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

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39 participants (237 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
This is the Night They Come for You by Robert Goddard

This is the Night They Come for You

Inspector Taleb #1

Robert Goddard

416 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Tough: My Journey to True Power by Terry Crews

Tough: My Journey to True Power

Terry Crews

272 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

Leather & Lark

Ruinous Love #2

Brynne Weaver

390 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction contemporary romance dark emotional funny medium-paced
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Montague Siblings #2

Mackenzi Lee

450 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous funny medium-paced
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

370 pages • digital • 2018

fiction historical literary mystery emotional mysterious medium-paced
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

Georgie, All Along

Kate Clayborn

340 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

256 pages • paperback • 1792

nonfiction classics feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa, Sol Aronson

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Gertrude Landa, Sol Aronson

294 pages • 1919

fiction religion adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

352 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

303 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history science dark funny informative medium-paced