Celebrate the season by taking the Christmas reading challenge! This free challenge encourages kids and adults to read something festive every day of Advent this December. You’ll get a printable PDF Advent calendar and a social media graphic to track your reading. Browse the holiday reading ideas below to plan your season of reading, too!
Christmas Reading Challenge For Kids and Adults
This book reading challenge is meant to appeal to both kids and adults. It encourages daily reading during Advent via an Advent calendar, and it is recommended that you choose seasonal reading to feel as festive as the season.
However, much of this challenge is customizable. Beyond these few parameters, you can set the rules for yourself! For example, you can choose to read 25 books or to read a certain number of pages for 25 days straight.
Christmas Book Ideas
If you want to read Christmas-themed books, I’ve got you covered! These blog posts will help you pick great reads for your age, mood, or taste:
TOP PICK
My Christmas short stories post contains 25 brief tales for kids and adults, plus lots of links to free audio and digital copies, so you can technically use only this post to read 25 festive books this holiday season!
- Best Christmas Books for Adults
- Best Christmas Books for Kids
- Best New Christmas Books for Adults
- Best Christmas Romance Books
- Best YA Christmas Books
- Best Christmas Classics
- Most Famous Christmas Books
- Best Christmas Book Club Books
- Cozy Christmas Mystery Books
- Elin Hilderbrand’s Winter Series
TIPS
- Participate in the Icelandic tradition of Jolabokaflod and read book gifts with hot chocolate on Christmas Eve.
Track Your Christmas Reading Challenge
Now that you’ve accepted the reading challenge and have some reading ideas, let’s discuss how to track it. I’ve created a free printable PDF and social media graphic for you to customize to your challenge.
How to use them: I intentionally created these reading trackers to be open-ended. Each day of Advent, you can write your book title, color the book, add a sticker, add an emoji, cross it off, etc.
Instagram Story Template
Free Printable PDF
READING ADVENT CALENDAR
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Advent Calendar For Book Lovers
If you want to have even more fun with this challenge, pair it with one of these bookish advent calendars:
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remember, it’s a good day to read a book. – jules
