2025 Physical TBR Challenge

rachelreadsrelentlessly Host

11 participants (56 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Anyone else buy lots of books but prioritize reading from other sources (library, KU)? Well, this challenge is for you.

The goal is simple. Read 12 books that you physically own by the end of 2024. 

What you count as "read" is up to you! Want to count only books you read 100%? Go for it! Did you start a book you own decide you hate it, and DNF it? Feel free to still mark it here! This challenge is here to help you prioritize your shelves, not to judge you. :) 

Challenge Books

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

362 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

639 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction historical literary adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
88% by Maren Uthaug

88%

11% #2

Maren Uthaug

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction dystopian feminism gender challenging dark reflective fast-paced
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

285 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
American Primitive by Mary Oliver

American Primitive

Mary Oliver

88 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction nature poetry reflective slow-paced
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith

Life on Mars

Tracy K. Smith

75 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

poetry science fiction challenging reflective slow-paced
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

80 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction poetry politics dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Taiwan Travelogue by 楊双子, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

Taiwan Travelogue

楊双子, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

274 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction crime literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Under brosteinen, stranden! by Johan Harstad

Under brosteinen, stranden!

Johan Harstad

974 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction historical