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2025 beat the backlog challenge

12 participants (99 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Join me in slimming down those bookshelves by reading 12 (or more!) books you already own in 2025. 

Choose to do as a kindle or physical clear out but for books to count they should be titles you already owned a copy of prior to 1 Jan 2025.

Challenge Books

All books added

385 pages • 2015 • 35 editions

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

325 pages • 2021 • 31 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

416 pages • 2022 • 75 editions

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

497 pages • 2022 • 14 editions

fiction crime dark mysterious tense medium-paced

400 pages • 2023 • 22 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced

400 pages • 2022 • 31 editions

fiction contemporary literary magical realism thriller adventurous mysterious medium-paced

384 pages • 2020 • 135 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

352 pages • 2011 • 50 editions

fiction literary adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

309 pages • 2023 • 48 editions

fiction dystopian literary dark emotional tense medium-paced