July 2025 Reader Challenge

June 26, 2025 Scrivenings Press

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and … flags, fireworks & parades! Things that make up July, or at least the first few days. Looking beyond the Fourth, we find the month is filled with other celebratory days. The Scrivenings Press July 2025 Reader Challenge gives a nod to many of these special mid-summer events.

Our 2025 July Reader Challenge BINGO card encourages readers to read books that feature this month’s themes and special days, including the following:

Independent Retailer Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Culinary Arts Month
World Watercolor Month
National Postage Stamp/Postal Workers Day (July 1st)
World UFO Day (July 2nd)
Independence Day (July 4th)
National Workaholics Day (July 5th)
National Fried Chicken Day (July 6th)
National Kitten Day (July 10th)
National French Fries Day (July 11th)
Embrace Your Geekness Day (July 13th)
National Hot Dog Day (July 16th)
National Football Day (July 19th)
National Moon Day (July 20th)
National Gorgeous Grandma Day (July 23rd)
National Tell an Old Joke Day (July 24th)
National Hot Fudge Sundae Day (July 25th)
National Day of the Cowboy (July 26th)
National Lipstick Day (July 29th)
National Share a Hug Day (July 30th)
National Chili Dog Day (July 31st)
National Picnic Month
National Wild About Wildlife Month

How to play:

Please only count books read during July 2025.
Please use only clean/Christian books for this contest.
Make a BINGO either across, down, or diagonally using the official June 2025 Scrivenings Press BINGO card (posted below).
Go to the July 2025 Reader Challenge entry page (https://scrivenings.link/readingchallenge) –Note: The June challenge will display at this link until midnight on the 3oth. The July challenge will be active beginning on July 1st.
Enter using your email address.
Answer the question by listing the books you read to make your BINGO. Please include the author’s name and which square each book checked off.

PLEASE NOTE: Only entries from the official entry form will be counted. Do not leave a comment on this post or on any social media posts about this contest–your entry won’t count. However, you may make comments about which books you found that meet the criteria in the BINGO card, if you want to help other players, but those comments will not constitute an entry into the drawing.

The winner will be selected by random drawing from all official entries. No purchase is necessary to enter, and the official entry form includes the contest rules. By entering this drawing, you agree to have your email address added to the Scrivenings Press email newsletter list. We hope you will enjoy receiving our newsletters, but you may unsubscribe at any time if you feel the content isn’t relevant to you.

The winner will receive his/her choice of an eBook (Kindle edition) of any title already published by Scrivenings Press. Please don’t request a copy of a not-yet-released title.

Click on the thumbnail to open the card as a full-sized printable PDF in a new tab.

(Note: You may also click on this link https://scrivenings.link/july25bingocard)