Black Stories Matter: A Year of Empowering Reads

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20 participants (50 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The Black Book Reading Challenge is an initiative to celebrate, explore, and immerse ourselves in the rich and diverse literary works by Black authors. This challenge encourages participants to read books across genres, uncover hidden gems, and embrace stories that amplify Black voices, histories, and experiences.

Challenge Books

All books added
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

The Brown Sisters #3

Talia Hibbert

10 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Pardon My Frenchie by Farrah Rochon

Pardon My Frenchie

Farrah Rochon

9 hours, 53 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest

The Love Lyric

Greene Sisters #3

Kristina Forest

10 hours, 48 minutes • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Legendborn

The Legendborn Cycle #1

Tracy Deonn

511 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

The Brown Sisters #1

Talia Hibbert

10 hours, 17 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Confounding Oaths by Alexis Hall

Confounding Oaths

Mortal Follies #2

Alexis Hall

423 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ romance adventurous lighthearted slow-paced
Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

Killing Rage: Ending Racism

bell hooks

288 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

343 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
I'm Black. I'm Christian. I'm Methodist. by Erin Beasley, Lillian C. Smith

I'm Black. I'm Christian. I'm Methodist.

Erin Beasley, Lillian C. Smith

4 hours, 52 minutes • missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction history religion
Monster by Dzifa Benson

Monster

Dzifa Benson

132 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction feminism poetry race emotional reflective medium-paced