TBR Backlog Challenge 2025

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72 participants (826 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
Solitário by Alice Oseman

Solitário

Alice Oseman

312 pages • paperback • 2014

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
Rádio Silêncio by Alice Oseman

Rádio Silêncio

Alice Oseman

368 pages • paperback • 2016 user-added

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Nasci Para Isto by Alice Oseman

Nasci Para Isto

I Was Born for This #1

Alice Oseman

368 pages • paperback • 2018 user-added

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Good Omens

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

416 pages • digital • 1990

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from Over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs by Grace Bonney

In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from Over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Grace Bonney

360 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction business self help informative reflective slow-paced
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar

291 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction contemporary historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
When God Doesn't Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can't Live Without by Laura Story

When God Doesn't Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can't Live Without

Laura Story

9 hours, 56 minutes • audio • 2015

nonfiction memoir emotional slow-paced
Walden / Civil Disobedience / And Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau

Walden / Civil Disobedience / And Other Writings

Henry David Thoreau

672 pages • paperback

nonfiction essays politics reflective slow-paced
Excession by Iain M. Banks

Excession

Culture #5

Iain M. Banks

464 pages • digital • 1996

fiction science fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran

City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong

Antony Dapiran

288 pages • 2020

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced