Reading Island Nations 2025

17 participants (32 books)

01 Jan 202531 Dec 2025

Overview

Read books by authors from island nations, preferably set there too. Diaspora counts. I am shooting for at least one per month.

The point of this challenge is to expand our reading beyond the mainstream publishing world. Therefore, the UK does not count for this challenge.

Challenge Books

All books added

274 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary science fiction dark reflective sad slow-paced

149 pages first pub 1985 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary young adult emotional reflective slow-paced

256 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction short stories reflective medium-paced

148 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

304 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

448 pages first pub 2006 (editions) user-added

fiction sports adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

90 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction childrens emotional medium-paced

1 hour, 57 minutes first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

352 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

256 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical emotional medium-paced