fun with it!
* Booklist Queen's 2025 Reading Challenge
Join thousands of others as we read a book a week in 2025. That’s right, this 2025 Reading Challenge has 52 different categories to expand your reading selection.
*booknook
This is made to be a general reading community. Hopefully there'll be a few regular posts:
RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday
Monthly themed rec post (to be clear, inviting other people to rec books that fit the theme in the comments, not me reccing books)
* CLC Scaredy Cat Reading Challenge
* Comet Readings' 2025 Reading Challenge
A new prompt each week.
* Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge 2025 Sign Up
Welcome to the 15th annual Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge! I can't believe I've been doing this for so long. Once again, I'm giving challengers two options - one is to read only sub-genres and the other is to read cozy mysteries of your choice.
* A Huge Round Up of 2025 Year Long Reading Challenges
Alphabetical list.
* The Most Popular 2025 Reading Challenges on StoryGraph (So Far)
There are 50 different challenges as of 12/25/24!
* My Reading Challenges for 2025 -- Mark Joseph Jochim
Multiple options.
* The Nerd Daily's 2025 Reading Challenge
Ready to smash some reading resolutions in 2025? Our 2025 Reading Challenge is here to help with 52 challenges, so you could potentially read a book a week or use this a tool to help select your next read.
There’s no rules, so you can tackle this challenge however you’d like—you could start with prompt 19, ‘workplace or a holiday setting‘ could be set in a workplace, on holidays, or around a holiday like Christmas, ‘a book that’s hot right now‘ could be a new release or trending, or ‘wish you had or read when you were younger’ could be a book you didn’t read at the time or a new release that would have been perfect for your younger self.
* Read Around The World Challenge
Read at least one book written by an author from each of the 201 countries in the world.
*readingtogether -- Read With Me
A Comm for Reading Groups.
Reading is fun; reading along with other people can make it even more so! Therefor, this is a community for groups who have decided to read and discuss a book together.
You may post here if you are:
1. Looking for people interested in doing a group reading of [book or genre of your choice];
2. Trying to find discussions from a past group-read (i.e. "someone on my reading list was doing a discussion for Foreigner, but I don't remember who!");
3. Noting the location of a group-reading so that other people can find the related posts easily;
4. You want to begin a group reading, but don't want to host it on your own journal for whatever reason. You are welcome to host it here! All we ask is that you create a tag for it, and make a post recording its location.
I'd like this community to serve as a record of all the group-reads on DW, so even if yours is over, please post with a link to your discussions! It could be invaluable to someone else who's just starting that book... or to someone looking for ideas to set up their own group reading.
* Reading Challenge 2025 -- Madison Pubic Library
Our Annual Reading Challenges are all about getting you excited about reading, getting outside of your comfort zone, and discovering new stories you might not have read otherwise! In 2025, there are 104 prompts to choose from, and the best part is that you can read at your own pace! Our challenges are designed to be flexible, allowing you to scale your challenge up or down based on your needs as a reader. You can then pick and choose your own prompts to fit the challenge, making it a truly personalized reading experience!
Monthly Meander: Pick 12 prompts and read one book a month
Weekly Wanderer: Pick 52 prompts and read one book a week
The Entire Expedition: Pick all 104 prompts and read two books a week
* Reshelving Alexandria's Annual Reading Challenges 2025 Printables
Ready to dive into our 2025 Reading Challenge? Check out our handy printables to keep you organized and motivated all year long! Whether you're tackling one category or the whole challenge, our How To guide will walk you through how to make the most of these resources- so make sure to click over to it if you missed it!
* Shelf Reflection's 2025 Reading Challenge
Shelf Reflection’s 2025 Reading Challenge will be done in two parts this year.
The first 20 prompts will be similar to previous years.
The second 25 prompts will keep with the theme of ‘25’ each prompt relating in some way to the number 25 or the year 2025.
*swbookclub -- Star Wars book club
Book of the Month
Books read in four parts with discussion posts on weekends.
Books are selected by member input and/or polls.
All Star Wars material included (EU, Disney Canon, etc.)
*thestoryinside
The process is simple: join the community, and each month sign up to be partnered with a buddy. Members will vote on which genres to read for the month, and your buddy will then choose a book from your to-read list. At the end of each month you can discuss your thoughts on the book(s) you read!
* A Year of Discovery: Your 2025 Reading Challenge for Adults
12 monthly prompts.
If you want to commit to a reading goal for next year, then you can sign up with a comment under this post using the form below:
Name:
My reading challenge entries will be posted at: (place your tag URL here)
Number of things I plan to read: (10 books, 52 fanfics, 100 poems, etc.)
My format: (original fiction, fanfic, meta, etc.)
My genre(s): (fantasy, science fiction, mystery, etc.)
My length(s) (drabble, short stories, novel, etc.)
My theme: (mixed / single / none, and what it is if any)
My journal status: (friends only / friends only except public challenge posts / filters / open)
Other details: (main fandoms, standard content warnings, seeking friends, etc.)
Anything else you want to share:
Participants
*xeena
*maevedarcy at 2025 book bingo tag
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You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2025 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Reading challenge in
goals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Reading Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Reading, Fiction, Meta, Science Fiction, Fanfic, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.For printables to track your progress, see Books & Reading in Thematic Trackers or Challenges by Numbers.
See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to review every book you read all year, or compile a list of favorite fanfics you've found, go for it. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g.
50books_poc and Fannish 50.Do you know of any other reading challenges in 2025? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.
Challenges
* 2024-2025 Reading Challenge Idea List -- Larsen-Sant Public Library
* 2025 Adult Reading Challenge -- O'Fallon Public Library
Get ready for a fresh twist this year, packed with exciting themes, creative prompts, and endless book inspiration. Whether you're a reading challenge pro or a curious first-timer, we’re thrilled to have you on this journey. Join us and discover new stories, explore different genres, and reignite your love for reading. Let’s make 2025 a year of literary adventures!
This year, it’s all about Book Bingo—25 unique themes to inspire your reading.
* 2025 Book Bingo by
kingstokenIn addition to the public card, there is a long list of substitution prompts you can use.
* 2025 Book Lover's Reading Challenge
The Book Lover’s Challenge includes twelve monthly reading prompts related to different aspects of reading that we all love, from browsing the aisles of our favorite bookstore or library to losing ourselves in the world of a story. You’ll find a recommended monthly reading schedule below.
Every month, you will choose a book related to the monthly reading prompt from our curated list of highly-rated books. Each list includes a synopsis of every book, as well as additional notes to help you select your perfect read.
* 2025 Build Your Library Reading Challenge
This year’s challenge encourages you to read from a variety of diverse perspectives, with emphasis on books that have been banned or challenged in libraries over the years. Let’s fight back against censorship in 2025!
2025 Reading Challenge Prompts in color PDF
Download the 2025 Reading Challenge Prompts in black and white PDF
* 2025 Challenges -- Reading Challenge Addict
There are 23 challenge options as of 12/25/25!
* 2025 Classics Reading Challenge
This reading challenge is meant to help you discover new genres, authors, and regions for classic books, as well as to circle back to old favourites or finally get around to reading books you’d always meant to read. Follow along to read a classic book per month!
* 2025 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge
You can read any book that is from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime/true crime genres. Any sub-genres are welcome as long as they incorporate one of these genres.
* 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge
Annual Fanfiction Challenge - All fandoms. All ships. No judgment. No signups. No obligations. No requirements to comment (unless you want to - it’s nice!) Reporting based on the honour system (no one is going to check your work) Prize badges for Regular/Hard/Extreme Levels and one for Participation too! You’ll be reading fanfic anyway (don’t lie to yourself), so why not feel even more like you’re accomplishing something?
* 2025 Fantasy/SciFi Reading Challenge -- Book'd Out
12 monthly prompts.
* 2025 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Reading Challenge -- Rachel Agreco
Welcome to the 2025 fantasy/sci-fi reading challenge! This bookish challenge is perfect for you if:
You love reading fantasy and/or sci-fi books
You want to broaden your reading horizons
You love a (bookish) challenge
You need help figuring out what book to read next
This challenge will help you explore more fantasy and sci-fi genres, authors, and of course, new worlds and characters. Each month, there will be a new prompt, and often I’ll post an article with plenty of ideas. The best way to find out about those posts and to get a reminder is to sign up for my bimonthly newsletter. When you do, you’ll also receive a handy checklist of the challenge to help you keep track of what you’ve read.
* 2025 Horror Reading Challenge -- Books in the Freezer
12 monthly prompts.
* 2025 Horror Reading Challenge -- Death by TBR Books
12 monthly prompts.
* The 2025 PopSugar Reading Challenge Is Here: Are You Ready For It?
Welcome to the 2025 PS Reading Challenge, a different kind of book club where we introduce 50 new prompts to inspire your next read. We hope you're just as excited as we are. This year, we decided to change things up and tap you, our dedicated and loyal fan base, for book prompt ideas — and your creativity did not disappoint.
Some of those are reflected on our PS Reading Challenge list, like "a book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma" and "a book mentioned in another book," to name a few.
* 2025 Reading Challenge -- Massachusetts Center for the Book
* 2025 Reading Challenge -- Read With Lindsey
Choose from monthly or weekly themes.
* 2025 Reading Challenge -- Santa Clara Public Library
Read 12 books from 12 categories to complete the 2025 Santa Clara City Library Reading Challenge!
* 2025 Reading Challenge Group on Goodreads (30482 Members)
Are you ready to set your 2025 reading goal?
This is a supportive, fun group of people looking for people just like you. Track your annual reading goal here with us, and we have challenges, group reads, and other fun ways to help keep you on pace. There will never be a specific number of books to read here or pressure to read more than you can commit to. Your goal is five? Great! You think you want to read 200? Very cool!
* 2025 Winter Reading Challenge: Cozy Books for the Season
Snowy settings and cozy mysteries.
* 2025 Yearlong Reading Challenges -- Book Girls Guide
Multiple options.
* 2025 Yearly Challenges: Magical Mystery Tour -- Goodreads
Do you love reading crime genres and solving mysteries? Join the Magical Mystery Tour, where you can rise through the ranks of our Criminal Investigation Department. All crime fiction qualifies – mystery, suspense and thriller – as well as crime nonfiction. Books in other genres may qualify as well, if the protagonist investigates and tries to resolve some evildoing.
Solve our cases by answering these questions: who, what, when, where, how, and why? After you complete all 42 standard cases, you may attempt eight bonus Interpol cases. Prompts may not be repeated.
* 13 Moons Reading Challenge 2025
The rules for this reading challenge are simple. First of all, this is just for fun so no need to feel pressured into doing anything or reading anything you don’t want to. You can also be flexible with the prompts if you choose to do so. The challenge will run from January 1st, 2025 till December 31st, 2025.
There are a total of 104 reading prompts divided into 13 categories. There is a list of levels given and you can choose which level you wish to participate in based on your preference. The levels you can participate in are as follows:
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 13 books — fulfill one prompt from each category
Partial Lunar Eclipse: 26 books — fulfill at least one prompt from each category
Central Lunar Eclipse: 52 books — fulfill at least one prompt from each category
Total Lunar Eclipse: 104 books — fulfill all the prompts
*
50books_pocThe point of this comm is to read works by people of color. (Preferably fifty of them! Or more!)
There are three ways to participate in the comm. Choose what best suits you:
Do the 50 Books Challenge: read fifty books by authors of color in the course of a year. Read your books, count your books, and post your write-ups/reviews/impressions.
Do a variant of the challenge: commit to fifty books, but take more than a year if you need to. Or read fifty poems or short stories in a year. Or don't set a target number, but keep count of the books by authors of color that you read in a year. Or some other variant that makes sense for you and pushes you to read more authors of color.
Skip the counting/challenge aspect, but post recommendations and/or reviews, and otherwise encourage people to read works by authors of color.
* The 52 Book Club's 2025 Reading Challenge
The 52 Book Club’s annual reading challenge is made up of 52 unique reading prompts. The goal is to match one book to each prompt, for a total of fifty-two books over the year.
Prompts are related to everything from specific words in the title, to cover design, authors, genres, settings, themes, characters, etc. (Think of it like a giant bookish scavenger hunt!) We encourage participants to try books outside of their regular reading comfort zones and push themselves to read more, read differently, and get creative with it!
* A-Z Women Authors 2025 -- Goodreads
Discover the brilliance of women writers across genres and generations with our A-Z Female Authors Edition! Pick one female author for each letter of the alphabet and immerse yourself in their unique stories, perspectives, and worlds.
* Become an expert on anything. Reading just 3 books on a topic can make you an expert, for the purpose of about 90% of needs, until you reach the level where advanced expertise is required. Frex, start with a general introduction to gardening. Then read two detailed books on different aspects such as fruit and vegetables, arid and humid, square foot and vertical, etc. Alternatively, you could find a beginning, intermediate, and advanced book on the same topic. While the tiny number of titles sounds silly, if you choose them mindfully, you actually can get an excellent introduction to the topic that will suffice for many practical purposes.
Do you want a relatively modest goal? Just aim for those 3 books, and they add up to a substantial accomplishment.
How fast do you read? If you read a book per month, then you could finish 4 sets of 3 in a year. Either pick 4 different topics, or 4 aspects of the same topic: say, start with beginner, intermediate, and advanced general gardening books then do a set each on other topics such as herbs, building garden structures, and troubleshooting pests. But maybe you read faster. A book per week is 52 books, or 17 topics ... about like a college degree, without the slowpokes holding you back. This is akin to the 50 book challenges, plus 2 extras. Want to learn worldbuilding? 15 science sets plus a couple of writing sets will set you up very well, and put the extra book into worldbuilding as a practice of its own. At a book or more per day, you can inhale whole libraries or bookstores. People have done it.
* Black Horror Reading Challenge '25
* Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge
Let’s first go over the basics: the challenge is made up of 24 tasks (an average of two per month) that invite readers to explore formats, genres, and perspectives that might go beyond their reading comfort zones. How you approach Read Harder is up to you: you can read one book per task or count one book for multiple tasks. The point of the challenge is to push yourself to diversify your TBR, so we hope you’ll discover a whole bunch of wonderful books you might not have otherwise chosen for yourself. And as always: have fun with it!
* Booklist Queen's 2025 Reading Challenge
Join thousands of others as we read a book a week in 2025. That’s right, this 2025 Reading Challenge has 52 different categories to expand your reading selection.
*
booknookThis is made to be a general reading community. Hopefully there'll be a few regular posts:
RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday
Monthly themed rec post (to be clear, inviting other people to rec books that fit the theme in the comments, not me reccing books)
* CLC Scaredy Cat Reading Challenge
* Comet Readings' 2025 Reading Challenge
A new prompt each week.
* Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge 2025 Sign Up
Welcome to the 15th annual Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge! I can't believe I've been doing this for so long. Once again, I'm giving challengers two options - one is to read only sub-genres and the other is to read cozy mysteries of your choice.
* A Huge Round Up of 2025 Year Long Reading Challenges
Alphabetical list.
* The Most Popular 2025 Reading Challenges on StoryGraph (So Far)
There are 50 different challenges as of 12/25/24!
* My Reading Challenges for 2025 -- Mark Joseph Jochim
Multiple options.
* The Nerd Daily's 2025 Reading Challenge
Ready to smash some reading resolutions in 2025? Our 2025 Reading Challenge is here to help with 52 challenges, so you could potentially read a book a week or use this a tool to help select your next read.
There’s no rules, so you can tackle this challenge however you’d like—you could start with prompt 19, ‘workplace or a holiday setting‘ could be set in a workplace, on holidays, or around a holiday like Christmas, ‘a book that’s hot right now‘ could be a new release or trending, or ‘wish you had or read when you were younger’ could be a book you didn’t read at the time or a new release that would have been perfect for your younger self.
* Read Around The World Challenge
Read at least one book written by an author from each of the 201 countries in the world.
*
readingtogether -- Read With MeA Comm for Reading Groups.
Reading is fun; reading along with other people can make it even more so! Therefor, this is a community for groups who have decided to read and discuss a book together.
You may post here if you are:
1. Looking for people interested in doing a group reading of [book or genre of your choice];
2. Trying to find discussions from a past group-read (i.e. "someone on my reading list was doing a discussion for Foreigner, but I don't remember who!");
3. Noting the location of a group-reading so that other people can find the related posts easily;
4. You want to begin a group reading, but don't want to host it on your own journal for whatever reason. You are welcome to host it here! All we ask is that you create a tag for it, and make a post recording its location.
I'd like this community to serve as a record of all the group-reads on DW, so even if yours is over, please post with a link to your discussions! It could be invaluable to someone else who's just starting that book... or to someone looking for ideas to set up their own group reading.
* Reading Challenge 2025 -- Madison Pubic Library
Our Annual Reading Challenges are all about getting you excited about reading, getting outside of your comfort zone, and discovering new stories you might not have read otherwise! In 2025, there are 104 prompts to choose from, and the best part is that you can read at your own pace! Our challenges are designed to be flexible, allowing you to scale your challenge up or down based on your needs as a reader. You can then pick and choose your own prompts to fit the challenge, making it a truly personalized reading experience!
Monthly Meander: Pick 12 prompts and read one book a month
Weekly Wanderer: Pick 52 prompts and read one book a week
The Entire Expedition: Pick all 104 prompts and read two books a week
* Reshelving Alexandria's Annual Reading Challenges 2025 Printables
Ready to dive into our 2025 Reading Challenge? Check out our handy printables to keep you organized and motivated all year long! Whether you're tackling one category or the whole challenge, our How To guide will walk you through how to make the most of these resources- so make sure to click over to it if you missed it!
* Shelf Reflection's 2025 Reading Challenge
Shelf Reflection’s 2025 Reading Challenge will be done in two parts this year.
The first 20 prompts will be similar to previous years.
The second 25 prompts will keep with the theme of ‘25’ each prompt relating in some way to the number 25 or the year 2025.
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swbookclub -- Star Wars book clubBook of the Month
Books read in four parts with discussion posts on weekends.
Books are selected by member input and/or polls.
All Star Wars material included (EU, Disney Canon, etc.)
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thestoryinsideThe process is simple: join the community, and each month sign up to be partnered with a buddy. Members will vote on which genres to read for the month, and your buddy will then choose a book from your to-read list. At the end of each month you can discuss your thoughts on the book(s) you read!
* A Year of Discovery: Your 2025 Reading Challenge for Adults
12 monthly prompts.
If you want to commit to a reading goal for next year, then you can sign up with a comment under this post using the form below:
Name:
My reading challenge entries will be posted at: (place your tag URL here)
Number of things I plan to read: (10 books, 52 fanfics, 100 poems, etc.)
My format: (original fiction, fanfic, meta, etc.)
My genre(s): (fantasy, science fiction, mystery, etc.)
My length(s) (drabble, short stories, novel, etc.)
My theme: (mixed / single / none, and what it is if any)
My journal status: (friends only / friends only except public challenge posts / filters / open)
Other details: (main fandoms, standard content warnings, seeking friends, etc.)
Anything else you want to share:
Participants
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xeena*
maevedarcy at 2025 book bingo tag.
