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Read 40 Books by BIPOC Authors in 2025

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13 participants (175 books)

01 Jan 2025—01 Jan 2026

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All types of books welcomed, from picture books to manga to audiobooks! 

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Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems by Melania Luisa Marte

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

3 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

5 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir race science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Saidiya Hartman

10 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

13 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah

You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Meera Shah

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

Clemantine Wamariya

8 hours, 59 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Zora Neale Hurston

3 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

15 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

Noura Erakat

13 hours, 53 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World by Zahra Biabani

Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World

Zahra Biabani

4 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction nature self help challenging informative medium-paced