10 Books by Dead Authors 2025

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5 participants (37 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Many books we pick today and suggestions we get for new reads are from authors and influencers on social media or new releases that everyone is talking about. When an author is no longer around, fewer people become aware of the book and pick it up to read. So let's try to read 10 books this year that were written by an author who is now dead. Try to read #OwnVoices as always. And if you manage to find a book that was published after the author was dead, maybe check if the author actually wanted that book to be published.

Challenge Books

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The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

Discworld #2

The Light Fantastic

Terry Pratchett

6h 47m • 1986 • 111 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gift from the Sea

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

130 pages • 1955 • 34 editions

nonfiction classics memoir reflective slow-paced
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm

George Orwell

152 pages • 1945 • 978 editions

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective fast-paced
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

368 pages • 1949 • 1.3k editions

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

112 pages • 1929 • 431 editions

nonfiction classics essays feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Momo by Michael Ende

Momo

Michael Ende

304 pages • 1973 • 159 editions

fiction classics fantasy middle grade adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Extraordinary Voyages #3

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne

211 pages • 1864 • 778 editions

fiction classics science fiction adventurous medium-paced
Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen by Jules Verne

Extraordinary Voyages #11

Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen

Jules Verne

7h 4m • 1872 • 964 editions

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fiction classics science fiction adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende

Die unendliche Geschichte

Michael Ende

428 pages • 1979 • 188 editions

fiction classics fantasy middle grade adventurous medium-paced
Vor dem Gesetz by Franz Kafka

Vor dem Gesetz

Franz Kafka

2 pages • 1915 • 9 editions

fiction classics short stories dark reflective slow-paced