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A Reading Challenge
for the Ages

30 days to rediscover your love of reading. Choose your goal, pick up a book, and see how far consistency can take you.

Oct 5Nov 3
October 5 – November 3, 2026
Oct 5Day 1
Nov 3Day 30

Who’s reading

17 readers so far · Add your name

  1. SteppeDevPoeticsAristotle20 pages a day
  2. Rafael CostaWolf HallHilary Mantel50 pages a day
  3. quietcorner_readsThe Secret HistoryDonna Tartt20 pages a day
  4. Maya OkaforTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowGabrielle Zevin20 pages a day
  5. nightstand nikThe Name of the WindPatrick Rothfuss50 pages a day
  6. Hannah R.PiranesiSusanna Clarke20 pages a day
  7. Tomás IbarraLonesome DoveLarry McMurtry50 pages a day
  8. Priya SPachinkoMin Jin Lee20 pages a day
  9. slowburnreaderAnna KareninaLeo Tolstoy50 pages a day
  10. Sam WhitlockDemon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver20 pages a day
  11. bookishbethBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of PlantsRobin Wall Kimmerer20 pages a day
  12. Owen FitzgeraldMiddlemarchGeorge Eliot50 pages a day
  13. Jake MorenoProject Hail MaryAndy Weir20 pages a day
  14. kettleandkindleEast of EdenJohn Steinbeck50 pages a day
  15. Claire DuboisThe Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro20 pages a day
  16. SolreaderElon MuskWalter Isaacson20 pages a day
  17. David HLawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle EastScott Anderson50 pages a day

Two ways to read

The Daily Reader

20pages
a day
600 pages in 30 days
Enough time to finish several of these
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Republic by Plato
SPQR by Mary Beard

The Avid Reader

50pages
a day
1,500 pages in 30 days
Enough time to finish one of these
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Count me in.

Join the 30-day reading challenge. We’ll remind you when it starts and send a little encouragement along the way.

Shown on the public reader list with your goal and book. Leave it blank to stay off the list.

Reading goal
What will you read?Optional

Free to join. No account required.

Count me in.

Join the 30-day reading challenge. We’ll remind you when it starts and send a little encouragement along the way.

Shown on the public reader list with your goal and book. Leave it blank to stay off the list.

Reading goal
What will you read?Optional

Free to join. No account required.