2026 Reading Challenge

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Black Madness by Theri Alyce PickensDisability Incarcerated by Liat Ben-mosheCare Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...Committed by Susan BurchHow to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind by LaMarr Jurelle Bruce
Critical Mad Studies and Mad/Crip of Colour Critique
26 books — 6 voters
In the Wake by Christina SharpeLose Your Mother by Saidiya HartmanBlackness and Disability by Christopher M. BellA Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne BrandFrom #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Studies
102 books — 10 voters

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaThe Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn AllenSister Outsider by Audre LordeConquest by Andrea Lee Smith
Feminist Books by Women of Color
170 books — 39 voters
Queer Indigenous Studies by Qwo-Li DriskillBorderlands / La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaDisability Incarcerated by Liat Ben-mosheBut Some of Us Are Brave by Akasha Gloria HullLiving a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
197 books — 25 voters

Passage by Gwen BenawayA Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
Poetry collections by trans / nonbinary / genderqueer etc. non-cis authors
184 books — 65 voters
Black Madness by Theri Alyce PickensMad Matters by Brenda A. LeFrançoisWillow Weep for Me by Meri Nana-Ama DanquahWrithing Writing by Phil SmithSearching for a Rose Garden by Jasna Russo
Critical Psychiatry and Mad Studies
201 books — 47 voters

Transforming a Rape Culture by Emilie BuchwaldFull Frontal Feminism by Jessica ValentiFeminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksPussy Riot! by Pussy RiotYes Means Yes! by Jaclyn Friedman
Third-Wave Feminism
169 books — 64 voters
Living a Feminist Life by Sara AhmedFeminist, Queer, Crip by Alison KaferMark My Words by Mishuana GoemanFreedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisIslands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
21st Century Feminisms
100 books — 32 voters

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinLilith's Brood by Octavia E. ButlerThe Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le GuinTehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy
698 books — 625 voters
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison KaferLiving a Feminist Life by Sara AhmedThe Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn AllenBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaExile and Pride by Eli Clare
Best Feminist Books
2,520 books — 3,525 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayA Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate BornsteinGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Memoirs by Women
3,016 books — 3,031 voters
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiWatchmen by Alan Moore
Best Political Themed Graphic Novels
57 books — 22 voters

On Being Included by Sara AhmedCitizen by Claudia RankineBorderlands / La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaThe Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn AllenAre Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
From Diversity to Equity: A Recommended Reading List
91 books — 25 voters
When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred PearceAre Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. DavisNeuroTribes by Steve SilbermanThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,193 books — 949 voters

Bullet Journal by Bujo InternationalThe Sketchnote Handbook by Mike Rohde
Books for Visual Thinking
6 books — 2 voters
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaFeminist, Queer, Crip by Alison KaferFeminist Disability Studies by Ellen SamuelsThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanTender Points by Amy Berkowitz
Women & Gender Studies
1,461 books — 546 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanK-PAX by Gene BrewerGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Best Descent Into Madness Books
91 books — 56 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukLife of Pi by Yann MartelHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,227 books — 6,122 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonWalk Two Moons by Sharon CreechThe Giver by Lois LowryIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe High King by Lloyd Alexander
The Most Deserving Newbery
116 books — 3,000 voters
White Teeth by Zadie SmithHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Books I'll read till they fall apart
65 books — 25 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le GuinTehanu by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey
Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels
4,462 books — 18,220 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters