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
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

462 pages • hardcover • 2016

fiction historical literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
La Trepadora by Rómulo Gallegos

La Trepadora

Colección Austral #338

Rómulo Gallegos

248 pages • paperback • 1943 user-added

fiction classics challenging informative lighthearted fast-paced
Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

Lair of Dreams

The Diviners #2

Libba Bray

613 pages • hardcover • 2015

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Diviners by Libba Bray

The Diviners

The Diviners #1

Libba Bray

785 pages • hardcover • 2012

fiction fantasy historical young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray

Before the Devil Breaks You

The Diviners #3

Libba Bray

560 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous emotional slow-paced
The King of Crows by Libba Bray

The King of Crows

The Diviners #4

Libba Bray

560 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

The Brown Sisters #1

Talia Hibbert

384 pages • digital • 2019

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

208 pages • digital • 2010

nonfiction essays memoir nature science informative reflective slow-paced
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

Joshua Hammer

280 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

397 pages • paperback • 2022 user-added

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced