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2025 Reading Challenge

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Hey there, book lovers! Are you ready to dive into a year filled with incredible stories? I’ve created a brand new reading challenge for 2025, and I’d love for you to join me.

To keep things fun and manageable, I’ve designed the challenge around 12 books — just one a month. Perfect, right? But for those of you who breeze through books, I’ve included an optional six extra books.

I devoured an amazing 28 books in 2024. It was one of my most book-filled years yet, and I loved every moment. You can check out my 2024 reading challenge here and see my absolute favourites from the year here. I’m hoping to read just as many (or maybe even more) in 2025.

I can’t wait to see what treasures 2025 holds for us. Let’s discover some unputdownable reads together — because every bookish journey is better with friends! Are you in? Drop a comment below and let me know if you’re joining the challenge!

Happy reading!

Must read books for Melbourne Mamma’s 2025 Reading Challenge

  • A book with 25 letters in the title
  • A book with food on the cover
  • A book written by someone who uses a pseudonym
  • A bestseller from 2005
  • A book you can finish in one day
  • A book by an Australian author
  • A book starting with the letter M
  • A book with a red cover
  • A book with a two word title
  • A book that has been on your reading list for 3+ years
  • A book with an animal in the title
  • The first book in a series

Extra books to read

  • A 2025 new release
  • One of the books I read in 2024
  • A book you want to read based purely on the cover
  • A book recommended by your local library
  • A book with 500+ pages
  • A book recommended by a celebrity

Let me know if you’re joining the reading challenge in the comments below (put your book titles in the comment section NOT the URL field) and feel free to come back and list the books you read throughout the year and let me know if you enjoyed them or not.

Keep an eye out for the books I’m reading and make sure you tag your own books on social media using #mmreadingchallenge2025

I hope you enjoy my 2025 Reading Challenge

2021 Reading Challenge

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Attention book lovers! I’ve set myself a reading challenge for 2021 and I’d love for you to join me.

I know what it’s like to be a busy mum (ie not have much time for reading), so I’ll only include 12 books in the challenge. However, I’ll also include an additional six books for those of you who will have no problem smashing through 12 books in one year.

As a chronic migraine sufferer, I don’t read as many books as I’d like too but thanks to an almost six-month lockdown here in Melbourne (#bloodycovid), I actually managed to read 30 books in 2020.

I’m not sure how this year will pan out, but I’m aiming to read 25 books this year.

You can see how I went in my 2020 reading challenge here.

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10 Great Books for Tweens

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19 great books for tweens

If you’ve been following me for a while, you will know that my daughter LOVES to read.

She showed a love of reading from a very young age and now that she is 12, she’s churning through books faster than I am.

As she’s gotten older, I’ve found it increasingly harder to find great books for tweens that are age appropriate. There seems to be a fine line between being suitable for 10-12 year olds and then suitable for teens (15+).

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10 Books I Cannot Wait To Read in 2020

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10 books i want to read in 2020

I’ve got a pile of books next to my bed that never seems to get any smaller AND a list of books a mile long on Goodreads that I’ve been meaning to read for a long time. I figure that if I make a commitment here to read some of these books, then I will do it. So, here are 10 books I cannot wait to read in 2020.

I’m hoping some of these books will count towards my 2020 Reading Challenge that I published last month. PS. It’s not too late to join the challenge, so check it out.

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2020 Reading Challenge

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2020 Reading Challenge

Calling all book lovers! I’ve set myself a reading challenge for 2020 and I’d love for you to join me.

I know what it’s like to be a busy mum (ie not have much time for reading), so I’ll only include 12 books in the challenge. However, I’ll include an additional six books for those of you who will have no problem smashing through 12 books in one year.

As a chronic migraine sufferer, I don’t get to read as often as I’d like too but I’m pretty happy that I managed to read 17 books throughout 2019. For this year, I’m aiming to read 20 books.

See how I went in my 2019 reading challenge here.

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