Book of the Month Backlist Challenge 2025

8 participants (5 books)

01 Jan 202531 Dec 2025

Overview

Since I joined Book of the Month in January 2022, I’ve amassed quite the backlist of books I haven't read yet. This year, I’d like to read at least one book from my Book of the Month backlist each month. I've decided to create a challenge in the style of the Trim Your TBR challenges I've seen to help me accomplish that goal. 

How this challenge works is to create a list of all the books from Book of the Month backlist (up to 28 books in total). Each month, I’ll use a randomizer to pick one of the remaining numbers and then we'll each read the book associated with that number on our individual lists.

Here is my list as an example:
  1. The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
  2. The Circus Train
  3. Cross Her Heart
  4. The Dagger and the Flame
  5. Dark Corners
  6. Darling Girl
  7. A Fate Inked in Blood
  8. Hang the Moon
  9. Heartless Hunter
  10. Hera
  11. Husbands & Lovers
  12. Ink Blood Sister Scribe
  13. The Last Party
  14. The Last Word
  15. Like a Sister
  16. The Lost Apothecary
  17. PS I Hate You
  18. The Road of Bones
  19. Someone Else’s Shoes
  20. A Song to Drown Rivers
  21. The Stardust Thief
  22. The Stranger Upstairs
  23. Things We Do in the Dark
  24. The Thirteenth Child
  25. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  26. Weyward
  27. The Wild Huntress
 28. A Winter in New York
 
In January, the number is 24 so I'll read The Thirteenth Child and you'll read whatever book is in your 24 slot.

If you don't have 28 books in your Book of the Month backlist, you can either add more books from your general TBR or you'll get a month off if a number is picked that you don't have a book assigned to.

Challenge Prompts

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