2025 Diverse Reading Challenge - 50 Books by BIPOC Authors

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32 participants (544 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

In order to be more intentional about reading diverse books I'm challenging myself to read at least 50 books by BIPOC authors in 2025.

Challenge Books

All books added
The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez

The Next Best Fling

Librarians in Love #1

Gabriella Gamez

384 pages • digital • 2024

fiction contemporary romance funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Fake Boyfriend Fiasco by Talia Hibbert

The Fake Boyfriend Fiasco

Midnight Heat #3

Talia Hibbert

215 pages • digital • 2018

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson

The Color of a Lie

Kim Johnson

336 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction historical thriller young adult medium-paced
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

Blacktop Wasteland

S.A. Cosby

11 hours, 7 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction mystery thriller adventurous dark tense fast-paced
The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

The Anthropologists

Ayşegül Savaş

192 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

The Sex Lives of African Women

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

292 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

386 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1 by Yu Pei-Yun

The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1

The Boy from Clearwater #1

Yu Pei-Yun

352 pages • digital • 2023 user-added

nonfiction biography graphic novel emotional informative sad fast-paced
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda

Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

Walela Nehanda

400 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir poetry young adult emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Everything and Nothing At All: Essays by Jenny Heijun Wills

Everything and Nothing At All: Essays

Jenny Heijun Wills

235 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced