Read My Shelves: Watch Your Backlist 2025 Challenge

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12 participants (195 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read more, spend less! The goal of this challenge is to read the books you owned as of 1/1/2025.

This challenge is hosted by the bookstagram Watch Your Backlist, who also has a prompt-based reading challenge here!

Challenge Books

All books added
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

A Memory Called Empire

Teixcalaan #1

Arkady Martine

462 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

Lord of the Butterflies

Andrea Gibson

96 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Žižek

The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

Slavoj Žižek

336 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Unsouled by Will Wight

Unsouled

Cradle #1

Will Wight

291 pages • digital • 2016

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous fast-paced
Rue Ordener, Rue Labat by Sarah Kofman

Rue Ordener, Rue Labat

Sarah Kofman

87 pages • paperback • 1993

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune

Dune #1

Frank Herbert

687 pages • paperback • 1965

fiction classics science fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

581 pages • paperback • 1952

fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Petitot by Susan Haley

Petitot

Susan Haley

365 pages • paperback • 2013

fiction literary
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments

The Handmaid's Tale #2

Margaret Atwood

419 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction contemporary dystopian literary dark tense medium-paced
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

369 pages • hardcover • 2011

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced