2025 beat the backlog challenge

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13 participants (61 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
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
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

6 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 1883 (editions)

fiction classics historical young adult adventurous medium-paced
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong

The Good Son

You-Jeong Jeong

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction horror mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

American Spy

Lauren Wilkinson

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced
Two Truths and a Lie by Meg Mitchell Moore
Two Truths and a Lie
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Meg Mitchell Moore

Two Truths and a Lie

Meg Mitchell Moore

398 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction mystery dark mysterious fast-paced
Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Ex by Glen Cooper, Kent Hoffman, Bert Powell

Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Ex

Glen Cooper, Kent Hoffman, Bert Powell

280 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction psychology informative medium-paced
Emma by Jane Austen
Emma
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Jane Austen

Emma

Jane Austen

495 pages • first pub 1815 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance funny lighthearted slow-paced
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

A Complicated Kindness

Miriam Toews

253 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Rachel Willson-Broyles, Jonas Jonasson

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man

The Hundred-Year-Old Man #2

Rachel Willson-Broyles, Jonas Jonasson

576 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced