TBR Backlog Challenge 2025

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69 participants (473 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
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo

The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It

Tilar J. Mazzeo

264 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Faceless by Martina Cole

Faceless

Martina Cole

629 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction crime mystery thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Drop Shot by Harlan Coben

Drop Shot

Myron Bolitar #2

Harlan Coben

357 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction crime mystery thriller mysterious fast-paced
The Gathering by C.J. Tudor

The Gathering

C.J. Tudor

400 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ thriller adventurous dark tense medium-paced
The Liars: The must-read escapist thriller for summer 2024 by Katherine Fleet

The Liars: The must-read escapist thriller for summer 2024

Katherine Fleet

390 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

fiction thriller
Next to You by Hannah Bonam-Young

Next to You

Next #2

Hannah Bonam-Young

415 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Better Hate than Never by Chloe Liese

Better Hate than Never

Wilmot Sisters #2

Chloe Liese

360 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese

Two Wrongs Make a Right

Wilmot Sisters #1

Chloe Liese

337 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

Honey & Spice

Bolu Babalola

433 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Last Time I Saw Him: The queen of the page turner returns with her most twisty thriller yet by Rachel Abbott, Rachel Abbott

The Last Time I Saw Him: The queen of the page turner returns with her most twisty thriller yet

Stephanie King #4

Rachel Abbott, Rachel Abbott

421 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller true crime dark mysterious tense fast-paced