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
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

352 pages • paperback • 2011

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Six

The Atlas #1

Olivie Blake

557 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Crier's War by Nina Varela

Crier's War

Crier's War #1

Nina Varela

464 pages • digital • 2019

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance young adult adventurous emotional medium-paced
Iron Heart by Nina Varela

Iron Heart

Crier's War #2

Nina Varela

416 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance young adult adventurous emotional medium-paced
Leia: Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

Leia: Princess of Alderaan

Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Claudia Gray

409 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction fantasy science fiction young adult adventurous medium-paced
Xenophobe's Guide to the Swedes by Peter Berlin

Xenophobe's Guide to the Swedes

The Xenophobe's Guide

Peter Berlin

92 pages • 1994

nonfiction travel funny informative medium-paced
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom

Six of Crows #2

Leigh Bardugo

565 pages • digital • 2016 user-added

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Calculating Stars

Lady Astronaut #1

Mary Robinette Kowal

432 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction historical science fiction adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Downpour by Emily Martin, Mara Shaughnessy

Downpour

Emily Martin, Mara Shaughnessy

32 pages • 2013

fiction childrens poetry reflective sad medium-paced
Tucker by Juliana Stone

Tucker

The Family Simon #1

Juliana Stone

224 pages • digital • 2014

fiction contemporary romance emotional lighthearted fast-paced