TBR Backlog Challenge 2025

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73 participants (867 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
Dimanche and Other Stories by Irène Némirovsky

Dimanche and Other Stories

Irène Némirovsky

270 pages • paperback • 1941

fiction historical short stories emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court by Lucy Worsley

Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court

Lucy Worsley

402 pages • paperback • 2010

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
A Bookshop to Die For by MP Black

A Bookshop to Die For

A Wonderland Books Cozy Mystery #1

MP Black

218 pages • digital • 2023 user-added

fiction mystery thriller lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

Bright Falls #2

Ashley Herring Blake

386 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Sex Criminals, Volume 5: Five-Fingered Discount by Matt Fraction

Sex Criminals, Volume 5: Five-Fingered Discount

Sex Criminals (Collected Editions) #5

Matt Fraction

128 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction comics fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

Land of Milk and Honey

C Pam Zhang

232 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground by Uli Beutter Cohen

Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

Uli Beutter Cohen

384 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World by Eric Palicki, Matt Miner, Tyler Chin-Tanner

All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World

Eric Palicki, Matt Miner, Tyler Chin-Tanner

178 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction comics science fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid

369 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Carrie Soto Is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid

369 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction contemporary literary emotional inspiring medium-paced