Five Year Diverse Reading Challenge - hosted by tsprengel

Race/Ethnicity - Read a book about the Black experience
All books added
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

6 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history reflective slow-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

2 hours, 25 minutes • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
That Peckham Boy by Kenny Imafidon

That Peckham Boy

Kenny Imafidon

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

10 hours, 55 minutes • first pub 1979 (editions)

fiction classics historical speculative fiction dark emotional tense medium-paced
Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality by Marcus Ryder, Lenny Henry

Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

Marcus Ryder, Lenny Henry

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Akala

342 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Black and British: A Short, Essential History by David Olusoga

Black and British: A Short, Essential History

David Olusoga

217 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history middle grade race young adult challenging informative medium-paced
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga

Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga

592 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Ruby Hamad

7 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Color Purple

The Color Purple Collection #1

Alice Walker

7 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction classics historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced