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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
Texas Secrets by Jean Brashear

Texas Secrets

The Gallaghers of Morning Star #1

Jean Brashear

216 pages • digital • 1999 user-added

fiction contemporary romance emotional slow-paced
The Secret of the Stones by Ernest Dempsey

The Secret of the Stones

Sean Wyatt #1

Ernest Dempsey

377 pages • digital • 2010

fiction mystery thriller adventurous mysterious fast-paced
The Frog Prince by Jenni James

The Frog Prince

Faerie Tale Collection #8

Jenni James

170 pages • digital • 2013

fiction fantasy romance adventurous fast-paced
The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers narrated by Andy Serkis by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers narrated by Andy Serkis

The Lord of the Rings #2

J.R.R. Tolkien

20 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 1954 user-added

fiction classics fantasy adventurous dark slow-paced
Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths by R. Raeta

Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths

The Peaches and Honey Duology #1

R. Raeta

320 pages • digital • 2023

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional slow-paced
The Forgotten Colony by J.B. Ryder

The Forgotten Colony

J.B. Ryder

496 pages • digital • 2023

fiction science fiction adventurous emotional tense fast-paced
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson

Negroland: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

272 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction history memoir race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

288 pages • paperback • 2005

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

257 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction science travel informative reflective medium-paced
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

529 pages • paperback • 2002

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced