Hey bookish besties, your 2026 reading era starts NOW. 📚✨
Welcome to Chapter One: The Bookly Readathon, where fresh starts, soft blankets, iced (or hot!) coffees, and wildly ambitious reading goals collide into one perfectly chaotic January challenge.
Whether you’re kicking off the year with a comforting reread, tackling the intimidating book that’s been staring at you since 2023, or rewriting your entire personality around your reading resolutions, this is your moment.
Good news: you don’t have to start this journey alone. 🫶
📓 CHAPTER ONE: THE BOOKLY READATHON
For 11 days, we’re resetting, refreshing, and reigniting our inner reader. Think: cozy evenings spent under blankets, new-year motivation, and the serotonin hit of logging reading sessions like your life depends on it.
📅 Registration: January 7–20
📅 Readathon Dates: January 21–31
All you need to do is:
- Update your Bookly App (iOS or Android)
- Tap JOIN in the Readathon tab
- Read your heart out
- Share your journey using #BooklyReadathon
- On Feb 1, export your Custom Reading Report for a chance to win!
📈 What Are the Chapter One Reading Challenge Levels?
We’ve got four levels based on your total hours spent reading. Choose your arc wisely:
❄️ Resolution Rookie – 0–10 hrs
📘 Goal-Getter – 11–20 hrs
🔥 Plotline Transformer – 21–44 hrs
🌟 Chapter One Champion – 45+ hrs
📢 Bonus: Kick your reading goals into gear with our reading sprints on:
📆 January 24–25 & 📆 January 30-31
Hosted on Discord, X, and Threads, perfect for motivation, accountability, and flexing your reading grind.
🧠 Chapter One Reading Prompts (Optional but excellent for leveling up your TBR glow-up)
- 🕯️ A book that feels like a fresh start
- 📘 A book you’ve been “saving for the perfect moment”
- ✨ A book that aligns with your 2026 vibe
- 🥶 A wintery read for peak cozy energy
- 🧤 A book that pushes you outside your comfort zone
Remember, the prompts are totally optional. Use them for structure, chaos, inspiration, or simply the thrill of checking boxes.
When is the readathon taking place?
📅 January 21–31
⏳ 11 days of reading your way into the year you want.
What do I need to do?
- Read 10+ hours during the readathon
- Track all your reading sessions in the Bookly App
- Export your reading report on Feb 1
- Easy. Cozy. Life-changing (potentially).
Where can I sign up?
Here’s how to sign up for our #BooklyReadathon:
- In the Bookly App (Stats → Readathon tab → JOIN)
- Share your reading journey using #BooklyReadathon
📅 Registration closes January 20 at 11:59 PM UTC. Do not let your 2026 reading arc start without you.
What’s in it for me?
We’re giving away FOUR Bookshop.org gift cards to randomly selected readers:
🎁 $15 Gift Card
🎁 $25 Gift Card
🎁 $50 Gift Card
🎁 $100 Gift Card
📱 Special Mention: $10 Gift Card
For the most inspiring, aesthetic, chaotic, or wholesome posts tagged @booklyapp + #BooklyReadathon.
*Bookshop.org Gift Cards are only available for shipping within the US. If a non-US resident is among the winners, we will consider other bookstores available in your country, so please let us know what retailer you’d prefer.
How do I win?
- Track your reading in the Bookly App
- Export your Custom Reading Report on Feb 1
- We’ll draw winners afterward
📹Need help? Check out this video tutorial on how to export your report like a pro.
💬 Want community? Motivation? Chaos?
- Real-time sprint reminders
- Reading updates
- New-year bookish confessionals
- A supportive (and slightly unhinged) community of readers
Final Thoughts: Let This Be Your Chapter One. ✨
A new year means new beginnings, new stories, and new promises to your bookish self.
This is your permission slip to:
- 📚 Start fresh
- 🧣 Get cozy
- 🔥 Take your reading goals seriously
- ✨ Or… not seriously at all
- 🌟 Build the 2026 reading era you deserve
Your story starts here, in Chapter One.
So grab your blanket, set your reading goals, romanticize the heck out of your habits, and join us for 11 days of pure bookworm bliss.
📖 Sign up, track your reading, and kick off 2026 the Bookly way.
