She Reads Romance Books’ 2025 Romance Book Reading Challenge

Ready to check out the romance genre in 2025? Join me for the 2025 Romance Book Reading Challenge – THE reading challenge devoted exclusively to the romance genre where we read romance all year long…because life is better with a love story!

For the She Reads Romance Books’ sixth annual Romance Book Reading Challenge we will be reading ONE romance book a month while having fun and exploring the major categories of the romance genre. Here are all the details if you’re up to the challenge…

The 2025 Romance Book Reading Challenge Categories

This year we are going to make our way through 12 of the major categories of the romance genre to get a taste of everything it has to offer.

By focusing on the major categories, this gives you a lot of room to explore whatever romance book tropes you want within those categories. Like enemies to lovers? You could read this trope every month of the year for each challenge or mix it up along the way.

January – Contemporary Romance

February – Erotic Romance

March – Romantic Comedy

April – Historical Romance

May – Fantasy  Romance

June – Queer Romance

July – Sports Romance

August – Dark Romance

September – New Adult Romance

October – Paranormal Romance

November – Romantic Suspense

December – Holiday Romance

How to Join the Reading Challenge

Joining the reading challenge is easy and open to any reader. Simply follow along with the monthly themes above and have fun. You can jump in at any time of year and if you need to take a break, just hop back in whenever you are able.

If you sign up for my newsletter, you can get a copy of my free Challenge printable where you can track your book selections by category. Each month I’ll send an email reminding you of our romance category of the month and share my book recommendations for each category.

New This Year: 52 Book Romance Reading Challenge!

If you really want to up the ante this year, you can also try the 52 Book Romance Reading Challenge and read one romance book a week for 2025. When you join the challenge and my newsletter list, I’ll be sharing weekly reading challenges with book recommendations.

Each week I’m going to draw a card from my A Year of Reading Romance Card Deck and will share its reading challenge and romance trope with recommendations. It’s going to be a lot of fun to explore a year of reading romance with you. 😊

Want to create your own Romance Book Reading Challenge? Buy the A Year of Reading Romance Card Deck and use it to create your own challenge up front or pull a card each month or each week as you go. The opportunities are endless!

Where to Find Books for the Reading Challenge?

To help you pick your monthly selections, explore my romance book lists here on She Reads Romance Books. I guarantee you’re going to find a great book on one of my lists. If you’re looking for something specific, use the search bar in the menu above.

A great tool to help you easily complete the 2025 Romance Book Reading Challenge is a Kindle Unlimited subscription or Audible subscription if you prefer audiobooks or both!

Kindle Unlimited is FULL of a wide variety of romance book titles in each of these romance categories and you can’t beat the price for a monthly membership! If you need some convincing, check out my post where I ask, Is Kindle Unlimited Worth It?

Share Your Selections in the Facebook Group

I cannot wait to cheer you on in this romance book reading challenge and hear what you’re reading. Join my private Facebook group, the She Reads Romance Books Reader Lounge where we will be talking about the challenge all month and year long.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to connect with a fun community of fellow romance book readers.

Grab Your Free Reading Challenge Tracker

Keep track of this year’s challenge categories and your book selections, all in one place with the Romance Book Reading Challenge tracker. You can grab your free copy below.

Remember All Your Reading Challenge Favorites

If you’re looking to track even more about your favorite reading challenge selections this year, then don’t forget to grab a copy of the Romance Book Reading Journal!

The Romance Book Reading Journal is a reading tracker, planner and journal all in one with over 100 pages created exclusively for romance book readers.

With pages such as the monthly reading tracker, favorite quotes tracker, book series list, book review form and pages to track your favorites in over 20 categories and tropes, it has everything you could possibly need and want (plus more!) in a book journal. Grab the paperback or hardcover on Amazon or the printable version now!

Happy Reading…because life is better with a love story!

xox, Leslie

Past Romance Book Reading Challenges:

• 2024 Romance Book Reading Challenge
• 2023 Romance Book Reading Challenge
• 2022 Romance Book Reading Challenge
• 2021 Romance Book Reading Challenge
• 2020 Romance Book Reading Challenge