Our 2025 challenge has arrived with fifty-two new prompts to delight and stretch your reading this year. Stuck on one of the prompts? Need ideas? We’ve created a Goodreads List for *almost* every prompt on this 2025 Reading Challenge to help you out!
How do the Goodreads Lists work?
These lists are an easy way to gather ideas and see what other 52 Book Club members are reading for each prompt. Use the lists to search for ideas and don’t forget to add your recommendations or final book choices to the list too.
Everyone is welcome to add to these lists!
Please note that some 52 Book Club members may interpret prompts differently than you, and that’s okay. Some of us like to be very literal and strict with our interpretations, while others prefer to get creative and think outside the box. Use these lists for helpful suggestions but don’t forget to double-check that the book fits your personal criteria too!
Another important note while using these Goodreads lists is that we are a global group. Sometimes a book might fit the prompt in one language, translation, or edition but not in another. (For example, prompt 36: “Final sentence is less than 6 words long.” A translated version of the book may fit this prompt in some languages but not others.) As long as at least one edition fits the prompt, you can read that book in any edition or format.
Mini Challenges & Bonus Prompts:
In addition, this page will be updated with the release of any 2025 mini-challenges — making it an excellent resource for the entirety of 2025! Feel free to add your book choices and suggestions to any of the lists below.
The 2025 Goodreads Lists:
1) A pun in the title
2) A character with red hair
3) Title starts with letter “M”
4) Title starts with letter “N”
5) Plot includes a heist
6) Genre One: Set in Spring
7) Genre Two: Set in Summer
8) Genre Three: Set in Autumn
9) Genre Four: Set in Winter
10) Author’s last name is also a first name
11) A prequel
12) Has a moon on the cover
13) Title is ten letters or less
14) Climate fiction
15) Includes Latin American history
16) Author has won an Edgar award
17) Told in verse
18) A character who can fly
19) Has short chapters
20) A fairy tale retelling
21) Character’s name in the title
22) Found family trope
23) A sprayed edge
24) Title is a spoiler
25) Breaks the fourth wall
26) More than a million copies sold
27) Features a magician
28) A crossover (Set in a shared universe)
29) Shares universe with prompt 28 *same list as prompt 28*
30) In the public domain
31) Audiobook has multiple narrators
32) Includes a diary entry
33) A standalone novel
34) Direction in the title
35) Written in third person
36) Final sentence is less than 6 words long
37) Genre chosen for you by someone else *No Goodreads list*
38) An adventure story
39) Has an epigraph
40) Stream of consciousness narrative
41) Cover font is in a primary color
42) Non-human antagonist
43) Explores social class
44) A celebrity on the cover
45) Author releases more than one book a year
46) Read in a “-ber” month *No Goodreads list*
47) “I think it was blue”
48) Related to the word “puzzle”
49) Set in a country with an active volcano
50) Set in the 1940s (Books that do NOT include WWII)
Set in the 1940s (Books that includes WWII)
51) 300-400 pages long
52) Published in 2025