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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
Desperate Measures (Standard Edition) by Katee Robert

Desperate Measures (Standard Edition)

Katee Robert

320 pages • paperback

fiction erotica fantasy romance
The Wrong Bride by Catharina Maura

The Wrong Bride

The Windsors #1

Catharina Maura

384 pages • digital • 2022

fiction contemporary romance emotional tense fast-paced
Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco

Throne of the Fallen

Prince of Sin #1

Kerri Maniscalco

627 pages • hardcover • 2023 user-added

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Consider Me by Becka Mack

Consider Me

Playing For Keeps #1

Becka Mack

544 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction contemporary romance sports emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Unravel Me by Becka Mack

Unravel Me

Playing For Keeps #3

Becka Mack

512 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary romance sports emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

216 pages • hardcover • 1838

fiction classics literary adventurous dark sad slow-paced
El diluvio by Henryk Sienkiewicz

El diluvio

The Trilogy #2.1

Henryk Sienkiewicz

438 pages • 1886

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
Al filo del agua by Agustín Yáñez

Al filo del agua

Agustín Yáñez

406 pages • 1947

fiction challenging informative medium-paced
Memorias de la casa muerta by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Memorias de la casa muerta

Fyodor Dostoevsky

351 pages • paperback user-added

nonfiction literary memoir psychology
Recuerdos de la medianoche by Sidney Sheldon
Recuerdos de la medianoche
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Sidney Sheldon

Recuerdos de la medianoche

Midnight #2

Sidney Sheldon

333 pages • 1990

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced