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
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

Steve Earle

256 pages • hardcover • 2011

fiction historical magical realism emotional medium-paced
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane

The Night Guest

Fiona McFarlane

256 pages • hardcover • 2013

fiction contemporary mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero by Geoffrey Wood

Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero

Geoffrey Wood

320 pages • 2007

fiction fantasy funny reflective fast-paced
Lost Luggage by Jordi Puntí

Lost Luggage

Jordi Puntí

440 pages • paperback • 2009

fiction contemporary reflective slow-paced
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Elsewhere

Gabrielle Zevin

275 pages • hardcover • 2005

fiction fantasy romance young adult emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giver

The Giver #1

Lois Lowry

179 pages • paperback • 1993

fiction classics dystopian science fiction young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
Scintillate by Tracy Clark

Scintillate

The Light Key Trilogy #1

Tracy Clark

295 pages • paperback • 2014

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous fast-paced
All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

All Good People Here

Ashley Flowers

312 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Alle sehen dich: Kriminalroman | Spannender Krimi um eine Bloggerin in Gefahr, deren Follower zu Stalkern werden by Susanne Mischke

Alle sehen dich: Kriminalroman | Spannender Krimi um eine Bloggerin in Gefahr, deren Follower zu Stalkern werden

Susanne Mischke

351 pages • paperback

fiction crime
Blackout. Morgen ist es zu spät by Marc Elsberg

Blackout. Morgen ist es zu spät

Blackout #1

Marc Elsberg

832 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction science fiction thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced