2026 Reading Challenge

Massachusetts Center for the Book has a fun, unique reading challenge to take on in 2026!

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.
    • For February’s prompt, you can access the Genre Picker Wheel here!

November: Read an adult classic you’ve never read!

Sherlock Holmes: the Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I. by Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Dracula by Stoker, Bram
The Odyssey by Homer
The Outsiders by Hinton, S. E
I Capture the Castle by Smith, Dodie
Orlando ; A Biography. by Woolf, VIrginia
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Ray
Jane Eyre by Brontë, Charlotte
A Tale of Two Cities : A Story of the French Revolution by Dickens, Charles
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles
Crime and Punishment : A Novel In Six Parts With Epilogue by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Arthur Conan
One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez, Gabriel
Brave New World by Huxley, Aldous
To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee, Harper
Moby Dick by Melville, Herman
1984 by Orwell, George
The Catcher In the Rye by Salinger, J. D
East of Eden by Steinbeck, John
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John
The Fellowship of the Ring : Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, J. R. R
The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by Tolkien, J. R. R
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams, Douglas
Watership Down by Adams, Richard
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane
The Call of the Wild by London, Jack