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

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39 participants (240 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 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
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Trail of Lightning

The Sixth World #1

Rebecca Roanhorse

304 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction dystopian fantasy adventurous dark fast-paced
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Dan Flores

288 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history nature science adventurous informative slow-paced
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti

Binti #1

Nnedi Okorafor

74 pages • digital • 2015

fiction science fiction adventurous fast-paced
Never Say Never by Danielle Steel

Never Say Never

Danielle Steel

7 hours, 30 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful medium-paced
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

28 hours, 38 minutes • audio • 1978

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of Ruin

Children of Time #2

Adrian Tchaikovsky

15 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2019

fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Empire in Black and Gold

Shadows of the Apt #1

Adrian Tchaikovsky

23 hours, 4 minutes • audio • 2008

fiction fantasy adventurous tense medium-paced
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Amanda H. Podany

18 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

13 hours, 57 minutes • audio • 2010

nonfiction biography history adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced