2025 Reading Challenge

With just a few days left, I’m excited to share with you the full Read With Lindsey 2025 Reading Challenge prompt list! You will see a few prompts repeating from 2024 Challenge, but I’m happy to include a few new ones – they are some of my favorite genres!

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The Schedule

As discussed a few weeks ago, I’m scaling back my very aggressive reading goal in 2025 to just 2 books per week. The weekly cadence will look like:

Sunday: Our Agenda complete with suggestions that meet the prompt category

Tuesday: Read With Lindsey Reading Challenge prompts

Thursday: Rotating articles and posts including our Monthly theme and wrap up

Saturday: Sponsored reads

Keep an eye on our Instagram account – any additional books I read will be reviewed there.

The Prompts

Before walking through the full list of prompts, I want to share some links you might find useful. To download a printable PDF, go here. You can also click on the images below and save the graphic for reference. And, like 2024, we will be posting additional graphics throughout the year for each month.

Monthly Themes

In 2024, our monthly themes revolved around holidays. I was looking to do something a little different this year and decided to go with colors instead. You can take this a couple of different ways – the color of the cover, or titles with the color included. It’s 100% up to you!

• January – White
• February – Pink
• March – Green
• April – Purple
• May – Yellow
• June – Blue
• July – Teal
• August – Coral
• September – Orange
• October – Black
• November – Brown
• December – Red

Weekly Themes

As a reminder, our weeks run Sunday to Saturday. Since months and weeks don’t always start on Sunday, some will start a little early. For instance, we will be starting Week 1 on December 29th, the Sunday before the first.

1. New Year’s
2. Over 300 Pages
3. Inauguration Day
4. Debut Release
5. With a Snake
6. Sports-Themed Romance
7. About Women in Science
8. By an African-American Author
9. Becoming a Movie in 2025
10. Mystery
11. Saint Patrick’s Day
12. Written in the Year You Were Born
13. By a Female Author
14. Historical Fiction
15. Set in a Bookstore or Library
16. New Release in 2025
17. Animal on the Cover
18. About a Horse
19. Memoir
20. Law Enforcement
21. Military Character
22. Memorial Day
23. By an LGBTQ+ author
24. Fantasy
25. About Slavery
26. Set in a Workplace
27. Set in Washington, D.C.
28. Beach Read
29. Set Somewhere on your Travel Bucket List
30. About a Birthday
31. By Your Favorite Author
32. Less than 200 pages
33. Fairytale Retelling
34. Coming of Age Novel
35. By a Writer You’ve Never Read
36. Fruit on the Cover
37. A Book You Read in High School
38. By a Hispanic Author
39. Set in a National Park
40. About a Teacher
41. Action/Adventure
42. Magical Realism
43. True Crime
44. Halloween
45. Western
46. By an Indigenous Author
47. Main Character is a Chef or Baker
48. Thanksgiving
49. Pearl Harbor
50. RomCom
51. Set Around the Holidays
52. Family Drama

Final Thoughts

One final item to consider – don’t let a reading challenge overwhelm you. If you get behind, that’s cool. Reading ahead? That’s cool, too. Don’t like a prompt? Just skip it! The prompts are really just to inspire your book choices and let you stretch outside your comfort zone. Some of my favorite authors were discovered because of a great reading challenge prompt. The most important part of the reading challenge is to have fun and enjoy it! Whatever you do, don’t let it make you hate reading.

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What I’m Reading

• Current print book: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas, James Patterson & Tad Safran
• Current audio book: Streets of Laredo, Larry McMurtry
• Book I’m most looking forward to: She Doesn’t Have a Clue, Jenny Elder Moke