25 in 2025 Challenge

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83 participants (964 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Challenge yourself to read 25 books in 2025! Pick any books of your choice and start reading!

The template to this challenge (and many more) can be found on my Instagram @shadowbooker

I hope you enjoy the challenge! Happy reading in 2025!

Challenge Books

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Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

363 pages • 2023 • 66 editions

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Road Trip with the Billionaire by Harmony Knight

Road Trip with the Billionaire

Harmony Knight

318 pages • 2022 • 4 editions

user-added

fiction contemporary romance emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage

Rebel Blue Ranch #3

Lost and Lassoed

Lyla Sage

8h 48m • 2024 • 43 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
Find Me by Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me #4.5; 5.5

Find Me

Tahereh Mafi

3h 59m • 2011 • 31 editions

fiction dystopian romance young adult adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me #4

Restore Me

Tahereh Mafi

8h 39m • 2018 • 96 editions

fiction dystopian romance young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
The Good Luck Charm by Helena Hunting

The Good Luck Charm

Helena Hunting

8h 24m • 2018 • 9 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Great Big Beautiful Life

Emily Henry

418 pages • 2025 • 77 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional lighthearted medium-paced
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories by Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Cochrane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
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Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Cochrane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Cochrane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane

412 pages • 1969 • 4 editions

fiction classics short stories dark reflective medium-paced
Never Lie by Freida McFadden

Never Lie

Freida McFadden

336 pages • 2022 • 99 editions

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Made for You by Melissa Marr

Made for You

Melissa Marr

358 pages • 2014 • 10 editions

fiction mystery thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced