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01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025
Overview
This challenge includes both Western classics and books by underrepresented voices, with the aim of becoming "well-read" (without exluding all non-Western literature in the process). You can read in whatever order you'd like!
Become "well-read" in 2025
45 participants (40 books)
STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025
Overview
This challenge includes both Western classics and books by underrepresented voices, with the aim of becoming "well-read" (without exluding all non-Western literature in the process). You can read in whatever order you'd like!
Challenge Books
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
Herman Melville
Obsession, nature, revenge, and existentialism
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Racism, justice, childhood, and morality
The Iliad
Homer
(Try the Emily Wilson translation for a fresher perspective); about war, honor, fate, and human conflict
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Family, magical realism, love, and memory
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Poverty, resilience, community, and migration
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Colonialism, tradition, change, and identity
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Family, forbidden love, caste, and trauma
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Friendship, betrayal, guilt, and redemption
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Mystery, memory, love, and books