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

39 participants (236 books)

01 Jan 202531 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

11 hours, 49 minutes audio 2008

nonfiction science informative medium-paced

628 pages paperback 1992

fiction literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced

560 pages hardcover 2015

fiction fantasy romance science fiction young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

352 pages paperback 2011

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

557 pages paperback 2020

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

429 pages paperback 2019

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance science fiction young adult adventurous emotional medium-paced

416 pages paperback 2020

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance young adult adventurous emotional medium-paced

409 pages hardcover 2017

fiction fantasy science fiction young adult adventurous medium-paced

92 pages 1994

nonfiction travel funny informative medium-paced

565 pages digital 2016 user-added

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced