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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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Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Foundation and Empire

Foundation #2

Isaac Asimov

256 pages • hardcover • 1952

fiction classics science fiction adventurous medium-paced
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Michael Pollan

13 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction health memoir philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Dust Child

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

339 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction historical emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne White

The Ghost Writer

Never Tell Collection #2

Loreth Anne White

65 pages • digital • 2024

fiction short stories thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

386 pages • digital • 2007

fiction contemporary historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Golden Enclaves: A Novel by Naomi Novik

The Golden Enclaves: A Novel

The Scholomance #3

Naomi Novik

432 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent

The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

Crowns of Nyaxia #3

Carissa Broadbent

430 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Doctor Who and the Daleks by David Whitaker

Doctor Who and the Daleks

Doctor Who Library (Target) #16

David Whitaker

160 pages • paperback • 1964

fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

570 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction historical horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith

Phantasma

Wicked Games #1

Kaylie Smith

497 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction fantasy horror romance adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced