2025 Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge

2025 Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge

2025 Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge

Host: Austine Decker
Progress: 9/24 (38%)
1 January, 2025 — 31 December, 2025
In Progress

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In this challenge, the goal is to beat the backlist by reading any book published prior to the current year. There’s an additional option to read with prompts, 24 or 52. I’m choosing 24! Join the challenge and read the rules here!


the prompts

  1. title includes a type of flower
  2. less than 100 pages: Edgar Allan Cozy by various
  3. on your TBR for over a year
  4. title starts with “v”
  5. more than 30 chapters: A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen
  6. standalone debut: The League of Lady Poisoners by Lisa Perrin
  7. tiniest on the TBR
  8. celebrity book club pick
  9. way back in 2020
  10. as seen on social media: Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan
  11. a chapter by any other name
  12. prequel/sequel
  13. between 275 – 325 pages: Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey
  14. beyond your perspective
  15. originally written in another language: Reykjavík by Ragnar Jónasson & Katrín Jakobsdótrir
  16. oldie but a goodie: Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey
  17. extra, extra!
  18. companion novel
  19. silhouette on the cover
  20. not first, nor last: Frosting and Fairies by Danielle Garrett
  21. more than 600 pages
  22. not your typical genre: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  23. childhood favorite re-read
  24. librarian rec

  1. Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey - ★★★★★
  2. Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey - ★★★★★
  3. Grimoire Girl: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief by Hilarie Burton Morgan - ★★★★★
  4. A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen - ★★★★★
  5. Edgar Allan Cozy by Sheila Connolly, Sherry Harris, Sadie Hartwell, Edith Maxwell, Barbara Ross - ★★★★½
  6. Frosting and Fairies by Danielle Garrett - ★★★★½
  7. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - ★★★★★
  8. Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Ragnar Jónasson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir - ★★★★½
  9. The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women by Lisa Perrin - ★★★★★
::spread the love::