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2025 Summer Reading Challenge for Adults

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We create mini-reading challenges for each season, and it’s time for summer! We hope these seasonal reading challenges help us all stay a bit more present for each season’s unique joys.

Flaylay of neutral dress and hat for summer with summer reading challenge printable showing

For the 2025 summer reading challenge, we’ve come up with four prompts. You’ll select one book for each prompt from our lists of highly-rated book recommendations (linked below). Of course, you’re also welcome to choose books that aren’t on our curated lists to complete the challenge.

Free Printable Challenge Tracker

Fill in the box below to receive a free printable page to track your progress throughout this challenge. You’ll also receive challenge updates and other book recommendations, author guides, and more each Friday morning.

Summer Reading Challenge Prompts & Book Lists

To complete this challenge, select one book of your choice for each of the four prompts below. This is totally self-paced and can be completed in any order.

Reading Prompt #1:
Read a Wedding-Related Book

Wedding season is nearly here! Whether you enjoy reading about family drama, romance, or even murder, there is a highly-rated book for you!

back view of bride and groom walking toward a lake and foggy mountains
Novels with a Wedding Theme
Rom Coms Books About Weddings

Reading Prompt #2:
Read a Book Set On or Around Water

We have both multi-genre and thriller-specific lists to choose from for islands and lakes, so there is something for everyone!

Tropical island photo with three book covers on top
Books Set on Lakes and at Lake Houses
Thrilling Lakeside Mystery Books
Books That Take Place On an Island
Books That Take Place In the Greek Islands
Mysterious Thriller Books Set on Islands

Reading Prompt #3:
Read a Book Set Somewhere You’d Love to Visit

Whether you dream of taking a safari through Africa, bustling through London or Tokyo, or visiting a new US state, this is your chance to armchair travel anywhere you’d love to visit. We have recommendations for every US state & territory, plus almost every country around the world.

flatlay with two books, airplane, and globe
Find Books by Region of the World
Find Books by US State
Set on a Road Trip

Reading Prompt #4:
Read a Summer Book from Your Favorite Genre

Reading challenges should be fun! For this prompt, you can select any book with summer vibes from your favorite genre. We hope this is an excuse to grab something from your TBR list, but we have plenty of suggestions, too! You can see all of our summer book lists here, but we linked five that are perfect for this prompt below.

Summer beach scene with 4 book covers
The Best Summer Historical Fiction Novels
Summer Mysteries & Thrillers
Cozy Mysteries for Summer
Reader’s Favorite Beach Reads of All-Time
2024 Beach Reads
2025 Beach Reads (Coming 5/30/25)

We hope you love our new adult summer reading challenge! If you’re not already a member of our Read with the Book Girls Facebook Group, we hope you’ll join and share your progress in our weekly What Are You Reading thread.

Social Sharing & Canva Templates

We’ve created two social sharing templates for this challenge. Each is available as a Canva Template or as an image file that you can use in any editing program!

SQUARE: Canva Template | Download JPG

9:16 FOR STORIES: Canva Template | Download JPG

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The Book Girls are best friends who jointly read over 200 books per year. We started Book Girls' Guide in 2019 to help others de-stress and find joy through the power of a great book. We do in-depth research on thousands of novels and non-fiction titles each year to provide curated book lists covering a variety of genres.

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  1. I have read all my books for the Summer Reading Challenge for Adults, but I can’t find the page to log them. Can you help please?

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    1. Melissa George says:

      Hi Allylu, for now, the mini-reading challenges don’t need to be logged. We may change that for next year though!

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      1. Okay thanks. I just thought I was missing something. Thanks for restoring my sanity! I enjoy all your reading challenges, mini and otherwise. Happy Reading!!

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