Reading Island Nations 2025

17 participants (49 books)

01 Jan 202531 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

312 pages1998 23 editions

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced

251 pages1990 9 editions

fiction historical literary challenging dark tense medium-paced

289 pages2021 22 editions

user-added

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced

3h 41m2002 8 editions

user-added

nonfiction memoir travel reflective slow-paced

304 pages2023 4 editions

fiction contemporary romance young adult hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

163 pages1990 30 editions

fiction literary emotional reflective slow-paced

247 pages2018 65 editions

fiction horror literary magical realism challenging dark medium-paced

274 pages1994 94 editions

fiction dystopian literary dark reflective sad slow-paced

149 pages1985 46 editions

fiction classics literary young adult emotional reflective slow-paced

256 pages 1 edition

fiction short stories reflective medium-paced