#OwnedUnreadBooks2025

Hosted by theritareads

54 participants, 229 books added

Starts: Wednesday, 01 January 2025

Ends: Wednesday, 31 December 2025

Well lookie, lookie here! We’re back for another year! That’s right friends! It’s another year of tackling that pile of books we’ve bought but haven’t yet read! Welcome to the #OwnedUnreadBooks2025 reading challenge! 

The goal is 25 (for 25) books from the books we own that have gone unread. Any book you already own at the start of 2025 or buy/are gifted in 2025 counts. BUT, let’s try to finish more than we add to the pile. 😀 

For a fun templates and a tracker, please see my pinned IG post (theritareads). If you share your progress on IG, please tag me (theritareads) and use #OwnedUnreadBooks2025

All books added
This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer by Lori Fox

This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer

Lori Fox

317 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism gender lgbtqia+ memoir sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Rage Letters by Valérie Bah

The Rage Letters

Valérie Bah

200 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine: Background, Details, and Analysis by Ghassan Kanafani

The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine: Background, Details, and Analysis

Ghassan Kanafani

115 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine

How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling

Danny Caine

222 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction business economics hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

377 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir politics funny informative reflective medium-paced
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest

Hanif Abdurraqib

207 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir music reflective slow-paced
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo

How to Read Now

Elaine Castillo

340 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

Nampeshiweisit #1

Moniquill Blackgoose

511 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous medium-paced
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

334 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced