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

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Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston by Alicia D. Williams

Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston

Alicia D. Williams

48 pages • 2021 • 2 editions

nonfiction biography childrens emotional reflective medium-paced
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

6h 45m • 2017 • 7 editions

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

3h 17m • 2022 • 11 editions

nonfiction race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

I'm Afraid of Men

Vivek Shraya

1h 26m • 2018 • 10 editions

nonfiction feminism gender lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis

5h 3m • 2021 • 16 editions

nonfiction feminism race sociology informative reflective medium-paced
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai

The Kamogawa Food Detectives #1

The Kamogawa Food Detectives

Hisashi Kashiwai

200 pages • 2013 • 66 editions

fiction literary mystery emotional lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Infested: An MTV Fear Novel by Angel Luis Colón

Infested: An MTV Fear Novel

Angel Luis Colón

7h 7m • 2023 • 4 editions

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fiction horror young adult emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Love Points to You by Alice Lin

Love Points to You

Alice Lin

320 pages • 2025 • 3 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ romance young adult funny reflective medium-paced
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Sangu Mandanna

336 pages • 2025 • 7 editions

fiction contemporary fantasy romance adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Tell Me How It Ends by Quinton Li

Chaos in the Cards #1

Tell Me How It Ends

Quinton Li

330 pages • 2023 • 5 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced