December has always been one of my favorite months. Of course, it’s the holiday season, but I also enjoy making goals and planning for the new year. I love setting reading challenge goals for myself and I try to encourage my children to do the same, with various degrees of success.
For the past six years, we have been creating Build Your Library Reading Challenges. It’s a fun activity that my oldest daughter and I collaborate on. We love to brainstorm fun reading challenges that everyone in the family can do.
I still have two prompts to go for this year’s Reading Through History challenge, but I plan to finish it up before the month is over. It has been a great year of reading history and historical fiction.
But now, it’s time to unveil the 2025 Reading Challenge….drumroll please!
This year, we are Reading Banned Books!
I can’t wait to dig into this year’s reading prompts! This year’s challenge encourages you to read from a variety of diverse perspectives, with emphasis on books that have been banned or challenged in libraries over the years. Let’s fight back against censorship in 2025!
I’m looking forward to a great year of reading, and I hope you will join me on our reading adventure!
Below is the link to the PDF checklist for printing off and checking the boxes as you go along.
Download the 2025 Reading Challenge Prompts (in color)
Download the 2025 Reading Challenge Prompts (black and white)
See Also: 2019 Build Your Library Reading Challenge, 2020 Build Your Library Reading Challenge, 2021 Build Your Library Reading Challenge, 2022 Build Your Library Reading Challenge, 2023 Build Your Library Reading Challenge, 2024 Build Your Library Reading Challenge, and Happy Hygge Homeschooling.
I’m in again!
Love it!! Thank you Emily
I havent done this before but will this year. I’m not usually one for prompts as they seem wishy washy and I dont want to read a book just because its got a certain word in the title …my limited reading time is far too precious for that. But I like your prompts…they are far more meaningful and adaptable and make it easier to choose quality literature. My first book is the Handmaids Tale which I’ve always wanted to read but never have. Thankyou for the work you do
Will be doing it this round!
I’m excited to try this challenge this year. There’s a first time for everything. Could we have a place where folks recommend books that they found worthwhile that fit the prompts? That might help us slow starters!
If you have The Storygraph, there is a challenge there where you can see what other people have used for each prompt!
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/6a0ab08c-86be-4276-b916-151ffdbbc3f8