Read Black Authors Challenge

krissy_ Host

10 participants (77 books)

15 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I want to increase the black authors I read. This can be done in any format (audio, kindle, paperback or hard-core etc.). And it can be any language, translated English or your native language.

Since people have a variety of genres they are interested in. I won't be setting certain authors, you can choose your own authors, and genres, that way you are more likely to finish the challenge as you will be reading books you are more likely interested in.

This is a 12 book challenge. You can either read or listen to one book a month, or you van smash it out quickly. But this number was chosen to be less overwhelming.

Read Black Authors Challenge

krissy_ Host

10 participants (77 books)

STARTS: 15 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025

Overview

I want to increase the black authors I read. This can be done in any format (audio, kindle, paperback or hard-core etc.). And it can be any language, translated English or your native language.

Since people have a variety of genres they are interested in. I won't be setting certain authors, you can choose your own authors, and genres, that way you are more likely to finish the challenge as you will be reading books you are more likely interested in.

This is a 12 book challenge. You can either read or listen to one book a month, or you van smash it out quickly. But this number was chosen to be less overwhelming.

Challenge Books

All books added

Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

Oathbound
The Legendborn Cycle #3

Tracy Deonn

650 pages • hardcover • 2025 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

Oathbound

The Legendborn Cycle #3

650 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor

She Who Knows
She Who Knows #1

Nnedi Okorafor

176 pages • hardcover • 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor

She Who Knows

She Who Knows #1

176 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris

All Her Little Secrets
Wanda M. Morris with Susan Dalian (Narrator)

11 hours, 40 minutes • audio • 2021 (editions)

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced

All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris

All Her Little Secrets

Wanda M. Morris with Susan Dalian (Narrator)

11 hours, 40 minutes • audio • 2021

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Coming Home by Kennedy Ryan

Coming Home
Kennedy Ryan with Wesleigh Siobhan (Narrator), Jakobi Diem (Narrator)

2 hours, 40 minutes • audio • 2023 (editions)

fiction romance funny lighthearted fast-paced

fiction romance funny lighthearted fast-paced

Coming Home by Kennedy Ryan

Coming Home

Kennedy Ryan with Wesleigh Siobhan (Narrator), Jakobi Diem (Narrator)

2 hours, 40 minutes • audio • 2023

fiction romance funny lighthearted fast-paced

fiction romance funny lighthearted fast-paced

Crimes of Passion by Jack Harbon

Crimes of Passion
Jack Harbon with Ron Butler (Narrator), Kevin Free (Narrator)

2 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2022 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ romance funny lighthearted fast-paced

fiction lgbtqia+ romance funny lighthearted fast-paced

Crimes of Passion by Jack Harbon

Crimes of Passion

Jack Harbon with Ron Butler (Narrator), Kevin Free (Narrator)

2 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction lgbtqia+ romance funny lighthearted fast-paced

fiction lgbtqia+ romance funny lighthearted fast-paced

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

562 pages • digital • 2006 (editions) user-added

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

562 pages • digital • 2006 user-added

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced

Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

Wife of the Gods
Darko Dawson #1

Kwei Quartey

338 pages • digital • 2009 (editions) user-added

fiction mystery dark mysterious medium-paced

fiction mystery dark mysterious medium-paced

Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

Wife of the Gods

Darko Dawson #1

338 pages • digital • 2009 user-added

fiction mystery dark mysterious medium-paced

fiction mystery dark mysterious medium-paced

Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi

Masquerade
O.O. Sangoyomi

352 pages • digital • 2024 (editions)

fiction historical adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

fiction historical adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi

Masquerade

352 pages • digital • 2024

fiction historical adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

fiction historical adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Women Destroy Science Fiction!: Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue; The Stories by Christie Yant, Robin Lupo, Wendy N. Wagner, Jude Griffin

Women Destroy Science Fiction!: Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue; The Stories
Lightspeed Magazine #49

Christie Yant, Robin Lupo, Wendy N. Wagner, Jude Griffin with Lisa Grabenstetter, Gail Marsella, Effie Seiberg, Maria Dahvana Headley, Christine Mitzuk, DeAnna Knippling, Brooke Bolander, Cathy Humble, Georgina Kamsika, Kim Winternheimer, Gabriella Stalker, Holly Schofield, N.K. Jemisin, Elizabeth Leggett, Marissa Lingen, Jayme Grant (Narrator), Rachel Swirsky, Emily Fox, Cassandra Campbell, Tina Connolly, Nancy Jane Moore, Hillary Pearlman, Marina J. Lostetter, Kris Millering, Pat Murphy, Helena Bell, Katherine Crighton, Carrie Vaughn, Mar Romasco-Moore, Mary Robinette Kowal, James Tiptree Jr., Sheila Finch, Amal El-Mohtar, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Kat Howard, Grover Gardner (Narrator), Eleanor Arnason, Rhiannon Rasmussen, Jennifer Willis, Amy Sterling Casil, Elizabeth Porter Birdsall, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Juliette Wade, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Heather Clitheroe, Nisi Shawl, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Pinsker, Vanessa Torline, Harlan Ellison (Narrator), Tananarive Due, Sandra Wickham, Anaid Perez, Anaea Lay, Kameron Hurley, Anne Charnock, Samantha Murray, Galen Dara, Cassandra De Cuir (Narrator), Charlie Jane Anders, Cheryl Morgan, Gabrielle de Cuir (Narrator), Stina Leicht, K.C. Norton, Rhonda Eikamp, E. Catherine Tobler, Seanan McGuire, Kristi Charish, Liz Argall, Ellen Denham, O.J. Cade, Tracie Welser

15 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2014 (editions)

essays feminism science fiction short stories adventurous reflective medium-paced

essays feminism science fiction short stories adventurous reflective medium-paced

Women Destroy Science Fiction!: Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue; The Stories by Christie Yant, Robin Lupo, Wendy N. Wagner, Jude Griffin

Women Destroy Science Fiction!: Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue; The Stories

Lightspeed Magazine #49

Christie Yant, Robin Lupo, Wendy N. Wagner, Jude Griffin with Lisa Grabenstetter, Gail Marsella, Effie Seiberg, Maria Dahvana Headley, Christine Mitzuk, DeAnna Knippling, Brooke Bolander, Cathy Humble, Georgina Kamsika, Kim Winternheimer, Gabriella Stalker, Holly Schofield, N.K. Jemisin, Elizabeth Leggett, Marissa Lingen, Jayme Grant (Narrator), Rachel Swirsky, Emily Fox, Cassandra Campbell, Tina Connolly, Nancy Jane Moore, Hillary Pearlman, Marina J. Lostetter, Kris Millering, Pat Murphy, Helena Bell, Katherine Crighton, Carrie Vaughn, Mar Romasco-Moore, Mary Robinette Kowal, James Tiptree Jr., Sheila Finch, Amal El-Mohtar, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Kat Howard, Grover Gardner (Narrator), Eleanor Arnason, Rhiannon Rasmussen, Jennifer Willis, Amy Sterling Casil, Elizabeth Porter Birdsall, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Juliette Wade, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Heather Clitheroe, Nisi Shawl, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Pinsker, Vanessa Torline, Harlan Ellison (Narrator), Tananarive Due, Sandra Wickham, Anaid Perez, Anaea Lay, Kameron Hurley, Anne Charnock, Samantha Murray, Galen Dara, Cassandra De Cuir (Narrator), Charlie Jane Anders, Cheryl Morgan, Gabrielle de Cuir (Narrator), Stina Leicht, K.C. Norton, Rhonda Eikamp, E. Catherine Tobler, Seanan McGuire, Kristi Charish, Liz Argall, Ellen Denham, O.J. Cade, Tracie Welser

15 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2014

essays feminism science fiction short stories adventurous reflective medium-paced

essays feminism science fiction short stories adventurous reflective medium-paced

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

Deathless Divide
Dread Nation #2

Justina Ireland

14 hours, 33 minutes • audio • 2020 (editions)

fiction historical horror young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

fiction historical horror young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

Deathless Divide

Dread Nation #2

Justina Ireland

14 hours, 33 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction historical horror young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

fiction historical horror young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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