Read My Shelves: Watch Your Backlist 2025 Challenge

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12 participants (117 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read more, spend less! The goal of this challenge is to read the books you owned as of 1/1/2025.

This challenge is hosted by the bookstagram Watch Your Backlist, who also has a prompt-based reading challenge here!

Challenge Books

All books added
Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan

Palace of the Drowned

Christine Mangan

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical thriller emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

The Grammarians

Cathleen Schine

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical literary lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Termush by Sven Holm

Termush

Sven Holm

119 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier

256 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
All Fours by Miranda July

All Fours

Miranda July

326 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

10 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

The Book of Doors

Gareth Brown

403 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole

One of Us Knows

Alyssa Cole

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo

Same As It Ever Was

Claire Lombardo

498 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
All the Broken People by Leah Konen

All the Broken People

Leah Konen

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced