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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.
While we’ll always love our annual reading challenges, sometimes it’s fun to enjoy the quicker win of completing a smaller challenge. For the summer of 2025, we’ve come up with four prompts, and we have book recommendations for each.
Summer Reading Challenge Prompts & Book Lists
To complete this challenge, read one book for each of the four prompts below. You can read in any order and either choose from our recommendations or pick any book from your own TBR list.
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!
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!
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.
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.
Now that you know the prompts, just sign up in the box to get your Summer Reading Challenge coloring page tracker!
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.
You won’t get duplicate emails if you’re already signed up for one of our other challenges. And if you’re not signed up for one of our year-long challenges, be sure to check out all the options!
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
More Reading Challenges to Explore
- 2025 Fall Mini Reading Challenge
- 2025 Halloween Mini Reading Challenge
- 2025 Summer Reading Challenge for Adults
- 2025 Spring Mini Reading Challenge
- 2025 Book Lover’s Reading Challenge
- In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Backlist Reading Challenge: 2025 Edition
- Read Around the USA – 2025 States Reading Challenge
- Lifetime of Reading Challenge: 2025 Edition
- Read Around the World: Children’s Reading Challenge
- Read Around the World 2025: Book Voyage Reading Challenge
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?
Hi Allylu, for now, the mini-reading challenges don’t need to be logged. We may change that for next year though!
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!!