2025 IHS Reading Challenge

If you’re taking part in this year’s Reading Challenge, run by I Heart Sapphic, here’s which categories my books would fit into!


Age gap

Coming out

Hot for Boss

Ice Queen

Kink

Main character 40+

No Strings Attached

Sapphic Awakening

Found family

Quirky characters

Self-discovery

Slow burn

Forced proximity

Holiday romance

Only one bed

Vacation / Travel

Fake relationship

Holiday romance

Single parent

Enemies to lovers

Fish out of water

Main character 40+

Starting over

Small town setting

Enemies to lovers

Found family

Workplace romance

Coming out

Main character 40+

Slow burn

Toaster oven

Action & Adventure

Coming out

Main character 40+

Nerdy / Geeky

Workplace romance

Age gap

Main character 40+

Sports

Workplace romance

Celebrity

Coming out

Main character 40+

Vacation / Travel

Found family

No Strings Attached

Kink

Forced proximity

Nerdy / Geeky

Slow burn

One night to forever

Workplace romance

Found family

Return to hometown


The Club and The Club Revisited are always difficult to slot into these categories, due to the ‘linked short-story’ nature of the books. However, they both count as novels for the purposes of the Reading Challenge. So with that in mind, here’s how they could fit:

Toaster oven

Workplace romance

Self-discovery

No strings attached

One night to forever

Coming out

Kink

Main character 40+

Divorced character

Toaster oven

Main character 40+

Self-discovery

No strings attached

Coming out

Kink