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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 • 2025 • 8 editions

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 • 2023 • 4 editions

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

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn

349 pages • 2009 • 119 editions

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

Woodworking

Emily St. James

12h 6m • 2025 • 5 editions

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

Faebound #1

Faebound

Saara El-Arifi

400 pages • 2024 • 55 editions

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 • 1997 • 25 editions

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

Bright Falls #1

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

Ashley Herring Blake

11h 42m • 2022 • 44 editions

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

Meant To Be #3

Kiss the Girl

Zoraida Córdova

10h 40m • 2023 • 19 editions

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

Harry Potter #5

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling

895 pages • 2003 • 592 editions

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

Brightly Burning

Alexa Donne

400 pages • 2018 • 5 editions

fiction fantasy science fiction young adult adventurous medium-paced