It’s time to start rolling out my plans for reading challenges in 2025, beginning with the Non Fiction Reader Challenge hosted by Shelleyrae at Book’d Out.
The aim of the Nonfiction Reader Challenge is to encourage you to make nonfiction part of your reading experience during the year.
How it works:
You can select, read and review a book from the categories listed below during the year for a total of up to 12 books; OR select, read and review any nonfiction book. A book may be in print, electronic or audio format.
Categories:
History
Memoir/Biography
True Crime
Science
Health
Food
Travel
Garden
Myth, Legend and Folklore
Islands
How-To
Published in 2025
Choose a goal:
Nonfiction Nipper: Read & review 3 books, from any 3 listed categories
Nonfiction Nibbler: Read & review 6 books, from any 6 listed categories
Nonfiction Nosher: Read & review 12 books, one for each category
Nonfiction Grazer: Read & review any nonfiction book. Set your own goal, or none at all, just share the nonfiction you read through the year.
* You can choose your books as you go or create a list in advance. You may combine this challenge with others if you wish. Use your best good faith judgement as to whether a book fits the category or not.
* Where a book is identified by more than one category, it may only count for one, not both.
* You can read your chosen titles in any order, at any pace, just aim to complete the challenge by December 31st 2025.
To join:
Create a blog post committing to your participation in this challenge. * If you don’t have a blog you are still welcome to sign up. You can create a shelf for the challenge at Goodreads, LibraryThing or Storygraph, or post via Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky etc. Just add your name and a link to your shelf/account in the sign-up.
The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st 2025. Participants may join at any time up until December 1st 2025.
Guidelines:
Use the hashtag #ReadNonFicChal on social media.
You can tag Shelleyrae on on Twitter: @bookdout or Instagram: shelleyrae _bookdout to share.
Share your review with other challenge participants by including your name or blog name and the category with a direct link to your review in the Linky.
Please take the time to visit a few links and leave a comment after adding yours.
My Goal:
This is my first year participating in this challenge and I’m excited to get a little bit out of my comfort zone with the books I read. There are some categories here that I am not interested in at all but there are some that I’d like to try, so for that reason, I am going to sign up as a Non Fiction Grazer. I still plan on read and reviewing 12 books (1 per month) but I will dip in and out of the categories as the mood takes me.
If you’d like to join me, pop on over to Book’d Out and sign up.
Happy Non-Fiction reading!
Bookish Me 
Delighted to have you participating, good luck!
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Thank you!
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