2025 beat the backlog challenge

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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

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Les Cahiers d'Esther : Histoires de mes 18 ans by Riad Sattouf

Esther's Notebooks #9

Les Cahiers d'Esther : Histoires de mes 18 ans

Riad Sattouf

56 pages • 2024 • 2 editions

nonfiction comics graphic novel emotional reflective medium-paced
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

207 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

nonfiction autobiography young adult emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
Mad Honey by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult

Mad Honey

Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult

464 pages • 2022 • 69 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Laurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Laurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain

12h 11m • 2020 • 20 editions

nonfiction essays food and drink travel informative inspiring medium-paced
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie

Candice Carty-Williams

384 pages • 2019 • 61 editions

fiction contemporary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

Poet Warrior

Joy Harjo

240 pages • 2021 • 9 editions

nonfiction memoir poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

333 pages • 2000 • 30 editions

nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad by Anna Pavord

The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad

Anna Pavord

291 pages • 1999 • 3 editions

user-added

nonfiction history nature informative medium-paced
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Legacy of Orïsha #1

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

537 pages • 2018 • 82 editions

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron by Lucasta Miller

L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron

Lucasta Miller

416 pages • 5 editions

nonfiction biography feminism history poetry reflective slow-paced