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For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2026

By December 9, 2025Cwts Club Reading Challenge

Hello to 2026 and to all you wonderful Reading Addicts. Where did 2025 go? Thank you to everyone once again for all your support during 2025. It has been great to see so many of you join in and share all your reads.

We ran our usual quick poll in the Book Club group for ideas for 2026, where quite a few of our members liked the idea of using Natural Elements as our monthly prompts. As usual, we will also be doing an A-Z challenge based on the title to make the group more inclusive.

To make it a bit easier to plan again this year (we know how some of you like to plan the year and/or read ahead) we’re going to list below the category and letters for each month.

January

A book about Earth or with Earth in the title.
For A-Z, the letters are titles starting with A Y and Z

February

A book about Water or with Water in the title.
A-Z letters are B, C, and X.

March

A book about Wind or with Wind in the title.
A-Z letters are book titles starting with D and W.

April

A book about Fire or with Fire in the title.
E and V are this month’s A-Z letters.

May

A book about Thunder or with Thunder in the title.
The letters for May are book titles starting with F and U.

June

A book about Ice or with Ice in the title.
G and T are the letters for June.

July

A book about Force or with Force in the title.
July’s letters are H and S.

August

A book about Time or with Time in the title.
A-Z letters are I and R.

September

A book about Flowers or with Flowers in the title.
September’s A-Z letters are book titles starting with J and Q.

October

A book about Shadows or with Shadows in the title.
A-Z letters for October are K and P.

November

A book about Light or with Light in the title.
November letters are L and O.

December

A book about the Moon or with Moon in the title.
And the final letters for A-Z titles are M and N.

Before the start of each new month, in our Book Club, Cwts Club Discussion Group, we will open a discussion for suggestions on each theme. If you’d like to be part of the discussion head over and hit that join button.

We hope you all enjoy 2026’s new challenge, don’t forget to keep sharing what you are reading.

See you at book club! ~ Jacqui

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