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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
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
Colonialism, identity, gender, and power
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Memory, identity, and political exile
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Revolution, freedom, family, and resilience
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Slavery, motherhood, trauma, and healing
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Racism, feminism, love, and resilience
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Trauma, friendship, identity, and survival
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
Indigenous identity, storytelling, and healing
Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi
Feminism, oppression, and social justice