Read What You Own Challenge 2025: The Shelf-Care Edition

39 participants (223 books)

01 Jan 202531 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

122 pages paperback 1925

fiction classics literary reflective medium-paced

416 pages paperback 2014

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced

481 pages paperback 2022

fiction historical young adult emotional hopeful sad medium-paced