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.

July: Read a book you were drawn to by its cover!

When We Were Sisters : A Novel by Asghar, Fatimah
The Vanishing Half by Bennett, Brit
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Chambers, Becky
The Death of VIvek Oji by Emezi, Akwaeke
The Woman In the Library by Gentill, Sulari
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Hendrix, Grady
Pineapple Street : A Novel by Jackson, Jenny
On Earth As It Is On Television : A Novel by Jane, Emily
The God of the Woods : A Novel by Moore, Liz
How High We Go In the Dark : A Novel by Nagamatsu, Sequoia
The Vulnerables : A Novel by Nunez, Sigrid
Detransition, Baby : A Novel by Peters, Torrey
River Sing Me Home by Shearer, Eleanor
I Hope This Finds You Well : A Novel by Sue, Natalie
Latitudes of Longing : A Novel by Swarup, Shubhangi
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow : A Novel by Zevin, Gabrielle
Let's Make Dumplings! : A Comic Book Cookbook by Amano, Hugh
Never Whistle At Night : An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by
Alice Isn't Dead : A Novel by Fink, Joseph (fiction Writer)
Ghost Forest : A Novel by Fung, Pik-Shuen
Weyward : A Novel by Hart, Emilia
We'll Prescribe You A Cat by Syou, Ishida
Cats of the World by Shaw, Hannah René
Last Night At the Telegraph Club by Lo, Malinda
They Both Die At the End by Silvera, Adam
Harlem Shuffle : A Novel by Whitehead, Colson
Starter VIllain by Scalzi, John
The Friend by Nunez, Sigrid