Challenge 2025

[close] Within this group we embark upon the ambitious goal of 50 books within the year. Those who complete the arduous challenge shall be immortalized throughout all of time. Songs shall be sang, plays written, and live action Netflix dramatizations preformed about the hero's who complete this challenge. Among the participants, there is rumor spreading of a $5 buy in. The money will be horded within the lair of an evil creature... the Dragon of 50 books. Can you slay this foul beast and claim the pile of gold of which it rests? Or will you falter... abandoned to the cold sea of ignorance...

[close] By an African American author By an Indigenous author By an LGBT author About immigration or diaspora By a woman By an author from Saharan Africa Subsaharan africa South America Central America/Caribbean East Asia South/ Southeast Asia Middle East Eastern Europe Western Europe Australia or New Zealand North America (non-US) A book published in the 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s From a 100 Best Novels list A banned book A satire, humor, or absurdist novel A favorite book of an author you love Under 200 pages Over 500 pages A graphic novel About music or musicians With an orange cover With a number in the title With an insect on the cover About LGBT history By a disabled author Book from your childhood True crime book Picked based on the cover Let someone else pick Edgar Winner James Beard winner Hugo winner NPR Book Concierge Non Fiction NPR Book Concierge Fiction NYTimes top 10 Non Fiction NYTimes top 10 Fiction Stoker Award

[close] This is the sixth round of the challenge meant for those books on your reading wish list that you do not own--from the library, from a friend, from a virtual source such as Project Gutenberg, etc. It is a sister challenge to my Mount TBR 2025 (for books you do own).

[close] Hi Everyone & Anyone My name's Jen, and if you have landed here then please feel free to join me on a long overdue promise to read what I have before buying more books in 2025. If, like me, you buy books with the intention to read them but never really seem to get round to it then you are in the right place! Here are my stats of shame: I currently have 668 unread books on my kindle and 59 audiobooks. I am aiming to read 40 books minimum and listen to at least 10 of the audiobooks in 2025 and will be happy for anyone who wants to to join me to come along for the ride. I will be adding the #shopmystash25 to anything I plan to read and updating here as some sort of therapy outlet for when I see all the new releases that I am desperately trying not to buy.