Backlist Read or Unhaul 2025

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17 participants, 133 books added

Starts: Wednesday, 01 January 2025

Ends: Wednesday, 31 December 2025

 Need an extra challenge and push to read some backlist books off your physical TBR? Challenge yourself to read 15 pre picked books off your TBR or have to unhaul them by the end of 2025. 

These can be any books off of your physical TBR but I'm choosing books that have been on my TBR the longest and/or books that I've been wanting to read but keep putting off for whatever reason. 

All books added
The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: Short Stories by Marge Piercy

The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: Short Stories

Marge Piercy

168 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction literary short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Circe by Madeline Miller

Circe

Madeline Miller

393 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

Frog Music

Emma Donoghue

405 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction historical mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

Sour Heart

Jenny Zhang

301 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner

Big Summer

Jennifer Weiner

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction literary mystery mysterious tense fast-paced
Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Real Life

Brandon Taylor

327 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

532 pages • first pub 1847 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville

Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale

Herman Melville

720 pages • first pub 1851 (editions)

fiction classics literary adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
A Winter's Tale: The Wreck of the Florizel by Cassie Brown
A Winter's Tale: The Wreck of the Florizel
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Cassie Brown

A Winter's Tale: The Wreck of the Florizel

Cassie Brown

276 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective tense slow-paced
Bad Things by Nancy Bush

Bad Things

Nancy Bush

416 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced