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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

All books added
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

The House Across the Lake

Riley Sager

11h 3m • 2022 • 68 editions

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

The Black Axe (Mouse Guard) #4

Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #4

David Petersen

26 pages • 2012 • 2 editions

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

Me Before You #1

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

480 pages • 2012 • 186 editions

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 • 2022 • 13 editions

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 • 2008 • 32 editions

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

Maria Theresia: die große Habsburgerin

Franz Herre

368 pages • 1994 • 2 editions

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

Bilder aus England und Schottland

Theodor Fontane, Jürgen Hosemann

208 pages • 2019 • 1 edition

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

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • 2017 • 87 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Queen's Hope by E.K. Johnston

Star Wars: Queen Trilogy #3

Queen's Hope

E.K. Johnston

280 pages • 2022 • 14 editions

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous emotional fast-paced
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

Swordcrossed

Freya Marske

372 pages • 2024 • 16 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced