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.

October: Read a book published by a Massachusetts Press

The Lioness of Boston : A Novel by Franklin, Emily
The Means by Fusselman, Amy
White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Diangelo, Robin J
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Calvino, Italo
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Wool by Howey, Hugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by McCullers, Carson
Capital and Ideology by Piketty, Thomas
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child : What People On the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity by
Get Off My Neck : Black Lives, White Justice, and A Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform by Hines, Debbie
The Evil Hours : A Biography of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Morris, David J
Wild Things! : Acts of Mischief In Children's Literature by Bird, Betsy
Fighting the Great War : A Global History by Neiberg, Michael S
Writing New England : An Anthology From the Puritans to the Present by
A Nation Under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles In the Rural South, From Slavery to the Great Migration by Hahn, Steven
Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic by Bechdel, Alison
To Save and to Destroy : Writing As An Other by Nguyen, VIet Thanh
Bad Habits : A Novel of Suspense by Gentry, Amy
Rachel to the Rescue by Lipman, Elinor
Jacqueline In Paris : A Novel by Mah, Ann
The Trial of Anna Thalberg by Sangarcía, Eduardo
One Writer's Beginnings by Welty, Eudora
The Innermost House : A Memoir by Blakeley, Cynthia D
Sipsworth by Van Booy, Simon
Sipsworth : A Novel by Van Booy, Simon
The Book Censor's Library by Al-Essa, Bothayna
The Book Censor's Library by Al-Essa, Bothayna
When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky by Verble, Margaret
When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance : Poems by Baez, Joan
When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky by Verble, Margaret