Read Black Authors Challenge

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10 participants (49 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
Twenty-Four Seconds From Now by Jason Reynolds

Twenty-Four Seconds From Now

Jason Reynolds

4 hours • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction romance young adult emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

Blood Like Magic

Blood Like #1

Liselle Sambury

16 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Feed by Aveda Vice

Feed

Hunger Duet #1

Aveda Vice

62 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction erotica fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous dark fast-paced
A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette

A Deadly Inside Scoop

An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery #1

Abby Collette

9 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction mystery lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

8 hours, 16 minutes • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Adunni #1

Abi Daré

312 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give #1

Angie Thomas

480 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary young adult emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

The Women Could Fly

Megan Giddings

283 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction dystopian fantasy lgbtqia+ dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

The African Trilogy #1

Chinua Achebe

152 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging dark reflective medium-paced