2023 Reading Challenge

Challenge yourself and expand your TBR with this year's #PBChallenge! Keep track of which prompts you've filled & let us know when you hit a milestone. For 5 and 10 prompts filled, receive a 10% off coupon for a future order; complete all 23 prompts for a 23% off coupon.

Complete 20 or more prompts to be entered to win a $50 Pocket Books Shop gift card!

1. Local author
2. Graphic non-fiction
3. Featuring women’s sports
4. #2 in a series
5. Team PB Monthly Fave
6. Cli-Fi (climate fiction)
7. Deep blue sea (featuring ocean/sea creatures)
8. Disability activism
9. Featuring a robot, puppet, or doll
10. Bird in title or on cover
11. Young adult lit by Indigenous author
12. Book in translation
13. Monster Mash (monster smash??)
14. New-to-you Black woman author
15. Ghost story
16. Set during the decade you were born
17. Vigilante Shit (featuring an Anti-Hero)
18. Fat positive book (not about weight loss)
19. Yellow cover
20. Book you want to live in
21. Featuring a cult or conspiracy
22. Book of essays by queer writer

23. PB Book Club pick (any month)

Download a printable PDF here!

2022 Reading Challenge

We’ve devised 22 prompts to motivate your 2022 reading! Show us your progress at pocketbooksshop@gmail.com and receive a 22% off coupon when you complete 5, 10, and 22 prompts. If you complete all 22, you’ll also be entered into a raffle. Play along on Storygraph, too!

1. Bought at Pocket Books
2. Team PB recommendation
3. “Golden'“ or “Girl” in the title
4. Set in the 1990s
5. Dark academia
6. Sapphic non-romance
7. Doorstopper (500+ pages)
8. New adult
9. Set before 1800
10. Second chance
11. Set in Pennsylvania
12. Pub’d by small or indie press
13. BIPOC short story collection
14. SFF by an Indigenous author
15. Spicy read
16. Author you’d love to meet at PB
17. Debut YA
18. Featuring a bookstore
19. Queer memoir
20. Reproductive justice
21. Haunted House
22. Satisfies your sweet tooth

Download printable PDF here.