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

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

321 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction science funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Maria Theresia: die große Habsburgerin by Franz Herre

Maria Theresia: die große Habsburgerin

Franz Herre

368 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Bilder aus England und Schottland by Theodor Fontane, Jürgen Hosemann

Bilder aus England und Schottland

Theodor Fontane, Jürgen Hosemann

208 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Queen's Hope by E.K. Johnston

Queen's Hope

Star Wars: Queen Trilogy #3

E.K. Johnston

280 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous emotional fast-paced
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

Swordcrossed

Freya Marske

372 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Legends & Lattes

Legends & Lattes #1

Travis Baldree

7 hours, 19 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Living Reiki: Takata's Teachings by Fran Brown

Living Reiki: Takata's Teachings

Fran Brown

96 pages • 1992

reference self help informative inspiring lighthearted slow-paced
Mouse Guard: The Owlhen Caregiver #1 by David Petersen

Mouse Guard: The Owlhen Caregiver #1

David Petersen

32 pages • paperback

Rock Climbing: The Art of Safe Ascent by John Long, Bob Gaines

Rock Climbing: The Art of Safe Ascent

John Long, Bob Gaines

328 pages • paperback

nonfiction sports