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

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The Frog Prince by Jenni James

Faerie Tale Collection #8

The Frog Prince

Jenni James

170 pages • 2013 • 2 editions

fiction fantasy romance adventurous fast-paced
The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers narrated by Andy Serkis by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings #2

The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers narrated by Andy Serkis

J.R.R. Tolkien

20h 46m • 1954 • 512 editions

user-added

fiction classics fantasy adventurous dark slow-paced
Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths by R. Raeta

The Peaches and Honey Duology #1

Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths

R. Raeta

320 pages • 2023 • 14 editions

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional slow-paced
The Forgotten Colony by J.B. Ryder

The Forgotten Colony

J.B. Ryder

496 pages • 2023 • 4 editions

fiction science fiction adventurous emotional tense fast-paced
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson

Negroland: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

272 pages • 2015 • 17 editions

nonfiction history memoir race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

288 pages • 2005 • 234 editions

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

257 pages • 2017 • 37 editions

nonfiction science travel informative reflective medium-paced
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

529 pages • 2002 • 93 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

173 pages • 1995 • 106 editions

fiction dystopian literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

400 pages • 2023 • 17 editions

fiction horror mystery short stories thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced