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
Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan

Another Fine Mess

A Bless Your Heart Novel #2

Lindy Ryan

313 pages • digital • 2025

fiction horror
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass

Throne of Glass #1

Sarah J. Maas

416 pages • digital • 2012

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
මැයි මාර ප්‍රසංගය by මහින්ද ප්‍රසාද් මස්ඉඹුල

මැයි මාර ප්‍රසංගය

මහින්ද ප්‍රසාද් මස්ඉඹුල

108 pages • paperback • 2023 user-added

fiction contemporary romance
Eine Liebesehe by Pearl S. Buck

Eine Liebesehe

Pearl S. Buck

303 pages • hardcover • 1940 user-added

fiction classics historical romance emotional reflective slow-paced
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

464 pages • paperback • 1847

fiction classics literary romance dark emotional slow-paced
This is the Night They Come for You by Robert Goddard

This is the Night They Come for You

Robert Goddard

416 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Tough: My Journey to True Power by Terry Crews

Tough: My Journey to True Power

Terry Crews

272 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

Leather & Lark

Ruinous Love #2

Brynne Weaver

390 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction contemporary romance dark emotional funny medium-paced
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Montague Siblings #2

Mackenzi Lee

450 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction fantasy historical young adult adventurous funny medium-paced
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

370 pages • digital • 2018

fiction historical literary mystery emotional mysterious medium-paced