Read What You Own Challenge 2025: The Shelf-Care Edition

39 participants (223 books)

01 Jan 202531 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

23h 4m2008 12 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous tense medium-paced

18h 26m2022 3 editions

user-added

nonfiction biography history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

13h 57m2010 61 editions

nonfiction biography history adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

20h 25m2023 3 editions

user-added

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

15h 8m1485 103 editions

fiction classics fantasy historical adventurous medium-paced

13h 19m2020 15 editions

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced

12h 18m1996 11 editions

fiction science fiction adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

3h 31m2019 2 editions

nonfiction biography history emotional slow-paced

316 pages2017 106 editions

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced

15h 4m2023 10 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced