The Challenge:
With how much immigrants have been villainized and dehumanized in the American media landscape, I want to make a point of understanding both the people and the countries they came from in 2025.

So please join me in a year-long reading challenge to diversify our reading and read 12 books about the immigrant experience - fiction, nonfiction, or a mix of the two!

The Rules:
Only one. Please try to focus on Own Voices authors as much as possible. The term Own Voices means that the author is part of the marginalized group they are writing about. (e.g. a Mexican author writing about Mexico, a child of immigrants writing about being a child of immigrants, etc.). 

If you are unable to find an Own Voices book that fits the prompt, then a book of interviews, an ethnography, etc. written by a non-Own Voices authors may be substituted, but it must feature extensive commentary coming directly from the marginalized group if at all possible.