Each year, I take on different reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For 2025, I plan to read a total of 52 books by completing the 52 Book Club's 2025 reading challenge.
If you'd like to participate in this 2025 reading challenge, visit www.the52bookclub.com/2025-reading-challenge.
Below is the list of reading prompts for the 2025 reading challenge which I'll start on January 1, 2025. After I finish each reading prompt, I'll update this list. If you want to see more of the books I've read this year and previous years, check out my Goodreads profile at: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/15431036.
The 52 Book Club's 2025 Reading Challenge:
1. A pun in the title: Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros
2. A character with red hair: Teen Titans: Starfire by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo
3. Title starts with the letter "M:" Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
4. Title starts with the letter "N:" Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story by Tom Brokaw
5. Plot includes a heist: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
6. Genre one: set in Spring: Haru: Spring by Joe Latham
7. Genre two: set in Summer: Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance by Mike Scardino
8. Genre three: set in Autumn: The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore
9. Genre four: set in Winter: Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly deVos
10. Author's last name is also a first name: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
11. A prequel: The Riddler: Year One by Paul Dano
12. Has a moon of the cover: Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London
13. Title is ten letters or less: You Are Here by David Nicholls
14. Climate fiction: Lark Ascending by Silas House
15. Include Latin America history: Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels by Deborah Bonello
16. Author has won an Edgar Award: The Internal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of The Modern Detective by Steven Johnson
17. Told in verse: I Am Water by Meg Specksgoor
18. A character who can fly: What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing-- What Birds Are Doing, And Why by David Allen Sibley
19. Has short chapters: Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
20. A fairy tale retelling: Jack and the Beanstalk and the French Fries by Mark Teague
21. Character's name in the title: Growing Up Urkel by Jaleel White
22. Found family trope: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
23. A sprayed edge: The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis
24. Title is a spoiler: Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger by Beth Harbison
25. Breaks the fourth wall: The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee
26. More than a million copies sold: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
27.Features a magician: The Magicians: New Class by Lev Grossman with Lilah Sturges and Pius Bak
28. A crossover (set in a shared universe:) That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming
29. Shared universe with prompt 28: That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human by Kimberly Lemming
30. In the public domain: Daisy Miller by Henry James (first published in 1878)
31. Audiobooks has multiple narrators: No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
32. Includes a diary entry: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
33. A standalone novel: Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom
34. Direction in the title: The New Black West: Photographs From America's Only Touring Black Rodeo by Gabriela Hasbun
35. Written in the third person: Mr. Katō Plays Family by Milena Michiko Flašar
36. Final sentence is less than 6 words long: Pickleball for All by Rachel Simon
37. Genre chosen for you be someone else: Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett (bitpunk)
38. An adventure story: A Trip of One's Own: Hope, Heartbreak, and Why Traveling Solo Could Change Your Life by Kate Wills
39. Has an epigraph: You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Limón
40. Stream of consciousness narrative: The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
41. Cover font is in a primary color: In a League of Her Own: Celebrating Female Firsts in Sports by Bonnie-Jill Laflin
42. Non-human antagonist: Hey, Zoey by Sarah Crossan
43. Explores social class: Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
44. A celebrity on the cover: Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television form Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond by Bethonie Butler
45. Author releases more than one book a year: Love: Poems by Danielle Steel
46. Read in a "-Ber" month: Lift: How Women Can Reclaim Their Physical Power and Transform Their Lives by Anne Marie Chaker
47. "I think it was blue:" The Only Woman by Immy Humes
48. Related to the word "puzzle:" The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind by Richard Restak, M.D. with puzzles by Scott Kim
49. Set in a country with an active volcano: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir (Set in Iceland)
50. Set in the 1940s: Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun: The Manga Edition by Coco Kashiwaya
51. 300-400 pages long: Get a Hobby: 365 Things to Do for Fun (Not Work!) by Jasmine Cho
52. Published in 2025: Losing Sight by Tati Richardson
