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

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39 participants (239 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
Gods & Monsters by Shelby Mahurin

Gods & Monsters

Serpent & Dove #3

Shelby Mahurin

16 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 2021

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

House of Earth and Blood

Crescent City #1

Sarah J. Maas

27 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Better off Dead by Lee Child

Better off Dead

Jack Reacher #26

Lee Child

400 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction mystery thriller adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

112 pages • paperback • 1929

nonfiction classics essays feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Flowers in the Attic

Dollanganger #1

V.C. Andrews

389 pages • paperback • 1979

fiction thriller dark emotional sad medium-paced
Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Stolen

Stolen #1

Lucy Christopher

304 pages • paperback • 2009

fiction contemporary romance young adult dark emotional tense medium-paced
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott

Five Feet Apart

Rachael Lippincott

282 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction romance young adult emotional hopeful sad fast-paced
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Perfect Chemistry

Perfect Chemistry #1

Simone Elkeles

368 pages • hardcover • 2008

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
Gryphon's Pride by Kaye Draper

Gryphon's Pride

Gesa's Menagerie #1

Kaye Draper

133 pages • digital • 2019

fantasy adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis

Guadalcanal Diary

U.S. Landmark Books #55

Richard Tregaskis

272 pages • paperback • 1943

nonfiction history informative slow-paced