Read My Shelves: Watch Your Backlist 2025 Challenge

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12 participants (170 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read more, spend less! The goal of this challenge is to read the books you owned as of 1/1/2025.

This challenge is hosted by the bookstagram Watch Your Backlist, who also has a prompt-based reading challenge here!

Challenge Books

All books added
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

305 pages • 2023 • 29 editions

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary magical realism dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

The Scholomance #2

The Last Graduate

Naomi Novik

388 pages • 2021 • 60 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey

The Expanse #1

Leviathan Wakes

James S. A. Corey

561 pages • 2011 • 84 editions

fiction science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan

Palace of the Drowned

Christine Mangan

320 pages • 2021 • 8 editions

fiction historical thriller emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

The Grammarians

Cathleen Schine

272 pages • 2019 • 7 editions

fiction historical literary lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Termush by Sven Holm

Termush

Sven Holm

119 pages • 1967 • 14 editions

fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier

256 pages • 1952 • 46 editions

fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
All Fours by Miranda July

All Fours

Miranda July

326 pages • 2024 • 42 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

10h 15m • 2024 • 12 editions

fiction contemporary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

The Book of Doors

Gareth Brown

403 pages • 2024 • 45 editions

fiction literary magical realism adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced