25 books for 2025

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97 participants (915 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 25 books through the year “2025”! Up to you to decide which ones. 

Challenge Books

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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Thomas Mann

776 pages • 1901 • 120 editions

fiction classics historical literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

Between the Acts

Virginia Woolf

224 pages • 1941 • 76 editions

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Lessons by Ian McEwan

Lessons

Ian McEwan

431 pages • 2022 • 54 editions

fiction literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Light in August by William Faulkner

Light in August

William Faulkner

512 pages • 1932 • 72 editions

fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

You Can't Go Home Again

Thomas Wolfe

711 pages • 1940 • 15 editions

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
Speedboat by Renata Adler

Speedboat

Renata Adler

192 pages • 1976 • 18 editions

fiction classics short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

Alex Ross

784 pages • 2020 • 6 editions

nonfiction art history music challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Crimson Moth by Kristen Ciccarelli

The Crimson Moth #1

The Crimson Moth

Kristen Ciccarelli

406 pages • 2024 • 85 editions

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston

448 pages • 2019 • 165 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

149 pages • 1774 • 395 editions

fiction classics romance dark emotional sad slow-paced