2025 Build Your Library Reading Challenge

For their reading challenge this year, the Build Your Library site has chosen "Reading Banned Books" as the theme.

1. Written by a Woman:
2. With an LGBTQ+ protagonist: Openly Straight--Bill Konigsberg
3. Sapphic romance:
4. Banned in your state:
5. About immigration:
6. About racism:
7. About climate change: The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel
8. Fantasy:
9. By a trans author:
10. A memoir:
11. By an Indigenous author:
12. About civil rights:
13. Graphic novel:
14. About suffrage:
15. About a topic that is important to you:
16. About banned books:
17. Non-fiction:
18. With a disabled protagonist:
19. With chronic illness rep:
20. By a woman of color:
21. About reproductive rights:
22. Set in the 1960s:
23. Written before 1960: East of Eden--John Steinbeck
24. About resistance:
25. Dystopian:
26. About a lesser-known history:
27. About an inspiring person:
28. Apocalyptic:
29. About refugees:
30. By a Latin American author:
31. Won a award:
32. YA or Middle Grade: Eleven--Tom Rogers
33. About witches:
34. About a woman ruler:
35. About or set in a  library: The Reading List--Sara Nisha Adams
36. By a black author:
37. In translation: Before the Coffee Gets Cold--Shikazu Kawaguchi
38. Debunks a historical myth:
39. Released in the last 5 years:
40. On the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of the last year: