Reading Island Nations 2025

18 participants (55 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

215 pages digital 2021 user-added

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced

240 pages hardcover 2016

fiction dystopian politics thriller challenging dark sad medium-paced

159 pages paperback 1922

fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced

251 pages paperback 2018

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ dark emotional sad medium-paced

178 pages paperback 2005

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

96 pages hardcover 2021

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

192 pages paperback 2004

fiction contemporary magical realism dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

408 pages paperback 2022

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary magical realism challenging dark reflective medium-paced

450 pages paperback 1984

fiction classics literary magical realism challenging dark emotional slow-paced

256 pages hardcover 2021

fiction historical challenging medium-paced