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

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Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

Blood at the Root

Blood at the Root #1

LaDarrion Williams

419 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

Bolu Babalola

290 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction fantasy romance short stories emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & The Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid

355 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

Time's Convert

All Souls #4

Deborah Harkness

448 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction fantasy romance thriller adventurous emotional medium-paced
Balada Burung Penyanyi dan Ular by Suzanne Collins

Balada Burung Penyanyi dan Ular

The Hunger Games #0

Suzanne Collins

656 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction dystopian young adult adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Fourth Wing

The Empyrean #1

Rebecca Yarros

517 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Unsheltered

Barbara Kingsolver

16 hours, 38 minutes • audio • 2018

fiction contemporary historical literary reflective slow-paced
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver

Flight Behaviour

Barbara Kingsolver

448 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction contemporary literary emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Armor of Light by Ken Follett

The Armor of Light

Kingsbridge #4

Ken Follett

737 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction historical adventurous emotional informative medium-paced
Wildswept by Octavia Randolph
Wildswept
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Octavia Randolph

Wildswept

Circle of Ceridwen Saga

Octavia Randolph

440 pages • digital

fiction historical adventurous emotional fast-paced