@hook.me.a.book Reading the World '25 Challenge

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57 participants (598 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

There's no hard and fast rules as to what books you read. Only that you aim for 2 each month set in a different location. You could read romance from around the world, historical fiction like the Seven Sisters series or go hard with translated fiction and use the hometown of the author. The world is your oyster!

Challenge Books

All books added
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

There Are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

470 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction contemporary historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Silence In Between by Josie Ferguson

The Silence In Between

Josie Ferguson

352 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction historical emotional sad tense medium-paced
The Swell by Kat Gordon

The Swell

Kat Gordon

318 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

fiction historical
Head Over Wheels by Leonie Mack

Head Over Wheels

Leonie Mack

302 pages • digital

fiction romance
Daddy Devious by Sadie Minx

Daddy Devious

Forbidden Pleasures Island #1

Sadie Minx

197 pages • paperback • 2025 user-added

fiction romance dark fast-paced
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

The Mountains Sing

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

368 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction historical emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley

The Storm Sister

The Seven Sisters #2

Lucinda Riley

19 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2015

fiction historical romance adventurous emotional medium-paced
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

724 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

352 pages • paperback • 2011

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani

The Perfect Nanny

Leïla Slimani

5 hours, 45 minutes • audio • 2016

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced