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

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39 participants (236 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 Midnight Club by Christopher Pike

The Midnight Club

Christopher Pike

224 pages • paperback • 1994

fiction horror young adult mysterious fast-paced
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert

276 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

380 pages • digital • 1949

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
Play Dead by Meryl Sawyer

Play Dead

Meryl Sawyer

384 pages • paperback • 2010

fiction contemporary romance mysterious tense fast-paced
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

399 pages • paperback • 1991

fiction horror literary thriller challenging dark tense slow-paced
Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

Heir of Fire

Throne of Glass #3

Sarah J. Maas

583 pages • digital • 2014

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum

The King of Ireland's Son

Padraic Colum

320 pages • 1916

fiction classics fantasy short stories adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Chouteau and the Founding of Saint Louis by Rhoda Wooldridge
Chouteau and the Founding of Saint Louis
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Rhoda Wooldridge

Chouteau and the Founding of Saint Louis

Rhoda Wooldridge

215 pages

Frankenstein Signet Classics by Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein Signet Classics

Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley

240 pages • hardcover • 1818

dark emotional reflective
Willing to Die by Lisa Jackson

Willing to Die

To Die #8

Lisa Jackson

500 pages • 2019

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced