2025 Reading Challenge discussion

2025 reading goal: 60 books
Challenge

Progress: 9/60.

TBR jar challenge
January 1 - December 31, 2025
Challenge

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

Progress: 0/14.

Let's turn pages
January 1 - December 31, 2025
Challenge

Progress: 4,012/18,000.

A-Z: Women Authors
January 1 - December 31, 2025
Challenge

A: Alex Aster - Nightbane
B: Carissa Broadbent - The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
C: Kristen Ciccarelli - Heartless Hunter
D: Olivia Rose Darling - Fear the Flames
E: Alli Earnest - Cities of Smoke and Starlight
F: /
G: Adalyn Grace - Foxglove
H: Callie Hart - Quicksilver
I: /
J: Sophie Jordan - A Fire in the Sky
K: Rina Kent - God of Malice
L: L.J. Andrews - Crown of Blood and Ruin
M: Melissa Landers - The Half King
N: Lynette Noni - The Prison Healer
O: Abigail Owen - The Games Gods Play
P: Penn Cole - Sparks of the Everflame
Q: /
R: Lauren Roberts - Powerless
S: Kaylie Smith - Phantasma
T: Thea Guanzon - The Hurricane Wars
U: /
V: /
W: Demi Winters - The Road of Bones
X: K.X. Song - The Night Ends with Fire
Y: Rebecca Yarros - Iron Flame
Z: /


Progress: 2/20.

Clear the shelves
January 1 - December 31, 2025
Challenge

The Dragon's Promise
Clockwork Angel
House of Roots and Ruin
On Wings of Ash and Dust
Hooked
The Bridge Kingdom
Gilded
Wolfsong
A Trial of Sorcerers
Godkiller
Sorcery of Thorns
Hunting Prince Dracula


Progress: 1/12.

Wheel of Feels
January 1 - December 31, 2025
Challenge

G: Godkiller
R: Rain of Shadows and Endings
I: Iron Flame
E: Fear the Flames
F: Foxglove

S: Spark of the Everflame
A: Anathema
D: Daughter of the Moon Goddess
N: Nightbane
E: Empire of Flame and Thorns
S: Cities of Smoke and Starlight
S: A Trial of Sorcerers

P: Hunting Prince Dracula
E: The Night Ends with Fire
N: North Is the Night
S: Sorcery of Thorns
I: A Fate Inked in Blood
V: Assistant to the Villain
E: Eragon
N: Nocticadia
E: Empire of the Vampire
S: Sweet Nightmare
S: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King


Progress: 2/23.

Embracing the blues
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2025
Challenge

S: Servant of Earth
O: A Dawn of Onyx
R: Rain of Shadows and Endings
R: The Road of Bones
O: Crown of Blood and Ruin
W: Wolfsong

Progress: 0/6.

BIBLIOPOLY
January 1 - December 31, 2025
Challenge

🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title.

🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own.

🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.


🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title.

🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes!

❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions.

🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.

🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.

🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B or O. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.)

🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder, or a neurodivergent condition.


🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title.

🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own.

🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title.

🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.

🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?)

Progress: 0/15.