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

All books added
skin & bones by Renée Watson

skin & bones

Renée Watson

416 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Sleep Like Death by Kalynn Bayron

Sleep Like Death

Kalynn Bayron

344 pages • 2024 • 19 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890 by Linda Williams Reese
Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890
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Linda Williams Reese

Plains Histories

Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890

Linda Williams Reese

426 pages • 3 editions

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black

Don't Cry for Me

Daniel Black

304 pages • 2022 • 10 editions

fiction historical lgbtqia+ emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Great Expectations: A Novel by Vinson Cunningham

Great Expectations: A Novel

Vinson Cunningham

6h 52m • 2024 • 8 editions

fiction literary reflective medium-paced
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

The Women Could Fly

Megan Giddings

283 pages • 2022 • 15 editions

fiction dystopian fantasy lgbtqia+ dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton

The Kiss Countdown

Etta Easton

336 pages • 2024 • 9 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Brown Sisters #3

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Talia Hibbert

400 pages • 2021 • 28 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Brown Sisters #1

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Talia Hibbert

369 pages • 2019 • 43 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert

Midnight Heat #1

The Princess Trap

Talia Hibbert

301 pages • 2018 • 12 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced