2025 beat the backlog challenge

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13 participants (59 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Join me in slimming down those bookshelves by reading 12 (or more!) books you already own in 2025. 

Choose to do as a kindle or physical clear out but for books to count they should be titles you already owned a copy of prior to 1 Jan 2025.

Challenge Books

All books added
Les Cahiers d'Esther : Histoires de mes 18 ans by Riad Sattouf

Les Cahiers d'Esther : Histoires de mes 18 ans

Esther's Notebooks #9

Riad Sattouf

56 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction comics graphic novel emotional reflective medium-paced
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

207 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography young adult emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan

Mad Honey

Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan

452 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever

12 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays food and drink travel informative inspiring medium-paced
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie

Candice Carty-Williams

384 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

Poet Warrior

Joy Harjo

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

333 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad by Anna Pavord

The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad

Anna Pavord

439 pages • first pub 1999 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history nature
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone

Legacy of Orïsha #1

Tomi Adeyemi

537 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron by Lucasta Miller

L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron

Lucasta Miller

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history poetry reflective slow-paced