The Zora Challenge

You can start and finish this challenge whenever you like!

Introducing The Zora Challenge. Let's commit to reading Zora Neale Hurston's catalog in 2023 and beyond. All you have to do is read any of the 13 books by Zora that you have not read before. The official hashtag is #thezorachallenge

Challenge Prompts

1. Read Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934)- Fiction

2. Read Mules and Men (1935)- Folklore

3. Read Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)- Fiction

4. Read Tell My Horse (1938)- Nonfiction

5. Read Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939)- Fiction

6. Read Dust Tracks On A Road (1942)- Autobiography

7. Read Seraph on the Suwanee (1948)- Fiction

8. Read Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life with Langston Hughes (1991, first published in 1930)- Play

9. Read The Complete Stories (1995, written between 1921-1955)- Short Stories

10. Read Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001, collected in the 1920s)- Folklore

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