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
La Trepadora by Rómulo Gallegos

La Trepadora

Colección Austral #338

Rómulo Gallegos

248 pages • paperback • 1943 user-added

fiction classics challenging informative lighthearted fast-paced
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

The Brown Sisters #1

Talia Hibbert

384 pages • digital • 2019

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

208 pages • digital • 2010

nonfiction essays memoir nature science informative reflective slow-paced
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

Joshua Hammer

280 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

397 pages • paperback • 2022 user-added

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

The Psychology of Time Travel

Kate Mascarenhas

360 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction crime mystery science fiction adventurous mysterious fast-paced
With Any Luck by Ashley Poston

With Any Luck

The Improbable Meet-Cute #5

Ashley Poston

42 pages • digital • 2024

fiction contemporary romance short stories lighthearted fast-paced
What You See in the Dark by Manuel Muñoz

What You See in the Dark

Manuel Muñoz

272 pages • digital • 2011

fiction historical mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Mojo by Tim Tharp

Mojo

Tim Tharp

283 pages • paperback • 2013

fiction mystery young adult mysterious tense slow-paced
Yellowcake by Margo Lanagan

Yellowcake

Margo Lanagan

245 pages • paperback • 2005

fiction fantasy short stories young adult adventurous slow-paced