TBR Backlog Challenge 2025

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73 participants (868 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
Se mi amassi by Doris J. Lorenz

Se mi amassi

Doris J. Lorenz

362 pages • paperback • 2018 user-added

fiction romance
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition

Earthsea Cycle #1-6

Ursula K. Le Guin

1005 pages • digital • 2018

fiction classics fantasy adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
The Years by Annie Ernaux

The Years

Annie Ernaux

227 pages • digital • 2008

nonfiction literary memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Long Island by Colm Tóibín

Long Island

Eilis Lacey #2

Colm Tóibín

9 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2024

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Playing Away by Adele Parks

Playing Away

Playing Away #1

Adele Parks

384 pages • paperback • 2000

fiction contemporary romance lighthearted reflective medium-paced
The Perfect Life by Nuala Ellwood

The Perfect Life

Nuala Ellwood

400 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
She Wants You Gone by Joanna Dodd

She Wants You Gone

Joanna Dodd

336 pages • paperback • 2025

fiction thriller
The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas

The Wrong Sister

Claire Douglas

375 pages • digital • 2024

fiction crime mystery thriller medium-paced
Nowhere to Hide by Keri Beevis

Nowhere to Hide

Keri Beevis

351 pages • digital • 2024

fiction mystery thriller dark emotional tense fast-paced
The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell

The Bone Bed

Kay Scarpetta #20

Patricia Cornwell

512 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction crime mystery thriller mysterious slow-paced