Black Stories Matter: A Year of Empowering Reads

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20 participants (86 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The Black Book Reading Challenge is an initiative to celebrate, explore, and immerse ourselves in the rich and diverse literary works by Black authors. This challenge encourages participants to read books across genres, uncover hidden gems, and embrace stories that amplify Black voices, histories, and experiences.

Challenge Books

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Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Lola Olufemi

148 pages • 2020 • 11 editions

nonfiction feminism gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson

313 pages • 2020 • 17 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958 by David Levering Lewis

The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958

David Levering Lewis

11h 59m • 2025 • 3 editions

user-added

nonfiction memoir
A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay

A House for Miss Pauline

Diana McCaulay

10h 15m • 2025 • 5 editions

fiction emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
Our Bodies by Kailee Coleman

Our Bodies

Kailee Coleman

25 pages • 2 editions

fiction childrens
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Cinderella Is Dead

Kalynn Bayron

400 pages • 2020 • 51 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark hopeful mysterious fast-paced
I'll Have What He's Having by Adib Khorram

I'll Have What He's Having

Adib Khorram

367 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #7

Mom & Me & Mom

Maya Angelou

224 pages • 2013 • 22 editions

nonfiction autobiography feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Bethel #1

The Year of the Witching

Alexis Henderson

359 pages • 2020 • 34 editions

fiction fantasy horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Hot for Teacher by Monique Fisher

Richardson Sibling Trilogy #1

Hot for Teacher

Monique Fisher

235 pages • 2023 • 6 editions

fiction romance funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced