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

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39 participants (244 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
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

256 pages • paperback • 1792

nonfiction classics feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

239 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton

The Kiss Countdown

Etta Easton

10 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2024

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

Lovelight Farms

Lovelight Farms #1

B.K. Borison

324 pages • digital • 2021

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

I Was a Teenage Slasher

Stephen Graham Jones

10 hours, 54 minutes • audio • 2024

fiction horror thriller dark tense medium-paced
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Notes on an Execution

Danya Kukafka

306 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction crime literary thriller dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

Lincoln's Dreams

Connie Willis

256 pages • paperback • 1987

fiction fantasy historical science fiction reflective slow-paced
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win by George Spafford, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win

George Spafford, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr

432 pages • digital • 2013

fiction business computer science technology adventurous informative reflective fast-paced
The Crazy School by Cornelia Read

The Crazy School

Madeline Dare #2

Cornelia Read

338 pages • paperback

fiction mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Vegetarian

Han Kang

188 pages • hardcover • 2007

fiction contemporary literary dark sad tense medium-paced