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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
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gothic horror, colonialism, and feminism
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Gender, identity, and speculative fiction
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
War, identity, and duality
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Dystopia, resilience, and survival
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
Death, war, and satire
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Feminism, friendship, and resilience
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ecology, indigenous wisdom, and nature
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Identity, history, colonalism, magical realism, national destiny
(bonus)
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Absurdism, alienation, existentialism, and morality
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Love, loss, mental health, and coming of age