We are hours away from the start of 2025 and it’s the time of year to sign up for our fourth annual reading challenge! The Cup of Tea’s Reading Challenge 2025 will give you a chance to introduce you to new books and genres and also help you tackle your TBR pile. Just like previous years, the challenges are created on The StoryGraph website, where you can view the challenge prompts and add books that will help you complete the challenge!

Don’t know what The StoryGraph is? Find out about this wonderful new alternative to Goodreads by reading more about it in my blogpost!

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2025 Reading Challenge Prompts

1. Read a book you meant to read in 2024 
2. . A highly anticipated 2025 book
3. Read a black romance by a black author 
4. A backlist book by your favorite author 
5. A nonfiction book about misogyny  
6. A nonfiction book about the rise of AI (Artificial Intelligence)
7.  A book that celebrates books (This could be a fiction or nonfiction book. A book where the plot centers in a bookstore, library or a book club or a nonfiction book that talks about reading, literacy, or a biography about a writer’s life. Readers’ choice!)
8. A book you previously read before but want to reread again
9. A comic/manga written and created by a woman or nonbinary person
10. A book that was recommended to you by a personal friend, a librarian or you found while browsing in a bookstore or library (For this prompt, try not to use it for a book that you discovered trending on social media (for example, BookTok, Bookstagram, etc.). This is to encourage you to go to your local library and bookstore and discover a new book there! )
11. A book you found about on the Fake Book Club Podcast 
12. Writings by Jane Austen (Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday by reading (or rereading) one of her books, letters or juvenilia!)
13. A book that is about Jane Austen or connected to her works (This could be a biography or other nonfiction books or a retelling of Austen’s life and/or one of her books)
14. A Crime classic 
15.  An African thriller or noir (You can look at this site for some recommendations to start with: https://crimereads.com/a-beginners-guide-to-african-crime-fiction/)
16. A novel that debuts in 2025
17. A country house murder 
18. A cozy fantasy 
19. A book about health (It could be about mental health, a memoir of a person with health struggles, etc.) 
20. A book that has been on your TBR for 10 years or more 
21. A translated fiction or nonfiction 
22. A children’s book by an author of color, published after 2020  
23. A book highlighting our right to read (This could be a banned book or a nonfiction book that demonstrates the importance of being informed)
24. A LGBTQIA Mystery 
25. A revenge story (This could be a thriller, mystery or a romance!)
26. A book published in your birthday month 
27. A retelling of mythology stories  
28. A Gothic horror 
29. A book by a trans or non-binary author 
30. A book about music (You can go fiction or nonfiction for this one. It could be a book about the history of music or fiction book where music is the major plot point, etc.)
31. Bonus: Read a book featured in the bookshop storer front Cup of Tea Author Talks 

2025 Classic Reading Challenge Prompts

1.  A classic World War I or World War II novel
2.  A classic takes place in your home city
3. . A Japanese classic
4.  A classic published during medieval/renaissance times
5.  A writer from the Harlem Renaissance
6.  A classic by an author you only read one book by them
7. A gothic novel
8.  A collection of letters and journals
9. A Jane Austen novel
10. A utopian or a dystopian novel
11.  A Shakesperean play you read in school or reading for the first time
12. A classic short story 
13. . A children’s classic
14. A novel from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction 
15. A classic romance novel
16. Bonus: A classic with witches or about the history of witches 

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