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 |
