Big Books Challenge 2025

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58 participants (179 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least 15 books that have 500+ pages this year. Audiobooks count! Happy reading :)

Challenge Books

All books added
As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

As Good As Dead

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3

Holly Jackson

16 hours, 55 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

529 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

Wind and Truth

The Stormlight Archive #5

Brandon Sanderson

62 hours, 48 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Crank

Crank #1

Ellen Hopkins

537 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction contemporary poetry young adult dark emotional sad fast-paced
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

15 hours, 55 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science informative medium-paced
Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Heavenly Tyrant

Iron Widow #2

Xiran Jay Zhao

21 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Pirates of Aletharia by Britney Jackson

Pirates of Aletharia

Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1

Britney Jackson

16 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous medium-paced
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

571 pages • first pub 1847 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary romance dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

The Romanovs #2

Robert K. Massie

23 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

Heir of Fire

Throne of Glass #3

Sarah J. Maas

583 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark emotional medium-paced