Ready to diversify your reading this year? Join the best Reading Challenge of 2025 and read a book a week with the Booklist Queen!
Want to up your reading game in 2025? Then I have the ultimate goal for you – The Booklist Queen 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.
When I originally launched the reading challenge a few years ago, I worried I would be the only one crazy enough to want to do a 52 book challenge. Oh, I was so wrong.
Since then, I’ve been joined by thousands of readers who are just as crazy as me.
If you feel overwhelmed by 52 categories, don’t worry. It’s okay if you don’t finish the challenge. I want this Reading Challenge for 2025 to be aspirational. I want to push you to read more – whether that’s 12 books a year or 52. I want you to get out of your reading rut and try new genres.
Don’t like one of the categories in the 2025 Reading Challenge? Change it or skip it. Double count a book for multiple prompts. Interpret the prompts any way you like. Do what you want to make this reading challenge your own.
As long as you’re happy, I’m happy.
Enjoy!
Reading Challenge 2025
A Book A Week with The Booklist Queen
1. You Meant to Read Last Year
2. Goodreads Winner in 2024
3. Romantasy
4. About Siblings
5. Book Becoming Movie/Show in 2025
6. Spy Thriller
7. Women’s Fiction
8. Title Starts with “C”
9. Nonfiction Book About Health
10. Twist Ending
11. Published in 2015
12. Fiction & Nonfiction by Same Author
13. Fiction & Nonfiction by Same Author
14. Mythology Retelling
15. You Own But Haven’t Read
16. Set in the Middle East
17. A Sequel
18. Debut Author
19. Heartwarming Story
20. Book That Took a While to Read
21. Classic Recommended to You
22. Villain as a Protagonist
23. Set in the Summer
24. 2024 Bestseller
25. Green Cover
26. Bottom of Your To-Read List
27. Author from Africa
28. Book That Makes You Cry
29. About a Politician
30. Popular Book You’ve Never Read
31. Illustrated Book
32. Audiobook with Multiple Narrators
33. Set in the Suburbs
34. Dark Academia
35. Intriguing Cover
36. Five-Star Read
37. About an Immigrant
38. Banned Book
39. Set in the 1960s
40. With Chapter Titles
41. Dystopian Fiction
42. Author You Love
43. Multigenerational Story
44. Animal in the Title
45. 2025 New Release
46. Out of Your Comfort Zone
47. Thought-Provoking Historical Fiction
48. Book Everyone Is Talking About
49. Romance Book
50. Bestselling Memoir
51. Young Adult Fiction
52. Reread a Favorite
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Free Bookmark
Printable Reading Challenge
While the bookmark is great for Pinterest, it’s way too small to write your book selections on. I would know because I’ve witnessed my husband try it.
That’s why, exclusively for my newsletter subscribers, I’ve created an awesome printable handout for the 2025 Reading Challenge that has space for all your book selections.
Not a subscriber yet? Just enter your email below to join the weekly newsletter. You’ll stay up to date on the reading challenge, my blog posts, and receive exclusive content just for you. Every week I highlight one of the reading challenge’s prompts with book suggestions just for my favorite readers.
Social Media Templates
Want to share your progress on social media with amazing graphics?
Newsletter subscribers also get access to a collection of social media templates through Canva. Canva is a free online graphic design program that is extremely easy to use. I pay for a pro account for my blog, but most people will be perfectly happy with the free version.
Whether you want the full checklists, monthly challenges, single book reviews, or to share your monthly wrap-up, I’ve got you covered with easy-to-use templates. Just throw in your book covers and share them on your social media accounts.
Monthly Challenges
If the full 2025 Reading Challenge feels like too much, you can break it down into monthly segments. Feel free to do the Reading Challenge in order or skip around. If 52 books are too many, just try one of these monthly challenges and do it instead. That’s only 4 or 5 books to read in a year.
Need a little more challenge than that but not ready for the full Reading Challenge 2025? Just pick one category from each month for a 12 book challenge.
Personalize my 2025 Reading Challenge as much as you want. The goal is for you to read more and to have fun doing it!
Join the Discussion
Let’s chat about the books you’ve been reading!
Come join the discussion of the Booklist Queen 2025 Reading Challenge on Facebook. Share what you’ve been reading, ask for recommendations to fill in the prompts, and see what others are reading. Or if you prefer, you can follow along in our Goodreads group.
If you use Storygraph instead, track your progress with the 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. See how far you’ve come and spy on what books others are reading for each prompt. I’m still working on getting the Storygraph Challenge set up.
Read Along with Me
Be sure you don’t miss a thing. Sign up for my weekly newsletter. I’ll keep you up-to-date on the reading challenge, my blog posts, and provide exclusive content just for you. Every week I highlight one of the reading challenge prompts with book suggestions just for my favorite readers. Plus, only subscribers get the printable version of my Reading Challenge 2025 with space to fill in your selections.
Have fun reading in 2025! Be sure to let me know what books you pick for the 2025 Reading Challenge.
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