2025 Summer Reading Challenge for Adults

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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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  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?

    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!

      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!!