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
Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender

Stars in Your Eyes

Kacen Callender

352 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow

How to Make Friends with the Dark

Kathleen Glasgow

432 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction contemporary young adult emotional reflective sad medium-paced
You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

You'd Be Home Now

Kathleen Glasgow

387 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction contemporary young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow

The Glass Girl

Kathleen Glasgow

464 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction contemporary young adult dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Die Clockmakers Academy by Anja Ukpai

Die Clockmakers Academy

Meridian Princess #1

Anja Ukpai

320 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction fantasy young adult medium-paced
Tagebuch by Anne Frank

Tagebuch

Anne Frank

384 pages • paperback • 1947

nonfiction classics history memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Brad Ricca

432 pages • hardcover • 2017

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

My Vampire Plus-One

My Vampires #2

Jenna Levine

389 pages • paperback • 2024

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

The Perfect Son

Freida McFadden

320 pages • paperback • 2019 user-added

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

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

Tomes and Tea #1

Rebecca Thorne

443 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous lighthearted relaxing medium-paced