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2025 Beat the Backlist Challenge @beatthebacklist @beatthebacklist.com #BeatTheBacklist

December 15, 2024 1:00 am

This reading challenge, hosted by Austine @ Austine Decker.com, is returning for its 9th year in 2025! Designed to help you tackle all the books you keep meaning to read and still haven’t, this challenge is flexible enough to work for all kinds of readers. I’m pledging to read 50 books in 2025.

Guidelines

• The challenge runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025.
• The book must have been published in 2024 or earlier.
• You have to start and finish the book in 2025.
• Any format, any genre. Re-reads count, you don’t have to own the book, and you can join at any time.
• Track your BTB reading separately or pair it with another reading challenge!
• For more information, access the challenge here.

Follow the challenge on social media through the BTB pages and #BeatTheBacklist

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Tracking

1. Rolling Toward Clear Skies by Catherine Ryan Hyde
2. The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale
3. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman
4. Her Mother’s Grave by Lisa Regan
5. Eddie Winston is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin
6. Lost by Michael Robotham
7. The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci
8. A Five-Letter Word for Love by Amy James
9. Her Final Confession by Lisa Regan
10. The Bones She Buried by Lisa Regan
11. Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
12. State of Affairs by Marie Force
13. The Duke Says I Do by Anna Campbell
14. My Darling Bride by Ilsa Madden-Mills
15. Cold Heart Creek by Lisa Regan
16. My Darling Jane by Ilsa Madden-Mills
17. Kit McBride Gets a Wife by Amy Barry
18. The Girls in the Snow by Stacy Green
19. Save Her Soul by Lisa Regan
20. One Perfect Grave by Stacy Green
21. Breathe Your Last by Lisa Regan
22. The First Shot by Liv Constantine
23. Lost Angels by Stacy Green
24. Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
25. Hush Little Girl by Lisa Regan
26. The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen
27. You’ll Never Find Me by Allison Brennan
28. Her Deadly Touch by Lisa Regan
29. The Girl in the Ground by Stacy Green
30. What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

Posted by Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

Categories: 2025 Challenges

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16 Responses to “2025 Beat the Backlist Challenge @beatthebacklist @beatthebacklist.com #BeatTheBacklist”

1. Good luck Jonetta! I have a few already on my January reading list from my backlist.

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   By Joanne on December 15, 2024 at 2:35 am

   1. Thank you, Joanne💜

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      By Jonetta | Blue Mood Café on December 15, 2024 at 4:45 am

2. Good luck, Jonetta!

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   By Kelly on December 15, 2024 at 2:35 am

   1. Thanks, Kelly💜

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      By Jonetta | Blue Mood Café on December 15, 2024 at 4:46 am

3. Good luck Jo!

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   By nickimags @ Secret Library Book Blog on December 15, 2024 at 6:09 am

   1. Thanks, Nicki💜

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      By Jonetta | Blue Mood Café on December 15, 2024 at 6:35 am

4. I’ll be doing this challenge again in 2025 Jonetta! I hope you enjoy the challenge.

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   By Jodie | That Happy Reader on December 15, 2024 at 8:54 am

   1. I hope you do well, too, Jodie💜

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      By Jonetta | Blue Mood Café on December 15, 2024 at 10:16 am

5. I did this one year but now I’m doing it in my own way. Good luck!

   Anne – Books of My Heart

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   By BooksofMyHeart on December 15, 2024 at 11:16 am

   1. Thanks, Anne💜 I set my own goals, too.

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      By Jonetta | Blue Mood Café on December 15, 2024 at 11:22 am

6. Good Luck, Jo. I’m going to participate again, but try to read or listen to books that were published in 2020 or before. I still have several of them on my shelves.

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   By Carla on December 15, 2024 at 9:56 pm

   1. Thanks, Carla💜 I’ve got many that go back further!

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      By Jonetta | Blue Mood Café on December 17, 2024 at 2:48 pm

      1. My oldest on NG is 2015.

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         By Carla on December 17, 2024 at 4:24 pm

7. […] addition to this, I saw a post yesterday on Jonetta’s Blue Mood Cafe blog about the 2025 Beat the Backlist Challenge which sounds like just what I need, so I’m […]

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   By Out with the Old, In With the New – End of Year Review – A Little Book Problem on December 18, 2024 at 2:00 am

8. Good luck with the challenge! I can never resist joining both the challenge itself and the BINGO one… StoryGraph is very useful to keep track of the prompts and books if you joined the BINGO as well. xx

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   By Yvonne (It's All About Books) on December 18, 2024 at 12:41 pm

   1. Thanks, Yvo💜 I’m at my challenge limit, especially as I, doing a few on Goodreads.

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      By Jonetta | Blue Mood Café on December 18, 2024 at 12:57 pm

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