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NorthWild Books

2025 Reading Challenge

Join us for our first NorthWild Books Reading Challenge.

Support your local bookstore and enter to win a $120 gift certificate
and a bonus $50 gift certificate!*

Our first reading challenge is THE BUZZWORD READATHON

(#buzzwordathon). This is a year long challenge focused on reading a book title with the designated word and/or word theme of the month. The buzzwords are from Storygraph, a woman-created, independent book-tracking platform. 

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*To be eligible for the $120 gift certificate, you must purchase or order all 12 books through NorthWild Books. To be eligible for the bonus $50 gift certificate, you must follow us on Instagram (@north_wildbooks) and/or Facebook (facebook.com/northwildbooks). You do not have to be local to participate - books can be ordered on our website, via our affiliates (Libro.fm, Bookshop.org), or by reaching out to us at northwildbooks@gmail.com. Drawings will be held in January 2026. 

January

"Truth" and "Lies"

titles featuring "truth/true" or "lies, liar, lying"

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February

Water related words

(i.e., water, sea, river, lake, ocean)

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March

"Thing"

titles that contain "thing"

(i.e., something, nothing, everything) â€‹

April

Animals

(i.e., elephant, bunny, snake, bird)

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May

"To" and "Too"

instructional titles encouraged, for example: "how to __" OR "guide to __"

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June

Memory related words

(i.e., memory, forget, remember, confuse, know)

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July

Titles featuring punctuation

titles that contain periods, commas, parentheses, etc. â€‹

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August

"With"

titles containing the word 'with

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September

Events

titles featuring a time-specific activity (i.e., vacation, party, birthday, wedding, retreat, prom)​

October

Violent words

(i.e., kill, death, attack, villain, weapons, fight)

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November

"Never"

titles featuring the word 'never"

 

 

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December

Titles featuring alliteration

titles that feature two or more words that begin with the same sound (i.e., Gone Girl, Summer of Salt)​

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