Color Coded Reading Challenge 2025 - My Wrap-Up

 

I made it! With a flurry of December reviews and a couple of days to spare! 

I love reading by color and next year will be my 10th year of participating. I plan to sign up again as soon as I finish with 2025.

Here's what I read:

Blue: Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (Radcliff's Top 100 Novels)

Red: A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer Prize)

Yellow: The Beast and the Silent Blue - David O'Connor (Florida Book Award)

Green: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith 

Brown: My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok (Pulitzer Prize)

Black: His Lovely Wife - Elizabeth Dewberry (Florida Book Award) 

White: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt (Pulitzer Prize) Substitute: The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together - Twyla Tharp

Another color (teal): Half the Night is Gone - Amitabha Bagchi (DSC Prize for South Asian Literature) 

Implies Color: Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (Pulitzer Prize)

Reviews can be found here or under the Reviews tab.

This was a year of variety and that's part of the fun. I started out strong and then fell into the summer doldrums, but I stayed with my goals, for the most part. The white book required a last-minute substitution when it became apparent that I would never finish the hefty first choice in time, so I opted for something sleeker. Otherwise, all good and on to 2026. 

But first, stay tuned for the report of my miserable fails on my other 2025 challenges.