Read 40 Books by BIPOC Authors in 2025

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13 participants (178 books)

01 Jan 2025—01 Jan 2026

Overview

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

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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
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

5 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 1955 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays race challenging reflective slow-paced
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings

7 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

Nadia Murad

320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan

This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

Elias Jahshan

216 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

Tahir Hamut Izgil

7 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir race religion emotional informative sad medium-paced
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

Sa'ed Atshan

273 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

399 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced