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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
Lives of a Cell, The by Lewis Thomas

Lives of a Cell, The

Notes of a Biology Watcher #1

Lewis Thomas

180 pages • paperback • 1974

nonfiction essays science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson

Dance of Thieves

Dance of Thieves #1

Mary E. Pearson

16 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 2018

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous emotional medium-paced
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

Bruce Goldfarb

8 hours, 35 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction history science true crime informative slow-paced
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Love, Theoretically

Ali Hazelwood

389 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

216 pages • hardcover • 1838

fiction classics literary adventurous dark sad slow-paced
El diluvio by Henryk Sienkiewicz

El diluvio

The Trilogy #2.1

Henryk Sienkiewicz

438 pages • 1886

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
Al filo del agua by Agustín Yáñez

Al filo del agua

Agustín Yáñez

406 pages • 1947

fiction challenging informative medium-paced
Memorias de la casa muerta by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Memorias de la casa muerta

Fyodor Dostoevsky

351 pages • paperback user-added

nonfiction literary memoir psychology
Recuerdos de la medianoche by Sidney Sheldon
Recuerdos de la medianoche
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Sidney Sheldon

Recuerdos de la medianoche

Midnight #2

Sidney Sheldon

333 pages • 1990

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

462 pages • hardcover • 2016

fiction historical literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced