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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
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Flowers in the Attic

Dollanganger #1

V.C. Andrews

389 pages • paperback • 1979

fiction thriller dark emotional sad medium-paced
Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Stolen

Stolen #1

Lucy Christopher

304 pages • paperback • 2009

fiction contemporary romance young adult dark emotional tense medium-paced
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott

Five Feet Apart

Rachael Lippincott

282 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction romance young adult emotional hopeful sad fast-paced
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Perfect Chemistry

Perfect Chemistry #1

Simone Elkeles

368 pages • hardcover • 2008

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
Gryphon's Pride by Kaye Draper

Gryphon's Pride

Gesa's Menagerie #1

Kaye Draper

133 pages • digital • 2019

fantasy adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis

Guadalcanal Diary

U.S. Landmark Books #55

Richard Tregaskis

272 pages • paperback • 1943

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

20 hours, 51 minutes • audio • 2023

fiction historical horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
The Brands Who Came For Christmas by Maggie Shayne

The Brands Who Came For Christmas

The Oklahoma Brands #1

Maggie Shayne

256 pages • digital • 2000

fiction romance emotional fast-paced
Awaken: Heirs of Magic by Humphrey Quinn

Awaken: Heirs of Magic

The Fated Chronicles #1

Humphrey Quinn

191 pages • paperback • 2011

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Texas Roots by Jean Brashear

Texas Roots

The Gallaghers of Sweetgrass Springs #1

Jean Brashear

252 pages • digital • 2013 user-added

fiction romance emotional lighthearted fast-paced