Reading Challenges - Book Girls' Guide

We love a good reading challenge, so we’ve designed three fun options for adults and one for kids.

All of these 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 what you’re after! The adult challenges are designed to run from January through December, but you’re welcome to jump in anytime!

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! We have a very welcoming and active group of book lovers that enjoy discussing books from these reading challenges, as well as sharing other book recommendations.

Lifetime of Reading Challenge

Throughout the new year-long challenge, we’ll be enjoying 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 and has plenty of things to teach us.

Click the button below to read more about the challenge, sign up for your free printable book tracker, and find the links to the book lists for each main character age range.

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 Read Around the World Reading Challenge, you’ll get to experience every continent and the vastly different landscapes and cultures that make up our beautiful planet.

Click the button below to read all the details about this challenge and sign up to receive our printable custom map book tracker. We have a list of recommended books for each region, ranging from novels to memoirs and covering a variety of cities and topics.

Decades Reading Challenge

Through this challenge, you'll read some of the best books set in each decade from the 1910s through today, and you'll experience the dramatic changes of day to day life over the last 120 years!

Click the button below to read all the details about this challenge, and sign up for the free printable reading tracker. You'll also find links to our book recommendations for each decade. These lists include historical fiction, non-fiction, and memoirs, and cover a wide variety of topics. The post for each decade also includes a timeline of major events from that period in history to help provide some context for the book recommendations.

Kid's Read Around the World Challenge

This fun summer reading challenge for kids will take them to each continent around the world. Along the way, they'll learn about geography and other cultures.

We even put together book suggestions for every continent broken down by age range and reading level to make the challenge easier for you.

Click the button below to read all the details about this challenge and sign up to receive our free printable map coloring sheet for your kids to fill out as they make their way around the world.