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This is the time of year everyone is setting goals and starting new things. Whether you’d like to read more or just want a fun way to inspire your reading this year, I’ve rounded up a bunch of new 2025 reading challenges that you could try. These will help you set goals and also expand your reading if you feel you’re in a rut. I’ve also included a few ideas for simple reading challenges you can do on your own!
2025 Reading Challenges to Inspire and Expand Your Reading Life
Goodreads is a popular place to keep track of the books you’ve read and the books you want to read. Every year, you can set a goal for the number books you want to read (and you can adjust it throughout the year!). At the end of the year, it will give you lots of stats and info about your reading. They also have mini challenges and badges you can earn from reading books from certain categories.
Story Graph Reading Challenges
Story Graph is a new way to track your books that provides lots of visuals many people find appealing. They offer a bunch of different reading challenges you can join along with other people, and as you track your books throughout the year, they will automatically apply to the challenges you sign up for.
The 52 Book Club’s Reading Challenge
This challenge encourages you to read one book a week from a list of prompts. But you can always just pick the prompts that fit your reading style!
Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
This one has you choosing a letter of the alphabet to inspire your reading. It works out to 26 books, one book every two weeks!
Chapter Adventure Keyword Reading Challenge
This is another challenge that gives you a lot of flexibility over what books you read. Each book you pick is inspired by a certain keyword.
Booklist Queen’s 52 Books Reading Challenge
This is another one that encourages a book a week, but she also says you can totally use one book for multiple prompts if 52 is too overwhelming!
ShelfReflection 2025 Reading Challenge
This reading challenge has 20 very specific prompts, and then an additional 25 more open ended prompts. You can do one or both!
Homegrown Learners 2025 Reading Challenge for Kids
This challenge for kids has a different prompt for each month.
ShelfReflection Kids’ Reading Challenge
Here’s another challenge for kids with 25 different prompts.
If none of these jump out, make your own challenge!
It’s 2025, and 25 is a nice round number, so you could make your goal to read 25 books total, which works out to about 2 books a month.
Another popular challenge people take on is reading your bookshelf. So many of us have books in our home that we haven’t read.
Here are some other posts I’ve written about reading:
10 Ways to Encourage Summer Reading
Tips to Find Time and Read More Books
Best Read Aloud Books for Kids
