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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

All books added
Camp Daze by Katy L. Wood

Camp Daze

Camp Daze #1

Katy L. Wood

296 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

She Who Became the Sun

The Radiant Emperor Duology #1

Shelley Parker-Chan

414 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni

Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination

Anthony Aveni

240 pages • hardcover

nonfiction informative medium-paced
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

476 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction science fiction adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

Blackfish City

Sam J. Miller

336 pages • digital • 2018

fiction dystopian fantasy science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Phoenix Empress by K. Arsenault Rivera

The Phoenix Empress

Their Bright Ascendency #2

K. Arsenault Rivera

544 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Trail of Lightning

The Sixth World #1

Rebecca Roanhorse

304 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction dystopian fantasy adventurous dark fast-paced
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Dan Flores

288 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history nature science adventurous informative slow-paced
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti

Binti #1

Nnedi Okorafor

74 pages • digital • 2015

fiction science fiction adventurous fast-paced
Never Say Never by Danielle Steel

Never Say Never

Danielle Steel

7 hours, 30 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

fiction contemporary romance