2025 beat the backlog challenge

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12 participants (75 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Join me in slimming down those bookshelves by reading 12 (or more!) books you already own in 2025. 

Choose to do as a kindle or physical clear out but for books to count they should be titles you already owned a copy of prior to 1 Jan 2025.

Challenge Books

All books added
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Dungeon Crawler Carl #1

Matt Dinniman

446 pages • digital • 2020

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous funny fast-paced
Things We Hide From The Light by Lucy Score

Things We Hide From The Light

Knockemout #2

Lucy Score

578 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Science(ish) The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies by Michael Brooks, Rick Edwards

Science(ish) The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

Michael Brooks, Rick Edwards

255 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction science adventurous funny reflective slow-paced
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

The Lost Bookshop

Evie Woods

431 pages • digital • 2023

fiction fantasy magical realism emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Color of Magic

Discworld #1

Terry Pratchett

260 pages • digital • 1983

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers by Valerie Lawson

Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers

Valerie Lawson

362 pages • digital • 1999 user-added

nonfiction biography history lighthearted medium-paced
Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir by Jennifer McGaha

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir

Jennifer McGaha

368 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth by Wendy E. Simmons

My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth

Wendy E. Simmons

269 pages • digital • 2016 user-added

nonfiction memoir travel funny reflective fast-paced
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

384 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction feminism history mathematics race science informative inspiring slow-paced
Spy x Family, Vol. 3 by Tatsuya Endo

Spy x Family, Vol. 3

SPY×FAMILY #3

Tatsuya Endo

200 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction manga adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced