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TBR Backlog Challenge 2025

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72 participants (810 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
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory

The Murderbot Diaries #4.5

Martha Wells

20 pages • digital • 2020

fiction science fiction short stories emotional reflective fast-paced
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy

The Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells

32 pages • digital • 2025

fiction science fiction short stories adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt
Thief of Shadows
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Elizabeth Hoyt

Thief of Shadows

Maiden Lane #4

Elizabeth Hoyt

368 pages • digital • 2012 user-added

fiction historical romance
Provenance by Ann Leckie

Provenance

Imperial Radch

Ann Leckie

448 pages • digital • 2017 user-added

fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker

The Other March Sisters

Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker

358 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

301 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction historical horror mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare

A Night to Surrender

Spindle Cove #1

Tessa Dare

400 pages • digital • 2011

fiction historical romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz

The Twist of a Knife

Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #4

Anthony Horowitz

8 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction crime mystery thriller funny mysterious fast-paced
The Sea Eternal by Emery Robin

The Sea Eternal

Empire Without End #2

Emery Robin

496 pages • paperback • 2025

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction medium-paced
The Two Mrs. Abbotts by D.E. Stevenson

The Two Mrs. Abbotts

Miss Buncle #3

D.E. Stevenson

303 pages • paperback • 1943

fiction historical romance funny medium-paced