Summer Reading Challenge 2026
☀️📚 Booked & Buzzy Summer Reading Challenge📚☀️
Grab your beach bag, your iced coffee, and that towering TBR because this summer we’re hopping in our reading time machine and heading straight into the backlist vault.
Welcome to the Booked & Buzzy Summer Reading Challenge!
We’re spending the summer celebrating romance reads old and new, while giving some extra love to books that came before today’s BookTok shelves and preorder madness. Dust off those forgotten favorites, finally tackle that “I swear I’ll read it someday” title, and let’s make this a summer packed with happily ever afters.
Challenge Dates:
🗓️ May 31, 2026 through July 18, 2026
Any book you read during the challenge dates counts.
How to Participate:
✨ Set your summer reading goal
Choose a number that feels exciting, ambitious, or slightly chaotic. We support all reading energy levels here.
✨ Read books
Contemporary, Thrillers, Fantasy, historical, monster romance, romantic suspense, hockey players with emotional baggage, alien soulmates, billionaire chaos… it all counts.
✨ Track your books throughout the challenge
Bonus: Blast to the Past Rules 📼
Every book you read equals 1 entry toward our grand prize drawing. But because we’re taking a trip through romance history…
📚 Books published before 2020 earn DOUBLE entries
Now your neglected TBR mountain has entered its comeback era.
Prizes & Fun Stuff:
💌 Every participant receives a Summer Reading Sticker Pack
🎁 Grand Prize Winner
One winner will be selected at random at the end of the challenge.
Remember: the more books you read, the more entries you earn.
Please fill out the form below for your entries to count!
Why We’re Doing This
Sometimes the next great read isn’t the newest release. Sometimes it’s that book sitting on your Kindle from 2017, the paperback collecting dust on your shelf, or the author everyone swore you had to read years ago.
This summer we’re slowing down, digging through our backlists, and proving that great romance stories never expire.
