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
Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

Extraordinary Means

Robyn Schneider

336 pages • hardcover • 2015

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional slow-paced
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

245 pages • paperback • 1877

fiction classics literary middle grade emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

218 pages • paperback • 1996

fiction classics thriller dark tense fast-paced
Twisted Love by Ana Huang

Twisted Love

Twisted #1

Ana Huang

360 pages • digital • 2021

fiction contemporary romance dark emotional tense medium-paced
Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

400 pages • digital • 2015

nonfiction feminism health psychology science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Dragonfall by L.R. Lam

Dragonfall

The Dragon Scales Duology #1

L.R. Lam

432 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

304 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction fantasy short stories adventurous informative fast-paced
The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike

The Midnight Club

Christopher Pike

224 pages • paperback • 1994

fiction horror young adult mysterious fast-paced
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert

276 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

380 pages • digital • 1949

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced