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01 Mar 2025—31 Aug 2025
Overview
The spring/summer challenge will begin - on March the 1st.
Just to contextualize more, as there are a lot more people now than 6 months ago - these reading challenges are held twice a year, one through autumn/winter and the other through spring/summer. They're there to be a fun way to foster community and explore new books.
Principle of the challenge
For our second challenge, we wanted to try something with a bit of adaptability. The main challenge is a 9-squares challenge, where the idea is to read one book for each square.
But it you want more, you can also do the “extended” version, a 25-squares bingo where the 9 middle squares are the ones from the “main” challenge, and the outer rings are new ones. For this version you would play it like a classic bingo, where the goal is to complete rows/columns/diagonals.
Why this system ?
The idea is to have a easy/no-pressure challenge, and something more for people who want it. But 25 books for a challenge would be a lot for 6 months, so the bingo is some kind of middle ground so you can read more and still have “finished” the challenge. We thought it was more adaptable this way, but if you dislike it, please feel free to express it ! We’re still trying out things and seeing how it works.
Rules :
- Substitutions : If you are doing the 9 squares challenge, you may substitute one square with one of the outer ones. It shouldn’t matter as much if you’re doing the 25 bingo challenge, but if you really want to make a substitution, you can use one of the previous challenge’s squares.
- Special mode : Woman Power : You can do “woman power” mode and only choose books written by women.
- Series, repeating authors… : It’s up to you ! If you want to only read books by different authors you can add that rule for yourself, but we wouldn’t want to “discourage” reading series or such, so it's not an official rule.
- Interpretation : In the same idea as the previous point, the prompts are flexible. If you decide that “Royalty” means it should be in a court setting and not that one character is from royalty, you can read it that way.
Reddit Reading Challenge - Spring/Summer 2025
31 participants (612 books)
STARTS: 01 Mar 2025ENDS: 31 Aug 2025
Overview
The spring/summer challenge will begin - on March the 1st.
Just to contextualize more, as there are a lot more people now than 6 months ago - these reading challenges are held twice a year, one through autumn/winter and the other through spring/summer. They're there to be a fun way to foster community and explore new books.
Principle of the challenge
For our second challenge, we wanted to try something with a bit of adaptability. The main challenge is a 9-squares challenge, where the idea is to read one book for each square.
But it you want more, you can also do the “extended” version, a 25-squares bingo where the 9 middle squares are the ones from the “main” challenge, and the outer rings are new ones. For this version you would play it like a classic bingo, where the goal is to complete rows/columns/diagonals.
Why this system ?
The idea is to have a easy/no-pressure challenge, and something more for people who want it. But 25 books for a challenge would be a lot for 6 months, so the bingo is some kind of middle ground so you can read more and still have “finished” the challenge. We thought it was more adaptable this way, but if you dislike it, please feel free to express it ! We’re still trying out things and seeing how it works.
Rules :
- Substitutions : If you are doing the 9 squares challenge, you may substitute one square with one of the outer ones. It shouldn’t matter as much if you’re doing the 25 bingo challenge, but if you really want to make a substitution, you can use one of the previous challenge’s squares.
- Special mode : Woman Power : You can do “woman power” mode and only choose books written by women.
- Series, repeating authors… : It’s up to you ! If you want to only read books by different authors you can add that rule for yourself, but we wouldn’t want to “discourage” reading series or such, so it's not an official rule.
- Interpretation : In the same idea as the previous point, the prompts are flexible. If you decide that “Royalty” means it should be in a court setting and not that one character is from royalty, you can read it that way.
