2025 Reading Challenge: A book about superheroes or where someone has powers

Are you participating in the 2025 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year and every month we’ll feature one of the challenge prompts. This month we’re featuring the prompt “a book about superheroes or where someone has powers. Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt but there are plenty of other books you can pick up!

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Juvenile Fiction

Heroes & villains / The hero revealedPowerlessAlmost superThe girl who could fly

Young Adult

Lost and Found  GoneDreadnought / Super adjacentNot your sidekick

The extraordinaries/ Renegade Steelheart/ZeroesThe second chance of Darius Logan

Adult

Super humanWe Could Be HeroesThe reign of the kingfisherSecret identity / Vicious

Novels about Comic Characters

Breaking the darkFaith : taking flighBlack Canary : Breaking SilenceSuperman : dawnbreaker / The winter soldier : cold front

Graphic Novels

Katie the catsitter  The shadow heroNimona

Like lava in my veins / Donut The Destroyer / My hero academia

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Books Coming to Screens: February 2025

Sweet Magnolias by Sherryl Woods

Season 4

Welcome to Serenity: A Novel (A Sweet Magnolias Novel, 4): Woods, Sherryl:  9780778311331: Amazon.com: BooksSweet Magnolias (TV Series 2020– ) - IMDb

Three South Carolina women, best friends since high school, shepherd one another through the complexities of romance, career and family.

Feb 6th/ Netflix/ Put on hold

Invincible

Season 3

Amazon cover imageInvincible (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb

An adult animated series based on the Skybound/Image comic about a teenager whose father is the most powerful superhero on the planet.

Feb 6th/ Amazon/ Put on hold

This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens

Amazon cover imageThis Time Next Year (2024) - IMDb

Minnie and Quinn are born on the same day, one minute apart. Their lives may begin together, but their worlds couldn’t be more different. Years later they find themselves together again. Maybe it’s time to take a chance on love.

Feb 10th/ Roku/ Put on hold

Sword of destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

Amazon cover imageThe Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (2025) - IMDb

Hired to probe seaside village attacks, mutant monster hunter Geralt unravels an age-old conflict between humans and sea people that threatens war between kingdoms. Aided by allies, he must solve the mystery before hostilities escalate.

Feb 11th/ Netflix/ Put on hold

Bridget Jones: mad about the boy by Helen Fielding

Amazon cover imageBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) - IMDb

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mom with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she’s pursued by a younger man and maybe – just maybe – her son’s science teacher.

Feb 13th/ Theaters/ Put on hold

Paddington by Michael Bond

Paddington in Peru

Amazon cover imagePaddington in Peru (2024) - IMDb

Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey.

Feb 14th/ Theaters/ Put on hold

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Verona’s Romeo & Juliet

Amazon cover image

Based on the real story that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, follows the greatest love story of all time, set as an original pop musical.

Feb 14th/ Theaters/ Put on hold

Colter Shaw series by Jeffery Deaver

Tracker (season 2)

Amazon cover imageTracker Season 2's Best Potential Returning Character Is A Forgotten Season  1 Villain

Colter Shaw travels the country in his old-school RV, helping police and private citizens solve crimes and locate missing persons–until his latest case changes everything.

Feb 16th/ CBS/ Put on hold

Jack Reacher series by Lee Child

Reacher (season 3)

Amazon cover imageReacher (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb

Itinerant former military policeman Jack Reacher solves crimes and metes out his own brand of street justice. Based on the novels by Lee Child.

Feb 20th/ Amazon/ Put on hold

The Monkey by Stephen King

part of book Skeleton Crew

The Monkey (2025) - IMDb

When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.

Feb 21st/ Theaters/ Put on hold

The Unbreakable Boy by Scott Michael LeRette

Amazon cover imageThe Unbreakable Boy - Wikipedia

A young boy with both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism. But what makes him truly unique is his joyous, funny, life-affirming world view that transforms and unites everyone around him.

Feb 21st/ Theaters/ Put on hold

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New Fiction- January 2025

Death in the downline : F ABRAMS, MARIA
Cold bones / F ADAMS, JANE
Roland Rogers isn’t dead yet / F ALLEN, SAMANTHA
The secret of the three fates / F ARMSTRONG, JESS
What the light touches: F BOSCH, XAVIER
They all fall the same F BROWNE, WES
The note / F BURKE, ALAFAIR
Haunting and homicide / F BURKE, AVA
Boudicca / F CAST, P.C.
The sound of us / F CASTILLE, SARAH
Keep me / F CATE, SARA
Wake up and open your eyes : F CHAPMAN, CLAY
You can’t hurt me : F COOK, EMMA
The big empty / F CRAIS, ROBERT
Eddie Winston is looking for love / F CRONIN, MARIANNE
The stolen queen / F DAVIS, FIONA
The incident of the book in the nighttime / F DELANY, VICKI
Order of swans / F DEVERAUX, JUDE
Loose lips / F DONOVAN, KEMPER
Sorcery and small magics / F DOOCY, MAIGA
Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop / F DUNCAN, EMMELINE
The favorites / F FARGO, LAYNE
The oligarch’s daughter / F FINDER, JOSEPH
Laura & Emma : F GREATHEAD, KATE
The housekeeper’s secret / F GREY, IONA
Tea With Elephants / F GUNN, ROBIN
How to sleep at night / F HARRIS, ELIZABETH
Witchcraft for wayward girls / F HENDRIX, GRADY
How to Get a Life in Ten Dates. F HOWE, JENNY
The life of Herod the Great / F HURSTON, ZORA
Hotel Lucky Seven / F ISAKA, KOTARO
Here beside the rising tide : F JANE, EMILY
I’ll come to you / F KAUFFMAN,REBECCA
Elmer Kelton’s The familiar stranger / F KELTON, STEVE
Imposter syndrome / F KNOX, JOSEPH
Underground Barbie / F KOLANOVIC, MASA
The shutouts / F KORN, GABRIELLE
Shattering dawn / F KRENTZ, JAYNE
Flirting with disaster : F KUMAR, NAINA
Theo of golden : F LEVI, ALLEN
Give me butterflies / F MEADOWS, JILLIAN
The heartbeat library / F MESSINA, LAURA
A Golden Life. F MOYER, GINNY
The bishop’s villa / F NASPINI, SACHA
Not your biggest fan / F NEY, SARA
The case of the missing maid / F OSLER, ROB
The Texas murders / F PATTERSON, JAMES
Holmes is missing / F PATTERSON, JAMES
Floreana / F RAYMOND, MIDGE
The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape. F ROBERTS, TERRY
Let’s call her Barbie / F ROSEN, RENEE
Murder in the dressing room / F STARS, HOLLY
Never say never / F STEEL, DANIELLE
Buried Road. F TALLO, KATIE
Errands & Espionage. F TSCHIDA, SAM
Presumed guilty / F TUROW, SCOTT
Johnny Careless / F WADE, KEVIN
Ace, marvel, spy / F WALSH, JENNI
The Unexpected Diva. F WARREN, TIFFANY
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New Young Adult Books- January 2025

My fairy god somebody YA ALLEN, MARLENE
Perfect girl YA BANGHART, TRACY
Dating and dragons YA BOYCE, KRISTY
Ex marks the spot YA CHAO, GLORIA
The whispering night YA DENNARD, SUSAN
Shadowed YA DEUKER, CARL
The rules of royalty YA DIETRICH, CALE
Dead below deck YA GANGSEI, JAN
We are the beasts YA GRIFFIS, GIGI
The lies we conjure YA HENNING, SARAH
Thanks for listening YA HORAN, MOLLY
Serpent sea YA IBRAHIM, MAIYA
Rani Choudhury must die YA JAIGIRDAR, ADIBA
Flopping in a winter wonderland YA JUNE JASON
Heist royale YA LEWIS, KAYVION
More than this YA MARQUIS, KRYSTAL
A queen’s game YA MCGEE, KATHARINE
A cruel thirst YA MONTOYA, ANGELA
Midnights with you YA OSONGCO, CLARE
Briarcliff prep YA PEPPINS, BRIANNA
Darkly YA PESSL, MARISHA
In want of a suspect YA PRICE, TIRZAH
Medici heist YA SCHNEIDERHAN, CAITLIN
Kisses, codes, and conspiracies YA WEN, ABIGAIL
Better than revenge YA WEST, KASIE
Tangleroot YA WILLIAMS, KALELA
The donut prince of New York YA ZADOFF, ALLEN
Tectiv. YGN HAMILTON, RICHARD
Between the Pipes YGN MCLEOD, ALBERT
Leap YGN POPESCU, SIMINA
Supercharge your body and brain power YNF 612 CHANG-LIM, EICHIN
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