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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
Gabriel's Gift by Christina Dodd

Lost Hearts #3.5

Gabriel's Gift

Christina Dodd

36 pages • 2014 • 1 edition

fiction romance lighthearted fast-paced
Just the Way You Are by Christina Dodd

Lost Hearts #1

Just the Way You Are

Christina Dodd

387 pages • 2014 • 16 editions

user-added

fiction contemporary romance lighthearted medium-paced
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

Really Good, Actually

Monica Heisey

370 pages • 2023 • 55 editions

fiction contemporary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
All That Remains by Sue Black

All That Remains

Sue Black

368 pages • 2018 • 36 editions

nonfiction memoir science true crime informative reflective medium-paced
The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

336 pages • 2024 • 13 editions

fiction horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass #2

Crown of Midnight

Sarah J. Maas

420 pages • 2013 • 305 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
FOUND 2 by Andrew Cull, Gabino Iglesias

FOUND 2

Andrew Cull, Gabino Iglesias

276 pages • 2024 • 1 edition

fiction horror short stories
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

Physics of the Impossible

Michio Kaku

11h 49m • 2008 • 25 editions

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

627 pages • 1992 • 264 editions

fiction literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Lost Stars by Claudia Gray

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Lost Stars

Claudia Gray

560 pages • 2015 • 32 editions

fiction fantasy romance science fiction young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced