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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
Play Dead by Meryl Sawyer

Play Dead

Meryl Sawyer

384 pages • 2010 • 1 edition

fiction contemporary romance mysterious tense fast-paced
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

399 pages • 1991 • 139 editions

fiction horror literary thriller challenging dark tense slow-paced
Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass #3

Heir of Fire

Sarah J. Maas

583 pages • 2014 • 244 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum

The King of Ireland's Son

Padraic Colum

320 pages • 1916 • 13 editions

fiction classics fantasy short stories adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Chouteau and the Founding of Saint Louis by Rhoda Wooldridge
Chouteau and the Founding of Saint Louis
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Rhoda Wooldridge

Chouteau and the Founding of Saint Louis

Rhoda Wooldridge

215 pages • 1 edition

Frankenstein Signet Classics by Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein Signet Classics

Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley

240 pages • 1818 • 2 editions

dark emotional reflective
Willing to Die by Lisa Jackson

To Die #8

Willing to Die

Lisa Jackson

500 pages • 2019 • 9 editions

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

Penguin Modern #23

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

50 pages • 1984 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays feminism politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

The Remnant Chronicles #1

The Kiss of Deception

Mary E. Pearson

486 pages • 2014 • 66 editions

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

238 pages • 1994 • 36 editions

nonfiction memoir reference informative inspiring medium-paced