TBR Backlog Challenge 2025

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71 participants (528 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

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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

390 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional funny inspiring medium-paced
Three Novels of New York: The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Three Novels of New York: The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence
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Edith Wharton

Three Novels of New York: The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

784 pages • first pub 1910 (editions)

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

351 pages • first pub 1905 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection

Hans Christian Andersen

349 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber

Angela Carter

149 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

fiction classics magical realism short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

Feet of Clay

Discworld #19

Terry Pratchett

411 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Total verhext by Terry Pratchett

Total verhext

Discworld #12

Terry Pratchett

317 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Wir sind sieben by Dorothea Gotfurt, Una Troy

Wir sind sieben

Dorothea Gotfurt, Una Troy

318 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

medium-paced
Der Wolkenatlas by David Mitchell

Der Wolkenatlas

David Mitchell

672 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction literary science fiction adventurous reflective medium-paced
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse by Diana Athill

Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

Diana Athill

196 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

fiction short stories hopeful sad slow-paced