Branch out from romance

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8 participants (91 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read books more challenging than the lighthearted romances this year

Challenge Books

All books added
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

247 pages • paperback • 1939

fiction classics crime mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells

156 pages • paperback • 1896

fiction classics horror science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V.E. Schwab

444 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

435 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Wanderer's Havamal by Jackson Crawford

The Wanderer's Havamal

Jackson Crawford

216 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction history poetry informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol

50 pages • paperback • 1836

fiction classics short stories dark funny reflective medium-paced
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #1

Richard Osman

381 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction contemporary crime mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Nora Ephron

137 pages • hardcover • 2006

nonfiction essays memoir funny reflective fast-paced
All This and More by Peng Shepherd

All This and More

Peng Shepherd

469 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction dystopian literary thriller adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

152 pages • hardcover • 1929

nonfiction classics essays feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced