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Last Updated on March 25, 2025
2025 Reading Challenges are gearing up and they are the perfect way to tackle your TBR. If you are busy setting reading goals and challenges for yourself this year, there are numerous 2025 reading challenges online this year. Get settled in your reading nook and prepare to fill up your reading schedule with these fantastic reading challenges for 2025.
*As new reading challenges are available, this page will be updated. Check back to find out what is new for 2025!
2025 Reading Challenges
Adult Reading Challenges
- 13 Moons Reading Challenge
- 2025 Reading Challenge
- 2025 Reading Challenge
- 2025 Reading Challenge
- 2025 Winter Reading Challenge
- The 52 Book Club
- A to Z
- Alphabet Soup Author Reading Challenge
- Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
- Audiobook Challenge
- Barnes & Noble Reading Challenge 2025
- Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge
- Beyond the Bookends’ Reading Challenge
- Beyond the Bookends’ Winter Reading Challenge
Book Bingo Challenges:
- Bookish Books Reading Challenge
- Booklist Queen’s Reading Challenge
- Booknerd Backlist Reading Challenge
- Bookriot’s Read Harder Challenge
- Books in Translation Reading Challenge
- Calendar of Crime Reading Challenge
- Classics Reading Challenge
- Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge
- Color Coded Reading Challenge
- Comet Readings’ 2025 Reading Challenge
- Cover Lovers Reading Challenge
- COYER Reading Challenge
- Craving for Cozies Reading Challenge
- Crossing Continents Reading Challenge
- Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies Reading Challenge
- Creativity Reading Challenge
- Decades Reading Challenge
- Epic Reads Reading Challenge
- Epistolary Reading Challenge
- The European Reading Challenge
- Fairy Tale Reading Challenge
- Genres Reading Challenge
- Goodreads Reading Challenge
- Historical Fiction Reading Challenge
- Humor Reading Challenge
- In Case You Missed It: Backlist Reading Challenge
- Key Word Reading Challenge
- Library Love Challenge
- Libro.fm’s Audiobook Listening Challenge
- Lifetime of Reading Challenge
- Literary Escapes Challenge
- Medical Examiner’s Mystery Reading Challenge
- Memoir Reading Challenge
- Mental Health Reading Challenge
- Motif Reading Challenge
- Key Word Reading Challenge
- Mount TBR Reading Challenge
- Mystery Marathon
- Netgalley and Edelweiss Reading Challenge
- Nerd Daily’s Reading Challenge
- Non-Fiction Reader Challenge
- NoveList Reading Challenge
- Picture Prompt Bingo
- POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
- Purrfect Reading Challenge
- Rad Reading Challenge
- Read Around the USA
- Read Around the World: Book Voyage Reading Challenge
- Read Around the World Challenge
- Read Christie Challenge
- Reading Challenge Addicts 2025
- Read it Again, Sam
- Read With Allison
- Reading With Muffy
- Reading by the Numbers
- Reading Challenge Addicts
- Reading Through the Decades Reading Challenge
- The Robot Librarian’s Reading Challenge
- Roll Your Own Reading Challenge
- Romance Book Reading Challenge
- Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
- The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
- Shelf Reflection’s 2025 Reading Challenge
- Six Shooter Mystery Challenge
- Southern Literature Reading Challenge
- The StoryGraph Reading Challenges
- Thoughtful Reading Challenge
- The TBR 25 in’25 Challenge
- #TBRChallenge 2025
- Uncorked Reading Challenge
- Vintage Scavenger Hunt
- Virtual Mount TBR Reading Challenge
- The Winter 2025 Reading Challenge
- What An Animal Reading Challenge
- What’s in a Name Reading Challenge
Kids’ Reading Challenges
- Build Your Library Reading Challenge
- Read Across America
- Read Around the World: Children’s Reading Challenge
- Shelf Reflection’s Reading Challenge for Kids
- We Read Tween Books Reading Challenge
Diverse Reading Challenges
- 2025 Diversity Reading Challenge
- Black Horror Reading Challenge
- Decolonize Your Bookshelf Reading Challenge
- Diverse Romance Trope Challenge
- Queer Lit Readathon
- Queer Your Year Challenge
- #ReadQueerly2025
- Shimmering Worlds 2025
- Trans Reading Challenge
- Year Long Reading Challenge
Instagram Reading Challenges
- 12 Books Reading Challenge
- 25 Reading Prompts for 2025
- 2025 #19Nonfiction Reading Challenge
- #25in2025 Instagram Reading Challenge
- 2025 Bingo
- 2025 Reading Challenge
- 2025 Reading Challenges
- A Dash of Diversity
- All the Genres 5×5 Challenge
- Backlog Board of Books
- BITF Horror Reading Challenge
- Connect Five!
- Disney Reading Challenge
- Keyword Reading Challenge
- Monthly Motif Reading Challenge
- #NottheBees2025
- Oxfam Reading Challenge
- Taylor Swift Reading Challenge
- #TBRin2025
- United States Reading Challenge
Podcast Reading Challenges
YouTube Reading Challenges
- 2025 Buzzwordathon
- Fantasy Romance Reading Challenge
- Reading This Life Banned Books Challenge
- Reading the Globe Fiction 2025 Readalong
- TBR Knockout
- The Princess Bride-athon Reading Challenge
- 25 in 25 Reading Challenge
2025 Reading Challenges are such a fun and engaging way to get some backlist books read, as well as motivate yourself to read more. These challenges are also a great opportunity to meet and engage with other book lovers. What 2025 reading challenges are you planning on joining this year?
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Sounds good.
Sounds really great
sounds amazing!
Wow, it’s so helpful to have all these challenges listed in one spot! Thanks for including my Classics Challenge, too!
Absolutely! My pleasure! 🙂
Here’s two more for you:
She Reads Romance Books Reading Challenge
We Read Tween Books Reading Challenge
Thanks, Leslie! I have added them! 🙂
Hey there! I created one too, called the TBR Scavenger Hunt Reading Challenge! I can send you a link about it as well. 🙂
Thanks, Marin! I have added it for you! 🙂
Thanks for including the SpaceTime Reading Challenge!
Jemima
My pleasure, Jemima! 🙂
Thanks so much for including my Bookish Books Reading Challenge! I’ll be making a sign-up post for the 2024 challenge soon. I’ll send you a link when it’s up.
Thanks for creating/maintaining this list. I love reading challenges! Now, the only problem is not taking on too many because I want to do them all. LOL
Susan
That’s amazing! Can’t wait to add it! 🙂
Thanks for the list! I am pretty sure I joined up on too many challenges for 2024….. but is there really tooooooooooo many? I THINK NOT, HAHA!!!
HA! I totally agree with you! Good luck with your reading challenges! 🙂
Thanks for this amazing list.
May i advise the Kuna Library Extreme Booknerd Reading Challenge?
I found it the most challenging for me this year. I am still finishing the last two prompts 😅
It starts January 2-3 and ends December 16.
So many great library reading challenges. Thanks for sharing this one! 🙂
Thanks for listing my Books in Translation and Southern Literature reading challenges! My sign-up posts went live this week.
Jen at Introverted Reader recently posted…2024 Southern Literature Reading Challenge
Perfect! They are added! 🙂
The signup page isn’t out yet but the Foodies Read Challenge happens every year at spiritblog.net (Vased on a True Story)
Adriana@BooksOnHerMind recently posted…2024 Reading List
Thanks for letting me know! I will watch for it! 🙂
Great list! Here’s one I created. It’s called the Reading Through the Decades Reading Challenge. Each month you pick a book from a different decade to read.
Courtney recently posted…December 2023 Books: What I’ve Been Reading This Month
Amazing! I will add it to the list! 🙂
Thank you so much!
There’s also the New Release Reading Challenge
Got it! Thanks for sharing it! 🙂
I’m always a little slow getting mine up, but the 2024 Pick Your Poison Reading Challenge is ready.
Added! Thanks for the update! 🙂
Great list! Some challenges I haven’t heard of before reading this. Thamks!
Starting my first book of the new year today.
Omg omg, thank you so much for including #ReadQueerly2024 in this list!
Alexx recently posted…Book Bingo and Reading Challenge: #ReadQueerly2024
My pleasure! 🙂
Thank you for this!
My pleasure! 🙂
Thank you for sharing
Thanks so much for putting this list together and for including my Cover Lovers Reading Challenge. Would you mind also adding my Bookish Books Reading Challenge to the list? The link is here: http://www.blogginboutbooks.com/2023/12/announcing-bookish-books-reading.html
Thanks so much!
Susan
Thanks for keeping me updated! It’s now added for you! 🙂
Thanks for this list — it’s amazing!
Please include the two challenges I host on my Rose City Reader blog:
The TBR 25 in ’25 Challenge: https://www.rosecityreader.com/p/the-tbr-25-in-25-challenge.html
The European Reading Challenge: https://www.rosecityreader.com/p/the-2025-european-reading-challenge.html
Thank you! Happy New Year and happy reading!
Got them! Thanks for letting me know! 🙂
Thank YOU for all your work compiling this list!