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
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

370 pages • 2018 • 184 editions

fiction historical literary mystery emotional mysterious medium-paced
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

Georgie, All Along

Kate Clayborn

340 pages • 2023 • 20 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

256 pages • 1792 • 234 editions

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

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Gertrude Landa, Sol Aronson

294 pages • 1919 • 5 editions

fiction religion adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

352 pages • 2023 • 136 editions

fiction contemporary 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 • 2003 • 59 editions

nonfiction history science dark funny informative medium-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

13h 27m • 2017 • 14 editions

user-added

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

Just Our Luck

Denise Williams

384 pages • 2025 • 6 editions

fiction contemporary romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

The Empyrean #2

Iron Flame

Rebecca Yarros

28h 17m • 2023 • 355 editions

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
The Slithering by Ron Lundeen

Pathfinder Adventure Path

The Slithering

Ron Lundeen

64 pages • 2020 • 1 edition

user-added

fiction fantasy reference