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Kick Off 2025 With These January Reading Themes
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?