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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
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis

733 pages • hardcover • 2009

fiction contemporary literary short stories funny reflective medium-paced
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

329 pages • paperback • 1857

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

248 pages • paperback • 1930

fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Heroine by Gail Scott

Heroine

Gail Scott

192 pages • paperback • 1987

fiction lgbtqia+ challenging reflective slow-paced
Room to Dream by David Lynch

Room to Dream

David Lynch

589 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

240 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction self help informative reflective medium-paced
Telling Tales: A History Of Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis

Telling Tales: A History Of Literary Hoaxes

Melissa Katsoulis

328 pages • 2010

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

121 pages • paperback • 1898

fiction classics horror mystery dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Mark of the Wicked by Georgia Bowers

Mark of the Wicked

Georgia Bowers

352 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction fantasy mystery young adult dark mysterious medium-paced
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

Jemar Tisby

253 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced