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

9h 13m • 2023 • 24 editions

fiction historical mystery funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

128 pages • 1969 • 20 editions

fiction fantasy science fiction challenging reflective medium-paced

525 pages • 2024 • 23 editions

fiction historical emotional informative reflective medium-paced

446 pages • 2020 • 36 editions

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous funny fast-paced

578 pages • 2023 • 60 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

255 pages • 2017 • 3 editions

nonfiction science adventurous funny reflective slow-paced

431 pages • 2023 • 42 editions

fiction fantasy magical realism emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

260 pages • 1983 • 150 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

362 pages • 1999 • 7 editions

user-added

nonfiction biography history lighthearted medium-paced

368 pages • 2018 • 6 editions

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced