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.

Finishing the Books I Started

jupiter2932 Host

16 participants (99 books)

STARTS: 19 May 2025ENDS: 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

Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

Poor Things
Alasdair Gray

317 pages • paperback • 1992 • 69 editions

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous dark funny medium-paced

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous dark funny medium-paced

Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

Poor Things

317 pages • 1992 • 69 editions

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous dark funny medium-paced

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous dark funny medium-paced

Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
Jonathan Swift with Miriam K. Starkman

535 pages • paperback • 1962 • 7 editions

fiction

fiction

Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

Jonathan Swift with Miriam K. Starkman

535 pages • 1962 • 7 editions

fiction

fiction

The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey

The Inner Game of Music
Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey

8h 33m • audio • 1986 • 2 editions

user-added

nonfiction music psychology self help informative slow-paced

nonfiction music psychology self help informative slow-paced

The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey

The Inner Game of Music

Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey

8h 33m • 1986 • 2 editions

user-added

nonfiction music psychology self help informative slow-paced

nonfiction music psychology self help informative slow-paced

Slow Productivity: A Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout. by Cal Newport

Slow Productivity: A Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout.
Cal Newport

6h • audio • 2024 • 16 editions

user-added

nonfiction business self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

nonfiction business self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Slow Productivity: A Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout. by Cal Newport

Slow Productivity: A Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout.

6h • 2024 • 16 editions

user-added

nonfiction business self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

nonfiction business self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
Jeremy Eichler

400 pages • hardcover • 2023 • 5 editions

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

400 pages • 2023 • 5 editions

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Viking. Le ossa di Ardal by Linnea Hartsuyker

Viking. Le ossa di Ardal
Linnea Hartsuyker

474 pages • digital • 2017 • 1 edition

Viking. Le ossa di Ardal by Linnea Hartsuyker

Viking. Le ossa di Ardal

Linnea Hartsuyker

474 pages • 2017 • 1 edition

Macbeth by Jo Nesbø

Macbeth
Jo Nesbø with Don Bartlett (Translator)

512 pages • paperback • 2018 • 46 editions

fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced

fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Macbeth by Jo Nesbø

Macbeth

Jo Nesbø with Don Bartlett (Translator)

512 pages • 2018 • 46 editions

fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced

fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Revival by Stephen King

Revival
Stephen King

405 pages • hardcover • 2014 • 72 editions

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Revival by Stephen King

Revival

405 pages • 2014 • 72 editions

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Racconti straordinari. by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe

Racconti straordinari.
Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe

missing page info • 1840 • 1 edition

dark tense medium-paced

dark tense medium-paced

Racconti straordinari. by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe

Racconti straordinari.

Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe

missing page info • 1840 • 1 edition

dark tense medium-paced

dark tense medium-paced

Waterland by Graham Swift

Waterland
Graham Swift with John Burnside (RCW)

368 pages • paperback • 1983 • 34 editions

fiction historical literary challenging reflective slow-paced

fiction historical literary challenging reflective slow-paced

Waterland by Graham Swift

Waterland

Graham Swift with John Burnside (RCW)

368 pages • 1983 • 34 editions

fiction historical literary challenging reflective slow-paced

fiction historical literary challenging reflective slow-paced

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