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Category: Reading Challenges

Currently active reading challenges.

In Case You Missed It 2025

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Sami

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

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Sami

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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Fantasy Title Word Search 2025

Posted on January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 by Sami

This challenge is from StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page.

1. Dragon
2. Castle or Palace
3. Queen
4. King
5. Fire or Flame
6. Kingdom
7. Princess
8. Prince
9. Legend
10. Night
11. Sword
12. Voyage or Journey

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Shelf Reflection 2025 (part 2)

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Sami

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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Shelf Reflection 2025 (part 1)

Posted on January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 by Sami

From StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page.

1. With footnotes
2. With a cover in the colors of your favorite team
3. Set during Prohibition (1920-1933)
4. With an occupation in the title
5. With a competition
6. With a workplace romance
7. With or about cancer
8. By an author whose last name is a first name
9. With a curse
10. With a city in the title
11. Takes place on a farm
12. 2 books by different authors with the same last name
13. Nominated for Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club
14. Where the title takes up the whole cover
15. Written by a celebrity
16. About a missing parentRemarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
17. Written during COVID lock-downs or with a pandemic in the story
18. An athlete’s memoir
19. With a new mom
20. Set in New England (US)

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Book Nerd Challenge 2025

Posted on January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 by Sami

This is a SamiParker challenge, and is also on StoryGraph.

1. With a 1 word titleCompulsory – Martha Wells
2. Nonfiction about something you wished you’d learned in school
3. Whose TV or movie adaptation you loved
4. A book mentioned in another book
5. With a game played in it
6. With a made-up language
7. With a day of the week in the title
8. From the Dewey Decimal Systems 600s – 699s
9. With a prologue
10. Where you have something in common with the main characterBurning Water – Mercedes Lackey
11. With “yesterday”, “today”, or “tomorrow” in the title
12. About something endangered
13. Written by a journalist
14. About a treasure hunt
15. With twins in it
16. A prequelCompulsory – Martha Wells
17. Author’s last name begins with L
18. With the name of a season in the title
19. A collection of short stories or essays
20. With something you might use camping on the cover
21. Reread a book you loved when you were younger
22. With photos or illustrations in it
23. Bio or memoir published before 2000
24. With the author’s photo on the back coverThe Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides

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Book Dragon Guild Challenge 2025

Posted on January 21, 2025January 22, 2025 by Sami

From StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page.

1. Nonfiction book about science
2. Historical romance set in a non-English speaking country
3. History that is not about the US or Western Europe
4. Reread a book you haven’t read in the past 5 years
5. One of the earliest books you added to StoryGraph
6. One a fellow book fiend insists you have to read
7. That takes place near waterRemarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
8. A history, bio, or memoir of someone you really admire
9. A positive book about aging
10. Genre mixer (crosses 3+ genres)
11. Something steamy
12. About the Jazz era (1920s-1930s)
13. A big, fat book (>600 pages)
14. The first book in a seriesBurning Water – Mercedes Lackey
15. The last book in a series (different series; latest published in an ongoing series counts)
16. From classic Japanese literature
17. Set in a place you want to visit
18. Spy novel with a female spy lead
19. That matches your mood
20. An epistolary novel
21. With characters in their 60s, 70s, or 80s
22. A new to you authorHere One Moment – Liane Moriarty
23. A book from one of your 5 least read moods on StoryGraph
24. Historical romance by a person of color
25. Bonus: About dragons

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