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

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42 participants (226 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

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Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

Really Good, Actually

Monica Heisey

370 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction contemporary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
All That Remains by Sue Black

All That Remains

Sue Black

368 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction memoir science true crime informative reflective medium-paced
The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

336 pages • digital • 2024

fiction horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

Crown of Midnight

Throne of Glass #2

Sarah J. Maas

420 pages • digital • 2013

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
FOUND 2 by Gabino Iglesias, Andrew Cull

FOUND 2

Gabino Iglesias, Andrew Cull

276 pages • digital • 2024

fiction horror short stories
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

Physics of the Impossible

Michio Kaku

11 hours, 49 minutes • audio • 2008

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

629 pages • paperback • 1992

fiction literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Lost Stars by Claudia Gray

Lost Stars

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Claudia Gray

560 pages • hardcover • 2015

fiction fantasy romance science fiction young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

352 pages • paperback • 2011

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Six

The Atlas #1

Olivie Blake

509 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced