2025: Books added from recently read - bonus prompts
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
Click on about "added.." prompt support posts below to learn more about the posts. This drop-down section has been updated for these pages and has explanatory information.
about "added.." prompt support posts
All of the "added.." prompt support posts (those with "2025: Books added from recently read...") 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 of these pages, I will share the following sections:
- one or more slides with books I have read since creating the initial prompt support pages earlier this year and recommend
- a text listing of the books that I shared in the slides
- a link to the initial prompt support page for each prompt
Each page will be a group of prompts. The prompt numbers (shown in the title) are included with the prompt in the section “Recommended Books in a List.”
Note: Some books are on multiple prompts, though not all instances are shown here, which is related to the first year of doing this. Some books that seem like they should be on a prompt but aren't shown below were most likely included on the prompt in the initial prompt support page (links are in the section “Recommended Books in a List.”)
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 and "added" 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.
Added.. Recently Read & Recommended Books
Books that I've read since creating the initial prompt support pages earlier this year and that I recommend for these prompts.
My goal is to share books for each prompt, as suggestions and as examples.
Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 reading challenge: Recommended books that I’ve read since creating the initial prompt support pages. All books are listed below under “Recommended Books in a List.”
Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've recently read that I recommend for this prompt:
Prompt 25: Bonus: Children's book related to any of the other prompts
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Middle grade - memoir
When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson, illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and Iman Geddy
Young adult - novel
The Art Thieves (2024) by Andrea L. Rogers
Prompt 26: Bonus: Literary or cultural criticism that is anti-imperialist, anti-carceral, antiracist, and/or decolonial
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Essays
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) by Toni Morrison
Recognizing the Stranger (2024) by Isabella Hammad
Prompt 27: Bonus: Book about colonialism, colonization, settler colonialism and/or decolonization
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Nonfiction
Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation (2023) by Dele Adeyemo
Decolonial Marxism (2022) by Walter Rodney
Kashmir: The Case for Freedom (2011) by Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhat, Angana P. Chatterji, Habbah Khatun, Pankaj Mishra, and Arundhati Roy
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024) by Isabella Hammad
A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid
Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution (2022) by Willow Berridge, Alex de Waal, & Justin Lynch
Essays
We're Alone (2024) by Edwidge Danticat
Poetry
Brazilian Is Not a Race (2016) by Wendy Trevino
Living Room (1985) by June Jordan
Fiction
Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (2023) by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
Too Soon (2025) by Betty Shamieh
Noopiming (2020) by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
There There (2018) by Tommy Orange
Too Soon (2025) by Betty Shamieh
You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer
Prompt 28: Bonus: Book about or by someone who is part of the Black radical tradition
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Autobiography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) by Malcolm X
Prompt 29: Bonus: Book about Marxism, socialism, communism, and/or labor
No books added, find books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Get any/all of these books wherever you get your books.
Please support libraries however you can. Find out many ways to get involved in supporting libraries at Libraries for the People.
Please consider purchasing books when they are available from Workshops 4 Gaza's bookstore: Recognizing the Stranger (2024) by Isabella Hammad, Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation (2023) by Hafsa Kanjwal, Noopiming (2020) by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Recognizing the Stranger (2024) by Isabella Hammad. 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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