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
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix

482 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction historical horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

424 pages • paperback • 2000

fiction crime historical adventurous dark slow-paced
Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure by Monisha Rajesh

Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure

Monisha Rajesh

336 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction travel adventurous informative medium-paced
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure

River East, River West

Aube Rey Lescure

342 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Fraud by Zadie Smith

The Fraud

Zadie Smith

454 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction historical literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How Migration Really Works: 22 Things You Need to Know about the Most Divisive Issue in Politics by Hein de Haas

How Migration Really Works: 22 Things You Need to Know about the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

Hein de Haas

462 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction economics politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past by Jim Leary

Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past

Jim Leary

304 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history sociology adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are by Tom Chatfield

Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are

Tom Chatfield

336 pages • hardcover

nonfiction technology
Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Morning Star

Red Rising Saga #3

Pierce Brown

524 pages • hardcover • 2016

fiction dystopian science fiction adventurous dark tense fast-paced
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

816 pages • paperback • 2015

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional sad slow-paced