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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
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
Redemption, identity, and cultural immersion
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
Immigration, displacement, and survival
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Totalitarianism, gender oppression, resistance, control, dystopia
(bonus)
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Mental illness, identity, gender roles, societal expectations, personal struggle
(bonus)
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Power, good vs. evil, love, Soviet society, surrealism, the supernatural
(bonus)
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Holocaust, survival, hope, identity, perseverance.
(bonus)
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
good vs. evil, free will, inheritance, redemption, identity
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Guilt, morality, redemption, and justice