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.

September: Read a book told in non-chronological order!

Anxious People : A Novel by Backman, Fredrik
Horse by Brooks, Geraldine
The Book of Doors : A Novel by Brown, Gareth
All the Light We Cannot See : A Novel by Doerr, Anthony
Cloud Cuckoo Land : A Novel by Doerr, Anthony
A VIsit From the Goon Squad by Egan, Jennifer
The Candy House : A Novel by Egan, Jennifer
This Is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar, Amal
Gone Girl : A Novel by Flynn, Gillian
Of Women and Salt by Garcia, Gabriela
A Good Life : A Novel by Grimaldi, VIrginie
Little Gods : A Novel by Jin, Meng
Before the Coffee Gets Cold : A Novel by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
11/22/63 : A Novel by King, Stephen
The Atlas of Reds and Blues : A Novel by Laskar, Devi S
Station Eleven : A Novel by Mandel, Emily St. John
Wrong Place Wrong Time : A Novel by McAllister, Gillian
The Silent Patient by Michaelides, Alex
Oona Out of Order by Montimore, Margarita
The Night Circus : A Novel by Morgenstern, Erin
Tom Lake : A Novel by Patchett, Ann
The God of Small Things by Roy, Arundhati
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Schwab, VIctoria
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev : A Novel by Walton, Dawnie
Project Hail Mary : A Novel by Weir, Andy
Pageboy : A Memoir by Page, Elliot
The Time Traveler's Wife by Niffenegger, Audrey
Kindred by Butler, Octavia E
Beloved : A Novel by Morrison, Toni
Twenty-Four Seconds From Now. . . : A Love Story by Reynolds, Jason