Category: Reading Challenges

2026 Reading Challenges

Posted December 29, 2025 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 3 Comments

These are all the reading challenges I’m participating in for 2026. Click on the links to find out more!

The 52 Book Club’s 2026 Reading Challenge
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!

The Classics Club
The Classic Club is a community of Classics Lovers who are taking on the challenge of reading at least 50 classics in 5 years. It started when a blogger wanted to see more people discussing classic literature, and it has now grown to a huge community of classic readers and bloggers. I started this on Dec 1, 2023, and hope to finish my 50 classics by Dec 1, 2028.

The Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge
This is an informal challenge I have taken up for myself. I am a fan of the author but have not read many of his works yet, so this challenge is for me to read his full catalog, including rereads and any new books he releases while I’m completing the challenge. There is no time limit for this challenge. It is complete when I finish them.

2026 Nonfiction Reader Challenge
Hosted by Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out, it’s a nonfiction reading challenge for 2026. I signed up for it in 2024 and completed it but didn’t sign up in 2025 because I was feeling overwhelmed. I ended up really missing the challenge so I decided to sign up again for 2026!


I am also still looking for a couple more challenges for reading more bipoc books/authors, and for finishing series I’ve already started. If I don’t find any, I’ll probably just do them anyway, just more informally.

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2026 Nonfiction Reader Challenge

Posted December 29, 2025 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 3 Comments


The aim of the Nonfiction Reader Challenge is to encourage you to make nonfiction part of your reading experience during the year. It’s hosted by Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out, please click on the link to find out more and to sign up!

HOW IT WORKS

You can select, read and review a book from the categories listed below during the year for a total of up to 12 books; OR select, read and review any nonfiction book. A book may be in print, electronic or audio format.

Choose a goal:
Nonfiction Nipper: Read & review 3 books, from any 3 listed categories
Nonfiction Nibbler: Read & review 6 books, from any 6 listed categories
Nonfiction Nosher: Read & review 12 books, one for each category
Nonfiction Grazer: Read & review any nonfiction book. Set your own goal, or none at all, just share the nonfiction you read through the year.

Categories:
History
Memoir/Biography
True Crime
Science
Health
Food
South East Asia
Humour (Humor)
Lost or found
Television
Subculture
Published in 2026

Nonfiction Grazer

I will be going for the Nonfiction Grazer goal; I have a few nonfiction books in mind that I’ll list below and cross off as I finish them, but otherwise I just want to share the nonfiction I read through the year!

The Books

I will be crossing them off and/or listing them here as I go. Check back often to see what I’ve read!

  1. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green – finished
  2. Dare to Lead by Brené Brown – finished
  3. The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD – finished
  4. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore – finished
  5. Into the Wild by John Krakauer – finished
  6. Educated by Tara Westover – finished
  7. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston – finished
  8. Stiff by Mary Roach – finished
  9. Start Where You Are: The Beginner’s 5K Running Guide for Women by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys – finished
  10. The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal – finished
  11. High School by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin – finished
  12. North by Scott Jurek and Jenny Jurek – finished
  13. The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
  14. Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
  15. Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
  16. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
  17. Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd
  18. Eve by Cat Bohannon
  19. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
  20. The Enchanted Life by Sharon Blackie
  21. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
  22. This Isn’t Happening by Stephen Hyden

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The 52 Book Club’s 2026 Reading Challenge

Posted December 29, 2025 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 0 Comments

I have loved and completed The 52 Book Club Reading Challenge in 2024 and 2025 on the blog these last couple of years, and I see no reason to stop participating for 2026 too! I’m excited for these prompts and looking forward to seeing what books I end up reading for them.

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 2026. 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. Set in an ancient civilization
  2. Kangaroo word on the cover – The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens
  3. Written without quotation marks – Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
  4. Has a dust jacket – The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  5. Featuring a conspiracy – The Will of the Many by James Islington
  6. Title starts with the letter “O” – Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
  7. Title starts with the letter “P” – The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
  8. A three-syllable word in the title – The Guise of Another by Allen Eskens
  9. Featuring a natural disaster – The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
  10. Spans a decade or more – The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
  11. Requires suspension of disbelief – Replay by Ken Grimwood
  12. A genre-defining read – Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. Bookface – Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
  14. Includes a character list – The Strength of the Few by James Islington
  15. Subtitle with a comma – The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD
  16. Deus Ex Machina – Venco by Cherie Dimaline
  17. Author’s bio mentions their dog – Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  18. Provokes strong emotion – Educated by Tara Westover
  19. A nosy neighbour character – The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
  20. Day of the week in the title – Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
  21. Written in the 1800s – Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
  22. Spotted in a TV series or movie – Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
  23. Grumpy sunshine trope – My Friends by Fredrik Backman
  24. Uneven number of chapters – Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
  25. Includes a red herring – The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
  26. Title in a serif font – Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
  27. Two or more authors, one pseudonym
  28. From a series at least eight books long – A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
  29. Set in the Arctic or Antarctic – The White Darkness by David Grann
  30. Author related to another author – Never Flinch by Stephen King
  31. Author related to author in prompt 30 – Horns by Joe Hill
  32. Publisher starting with the letter “B” – The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
  33. A standalone fantasy novel – The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
  34. Inspired by the top-grossing movie the year you were born – We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
  35. Character with a secret identity – Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
  36. Award-winning book from last year – Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
  37. Started on the 26th of the month
  38. Domestic fiction – Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
  39. A book that cost you nothing – We Met Like This by Kasie West
  40. Author’s first and last name start with same letter – Cover Story by Mhairi McFarlane
  41. A guide to… – Start Where You Are by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
  42. Includes a handwritten interior font – Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
  43. A Goodreads recommendation for you – My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney
  44. Literary Device: Personification – Strange Houses by Uketsu
  45. Biographical fiction – The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
  46. Non-fiction about character in prompt 45 – Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
  47. A diacritical mark on the cover – Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
  48. Related to the word “Nemesis” – Better Than Revenge by Kasie West
  49. From the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System – The Hummingbird by Stephen P. Kiernan
  50. Set in a castle – The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
  51. Includes a map – Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
  52. Published in 2026

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The 52 Book Club’s 2025 Reading Challenge

Posted December 23, 2024 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 2 Comments

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 – The Crêpes of Wrath by Sarah Fox
  2. A character with red hair – Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  3. Title starts with letter “M” – The Measure by Nikki Erlick
  4. Title starts with letter “N” – Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  5. Plot includes a heist – The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
  6. Genre One: Set in Spring – Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  7. Genre Two: Set in Summer – The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  8. Genre Three: Set in Autumn – Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  9. Genre Four: Set in Winter – Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  10. Author’s last name is also a first name – Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
  11. A prequel – Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
  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 – The Terror by Dan Simmons
  15. Includes Latin American history – Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
  16. Author has won an Edgar award – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  17. Told in verse – The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  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 – A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher
  21. Character’s name in the title – Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
  22. Found family trope – The Love Haters by Katherine Center
  23. A sprayed edge – The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
  24. Title is a spoiler – Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
  25. Breaks the fourth wall – If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
  26. More than a million copies sold – The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
  27. Features a magician – Oz: The Complete Collection by L. Frank Baum
  28. A crossover (Set in a shared universe) – Revival by Stephen King
  29. Shares universe with prompt 28 – Joyland by Stephen King
  30. In the public domain – The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  31. Audiobook has multiple narrators – Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  32. Includes a diary entry – The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
  33. A standalone novel – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  34. Direction in the title – East of Eden by John Steinback
  35. Written in third person – The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
  36. Final sentence is less than 6 words long – 1984 by George Orwell
  37. Genre chosen for you by someone else – Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  38. An adventure story – Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
  39. Has an epigraph – When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  40. Stream of consciousness narrative – Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  41. Cover font is in a primary color – Vicious by V.E. Schwab
  42. Non-human antagonist – Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  43. Explores social class – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  44. A celebrity on the cover – Every Tool’s A Hammer by Adam Savage
  45. Author releases more than one book a year – ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  46. Read in a “-ber” month – Taste by Stanley Tucci
  47. “I think it was blue” – Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
  48. Related to the word “puzzle” – Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
  49. Set in a country with an active volcano – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  50. Set in the 1940s – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  51. 300-400 pages long – The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
  52. Published in 2025 – Swept Away by Beth O’Leary

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The Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge

Posted December 23, 2024 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 2 Comments

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) – reread
  2. ‘Salem’s Lot (1975) – reread
  3. The Shining (1977) – reread
  4. Rage (1977)*
  5. Night Shift (1978)
  6. The Stand (1978) – reread
  7. The Long Walk (1979) [by Richard Bachman]* – reread
  8. The Dead Zone (1979) – reread
  9. Firestarter (1980)
  10. Roadwork (1981) [by Richard Bachman]*
  11. Danse Macabre (1981)
  12. Cujo (1981) – reread
  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) – reread
  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) – reread
  24. The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
  25. Misery (1987) – reread
  26. The Tommyknockers (1987)
  27. The Dark Half (1989)
  28. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition (1990) – reread
  29. Four Past Midnight (1990)
  30. The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands (1991)
  31. Needful Things (1991) – reread
  32. Gerald’s Game (1992) – reread
  33. Dolores Claiborne (1992)
  34. Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
  35. Insomnia (1994)
  36. Rose Madder (1995)
  37. The Green Mile (1996) – reread
  38. Desperation (1996)
  39. The Regulators (1996) [by Richard Bachman]
  40. The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass (1997)
  41. Bag of Bones (1998) – reread
  42. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) – reread
  43. Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
  44. Storm of the Century (1999)**
  45. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000) – reread
  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) – reread
  57. Lisey’s Story (2006) – reread
  58. Blaze (2007) [by Richard Bachman]
  59. Duma Key (2008) – reread
  60. Just After Sunset (2008)
  61. Under the Dome (2009) – reread
  62. Blockade Billy (2010)
  63. Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
  64. 11/22/63 (2011) – reread
  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) – reread
  70. Revival (2014)
  71. Finders Keepers (2015) – reread
  72. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
  73. End of Watch (2016) – reread
  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 – reread
  78. The Outsider (2018) – reread
  79. Elevation (2018) – reread
  80. The Institute (2019) – reread
  81. If It Bleeds (2020)
  82. Later (2021) – reread
  83. Billy Summers (2021) – reread
  84. Gwendy’s Final Task (2022) with Richard Chizmar
  85. Fairy Tale (2022) – reread
  86. Holly (2023)
  87. You Like It Darker (2024)
  88. Never Flinch (2025)
  89. Other Worlds Than These (2026) with Peter Straub

*collected in The Bachman Books
**screenplay

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