2025 beat the backlog challenge

13 participants (47 books)

01 Jan 202531 Dec 2025

Overview

Join me in slimming down those bookshelves by reading 12 (or more!) books you already own in 2025. 

Choose to do as a kindle or physical clear out but for books to count they should be titles you already owned a copy of prior to 1 Jan 2025.

Challenge Books

All books added

200 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction manga adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

241 pages first pub 2012 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced

496 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

416 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance funny lighthearted medium-paced

208 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction literary dark mysterious medium-paced

369 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective sad medium-paced

336 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

432 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

56 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction comics graphic novel emotional reflective medium-paced

207 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography young adult emotional hopeful informative medium-paced