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
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

14 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 1891 user-added

fiction classics literary romance dark emotional sad slow-paced
The Transgender Self-Care Journal: Prompts and Practices to Care for Your Beautiful Self by Andrew Maxwell Triska

The Transgender Self-Care Journal: Prompts and Practices to Care for Your Beautiful Self

Andrew Maxwell Triska

160 pages • paperback

nonfiction gender health lgbtqia+ psychology self help medium-paced
Cress by Marissa Meyer

Cress

The Lunar Chronicles #3

Marissa Meyer

552 pages • paperback • 2014

fiction dystopian romance science fiction young adult adventurous fast-paced
Redd deg selv, lille hjerte by Wencke Mühleisen

Redd deg selv, lille hjerte

Wencke Mühleisen

151 pages • 2020

medium-paced
Drageløperen by Khaled Hosseini

Drageløperen

Khaled Hosseini

382 pages • hardcover • 2003

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne

The Shadow of the Gods

The Bloodsworn Saga #1

John Gwynne

480 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

390 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole

The Book of Azrael

Gods & Monsters #1

Amber V. Nicole

577 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
A Psalm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown

A Psalm of Storms and Silence

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #2

Roseanne A. Brown

560 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious fast-paced
The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab

The Fragile Threads of Power

Threads of Power #1

V.E. Schwab

575 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced