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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!
Choose From These 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!
GUIDED READING CHALLENGES
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!
BOOK VOYAGE: READ AROUND THE WORLD
Are you ready to go on an unforgettable journey from the comfort of your favorite reading chair? Let us be your travel guide! Through the challenge, you’ll experience every continent and the vastly different landscapes and cultures that make up our beautiful planet.
Self-Paced Reading Challenges
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 Self-Paced Challenges
Spring Mini Challenge
Three Spring prompts make this a fun challenge to welcome back warmer weather & the beauty it brings.
Christmas Mini Challenge
Three Christmas prompts + one for New Year’s make this a fun challenge to complete each holiday season.
Winter Mini Challenge
No matter which holidays you celebrate (or don’t celebrate) in the winter months, this 4-prompt mini challenge is for you!
Reading Challenge Benefits
Guided vs. Self-Paced Challenges
