25 in 2025

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33 participants (247 books)

01 Jan 2025—01 Jan 2026

Overview

Commit to reading 25 books in 2025 you've always told yourself you wanted to - but haven't yet: big books, daunting classics, those books your friends won't stop talking about, or those books that have been haunting your shelf . . . 

Challenge Books

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The Measure by Nikki Erlick

The Measure

Nikki Erlick

352 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction lgbtqia+ literary magical realism emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Fourth Wing

The Empyrean #1

Rebecca Yarros

858 pages • digital • 2023 user-added

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Love, Laugh, Lich by Kate Prior

Love, Laugh, Lich

Claws & Cubicles #1

Kate Prior

87 pages • digital • 2021

fiction erotica fantasy romance funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

797 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction historical literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens

So This Is Ever After

F.T. Lukens

352 pages • digital • 2022

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance young adult adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

Chip Jones

352 pages • paperback • 2020 user-added

nonfiction health history science challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

334 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3 hours, 9 minutes • audio • 2016

fiction fantasy historical horror dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

The Screaming Staircase

Lockwood & Co. #1

Jonathan Stroud

400 pages • digital • 2013

fiction fantasy mystery young adult adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
The Lost Coast by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman

The Lost Coast

Clay Edison #5

Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman

354 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction crime mystery thriller adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced