This challenge is to broaden your reading and/or chip away at your To-Be-Read list in serious fashion. I do not reference other online challenges to decide each year's tasks. Any duplication is purely coincidence. The intent of this challenge is one book per week, for the year 2025. You can count these books for other challenges if you like, or count books from other challenges. And you can also choose to count a book in more than one category if you really want to, but the real spirit of the game is 52 books.

I write a blog about the books everyone chose. Only books you read in 2025 count, but I'll leave it to you if one started in 2024 and finished in 2025 counts. Likewise, you can begin the challenge at any time in the year and retroactively count books you've already read in 2025.

You do not have to participate via StoryGraph. I'll accept entries via social media (I'm actively following Litsy, so do let me know if you are elsewhere!), links to documents and spreadsheets, e-mails on my blog contact form, etc. You can find links to the various submission options on my new year's day post, including printable sheets and shareable social media images. 

What books you read is dependent partly on your tastes and reading ability. Therefore, all book formats are permitted (audiobook, ebook, physical book, etc), and all sorts of book-ish things - comic books, manga, picture books, plays, poetry collections, movie scripts, etc. As long as you think of it as a book, you can count it, no matter how you go about reading it. This challenge is meant to be all-ages - you can bend the prompts to make them more age-appropriate where necessary.

Happy Reading!