A 2025 RAD Reading Challenge

get ready for 2025 with the 7th annual edition of a rad reading challenge! nine prompts and one year to stretch yourself in your reading.

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A RAD Reading Challenge for 2024

This is one of my favorite things to create year after year — A RAD Reading Challenge is back for 2024!

The focus this year is to intentionally read DIVERSELY. (it matters!!! so much!!!)

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A RAD Reading Challenge for 2023

This is one of my favorite things to create year after year — A RAD Reading Challenge is back for 2023 with nine new prompts!

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A RAD Reading Challenge for 2022

A RAD Reading Challenge is a fun, motivating, inspiring, and easy way to branch out and read more, get out of reading ruts, and discover new kinds of books. Join us this year!

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30 Books with One Word Titles

One of the categories for A RAD Reading Challenge this year is “a one word title” and I wanted to help you find one to read! I scrolled through my Goodreads of all the books I’ve read in the last few years and rounded up a bunch of books from all different genres to help give you inspiration.

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A RAD Reading Challenge for 2021

A RAD Reading Challenge is a fun, motivating, inspiring, and easy way to branch out and read more, get out of reading ruts, and discover books I never would have read otherwise. I hope you’ll join me in 2021!

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Classic Recommendations // A RAD Reading Challenge

Classics don’t need to be intimidating! Lauren McHugh shares her best classics recs today, and you’re bound to find at least one you’re excited to read.

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Memoir Recommendations // A RAD Reading Challenge

Memoirs focus on one season or aspect of the author’s life, and they’re fascinating stories! Sharing a TON of memoir recommendations today — from my personal favorites to crowdsourced suggestions— to give you plenty of ideas.

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A RAD Reading Challenge

I’ve long been a fan of reading challenges — they’re fun, motivating, inspiring, and great for getting me out of reading ruts and helping me discover books I never would have read otherwise. This year, I decided to whip up my own!

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The Best Reading Challenges for 2018

I'm a big fan of a reading challenge. There's something about checking off those boxes that makes reading even more motivating and exciting, and I love that the challenges always push me beyond my normal reading comfort zone, too.

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How Did My Reading Challenge Turn Out?

2017 is coming to a close... so let's see how that whole reading challenge thing turned out!

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How I Use Goodreads (and Why I'm Obsessed)

My whole reading life changed the day I downloaded Goodreads. I'm not kidding! This one app/site has singlehandedly been the biggest game changer in my reading life.

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The Reading Challenge I'm Tackling in 2017

Here are my initial thoughts of what I'm PLANNING to read for Modern Mrs. Darcy's challenge this year -- all books are ones I currently own too since I'm buying NO BOOKS this year!

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The Two Reading Challenges I Tackled in 2016

In the fall, I stumbled upon some reading challenges that seemed to be the perfect motivation to keep cruising toward my twice-increased goal, so I decided to tackle two. Here's how it went.

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13 Tricks to Help You Read 100+ Books a Year

This year, I've already read over 100 books, and people are constantly asking me "HOW DO YOU READ SO MUCH?!" so I thought it would be fun to share the best tips and tricks I know.

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