2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Looking forward to a great year of reading!

January: Self & General Fiction

1. Read a book with a one-word title
2. Read a book by an author new to you

February: Gold & Plays, Poetry, Romance

Plan - Gold by Chris Cleave

1. Read a book with a two-word title
2. Read a book with the words Love, Heart or Valentine in the title

March: Birds & Mystery, Suspense

Plan - The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough or Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott

1. Read a book set in a place, real or imaginary, that starts with M
2. Read a book with the name of any type of plant (flowers, trees, grass, etc) in the title

April: Daisy & Western, Humour, Adventure

Plan - Daisy Miller by Henry James

1. Read a book that has the word "and" anywhere in the title
2. Read a book that has the name of any kind of animal in the title

May: Patterns & Female Authors

1. Read a book by a female author new to you
2. Read a book with a woman's name in the title

June: TBD & Fantasy, Graphic Novels

1. Read a book with a man's name in the title
2. Read a book set in the country where you live now

July: Heroes & Children's/YA

Plan - Heroes by Stephen Fry or Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre

1. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with J
2. Read a book set in a place that you would like to visit or revisit

August: Rust & Memoirs, Biography, Travel

Plan - American Rust by Philipp Meyer

1. Read a book whose title begins with A or An
2. Read a book with an eight letter word in the title

September: Forest & Science Fiction, Dystopia

1. Read a book with a main character who has a name starting with S
2. Read a book about a family-fiction or non-fiction

October: Supernatural & Thriller, Horror

Plan - Supernatural by GA Aiken, et al or Strange Spooky & Supernatural by Mike Browne

1. Read a book that's been sitting unread on your bookshelf (or TBR list) for more than a year
2. Read a book that has the word "old" in it

November: Names & Historical Fiction, Any Non-fiction

Plan - The Names by Florence Knapp or House of Names by Colm Toibin, All the Names by Jose Saramago plus each book has a name in it

1. Read a book that has more than five words in the title
2. Read a book with an author whose first or last name starts with N

December: Doors & Classics, Short Stories

Plann - Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris or Doors Open by Ian Rankin

1. Reread any book
2. Read any book for the first time

A-Z: AWARD WINNERS: by award

A - Audie Award - The Women, James, Cassandra in Reverse, The Light We Carry, Mad Honey, War & Peace, Local Woman Missing, A Promised Land, How Y'All Doing, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Project Hail Mary, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Kingdom of the Blind, Full Throttle, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Sadie, Children of Blood & Bone, Small Great Things, Homegoing, Hamilton, Jurassic Park, Hound of the Baskervilles, You are a Badass, David & Goliath, The Handmaid's Tale, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Roots, Teacher Man, Good to Great, East of Eden, Lost Light, Brick Lane, A Beautiful Mind, Middlesex, Tell No One, Pay It Forward, The Professor & The Madman, Grapes of Wrath, Sula,

B - Booker Prize - Girl Woman Other, The Testaments, A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Luminaries, The Inheritance of Loss, True History of the Kelly Gang, The Blind Assassin, Amsterdam, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Famished Road, The Remains of the Day, Oscar and Lucinda, Midnight's Children,

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D - Dublin Literary Award - Let the Great World Spin, My Name is Red,

E - Edgar Award - Code Name Verity, Paper Towns, In the Woods, Sadie, The Sympethizer, Mr Mercedes,

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G - Goodreads Choice Awards - Atmosphere, My Friends, The Women, The Wedding People, The Housemaid's Secret, Yellowface, Atlas of the Heart, Carrie Soto is Back, Crying in H Mart, Broken, Project Hail Mary, A Court of Silver Flames, Malibu Rising, The Silent Patient, The Testaments, It Ends With Us, All the Bright Places, Artemis, Go Set a Watchman, #Girlboss, Mr Mercedes, Life After Life, Doctor Sleep, Inferno, The Casual Vacancy, Steve Jobs, Fall of Giants,

H - Hugo Award - This is How You Lose The Time War, The Books of Earthsea, The Calculating Stars, The Graveyard Book,

I - ITW Thriller Award - The Housemaid,

J - James Tait Black Memorial Prize - The Road, Saturday, White Teeth, Experience by Martin Amis, The Mosquito Coast, Midnight's Children, Mary Queen of Scots,

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L - The Locas Award - The Calculating Stars, A Study in Sherlock, Ocean at the End of the Lane, Lavinia, The Graveyard Book, Changing Planes, Coraline, On Writing, Best Science Fiction Collection

M - Macavity Award - In the Woods, The Lincoln Lawyer, Maisie Dobbs, Blood Work, Dreaming of Bones, A Little Class on Murder, A Taste for Death, Where Memories Lie,

N - National Book Award - James by Percival..., The Round House, Behind Beautiful Forevers, Let the Great World Spin, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Holes, Cold Mountain, Arctic Dreams, Sophie's Choice,

O - Orange Prize - The Lacuna, The Lizard Cage, On Beauty, Larry's Party,

P - Pulitzer Prize - James, The Night Watchman, Hamilton, The Sympathizers, The Orphan Master's Son, The Road, Middlesex, Empire Falls, Interpreter of Maladies, The Wild Iris, Maus, A Thousand Acres, Driving Miss Daisy, Beloved, Lonesome Dove, The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath,

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S - Scotiabank Giller Prize - How to Pronounce Knife, Washington Black, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, The Polished Hoe, Mercy Among the Children, Barney's Version, Alias Grace, A Fine Balance,

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BIBLIOPOLY:

Corners
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents.
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes!
👮‍♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book.

Utilities
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.

Taxes
💲 5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover or in the title.
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title.

Community Chest
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)

Chance
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest number of ratings.
❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions.
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating.

Railroads
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, etc.
🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name.
🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B or O. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.)
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.

Purple Properties
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title.
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.
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Blue Properties
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or head wear on the cover or in the title.
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own.
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title.
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Pink Properties
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title.
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own.
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.
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Orange Properties
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel.
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own.
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title.
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Red Properties
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip.
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.
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Yellow Properties
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder, or a neurodivergent condition.
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title.
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Green Properties
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover or in the title.
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own.
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title.
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Dark Blue Properties
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?)
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BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES:

* An Author
* Award Winners
* A Book Genre
* Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
* Books-to-Screen/Stage
* Careers
* Diversity (in any of its forms)
* Favorites to Re-read
* Formats & Styles (audiobook, graphic novel, epistolary, etc.)
* Heritage & Culture
* A Hobby or Pastime
* A Listopia
* Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
* Mythology & Folklore
* Nature and the Environment
* A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
* Science & Technology
* Seasons & Holidays
* Title (starting with the same letter)
* Your Backlist (books added to your TBR prior to this year)

CLEAR THE SHELVES:

1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished.

2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.

3. Read a book you have started, set aside for a while, and now want to finish.

4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a monthly or quarterly challenge.

5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelter, Goodwill, etc.

FINDERS READERS:

Wordlist

Turning Points
accident
adopt
birth
career
change
choice
college
crisis
death
decision
divorce
engaged
father
first
foster
graduate
grief
growth
high school
last
marry
mature
memories
menopause
mother
moving
new
nostalgia
puberty
redemption
reflect
school
second chance
separate
transition

Holidays
apples
ballot
barbecue
basket
bells
candles
celebrate
costume
dream
earth
environment
feast
fireworks
freedom
gathering
gratitude
harvest
heart
honey
jubilee
love
luck
lunar
merry
nature
parade
pass
peace
rainbow
showers
speech
stocking
sundown
sweets
treat

Monthly Themes
birds
character
corrode
daisy
decay
design
door
ethereal
feather
firefighter
forest
gold
hero
identity
innocence
magical
medal
motif
name
pattern
portal
rescue
rust
self
soul
supernatural
threshold
timber
trees
wings

I SPY:

Covers and/or titles

1. In the awards - winner, Oscar, best
2. In winter - snow, Christmas, ice
3. In the forest - tree, bird, stream
4. In the kitchen - table, lemon, cup
5. At work - fisherman, housekeeper, driver
6. On the number line - one, two, three
7. In description - beautiful, dark, strange
8. In a group - order, herd, court
9. At night - sleep, moon, owl
10. In role call - Harry, Eleanor, Alex
11. In honorifics - miss, captain, master
12. In the ear - howl, scream, sound
13. In the eye - beauty, sky, sight
14. On the tongue - sweet, sour, taste
15. In the nose - floral, burnt, scent
16. On your skin - cold, rough, touch
17. In death - ghost, grief, inheritance
18. In geometry - circle, angle, diamond
19. In preposition - across, in, under
20. In geography - swamp, forest, desert
21. In your head - idea, madness, anxiety
22. In physics - gravity, energy, force
23. At the pet store - cat, cage, fish
24. On the screen - Batman, Lost, Severance
25. In a marriage - wife, love, home
26. In the ground - root, water, stone
27. In meteorology - storm, wind, sunshine
28. In chemistry - oxygen, element, acid
29. In a book - word, story, escape
30. On the go - train, ship, flight
31. At the apothecary - opium, poison, cure
32. In art - paper, color, stone
33. In the desert - sand, camel, bloom
34. In games - card, pieces, friend
35. In mystery - detective, murder, knife
36. In technology - phone, spaceship, mouse

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR:

Who: 0/7
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below fields.
1. Law (attorney, police, etc.)
2. Domestic (nanny, maid, etc.)
3. Performing Arts (theater, dance, etc.)
4. Religion (priest, rabbi, etc.)
5. Education (principal, teacher, etc.)
6. Visual Arts (painting, photography, etc.)
7. Finance (banking, accounting, etc.)

What: 0/7
What makes your case distinctive?
1. Gold in the cover art
2. A name in the title
3. A paranormal element
4. A tree or forest on the cover
5. A bird on the cover
6. Has a punny title
7. Written under a pseudonym

When: 0/7
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported (published)?
1. In autumn
2. In the daytime
3. In the 1900s
4. In the 2000s
5. Published in the decade you were born
6. During a business event
7. During a festival or holiday celebration

Where: 0/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
1. In or near a body of water
2. A school campus
3. In a forest
4. On the road
5. In a small town
6. On a train, plane, or boat
7. At a workplace

How: 0/7
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
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Why: 0/7
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. A favorite mystery author or series
2. A favorite mystery subgenre
3. On a Goodreads listopia (Which one?)
4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction (Which one?)
5. A challenged or banned crime book
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year)
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above

Bonus Cases: 0/8
After completing all 42 standard cases, you may become an Interpol Fugitive Investigator by solving a crime in each of the eight inhabited regions of the world.
1. Africa
2. Asia
3. Europe
4. Oceania
5. Caribbean
6. North America
7. Central America
8. South America

POPSUGAR 2026:

1. A book where gardening or a garden is central to the plot
2. A book that features a platonic friendship between a man and woman
3. A book you meant to read in 2025
4. A book that starts with the letter "Z"
5. A book about women astronauts
6. A book with an overweight main character whose story isn't about losing weight
7. A book about a granny hobby
8. A book about a sexless marriage
9. A book with a "type C" character
10. A book about a horse or with a horse on the cover
11. A book with a dad as the primary caregiver
12. A book with "pop" or "sugar" in the title
13. A book featuring a character with a hidden past
14. A book set in Michigan or written by an author from Michigan
15. A book about new beginnings
16. A book less than 260 pages
17. A book about your favorite event in the Winter Olympics
18. A love story that defies social boundaries
19. A book about teen angst
20. A book with a character who does Pilates or Lagree
21. A book about a bachelorette trip
22. A book about a book club
23. A book you were hoping would fit into a prompt but doesn't
24. A book about postpartum
25. A book that explores influencer culture
26. A book with a character who navigates infertility
27. A book with a character who has curly hair
28. A book about debt
29. A book that takes place during harvesting season
30. A travel ghost story
31. A book that makes you feel FOMO
32. A book with an underwater civilization
33. A book about college
34. A book with a trans or nonbinary protagonist
35. A book that makes you want to travel to Italy
36. A book about a mob (fiction or nonfiction)
37. A book about a pop star
38. A book with any type of fruit on the cover or in the title
39. A book with a character who runs a marathon
40. A book outside your comfort zone


Advanced Prompts

41. A book in a different format than your usual: physical, audio, eBook
42. A book inspired by a real song, album, band, or artist
43. Two books written by real-life partners or spouses (1)
44. Two books written by real-life partners or spouses (2)
45. A book that features birding
46. A sapphic comic
47. A book told entirely through letters
48. A book with a shadow daddy
49. A book with a mention of your zodiac sign
50. A book about Afrofuturism

PRISMATIC PAGES:

January: Blue

February: Yellow

March: Gray

April: Green

May: Patterns (evenly colored or patterned covers)
Title word examples: shade, hue, ombre, stripe, dot

June: Pink

July: White

August: Orange

September: Purple

October: Black

November: Brown

December: Red

READ & ROAM:

🔹 Begin your trip by reading any Award Winner.
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next reading destination from: one of its Genres, the Readers Also Enjoyed area, or a book that won the same Literary Award. (See note.)
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.

🗺️ Staycation Style: Each book is selected from the starting book's page in day trip or weekender fashion.

🗺️ Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.

Riddle Me This?

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with wind.
[Echo (hide spoiler)]


The more of me you take, the more you leave behind.
[Footsteps (hide spoiler)]


I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old.
[A candle (hide spoiler)]


What has many keys but can’t open any locks?
[A piano (hide spoiler)]


What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
[An artichoke (hide spoiler)]


I can exist in a single moment, yet I last forever. What am I?
[A memory (hide spoiler)]


I grow bigger the more you take away from me.
[A crater (hide spoiler)]
I’m light as a feather, yet even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold me for long.
[Breath (hide spoiler)]


I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish.
[A map (hide spoiler)]


What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
[A stamp (hide spoiler)]


I live in silence and vanish in noise.
[Silence (hide spoiler)]


What has one eye, but can’t see?
[A needle (hide spoiler)]


I go up and down stairs without moving.
[Carpet / rug (hide spoiler)]


I am taken from a mine, shut in a wooden case, and used by almost everyone.
[Pencil lead (graphite) (hide spoiler)]


What gets wet while drying?
[A towel (hide spoiler)]


What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?
[Time to fix the fence (hide spoiler)]


What kind of band never plays music?
[A rubber band (hide spoiler)]


What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
[Your left hand (hide spoiler)]


Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?
[Nothing (hide spoiler)]


I’m full of holes, yet I can hold water.
[A sponge (hide spoiler)]


I have a head, a tail, but no body.
[A coin (hide spoiler)]


I’m always in motion, yet I never get tired.
[The ocean (hide spoiler)]


I have hands, but cannot clap.
[A clock (hide spoiler)]


I can be long or short; I can be grown or bought; I can be painted or left bare.
[Fingernails (hide spoiler)]


I shrink smaller every time I take a bath.
[A bar of soap (hide spoiler)]


I can fill a room but take up no space.
[Light (hide spoiler)]


I am present everywhere yet can’t be touched.
[A thought / idea (hide spoiler)]


I have no beginning, no end, and nothing in the middle.
[A circle (hide spoiler)]


I’m sometimes white, sometimes brown, sometimes black, but never the same twice.
[A fingerprint (hide spoiler)]


I can’t be touched, yet I can touch you. I can’t be seen, yet I can be heard.
[Sound (hide spoiler)]


I am invisible, weigh nothing, yet if you put me in a barrel, it will become lighter.
[A hole (hide spoiler)]


What question can you never say yes to?
[“Are you asleep?” (hide spoiler)]


I am never seen but always counted.
[Breaths (hide spoiler)]


I move without wings, I roar without a mouth.
[A waterfall (hide spoiler)]


I have a bottom at the top.
[Your legs (hide spoiler)]


What kind of room has no doors or windows?
[A mushroom (hide spoiler)]


I go in hard, come out soft, and am never the same.
[Chewing gum (hide spoiler)]


I can be held but never touched.
[A conversation (hide spoiler)]


I am a path, but I never move.
[A road (hide spoiler)]


I fly all day but never leave my home.
[A flag (hide spoiler)]


What can you catch, but not throw?
[A cold (hide spoiler)]


I am used by everyone, but no one can see me.
[Time (hide spoiler)]


I can be long or short, narrow or wide.
[A road / path (hide spoiler)]


I am a bridge without planks or nails.
[A rainbow (hide spoiler)]


I can glow without heat.
[Stars / bioluminescence (hide spoiler)]


I have rings but no fingers.
[A tree (hide spoiler)]


What is red and smells like blue paint?
[Red paint (hide spoiler)]


I am always moving forward but never return.
[Time (hide spoiler)]


I can fly without wings, flow without water, and cry without eyes.
[A cloud (hide spoiler)]


I can hide in plain sight.
[Camouflage (hide spoiler)]


I am soft yet can break bones.
[Water (hide spoiler)]


I can shine at night but never during the day.
[The moon (hide spoiler)]


I can be cracked, opened, or thrown away.
[An egg (hide spoiler)]


I have a tongue but cannot taste.
[A shoe (hide spoiler)]


I have a neck but no head.
[A bottle (hide spoiler)]


I have teeth but cannot bite.
[A comb (hide spoiler)]


I can whisper without a mouth.
[An echo (hide spoiler)]


I am seen in water but never wet.
[A reflection (hide spoiler)]


I can fall but never get hurt.
[Rain (hide spoiler)]


What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
[Lunch and dinner (hide spoiler)]


I go up when rain comes down.
[An umbrella (hide spoiler)]


What has words, but never speaks?
[A book (hide spoiler)]


I am round, flat, or pointed.
[A coin (hide spoiler)]


What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
[A potato (hide spoiler)]


I am sometimes cold, sometimes warm, but never wet.
[Air (hide spoiler)]


What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
[An umbrella (hide spoiler)]


I can move mountains but am not strong.
[Erosion (hide spoiler)]


What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
[A teapot (hide spoiler)]


I can be frozen or boiling, yet remain the same.
[Water (hide spoiler)]


What has many hearts but no other organs?
[A deck of cards (hide spoiler)]


What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?
[Your name (hide spoiler)]


The more you take from me, the bigger I get.
[A hole (hide spoiler)]


What building has the most stories?
[The library (hide spoiler)]


What has to be broken before you can use it?
[An egg (hide spoiler)]


I am the start of eternity, the end of time and space.
[The letter “E” (hide spoiler)]

reserve

SERIAL READER (to start):

Serial Reader (to continue):

Serial Reader (to finish):

TBR JAR:

1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page.

2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page.

3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page.

4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page.

5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page.

6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.

7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.

8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.

9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.

10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.

11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.

12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page

13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.

14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.

15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.

16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.

THIS OR THAT?

1. Playlists or podcasts?
2. Shoes or slippers?
3. Pork or beef?
4. Swimming pool or beach?
5. Fruits or vegetables?
6. Cats or dogs?
7. Summer or winter?
8. Salt or pepper?
9. Cash or credit cards?
10. Cookies or chips?
11. Soda or juice?
12. Country or city?
13. Text or call?
14. Coffee or tea?
15. Black or white?
16. Driver or passenger?
17. Laptop or tablet?
18. Comedy or Horror?
19. Beer or wine?
20. Dine in or dine out?
21. Movies or TV shows?
22. iOS or Android?
23. Waffles or pancakes?
24. Early bird or night owl?
25. Football or baseball?
26. Trucks or cars?
27. Lunch or dinner?
28. Weekends or weekdays?
29. Pizza or pasta?
30. Friends or family?
31. Boys or girls?
32. Fiction or non-fiction?
33. Skiing or snowboarding?
34. Red wine or white wine?
35. Singing in the shower or singing in the car?
36. Organized or messy?
37. Costume party or pool party?
38. Music festival or art festival?
39. Mountains or ocean?
40. Ghost tour or historical tour?

ATY in 52 Books:

1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y - (e.g. Adult/ Audiobook, Travel/Thriller, Young Adult) - The Lost Continent, Into the Wild, Don't Let Go, A Court of Frost and Starlight, Lonesome Dove, Dune, The Tsar of Love and Techno, The Three Musketeers, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Gone for Good, Three Men in a Boat,

2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover

3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list - see next section

4. A book by a new-to-you author

5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025

6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears - The Odyssey, Wild Dark Shore, The Berry Pickers, Solito, Carrie Soto is Back, Homegoing, The Remains of the Day, The Splendid & the Vile, War & Peace, Into the Wild, Troubled Blood, A Tale of Two Cities, Blood on Snow, House of Earth & Blood, Gone with the Wind, Hamlet, Tess of the D'Urbervilles,

7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book - James by Percival..., The Eyre Affair, The Man Who Died Twice, Longbourn, Sleeping Murder, The Odyssey, Burial Rites, The Personal Librarian, The Language of Bees, Rodham, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Harlem Shuffle, Animal Dreams, Lavinia, Cold Cold Bones,

8. A book set in Africa - Death on the Nile, Homegoing, Cutting for Stone, Heart of Darkness, Americanah, , Asia - A Fine Balance, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Midnight's Children, The Garden of Evening Mists, The Mountains Sing, The Women, , or Australia - A Town Like Alice, Oscar and Lucinda,

9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title

10. An award winning book

11. A history or historical fiction book

12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white - Wild Dark Shore, There There, The Mighty Red, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The Life Impossible, Malibu Rising, Sula, So You Want to Talk About Race, Broken Country, One True Loves, The Housemaid, Then She Was Gone, The Thursday Murder Club,

13. An author's second/sophomore book - Middlesex, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Sula, Three Men in a Boat, Midnight’s Children, Salem's Lot, The Likeness, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, The Beet Queen, The Garden of Evening Mists, Infinite Jest, Queen of the Night, Night and Day, The Firm,

14. A book related to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh

15. A book you've wanted to read for a long time

16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters - The Remains of the Day, Project Hail Mary, The Undomestic Goddess, The Housemaid, Gone with the Wind, The Blind Assassin, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, North and South, The Thursday Murder Club, The Mystery Guest,

17. A book set in the wellness or beauty industries

18. A book with a location in the title - The Count of Monte Cristo, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, The Amalfi Curse, A Town Like Alice, Vinyl Cafe, Harlem Shuffle, The Library Book, To the Lighthouse, Cold Comfort Farm, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane,

19. A book related to yesterday - East of Eden, Gone With the Wind, Remains of the Day, Middlesex, Sula, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, A Tale of Two Cities, The World of Yesterday, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, Twelfth Night, The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Eyre Affair,

20. A book related to today - Solito, Today Will Be Different, The Wedding People, Holmes Marple & Poe, The Likeness, Now You May Weep, This Year It Will Be Different,

21. A book related to tomorrow - Project Hail Mary, Wild Dark Shore, Naked In Death, Artemis, Tomorrow Will Be Better, The Audacity of Hope, Tomorrow is Beautiful, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, This Time Tomorrow, Tomorrow's Promise, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Forever and a Day,

22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author - Crying in H Mart,

23. A book with a road trip or long journey - Project Hail Mary, American Dirt, The Remains of the Day, The Odyssey, Three Men in a Boat, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Into the Wild, The Grapes of Wrath, The Lost Continent, A Town Like Alice, Homegoing, Death on the Nile, The Elephant's Journey, Lonesome Dove, The Incredible Journey, The Road, Evening Class, The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry,

24. A book that is either frothy or gothy

25. A book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list - The Grapes of Wrath, The Bell Jar, The Counte of Monte Cristo, The Remains of the Day, Midnight's Children, A Tale of Two Cities, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Middlesex, Gone with the Wind, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, A Town Like Alice, The Odyssey, The Blind Assassin, The Brothers Karamazov, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Tin Flute, Cold Comfort Farm, The Day of the Triffids, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Doctor Zhivago, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, Invisible Man, White Teeth,

26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name - Remains of the Day, Solito, The Prisoner of Heaven, Doctor Zhivago, The Brothers Karamazov, The Emerald City of Oz, White Teeth, A Wizard of Earthsea, Fuzz, Americanah, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Zookeeper's Wife,

27. A nonfiction book

28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution

29. A vacation book

30. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Frontlist Book - My Friends, Wild Dark Shore, The Mighty Red, Dream Count, James by Percival..., Atmosphere, The Woman in Suite 11, The Life Impossible, We Solve Murders, More or Less Maddy, Death at the Sign of the Rook, Fox J C Oates, The Jackal's Mistress, Whistler, It's Not Her, The Hallmarked Man, Blood Moon, Tell Me Everything, The Grey Wolf, Fire and Bones,

31. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Backlist Book

32. A novella of 100-250 pages

33. A book with an Indigenous character or author

34. A book with a window on the cover

35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building

36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40

37. A book that includes a science topic

38. A book that's part of a series

39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie - Death on the Nile, Marple, The Great Railway Bazaar, Magpie Murders, Murder in the Mews, Whose Body,

40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gulliver’s Travels, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Handmaid's Tale, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, O Pioneers!, The Maid's Secret, Girl Woman Other, The Talented Mr Ripley, Midnight’s Children, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Tuesdays With Morrie,

41. A mystery or true crime book

42. A book set in an isolated location - Project Hail Mary, Wild Dark Shore, Into the Wild, One by One, Moby Dick, Into Thin Air, To the Lighthouse, Jurassic Park, Beartown, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek,

43. A book involving survival - Project Hail Mary, American Dirt, A Town Like Alice, Wild Dark Shore, The Grapes of Wrath, The Road, The Complete Maus, My Side of the Mountain, Holes, Doctor Zhivago, The Odyssey, The Mountains Sing, Into the Wild, Wind Sand and Stars, The Swiss Family Robinson, Jurassic Park, Gone with the Wind, Into Thin Air, Yellowface, The Incredible Journey, Dear Edward,

44. A book with a symbol of death on the cover - Hamlet, Death at the Sign of the Rook, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Solomon Gursky Was Here, In the Time of the Butterflies, The Gunslinger, Marble Hall Murders, Coraline, Dark Matter, To Fetch a Thief,

45. A book connected to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

46. A book that is not a novel

47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title

48. A book with something edible in the title - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, The Berry Pickers, Like Water for Chocolate, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, The Grapes of Wrath, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Mad Honey, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Serviceberry, Baking Cakes in Kigali,

49. A second book for your favorite prompt

50. A book with a bird on its cover

51. A book published in 2026

52. A book related to the name of one of Santa's reindeer - The Splendid and the Vile, Invisible Man, Gone with the Wind, To the Lighthouse, Into the Wild, Project Hail Mary, The Mighty Red, Arctic Dreams, Solito, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, The Illegal, The Night Watch, Midnight's Children, Dune, North and South,

Suggestions That Didn't Make It In:

A book with a main character who is an outsider
A biography or memoir
A book with a main character that has a pet
A book involving a fork in the road or a life changing decision
A traditional or contemporary western
A book set primarily underground
A book based on or related to a "legend"
A book you would consider a classic
A book with a title that includes a family relationship word
A book with an urban setting
A book about people trapped together
A book about something that gets your heart racing
A book about science
A book set in or near the Caribbean
A book title that includes a piece of clothing
A book set during the time of the American Revolution. (1775 - 1783)
A book with a character dealing with birth or rebirth
A book related to the Declaration of Independence
A book with the word friend in the description
A book with a desert setting
A book that has to do with a favorite animal
A book with a “green” topic or character
A book with the word "and" or "or" in the title
A book connected to the Middle East in some way
A book that deals with REM's It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I feel fine)
A book set at a school, college, or university
A book by an author who shares one of your initials
A book with a fraction in the title
A book with an embossed cover or raised lettering
A book from a publishing company, the logotype of which depicting a tangible thing
A book that is related to one of the group’s moderators
A book written in or set in the eighteenth century
A book on one of Goodreads New Releases by Genre page
A mystery without a murder or death
A book with a symbol of death on the cover
A book with an alliteration in author name or title
A book with a challenge or competition, such as a marathon, contest, or campaign
A book with a character who has an unusual, uncommon, or "extinct" occupation
A book connected to iron
A book featured as a Book of the Month Club pick
2 Weeks: Two books where the first word of the second title is the same as the last word of the first title
2 Weeks: Two books where the last name of one author is the first name of the other
2 Weeks: One book related to hot and one book related to cold
2 Weeks: A book written by a male author that includes a love story, and a book written by a female author that DOES NOT include a love story
3 Weeks: One book related to a sharp musical note, one book related to a flat musical note, and one book related to a natural musical note
3 Weeks: One book related to planes, one book related to trains, and one book related to automobiles
2 Weeks: Two books, where the second book's title provides a response to or continuation of the first book's title
3 Weeks: One book related to the lion, one book related to the witch, and one book related to the wardrobe
2 Weeks: Two books where the second book's title contains a sequential number from the first book's title
2 Weeks: A book related to water, and a book related to earth
3 weeks: A book related to rock, a book related to paper, and a book related to scissors
2 Weeks: A book connected to RIGHT, and a book connected to WRONG
3 Weeks: A book set in the N+W hemisphere, a book set in the S+E hemisphere, and a book set in the S+W hemisphere
A poetic book
A book that may pair or connect to a certain architectural style
A book with a title that contains the name of a professional sports team
A book about obsession or desire
A modern retelling of an old story, myth, or fairytale
A book related to a current movie or television show
A book set in the opposite hemisphere from where you reside
A book with a writing implement on the cover
A book where someone's head or face is on the cover, but you can't see their eyes
A book with the name of a month in the title or in the author's name
A book with a lock or a key on the cover
A book with an author or character with a gender neutral name
A book with a title that contains a gemstone or jewel or by an author whose name contains a gemstone or a jewel
A book related to penguins
A book with a horse as a character
A book where the main character has an occupation that didn't exist before 1900
A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a courthouse, or another public building
A book where one of the characters is a ghost, a spirit, an angel, or an imaginary being
A book nominated for an award that values peace, cultural understanding, and related social issues
A book by the author who shows up most on your TBR but is so far unread by you
A book related to a national park
A book related to a lion, a witch, or a wardrobe
A book with an adult main character who is NOT in paid employment
A book which features royalty as main characters
A book related to “soul”
A book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list
A book that's title and author's first or last name start with the same letter
A book relating to television
A book written in the present tense
A book that features a horse in the title or on the cover
A book where being on a boat is important to the story
A book set primarily somewhere creepy or scary
A book whose title follows the "______ of ______" pattern
A sapphic story
A book that could fit the quote: “May you live in interesting times.”
A book related to a planet other than earth
A book set in a country bordering the Indian Ocean
A book set in one of the world’s great cities
A book related to the song “Singin’ in the Rain”
A book with a six word title
A book with an economically disadvantaged protagonist
A medical memoir
A book that starts and ends in different settings
A book with a character who does a necessary, but menial job in your country
A book with a sitcom character's name in the title
A book with a character who appears in more than one book
A book with both black and red on the cover
A book that is the last in a series
A hot book
A book with a setting that provokes the question, "Why did you go there?"
A book connected to one of The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
A book shortlisted for a Dublin Literary Award
A multi-genre or genre-blended book
A book with a musician character or author
A book inspired by or related to the Charlie’s Angels franchise
A book that includes a science related topic
A book with an immortal character
A book set in a desert environment
A book that has to do with a favorite animal
A book related to one of the five basic tastes (sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami/savory)
A book by a 2026 debut author
A book with an orphaned or adopted character
A book about wildlife or nature conservation
A book tagged by Goodreads readers as Literary Fiction
A book with a character who has a trait related to one of Dorothy’s companions in the Wizard of Oz
A book either written by or featuring a “Nepo Baby”
A book with an intriguing first line
A book related to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh
A book that is one of the first 20 books on your Goodreads "want to read" list
A book suggested by one of the song titles from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
A Bildungsroman (coming-of-age) book
A book for which all of the words in the title start with one of the letters in OLYMPICS
A fiction or non-fiction book that could be considered a microhistory
A book that includes the "fish out of water" trope
A book about women crossing borders and boundaries
A book whose character has the same hobby or pastime as you
A book related to psychology, mental health or neuroscience
A book with the name of a planet or their moons in the title
A book with a title that contains a pun, a dad joke, or other word play
A book exploring personal or cultural identity
A book title that contains the name of a professional sports team
A book with twins, doppelgängers, or mistaken identity
A book with a rebel
A book with a trial
A book with a character who is searching for knowledge, love, courage or a way home
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2025 or 2026
A book about wildlife or nature conservation
A book exploring personal or cultural identity
A book related to medical science or health
A book related to baking
A book featuring a lawyer, politician or member of the clergy
A book that has been made into a movie
A book that relates to a river
A book with a cat on the cover
A book written in or set in the 1700s
A book with a character list or family tree.
A book about perceptions of reality or alternate realities
A book set in the west (however you define it)
A book set in an Olympics host city
A book on one of Obama’s reading lists
A biography, memoir, or autofiction
A book considered a space opera
A book that could earn you a Goodreads bookmark

Suggestions that didn't make it con't:

A book that is not a novel
A book that could fit three prompts on the list.
A book set in a NEW Place
A book related to one of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
A book with a photographic element on the cover.
A book that includes a “forbidden” topic in polite conversation - religion, politics, sex or money.
A book that was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in any year
A book whose cover is divided or split in half
A book with a word for a family member in the title
A book related to observation, experimentation, or inquiry
A book with a First Responder as a featured character
A book with a character with one of the jobs in the song 40 Hour Week (for a livin') by Alabama
A book that takes place in a country/place along the path of totality for the 2026 solar eclipse
A book involving pirates, puppies, parrots, penguins, or pachyderms
A book with a main character who is a teacher, instructor, or professor
A book related to iron or steel
A book related to a park, such as a national, state, provincial, urban, castle, amusement or skate park
A book with a main character who has power(s)
A book that quotes or references another work in its title
A book where the main characters are siblings
A book featuring a party or festival
A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
A book about books
A book with a character who is passing
A book you read in a -ber month
A magical realism or magical book
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2025 or 2026
A book about a family or family relationships
A book that is either frothy or gothy
A book that won an international literary award
A book with characters in a club
A book that includes a “forbidden” topic in polite conversation
A book that is related to one of the group’s moderators
A book featuring a feat of engineering
A book featuring a writer or the craft of writing
A book that includes a single parent
A book set in an alternate history or an imaginary world/universe
A book with a character that's in the public domain
A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year
A book that fits a suggestion that was in the bottom of its poll
A book listed in any ‘Best Books’ list of 2024 or 2025
A book that would fill a favorite prompt from last year's list
A book with a character that has been orphaned, adopted or abandoned in any way
A book published at least 50 years ago
A book with antonyms in the title
A book that would fit the 26th prompt from any ATY52 year
A book that was banned or challenged
A book with a character pretending to be something or someone else
A rainbow book
A book where the main character has an occupation that didn't exist before 1900
A book with a character with a disability or chronic health problem
A book with a character who is an astronaut
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2025 or 2026
A book that takes place in a country/place along the path of totality for the 2026 solar eclipse
A book with a title that contains the name of a professional sports team
A book about a family or family relationships
A book with a missing person
A book about nature, climate, or the environment
A science fiction or fantasy book published after 2020
A book whose title does not contain the first letter of your name
A book about a woman crossing barriers, borders, or boundaries
A book related to the phrase "smoke and mirrors"
A book connected to a Time's person of the year
A book featuring a holiday that you don't celebrate
A book with a love story
A book with a character who isn’t alive
A "cozy" book
A book related to performance
A page turner
A book from any widely recognised list of your choice
A book where the main character is experiencing a transition
A book that features a chef or baker
A book about a social, political, or environmental issue you care about.
A book read by another ATY member in 2026
A book with a challenge or competition, such as a marathon, contest, or campaign

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Listopia Challenge:

Goodreads Most Popular in Past Decade:
1. Homegoing
2. Americanah
3. Talking to Strangers
4. Malibu Rising
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6. Atomic Habits
7. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
8. A Little Life
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10. The Testaments
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13. The Spanish Love Deception
14. Klara & the Sun
15. American Dirt
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17. Project Hail Mary
18. Beautiful World Where Are You
19. Carrie Soto is Back
20. A Promised Land
21. Bear Town


Best Survival Stories:
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Sophie's Choice
3. They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky
4. The Code of the Woosters
5. The Road
6. The Stand
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. Lucky
9. Cold Cold Heart
10. Vanishing Acts
11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12. Anna Karenina
13. As I Lay Dying
14. Babe
15. The Autobiography of a Face
16. A Bolt from the Blue & Other Essays
17. Beowolf
18. The Bell Jar
19. Brick Lane
20. Into Thin Air


Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only:
1. The Origin of Species
2. The Tipping Point
3. Packing for Mars
4. Gulp
5. Thinking Fast & Slow
6. The Coming Plague
7. The Botany of Desire
8. The Naked Ape
9. Bonk
10. The Brain that Changes Itself
11. Spook
12. The 13th Element
13. The Teenage Brain
14. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
15. The Disappearing Spoon


Best Horror Novels:
1. Cold Cold Heart
2. It
3. Salem's Lot
4. The Stand
5. Hound of the Baskervilles
6. Harvest Home
7. The Historian
8. Library at Mount Char
9. The Green Mile
10. The Passage
11. Bag of Bones
12. Turn of the Screw
13. The Road
14. The Day of the Triffids
15. Doctor Sleep


Books that Exceeded Your Expectations:
1. Gone With the Wind
2. Cane River
3. The Historian
4. The Forgotten Garden
5. Middlesex
6. The Pact
7. The Casual Vacancy
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9. The Road
10. Lord of the Rings
11. A Fine Balance
12. Loving Frank
13. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
14. Fall of Giants
15. The Distant Hours
16. The Sound & the Fury
17. Cutting for Stone
18. The Road
19. The Silmarillion
20. The Last Thing He Told Me


Humourous Memoirs & Non-Fiction:
1. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2. Naked
3. Bonk
4. When You are Engulfed in Flames
5. The Botany of Desire
6. Magical Thinking
7. This is Where I Leave You
8. Britt-Marie Was Here
9. Into Thin Air
10. Hokkaido Highway Blues
11. This is Where I Leave You
12. Stupid White Men
13. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
14. Broken


You Read a Book About What?
1. The Professor & the Madman
2. Spook
3. Steve Jobs
4. The Brain that Changes Itself
5. Color
6. Naked
7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
8. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
9. Bonk
10. All the President's Men
11. Educated
12. Blink
13. The Onion Field
14. From Scratch
15. The Disappearing Spoon


Books I would Require if I Taught an English Lit Class:
1. Hamlet
2. The Handmaid's Tale
3. The Sound & the Fury
4. Beautiful Losers
5. Grapes of Wrath
6. Conversations with Myself
7. Sherlock Holmes
8. Middlesex
9. The Brothers Karamazov
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12. East of Eden
13. Gone With the Wind
14. As I Lay Dying
15. Dune


Female Psychological Thrillers Suspense Written by Women:
1. Now You See Me
2. Behind Closed Doors
3. Fingersmith
4. Promise Not to Tell
5. Island of Lost Girls
6. In The Woods
7. Find Her
8. The Wife Between Us
9. Vanishing Girls
10. V is for Vengence
11. The Lying Game
12. The Wonder
13. Find Her
14. Fingersmith
15. The Good Girl


100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime:
1. Death on the Nile
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes/ The Hound of the Baskervilles
3.
4. The Name of the Rose
5. In The Woods
6. Killing Floor
7. Get Shorty
8. Tell No One
9. How the Light Gets In
10. Cutting for Stone
11. The DaVinci Code
12. A Great Reckoning
13. The Historian
14. As I Lay Dying
15. The Eyre Affair
16. The Silent Patient
17. Natchez Burning
18. The Godfather
19. The Postman Always Rings Twice
20. None of This is True


Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men:
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Americanah
4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
5. White Teeth
6. Cutting for Stone
7. Life After Life
8. The Wives of Henry VIII
9. On Beauty
10. A Fine Balance
11. A Wizard of Earth Sea
12. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
13. Good Morning Midnight
14. Spook
15. The Wild Iris
16. The Casual Vacancy
17. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
18. A God in Ruins
19. The Beauty of Humanity Movement
20. The Blind Assassin

Major Award Winning Fiction Since 1990:
1. The Road
2. The Blind Assassin
3. Alias Grace
4.
5. Sea of Poppies
6. The Secret River
7. Middlesex
8. The Casual Vacancy
9. The Luminaries
10. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
11. Galore
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. Life After Life
14. Fingersmith
15. White Teeth
16. When We Were Orphans
17. On Beauty
18. The Lacuna
19. Fight Club
20. My Name is Red


Best Books to read When Snow is Falling:
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. Night Road
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. We Were Liars
5. The Peach Keeper
6. The Luminaries
7. The Other Boleyn Girl
8. The Distant Hours
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Picture Perfect
11. Winter Garden
12. The Name of the Rose
13. The Historian
14. The Stand
15. The Two Towers
16. Picture Perfect
17. The Constant Princess
18. Gone With the Wind
19. None of This Is True
20. The Last Thing He Told Me


Best Feminist Fiction:
1. Much Ado About Nothing
2. Fingersmith
3.
4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
5. North & South
6. Alias Grace
7. Lady Oracle
8. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
9. Loving Frank
10. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
11. Good Morning Midnight
12. Fried Green Tomatoes
13. To The Lighthouse
14. Sula
15. Americanah


Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List:
1. Crime & Punishment
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Two Towers
4. The Sound & The Fury
5. Julius Caesar
6. Hamlet
7. The Return of the King
8. The Grapes of Wrath
9. As I Lay Dying
10. Anna Karenina
11. Middlesex
12. The Name of the Rose
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14. The Count of Monte Cristo
15. Tuesdays With Morrie


Top 10 for the Reading Challengers:
1. Hamlet
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Stand
4. Sophie's Choice
5. The Road
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
7. Life After Life
8. A Fine Balance
9. The Secret Keeper
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. The Botany of Desire
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Middlesex
14. The Historian
15. The Forgotten Garden
16. The Two Towers
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. The Handmaid's Tale
19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
20. The Lost Symbol

Listopias:

The Prison Book Club Discussed Books:
1. A Fine Balance
2. An Ice-cream War
3. The Tipping Point
4. Blink
5. Outliers
6. Alias Grace
7. Someone Knows My Name
8. The Road
9. Don Quixote
10. Saturday
11. The Zookeeper's Wife
12. The Road
13. Dreams from my Father
14. Things I've Been Silent About
15. Saturday


Favourite Travel Books:
1. Color
2. Honeymoon in Purdah
3. The Lost Girls
4. The Voluntourist
5. Out of Africa
6. Fresh Air Fiend
7. All Roads Lead to Austen
8. Maiden Voyages
9. Into Thin Air
10. Into the Wild
11. Hokkaido Highway Blues
12. Stephen Fry in America
13. Around the World in 80 Days
14. Three Men in a Boat
15. The Silent Patient


Oprah's Book Club Picks:
1. Middlesex
2. A Fine Balance
3. Songs in Ordinary Time
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
5. The Sound & The Fury
6. As I Lay Dying
7. Freedom
8. Cane River
9. River Cross My Heart
10. Open House
11. Pillars of the Earth
12. East of Eden
13. The Road
14. Anna Karenina
15. A Tale of Two Cities
16. Tara Road
17. Paradise
18. American Dirt
19. Olive Again
20. The Bluest Eye


Everyone's Read it But Me:
1. Middlesex
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Tuesdays With Morrie
4. The Road
5. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
6. The Fall of Giants
7. The Name of the Rose
8. The Forgotten Garden
9. The Stand
10. A Tale of Two Cities
11. Outliers
12. Blink
13. Hamlet
14. The Other Boleyn Girl
15. House Rules
16. The Tipping Point
17. The Historian
18. Gone With the Wind
19. Brisingr
20. 7 Habits


Around the World in 100 Books:
1. My Name is Red
2. Hamlet
3. Cutting for Stone
4. Crime & Punishment
5. A Fine Balance
6. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Beach
9.
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. The Glass Palace
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. The Secret River
14. The Girl You Left Behind
15. Anna Karenina
16. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
17. Shadows on the Rock
18. Sea of Poppies
19. Gone With the Wind
20. Into Thin Air


Best Multicultural General Fiction:
1. A Fine Balance
2. Cutting for Stone
3. White Teeth
4.
5. Family Matters
6. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
7.
8. Americanah
9. The Glass Palace
10. Interpreter of Maladies
11.
12. Q & A
13. The Constant Gardener
14. Save Fish from Drowning
15. Let the Great World Spin


Book of the Month Club Picks:
1. Swimming Lessons
2.
3. The Lying Game
4. Artemis
5.
6. Swing Time
7. The Wife Between Us
8. A Woman is No Man
9.
10. Calypso
11. The Queen of the Night
12. The Trespasser
13. The Wife Between Us
14. Ninth House
15.


Best Environmental Books:
1. Diversity of Life
2. No Logo
3. Fast Food Nation
4. The Botany of Desire
5. The Coming Plague
6. The Tipping Point
7. Sleeping Naked is Green
8. Sisters of the Earth
9. Small is Beautiful
10. The Milagro Beanfield War


The Orange Prize Winners:
1. La Lacuna
2. On Beauty
3. 100 Secret Senses
4. The Lizard Cage
5. Fault Lines
6. White Teeth
7. A Mercy
8. The Blind Assassin
9. Larry's Party
10. The Constant Princess


Pulitzer Prize Winners:
1. Empire Falls
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Road
4. Roots
5. Middlesex
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
7. The Wild Iris
8. The Road
9. Gilead
10. Less
11. Interpreter of Maladies
12. The Orphan Master's Son
13. Gone with the Wind
14. The Night Watchman
15. The Marriage Plot


Medicine & Literature:
1. Gulp
2. Cutting for Stone
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
4. Death of an Expert Witness
5. The Professor & the Madman
6. Bonk
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. An Anthropologist on Mars
9. The Birth House
10. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
11. The Coming Plague
12. Lucky
13. House Rules
14. The Brain that Changes Itself
15. Mountains Beyond Mountains


About Racism & Race Relations:
1. Me and White Supremacy
2. Why I'm no Longer Talking to White People About Race
3. The Round House
4. So You Want to Talk About Race
5. Noughts & Crosses
6. Americanah
7. White Rage
8. Dreams From My Father
9. Paradise
10. Homegoing
11. White Teeth
12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
13. Shake Hands with the Devil
14. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
15. The Fire Next Time
16. Dust Tracks on a Road
17. Eloquent Rage
18. Paradise
19. All Boys Aren't Blue
20. Pedagogy of the Oppressed


Are You Well Read in Literature:
1. Anna Karenina
2. Homegoing
3. Beowolf
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. Perfume
6. The Odyssey
7. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
8. Sophie's World
9. My Name is Red
10. Homecoming
11.
12. The Count of Monte Cristo
13. War & Peace
14. Beartown
15. Don Quiote
16. A Suitable Boy
17. Oscar & Lucinda
18. The Name of the Rose
19. Madame Bovary
20. Crime & Punishment
21. Kiss of the Spider Woman
22. Ghana Must Go
23. Smila's Sense of Snow
24. Whale Rider
25. The Brothers Karamazov
26. Of Love & Shadows
27. The Messenger
28. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
29. Cutting for Stone
30. The Garden of Evening Mists


Fargo Public Library's Tea Time Book Club:
1. Love & Ruin
2.
3. Homegoing
4. Small Great Things
5. The Handmaid's Tale
6. Unsheltered
7.
8. Love & Ruin
9. Chronicles of a Radical Hag
10. Rainbirds


Own Voices Books:
1.
2. Rich People Problems
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
4. So You Want to Talk About Race
5. Homegoing
6. Americanah
7. Me & White Supremacy
8. P.S. I Still Love You
9. The Rose & the Dagger
10.
11. Fingersmith
12. The House of the Spirits
13.
14. Always & Forever Laura Jean
15. Educated
16. Eloquent Rage
17. All Boys Aren't Blue
18. On the Come Up
19.
20. The Bluest Eye


1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die:
1. Crime & Punishment
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3.
4. Gone With the Wind
5. A Tale of Two Cities
6. The Brothers Karmazov
7. The Name of the Rose
8. Middlesex
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
11. Anna Karenina
12.
13. The Sound & the Fury
14. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
15. A Fine Balance

Listopias:

BBC The Big Read Top 100 Books:
1. Lord of the Rings
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. War and Peace
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Harry Potter
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Pillars of the Earth
9. Persuasion
10. Dune
11. Holes
12. Anna Karenina
13. A Suitable Boy
14.
15. Crime and Punishment
16. Noughts & Crosses
17. A Tale of Two Cities
18. Perfume
19. The Thorn Birds
20. Cold Comfort Farm


What Women Born in the 1960s have read so far:
1. Between Two Kingdoms
2. Thinking Fast & Slow
3.
4. Project Hail Mary
5. One By One
6. Outliers
7. The Book of Longings
8. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Olive Again
11. The Road
12. The Silent Patient
13.
14. A Woman is No Man
15. When the Stars Go Dark
16.
17. Winter Garden
18. Love - Toni Morrison
19. The Testaments
20. The Peach Keeper
21. A Promised Land


Books Mentioned in Reading Lolita in Tehran:
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. Not Without My Daughter
3. Beyond Good & Evil
4. Don Quixote
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. The Blind Assassin
8. Daisy Miller
9. A Room with a View
10. Moby Dick


Best Non-Fiction:
1. Outliers
2. The Tipping Point
3. Blink
4. Fast Food Nation
5. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
6. The Professor & the Madman
7. The Origin of Species
8. Moneyball
9. 7 Habits of Highly...
10. Color
11. Bonk
12. Botany of Desire
13. The Big Short
14. Thinking Fast & Slow
15. Spook
16. The Lemon Tree
17. No Logo
18. Good to Great
19. Lucky
20. Audacity of Hope
21. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
22. Naked
23. Packing For Mars
24. Tuesdays with Morrie
25. A Civil Action
26. What the Dog Saw
27. Beyond Good & Evil
28. Grit
29. The Brain that Changes Itself
30. Dance of Anger
31. The Coming Plague
32. Steve Jobs
33. The Sociopath Next Door
34. Into the Wild
35.
36. Shake Hands with the Devil
37. So You Want to Talk About Race
38. The Beauty Myth


The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read:
1. An Ice-Cream War
2. Crime & Punishment
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. Gone With the Wind
8. Anna Karenina
9. The Old Man & the Sea
10. The Name of the Rose
11. Dune
12. A Tale of Two Cities
13. Don Quixote
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
15. Perfume
16. The Bell Jar
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. The Road
19. Sophie's Choice
20. A Confederacy of Dunces
21.
22. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
23. A Wizard of Earthsea
24. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
27. Hunger
28. A Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist
29. My Name is Red
30. The Complete Maus
31. A Fine Balance
32. Fingersmith
33. White Teeth
34. Who Do You Think You Are
35. The Constant Gardner
36. The Beach
37. The Day of the Triffids
38. True History of the Kelly Gang
39. Middlesex
40. On Beauty
41. Infinite Jest
42. Narcissus & Goldmund
43. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
44. Family Matters
45. As I Lay Dying


Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2022:
1. Klara and the Sun
2. The Paris Apartment
3.
4. Fight Night
5. The Magician
6. Cloud Cuckoo Land
7. Chouette
8. Peaces
9. My Year Abroad
10. The Seed Keeper


Toronto Public Library Great Reads Vol. 3:
1. The Historian
2. Q & A
3. On Beauty
4. Saturday
5. The Night Watch
6. The Birth House
7. A Map of Glass
8. The Sea
9. Zorro
10. Arthur & George


Books that Stay with You Forever:
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. Jurassic Park
3. Falling Angels
4. Like Water for Chocolate
5. House of the Spirits
6. Sophie's Choice
7. Perfume
8. Crime & Punishment
9. Life After Life
10. A God in Ruins
11. Alias Grace
12. The Silmarillion
13. The Brothers Karamazov
14. The Historian
15. The Road
16. Tuesdays with Morrie
17. The Grapes of Wrath
18. The Two Towers
19. The Constant Gardener
20. Don Quixote
21. The Coming Plague
22. The Passage
23. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
24. Gone With the Wind
25. Dune
26. A Tale of Two Cities
27. The Handmaid's Tale


True Crime Books:
1. I'll be Gone in the Dark
2. Portrait of a Killer
3. Lost Girls
4. Bad Blood
5. Helter Skelter
6.
7. The Five
8. Furious Hours
9. The Library Book
10. The Onion Field
11. Bright Young Women
12. The Professor & the Mad Man
13. Red Notice
14. All The President's Men
15. The Orchid Thief


Best for Book Clubs list:
1. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
2. Middlesex
3. The Pillars of the Earth
4. Tuesdays with Morrie
5. The Other Boleyn Girl
6. The Road
7. Cutting for Stone
8. Grapes of Wrath
9. Gone With the Wind
10. East of Eden
11. Midwives
12. Loving Frank
13. None of This is True
14.
15. The Paris Apartment


What to Read Next:
1. City of Bones
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Coraline
4. The Other Boleyn Girl
5. Pillars of the Earth
6. Speak
7. The Lost Symbol
8. The Two Towers
9. City of Ember
10. Tuesdays with Morrie
11. Brisingr
12. Stargirl
13. The Graveyard Book
14. The Road
15. Looking for Alaska
16. The Stand
17. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
18. The Alchemist
19. Slumdog Millionaire
20. Return of the King


50 Books that will Change Your Life - Indigo:
1. East of Eden
2. Heart of Darkness
3. Clockwork Orange
4. The Remains of the Day
5. The Trial
6. Into Thin Air
7. The Talented Mr. Riply
8. Dubliners
9. Anna Karenina
10. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
12. A Confederacy of Dunces
13. Coming Through the Slaughter
14. Doctor Zhivago
15. Fellowship of the Ring


Best Books of 2020:
1. American Dirt
2. Klara and the Sun
3. Malibu Rising
4. Project Hail Mary
5. A Promised Land
6. The Girl with the Louding Voice
7. The Splendid and the Vile
8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
9.
10. A Court of Silver Flames
11.
12. Carrie Soto is Back
13.
14. Cloud Cuckoo Land
15. The Rose Code
16. Yellowface
17. The Women
18. The Housemaid
19. The Night Watchman
20. All Boy Aren't Blue
21. Apples Never Fall
22. Small Things Like These
23. The Personal Librarian
24.
25.


Books that Changed My World:
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Crime & Punishment
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Anna Karenina
6. Dune
7. Tuesdays with Morrie
8. The Odyssey
9. Hamlet
10. Good to Great
11. The Brothers Karamazov
12. Leaves of Grass
13. A Tale of 2 Cities
14. Perfume
15. Daring Greatly
16. DaVinci Code
17. The Origin of Species
18. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
19. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
20. The Road

Listopias:

Seasonal Reading Challenge Recommended Books:
1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. City of Bones
5. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
6. Pillars of the Earth
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Eyre Affair
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. The Historian
11. Fried Green Tomatoes
12. Like Water for Chocolate
13. Middlesex
14. Cutting for Stone
15. The Passage
16. Crime & Punishment
17. The Stand
18. A Tale of Two Cities
19. Perfume
20. Tuesdays with Morrie


Quick Reads Good Books:
1. Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Three Men in a Boat
3. A Wizard of Earthsea
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. The Railway Children
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
7. Cry the Beloved Country
8. Death on the Nile
9. An Artist of the Floating World
10. Zombie
11. The Bridge on the River Kwai
12. Speak
13. Smile by Roddy Doyle
14. Taking the Titanic
15. The Uncommon Reader


Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Bell Jar
3. Persuasion
4. Beloved - read series
5. Madame Bovary
6. The Second Sex
7. The Mists of Avalon
8. To the Lighthouse
9. The Feminine Mystique
10. The Vagina Monologues
11. I Capture the Castle
12. The Lottery & Other Stories
13. The House of Mirth
14. The Virgin Suicides
15. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
16. The Beauty Myth
17. Sophie's Choice
18. Possession
19. The Story of My Life
20. Orlando


Diversify Your Bookshelves:
1.
2. The Remains of the Day
3. The Children of Blood & Bone
4. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
5. Green Grass Running Water
6. Song of Solomon
7. Norwegian Wood
8. White Teeth
9. A Suitable Boy
10. Desdemona
11. Paradise - any Toni Morrison
12. Possessing the Secret of Joy - any Alice Walker
13. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
14. In Other Words
15. When We Were Orphans


Most Read Reading Challenges books
1. Yellowface
2.
3.
4. Mad Honey
5. Carrie Soto is Back
6. A Little Life
7. Good Material
8.
9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
10. Weyward
11.
12. The Frozen River
13. The Covenant of Water
14. The Berry Pickers
15. The Housemaid
16. None of This is True
17. The Silent Patient
18. First Lie Wins
19. The Only One Left
20. The Fury
21. Pretty Girls
22. The Mystery Guest
23. Bright Young Women
24.
25. Rock Paper Scissors
26. The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue
27. Before the Coffee Gets Cold
28. Starling House
29. Project Hail Mary
30.
and more


100 Years of Popular Books:
1. Death Comes for the Archbishop
2. Passing by Nell Larsen
3. As I Lay Dying
4. The Waves
5. Testament of Youth
6. Gaudy Night
7. Murder in the Cathedral
8. The Grapes of Wrath
9. The Library of Babel
10. No Exit - Satre
11. The Glass Menagerie
12. The Members of the Wedding
13. I Capture the Castle
14. Invisible Man
15. Giovanni's Room
16. Dune
17. A Wizard of Earthsea
18. The Bluest Eye
19. The Exorcist
20. The Stepford Wives
21. If Beale Street Could Talk
22. Shogun
23. Roots
24. The Color of Magic
25. Maus
26. The Satanic Verses
27. V for Vendetta
28. Possession
29. Into Thin Air
30. All About Love
31. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
32. Middlesex
33. Cloud Atlas
34. Into the Woods
35. The Road
36. Cutting for Stone
37. The Fifth Season
38.
39. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
40. Crying in H Mart
41. Fourth Wing
42. James - Percival Everett

Around the World Challenge:

1st Leg: North America
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Newfoundland -
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Quebec -
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Britain:

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2nd Leg: South America & Caribbean
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3rd Leg: Europe
Belarus -
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Iceland -
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4th Leg: Middle East
Afghanistan -
Iraq -
Iran -
Lebanon -
Oman -
Palestine -
Syria -

5th Leg: Africa -
Botswana -
Burundi -
Congo -
Djibouti -
Equatorial Guinea -
Egypt -
Ghana -
Kenya -
Libya -
Nigeria -
Senegal -
Sierra Leone -
Somalia -
South Africa -
Zimbabwe -

6th Leg: Asia
Afghanistan -
Cambodia -
China -
Hong Kong -
India -
Japan -
Kashmir -
Malaysia -
Nepal -
Pakistan -
Phillipines -
Russia -
Siberia -
Singapore -
North Korea -
South Korea -
Sri Lanka -
Syria -
Tahiti -
Tibet -
Turkey -
Vietnam -


7th Leg: Australia & Oceania
Auckland -
Brisbane -
Melbourne -
Queensland - Opal
Sydney - The Bat
New South Wales -
New Zealand -
Tasmania

Bookriot 2026:

1. Read a microhistory
2. Read a book featured on a “best book covers” list
3. Read a YA book by a Latine author
4. Read a novel with a main character who uses they/them pronouns
5. Read a nonfiction book about resistance
6. Read a gothic novel published in the last ten years
7. Read a sports book by a woman, trans, or nonbinary writer
8. Read a classic from the Zero to Well-Read Podcast
9. Read a romantasy book with a queer and/or BIPOC main character
10. Read a book recently adapted for film, TV, or musical
11. Read a book by a d/Deaf author
12. Read/try a recipe from a cookbook about a culture whose food you’ve never eaten
13. Read a nonfiction comic
14. Read a work of magical realism or fabulism
15. Read a book by a librarian
16. Read a queer picture book
17. Read a book about a cult or cults
18. Read a nonfiction book about AI or social media
19. Read a book by an intersex author
20. Read a book set in space
21. Read a genre (SFF, horror, mystery, romance) book in translation
22. Read a nonviolent true crime book
23. Read a book by an African author
24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!

1. Read a 2025 release by a BIPOC author. -
2. Reread a childhood favorite book. -
3. Read a queer mystery.
4. Read a book about obsession. -
5. Read a book about immigration - or refugees.
6. Read a standalone fantasy book. -
7. Read a book about a piece of media you love (a TV show - Where There's Smoke, a movie, a band, newspaper - The Morning After etc).
8. Read literary fiction by a BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ , and/or disabled author.
9. Read a book based solely on its setting. -
10. Read a romance book that doesn’t have an illustrated cover. -
11. Read a work of weird horror. -
12. Read a staff pick from an indie bookstore. (Preferably, from your local indie bookstore.)
13. Read a nonfiction book about natureor the environment.
14. Read a comic in translation.
15. Read a banned book and complete a task on Book Riot’s How to Fight Book Bans guides. -
16. Read a genre-blending book. -
17. Read a book about little-known history. -
18. Read a “cozy” book by a BIPOC author. -
19. Read a queernorm book. -
20. Read the first book in a completed young adult or middle grade duology. -
21. Read a book about a moral panic. -
22. Read a holiday romance that isn’t Christmas. -
23. Read a wordless comic. -

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What to Read in 2026:

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