Read Your Shelves (for heavier readers)

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19 participants (159 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I’m on a never ending quest to read my physical shelves. Feel free to join me in reading 4 books a month from your “shelves” for a total of 48 books in 2025. 

You can focus on backlist, kindle, audiobooks, books purchased prior to 2025…whatever works for you. Let’s do this!

Challenge Books

All books added
Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Monster

Monster #1

Walter Dean Myers

288 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction crime young adult dark fast-paced
Strike the Zither by Joan He

Strike the Zither

Kingdom of Three #1

Joan He

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick

The Mask of Mirrors

Rook & Rose #1

M.A. Carrick

643 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous slow-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth

The Locked Tomb #2

Tamsyn Muir

512 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

A Natural History of Dragons

The Memoirs of Lady Trent #1

Marie Brennan

334 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous medium-paced
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Kaikeyi

Vaishnavi Patel

490 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous emotional medium-paced
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Simon Jimenez

522 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ literary adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

385 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical dark emotional mysterious medium-paced