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Currently reading (2)
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions) by W.E.B. Du Bois

Mainly reads fiction books that are reflective, emotional, and dark.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Read recently
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi
Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization by Monique A. Bedasse
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson

To-Read Pile
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August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Paradise by Toni Morrison

Owned Books

Challenges

2025 Reading Goal

53 books

15% (8 books)

Hosted challenges
National Book Award (Fiction) Winners

79 books | 6 participants

Time’s ALL-TIME 100 Best Novels (1923-2010)

100 books | 35 participants

Radcliffe’s Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

100 books | 23 participants