Backlist Read or Unhaul 2025

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20 participants (208 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

 Need an extra challenge and push to read some backlist books off your physical TBR? Challenge yourself to read 15 pre picked books off your TBR or have to unhaul them by the end of 2025. 

These can be any books off of your physical TBR but I'm choosing books that have been on my TBR the longest and/or books that I've been wanting to read but keep putting off for whatever reason. 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward

341 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

356 pages • digital • 2021

fiction contemporary literary romance emotional reflective medium-paced
The Haunting Season: Nine Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights by Bridget Collins

The Haunting Season: Nine Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

Bridget Collins

242 pages • digital • 2021

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
The Winter Spirits: Twelve Ghostly Tales for Festive Nights by Catriona Ward, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Elizabeth Macneal, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Bridget Collins, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman, Laura Purcell, Natasha Pulley

The Winter Spirits: Twelve Ghostly Tales for Festive Nights

Catriona Ward, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Elizabeth Macneal, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Bridget Collins, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman, Laura Purcell, Natasha Pulley

372 pages • digital • 2023

fiction mystery short stories mysterious medium-paced
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

Jessica Day George

330 pages • paperback • 2008

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous fast-paced
A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan

A Secret History of Witches

Louisa Morgan

494 pages • paperback • 2017

fiction fantasy historical emotional slow-paced
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Seraphina

Seraphina #1

Rachel Hartman

528 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Edge of the World by Kevin J. Anderson

The Edge of the World

Terra Incognita #1

Kevin J. Anderson

661 pages • paperback • 2009

fiction fantasy adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

The Sword of Shannara

The Original Shannara Trilogy #1

Terry Brooks

736 pages • paperback • 1977

fiction fantasy adventurous dark slow-paced
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Gentleman Bastard #1

Scott Lynch

722 pages • paperback • 2006

fiction fantasy adventurous dark funny medium-paced