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
All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

All the Dangerous Things

Stacy Willingham

326 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Odd Sisters: A Villains Novel by Serena Valentino

The Odd Sisters: A Villains Novel

Villains #6

Serena Valentino

321 pages • digital • 2019

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark fast-paced
Heat Lightning by Helen R. Hull

Heat Lightning

Helen R. Hull

328 pages • paperback • 1932

fiction classics emotional reflective slow-paced
The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige

The Wicked Will Rise

Dorothy Must Die #2

Danielle Paige

9 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2015

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Road Trip with the Billionaire by Harmony Knight

Road Trip with the Billionaire

Harmony Knight

318 pages • digital • 2022 user-added

fiction contemporary romance emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

Gilead #1

Marilynne Robinson

247 pages • paperback • 2004

fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories by Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Cochrane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
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Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Cochrane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Cochrane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane

412 pages • paperback • 1969

fiction classics short stories dark reflective medium-paced
Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life by Jen Hatmaker

Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life

Jen Hatmaker

224 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction religion self help funny reflective fast-paced
King of Greed by Ana Huang

King of Greed

Kings of Sin #3

Ana Huang

315 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary romance emotional medium-paced
Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong

Foul Heart Huntsman

Secret Shanghai Universe #4

Chloe Gong

593 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction fantasy historical young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced