10 Reading Challenges for Book Lovers (Inspired by the 'I Drank Every Cocktail' Guy)
24 Jul 2025 #booksAdam Aaronson drank every cocktail on the official list.
Yes, there’s an official list of cocktails. And Adam drank them all. He started by handing the list to a bartender in his city and ended up at Satan’s Whiskers in London. Yes, that’s a bar.
Quite an impressive adventure.
Just like Adam tackled cocktails, what about book lovers? That story reminded me of a 10-idea list I wrote with 10 book reading challenges. If you want to try one, here they are:
- Join a book reading club
- Read the last 25 Pulitzer winners
- Read the last 25 Nobel Prize winners
- Read your favorite writer’s complete works
- Read a book from a new writer every month
- Read one book per week. Or 52 books in a year
- Take your own MBA by reading 12 business books in a year
- Read 12 biographies of history’s most influential figures
- Read James Altucher’s book recommendations. Full list here
- Read 10 or 12 books released more than 50 years ago. Idea from CulturalTutor.
Which one would you like to try first? For my challenge, I’m doing #4. I’m reading most of James Altucher’s books.