#OwnedUnreadBooks2025

Hosted by theritareads

53 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
Adam's Tree by Gloria Mehlmann

Adam's Tree

Gloria Mehlmann

220 pages • missing pub info (editions)

dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Passage of Tears by Abdourahman A. Waberi

Passage of Tears

Abdourahman A. Waberi

216 pages • first pub 2009 (editions) user-added

fiction challenging reflective slow-paced
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women by E. Patrick Johnson

Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women

E. Patrick Johnson

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ race challenging reflective slow-paced
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

337 pages • first pub 1977 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary magical realism challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Legends of the Capilano by E. Pauline Johnson, Mary Agnes Capilano, Joe Capilano

Legends of the Capilano

E. Pauline Johnson, Mary Agnes Capilano, Joe Capilano

255 pages • first pub 1911 (editions)

nonfiction history short stories emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir by Danny Ramadan

Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

Danny Ramadan

282 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir medium-paced
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

Tiffany Midge

216 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir challenging funny reflective medium-paced
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction horror mystery short stories thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
My Port of Beirut by Lamia Ziadé

My Port of Beirut

Lamia Ziadé

240 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir sociology dark emotional informative fast-paced
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

Family Lore

Elizabeth Acevedo

368 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced