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.

May: Read a book with a first sentence of eight words or less!

Horse by Brooks, Geraldine
All the Light We Cannot See : A Novel by Doerr, Anthony
Funny Story by Henry, Emily
People We Meet On Vacation by Henry, Emily
Blue Sisters : A Novel by Mellors, Coco
The God of the Woods : A Novel by Moore, Liz
Certain Dark Things by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
The Night Circus : A Novel by Morgenstern, Erin
Paradise by Morrison, Toni
Everything I Never Told You by Ng, Celeste
A Grandmother Begins the Story by Porter, Michelle
The Overstory : A Novel by Powers, Richard
Intermezzo : A Novel by Rooney, Sally
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Schwab, VIctoria
Butts : A Backstory by Radke, Heather
I Capture the Castle by Smith, Dodie
Invisible Man by Ellison, Ralph
A Shore Thing by Lowell, Joanna
Moby Dick by Melville, Herman
A Dark and Drowning Tide : A Novel by Saft, Allison
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous : A Novel by Vuong, Ocean
The Book Thief by Zusak, Markus
From Here to Eternity : Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Doughty, Caitlin
Good Material : A Novel by Alderton, Dolly
Parable of the Sower by Butler, Octavia E
In Other Lands : A Novel by Brennan, Sarah Rees
Remarkable Creatures by Chevalier, Tracy
The Lions of Fifth Avenue : A Novel by Davis, Fiona
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Harrow, Alix E
Under the Whispering Door by Klune, Tj
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Medina, Nick
I Hope This Finds You Well : A Novel by Sue, Natalie
Colored Television by Senna, Danzy
State of Paradise : A Novel by Van Den Berg, Laura
I Am the Messenger by Zusak, Markus
Ander and Santi Were Here : A Novel by Garza VIlla, Jonny
Final Girls : A Novel by Sager, Riley