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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Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Legends & Lattes #1

Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree

7h 19m • 2022 • 140 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Living Reiki: Takata's Teachings by Fran Brown

Living Reiki: Takata's Teachings

Fran Brown

96 pages • 1992 • 1 edition

reference self help informative inspiring lighthearted slow-paced
Mouse Guard: The Owlhen Caregiver #1 by David Petersen

Mouse Guard: The Owlhen Caregiver #1

David Petersen

32 pages • 1 edition

Rock Climbing: The Art of Safe Ascent by John Long, Bob Gaines

Rock Climbing: The Art of Safe Ascent

John Long, Bob Gaines

328 pages • 1 edition

nonfiction sports
The Broken Room by Peter Clines

The Broken Room

Peter Clines

10h 50m • 2022 • 6 editions

fiction thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir by Kelly Grey Carlisle

We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir

Kelly Grey Carlisle

320 pages • 2017 • 5 editions

nonfiction autobiography memoir true crime emotional reflective slow-paced
Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet by Susan A. Cohen, Julie Dunlap

Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet

Susan A. Cohen, Julie Dunlap

248 pages • 2016 • 1 edition

nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Great Cities #1

The City We Became

N.K. Jemisin

437 pages • 2020 • 58 editions

fiction contemporary fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Camp Daze by Katy L. Wood

Camp Daze #1

Camp Daze

Katy L. Wood

296 pages • 2024 • 3 editions

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

The Radiant Emperor Duology #1

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

414 pages • 2021 • 70 editions

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ adventurous dark tense medium-paced