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Tackle Your Owned Books Challenge

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30 participants (202 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

This challenge is to motivate myself to read books I already own! Most of the books I read are thrifted or from the library, but sometimes a book gets forgotten about and sits on my shelf for years while I get new ones. Ideally, one book a month should be read over the course of this year that were already on my bookshelf at the start of the year.

Challenge Books

All books added
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

816 pages • paperback • 2015

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price by Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke

missing page info • digital • 2016 user-added

nonfiction business informative slow-paced
The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace by Ron Friedman

The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

Ron Friedman

missing page info • digital user-added

nonfiction business economics informative reflective medium-paced
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo

288 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction history sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

325 pages • digital • 2006

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

288 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction business psychology self help informative medium-paced
Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams by Martin Eriksson, Richard Banfield, Nate Walkingshaw

Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

Martin Eriksson, Richard Banfield, Nate Walkingshaw

missing page info • digital • 2017 user-added

nonfiction business design informative reflective slow-paced
Changing Planes: Armchair Travel for the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin

Changing Planes: Armchair Travel for the Mind

Ursula K. Le Guin

214 pages • paperback • 2003

fiction fantasy science fiction short stories adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

489 pages • paperback • 2002

fiction contemporary literary magical realism adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Starless Crown by James Rollins

The Starless Crown

Moon Fall #1

James Rollins

576 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous medium-paced