Read What You Own Challenge 2025: The Shelf-Care Edition

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39 participants (223 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Is your bookshelf starting to resemble a  Jenga tower, teetering with unread books? Do you have novels that have been in your possession longer than some houseplants you’ve managed to keep alive? It’s time to give those books the attention they’ve been silently yearning for.

Challenge Overview:
• Duration: January 1 – December 31, 2025
• Objective: Read 12 books from your personal collection that were owned before January 1, 2025. Yes, those ones you’ve been “meaning to get to.”

• Flexibility: Any genre, any length, any format. If it’s been collecting dust in your domain, it qualifies.

• Community: Share your progress and connect with fellow participants using the hashtag #ShelfCare2025.

Happy reading!

Challenge Books

All books added
King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby

King of Ashes

S.A. Cosby

333 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction crime thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television by Thea Glassman

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television

Thea Glassman

240 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction art funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn

349 pages • paperback • 2009

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Woodworking by Emily St. James

Woodworking

Emily St. James

12 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

Faebound

Faebound #1

Saara El-Arifi

400 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Gavin de Becker

352 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction psychology self help informative medium-paced
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

Bright Falls #1

Ashley Herring Blake

11 hours, 42 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Córdova

Kiss the Girl

Meant To Be #3

Zoraida Córdova

10 hours, 40 minutes • audio • 2023

fiction contemporary romance adventurous reflective medium-paced
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter #5

J.K. Rowling

895 pages • paperback • 2003

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne

Brightly Burning

Alexa Donne

400 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction fantasy science fiction young adult adventurous medium-paced