2026 Reading Challenge

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Omenuko by Pita NwanaThe Wrath of the Ancestors by A.C. JordanForest of a Thousand Daemons by D.O. FagunwaChaka by Thomas MofoloShinega's Village by Sahle Sellassie
African novels translated into English from a non-European African language
28 books — 6 voters
Jerusalem by Yotam OttolenghiMamushka by Olia HerculesJerusalem by Yotam OttolenghiTaste of Persia by Naomi DuguidThe Food of Morocco by Paula Wolfert
Around the World in Cookbooks
576 books — 63 voters

Salt Fish Girl by Larissa LaiIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanSouthland by Nina RevoyrTake Out by Quang BaoM. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Queer Asian American Literature
110 books — 13 voters
Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-ShaykhThe Queue by Basma Abdel AzizThe Moor's Account by Laila LalamiThe Story of Zahra by Hanan Al-ShaykhOther Lives by Iman Humaydan
Book Riot's 100 Recommended Books by Arab Women for Your 2017 Reading Resolutions
100 books — 16 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Women Around the World
1,159 books — 431 voters
An American Marriage by Tayari JonesEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Leeساعة بغداد by Shahad Al RawiThere There by Tommy OrangeRainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018
258 books — 283 voters

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu MiaojinLast Words from Montmartre by Qiu MiaojinConfessions of a Mask by Yukio MishimaLie With Me by Philippe BessonIf Not, Winter by Sappho
LGBTQ literature in English translation
252 books — 64 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Asian Classics
183 books — 58 voters

Beebo Brinker by Ann BannonOdd Girl Out by Ann BannonI Am a Woman by Ann BannonLesbian Pulp Fiction by Katherine V. ForrestWomen's Barracks by Tereska Torrès
Lesbian pulp fiction
63 books — 21 voters
Her Little Flowers by Shannon MorganRebecca by Daphne du MaurierOut by Natsuo KirinoThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsLaura by Vera Caspary
Female Noir
152 books — 104 voters


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