Finishing the Books I Started

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16 participants (99 books)

19 May 2025—31 Oct 2025

Overview

If you, too, are terrible at actually finishing books you start, join me in fixing that...or at least making it to the last page of five books you previously abandoned. The challenge runs for about five months - one per book, though please add as many books as you want.

Challenge Books

All books added
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano

383 pages • 2023 • 67 editions

fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition by Donald Shoup

The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition

Donald Shoup

23h 47m • 2005 • 11 editions

user-added

nonfiction business design economics sociology informative slow-paced
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani

Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

Blair Imani

192 pages • 2020 • 3 editions

nonfiction history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Work: Capitalism. Economics. Resistance by CrimethInc.

Work: Capitalism. Economics. Resistance

CrimethInc.

374 pages • 2011 • 5 editions

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

443 pages • 2014 • 94 editions

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

389 pages • 1987 • 250 editions

fiction literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Frankenstein (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein (Wordsworth Collector's Editions)

Mary Shelley

224 pages • 1818 • 2.2k editions

fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune #1

Dune

Frank Herbert

577 pages • 1965 • 390 editions

fiction classics science fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

227 pages • 1953 • 412 editions

fiction classics dystopian science fiction dark reflective tense medium-paced
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

289 pages • 2018 • 122 editions

fiction contemporary literary dark reflective slow-paced