Category: Reading Challenges

Currently active reading challenges.

Monthly Motif 2025

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Hosted by Chapter Adventure. The challenge is to read a book that fits the motif for each prompt. Prompts can be completed in any order.

1. January: Punctuated titles- A form of punctuation in the title
2. February: Emotional roller-coaster- That makes you feel all the feels (any emotional journey counts)Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty
3. March: It’s all Greek to me- Technology, science, math, or engineering play an important role in the story
4. April: Spring cleaning- That’s been on your TBR for 2 or more years
5. May: Virtual Book Club- From a celebrity or influencer book club listRemarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
6. June: No biz like show biz- With a character involved in the entertainment industry, or one that has been turned into a show or movie
7. July: Single day story- Takes place over a single day (24 (or less) hour period )
8. August: Vacation location- Set in, or related to, somewhere you’d love to visit
9. September: Birds, bugs, or botanicals- Has birds, bugs or botanicals on the cover, in the title, or as a major part of the story
10. October: The dark side- A “dark” story or a mostly black cover (go with your interpretation of dark) The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
11. November: Popcorn fiction- Light but enjoyable; one sitting read; fun palate cleanserCompulsory – Martha Wells
12. December: Snuggle up and read- A cozy mystery; a cozy romance; cozy fiction in general

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Monthly Keyword 2025

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Hosted by Chapter Adventure. The challenge for each prompt is to read a book that contains one or more of the words in the title. Synonyms and different suffixes are allowed. For example, the keyword ‘lake’ can be met with lakes, water, sea, or ocean. Prompts can be completed in any order.

1. January: Storm, Time, Know, Return, Break, Hour, Twist, SilenceThe Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
2. February: Golden, Dream, First, Club, Went, Stay, Live
3. March: Deep, Clever, Sand, Little, Happy, Date, Guest, Over
4. April: Rest, Days, Upstairs, Sing, Shell, Life, Starlight, Couple
5. May: Lost, City, Wind, Hide, Lie, Fan, Room, Clear
6. June: Great, Wander, Child, Mine, Book, Watch, Heart, Save
7. July: Sunrise, Deepen, Story, Sweet, Resort, Good, Left, Ever
8. August: Side, World, Sound, Trial, Word, Hotel, Now, Say
9. September: Borrow, Survive, Listen, Where, Sleeping, Crash, Please, Count
10. October: Bury, Ghost, Chain, Glass, Moon, One, Last, StreetHere One Moment – Liane Moriarty
11. November: Tale, Final, Feast, Bloom, Cliff, Wide, Memory, Always
12. December: Fable, Flirt, Truly, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm, Love

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In Case You Missed It 2025

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This backlist focused challenge is from the BookGirls Guide. This is my personal tracking page.

1. Published in 2013
2. Published in 2014
3. Published in 2015
4. Published in 2016
5. Published in 2017
6. Published in 2018Compulsory – Martha Wells
Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
7. Published in 2019The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
8. Published in 2020
9. Published in 2021
10. Published in 2022Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
11. Published in 2023
12. Published in 2024Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty
13. Bonus: Published in 2012

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Beyond the Bookends 2025

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This is from the Beyond the Bookends website, and is also on StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page.

1. Being adapted to the screen
2. Second chance storyHere One Moment – Liane Moriarty
Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
3. Middle grade fantasy
4. Set in Hollywood
5. Young Adult
6. Nonlinear narrativeThe Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty
7. With a food in the title
8. Epistolary novel
9. High school novel
10. Mythology story
11. A neurodivergent character
12. Cozy mystery

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Shelf Reflection 2025 (part 2)

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From StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page.

1. With 25 letters in the titleRemarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
2. Written 25+ years agoBurning Water – Mercedes Lackey (1989)
3. Published in 2025
4. Word in the title that rhymes with 25
5. By an author who was published by age 25
6. Second or fifth book in a series
7. With at least 25 chapters
8. With a character who is 25 years old
9. With a title that starts with the letter Y
10. With a 2 or a 5 in the title
11. By an author with the initials TF
12. By an author who has written 25+ books
13. With a silver cover
14. With 4 POVs
15. Set in Arkansas
16. That was translated into at least 25 languages
17. With baseball
18. Associated with a song from Adele’s “25” album
19. Set during Christmas
20. With an assassination or set during the Civil War (4/1861 – 4/1865)
21. With a lawyer
22. From the New York Times Top 25 Books of the Last 25 Years list
23. Associated with Jane Austen
24. With a square on the cover
25. With a queen

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