Read Black Authors Challenge

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10 participants (48 books)

15 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I want to increase the black authors I read. This can be done in any format (audio, kindle, paperback or hard-core etc.).  And it can be any language, translated English or your native language. 

Since people have a variety of genres they are interested in. I won't be setting certain authors, you can choose your own authors, and genres, that way you are more likely to finish the challenge as you will be reading books you are more likely interested in.

This is a 12 book challenge. You can either read or listen to one book a month, or you van smash it out quickly. But this number was chosen to be less overwhelming. 

Challenge Books

All books added
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed #2

Octavia E. Butler

15 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 1998 (editions) user-added

fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

12 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Legacy of Orïsha #2

Tomi Adeyemi

416 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional fast-paced
If He Loved You by Aseera

If He Loved You

If He Loved You

Aseera

174 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction emotional medium-paced
Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places by Claire Kann

Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places

Claire Kann

11 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ romance emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Sight Unseen by Kasha Thompson

Sight Unseen

Kasha Thompson

10 hours, 4 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Magnolia: A Perfect Love by Asia Monique

Magnolia: A Perfect Love

Flower Sisters #1

Asia Monique

5 hours, 1 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction romance emotional lighthearted fast-paced
And Then Life Was Beautiful by Asia Monique

And Then Life Was Beautiful

Hanson Family #1

Asia Monique

10 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

fiction romance emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Reel by Kennedy Ryan

Reel

Hollywood Renaissance #1

Kennedy Ryan

16 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid

See Now Then

Jamaica Kincaid

192 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced