Mass Center for the Book 2025 Reading Challenge
How it Works:
- Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge. If you are stuck, please ask a library staff member for some ideas!
- Each month, after you read, fill out a short form to tell us about the book.
- That’s it!
- Mass Center for the Book will host a year-end party to celebrate participants committed to the challenge.
- There will be monthly drawings for free books.
- If you read a book in each of the 12 months, you will be entered in a drawing to win a tote filled with books and other bookish goodies.
January: A book published or about the year you were born
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