2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

2025 Challenges

Yearly:
TBR Jar -- Message #46
Let's Turn Pages -- Message #25 Original Goal Completed 9/18/25
Serial Reader -- Message #16 Original Goal Completed 11/5/25
A-Z: Women Authors -- Message #16 Completed 11/7/25
I Spy -- Message #525

Quarterly:
January to March -- Sad Songs -- Message #12 Completed 3/28/25
April to June -- A Pop of Joy -- Message #6 Completed 6/26/25
July to September -- Recreational Anger -- Message #4 Completed 9/25/25
October to December -- Here's to Fears -- Message #4

Monthly:
January -- Let's Get Cozy -- Message #16 Completed 1/27/25
February -- Time Warp -- Message #7 Completed 2/26/25
March -- Gastronomical Reads -- Message #4 Completed 3/28/25
April -- Child's Play -- Message #7 Completed 4/26/25
May -- Mothers & Others -- Message #8 Completed 5/28/25
June -- Sisterhood of the Traveling Books -- Message #7 Completed 6/26/25
July -- How Are You Getting There? -- Message #5 Completed 7/27/25
August -- Van Gogh for It! -- Message #8 Completed 8/26/25
September -- Down the Rabbit Hole -- Message #6 Completed 9/25/25
October -- Very Superstitious -- Message #6 Completed 10/29/25
October -- From Page to Halloween Parade -- Message #5 Completed 10/29/25
November -- Curious Companions -- Message #7
December -- White Wonderland

Readathons:
February 21-March 2 -- Team Prose Pros - Book Awards Completed
July 18-July 27 -- Team Bookworms Exploring - Through The Decades Completed

Personal Challenges:
Whitney's 2025 Book Challenge: 52 Books! Completed 9/4/25
A to Z: Titles

Personal Challenge -- A to Z: Titles

Progress: 23/26

✔️A: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Completed 3/2/25)
✔️B: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (Completed 4/5/25)
✔️C: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Completed 1/19/25)
✔️D: The Dry by Jane Harper (Completed 2/27/25)
✔️E: Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (Completed 8/21/25)
✔️F: From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper (Completed 8/4/25)
✔️G: Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (Completed 7/27/25)
✔️H: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (Completed 2/5/25)
✔️I: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (Completed 4/26/25)
✔️J: Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren (Completed 3/6/25)
✔️K: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Completed 7/24/25)
✔️L: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (Completed 2/18/25)
✔️M: Majesty by Katharine McGee (Completed 1/27/25)
✔️N: A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare (Completed 8/26/25)
O: Once Upon a Winter's Eve by Tessa Dare (December)
✔️P: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Completed 7/21/25)
✔️Q: The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens (Completed 9/4/25)
✔️R: Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory (Completed 3/10/25)
✔️S: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Completed 2/11/25)
✔️T: These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere (Completed 4/10/25)
✔️U: An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole (Completed 1/8/25)
✔️V: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins (Completed 7/26/25)
✔️W: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (Completed 7/21/25)
X: The XY by Virginia Bergin (December)
✔️Y: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez (Completed 4/19/25)
Z: The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (Currently Reading)

Planning for December -- White Wonderland

1. Read a book with a predominantly white cover.
The XY by Virginia Bergin


2. Read a book set in the snow or where the characters are trapped in a blizzard.
Once Upon a Winter's Eve by Tessa Dare

3. Read a book about a December holiday where the characters are celebrating in a warm or hot climate.

4. Read a book that features white animals or a veterinarian, doctor, or scientist who wears a white lab coat.

5. Read a book that another challenge participant has chosen, planned, or read for this challenge.

6. Read a book with “white” or a shade of white in the title, or by an author whose last name is White.

7. Read a book that explores a relationship that leads to a wedding.
Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James

8. Read a book with white flowers or clouds on the cover or in the title.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

Planning for 2026

1. A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria
2. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
3. Witches of America by Alex Mar
4. A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia
5. Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
6. Aspergirls by Rudy Simone
7. In the Woods by Tana French
8. Back in a Spell by Lana Harper
9. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
10. Along Came Amor by Alexis Daria
11. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
12. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
13. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
14. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
15. Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
16. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
17. It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
18. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
19. Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
20. Inheritance by Katharine McGee
21. Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
22. The Likeness by Tana French
23. The Situationship by Abby Jimenez
24. Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle
25. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
26. Mate by Ali Hazelwood
27. While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory
28. Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev
29. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
30. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
31. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
32. Jagged by Lauren Dane
33. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
34. The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
35. Taken by Dee Henderson
36. The One That Got Away by Charlotte Rixon
37. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
38. The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore
39. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
40. Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare
41. Everyday Aspergers by Samantha Craft
42. Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
43. Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
44. A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare
45. Violeta by Isabel Allende

Planning for 2026

Based off TBR list in message above!

A: 5 options
B: 2 options
C: Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
D: Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
E: Everyday Aspergers by Samantha Craft
F: *
G: 2 options
H: A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia
I: 6 options
J: Jagged by Lauren Dane
K: 2 options
L: 3 options
M: 4 options
N: *
O: The One That Got Away by Charlotte Rixon
P: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Q: *
R: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
S: 2 options
T: 3 options
U: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
V: 2 options
W: 5 options
X: *
Y: *
Z: *

Planning for 2026

Primas of Power:
#2: A Lot Like Adiós (Primas of Power, #2) by Alexis Daria
#3: Along Came Amor (Primas of Power, #3) by Alexis Daria

Seven Days in June:
Seven Days in June (Seven Days in June Series) by Tia Williams
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends (Seven Days in June Series) by Tia Williams

Practical Magic:
#0.1: Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1) by Alice Hoffman
#0.2: The Rules of Magic (Practical Magic, #0.2) by Alice Hoffman

Dublin Murder Squad:
#1: In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French
#2: The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2) by Tana French

The Witches of Thistle Grove:
#3: Back in a Spell (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #3) by Lana Harper

The Kiss Quotient:
#1: The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) by Helen Hoang

The Godfather:
#1: The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) by Mario Puzo

It Ends with Us:
#1: It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1) by Colleen Hoover

The Brown Sisters:
#3: Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3) by Talia Hibbert

Summer:
#2: It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2) by Jenny Han

American Royals:
#0.5: Inheritance (American Royals, #0.5) by Katharine McGee

Simon Snow:
#3: Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3) by Rainbow Rowell

Part of Your World:
#3.5: The Situationship (Part of Your World, #3.5) by Abby Jimenez

Bride:
#2: Mate (Bride, #2) by Ali Hazelwood

The Wedding Date:
#6: While We Were Dating (The Wedding Date, #6) by Jasmine Guillory

The Rajes:
#3: Incense and Sensibility (The Rajes, #3) by Sonali Dev

Earthsea Cycle:
#1: A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Killers of a Certain Age:
#1: Killers of a Certain Age (Killers of a Certain Age, #1) by Deanna Raybourn

Whiskey Sharp:
#2: Jagged (Whiskey Sharp, #2) by Lauren Dane

A League of Extraordinary Women:
#4: The Gentleman's Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women, #4) by Evie Dunmore

Canary Club Mystery:
#1: Miss Aldridge Regrets (Canary Club Mystery, #1) by Louise Hare

Spindle Cove:
#2: A Week to be Wicked (Spindle Cove, #2) by Tessa Dare