#reading challenge 2025

[missameliep]

Reading Challenge 2025

1 year - 25 books

Conceição Evaristo - Canção para ninar menino grande

Abandonar um gato: O que falo quando falo do meu pai - por Haruki Murakami

Se os gatos desaparecessem do mundo - Genki Kawamura

Fim - Fernanda Torres (here's a wonderful interview with the author in Portuguese talking about the book and the tv series based on it)

Lugar de fala - Djamila Ribeiro

A glória e seu cortejo de horrores - Fernanda Torres (i already loved Fernanda's humor and acting skills, now I'm absolutely in love with her writing 🩷)

O Crime do Cais do Valongo - Eliane Alves Cruz

A ilha das árvores perdidas (The island of missing trees) - Elik Shafak (what a fabulous book!)

A Canção de Aquiles (The song of Achilles) - Madeline Miller

Torto arado - Itamar Vieira Junior

Os sete maridos de Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Feliz ano velho - Marcelo Rubens Paiva

Currently reading:

O Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

A mão esquerda da escuridão - Ursula K Le Guin

[sage-nebula]

Reading Challenge 2025 Progress Update

Books I Have Read So Far:

City of Blades - Robert Jackson Bennett

City of Miracles - Robert Jackson Bennett

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Under the Whispering Door - TJ Klune

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

You Like it Darker - Stephen King

Funny Story - Emily Henry

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Books I Am Reading:

The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett

Books To-Read:

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett

All Systems Red - Martha Wells

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

The God of the Woods - Liz Moore

Books I Gave Up On:

The Bones Beneath My Skin - TJ Klune

[delirantesko]

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Tenho que ler Gilgamesh e livros sobre a mitologia hindu depois desse.

[queerveganbooknerd]

Book 41 of 2025

This one came with some controversy on Goodreads. I enjoyed it, though I found it a bit confusing and there were a few (seemingly unexplained, but maybe just missed by me) inconsistencies.

[sminkus]

my progress thus far for @batmanisagatewaydrug ‘s reading challenge >:)

there’s more sci-fi than i usually read bcoz i am taking a sci-fi class rn ^w^

20th C speculative fiction: the ones who walk away from omelas

published before 1950: the machine stops

sci-fi: roadside picnic

2024 award winner: the berry pickers

nonfiction: the soul of a stranger

i’m going to try and finish whipping girl (for social justice/activism) or careless people (for memoir) next. the book/prompt i’m most excited for is 2025 debut authors— i’m going to read florida palms when it comes out in july. i’m going to a book festival soon (iykyk) so hopefully i can find some books that fulfill some of the prompts there (especially bookseller rec)

[gatergirl79]

[swden-bookelves]

Reading Challenge

Neues Jahr, dieselbe Challenge.

30 Bücher in 365 Tagen. Let's Go!

aktuelles Buch:

Gesamt: 15

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Verliebte Weihnachten

Tracy Chevalier: das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Skandal im Café Lomo

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Tatort Filmset

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Party des Grauens

Penelope Douglas: Birthday Girl

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Filmstar in Gefahr

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Skandal auf dem Laufsteg

Lisa Kleypas: Die Wallflowers - Annabelle & Simon

Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù: Heaven Official's Blessing Light Novel 01: Blumensuchender Blutregen

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Freundinnen in Gefahr!: Verlorenes Herz (#50.1)

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Freundinnen in Gefahr!: Spuren der Vergangenheit (#50.2)

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: Freundinnen in Gefahr!: Falsche Freunde (#50.3)

Die Drei Ausrufezeichen: der Fall Dornröschen

Elise Kova: Air Awoken (Die Chroniken von Solaris, #1)

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The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge

Welcome to another year of the Fanfic Reading Challenge (FRC)!

I won't bore you with the history of the challenge, this year, but I will welcome you to check out past posts that do explain some of it, as well as include a brief overview of what, exactly, this challenge is, though it does change year to year. (Essentially you read fics to complete goals and win bragging points and an artsy badge.)

This year is especially different, as I had the extreme pleasure of having @noxsoulmate as a partner in crime in keeping me hostage on track to completing this year's FRC. Another valued member of the mod team is @jandjsalmon and speaks for all of us if you need questions answered!

As for the challenge....

This is, indeed, a challenge. Of course.

First of all... you must obviously read fanfiction. As if you don't already!

You also need to download and make your own copy of the spreadsheet, which can be found here, as well as below in the important links section.

To participate in the challenge, you read fics that match the tasks in the challenge. An example of a task can be: "read a fic with a title containing the word purple in it." Should be easy! Of course, there are harder ones.

Which is why there are different modes of challenge to the FRC. These are as follows:

Participation (Complete 1 task)

Regular Mode (Complete 80 tasks)

Hard Mode (Complete 150 tasks)

Extreme Mode (Complete 220 tasks)

Complete (Complete 250 tasks)

The challenge lasts from January 1st, 2025, to December 31st, 2025.

There are badges that go with the modes completed, and even a secret 6th badge that will be fairly obvious if you look at the spreadsheet! Doesn't mean it'll be easy to complete though. *smirks* (Blame Noxy)

Most important of all: this challenge operates on the honour system. We don't check your work, or your reading logs (see below), so I mean, I guess if you want to be slippery with the rules, you do you, and that's on your conscience, but honestly it's so much fun to see how much you can get done by following the letter of the law/tasks! You can be slippery even with following the tasks fully. It's great fun. ;D

I think that's enough for an intro, really, maybe too much.

Important Links and Reading Logs/Trackers

As there is a component of the FRC that includes tracking numbers of words read, most of us use a reading log/tracker to keep count of how many fics we read, including data such as words, of course, chapters, month completed, ship, author, title, fandom, link to the fic, and such. It's a great place to mark what fics you want to read in the future as well!

This year we have FOUR trackers on offer, quite different from one another, so take a look, play around with them and check out their "intros", and choose according to what you think will work best for you!

Fic Tracking Sheets

Juulna's 2025 Reading Log

Noxy's 2025 Reading Log

2025 Jandy's Fic Tracker

Taru's Fic Tracker 2025

Discord

We have a blast on Discord. From general chatter to sharing pet pics to being there for each other during the tough times to forming lasting friendships and making friendships you’d never make in a ship- or fandom-specific Discord, to asking for help ‘rolling the dice’ (pick a number between 1-10!) to choose the next fic to read, to finding some of the really challenging task fills in fandoms people might not have ever read but are willing to try, or finding fandoms someone has never read and is very tentative about stepping out of their box, but they’re being 100% supported and know they don’t need to complete the fic for it to count for the task, stepping out of their comfort zone… we’ve formed a very odd group of, if not friends, then companions (but there are definite friendships that have formed!! Just ask the people who have started watching NHL and NFL together in our off topic channel!).

In any case, our Discord is not necessary, but it is a worthy and tactical element to completing many of the tasks of this challenge. 💙

And.... without further ado....!

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge! (link)

There is an info/rules page as the first sheet on the spreadsheet that should fill in any further questions you have. It also has more contact info than just this page if you have any further questions and perhaps need a more immediate answer for your needs.

*Occasionally you will run into something that looks like an error, and it may in fact be one! Let us know if you see it. It's hard not to make a mistake on as large a spreadsheet as this.*

Please, first of all, have fun and just read fanfiction that you enjoy! I (Juulna) did that last year and didn't even come close to completing the entire challenge, and I still had a blast because I was enjoying what I was reading and rereading. Others took the challenge right to the completed end. Others forgot about it halfway through but still had fun, and some even went back and filled in the sheet for a really good showing! The challenge is what you make of it, what you want from it. So... just have fun. Read fic. Smile. Enjoy. :)

Second of all... well, we would love if you signal boost this post!!!!

Third of all, we do have our pinned post that includes a link to this page and that will include a link to our Discord and all our trackers as well, including past links for memento and informative purposes.

Thank you, and a blessed 2025 to all!

[macrolit]

from ml.books

[elumish]

2025 Progress Pride Reading Challenge

The Goal: Populate every spot on this progress pride flag with a queer book with the corresponding cover color.

The Rules:

Any genre, age range, and length is allowed. Trad published, indie published, and self published are all welcome--though fanfiction is not. (I mean, I'm not a cop. Do what you want. But the goal is to read original fiction.)

Use your own best judgment for whether a cover "counts".

You can include books you've already read--you don't need to start from scratch.

Each color needs at least one book with a female main character.

Hard mode (optional):

Don't repeat authors.

All white, pink, and light blue books must have at least one trans and/or non-binary main character.

All black and brown books must have at least one queer BIPOC main character.

For red, at least one book needs a bisexual main character.

For orange, at least one book needs a lesbian main character.

For yellow, at least one book needs an intersex main character.

For green, at least one book needs an aromantic main character.

For blue, at least one book needs a gay main character.

For purple, at least one book needs an asexual main character.

Participants: Anyone who wants to join and also can read.

The End Date: Whenever you want! I will be aiming to finish by June 30, 2025 aka the last day of Pride.

The Prize: Honor, glory, and having read some more queer books.

You can follow along with me at my Instagram, and if you want some suggestions, you can check out the pride-flag-in-book-covers post that insipired this.

If you have any suggestions, stick them in the replies (and if you're an author, feel free to suggest your own books)!

[missameliep]

UPDATE - Reading challenge 2025

Last year, I shared I had set a goal: I’d read twelve books wrote by women (including some black female authors recommended by a professor from this litterature course I took). It seemed not that ambitious, but I’ve been lacking the motivation to read things other than books and articles related to my research and course (fanfic aside), and over the years found it hard to commit to books (I got a severe case of jumping from one book to another and never finishing them).

After reaching the goal, I decided to double it. I still struggled with keeping reading exclusively one book at a time... but by December 30, I've read 24 books and was pretty happy.

Daysy Jones & The six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (the book that started it all - I saw this one at a book stand when I was leaving the subway station and bought to read at a café before getting to start my shift at work)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer

O Olho mais azul - Toni Morrison

Shadow and Bone trilogy - Leigh Bardugo (Sombra e Ossos; Sol e Tormenta e Ruína e Ascensão)

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

King of scars - Leigh Bardugo

Rule of Wolves - Leigh Bardugo

O conto da aia (The handmaid's tale) - Margaret Atwood

Os testamentos - Margaret Atwood

Kindred - Octavia E Butter

Nada digo de ti, que em ti não veja - Eliana Alves Cruz

Eu sei pq o pássaro canta - Maya Angelou

A biblioteca da meia noite - Matt Haig

Pequeno manual antirracista - Djamila Ribeiro

Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo - Ailton Krenak

Spoiler Alert - Olivia Dade

All the feels - Olivia Dade

Shipwrecked - Olivia Dade

A curiosa história do editor partido ao meio na era dos robôs escritores - José Luís Saorin

O amante japonês - Isabel Allende

Kafka e a boneca viajante - Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Canção para ninar menino grande - Conceição Evaristo

Now I’ve set the goal of 25 books for 2025.

January is over, and I've completed two books:

Abandonar um gato: o que falo quando falo do meu pai - Haruki Murakami

I'm currently reading: Se os gatos desaparecessem do mundo - Genki Kawamura (I'm halfway through it), Dicas da imensidão - Margaret Atwood and Lugar de fala - Djamila Ribeiro (it's a very short but interesting book, and I got just a few more pages to finish it).

I'm already excited with the next ones I've got on my list (Fernanda Montenegro's biography and Fernanda Torres' books).

Growing up, reading has always been one of my favourite pastimes. I was fascinated by books and read different genres and basically any book I would get my hands on.

To nobody's surprise, I ended up choosing two majors in college in which reading was (and still is) absolutely necessary, but over the years most of my readings were related either to my studies or work and rarely for pleasure... (except for fanfic which has been an absolutely self-indulgent thing since I've discovered the genre in 2017 and it saved me from boredom during many sleepless nights with breastfeeding my daughter. So thank you, fanfic writers, you amazing and generous people ❤️) ...over the years so many books were left unfinished because of other tasks and responsibilities...

Last year I took a literature course on Black female writers with the amazing professor Roberta Araújo @/justa.causa, and I read a few of the books recommended for the classes, and what an incredible experience to branch out and get know authors that I probably wouldn't have read if I didn't take this course. For instance, I've never heard of Maria Firmina dos Reis and her novel Ursula, the first abolitionist novel in Brazil, even though I've studied Brazilian literature in school and have a bachelor in History, and it hit me how little I've read beyond the classics (and if you know Brazil and our Academia Brasileira de Letras you know how white and male dominated that means).

When 2024 started and I was kind of lost and really wanting to focus on some goals for the year, I decided to challenged myself: I added to my to-do list 12 books written by female authors, some of the books were from the authors we studied and others were books I've been dying to read for a long time like The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

And to my utmost surprise, despite all the things irl and exhausting routine, I've realized that in July I had already completed the challenge.

12 books was the initial goal, that I wasn't certain I would reach... But... Whenever I found a new interesting book I added it to the list and since I was reading some books in parallel anyway... I decided I'm not stopping now and see how many more I'll read till December.

I'm currently reading the historical romance Nada digo de ti, que em ti não veja by Eliana Alves Cruz, and loving it, such an intriguing story, and have about 30% of Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to read.

This may seem like a small thing, but it brought me so much joy that I absolutely needed to share, because I feel like I need to celebrate even the small things and to let myself be excited with things again. And I am!

And talking about books always makes me happy and apparently inspired others too. My father who doesn't have any hobbies and constantly complains how he could no longer read, that his eyesight is bad, his memory is bad etc, read The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments by Margaret Atwood in a spam of a few days and we talked a lot about the books too, which was really nice. Now I'm teasing him with the plot of Nada digo de ti, que em não veja, because nobody else read that one! 😂

And the more I read, the more I want to read and to write as well. Some days I was just like that writer who fell in love with Machado de Assis (and now Clarice Lispector too) all excited and wanting to read books in their original languages and all of that... but that'll be a challenge for another time!

[sage-nebula]

Books I have finished so far this month:

City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett (started in December)

City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Reviews for all of the above can be found on my goodreads, which I invite everyone to friend me on! Please note my reviews are detailed and not spoiler free, so read beyond the rating at your own risk. I also have a recommendations shelf for books I personally recommend.

Book I am currently reading:

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

[delirantesko]

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Tive que deixar a leitura no modo paisagem, porque senão a formatação fica toda zoada no Kindle.

Como eu adoro essas histórias de criação!

Outro livro escrito um pouco mais a frente do que esse e que ficou mais famoso acabou """ emprestando """ a maior parte dessas histórias, então é sempre bom ler numa fonte mais original.

Tem comentários no texto alternativo das imagens, pra quem curte esse tipo de coisa.

É isso, tenho que escrever um conto envolvendo as nereidas, as ninfas do mar menos conhecidas, culpa das sereias provavelmente.

Pesquisando aqui esbarrei com ume matéria falando sobre os trabalhos fantásticos de René Margritte, como "A Traição das Imagens" (Ceci n'est pas une pipe).

A mãe de Aquiles é uma nereida! Preciso pesquisar mais...

[queerveganbooknerd]

Book 62 of 2025

Another John Boyne. He could write anything and I would gobble it up.

[i-wanna-study]

Time left for the exam: 2 days

[the-forest-library]

2025 Beat the Backlist Challenge

The 2025 reading challenge prompts are now available!