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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

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The Broken Room by Peter Clines

The Broken Room

Peter Clines

10 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir by Kelly Grey Carlisle

We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir

Kelly Grey Carlisle

320 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction autobiography memoir true crime emotional reflective slow-paced
Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet by Susan A. Cohen, Julie Dunlap

Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet

Susan A. Cohen, Julie Dunlap

248 pages • 2016

nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

The City We Became

Great Cities #1

N.K. Jemisin

437 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction contemporary fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Camp Daze by Katy L. Wood

Camp Daze

Camp Daze #1

Katy L. Wood

296 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

She Who Became the Sun

The Radiant Emperor Duology #1

Shelley Parker-Chan

414 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni

Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination

Anthony Aveni

240 pages • hardcover

nonfiction informative medium-paced
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

476 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction science fiction adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

Blackfish City

Sam J. Miller

336 pages • digital • 2018

fiction dystopian fantasy science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Phoenix Empress by K. Arsenault Rivera

The Phoenix Empress

Their Bright Ascendency #2

K. Arsenault Rivera

544 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced