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Read What You Own Challenge 2025: The Shelf-Care Edition

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39 participants (235 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Is your bookshelf starting to resemble a  Jenga tower, teetering with unread books? Do you have novels that have been in your possession longer than some houseplants you’ve managed to keep alive? It’s time to give those books the attention they’ve been silently yearning for.

Challenge Overview:
• Duration: January 1 – December 31, 2025
• Objective: Read 12 books from your personal collection that were owned before January 1, 2025. Yes, those ones you’ve been “meaning to get to.”

• Flexibility: Any genre, any length, any format. If it’s been collecting dust in your domain, it qualifies.

• Community: Share your progress and connect with fellow participants using the hashtag #ShelfCare2025.

Happy reading!

Challenge Books

All books added
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

The Stranger Diaries

Harbinder Kaur #1

Elly Griffiths

368 pages • digital • 2018

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Just Try to Stop Me by Gregg Olsen

Just Try to Stop Me

Waterman and Stark #3

Gregg Olsen

464 pages • paperback • 2016

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava

The Truth According to Ember

Danica Nava

9 hours, 8 minutes • audio • 2024

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • paperback • 1963

nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

These Summer Storms

Sarah MacLean

384 pages • hardcover • 2025 user-added

fiction contemporary romance emotional mysterious medium-paced
Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels

Weekend Warriors

Sisterhood #1

Fern Michaels

304 pages • paperback • 2001

fiction thriller mysterious fast-paced
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Secret Projects #1

Brandon Sanderson

12 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 2023

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Let the Games Begin by Rufaro Faith Mazarura

Let the Games Begin

Rufaro Faith Mazarura

343 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction contemporary romance sports funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Frostblood by Elly Blake

Frostblood

Frostblood Saga #1

Elly Blake

384 pages • paperback • 2017

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous emotional medium-paced
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

The Water Cure

Sophie Mackintosh

256 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction dystopian literary dark mysterious tense slow-paced