2025: Book written by/about that has perspectives of peoples experiencing homelessness
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 or am currently reading 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.”
More Books from my TBR List
For some prompts, I’m trying to diversify what I read; for others, deepening my knowledge while also growing my perspective. For some prompts, there are definitely more books on my to-be-read (TBR) list than the ones I share that I have read or am currently reading. Here are some of those books:
Nonfiction
- Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (2016), edited by Evelyn Peters and Julia Christensen
- No Home in a Homeland: Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North (2017) by Julia Christensen
- Takeover! : a human rights approach to housing (2024) by Cheri Honkala with Poor People's Army
- There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (2025) by Brian Goldstone
Memoirs
- From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way (2019) by Jesse Thistle
- United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope (2021) by Lenny Duncan
repeated notes..
The book can be fiction or nonfiction. This category is broad and global, and includes considerations shared in the prompt related to perspectives of refugees and other migrants, linked below.
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Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:
Memoir
Another Word for Love: A Memoir (2024) by Carvell Wallace
Nonfiction
Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (2013) by Sylviane A. Diouf
Fiction
Parable of the Sower (1993) by Octavia E. Butler
Wandering Stars: A Novel (2024) by Tommy Orange
The Marrow Thieves (2017) by Cherie Dimaline
Parable of the Talents (1998) by Octavia E. Butler
None But the Righteous (2022) by Chantal James
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017) by Arundhati Roy
Get any/all of these books wherever you get your books.
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Thank you for reading.
