The Clock Reading Challenge 2025
Making time to read more
Are you looking for an easy reading challenge to do in 2025? Do you want a challenge you can join that is flexible and gives you the chance to connect with others? You're in the right place!
Welcome to the Clock Reading Challenge 2025!
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About the Clock Reading Challenge
I started the Clock Reading Challenge in 2021 and every year I've discovered some great books through doing the challenge. There's a lot of books out there with the numbers one to twelve in their titles!
If you're looking for a relatively easy reading challenge to do in 2025 the Clock Reading Challenge is for you! It only involves reading a total of 12 books during the year.
That said, some numbers can be a little trickier to find books for than others...
The Challenge
The goal: to read 12 books, each with a number from 1 to 12 in the title.
The officially hashtag for the event: #ClockReadingChallenge
Keeping track of your progress: I've created this graphic so you can fill in your clock with the book covers of the books you read. Hopefully at the end of the year your clock will be complete.
Just download the graphic and then upload your book covers to it. I personally use Canva to do mine.
12 books in 12 months, each with a number from one to twelve in the title to make up a clock face.
This is a very relaxed reading challenge. There is no punishment for not reading all 12 books.
Skip a month? No problem. The goal is 12 books in 12 months so you have plenty of time to catch up latter on if needed.
If you'd like to plan out the books you want to read for the challenge in advance here's a template you can use for your TBR:
Want to join the Clock Reading Challenge? To sign up just post a comment below to let me know you'll be joining in with the challenge.
The Clock Reading Challenge 2024
Making time to read more
Disclosure: The FTC Disclosure Provision is a law that requires influencers to disclose when they are being paid to promote a product or service. So please know that if I'm not making money through affiliate links/sponsored content on the post you're currently reading, it's an oversight on my part and will be corrected soon. Read the full disclosure about all the legal stuff here.
Welcome to the Clock Reading Challenge 2024!
I started the Clock Reading Challenge in 2021 and every year I've discovered some great books through doing the challenge. There's a lot of books out there with the numbers one to twelve in their titles!
If you're looking for a relatively easy reading challenge to do in 2024 the Clock Reading Challenge is for you! It only involves reading a total of 12 books during the year.
That said, some numbers can be a little trickier to find books for than others...
The Challenge
The goal: to read 12 books, each with a number from 1 to 12 in the title.
The officially hashtag for the event: #ClockReadingChallenge
Keeping track of your progress: I've created this graphic so you can fill in your clock with the book covers of the books you read. Hopefully at the end of the year your clock will be complete.
12 books in 12 months, each with a number from one to twelve in the title to make up a clock face.
This is a very relaxed reading challenge. There is no punishment for not reading all 12 books.
Skip a month? No problem. The goal is 12 books in 12 months so you have plenty of time to catch up latter on if needed.
If you'd like to plan out the books you want to read for the challenge in advance here's a template you can use for your TBR:
Want to join the Clock Reading Challenge? To sign up just post a comment below to let me know you'll be joining in with the challenge.
Reading Suggestions
Books with the Number One in the Title
Disclosure: The FTC Disclosure Provision is a law that requires influencers to disclose when they are being paid to promote a product or service. So please know that if I'm not making money through affiliate links/sponsored content on the post you're currently reading, it's an oversight on my part and will be corrected soon. Read the full disclosure about all the legal stuff here.
I've already done a post in the past with Books with Numbers 1-12 in the Title but wanted to do more detailed posts for each number and offer even more ideas for books to choose from.
For this post I'll be sharing books with number one in the title. All the books listed I either own or have read.
The One Who Fell by Kerry Wilkinson
In the seaside town of Whitecliff, everyone looks out for each other. Everyone knows your name. And everyone knows your secrets…
Moonlight falls on the figure of the girl standing on the red-tiled roof. Her white dress and blonde hair flutter in the freezing night wind. And suddenly – she is gone.
Volunteering at the local nursing home is Millie Westlake’s one escape from the rumours that swirl around Whitecliff about her past. But speaking with elderly resident, Ingrid, as they play board games, Millie gets chills at her strange story about a young girl being pushed from a roof, somewhere across the valley…
Everybody thinks Ingrid is confused: but Millie knows how it feels to not be believed. Her parents died a year ago, and the residents of Whitecliff – such a quiet place, other than crashing waves and cawing seagulls – are convinced Millie killed them.
Desperately searching for evidence to find the girl Ingrid saw, a broken roof tile could prove Ingrid was telling the truth. But when strange footprints appear in Millie’s garden, she’s certain someone out there is watching.
Have Ingrid and Millie stumbled across something terribly dangerous? And with the town against her, will Millie have to face up to her own secrets to solve the mystery before it becomes deadly?
One Left Alive by Helen Phifer
A gentle breeze blew her blonde hair across her face, her glazed eyes staring blankly into the sunset. Her small frame looked lost hanging from the large oak tree. On the branch next to her was a worn child’s rope swing. She looked too young and beautiful to be dead.
When the body of a woman is found hanging from a tree in her front garden, rookie Detective Morgan Brookes is first on the scene. But Olivia Potter is past saving. And when her husband and daughters cannot be traced, Morgan knows there is more to this tragedy. And then she finds them. Lying huddled together in the dark basement, each of their faces covered with a small cotton cloth, their bodies cold to the touch.
But as Morgan kneels beside the family, she realises that one of the girls is still breathing. As she holds Bronte’s fragile hand in hers, begging her to hold on, she vows to find out who has done this.
Every day Morgan wakes at 4.25 a.m., her old insomnia now mixed with a new fixation on the case. But every clue about the murdered family leads to a dead end. Until, trawling through old files, she discovers a link to a cold case from years ago. Another family was found murdered, their innocent faces covered with white cloths.
When Morgan returns to the scene of the crime to discover more about this forgotten case, she finds another body. With Bronte still unconscious in hospital, Morgan must act fast to solve this case before the killer returns for the girl left alive…
One Last First Date by Kate O'Keeffe
I’ve made a pact with my friends to marry the next guy I date. What could possibly go wrong?
I am so over dating. It's time to find The One. It's either that or buy a habit and veil and abandon the whole thing. But I believe in love, and I’m not ready to give up on it yet. That’s why I agreed to the One Last First Date pact. I’m going to marry the next guy I date.
Scary? Yes.
Necessary? Heck, yes.
After months of searching, I find the ideal candidate: Parker Hamilton. He's good-looking, smart, cultured--and a doctor. But I’m not taking any chances. I’ve vetted him so thoroughly I could offer some pointers to the CIA. He passes with flying colors, and our romance begins.
Enter Will Jordan, my irritating work colleague who thinks it’s fine to muscle in on my dream job and my love life. I’ll admit, his good looks and relaxed, easy nature can be distracting. But I can do without that kind of distraction right now, no matter how good he looks with his shirt off.
And he does look good.
Problem is, the more I get to know Will, the more I like him, even if I know Parker’s The One.
I just need to keep reminding myself that.
One Last Step by Sarah Sutton
ONE LAST STEP (A Tara Mills Mystery—Book One) is the debut novel in a new FBI mystery series by debut author Sarah Sutton.
Two hikers go missing along the Appalachian Trail, leaving only a bloodstained forest behind them, and when another hiker collapses on someone’s porch in New Hampshire, murdered by crossbow, the local police realize they have a serial killer on their hands––and need to call in the FBI.
FBI Agent Tara Mills is young, brilliant and new to the force. With a promising career in front of her, she faces the ultimate test when she is assigned the case. It soon proves to be more challenging than she ever could have imagined––an impossible riddle that leaves even her seasoned partner stumped.
Meanwhile, something about the case stirs a darkness within her––a tortured past that even her long-term boyfriend doesn’t fully understand. As nightmares consume her, she only hopes that her past will not come back to ruin her once again.
As more hikers go missing, and with her job on the line, Tara finds herself on a race against time as she combs through the forest’s trails. Peeling back each layer, she soon realizes that she is up against a true diabolical mastermind. And just when she thinks she has it all figured out, her instincts lead her to the most shocking truth of all.
Book #2 in the series––ONE LAST BREATH––is also available!
One Mistake by Rona Halsall
My family. Her heart swelled with love. They were all that mattered. And she knew she’d do anything, anything at all for them.
Sara made one promise to herself when she was growing up in foster care: that if she was lucky enough to have a family, she’d always do whatever it took to protect them. Looking around her home with its cosy kitchen and living room, where her energetic teenage daughters and gorgeous four-year-old son all eat, play and live together, she knows she’d do anything to keep them safe.
So when Sara’s husband Matt loses his job and every shred of his confidence with it, she knows it’s up to her to bring the family back from the brink. Though she doesn’t know where she can possibly find the money they need to keep afloat.
Until her boss at work offers her a deal. He’ll help out. She just has to do him one little favour. But could trusting him save Sara’s family, or will it be a mistake that costs her absolutely everything?
Just One Night by Carly Phillips
He’s a billionaire with everything he desires…except the woman he wants most.She’s his best friend, personal assistant, and off limits.
Until one night and a positive pregnancy test changes everything.
Jordan Greene, the housekeeper’s daughter, is the only woman who can handle billionaire Linc Kingston and his bossy ways. She’s also his lifelong best friend. No matter how hot the attraction between them simmers, there are lines she knows better than to cross.
When Linc is gutted by lies and family secrets, Jordan’s comfort ends with a sensual night in bed and a surprise he never expected. Getting his personal assistant pregnant makes him too much like the father he despises, and his initial reaction may cost him everything he loves.
One is Evil by Jeff Buick
A wealthy and influential woman whose life is about to be torn apart has only one hope – a disgraced homicide cop. Bobby Greco, set up by dirty cops and thrown off the Orlando force, takes a job investigating insurance fraud. His involvement in a high profile case means no one around him is safe – not even his ex-wife and kids. Bobby uncovers a secret that threatens someone at the top of the American political system, and as they scramble to protect the country from the fallout, the real endgame becomes clear. Dangerous military technology is at risk of getting into the wrong hands.From the halls of power in Washington DC to the frozen wastelands of Siberia, the chase is on – and the clock is ticking. This is Book One in the Bobby Greco thriller series, stay tuned for more wild adventures in Bobby's life.
One Way Ticket by Melissa Baldwin and Kate O'Keeffe
Would you switch lives with someone you just met?
Sabrina Monroe is poised and ready for her future as Mrs. Todd Edward Blakely. Everything seems perfect, but on the big day, suddenly she’s not so sure. Her nicely mapped out life ahead of her, she finds herself in her own movie scene as the runaway bride, climbing out of the bathroom window. All she can think is escape.
Addison Bloom needs a life makeover. She’s travelled the world to find love—and failed. On her way back from yet another friend’s wedding, she starts to feel ill at the mere thought of seeing another veil that’s not hers. Should she go back home and marry her former sweetheart, or stick it out looking for love in her new home?
Sabrina and Addison are both on the run, wanting to escape to a new life. As the two strangers talk at an airport, discovering they have the same job at opposite ends of the country, a crazy idea unfolds—one which might provide the answers they’ve both been looking for.
Is there such a thing as a One Way Ticket to a new life, or will they find they’re running from themselves, not just the past?
One For Sorrow by Sarah A. Denzil
Who really killed Maisie Earnshaw?
Within the walls of the high-security psychiatric facility, Crowmont Hospital, reside many violent offenders. To nurse Leah Smith, no matter what, all offenders are patients first and foremost. When Leah is appointed as nurse to Isabel Fielding, she is determined to remain professional despite the shocking crime Isabel allegedly committed in her past.
Years ago, six-year-old Maisie Earnshaw was found face down in a duck pond, her body mutilated. Isabel--at age fourteen, found covered in Maisie's blood--was convicted of murder.
As Leah spends time with Isabel, she comes to know her as a young woman with a sweet, gentle nature, someone she could never see as a murderer. Leah begins to suspect members of the Fielding family of framing Isabel as a young girl, and she's not the only one. True crime blogger James Gorden thinks Isabel is innocent too.
Is Leah allowing her own dark past to taint her judgement as she grows closer to her patient? Or has a young woman been unjustly robbed of her childhood?
Know of a great book with the number one in the title to add to this list? Leave a comment below.
The Clock Reading Challenge 2023
Making time to read more
This is a relatively easy reading challenge compared to a lot of others I've seen as it only involves reading a total of 12 books during the year.
That said, some numbers can be harder to find books for than others...
Don't worry though I'll be doing a blog post with books you might want to try for each number to help inspire you.
The Challenge
The goal: to read 12 books, each with a number from 1 to 12 in the title.
The officially hashtag for the event: #ClockReadingChallenge
Keeping track of your progress: I've created this graphic so you can fill in your clock with the book covers of the books you read. Hopefully at the end of the year your clock will be complete.
12 books in 12 months, each with a number from one to twelve in the title to make up a clock face.
This is a very relaxed reading challenge. There is no punishment for not reading all 12 books.
Skip a month? No problem. The goal is 12 books in 12 months so you have plenty of time to catch up latter on if needed.
If you'd like to plan out the books you want to read for the challenge in advance here's a template you can use for your TBR:
Want to join me? To sign up just post a comment below to let me know you'll be joining in with the challenge.
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