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
Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry

Indigo Ridge

The Edens #1

Devney Perry

338 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction romance emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

The Sanatorium

Detective Elin Warner #1

Sarah Pearse

390 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score

The Christmas Fix

Fixer #2

Lucy Score

376 pages • paperback • 2017

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Hounded by Kevin Hearne

Hounded

The Iron Druid Chronicles #1

Kevin Hearne

304 pages • paperback • 2011

fiction fantasy adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
With Any Luck by Ashley Poston

With Any Luck

The Improbable Meet-Cute #5

Ashley Poston

42 pages • digital • 2024

fiction contemporary romance short stories lighthearted fast-paced
What You See in the Dark by Manuel Muñoz

What You See in the Dark

Manuel Muñoz

272 pages • digital • 2011

fiction historical mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Mojo by Tim Tharp

Mojo

Tim Tharp

283 pages • paperback • 2013

fiction mystery young adult mysterious tense slow-paced
Yellowcake by Margo Lanagan

Yellowcake

Margo Lanagan

245 pages • paperback • 2005

fiction fantasy short stories young adult adventurous slow-paced
The Paradox of Vertical Flight by Emil Ostrovski

The Paradox of Vertical Flight

Emil Ostrovski

256 pages • hardcover • 2013

fiction contemporary young adult reflective fast-paced
Fitz by Mick Cochrane

Fitz

Mick Cochrane

177 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction contemporary young adult mysterious fast-paced