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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

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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Penguin Modern #23

Audre Lorde

50 pages • paperback • 1984

nonfiction essays feminism politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

The Kiss of Deception

The Remnant Chronicles #1

Mary E. Pearson

486 pages • paperback • 2014

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

238 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction memoir reference informative inspiring medium-paced
Gabriel's Gift by Christina Dodd

Gabriel's Gift

Lost Hearts #3.5

Christina Dodd

36 pages • digital • 2014

fiction romance lighthearted fast-paced
Just the Way You Are by Christina Dodd

Just the Way You Are

Lost Hearts #1

Christina Dodd

387 pages • digital • 2014 user-added

fiction contemporary romance lighthearted medium-paced
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

Really Good, Actually

Monica Heisey

370 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction contemporary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
All That Remains by Sue Black

All That Remains

Sue Black

368 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction memoir science true crime informative reflective medium-paced
The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

336 pages • digital • 2024

fiction horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

Crown of Midnight

Throne of Glass #2

Sarah J. Maas

420 pages • digital • 2013

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
FOUND 2 by Andrew Cull, Gabino Iglesias

FOUND 2

Andrew Cull, Gabino Iglesias

276 pages • digital • 2024

fiction horror short stories