Tafadhali's 2025 Category Challenge

Here we go! Another year of reading ahead — as ever, I'm entering the year with big aspirations and we'll see how it goes in practice, haha.

I. BingoDog



1. Features winged creature(s):
2. Features fire:
3. Travel:
4. Newly in public domain:
5. Child main character:
6. Long title (5+ words):
7. Non-traditional family:
8. Totally random:
9. Author has your first/last name:
10. Holiday in title:
11. Non-human narrator:
12. Published in a language not your own:
13. READ A CAT
14. Furniture on the cover:
15. Medical topic:
16. Features a birth:
17. Hollywood!:
18. Place you've never been:
19. Profession in title:
20. Sun on cover/in title: At the Feet of the Sun re-re-re-read?
21. Oldest book on your TBR:
22. Set in your favorite season:
23. Recommended by a friend: Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica (recced by Christine & Jacob)
24. "Library" or "Thing" in title:
25. Writing about writers:

II. Cats & Kits

JANUARY
- Diverse Perspectives (ScaredyKit)
- Cozy Fantasy (SFFKit)
- Winter Mysteries (MysteryKIT)

FEBRUARY
- Haunted Houses (ScaredyKit)
- Art of SFFKit (SFFKit)
- Vintage Mysteries (MysteryKIT)

MARCH
- Real-life Monsters (ScaredyKit)
- Magical Realism (SFFKit)
- Espionage (MysteryKIT)

APRIL
- Arachnids, Insects, and Reptilia (ScaredyKit)
- Women Authors (SFFKit)
- Paranormal (MysteryKIT)

MAY
- Out in the Wild (ScaredyKit)
- Authors of Global South (SFFKit)
- Not Set in My Country (MysteryKIT)

JUNE
- YA and Graphic Novels (ScaredyKit)
- Anthologies & Collections (SFFKit)
- LGBTQ+ Detectives (MysteryKIT)

JULY
- Ghosts (ScaredyKit)
- Alternative History (SFFKit)
- Series Sleuths (MysteryKIT)

AUGUST
- Female Authors (ScaredyKit)
- Space (SFFKit)
- Legal Thrillers (MysteryKIT)

SEPTEMBER
- Stephen King & Family (ScaredyKit)
- Back to School SFF (SFFKit)
- Silver Age Mysteries (MysteryKIT)

OCTOBER
- Gothic (ScaredyKit)
- Mysterious Artifacts (SFFKit)
- Police Procedurals (MysteryKIT)

NOVEMBER
- Psychological Thrillers (ScaredyKit, MysteryKIT)
- The Day After (SFFKit)

DECEMBER
- Your Favorite Scary Trope (ScaredyKit)
- ?? (SFFKit)
- Cozies (MysteryKIT)

III. Tackling Mt. TBR

Specifically, going for books that are stacked around my room precariously:

Pursuits of Happiness by Stanley Cavell
Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashio
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Projections of Passing by N. Megan Kelley
It Came from the Closet by Joe Vallese
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
La Passe-miroir by Christelle Dabos
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Old is the New New by Kieron Gillen
Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson
I Do and I Don't by Jeanine Basinger
The Outsider by Stephen King

And ongoing WIPs:

Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

IV. Gift Books

Planning:
Putting It Together by James Lapine, It Came from the Closet by Joe Vallese, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Outsider by Stephen King, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

V. Run the Series

Planning:
Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse, Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett (Lymond bk. 4), The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (Cemeteries of Amalo bk. 3), Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London bk. 10)

VI. Read the World

Africa:
Antarctica:
Asia:
Europe:
North America:
Oceania:
South America: Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda?
Space:

VII. Turn Back the Clock

1980-2000:
1960-1980:
1940-1960:
1920-1940:
1900-1920:
1880-1900:
1840-1880: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
1800-1840:

VIII. Book Talk Fodder

JANUARY - RTW Asia:
FEBRUARY - RTW South America:
MARCH - Memoir:
APRIL - LGBTQIA:
MAY - US Summer Reading:
JUNE - US Summer Reading:
JULY - US Summer Reading:
AUGUST - US Summer Reading:
SEPTEMBER - Romance:
OCTOBER - Spooky Middle Grade:
NOVEMBER - Native American Author:
DECEMBER - Professional Development:

IX. Get Back Into Graphic Novels
Read 5+ new-to-me graphic novels in 2025

X. Read About the Real World
Read 5+ new-to-me non-fiction titles in 2025

Good reading in 2025. Great list.

You've got some interesting categories here. Happy reading!

Good luck with your 2025 reading!

Very interesting categories.

Ambitious! Wishing you luck and happiness with your reading and the new year.

>16 majkia: Haha, thanks! I definitely won't finish all of these but if I even make a dent in Mt. TBR or do one Kit/Cat a month, I'll be happy.

Very ambitious reading plans! Enjoy!

Great categories. I'll be watching your world reading in particular.

Enjoy your reading in 2025. Hope you make a dent in the book mountain (I never seem to!)

Enjoy your 2025 reading!