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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

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How to Help the Earth-By the Lorax (Dr. Seuss) by Tish Rabe

How to Help the Earth-By the Lorax (Dr. Seuss)

Tish Rabe

48 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction childrens science lighthearted medium-paced
Batman: The Killing Joke (Deluxe Edition) by Alan Moore

Batman: The Killing Joke (Deluxe Edition)

Batman: One Bad Day #0.5

Alan Moore

64 pages • hardcover • 1988

fiction comics dark fast-paced
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Good Dirt

Charmaine Wilkerson

368 pages • digital • 2025

fiction historical literary emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Maui Effect by Sara Ackerman

The Maui Effect

Sara Ackerman

345 pages • paperback • 2024 user-added

fiction romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
The Favorites by Layne Fargo

The Favorites

Layne Fargo

437 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction contemporary literary romance sports emotional tense medium-paced
The Voice of Silence: A Life of Love, Healing and Inspiration; The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Spiritual Guide by Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo

The Voice of Silence: A Life of Love, Healing and Inspiration; The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Spiritual Guide

Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo

200 pages • paperback

emotional reflective medium-paced
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities

Amy Stewart

235 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction history nature reference informative medium-paced
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

Jennifer Lynch

184 pages • digital • 1990

fiction horror mystery dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Princess Bride

William Goldman

456 pages • paperback • 1973

fiction classics fantasy romance adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

One Dark Window

The Shepherd King #1

Rachel Gillig

421 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced