25 in 2025

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33 participants (176 books)

01 Jan 2025—01 Jan 2026

Overview

Commit to reading 25 books in 2025 you've always told yourself you wanted to - but haven't yet: big books, daunting classics, those books your friends won't stop talking about, or those books that have been haunting your shelf . . . 

Challenge Books

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So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens

So This Is Ever After

F.T. Lukens

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance young adult adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

Chip Jones

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction health history science challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

334 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical horror dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

The Screaming Staircase

Lockwood & Co. #1

Jonathan Stroud

400 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery young adult adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
The Lost Coast by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman

The Lost Coast

Clay Edison #5

Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman

354 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction crime mystery thriller adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown

The Wild Robot Escapes

The Wild Robot #2

Peter Brown

278 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction middle grade science fiction adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses

A Court of Thorns and Roses #1

Sarah J. Maas

419 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Gryphon's Pride by Kaye Draper

Gryphon's Pride

Gesa's Menagerie #1

Kaye Draper

133 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fantasy adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan

Things We Say in the Dark

Kirsty Logan

155 pages • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced