For the Love of a Good Book - 2025

mrsjmac Host

11 participants (879 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 100 books of your choice in 2025. Books must be at least 100 pages in length. Please use this challenge to document your choices and share your experiences. 

Challenge Books

All books added
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke by Michael Punke

Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke

Michael Punke

332 pages • 2007 • 2 editions

user-added

nonfiction
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Elizabeth Hinton

432 pages • 2021 • 8 editions

user-added

nonfiction race informative medium-paced
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

William C. Rhoden

304 pages • 2006 • 3 editions

nonfiction history race sports challenging informative slow-paced
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

ReVisioning American History #5

A Black Women's History of the United States

Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

298 pages • 2020 • 9 editions

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

295 pages • 2021 • 11 editions

user-added

nonfiction biography feminism history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran

558 pages • 2017 • 10 editions

user-added

nonfiction economics history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

363 pages • 2020 • 21 editions

user-added

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

512 pages • 2007 • 11 editions

nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

528 pages • 2021 • 11 editions

nonfiction essays history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

402 pages • 2021 • 18 editions

user-added

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced