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.

June: Read a book that spans multiple generations!

Salt Houses by Alyan, Hala
Behind the Scenes At the Museum by Atkinson, Kate
The Vanishing Half by Bennett, Brit
Greenwood : A Novel by Christie, Michael
Real Americans : A Novel by Khong, Rachel
The Historian : A Novel by Kostova, Elizabeth
The Great Believers by Makkai, Rebecca
North Woods : A Novel by Mason, Daniel
Held by Michaels, Anne
A Place for Us : A Novel by Mirza, Fatima Farheen
A Secret History of Witches by Morgan, Louisa
How High We Go In the Dark : A Novel by Nagamatsu, Sequoia
The Mountains Sing : A Novel by Nguyễn, Phan Quế Mai
Commonwealth : A Novel by Patchett, Ann
The Dutch House : A Novel by Patchett, Ann
A Woman Is No Man : A Novel by Rum, Etaf
The Island of Sea Women by See, Lisa
Memphis : A Novel by Stringfellow, Tara M
A Spool of Blue Thread : A Novel by Tyler, Anne
Cutting for Stone : A Novel by Verghese, A
The Covenant of Water : A Novel by Verghese, Abraham
Black Cake : A Novel by Wilkerson, Charmaine
Red At the Bone by Woodson, Jacqueline
The Good Earth by Buck, Pearl S
One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez, Gabriel
Homegoing : A Novel by Gyasi, Yaa
East of Eden by Steinbeck, John
Displacement by Hughes, Kiku
Everything I Never Told You by Ng, Celeste
The House of the Spirits by Allende, Isabel
Throwback by Goo, Maurene
Next Year In Havana by Cleeton, Chanel
Pachinko by Lee, Min Jin