Read My Shelves: Watch Your Backlist 2025 Challenge

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12 participants (118 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
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

369 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

The Final Empire

Mistborn #1

Brandon Sanderson

541 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

209 pages • first pub 1927 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
The Epiphany Machine by David Burr Gerrard

The Epiphany Machine

David Burr Gerrard

432 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction reflective slow-paced
The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis

The First Sister

The First Sister Trilogy #1

Linden A. Lewis

344 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous fast-paced
First Cosmic Velocity by Zach Powers

First Cosmic Velocity

Zach Powers

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical science fiction adventurous slow-paced
Diamond Head by Cecily Wong

Diamond Head

Cecily Wong

312 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

Frog Music

Emma Donoghue

403 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction historical mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
To Steal the Sun by S.M. Carter

To Steal the Sun

The Jeweled Lands #1

S.M. Carter

407 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy speculative fiction
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

Axiom's End

Noumena #1

Lindsay Ellis

374 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced