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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 Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale #2

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

419 pages • 2019 • 127 editions

fiction contemporary dystopian literary dark tense medium-paced
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor

Who Fears Death #0

The Book of Phoenix

Nnedi Okorafor

232 pages • 2015 • 19 editions

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced
Briar Rose: A Novel of the Holocaust by Jane Yolen

Briar Rose: A Novel of the Holocaust

Jane Yolen

272 pages • 1988 • 14 editions

fiction fantasy historical young adult dark emotional sad slow-paced
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama XIV, Douglas Carlton Abrams

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama XIV, Douglas Carlton Abrams

384 pages • 2016 • 26 editions

nonfiction philosophy self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens
Death and the After Parties
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Joanne Hichens

Death and the After Parties

Joanne Hichens

missing page info • 2020 • 1 edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Hidden Star by K. Sello Duiker

The Hidden Star

K. Sello Duiker

232 pages • 2006 • 4 editions

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

Rob Wilkins

448 pages • 2022 • 13 editions

nonfiction biography emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

116 pages • 2021 • 104 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
afterwards by Kerry Hammerton

afterwards

Kerry Hammerton

65 pages • 2023 • 1 edition

user-added

nonfiction poetry
Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers: A Mercy to All. Expanded edition by Shafiq Morton

Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers: A Mercy to All. Expanded edition

Shafiq Morton

321 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

user-added

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced