2025 Reading Challenge

sarahdoran Host

12 participants (665 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

To read a book for each of the weeks in 2025 x

Challenge Books

All books added
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran

558 pages • 2017 • 10 editions

user-added

nonfiction economics history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

295 pages • 2021 • 11 editions

user-added

nonfiction biography feminism history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

363 pages • 2020 • 21 editions

user-added

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

512 pages • 2007 • 11 editions

nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

William C. Rhoden

304 pages • 2006 • 3 editions

nonfiction history race sports challenging informative slow-paced
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

528 pages • 2021 • 11 editions

nonfiction essays history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

402 pages • 2021 • 18 editions

user-added

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages • 2010 • 34 editions

nonfiction history race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease by Arleen Marcia Tuchman

Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease

Arleen Marcia Tuchman

288 pages • 2020 • 4 editions

challenging informative slow-paced
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

366 pages • 2020 • 11 editions

nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced