Despite January 2025 feeling like a never-ending month of stress and illness, I used reading as my escape. Here’s an update on my reading challenges for 2025. I’ve also updated my page devoted to 2025 reading challenges. 

Read 25 Nonfiction Titles

2/25 read

How to Outline a Cozy Mystery Sara Rossett

Better Crocker Found Recipes Betty Crocker

Read 25 Books from My Shelves 

1/25 read

How to Outline a Cozy Mystery Sara Rossett

Read 24 Titles from 2024

13/24 read

Happy Homicide Jenn Pitts

The Case of the Beguiling Brooch Terry Ambrose

The Grim Steeper Gretchen Rue

Dominoes, Danzón, and Death Raquel V. Reyes

Puzzle Me A Murder Roz Noonan

Knife Skills for Beginners Orlando Murrin

Libby Lost and Found Stephanie Booth

The Queen’s Faithful Companion Eliza Knight

Tomorrow is for the Brave Kelly Bowen

Safe in Death S.K. Rizzolo

The Case of the Missing Maid Rob Osler

Better Crocker Found Recipes Betty Crocker

Know Your Newlywed Hillary Nussbaum

Bookish Community Challenges:

Craving for Cozies (goal: Yearning – 51 – 75 Cozy Mysteries)

18/51 read

Under the Cocoon Moon Kathleen Bailey

Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal Raquel V. Reyes

Happy Homicide Jenn Pitts

The Case of the Beguiling Brooch Terry Ambrose

The Grim Steeper Gretchen Rue

Dominoes, Danzón, and Death Raquel V. Reyes

Puzzle Me A Murder Roz Noonan

Knife Skills for Beginners Orlando Murrin

A Fatal Attraction Joy Patrick

Steamed Secrets Tonya Kappes

Tartan, Treasures and Trouble Victoria Tait

Haunting and Homicide Ava Burke

Chocolate Can Be Deadly Kim Davis

Dashiki Florence Wetzel

Murder on the Menu Katie Marsh

The Cream Tea Killer Judy Leigh

Star-Crossed Egg Tarts Jennifer Chow

Schooled in Murder Victoria Gilbert

Netgalley Challenge (goal: silver, 25 books)

14/25 read

Here Beside the Rising Tide

Emily Jane

Star-Crossed Egg Tarts

Jennifer J. Chow

Murder on the Menu

Katie Marsh

The Storyteller’s Daughter

Victoria Scott

What Happened to the McCrays?

Tracey Lange

A New Lease on Death

Olivia Blacke

Knife Skills for Beginners

Orlando Murrin

The Queen’s Faithful Companion

Eliza Knight

Dark Times for the Clarks Factory Girls

May Ellis

Family Ties on Beamer Street

Sheila Riley

The Cream Tea Killer

Judy Leigh

Schooled in Murder

Victoria Gilbert

Libby Lost and Found

Stephanie Booth

Tomorrow Is for the Brave

Kelly Bowen

Creativity Reading Challenge 2025 (goal: 10 books)

1/10 read

How to Outline a Cozy Mystery Sara Rossett

2025 BTC Reading Challenge (goal: 12 books)

0/12 read

Beat the Backlist 2025 Challenge (goal: 24 books)

18/24 read

How to Outline a Cozy Mystery Sara Rossett

Better Than the Movies Lynn Painter

Under the Cocoon Moon Kathleen Bailey

Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal Raquel V. Reyes

The Lost Bookshop Evie Woods

Happy Homicide Jenn Pitts

The Case of the Beguiling Brooch Terry Ambrose

The Grim Steeper Gretchen Rue

Dominoes, Danzón, and Death Raquel V. Reyes

Puzzle Me A Murder Roz Noonan

Knife Skills for Beginners Orlando Murrin

Libby Lost and Found Stephanie Booth

The Queen’s Faithful Companion Eliza Knight

Tomorrow is for the Brave Kelly Bowen

Safe in Death S.K. Rizzolo

The Case of the Missing Maid Rob Osler

Better Crocker Found Recipes Betty Crocker

Know Your Newlywed Hillary Nussbaum

2025 Book Girls Guide Book Lover’s Challenge (goal: 12 books fitting the monthly theme)

0/12 read

2025 Book Girls Guide Backlist Challenge (goal: 12 books fitting the monthly decades)

0/12 read