25 for '25: 5 Books from 5 Genres

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12 participants (132 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

This reading challenge is for those like me that generally stick to one or two genres. For the year 2025, I am challenging myself to read 5 books from 5 genres I typically don't read including: nonfiction, religion, mystery, classical, and historical fiction. Feel free to choose your own genres!

Challenge Books

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Little Women #1

Louisa May Alcott

12 hours, 15 minutes • audio • 1868

fiction classics young adult emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Barefoot Britain: A Running Adventure Like No Other by Anna McNuff

Barefoot Britain: A Running Adventure Like No Other

Anna McNuff

462 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction memoir sports travel adventurous funny inspiring fast-paced
Flush, câinele poetei by Virginia Woolf
Flush, câinele poetei
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Virginia Woolf

Flush, câinele poetei

Virginia Woolf

160 pages • paperback • 1933

fiction classics emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Oedip rege by Edgar Th. Aslan, Sophocles

Oedip rege

The Theban Plays #1

Edgar Th. Aslan, Sophocles

128 pages • -429

fiction classics play dark tense fast-paced
Gărzi! Gărzi! by Terry Pratchett

Gărzi! Gărzi!

Discworld #8

Terry Pratchett

314 pages • paperback • 1989

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Răbdarea păianjenului by Andrea Camilleri
Răbdarea păianjenului
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Andrea Camilleri

Răbdarea păianjenului

Andrea Camilleri

273 pages • paperback • 2004

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

293 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction essays memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard

Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

Julia Gillard

6 hours, 39 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction essays feminism gender memoir politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

226 pages • paperback • 1850

fiction classics historical literary dark reflective slow-paced
Women Living Deliciously by Florence Given

Women Living Deliciously

Florence Given

9 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced