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
The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Paradox

The Atlas #2

Olivie Blake

403 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest

The Neighbor Favor

Greene Sisters #1

Kristina Forest

403 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

The House Across the Lake

Riley Sager

11 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #4 by David Petersen

Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #4

The Black Axe (Mouse Guard) #4

David Petersen

26 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction comics fantasy adventurous dark emotional fast-paced
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Me Before You

Me Before You #1

Jojo Moyes

480 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction contemporary romance emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

Love in the Time of Serial Killers

Alicia Thompson

336 pages • digital • 2022

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

321 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction science funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Maria Theresia: die große Habsburgerin by Franz Herre

Maria Theresia: die große Habsburgerin

Franz Herre

368 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Bilder aus England und Schottland by Jürgen Hosemann, Theodor Fontane

Bilder aus England und Schottland

Jürgen Hosemann, Theodor Fontane

208 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced