2025 Reading Challenge

The Massachusetts Center for the Book
has released a state-wide reading challenge!  

Massachusetts Center for the Book: 2025 Reading Challenge

How the challenge works (from massbook.org):

  • Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge.

  • After you read, fill out this form to tell us about the book.

    • Using our submission manager, you will be able to log in and access the entries you’ve logged throughout the year.

    • Dedicated readers will be invited to a year-end celebration hosted by Mass Center for the Book.

    • We will be drawing two names on the last day of each month to win a free book! Make sure you get those entries in before the end of the month.

    • If you read a book in each of the 12 months, you will be entered in a drawing to win 1 of 2 totes filled with books.

12 Months 12 Books

January
A book published or about the year you were born

(Books published from years 1925-2015) 

February
A book with the name of a city in the title

March
A book about someone with a marginalized identity

April
A book about books, bookstores, or libraries

May
A book with a first sentence of eight words or less

June
A book that spans multiple generations

July
A book you were drawn to by its cover

August
A book with a protagonist who is a teenager or senior citizen

September
A book told in non-chronological order

October
A book published by a Massachusetts press

November
A cookbook or book about food

December
Another book by an author you’ve already read