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2025 Monthly Challenge [Link]


JAN - New Year, New Books (New Releases)
FEB - Short Month, Short Books (Novellas & Short Stories)
MAR - BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) Authors
APR - Here Be Dragons!
MAY - May the 4th be with You (Scifi Month)
JUN - Pride Month (LGBTQIA+ Authors and Characters)
JUL - Self-Published and Indy-Published
AUG - Pre-2000s Fantasy
SEP - Stand-Alones
OCT - Spooktober
NOV - Cozy November
DEC - Choose Your Own Adventure (Make Your Own Category)

January: New Year, New Books (New Releases) [Link]

Read this year

✔ 2024/03/14 Bioshifter: Volume 3
✔ 2024/06/04 Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1)
✔ 2024/10/08 Swordcrossed*
✔ 2024/10/29 Don't Let the Forest In*
✔ 2024/11/12 This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7)
✔ 2024/11/19 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World*
✔ 2024/12/04 Roverpowered 2
✔ 2025/04/01 Direct Descendant*
✔ 2025/05/07 Roverpowered 3
✔ 2025/06/17 If We Survive This*
✔ 2025/08/15 The Hungry Gods


✔ 2024/02/06 The Tainted Cup* (Shadow of the Leviathan #1)
✔ 2024/03/20 Death in the Spires
2024/03/19 Floating Hotel*
2024/04/09 Morphotrophic*
2024/06/04 Service Model
2024/06/13 Babylonia*


2024/07/09 Navola
2024/07/30 Navigational Entanglements*
2024/08/13 Time's Agent*
2024/09/17 Yield Under Great Persuasion*
2024/09/24 The Sapling Cage (Daughters of the Empty Throne #1)*
2024/10/15 Sorcery and Small Magics*
2024/12/10 Hammajang Luck*


2025/01/14 Death of the Author
2025/02/13 Frail Little Embers*
✔ 2025/02/25 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
2025/02/27 Shroud
2025/03/18 Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1)*
2025/03/25 When the Moon Hits Your Eye
2025/04/01 A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan #2)
2025/04/15 The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy #1)*


2025/05/06 Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame*
2025/05/06 Overgrowth*
2025/05/13 The Incandescent*
2025/06/03 Of Monsters and Mainframes*
2025/06/10 The Witch Roads (The Witch Roads #1)*
2025/08/05 Automatic Noodle
2025/08/12 Lucky Day
2025/08/19 I Re: As An NPC Troll (I Ran Away to Evil #3)
2025/08/19 Hemlock & Silver


✔ 2025/09/10 Roverpowered 4
2025/09/16 The Summer War
2025/09/30 Hollow*
2025/10/07 All of Us Murderers
2025/10/14 The Works of Vermin*
2025/10/14 Kill the Beast
2025/10/14 Red City* (The New Alchemists #1)
2025/10/21 King Sorrow*
2025/10/28 Hazelthorn
2025/10/28 The Everlasting


2026/01/20 The Poet Empress*
2026/02/10 Operation Bounce House
2026/02/24 The Library of Amorlin* (The Age of Beasts #1)
2026/03/03 Green & Deadly Things*
2026/03/24 Daughter of Crows (The Kindness Academy #1)
2026/04/07 The Subtle Art of Folding Space*
2026/04/21 The Language of Liars*
2026/04/28 Ode to the Half-Broken
2026/05/05 Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries #8)
2026/05/05 Love Galaxy*
2026/05/12 A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl #8)
2026/09/09 Roverpowered 5

February: Short Month, Short Books (Novellas & Short Stories)

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Short stories

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune
Goblins & Greatcoats by Travis Baldree

Collections


Novellas: standalone


Novellas: series


Read this year:

March: BIPOC Authors

Ideas:

- Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (Hindu)
- Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Malaysian)
- Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel (Hindu)
- David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Nigerian)
- The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei (Japanese origins)



Ideas: anthologies
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction
The SEA Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia
Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction (non-fiction)
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
The Black Girl Survives in This One
The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction

April: Here Be Dragons!

Ideas:

May: May the 4th be with You (Scifi Month)

Ideas: standalones

June: Pride Month (LGBTQIA+ Authors and Characters)

Sapphic


Aroace


Trans


Achillean

July: Self-Published and Indy-Published

August: Pre-2000s Fantasy

September: Stand-Alones

Ideas: Fantasy


Ideas: Mythology

October: Spooktober

Ideas

November: Cozy November

Ideas:

December: Choose Your Own Adventure (Make Your Own Category)

ooooh before you set this up, please check my new post in the [how it works] thread. I'd love your input :)

(also, if you need me to delete this comment, let me know)

Jenna wrote: "ooooh before you set this up, please check my new post in the [how it works] thread. I'd love your input :)

(also, if you need me to delete this comment, let me know)"

13 comments should be fine :)
I've been playing with the spreadsheet, I'm glad I didn't set things up immediately. Will take a look, thanks a lot for telling me!