Welcome to the final month of the Read With Lindsey 2025 Reading Challenge! Between the holidays and the red cheeks from the cold, this month’s theme feels spot on! We are excited to close out the year with some of my favorite prompts and to start looking forward to our new 2026 Reading Challenge prompts – I spent most of our vacation looking for deals on the books I wanted to read the first few months!
Over the past few years, we’ve read a few books that fit with this theme. Here’s the ones that received full reviews on the site:
- Apples Should be Red, Penny Watson
- The Blight Way, Patrick F. McManus
- The Great Divide, Christina Henriquez
- Holiday Romance, Catherine Walsh
- How We Work, Leah Weiss, PhD
- My Side of the River, Elizabeth Gutierrez
- No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
- The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
- Skipping Christmas, John Grisham
Looking for more? Here’s a few you might like:
Red Covers
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson
- Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
- Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld
- Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry
- Murder in Coweta County, Margaret Barnes
- Virgin River, Roby Carr
Red in the Title
- The Hunt for the Red October, Tom Clancy
- The Red Barron, Charles River Editors
- Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
- Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley
- Tom Clancy Red Winter, Marc Cameron
- Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
What books would you add to this list?
When I hear of the word red, I immediately think of Taylor Swift’s album (and no, I’m not a Swiftie) or so many country sons talking about red dirt roads or rednecks. However, one of my all-time favorite songs is “Red Red Wine” by UB40 – it was the song of my middle school years for some reason. I tried to avoid any holiday songs this year for our reading playlist. What would you add?
Grab the December reading playlist here.
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What I’m Reading
- Current print book: Cold Zero, Brad Thor
- Current audio book: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
- Book I’m most looking forward to: How to Be Okay with Nothing is Okay, Jenny Lawson
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