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Read What You Own - 2025 Physical Book Edition

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18 participants (237 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

For the past few years, the rate at which I've been acquiring new books has exceeded the rate at which I read them. For 2025, I want to challenge myself to read at least 20 books that I already owned prior to January 1, 2025. And if there are any that I do not enjoy and mark as DNF, then I'm going to unhaul them. My bookshelves are overflowing and I have got to regain at least some control of this physical TBR!

Challenge Books

All books added
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

299 pages • 2006 • 27 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Eternal by Lisa Scottoline

Eternal

Lisa Scottoline

480 pages • 2021 • 16 editions

fiction historical emotional sad medium-paced
In Praise Of Slow: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging The Cult Of Speed by Carl Honoré

In Praise Of Slow: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging The Cult Of Speed

Carl Honoré

282 pages • 1 edition

nonfiction philosophy psychology self help informative reflective slow-paced
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

The Broken Empire #1

Prince of Thorns

Mark Lawrence

402 pages • 2011 • 50 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous dark fast-paced
The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan

The Draconis Memoria #1

The Waking Fire

Anthony Ryan

679 pages • 2016 • 32 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous fast-paced
Weihnacht im wilden Westen by Karl May

Travel Stories #24

Weihnacht im wilden Westen

Karl May

480 pages • 1897 • 11 editions

fiction adventurous reflective medium-paced
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson

Normal Rules Don't Apply

Kate Atkinson

240 pages • 2023 • 25 editions

fiction literary short stories mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde

The Black Unicorn

Audre Lorde

126 pages • 1978 • 14 editions

fiction feminism lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Remembering Green by Lesley Beake

Remembering Green

Lesley Beake

112 pages • 2009 • 1 edition

fiction science fiction young adult adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced
Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton

Kinsey Millhone #17

Q is for Quarry

Sue Grafton

618 pages • 2002 • 29 editions

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious fast-paced