Category: Reading Challenges

The 52 Book Club’s 2025 Reading Challenge

Posted December 23, 2024 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 1 Comment

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” – The Measure by Nikki Erlick
  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 – Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  13. Title is ten letters or less – Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson
  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 – The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
  19. Has short chapters – Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
  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 – The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
  27. Features a magician
  28. A crossover (Set in a shared universe)
  29. Shares universe with 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
  38. An adventure story
  39. Has an epigraph
  40. Stream of consciousness narrative
  41. Cover font is in a primary color – Vicious by V.E. Schwab
  42. Non-human antagonist – ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  43. Explores social class
  44. A celebrity on the cover
  45. Author releases more than one book a year – Joyland by Stephen King
  46. Read in a “-ber” month
  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) – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  51. 300-400 pages long
  52. Published in 2025

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The Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge

Posted December 23, 2024 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 1 Comment

I’m not normally a reader who feels the need to read an author’s full catalog, but I’ve read and enjoyed so many of Stephen King’s books and I feel like if I was going to do it, his catalog would be the way to go. I’ve actually already read many of his books, but for the sake of this challenge, I will be re-reading them again. They are considered done when I’ve written reviews for every single one of them here on my blog.

I’m not putting any time limit on this challenge. It’s just a personal challenge for myself that I want to have fun with, but also keeping in mind that the list is probably going to grow the longer I take, because Stephen King is going to keep churning out those books!

Feel free to join me if you’re a fan of SK and want to do the challenge too! Post a comment with a link to your challenge page/reviews and I’ll check them out!

  1. Carrie (1974)
  2. ‘Salem’s Lot (1975)
  3. The Shining (1977)
  4. Rage (1977)*
  5. Night Shift (1978)
  6. The Stand (1978)
  7. The Long Walk (1979) [by Richard Bachman]*
  8. The Dead Zone (1979)
  9. Firestarter (1980)
  10. Roadwork (1981) [by Richard Bachman]*
  11. Danse Macabre (1981)
  12. Cujo (1981)
  13. The Running Man (1982) [by Richard Bachman]*
  14. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)
  15. Different Seasons (1982)
  16. Christine (1983)
  17. Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
  18. Pet Sematary (1983)
  19. The Eyes of the Dragon (1984)
  20. The Talisman (1984) with Peter Straub
  21. Thinner (1984) [by Richard Bachman]
  22. Skeleton Crew (1985)
  23. IT (1986)
  24. The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
  25. Misery (1987)
  26. The Tommyknockers (1987)
  27. The Dark Half (1989)
  28. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition (1990)
  29. Four Past Midnight (1990)
  30. The Dark Towe: The Waste Lands (1991)
  31. Needful Things (1991)
  32. Gerald’s Game (1992)
  33. Dolores Claiborne (1992)
  34. Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
  35. Insomnia (1994)
  36. Rose Madder (1995)
  37. The Green Mile (1996)
  38. Desperation (1996)
  39. The Regulators (1996) [by Richard Bachman]
  40. The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass (1997)
  41. Bag of Bones (1998)
  42. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
  43. Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
  44. Storm of the Century (1999)**
  45. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
  46. Dreamcatcher (2001)
  47. Black House (2001) with Peter Straub
  48. Everything’s Eventual (2002)
  49. From a Buick 8 (2002)
  50. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger: Resumption (2003)
  51. The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
  52. The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (2004)
  53. The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower (2004)
  54. Faithful (2004) with Stewart O’Nan
  55. The Colorado Kid (2005)
  56. Cell (2006)
  57. Lisey’s Story (2006)
  58. Blaze (2007) [by Richard Bachman]
  59. Duma Key (2008)
  60. Just After Sunset (2008)
  61. Under the Dome (2009)
  62. Blockade Billy (2010)
  63. Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
  64. 11/22/63 (2011)
  65. The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
  66. Joyland (2013)
  67. The Dark Man (2013)
  68. Doctor Sleep (2013)
  69. Mr. Mercedes (2014)
  70. Revival (2014)
  71. Finders Keepers (2015)
  72. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
  73. End of Watch (2016)
  74. Charlie the Choo-Choo (2016) [by Beryl Evans]
  75. Hearts in Suspension (2016)
  76. Gwendy’s Button Box (2017) with Richard Chizmar
  77. Sleeping Beauties (2017) with Owen King
  78. The Outsider (2018)
  79. Elevation (2018)
  80. The Institute (2019)
  81. If It Bleeds (2020)
  82. Later (2021)
  83. Billy Summers (2021)
  84. Gwendy’s Final Task (2022) with Richard Chizmar
  85. Fairy Tale (2022)
  86. Holly (2023)
  87. You Like It Darker (2024)

*collected in The Bachman Books
**screenplay

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