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

The Legendborn Cycle #3

Oathbound
Tracy Deonn

650 pages • hardcover • 2025 • 20 editions

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

The Legendborn Cycle #3

Oathbound

650 pages • 2025 • 20 editions

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 #1

She Who Knows
Nnedi Okorafor

176 pages • hardcover • 2024 • 9 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor

She Who Knows #1

She Who Knows

176 pages • 2024 • 9 editions

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)

11h 40m • audio • 2021 • 9 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)

11h 40m • 2021 • 9 editions

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)

2h 40m • audio • 2023 • 3 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)

2h 40m • 2023 • 3 editions

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)

2h 41m • audio • 2022 • 2 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)

2h 41m • 2022 • 2 editions

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 • 118 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 • 2006 • 118 editions

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

Darko Dawson #1

Wife of the Gods
Kwei Quartey

338 pages • digital • 2009 • 7 editions

user-added

fiction mystery dark mysterious medium-paced

fiction mystery dark mysterious medium-paced

Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

Darko Dawson #1

Wife of the Gods

338 pages • 2009 • 7 editions

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 • 13 editions

fiction historical adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

fiction historical adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi

Masquerade

352 pages • 2024 • 13 editions

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

Lightspeed Magazine #49

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

15h 11m • audio • 2014 • 9 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

Lightspeed Magazine #49

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

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

15h 11m • 2014 • 9 editions

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

Dread Nation #2

Deathless Divide
Justina Ireland

14h 33m • audio • 2020 • 15 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

Dread Nation #2

Deathless Divide

Justina Ireland

14h 33m • 2020 • 15 editions

fiction historical horror young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

fiction historical horror young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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