• Tuesday 4 May - May the fourth be with you: read a Star Wars related book or some science fiction

• Wednesday 12 May - Ramadan ends

• Monday 17 May IDAHOBIT Day: read a book by an LGBTQIA+ author or with LGBTQIA+ themes

• Mindful in May

• Reconciliation Week 27 May - 3 June

• Saturday 5 June - World Environment Day: read a book about nature or sustainability

• Sunday 20 June - World Refugee Day 2021: read a book about an immigration or refugee experience or by a refugee author

• Sunday 4  -11 July NAIDOC week: Heal Country. Read a book from Anita Heiss’ Black Book Challenge list

• Take a look at the books available from Magabala Books,  Australia’s leading Indigenous publishing house. 

• Book Week: read a book on the CBCA shortlist (announced 30 March 2021)

• Book Week dress up day Friday 20 August 2021

• Read an Aussie book with a teenage protagonist - for an even bigger challenge, choose one that doesn't include the following tropes the chosen one, the love triangle or I'm different from other girls.

• 27 August - Wear it purple day

• 9 September RU OK? day: read a feel good book

• 19 - 25 September Banned Books week: read a banned book

• 25 September National Comic Book Day: check out a graphic novel

• AFL grand final - read a book about sport or a sports person's biography

• Sunday 10 October,  World Mental Health Day: read a book that explores mental health

• Mental Health Week

• Sunday 17 October, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: read a book that inspires social change

• 31 October, Halloween: Read a scary story

• Saturday 14 November, Diwali - Festival of Lights

• Melbourne Music Week - read a book written by or about a musician

• Thursday 18 November - World Philosophy Day

• Friday 19 November - International Men's Day: read a book about healthy masculinity or gender

• 25 November World Human Right's Day - 16 days of activism (finishes 10 December)

Friday, 3 December, International Day of Disabled Persons: read an  #ownvoices book with a disabled or neurodiverse main character

• Library Lover's Month: read one of Australia's most loved books including young adult fiction

• Monday 1 February - read a book from the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021

• Thursday 11 February - International Day of Women and Girls in Science: read a biography of a woman in Science

• Friday 12 February - Lunar New Year, year of the ox

• Monday 8 March International Women's Day: read a book about feminism

• Friday 19 March Bullying No Way Day

• Sunday 21 March Harmony Day: read one of the Growing Up in Australia series

• Sunday 21 March World Poetry Day: select some poetry

• Anticipating this year's book week theme, discover another world or revisit an old favourite: Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other worlds

• Monday 12 April - Ramadan begins

• 15 April, World Art Day: read a book about an artist or a book that inspires creativity

• Friday 23 April World Book Day - take a look at Ann Morgan's reading the world list - she read her way around the world's 196 independent nations or read around the world in 32 books.