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

673 pages • 2021 • 84 editions

fiction contemporary literary sports emotional reflective sad medium-paced

897 pages • 1998 • 46 editions

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced

577 pages • 2001 • 18 editions

fiction thriller adventurous tense fast-paced

623 pages • 2020 • 25 editions

fiction historical horror lgbtqia+ adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

10h 20m • 2020 • 37 editions

fiction mystery thriller adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

304 pages • 2022 • 29 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

406 pages • 2007 • 54 editions

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced

11h 10m • 2024 • 20 editions

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous dark medium-paced

370 pages • 2019 • 4 editions

user-added

fiction mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced

391 pages • 2022 • 41 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced