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Kick Off 2025 With These January Reading Themes

Pop Culture Crime
1 min readDec 20, 2024

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Are you looking for reading challenge themes for January? Here are some ideas to kickstart the new year.

New Year, New Worlds

Focus on books that explore new, fantastical, or dystopian worlds. This is a great challenge if you tend to read realistic fiction.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Dune by Frank Herbert

Fresh Starts

Stories about new beginnings, reinvention, or personal transformation.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Bleak Midwinter

Dive into chilling, atmospheric winter tales perfect for long, cold nights.

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Time Travel January

Books about time travel, alternate realities, or bending time and space.

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

What will you be reading this January?

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