2025: Bonus: Book about colonialism, colonization, settler colonialism and/or decolonization
Book recommendations/suggestions for the Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 book challenge. Find your next book!
read, seed, water, feed book challenge - about prompt support posts
about prompt support posts
All of the prompt support posts (those that begin with "2025: Book written by...", for example) are organized similar to each other.
Each of these posts was created to support the Read, Seed, Water Feed book challenge on Storygraph that I am hosting. They were also created to support learning outside of the university, collective educational efforts, finding new authors to read, finding books, and more.
For each book challenge prompt, I will share the following sections:
- one or more slides with books I have read or am currently reading that I recommend for the prompt
- a list of additional books from my TBR (to-be-read) list for the prompt
- a text listing of the books that I shared in the slides
I might share one or more of the following in addition, depending on capacity and other factors:
- other supportive text as appropriate, such as countries included
- some quotes, notes, and/or reflections about one or more of the books
- links to other posts on the site where I discuss the books or prompt in more detail
I did many things to minimize hierarchy within these posts, and there will still be some things that might feel odd, such as split galleries of slides, which was a choice made to address current limitations in how the galleries work.
If interested, find bingo cards, more background on the prompts, and other reflections, on the Reading Challenge page and if on Storygraph, join the challenge.
Mostly, my goal for prompt support posts is to share books for each prompt, as suggestions and as examples. This section will be first on every post and may be skipped.
Thank you for reading.
Recommended Books
Books I've read that I recommend for this prompt.
Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 reading challenge prompt and description, showing books recommended that I have read or am currently reading. All recommended books are listed lower in the post in the section “Recommended Books in a List.”
Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:
Nonfiction
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (2024) by Rebecca Nagle
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1981) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Decolonization and Afro-Feminism (2020) by Sylvia Tamale
Discourse on Colonialism (1955) by Aimé Césaire
A Dying Colonialism (1959) by Frantz Fanon
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics (2021) by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
King Leopold's Ghost (1998) by Adam Hochschild
Orientalism (1978) by Edward W. Said
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (2019) by Nick Estes
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) by Adom Getachew
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon
Novels
Afterlives (2021) by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Auē (2019) by Becky Manawatu
The Book of Not (2006) by Tsitsi Dangarembga
A Master of Djinn (2021) by P. Djèlí Clark
Riambel (2023) by Priya Hein
The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) by Vajra Chandrasekera
Tar Baby (1981) by Toni Morrison
This Mournable Body (2018) by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Wandering Stars: A Novel (2024) by Tommy Orange
+many more examples on other prompts
Get any/all of these books wherever you get your books.
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Please consider purchasing books when they are available from Workshops 4 Gaza's bookstore: Colonizing Kashmir (2023) by Hafsa Kanjwal. When I share books that are available for purchase there at the time of posting, I will list them here after the link.
Thank you for reading
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