Read Your Shelves 2025

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63 participants (668 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 25 books that have been on your shelf since December 1, 2024 or before. Must be books you own (no library materials) and can be in any format (print, ebook, audiobook, graphic novels) and can’t be rereads.

Challenge Books

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Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky

Suite Francaise

Irène Némirovsky

431 pages • 2004 • 67 editions

fiction classics historical sad slow-paced
Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Swing Time

Zadie Smith

453 pages • 2016 • 55 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective slow-paced
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

150 pages • 2011 • 62 editions

fiction contemporary literary reflective slow-paced
The Secret Agent: (RED Edition) by Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent: (RED Edition)

Joseph Conrad

260 pages • 1907 • 389 editions

fiction classics mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
A Widow For One Year by John Irving

A Widow For One Year

John Irving

667 pages • 1998 • 40 editions

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

287 pages • 2009 • 44 editions

nonfiction science sports adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
This Is Your Brain On Music: understanding a human obsession by Daniel J. Levitin

This Is Your Brain On Music: understanding a human obsession

Daniel J. Levitin

322 pages • 2006 • 31 editions

nonfiction music psychology science informative slow-paced
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove #3

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

843 pages • 1985 • 56 editions

fiction classics historical literary adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism by Simon Baron-Cohen

The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism

Simon Baron-Cohen

271 pages • 2003 • 2 editions

nonfiction gender psychology science challenging informative medium-paced
The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Trial

Franz Kafka

256 pages • 1925 • 664 editions

fiction classics dystopian literary challenging dark mysterious slow-paced