2025 Challenges

CHALLENGE 1: 2025 Discussion Challenge

• Create a sign-up post announcing your intention to participate and link up below. There’s no need to say what your discussion posts will be about–just tell us you’re joining and let us know your goal. (Can be in an update post or a post with other challenges–you’re not required to make a completely separate sign-up post.)
• Please link back to both challenge hosts and include the challenge button in your sign-up posts. Feel free to also link back in your actual discussions (we appreciate it, so more people can find us!), but that’s not required.
• The challenge runs from January 1st until December 31st, 2025. Sign-ups will remain open through December 28th, 2025. So, you can basically sign up all year long. Come join us!
• Share it! The more people we get to participate in this, the more awesome discussions we can all be a part of and the more fun it will be! So, invite your friends to join us!
• On the 1st of every month, a link-up will go up on both Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Starts at Midnight where you’ll leave your links for that month’s discussions. Every month, I’ll update the Discussion Challenge widget in the sidebar with the new post–so you’ll always know where to find the latest link-up!
• There will also be a big yearly giveaway–multiple winners for multiple things!–so do keep entering and checking back!
• Use the hashtag #LetsDiscuss2025 to share your progress and connect with other participants on Twitter

The Levels:

1-10 – Discussion Dabbler
11-20 – Creative Conversationalist
21-30 – Chatty Kathy
31-40 – Terrifically Talkative
41+ – Gift of the Gab

I'm aiming for 25 41 this year...to start!

1. 2024 End of the Year Survey  [January]
2. Reading in the Car  [January]
3. Reading Essentials  [January]
4. The 50 Bookish Questions Tag  [January]
5. Blogoversary Reminiscing  [January]
6. Posting Times  [February]
7. Books to Film Reading  [February]
8. Bizarre Categorizing Choices  [February]
9. Intimidating Page Counts  [February]
10. Choosing the Next Read  [March]
11. My Beef with Romantasy  [March]
12. Faceless Covers  [March]
13. Reading & Weather  [March]
14. Fairy Tales & Retellings  [March]
15. Vampires & Werewolves  [March]
16. Bookish Would You Rather...  [March]
17. The Jelly Bean Book Cover Tag  [April]
18. My Hesitancy with Space Books  [April]
19. Cover Lovin  [April]
20. The Classics  [April]
21. Release Date Changes  [April]
22. Series Cancellations  [April]
23. Sequel Reviews  [April]
24. Book Contests  [April]
25. The Fantasy Tropes Tag  [May]
26. Starting with the Wrong Book  [May]
27. "Video" Reviews  [May]
28. Who's Your Book Dealer?  [May]
29. When the Order Doesn't Matter  [May]
30. Planning the Reading Queue  [May]
31. Authors' Lesser Known Books  [May]
32. Duology Reading  [May]
33. Annotating  [June]
34. Serial Reading  [June]
35. Favorite Edges Feature  [July]
36. Mid Year Freak Out Book Tag  [July]
37. Dream Library  [July]
38. Author Collaborations  [August]
39. FOMO of Deluxe Editions  [August]
40. Fantasy Favorites Tag  [August]
41. The Deluded Love Interest  [August]
42. A Random Blogging Thing  [September]
43. Sequel Synopses  [September]
44. Authors Changing "Age" Levels  [October]
45. Spooky Book Tag  [October]
46. Book Compulsions  [October]
47. Fantasy Reads  [November]
48. The BER Months Book Tag  [November]
49. Multi-Author Events  [November]
50. Young Adult Reads  [November]

CHALLENGE 2: Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge 2025

• The challenge runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025
• The book must be published in the previous year or earlier
• You must start and finish the book in 2025 for it to count
• Any format, any genre. Re-reads count, you don’t have to own the book, and you can join at any time. Track your BTB reading separately or pair it with another reading challenge!
• Using the optional reading prompts? It’s one book per prompt!

I'm aiming for 20 30 books so far!

1. Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray (10/3/17)  [January]
2. The King of Crows by Libba Bray (2/4/20)  [January]
3. The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli (10/2/17)  [January]
4. The Caged Queen by Kristen Ciccarelli (9/25/18)  [January]
5. The Sky Weaver by Kristen Ciccarelli (11/12/19)  [January]
6. Edgewood by Kristen Ciccarelli (3/1/22)  [January]
7. Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano (1/31/23)  [February]
8. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano (3/5/24)  [February]
9. Demons of Good and Evil by Kim Harrison (6/13/23)  [February]
10. Demon's Bluff by Kim Harrison (10/22/24)  [February]
11. Little Thieves by Margaret Owen (10/19/21)  [March]
12. Painted Devils by Margaret Owen (5/16/23)  [March]
13. The Scarlet Veil by Shelby Mahurin (9/26/23)  [March]
14. Phantasma by Kaylie Smith (9/3/24)  [March]
15. The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson (11/12/24)  [April]
16. One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (9/27/22)  [April]
17. Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (10/17/23)  [April]
18. The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry (5/14/24)  [April]
19. That's Not My Name by Megan Lally (12/26/23)  [May]
20. The Boy Who Cried Bear by Kelley Armstrong (2/20/24)  [May]
21. On Wings of Blood by Briar Boleyn (11/30/24)  [May]
22. The Bond That Burns by Briar Boleyn (12/30/24)  [May]
23. Never Never by Serena Valentino (7/19/22)  [June]
24. Fire & Fate by Serena Valentino (7/15/23)  [June]
25. Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair (3/7/23)  [June]
26. Fairest of All (Graphic Novel) by Serena Valentino & Fiona Marchbank (5/2/23)  [June]
27. Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson (9/10/24)  [June]
28. The Monster and The Last Blood Match by K.A. Linde (4/24/18)  [June]
29. Part of Your World (Graphic Novel) by Liz Braswell, et alt  (6/13/23)  [June]
30. Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson (10/3/23)  [June]
31. The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde (6/4/24)  [June]
32. The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen (7/2/24)  [June]
33. The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten (4/9/24)  [July]
34. The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (7/9/24)  [July]
35. Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor  (4/5/22)  [July]
36. The Darkness Within Us by Tricia Levenseller (7/9/24)  [August]
37. So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison (9/10/24)  [August]
38. The Stolen Heir by Holly Black (1/3/23)  [August]
39. The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black (3/5/24)  [September]
40. Secrets So Deep by Ginny Myers Sain (9/27/22)  [September]
41. Prince of Thorns & Nightmares by Linsey Miller (10/3/23)  [September]
42. One Last Breath by Ginny Myers Sain (3/5/24)  [September]
43. A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan (9/24/24)  [October]
44. Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu (3/28/23)  [October]
45. The Mermaid by Christina Henry (6/19/18)  [November]