2025 Reading Challenges
There are two great reading challenges again this year: the I Heart Sapphic Reading Challenge with 50 incredible categories, and the ever-wonderful Jae’s Sapphic Book Bingo with two fun bingo cards to play.
Here are my books and the ways they fit into the IHS Reading Challenge and the Sapphic Book Bingo.
Have fun and happy reading!
The Piano in the Tree
IHS Reading Challenge
- Celebrity
- Found Family
- Ice Queen
- Main Character 40+
- Suspense / Thriller
- Quirky Characters
- Return to Hometown
- Rich girl / Poor girl
- Second Chance
- Single Parent
- Small Town Setting
- Travel
- Wartime
- Worklace Romance
Jae’s Sapphic Book Bingo
- Two tropes you love: Second chance, friends to lovers
- Witty banter
- Steamy
- Entertainment industry
- Childhood friends to lovers
- Set in Australia
- Ice queen / grumpy character
- Includes an epilogue
- Season: summer
- Who did this to you?
Once in Berlin
IHS Reading Challenge
- Action and Adventure
- Historical fiction
- Love at First Sight
- Suspense / Thriller
- Nerdy / Geeky
- Rich girl / Poor girl
- Travel
- Wartime
Jae’s Sapphic Book Bingo
- Two tropes you love: Spies, grumpy sunshine
- Steamy
- Suspenseful
- Ice queen / grumpy character
- Season: summer
- Who did this to you?
The Blood We Spill
IHS Reading Challenge
- Action and Adventure
- Dark Romance
- Love at First Sight
- Suspense / Thriller
- Rich girl / Poor girl
- Science Fiction
- Workplace Romance
Jae’s Sapphic Book Bingo
- Two tropes you love: Spies/assassins, Touch her and die
- Steamy
- Suspenseful
- Character rides a motorcycle (space bike!)
- Up against a wall sex
- Watching fireworks together
- Who did this to you?
- Comfort after a nightmare