Big Books Challenge 2025

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62 participants (332 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least 15 books that have 500+ pages this year. Audiobooks count! Happy reading :)

Challenge Books

All books added
As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3

As Good As Dead

Holly Jackson

16h 55m • 2021 • 173 editions

fiction mystery thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

529 pages • 2012 • 44 editions

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

The Stormlight Archive #5

Wind and Truth

Brandon Sanderson

62h 48m • 2024 • 44 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Crank #1

Crank

Ellen Hopkins

537 pages • 2004 • 11 editions

fiction contemporary poetry young adult dark emotional sad fast-paced
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

15h 55m • 2023 • 41 editions

nonfiction feminism history science informative medium-paced
Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Iron Widow #2

Heavenly Tyrant

Xiran Jay Zhao

21h 3m • 2024 • 27 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Pirates of Aletharia by Britney Jackson

Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1

Pirates of Aletharia

Britney Jackson

16h 47m • 2021 • 8 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous medium-paced
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

571 pages • 1847 • 1.7k editions

user-added

fiction classics literary romance dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

The Romanovs #2

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Robert K. Massie

23h 52m • 2011 • 25 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass #3

Heir of Fire

Sarah J. Maas

583 pages • 2014 • 244 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional tense medium-paced