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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
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Brad Ricca

432 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine

My Vampire Plus-One

My Vampires #2

Jenna Levine

389 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction contemporary fantasy romance funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden

The Perfect Son

Freida McFadden

320 pages • paperback • 2019 user-added

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

Tomes and Tea #1

Rebecca Thorne

443 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Emily Wilde #1

Heather Fawcett

317 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction fantasy historical adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

The Women Could Fly

Megan Giddings

283 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction dystopian fantasy lgbtqia+ dark emotional reflective medium-paced
In Case of Elftastrophe by Chanda Bell, Chanda Bell

In Case of Elftastrophe

Chanda Bell, Chanda Bell

32 pages • hardcover

fiction childrens
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

Blood at the Root

Blood at the Root #1

LaDarrion Williams

419 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

Bolu Babalola

290 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction fantasy romance short stories emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & The Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid

355 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced