NLF Reading Challenge 2025 – Reading Schedule
The Reading Schedule begins the week of May 18, 2025, and ends on August 9, 2025.
| Kiki’s Delivery Service | Eiko Kadono |
| Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats | T.S. Eliot (illustrated by Rebecca Ashdown) |
| Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quests | Sam Copeland |
| P.N.K Panicker’s Ghost Stories | Suresh Eriyat & Adithi Krishnadas |
| Elf Dog and Owl Head | M.T. Anderson |
| Etta Invincible | Reese Eschmann |
| I am Wolf | Alastair Chisholm |
| How to Win an Election: A Most Unreliable Guide | Menaka Raman |
| The Many Meanings of Meilan | Andrea Wang |
| Chai Jinxed | Emi Pinto |
| The Scent of Roses | Adithi Rao |
| Movies Showing Nowhere | Yorick Goldewijk |
| Bridget Vanderpuff and the Baked Escape | Martin Stewart |
| A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall | Jasmine Warga |
| Dream Hunters | Nazima Pathan |
| Go Wild! | Bijal Vachharajani (editor) |
| Turtle Moon | Hannah Gold |
| I am Rebel | Ross Montgomery |
| Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody | Patrick Ness |
| Birds on the Brain | Uma Krishnaswami |
| Island of Whispers | Frances Hardinge |
| Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie |