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Backlist Read or Unhaul 2025

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19 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

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey, Jim Collins

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Stephen R. Covey, Jim Collins

372 pages • paperback • 1989

nonfiction business self help informative inspiring slow-paced
Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology and Human Error by Steven Casey

Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology and Human Error

Steven Casey

251 pages • hardcover • 1993

nonfiction design history informative reflective slow-paced
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

399 pages • paperback • 2001

nonfiction food and drink health sociology informative fast-paced
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

Zora Neale Hurston

308 pages • paperback • 1942

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced
A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

A Black Woman Did That

Malaika Adero

160 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction childrens challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

224 pages • digital • 1903 user-added

nonfiction classics history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Mitchell Plitnick, Marc Lamont Hill

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Mitchell Plitnick, Marc Lamont Hill

240 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give #1

Angie Thomas

480 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction contemporary young adult emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race

Beverly Daniel Tatum

453 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction education psychology race challenging informative reflective medium-paced