Read 40 Books by BIPOC Authors in 2025

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14 participants (336 books)

01 Jan 2025—01 Jan 2026

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All types of books welcomed, from picture books to manga to audiobooks!

Read 40 Books by BIPOC Authors in 2025

booksanddoggo Host

14 participants (336 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 01 Jan 2026

Overview

All types of books welcomed, from picture books to manga to audiobooks!

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An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon with Cherise Boothe (Narrator)

11h 54m • audio • 2017 • 19 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ literary science fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon with Cherise Boothe (Narrator)

11h 54m • 2017 • 19 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ literary science fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights by Ashley Hope Pérez

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights
Ashley Hope Pérez with Padma Venkatraman (Contributor), Kyle Lukoff (Contributor), Debbie Fong (Illustrator), Ellen Hopkins (Contributor), Trung Le Nguyen (Contributor), MariNaomi (Contributor), Nikki Grimes (Contributor), Bill Konigsberg (Contributor), Maia Kobabe (Contributor), Robin Stevenson (Contributor), Isabel Quintero (Contributor), Brendan Kiely (Contributor), Traci Sorell (Contributor), Kelly Jensen (Contributor), Elana K. Arnold (Contributor)

272 pages • hardcover • 2025 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays memoir poetry short stories young adult hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights

Ashley Hope Pérez with Padma Venkatraman (Contributor), Kyle Lukoff (Contributor), Debbie Fong (Illustrator), Ellen Hopkins (Contributor), Trung Le Nguyen (Contributor), MariNaomi (Contributor), Nikki Grimes (Contributor), Bill Konigsberg (Contributor), Maia Kobabe (Contributor), Robin Stevenson (Contributor), Isabel Quintero (Contributor), Brendan Kiely (Contributor), Traci Sorell (Contributor), Kelly Jensen (Contributor), Elana K. Arnold (Contributor)

272 pages • 2025 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays memoir poetry short stories young adult hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

Lady Sherlock #5

Murder on Cold Street
Sherry Thomas

352 pages • paperback • 2020 • 6 editions

fiction historical mystery mysterious medium-paced

Lady Sherlock #5

Murder on Cold Street

Sherry Thomas

352 pages • 2020 • 6 editions

fiction historical mystery mysterious medium-paced

Bluff: Poems
Danez Smith

224 pages • digital • 2024 • 7 editions

user-added

nonfiction contemporary poetry race emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Bluff: Poems

Danez Smith

224 pages • 2024 • 7 editions

user-added

nonfiction contemporary poetry race emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
Whoopi Goldberg

6h 43m • audio • 2024 • 11 editions

nonfiction autobiography emotional funny reflective fast-paced

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

Whoopi Goldberg

6h 43m • 2024 • 11 editions

nonfiction autobiography emotional funny reflective fast-paced

Erasure
Percival Everett

280 pages • paperback • 2001 • 25 editions

fiction literary challenging funny reflective medium-paced

Erasure

Percival Everett

280 pages • 2001 • 25 editions

fiction literary challenging funny reflective medium-paced

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

289 pages • paperback • 1969 • 126 editions

nonfiction autobiography classics emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

289 pages • 1969 • 126 editions

nonfiction autobiography classics emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Beloved Trilogy #1

Beloved
Toni Morrison

321 pages • paperback • 1987 • 182 editions

fiction classics historical literary magical realism dark emotional sad slow-paced

Beloved Trilogy #1

Beloved

Toni Morrison

321 pages • 1987 • 182 editions

fiction classics historical literary magical realism dark emotional sad slow-paced

Mixed-Up
Kami Garcia with Brittney Williams (Illustrator)

208 pages • hardcover • 2025 • 5 editions

fiction graphic novel middle grade emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Mixed-Up

Kami Garcia with Brittney Williams (Illustrator)

208 pages • 2025 • 5 editions

fiction graphic novel middle grade emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Azar Nafisi

223 pages • hardcover • 2022 • 13 editions

nonfiction classics literary politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi

223 pages • 2022 • 13 editions

nonfiction classics literary politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Read 40 Books by BIPOC Authors in 2025

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An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon with Cherise Boothe (Narrator)

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Kami Garcia with Brittney Williams (Illustrator)