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Tackle That TBR (within reason) 2025

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57 participants (632 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 12 books you've already purchased (or requested from the library) throughout the year.  You can spread them out (like 1 per month) or just jam January full of them!  Whatever works, as long as you commit to reading some stuff you've been meaning to. 

Challenge Books

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Le due Torri by J.R.R. Tolkien

Le due Torri

The Lord of the Rings #2

J.R.R. Tolkien

535 pages • paperback • 1954

fiction classics fantasy adventurous dark slow-paced
Shōgun, Part One by James Clavell

Shōgun, Part One

Asian Saga: Chronological Order #1a

James Clavell

704 pages • paperback • 1975

fiction historical adventurous informative tense slow-paced
Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang

Falling Into Place

Amy Zhang

320 pages • paperback • 2014

fiction contemporary young adult emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

Manisha Sinha

784 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein

The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

Dana Goldstein

368 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction education history reflective slow-paced
God's Heretics: The Albigensian Crusade by Aubrey Burl

God's Heretics: The Albigensian Crusade

Aubrey Burl

304 pages • 2002

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion by Professor Peter Jackson
The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion
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Professor Peter Jackson

The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion

Professor Peter Jackson

640 pages • hardcover

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

David McRaney

302 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction psychology science self help informative reflective medium-paced
Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner

Machiavelli's Ethics

Erica Benner

527 pages • paperback

nonfiction history philosophy informative medium-paced
Empire of Horses by John Man

Empire of Horses

John Man

336 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced