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2025 Yearly Reading Challenge
Do you feel that? It’s time for the 2025 B&N Book Challenge! Every year we give you the challenge and you go forth and pick the book. This year, we’re going to make it a little easier and give you two suggestions per week to help you meet the goal. 52 Books in 52 Weeks. Daunting? Sure! Impossible? Possibly! Fun? Absolutely.
The truth about all book challenges is that it’s a challenge. There’s no grade at the end. No parade. Just satisfaction that you went to new worlds you haven’t gone to before.
These books are merely a jumping off point to get you into the spirit of the thing. Peruse our website, go down rabbit holes of books and choose your own adventure.
With that, go forth and conquer. What happens in the B&N Book Challenge, stays in the B&N Book Challenge.
Week 1: Meditative
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Week 2: Adventurous
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Week 3: Dystopian
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Week 4: Empowerment
Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life
Jim Murphy
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Week 5: Translated
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Week 6: Poetry
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Week 7: Classic
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Week 8: Banned
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Week 9: Pioneering
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Week 10: Devastating
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Week 11: Memoir
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Week 12: Award Winner
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling (National Book Award Winner)
Jason De León
Hardcover
$32.00
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Week 13: Avoided
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Wicked Collector's Edition: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire
Hardcover
$40.00
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Week 14: STEM
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Week 15: Historical
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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Julie Satow
3.5
Hardcover
$32.50
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Week 16: Young Adult
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Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .: A LOVE Story (Coretta Scott King Award Winner)
Jason Reynolds
4.7
Signed Book
$19.99
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Week 17: Medieval
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Week 18: Investigative
Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
5
Signed Book
$28.00
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Week 19: Fantasy
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Week 20: Humanities
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Week 21: Fierce
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Week 22: Contemporary
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Week 23: Narrative
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Week 24: Massive
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Week 25: Comic
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Week 26: Beachy
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Week 27: Prequel
Sunrise on the Reaping (B&N Exclusive Edition) (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins
4.7
BN Exclusive
$27.99
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Week 28: Relaxing
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.5
Hardcover
$20.00
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Week 29: Glamorous
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Week 30: Graphic Novel
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Week 31: Romance
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Week 32: True Crime
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel
4.5
Hardcover
$28.00
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Week 33: Iconic
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Week 34: Haunting
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Week 35: Deceitful
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Week 36: Literary
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Week 37: Travel
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Week 38: Epic
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Week 39: Paranormal
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Week 40: Art
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Week 41: Dark
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Week 42: Vampire
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Week 43: Gothic
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Week 44: Thriller
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Week 45: Horror
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Week 46: High Fantasy
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Week 47: Celebrity Bio
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What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings
Leanne Morgan
4.5
Hardcover
$27.00
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Week 48: Magical Realism
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Week 49: Family
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Week 50: Short Story Collection
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Week 51: Timeless
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
William Goldman
5
Paperback
$18.99
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Week 52: Intended
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