We love a good reading challenge, so we’ve designed four fun options for adults and one for kids. Our brand new 2023 reading challenge will be announced on December 1st!
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.
2023 Challenge Information Coming Soon
Currently, all the information below refers to the 2022 versions of our reading challenges. During the week of 11/28/22-12/2/22, we’ll be announcing the 2023 challenges. Join our email list above to get notifications when the details are available!
Reading Challenges for Adults
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!
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.
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.
Lifetime of Reading Challenge
Throughout this 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's age range.
Kid's Read Around the World Challenge
This fun 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.
Decades Challenge Books Lists
Book Voyage Book Lists
Lifetime of Reading Book Lists – Throughout 2022, a new list will be released for this challenge the 20th of each month.
Read Around the World Challenge for Kids
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