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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

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Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni

Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination

Anthony Aveni

240 pages • 4 editions

nonfiction informative medium-paced
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

476 pages • 2021 • 142 editions

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

Blackfish City

Sam J. Miller

336 pages • 2018 • 17 editions

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

Their Bright Ascendency #2

The Phoenix Empress

K. Arsenault Rivera

544 pages • 2018 • 4 editions

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

The Sixth World #1

Trail of Lightning

Rebecca Roanhorse

304 pages • 2018 • 22 editions

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 • 2016 • 8 editions

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

Binti #1

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

74 pages • 2015 • 17 editions

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

Never Say Never

Danielle Steel

7h 30m • 2025 • 6 editions

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fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful medium-paced
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

28h 38m • 1978 • 39 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of Time #2

Children of Ruin

Adrian Tchaikovsky

15h 25m • 2019 • 39 editions

fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced