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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Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

Georgie, All Along

Kate Clayborn

340 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
Heart Lost by Ellara Brentwood

Heart Lost

Earth Lost #1

Ellara Brentwood

98 pages • digital • 2023

fiction erotica romance science fiction adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

256 pages • paperback • 1792

nonfiction classics feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Sol Aronson, Gertrude Landa

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Sol Aronson, Gertrude Landa

294 pages • 1919

fiction religion adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Todesmal by Andreas Gruber

Todesmal

Maarten S. Sneijder #5

Andreas Gruber

589 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction crime thriller challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

352 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

303 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history science dark funny informative medium-paced
Der Schwarm by Frank Schätzing

Der Schwarm

Frank Schätzing

987 pages • paperback • 2004

fiction science fiction thriller adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell

The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits

Tommy Caldwell

13 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 2017 user-added

nonfiction memoir sports adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced
Just Our Luck by Denise Williams

Just Our Luck

Denise Williams

384 pages • digital • 2025

fiction contemporary romance