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How Our Reading Challenges Are Different
When we launched The Book Girls Guide in 2019, our first big idea was to host a year-long reading challenge. We wanted it to be fun, flexible, and pressure-free while still being intentional and with a bit of structure. Other challenges we had seen followed two main formats. Either everyone was assigned the same book each month, or there was a set of prompts, and you were on your own to find a book that fit each prompt.
We developed a hybrid model where we provide a challenge theme with monthly reading prompts, along with a curated list of book recommendations for each prompt. Unlike many other challenges, we also provide an opportunity for participants to discuss their books with other readers. It’s been so successful that each year we’ve followed the same format, adding an additional reading challenge theme. Many readers are participating in more than one!
Yearlong Reading Challenges
All of our reading challenges allow you to find books that you’ll love within your preferred genre, or to push yourself outside of your reading comfort zone if that’s your goal.
Below, you’ll find a quick overview of each challenge. Click the pink button to get all the details and register. Once you’ve picked your challenge (of course, you can do more than one if you’d like), be sure to join our Facebook Group!
BOOK LOVER’S CHALLENGE
New for 2025, our Book Lover’s Reading Challenge celebrates different aspects of reading that we all love, from browsing the aisles of our favorite bookstore or library to losing ourselves in the world of a story.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
BACKLIST CHALLENGE
Our ICYMI Challenge will guide you through the best books of the last twelve years. For each publication year prompt, we’ll provide a curated book list with suggestions to fit every reading style.
DECADES READING CHALLENGE
Through this challenge, you’ll read some of the best books set in each decade from the 1880s through the 2010s, and you’ll experience the dramatic changes of day-to-day life over the last 140 years!
READ AROUND THE USA
Choose from two options: Read regionally as a one-book-per-month reading challenge or take a comprehensive approach that doesn’t have to be completed in a single year.
LIFETIME OF READING CHALLENGE
Throughout this self-paced challenge, you’ll enjoy a wide range of books featuring main characters of different age ranges. Each decade of life brings different joys and challenges. It’s easy to dismiss those younger or older, but we believe that each generation is worth embracing.
Mini Challenges
In addition to our annual challenges, we have shorter challenges to enjoy seasonally. Each comes with a printable coloring sheet with space to track your reads. Like our annual challenges, each prompt within these mini-challenges includes plenty of book recommendations.
- 2024 Christmas Mini Reading Challenge
- Halloween Mini Reading Challenge
- Fall Mini Reading Challenge
- Summer Reading Challenge for Adults
- Spring Mini Reading Challenge
- Winter Mini Reading Challenge
- Christmas Mini Reading Challenge
