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Overflow TBR Challenge

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15 participants (329 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Are your bookshelves at maximum capacity? Do you have stacks of books piled on your nightstand, a cart overflowing with unread titles, or a box (or three) of books waiting for their moment? It’s time to tackle the chaos with The Overflow TBR Challenge! 
Your mission: Read 25 books from anywhere your unread books have started to accumulate—whether it’s a towering stack, a crammed TBR cart, or that “just one more” pile that somehow keeps growing. No library books, no new purchases—just the books you already own and have been meaning to get to. 
Clear some space, conquer your backlist, and finally enjoy the books you were so excited to pick up in the first place! Will you make a dent in your bookish overflow? Join the challenge and find out!

Challenge Books

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Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng

Call and Response

Gothataone Moeng

289 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

264 pages • paperback • 2014

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

Edinburgh

Alexander Chee

224 pages • paperback • 2001

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Legends & Lattes

Legends & Lattes #1

Travis Baldree

312 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Jason Roberts

421 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history nature science adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
The Planets by Dava Sobel

The Planets

Dava Sobel

276 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

201 pages • paperback • 1995

fiction dystopian literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

496 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative sad medium-paced
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

A Memory Called Empire

Teixcalaan #1

Arkady Martine

480 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

The Bone Season

The Bone Season #1

Samantha Shannon

466 pages • hardcover • 2013

fiction dystopian fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced