TBR Backlog Challenge 2025

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72 participants (748 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Challenge yourself to read 12 books in your shelves in 2025. Tackle that TBR pile!

The template to this challenge (and many more) can be found on my Instagram @shadowbooker

We hope you enjoy the challenge! Happy reading in 2025!

Challenge Books

All books added
City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran

City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong

Antony Dapiran

288 pages • 2020

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen, Elizabeth Knox

Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy

David Larsen, Elizabeth Knox

608 pages • 2020

adventurous informative medium-paced
All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter

All the Murmuring Bones

A.G. Slatter

367 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Witches: What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen

Witches: What Women Do Together

Sam George-Allen

267 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction feminism informative reflective medium-paced
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

A Clash of Kings

A Song of Ice and Fire #2

George R.R. Martin

784 pages • paperback • 1998

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota

Emotional Female

Yumiko Kadota

400 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction by Terry Pratchett

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction

Terry Pratchett

315 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction essays emotional funny reflective medium-paced
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

389 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Ninth House

Alex Stern #1

Leigh Bardugo

458 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction fantasy thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

298 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced