TBR Backlog Challenge 2025

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68 participants (454 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Challenge yourself to read 12 books in your shelves in 2025. Tackle that TBR pile!

The template to this challenge (and many more) can be found on my Instagram @shadowbooker

We hope you enjoy the challenge! Happy reading in 2025!

Challenge Books

All books added
La mamma si è addormentata by Romy Hausmann

La mamma si è addormentata

Romy Hausmann

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction thriller dark mysterious medium-paced
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses

A Court of Thorns and Roses #1

Sarah J. Maas

419 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Miss Buncle Married by D.E. Stevenson

Miss Buncle Married

Miss Buncle #2

D.E. Stevenson

387 pages • first pub 1936 (editions)

fiction classics funny lighthearted medium-paced
The invisible. Ciò che non vedi ti può uccidere by Bo Svernström

The invisible. Ciò che non vedi ti può uccidere

Carl Edson #3

Bo Svernström

528 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War by Lezlie Lowe

The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War

Lezlie Lowe

248 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

Renni Browne

288 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative slow-paced
The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

The Bruising of Qilwa

Naseem Jamnia

5 hours, 4 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. Kingfisher

325 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Some Desperate Glory

Emily Tesh

438 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark tense medium-paced
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

The Pairing

Casey McQuiston

411 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced