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
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

552 pages • 2017 • 124 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

10h 5m • 2009 • 45 editions

nonfiction history travel adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

The Folk of the Air #1

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black

370 pages • 2018 • 190 editions

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Powerless by Lauren Roberts

The Powerless Trilogy #1

Powerless

Lauren Roberts

497 pages • 2023 • 176 editions

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Gods & Monsters by Shelby Mahurin

Serpent & Dove #3

Gods & Monsters

Shelby Mahurin

16h 58m • 2021 • 56 editions

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

Crescent City #1

House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas

27h 50m • 2020 • 195 editions

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Better off Dead by Lee Child

Jack Reacher #26

Better off Dead

Lee Child

400 pages • 2021 • 37 editions

fiction mystery thriller adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

112 pages • 1929 • 431 editions

nonfiction classics essays feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Dollanganger #1

Flowers in the Attic

V.C. Andrews

389 pages • 1979 • 104 editions

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

Stolen #1

Stolen

Lucy Christopher

304 pages • 2009 • 35 editions

fiction contemporary romance young adult dark emotional tense medium-paced