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

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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
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

144 pages • paperback • 1925

fiction classics literary reflective medium-paced
Solitaire by Alice Oseman

Solitaire

Alice Oseman

416 pages • paperback • 2014

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
Baby love by Jacqueline Wilson

Baby love

Jacqueline Wilson

481 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction historical young adult emotional hopeful sad medium-paced