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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
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

173 pages • paperback • 1995

fiction dystopian literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

400 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction horror mystery short stories thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura

My Annihilation

Fuminori Nakamura

250 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction crime challenging dark mysterious fast-paced
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

211 pages • paperback • 2017

fiction dystopian horror literary dark tense medium-paced
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

228 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction horror lgbtqia+ literary science fiction dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers

256 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction contemporary horror literary thriller dark funny medium-paced
The Fellowship of the Ring (Read by Andy Serkis) by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring (Read by Andy Serkis)

The Lord of the Rings #1

J.R.R. Tolkien

22 hours, 38 minutes • audio • 1954 user-added

fiction classics fantasy adventurous slow-paced
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings #0

J.R.R. Tolkien

10 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 1937 user-added

fiction classics fantasy literary young adult adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

303 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective slow-paced
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

The Brown Sisters #2

Talia Hibbert

361 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced