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

All books added
Memorias de la casa muerta by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Memorias de la casa muerta

Fyodor Dostoevsky

351 pages • 2 editions

user-added

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

Midnight #2

Recuerdos de la medianoche

Sidney Sheldon

333 pages • 1990 • 18 editions

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

462 pages • 2016 • 103 editions

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

Colección Austral #338

La Trepadora

Rómulo Gallegos

248 pages • 1943 • 3 editions

user-added

fiction classics challenging informative lighthearted fast-paced
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Brown Sisters #1

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Talia Hibbert

384 pages • 2019 • 43 editions

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 • 2010 • 20 editions

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 • 2016 • 9 editions

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

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

397 pages • 2022 • 118 editions

user-added

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

The Psychology of Time Travel

Kate Mascarenhas

360 pages • 2018 • 19 editions

fiction crime mystery science fiction adventurous mysterious fast-paced
With Any Luck by Ashley Poston

The Improbable Meet-Cute #5

With Any Luck

Ashley Poston

42 pages • 2024 • 11 editions

fiction contemporary romance short stories lighthearted fast-paced