2025 Reading Challenge discussion
2025 Members' Corner
>
We are Groot
date
newest »
newest »
THIRD QUARTERLY CHALLENGE: Rage on the Page
Message #11 - Progress: 12/12
Read books with shades of red or words of anger
FOURTH QUARTERLY CHALLENGE:
Message #26 - Progress 8/12
Read books with fears and phobias on the cover, in the title, or as a theme.
January
GROUP READ:
✅ The Spellshop - Read 1/2/25
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Cozy Escapes
PROGRESS: 10/10
✅ 1. Blubber - Read 1/14/25
✅ 2. Bridge of Souls - Read 1/6/25
✅ 3. Bridge to Terabithia - Read 1/12/25
✅ 4. The Explorer - Read 1/12/25
✅ 5. Melissa - Read 1/13/25
✅ 6. Pony - Read 1/2/25
✅ 7. Restart - Read 1/8/25
✅ 8. The School for Good and Evil - Read 1/11/25
✅ 9. Superfudge - Read 1/15/25
✅ 10. Tunnel of Bones - Read 1/5/25
February
GROUP READ:
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Racing Through Time
✅ American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century - Read 2/7/25
✅ And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - Read 2/3/25
✅ Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Read 2/26/25
✅ The Five-Star Weekend - Read 2/12/25
✅ The Grace Year - Read 2/18/25
✅ The Midnight Feast - Read 2/24/25
✅ Midnight Is the Darkest Hour - Read 2/6/25
✅ One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel - Read 2/18/25
March
✅ GROUP READ - The Midnight Feast - Read 2/24/25
✅ TBR TWINS - The Boyfriend - Read 3/11/25
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Reading Picnic - Progress: 5/5
✅ All the Bad Apples
🎧 The Berry Pickers
🎧 The Candy House
🎧 Family Meal
✅ I'm More Dateable than a Plate of Refried Beans: And Other Romantic Observations - Read 3/13/25
✅ Land of Milk and Honey - Read 3/17/25
👁️💲 Murder Can Frost Your Doughnut
🎧 Pineapple Street
✅ A Sweet Sting of Salt - Read 3/10/25
✅ When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie - Read 3/19/25
✅ The Glass Castle - Read 3/22/25
✅ This Book Is Full of Spiders - Read 3/15/25
April
✅ GROUP READ - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Read 4/19/23
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Book Scrabble Progress: Completed!
✅ The Starless Sea - Read 4/8/25
✅ Constance - Read 4/25/25
✅ The Running Grave - Read 4/15/25
✅ All the Light We Cannot See - Read 4/16/25
✅ Britt-Marie Was Here - Read 4/11/25
✅ The Butcher Game - Read 4/19/25
✅ LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal - Read 4/28/25
✅ Enola Holmes: Mycroft's Dangerous Game - Read 4/20/25
May✅ GROUP READ - Little Fires Everywhere - Read 11/14/19
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Mothers & Others Progress: 3/5
✅
The Briar Club - Read 5/16/25✅
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Read 5/5/25✅
The Husband's Secret - Read 5/8/25✅
The Measure - Read 5/11/25✅
Someone Else’s Life - Read 5/15/25
June✅ GROUP READ - Little Women - Read 6/5/25
TBR Twins - Young Mungo
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Sisterhood of the Traveling Books - Progress 7/8
✅ Book about sisters --> Little Women --> Historical Fiction - Read 6/5/25
✅ Historical Fiction --> This Tender Land --> Fiction - Read 6/11/25
✅ Fiction --> The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes --> Graphic Novel - Read 6/9/25
Graphic Novel --> The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House --> Fantasy
✅ Fantasy --> A Court of Mist and Fury --> Young Adult - Read 6/1/25
✅ Young Adult --> Last Act: The Stage Is Set For Murder --> Horror - Read 6/15/25
✅ Horror --> The Patient --> Mystery - Read 6/23/25
✅ Mystery --> Gray Wolf Mountain - Read 6/16/25
July✅ GROUP READ - Great Big Beautiful Life - Read 7/11/25
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - How are You Getting There?
Message #9 - Progress - 10/10
✅
Beautiful Ugly - Read 7/22/25✅
Falling - Read 7/17/25✅
Great Big Beautiful Life - Read 7/11/25✅
Here One Moment - Read 7/5/25✅
Jackal - Read 7/15/25✅
The Last One at the Wedding - Read 7/9/25✅
Unsouled - Read 7/17/25✅
The Unsinkable Greta James - Read 7/25/25✅
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Read 7/26/25✅
The Stardust Grail - Read 7/29/25
August✅ GROUP READ: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Read 8/1/25
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Van Gogh For It
Progress: 10/10
✅ 1.
With Love from the Inside - Read 8/3/25✅ 2.
Listen for the Lie - Read 8/18/25✅ 3.
The Paris Novel - Read 8/6/25✅ 4.
The Reading List - Read 8/10/25✅ 5.
The Girl Who Got Revenge - Read 8/30/25✅ 6.
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story - Read 8/13/25✅ 7.
The Island - Read 8/3/25✅ 8.
The Island of Dr. Moreau - Read 8/20/25✅ 9.
The Museum of Extraordinary Things - Read 8/14/25✅ 10.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Read 8/24/25
September✅ GROUP READ: The House in the Cerulean Sea - Read 3/10/21
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Down the Rabbit Hole
Progress: 10/10
✅ Shadeslinger - Read 9/22/25
✅ The Nickel Boys - Read 9/15/25
✅ Wicked Appetite - Read 9/6/25
✅ The Chain - Read 9/4/25
✅ Becoming - Read 9/13/25
✅ The Prestige - Read 9/19/25
✅ The Collective - Read 9/23/25
✅ Burn Baby Burn - Read 9/22/25
✅ The Witch's Daughter - Read 9/9/25
✅ When Breath Becomes Air - Read 9/13/25
✅ The Berry Pickers - Read 9/7/25
✅ A Child Called "It" - Read 9/24/25
OctoberGROUP READ: Weyward - Read 11/15/24
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Very Superstitious Progress: 10/11
✅ 1.
(Un)Lucky Numbers: Read a book with 3, 4, 7, 8, or 13 in its title or series number. Each of these numbers is considered lucky in one culture while unlucky in another. A Court of Wings and Ruin - Read 10/21/25✅ 2.
Don't Walk Under a Ladder: Read a book in which someone purposefully walks, hikes, or climbs. The End of the World Running Club - Read 10/17/25✅ 3.
Find a Four-Leaf Clover: Read a book set in Ireland or a book with a green cover. Broken Harbor - Read 10/3/25✅ 4.
Find a Horseshoe: Read a book that includes horses, or a book with a door on the cover. The Book of Doors - Read 10/7/25✅ 5.
Have a Lucky Wedding: Read a book featuring something old, something new, something borrowed, or something blue. The Girl in the Sand - Read 10/15/256.
Don't Break the Mirror: Read a book where a mirror is used as a plot device, or with something broken on the cover. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House✅ 7.
Knock on Wood: Read a book with a tree on the cover, or a book including a carpenter or builder. Gray After Dark - Read 10/11/25✅ 8.
Don't Let a Black Cat Cross Your Path: Read a book with a cat on the cover, or involving witchcraft. Mary Poppins - Read 10/4/25✅ 9.
Lucky Penny: Read a book about making money, or with a unit of currency in the title. The Quarter Storm - Read 10/3/25✅ 10.
Don't Spill the Salt: Read a book featuring a cook, or with the letters S-A-L-T in the title. The Island - Read 10/9/25✅ BONUS:
Don't Swim After You Eat: After reading all 10 regular prompts, read a book about swimming or one that is set on the water. The Night Swim - Read 10/22/25
November GROUP READ:
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Fur, Fins & Feathers
Progress: 0/8
🎧 T - The Truth About Melody Browne
👁️ H - Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon
🎧 O - Out
🎧 R - The Road
🎧 B - The Blood of an Englishman
🎧 E - Enduring Love
🎧 A - All Fours
🎧 R - The Return of Ellie Black
December🎧 The Body in the Library
👁️ City of Gold
👁️ A Court of Silver Flames
🎧 Rosemary’s Baby
👁️ The Secret in Their Eyes
Titles with R
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Body in the Library (other topics)The Night Swim (other topics)
Rosemary’s Baby (other topics)
The Return of Ellie Black (other topics)
The Blood of an Englishman (other topics)
More...
September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
THEMES
Quarterly Themes
1st Quarter: Sadness
2nd Quarter: Joy
3rd Quarter: Anger
4th Quarter: Fear
Monthly Themes
January: Cozy
February: Time
March: Food
April: Games
May: Mother
June: Sisterhood
July: Island
August: Sunflower
September: Whimsy
October: Superstition
November: Pets
December: White