Reading Island Nations 2025

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17 participants (49 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read books by authors from island nations, preferably set there too. Diaspora counts. I am shooting for at least one per month.

The point of this challenge is to expand our reading beyond the mainstream publishing world. Therefore, the UK does not count for this challenge.

Challenge Books

All books added
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Maria Ressa

10h 14m • 2022 • 24 editions

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari

Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery

Christine Mari

304 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction graphic novel memoir young adult emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Body Papers by Grace Talusan

The Body Papers

Grace Talusan

6h 24m • 2019 • 5 editions

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya by Jamaica Kincaid

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

Jamaica Kincaid

224 pages • 2005 • 7 editions

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata

Vanishing World

Sayaka Murata

5h 48m • 2015 • 16 editions

fiction dystopian literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Locked Tomb #1

Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir

448 pages • 2019 • 67 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa

Hunchback

Saou Ichikawa

2h • 2023 • 24 editions

fiction contemporary literary dark reflective fast-paced
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

16h 47m • 2023 • 31 editions

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Little Book of the Hidden People: Twenty Stories of Elves from Icelandic Folklore by Alda Sigmundsdóttir

The Little Book of the Hidden People: Twenty Stories of Elves from Icelandic Folklore

Alda Sigmundsdóttir

118 pages • 2015 • 8 editions

fiction fantasy short stories adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

Las Léonas #1

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris

Adriana Herrera

344 pages • 2022 • 11 editions

fiction historical romance emotional lighthearted medium-paced