The 52 Book Club’s 2025 Reading Challenge

I finished the 52 Book Club’s 2024 challenge and really loved the prompts and how it made me read out of my comfort zone, so I’ll be doing it again in 2025! There were some books I loved, and some I didn’t like so much and only read because of the challenge, but that’s the fun of it and the reason I want to do it again! You can find a list of 2024’s prompts and the books I read for each of the prompts here.

The 52 Book Club’s annual reading challenge is made up of 52 unique prompts. The goal is to match one book to each prompt, for a total of fifty-two books over the course of the year. Prompts are related to everything from specific titles, to cover designs, authors, genres, settings, themes, characters, etc. (Think of it like a giant bookish scavenger hunt!) We encourage participants to try books outside of their regular reading comfort zones and push themselves to read more, read differently, and get creative with it!

Visit The 52 Book Club to find out more and join the challenge!

Below is the 52 Book Club’s list of prompts for 2025. These prompts are linked to Goodreads Lists of books that fit each prompt. I copy and pasted them from here, for easy access, and so I can link to each prompt with the books I finish.

The 2025 Goodreads Lists:

1. A pun in the title
2. A character with red hair
3. Title starts with letter “M”
4. Title starts with letter “N”
5. Plot includes a heist
6. Genre One: Set in Spring
7. Genre Two: Set in Summer
8. Genre Three: Set in Autumn
9. Genre Four: Set in Winter
10. Author’s last name is also a first name
11. A prequel
12. Has a moon on the cover
13. Title is ten letters or less
14. Climate fiction
15. Includes Latin American history
16. Author has won an Edgar award
17. Told in verse
18. A character who can fly
19. Has short chapters
20. A fairy tale retelling
21. Character’s name in the title
22. Found family trope
23. A sprayed edge
24. Title is a spoiler
25. Breaks the fourth wall
26. More than a million copies sold
27. Features a magician
28. A crossover (Set in a shared universe)
29. Shares universe with prompt 28 *same list as prompt 28*
30. In the public domain
31. Audiobook has multiple narrators
32. Includes a diary entry
33. A standalone novel
34. Direction in the title
35. Written in third person
36. Final sentence is less than 6 words long
37. Genre chosen for you by someone else *No Goodreads list*
38. An adventure story
39. Has an epigraph
40. Stream of consciousness narrative
41. Cover font is in a primary color
42. Non-human antagonist
43. Explores social class
44. A celebrity on the cover
45. Author releases more than one book a year
46. Read in a “-ber” month *No Goodreads list*
47. “I think it was blue”
48. Related to the word “puzzle”
49. Set in a country with an active volcano
50. Set in the 1940s (Books that do NOT include WWII) / Set in the 1940s (Books that includes WWII)
51. 300-400 pages long
52. Published in 2025