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 where a character goes on an adventure.” Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt but there are plenty of other books you can pick up!
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Tsukasa, whose dreams were crushed. Inori, left to fend for herself. These two share a dream…and their tenacity may be the only thing that sees them through. Their destination? The ice…on the world’s stage.
Follows a neurosurgeon who discovers she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. She must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.
The Apothecary Diaries / Natsu Hyuuga and Itsuki Nanao ; illustrated by Nekokurage
(Season 2)
A young maiden is kidnapped and sold into servitude at the emperor’s palace, where she secretly employs her pharmacist skills with the help of the head eunuch to unravel medical mysteries in the inner court.
“Goosebumps” is a horror series telling the story of a group of five high school students who unleash supernatural forces upon their town. Now, they must work together in order to save it.
Legendary ex-hitman Taro Sakamoto bands with comrades to face off against the looming threat of assassins to ensure a peaceful life with his beloved family in this long-awaited anime adaptation.
James Herriot, fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, pursues his dream to become a vet in the Yorkshire Dales. He discovers that treating the animals is as much about treating their owners, and the Dales’ farmers are a tough to please.
A woman searching for a spark finds a whirlwind night of romance with a man only to discover he is terminally ill and commits to helping him spend his last days living life to the fullest.