2025 Reading Challenge

Massachusetts Center for the Book has a fun, unique reading challenge to take on in 2025!

Here is how the challenge works:

  • Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge, see below for this month’s suggestions.
  • After you read, fill out this form to tell us about the book.
  • That’s it!
    • If you read at least one book, you will be invited to a year-end celebration hosted by Mass Center for the Book.
    • If you read a book in each of the 12 months, you will be entered in a drawing to win 1 of 2 totes filled with books and Massachusetts goodies.

August: Read a book with a protagonist who is a teenager or senior citizen

Persepolis by Satrapi, Marjane
A Man Called Ove : A Novel by Backman, Fredrik
The Fault In Our Stars by Green, John
Our Souls At Night by Haruf, Kent
Elizabeth Is Missing by Healey, Emma
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry : A Novel by Joyce, Rachel
Foster by Keegan, Claire
Black Swan Green : A Novel by Mitchell, David
The Thursday Murder Club by Osman, Richard
A Tale for the Time Being by Ozeki, Ruth L
The Lido by Page, Libby
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Patrick, Phaedra
Killers of A Certain Age by Raybourn, Deanna
Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk : A Novel by Rooney, Kathleen
Shuggie Bain : A Novel by Stuart, Douglas
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Sutanto, Jesse Q
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good : [stories] by Tursten, Helene
Remarkably Bright Creatures : A Novel by Van Pelt, Shelby
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Blume, Judy
The Outsiders by Hinton, S. E
Olive Kitteridge by Strout, Elizabeth
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonasson, Jonas
The Catcher In the Rye by Salinger, J. D
The Marlow Murder Club : A Novel by Thorogood, Robert
Holes by Sachar, Louis
The Screaming Staircase by Stroud, Jonathan
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife : A Novel by Johnston, Anna
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May
Before We Were Free by Alvarez, Julia
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time by Haddon, Mark
Eleanor & Park by Rowell, Rainbow
The Hate U Give by Thomas, Angie
The Book Thief by Zusak, Markus
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Chbosky, Stephen
The Hunger Games by Collins, Suzanne
Fangirl by Rowell, Rainbow
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
Cemetery Boys by Thomas, Aiden
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Khorram, Adib
Dear Martin by Stone, Nic