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.

January: Read a book published or about the year you were born!

The da VInci Code by Brown, Dan
The Last House On the Street by Chamberlain, Diane
The Spectacular : A Novel by Davis, Fiona
The Four Winds by Hannah, Kristin
The Women by Hannah, Kristin
11/22/63 : A Novel by King, Stephen
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel by Kingsolver, Barbara
Cruel Beautiful World : A Novel by Leavitt, Caroline
The Great Believers by Makkai, Rebecca
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by McBride, James
Little Fires Everywhere : A Novel by Ng, Celeste
Crook Manifesto :  A Novel by Whitehead, Colson
To Die But Once : A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Winspear, Jacqueline
The Boys In the Boat : Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold At the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Brown, Daniel
They Called Us Enemy by Takei, George
We Ride Upon Sticks : A Novel by Barry, Quan
Where the Crawdads Sing by Owens, Delia
The Last Train to Key West by Cleeton, Chanel
Self-Made Boys : A Great Gatsby Remix by McLemore, Anna-Marie
The Day the World Came to Town : 9/11 In Gander, Newfoundland by Defede, Jim
The Stolen Marriage by Chamberlain, Diane
The Lions of Fifth Avenue : A Novel by Davis, Fiona
Last Night At the Telegraph Club by Lo, Malinda
My Sister's Keeper : A Novel by Picoult, Jodi
The Paris Agent : A Novel by Rimmer, Kelly
Survive the Night : A Novel by Sager, Riley
Swing Time by Smith, Zadie
The Help by Stockett, Kathryn
Attachments by Rowell, Rainbow