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

All books added
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig

Two Twisted Crowns

The Shepherd King #2

Rachel Gillig

465 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Amanda Gorman

32 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction poetry hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Scanlines by Todd Keisling

Scanlines

Todd Keisling

83 pages • digital • 2020 user-added

fiction horror dark mysterious tense slow-paced
The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

The Principle of Moments

The Order of Legends #1

Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

506 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous emotional tense fast-paced
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris

368 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction literary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

Black Buck

Mateo Askaripour

11 hours, 13 minutes • audio • 2021

fiction contemporary race challenging dark funny fast-paced
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold #1

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

213 pages • paperback • 2015

fiction literary magical realism emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

The Sword of Kaigen

Theonite

M.L. Wang

696 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction fantasy adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The God of Good Looks by Breanne Mc Ivor

The God of Good Looks

Breanne Mc Ivor

384 pages • digital • 2023

fiction literary emotional medium-paced
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Tom Hanks

417 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction historical literary funny informative lighthearted medium-paced