A Huge Round Up of 2025 Year Long Reading Challenges

Another year – more reading challenges! Below you’ll find a compilation of popular year-long 2025 reading challenges from blogs, YouTube and Instagram. This list will be updated with new challenges every Sunday through the end of January 2025, so check back often. Also check out our list of The Most Popular 2025 Reading Challenges on StoryGrpah.

2025 Reading Challenges

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• 25 in 25 (Four Paws and a Book | YouTube). Read a book for each of the 25 reading prompts.
• The 52 Book Club Reading Challenge. The goal is to read 52 books from the 52 different prompts provided. Get as creative as you like with interpreting the prompts.

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• Beyond the Bookends 2025 Reading Challenge. Read a book for each category in the month.
• Booklist Queen’s Reading Challenge. Read a book a week with these 52 different categories to expand your reading selection.

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• Calendar of Crime. Read 12 mystery books, each from of the categories in the month on the Calendar of Crime.
• Color Coded. Choose books where the color may either be named in the title or it may appear as the dominant color for the cover.
• Comet Readings’ 2025 Reading Challenge. Tackle a new genre or theme each week by reading a book for each of the challenge prompts.
• Creativity Reading Challenge. This challenge is about reading books on creativity, art, crafts, writing, film making, photography and any other topic that helps you live a more creative life.
• Cruisin’ Thru The Cozies. Read only cozy mysteries of your choice or read through the different sub-genres of cozy mysteries.

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• Decades Reading Challenge. Challenge yourself to reading books set in each decade from the 1800s through today!

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• Epistolary Reading Challenge. The challenge is to read books written in the form of letters, diaries, blogs, e-mails and such, either completely or partially written this way.

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• Humor Reading Challenge. Read books that you consider funny or humorous.

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• Key Word Reading Challenge. Read a book each month with one (or more) of the key words in the title.

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• Medical Examiner’s Mystery Reading Challenge. Your goal as Medical Examiner is to issue as many Toe Tags as you can by reading murder mysteries and documenting the cause of death of the unfortunate victim(s)
• Memoir Reading Challenge. Read a minimum of five memoirs from any of the categories listed. One book can only count for one category.
• Mental Health Reading Challenge. Read any book related to mental health – fiction or non-fiction.
• Mystery Marathon. The Mystillery Literary and Athletic Association (MLAA) welcomes you to the first running of the Mystery Marathon! Your goal is to to complete the marathon by reading 26.2* mysteries during the year. (No actual running is required.)
• 2025 Motif Reading Challenge. Each month read one book that fits the motif (theme) for the month. ⁠
• Mount TBR. Knock out some of those books you OWN that have been waiting in the wings for weeks … months … even years.

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• Netgalley and Edelweiss Reading Challenge. Are you feeling overwhelmed by the number of NetGalley/Edelweiss books sitting on your shelf to be read? Then this is the reading challenge for you!

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• Read Diversely 2025. Read selected diverse fiction each month. Discussion groups are open on Facebook and IG. Read them all, choose a couple months, read a different book in the same category; whatever you want. All readers, all voices welcome.
• Read It Again Sam. This one is all about re-reading … re-visiting old friends in books.
• Read With Allison. There are 52 reading prompts on the printable so challenge yourself to find a book for each, or as many as you can get to this year.
• Reading by the Numbers. Log all your books. No pre-set challenge levels. You decide your goal for the year and then just keep track of the books you read.
• 2025 Reading the Classics Challenge (In Search of Wonder | YouTube). Read a classic book for each of the monthly themes.

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• Shelf Reflection’s 2025 Reading Challenge. There are 2 parts to this reading challenge. Part 1 – Read a book for each of the 20 reading prompts. Part 2 – there 25 prompts that all have to do with the number 25. Do either part 1 or 2 or both.
• Six Shooter Mystery Challenge. Your goal is to shoot (read) six mysteries by the same target (author).

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• Uncorked Reading Challenge: Judge A Book By Its Cover. Find four bingo cards with unique prompts spanning three months (over the course of the year) paired with reading lists and specific titles.

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• Vintage Scavenger Hunt. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to find as many objects on the scavenger hunt list as possible on the covers of the mystery books you read. As always, you may play along in either the Golden or Silver Mystery Eras (or, for the more adventurous, both).
• Virtual Mount TBR Reading Challenge. This challenge is for all those folks with mile-long “wish-list” of TBRs who would like a chance to climb as well.

Did we miss any challenges? Let us know in the comments and we’ll add it to the list. Here are My 2024 Reading Challenges, and I’m looking forward to trying some new ones in 2025.