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
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

448 pages • 2021 • 7 editions

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal

656 pages • 2017 • 9 editions

nonfiction health politics challenging informative medium-paced
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

Crystal Marie Fleming

240 pages • 2018 • 6 editions

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo

Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

Drew Afualo

236 pages • 2024 • 11 editions

nonfiction feminism memoir funny inspiring reflective fast-paced
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian F. Haney-López
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
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Ian F. Haney-López

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Ian F. Haney-López

303 pages • 2013 • 3 editions

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

296 pages • 2023 • 17 editions

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

476 pages • 2020 • 35 editions

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law by Richard Rothstein, Leah Rothstein

Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

Richard Rothstein, Leah Rothstein

352 pages • 2023 • 6 editions

nonfiction history politics hopeful informative medium-paced
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

244 pages • 2001 • 37 editions

nonfiction economics politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

277 pages • 2023 • 18 editions

nonfiction history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced