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

All books added
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

423 pages • 2020 • 83 editions

fiction historical literary emotional informative reflective slow-paced
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

288 pages • 1920 • 470 editions

fiction classics historical literary emotional sad slow-paced
The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

The Blue Hour

Paula Hawkins

303 pages • 2024 • 49 editions

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • 2013 • 57 editions

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

Ingrid Betancourt

544 pages • 2008 • 14 editions

nonfiction memoir dark emotional inspiring medium-paced
Rebecca by Clifford Williams

Rebecca

Clifford Williams

94 pages • 1938 • 341 editions

fiction classics romance thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann by Virginia Pye

The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann

Virginia Pye

282 pages • 2023 • 2 editions

fiction historical adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

415 pages • 1740 • 58 editions

user-added

fiction classics literary romance challenging slow-paced
Organic Perfume Made Easy: 55 DIY Natural Homemade Perfume Recipes For Beautiful And Aromatic Fragrances by Ronnie Alexander

Organic Perfume Made Easy: 55 DIY Natural Homemade Perfume Recipes For Beautiful And Aromatic Fragrances

Ronnie Alexander

missing page info • 3 editions

user-added

nonfiction health
Neuromancer by William Gibson

Sprawl #1

Neuromancer

William Gibson

321 pages • 1984 • 133 editions

fiction classics science fiction thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced