2026 Reading Challenges!

  • A book where gardening or a garden is central to the plot
  • A book that features a platonic friendship between a man and woman
  • A book you meant to read in 2025
  • A book that starts with the letter “Z”
  • A book about women astronauts
  • A book with an overweight main character whose story isn’t about losing weight
  • A book about a granny hobby
  • A book about a sexless marriage
  • A book with a “type C” character
  • A book about a horse or with a horse on the cover
  • A book with a dad as the primary caregiver
  • A book with “pop” or “sugar” in the title
  • A book featuring a character with a hidden past
  • A book set in Michigan or written by an author from Michigan
  • A book about new beginnings
  • A book less than 260 pages
  • A book about your favorite event in the Winter Olympics
  • A love story that defies social boundaries
  • A book about teen angst
  • A book with a character who does Pilates or Lagree
  • A book about a bachelorette trip
  • A book about a book club
  • A book you were hoping would fit into a prompt but doesn’t
  • A book about postpartum
  • A book that explores influencer culture
  • A book with a character who navigates infertility
  • A book with a character who has curly hair
  • A book about debt
  • A book that takes place during harvesting season
  • A travel ghost story
  • A book that makes you feel FOMO
  • A book with an underwater civilization
  • A book about college
  • A book with a trans or nonbinary protagonist
  • A book that makes you want to travel to Italy
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  • A book about a mob (fiction or nonfiction)
  • A book about a pop star
  • A book with any type of fruit on the cover or in the title
  • A book with a character who runs a marathon
  • A book outside your comfort zone

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  • A book in a different format than your usual: physical, audio, eBook
  • A book inspired by a real song, album, band, or artist
  • Two books written by real-life partners or spouses (1)
  • Two books written by real-life partners or spouses (2)
  • A book that features birding
  • A sapphic comic
  • A book told entirely through letters
  • A book with a shadow daddy
  • A book with a mention of your zodiac sign
  • A book about Afrofuturism

Set in an ancient civilization

Kangaroo word on the cover

Written without quotation marks

Has a dust jacket

Featuring a conspiracy

Title starts with the letter “O”

Title starts with the letter “P”

A three-syllable word in the title

Featuring a natural disaster

Spans a decade or more

Requires suspension of disbelief

A genre-defining read

Bookface

Includes a character list

A subtitle with commas

Deus Ex Machina

Author’s bio mentions their dog

Provokes strong emotion

A nosy neighbour character

Day of the week in the title

Written in the 1800s

Spotted in a TV series or movie

Grumpy sunshine trope

Uneven number of chapters

Includes a red herring

Title in a serif font

Two or more authors, one pseudonym

 From a series at least eight books long

Set in the Arctic or Antarctic

Author related to another author

Author related to author in prompt 30

Publisher starting with the letter “B”

A standalone fantasy novel

Inspired by the top-grossing movie the year you were born

Character with a secret identity

Award-winning book from last year

Started on the 26th of the month

Domestic fiction

A book that cost you nothing

Author’s first and last name start with same letter

A guide to…

Includes a handwritten interior font

A Goodreads recommendation for you

Literary Device: Personification

Biographical fiction

Non-fiction about character in prompt 45

A diacritical mark on the cover

Related to the word “Nemesis”

From the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System

Set in a castle

Includes a map

Published in 2026

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