70 Books in 2025

dbrousseau14 Host

11 participants (350 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Use the same book for multiple prompts or a different one for each. Clean out your TBR shelf with this challenge for super readers. Each prompt is one word. Take it and use it however you’d like. If the prompt is Blue for example, it could be the word blue is in the title, the cover is blue, a character’s nickname is Blue, etc. Have fun!
1. Anxiety
2. Baby
3. Blue
4. Books
5. Classic
6. Damaged 
7. Death
8. Dog(s)
9. Drinking
10. Early
11. Even
12. Fantasy
13. Fire
14. Future
15. Ghost
16. Healing
17. Immature 
18. Infant
19. Jacked
20. Jerk
21. Key
22. Language 
23. Learning
24. Love
25. Lunch
26. Marriage
27. Martyr
28. Masochistic
29. Meddle
30. Natural 
31. Need
32. Nine
33. NOLA (New Orleans)
34. Odd
35. Offer
36. Order
37. Over
38. Pain
39. Park
40. Psychic
41. Quiet
42. Quit
43. Random
44. Real
45. Risen
46. Romance
47. Rumor
48. Safe
49. Second
50. Suicide
51. Sun
52. Swim
53. Target
54. Technology 
55. Telepathy
56. Time
57. Tomorrow 
58. Tortured
59. Trapped
60. Ultimatum
61. Vacation
62. Vivid
63. Warm
64. Wedding
65. Whiskey
66. Windfall
67. Wisdom
68. Wood
69. Yacht
70. Zealot

Challenge Books

All books added
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Incidents Around the House

Josh Malerman

367 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction horror dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

182 pages • paperback • 1959

fiction classics horror literary dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Luminaries by Susan Dennard

The Luminaries

The Luminaries #1

Susan Dennard

294 pages • digital • 2022

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

The Woman in Black

Susan Hill

200 pages • paperback • 1983

fiction classics horror mystery dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Bully by Penelope Douglas

Bully

Fall Away #1

Penelope Douglas

333 pages • paperback • 2013

fiction contemporary romance dark emotional tense medium-paced
Hitched by Lauren Biel

Hitched

Ride or Die Romances #1

Lauren Biel

256 pages • digital • 2023

fiction romance thriller dark tense fast-paced
Elf'd: Spicy Holiday Monster Erotica by Ginger Kane

Elf'd: Spicy Holiday Monster Erotica

Holly Gets... #1

Ginger Kane

36 pages • digital • 2021 user-added

fiction erotica fantasy funny lighthearted fast-paced
Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

Scythe & Sparrow

Ruinous Love #3

Brynne Weaver

390 pages • paperback • 2025

fiction contemporary romance dark emotional funny medium-paced
Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

Leather & Lark

Ruinous Love #2

Brynne Weaver

390 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction contemporary romance dark emotional funny medium-paced
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

180 pages • paperback • 1925

fiction classics literary reflective medium-paced