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
The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giver #1

The Giver

Lois Lowry

179 pages • 1993 • 155 editions

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

The Light Key Trilogy #1

Scintillate

Tracy Clark

295 pages • 2014 • 4 editions

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

All Good People Here

Ashley Flowers

312 pages • 2022 • 33 editions

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Brad Ricca

432 pages • 2017 • 10 editions

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine

My Vampires #2

My Vampire Plus-One

Jenna Levine

389 pages • 2024 • 24 editions

fiction contemporary fantasy romance funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden

The Perfect Son

Freida McFadden

320 pages • 2019 • 36 editions

user-added

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

Tomes and Tea #1

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

Rebecca Thorne

443 pages • 2022 • 52 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde #1

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Heather Fawcett

317 pages • 2023 • 99 editions

fiction fantasy historical adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

The Women Could Fly

Megan Giddings

283 pages • 2022 • 15 editions

fiction dystopian fantasy lgbtqia+ dark emotional reflective medium-paced
In Case of Elftastrophe by Chanda Bell, Chanda Bell

In Case of Elftastrophe

Chanda Bell, Chanda Bell

32 pages • 1 edition

fiction childrens