Rid-or-Readathon 2025

whitewolff Host

14 participants (134 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Pick your 12 at the start of the year and add them to the challenge. They have to be books you *already own* (no cheating and buying new books before you start, pick the ones that have been sitting on your shelves for far too long that you want to finally tackle or admit you never will).

Each month if you don't read one of the books you have to get rid of one.  Let's get those shelves clear one way or another.

Challenge Books

All books added
The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay

The Book of Delights: Essays

Ross Gay

288 pages • 2019 • 11 editions

nonfiction essays memoir emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

Sari Nusseibeh

560 pages • 2007 • 8 editions

nonfiction biography history memoir informative reflective slow-paced
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge #1

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

286 pages • 2008 • 70 editions

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

329 pages • 1813 • 2.7k editions

fiction classics literary romance emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced
A Slipping-Down Life by Anne Tyler

A Slipping-Down Life

Anne Tyler

192 pages • 1969 • 10 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson

Fourth of July Creek

Smith Henderson

480 pages • 2014 • 17 editions

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz

Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships #1

Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships

Sarah Grunder Ruiz

336 pages • 2021 • 5 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Mort(e) by Robert Repino

War with No Name #1

Mort(e)

Robert Repino

358 pages • 2014 • 13 editions

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous fast-paced
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu

292 pages • 2022 • 34 editions

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

231 pages • 2017 • 53 editions

fiction literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced