2025: Books added from recently read - prompts 10-15,17
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 10: Book written by/about that includes the perspective of a sex worker
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Poetry
Slingshot (2019) by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Prompt 11: Book of poetry, essays, or a memoir by a queer, trans, and/or two-spirit author who is Black, Indigenous and/or part of the global majority
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Poetry
Build Yourself a Boat (2019) by Camonghne Felix
Living Room: New Poems (1985) by June Jordan
Slingshot (2019) by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Prompt 12: Book on/includes anarchism by an author who is Black, Indigenous, and/or part of global majority
No books added, find books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Prompt 13: Nonfiction book on abolition, immigration justice, and/or what we build in their place
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Essays
Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation: The Alchemy Lecture #1 (2023) by Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Natalie Díaz, Dele Adeyemo, Rinaldo Walcott
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013) by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
Poetry
Build Yourself a Boat (2019) by Camonghne Felix
Prompt 14: Book written by an author from/written about Haiti
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Nonfiction
We're Alone (2024) by Edwidge Danticat
Prompt 15: Book about any/some/all: disability, mental health, neurodivergence, healing
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Novels
The Art Thieves (2024) by Andrea L. Rogers
Death of the Author (2025) by Nnedi Okorafor
Jonny Appleseed (2018) by Joshua Whitehead
None But the Righteous (2022) by Chantal James
Essays
We're Alone (2024) by Edwidge Danticat
Memoir
When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson, illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and Iman Geddy (graphic novel)
Short stories
Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (2023) by Yvette Lisa Ndlovuj
Everything Inside: Stories (2019) by Edwidge Danticat
Poetry
The Body Family (2022) by Hope Wabuke
Build Yourself a Boat (2019) by Camonghne Felix
Slingshot (2019) by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Prompt 17: Book written by/about that includes perspectives of refugees and other migrants
More books shared on the initial prompt support page.
Nonfiction
Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation (2023) by Dele Adeyemo
We're Alone (2024) by Edwidge Danticat
Poetry
The Body Family (2022) by Hope Wabuke
Memoir/Biography
The Barefoot Woman (2008) by Scholastique Mukasonga
When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson, illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and Iman Geddy
Fiction
What Strange Paradise (2021) by Omar El Akkad
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Thank you for reading.
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