- Recreate your favorite book cover (and tag us!)
- Visit an independent bookstore
- Practice bibliomancy with the book nearest to you
- Write a short story about summer camp
- Create book spine poetry
- See how many books you can balance in the book stacking challenge
- Compete against your friends in The Unexpected Everything scavenger hunt
- Make a Since You’ve Been Gone bucket list for your best friend
- Check out the literary places in your state
- Take a photo in front of a literary monument
- Visit a famous place where fictional characters go in a book
- Marathon your favorite literary web series (link)
- Or parody
- Cook a recipe from a YA novel
- Go to the library
- Get a library card
- Leave a note for someone in a library book
- Read a book about a place you’d like to visit
- Read a book set in your hometown
- Read a book outside
- Read in a blanket fort
- Read in a tree
- Read in a hammock
- Read in the pool
- Read a graphic novel
- Get started on a series
- Locate a Little Free Library
- Redesign a book cover by doing a coverflip
- Concoct a summer drink based on your favorite book
- Donate your old books to the library or a school in need
- Decorate a wall with your favorite quotes from literature
- Finish that summer reading for school
- Make some book crafts
- Buy a used book
- Make some origami out of your least favorite book
- Read a book a friend recommended
- Dive into one of our featured reads
- Read a book and then watch its movie adaptation
- Listen to an audiobook on a long road trip
- Host a literary party
- Or have an Alice in Wonderland themed tea party
- Read a scary book aloud around a campfire
- Start a book club
- Join a book club
- Draw some fan art
- Swap books with your friend and compare notes
- Get a book signed by your favorite author
- Go to a book event
- Read to a kid or have him/her read to you
- Rearrange your bookshelf
- Read a play and then go see it
- Send a postcard to your old English teacher
- Post some #bookstagram pictures
- Take a #shelfie
- Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- Join a read along
- Get some new literary t-shirts
- Or posters
- Or make your own
- Update your TBR list
- Finish reading the books you own in your TBR pile
- Make a book wish list
- Read to your pet
- Make a tiny picture book out of sticky notes
- Dress up as a literary character
- Prefer not to
- Check out a book that teaches you a new skill
- See how many books you can read in one day
- Finish a book in one sitting
- Take a literary vacation
- Reread your favorite book from elementary school
- Read a book written the year you were born
- Send fan mail to your favorite authors
- Go on a bookish date
- Review a book
- Make predictions for the next book in the series you’re waiting on
- Read a book with a parent or sibling
- Follow your favorite authors on social media
- Attend a literary festival
- Visit a museum to see an exhibit about an author or character you love
- See how long you can go only speaking in book quotes/references
- Read a book in a different language
- Watch movies based on Shakespeare’s plays
- Enter a book giveaway
- Write a haiku about a book you just finished
- Make a reading playlist
- Draw a comic book or zine
- Make your own bookmarks
- Read an LGBTQIA book in June to celebrate Pride Month
- Celebrate National Paperback Day (July 30)
- Celebrate Harry Potter Day (July 31st)
- Learn some new vocab words
- Go on a YA road trip
- Act out a scene from a book
- Participate in Camp NaNoWriMo
- Get some new (sun) glasses
- Record all the books you read
- Start a book blog
- Do some yoga to get unhunched from reading
- Take a break from reading and enjoy the sun!