Reading challenge 2025
1) A pun in the title Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Ernest Cunningham
2) A character with red hair “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas
3) Title starts with letter “M” Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
4) Title starts with letter “N” None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
5) Plot includes a heist Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3) by C.J. Sansom
6) Genre One: Set in Spring A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3) by Sarah J. Maas
7) Genre Two: Set in Summer First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
8) Genre Three: Set in Autumn King of Wrath by Ana Huang
9) Genre Four: Set in Winter Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
10) Author’s last name is also a first name Credence by Penelope Douglas
11) A prequel Pages to Fill by Travis Baldree
12) Has a moon on the cover The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
13) Title is ten letters or less Ex-wife by Ursula Parrott
14) Climate fiction How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
15) Includes Latin American history Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
16) Author has won an Edgar award Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
17) Told in verse “Three hundred poems. Selected poems” Lina Kostenko
18) A character who can fly A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4) by Sarah J. Maas
19) Has short chapters Pucking Around by Emily Rath
20) A fairy tale retelling Throne of Secrets (Prince of Sin, #2) by Kerri Maniscalco
21) Character’s name in the title Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
22) Found family trope A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4) by Sarah J. Maas
23) A sprayed edge Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1) by Lizzy Pearce
24) Title is a spoiler Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
25) Breaks the fourth wall That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon” by Kimberly Lemming
26) More than a million copies sold The Rainmaker by John Grisham
27) Features a magician Enchantra by Kaylie Smith
28) A crossover (Set in a shared universe) Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher
29) Shares universe with prompt 28 Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
30) In the public domain Persuasion by Jane Austen
31) Audiobook has multiple narrators The Bride by Ali Hazelwood
32) Includes a diary entry The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi
33) A standalone novel Nettle & Bone by T.Kingfisher
34) Direction in the title Between by L.L. Starling
35) Written in third person Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
36) Final sentence is less than 6 words long Fated to The Wolf Prince by April L. Moon
37) Genre chosen for you by someone else Listen for the lie by Amy Tintera
38) An adventure story Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
39) Has an epigraph The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
40) Stream of consciousness narrative It’s Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health by Karen Tang
41) Cover font is in a primary color Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1) by Brynne Weave
42) Non-human antagonist A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
43) Explores social class The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
44) A celebrity on the cover “Want” by Gillian Anderson
45) Author releases more than one book a year Fated to The Warrior Wolf by April L. Moon
46) Read in a “-ber” month The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eger
47) “I think it was blue” Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1) by Navessa Allen
48) Related to the word “puzzle” The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
49) Set in a country with an active volcano Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
50) Set in the 1940s The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger
51) 300-400 pages long Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life Nagoski, Emily
52) Published in 2025 Caught Up by Navessa Allen