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
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

306 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow

374 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

423 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical emotional informative reflective slow-paced
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

288 pages • first pub 1920 (editions)

fiction classics emotional sad slow-paced
The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

The Blue Hour

Paula Hawkins

303 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

Ingrid Betancourt

544 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark emotional inspiring medium-paced
Rebecca by Clifford Williams

Rebecca

Clifford Williams

94 pages • first pub 1938 (editions)

fiction classics romance thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann by Virginia Pye

The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann

Virginia Pye

282 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

415 pages • first pub 1740 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary romance challenging slow-paced