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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
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

Blood at the Root #1

Blood at the Root

LaDarrion Williams

419 pages • 2024 • 9 editions

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 • 2020 • 29 editions

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 • 2019 • 195 editions

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

All Souls #4

Time's Convert

Deborah Harkness

448 pages • 2018 • 51 editions

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

The Hunger Games #0

Balada Burung Penyanyi dan Ular

Suzanne Collins

656 pages • 2020 • 323 editions

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

The Empyrean #1

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros

517 pages • 2023 • 530 editions

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

Unsheltered

Barbara Kingsolver

16h 38m • 2018 • 28 editions

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

Flight Behaviour

Barbara Kingsolver

448 pages • 2012 • 33 editions

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

Kingsbridge #4

The Armor of Light

Ken Follett

737 pages • 2023 • 55 editions

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

Circle of Ceridwen Saga

Wildswept

Octavia Randolph

440 pages • 4 editions

fiction historical adventurous emotional fast-paced