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2025: Books added from recently read - prompts 16,18-24

Book recommendations/suggestions for the Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 book challenge. Find your next book!

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read, seed, water, feed book challenge - about prompt support posts

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All "added.." prompt support posts can be found at https://water.ghost.io/bookchallenge/. 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.

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.

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Book written by/about that has perspectives of peoples experiencing homelessness. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is light gray on a medium gray background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' and '..Recently Read and Recommended' are white on a black background. Book covers are shown. Nonfiction: There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (2025) by Brian Goldstone. 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.
Indigenous speculative fiction book (ex. Indigenous futurism, fantasy, spec. fiction, etc). Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is white on a black background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' and '..Recently Read and Recommended' are white on a vibrant pinkish-orange background. Book covers are shown. Novels: The Art Thieves (2024) by Andrea L. Rogers. You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue.
Decolonial, anti-imperialist, and/or anti-carceral feminism by an author who is Black, Indigenous and/or part of the global majority. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is black and red on a pale blue-green background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is white on a black background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is red on a black background. Book covers are shown. Poetry: Living Room (1985) by June Jordan.
Black speculative fiction book (ex. Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, Black horror, fantasy, etc). Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is light yellow, orange-red, and blue-green on a Black background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is black on a light yellow background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is orange-red on a light yellow background. Book covers are shown. Novel: Death of the Author (2025) by Nnedi Okorafor. Short stories: The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (2023) by Tananarive Due.
Novel by a nonbinary, two-spirit, trans, and/or intersex author or has a main character who is. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is white on a black background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is black on a soft orange with pinkish tone background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is white on a soft orange with pinkish tone background. Book covers are shown. Noopiming (2020) by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
Book about slavery or the afterlife of slavery by an author who is Black, Indigenous and/or part of the global majority. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is white on a black background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' and '..Recently Read and Recommended' are white on a warm reddish-orange background. Book covers are shown. Nonfiction: A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid. Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation (2023) by Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Díaz, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Rinaldo Walcott. Fiction: The Marrow of Tradition (1901) by Charles W. Chesnutt.
Book by a Mexican or Central or South American author. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is white and blue-green on a greenish-brown background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is black on a white background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is blue-green on a white background. Book covers are shown. Nonfiction: Decolonial Marxism (2022) by Walter Rodney. Fiction: You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Book: impacts of people w/power interacting w/water in a way that obstructs the flow of life. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is white on a black background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' and '..Recently Read and Recommended' are white on a warm reddish-orange background. Book covers are shown. Nonfiction: Worldmaking After Empire (2019) by Adom Getachew. A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid. Memoir/Biography: The Barefoot Woman (2008) by Scholastique Mukasonga.
Book: impacts of people w/power interacting w/water in a way that obstructs the flow of life. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is vibrant yellow-green and white on a black background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' and '..Recently Read and Recommended' are white on a rich medium blue background. Book covers are shown. Fiction: You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer. There There (2018) by Tommy Orange. Noopiming (2020) by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (2023) by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu. What Strange Paradise (2021) by Omar El Akkad.

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.”

As a list, books I've recently read that I recommend for this prompt:

Prompt 16: Book written by/about that has perspectives of peoples experiencing homelessness

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Nonfiction

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (2025) by Brian Goldstone

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

Prompt 18: Indigenous speculative fiction book (ex. Indigenous futurism, fantasy, spec. fiction, etc)

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Novels

The Art Thieves (2024) by Andrea L. Rogers

You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue

Prompt 19: Decolonial, anti-imperialist, and/or anti-carceral feminism by an author who is Black, Indigenous and/or part of the global majority

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Poetry

Living Room (1985) by June Jordan

Prompt 20: Black speculative fiction book (ex. Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, Black horror,  fantasy, etc)

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Novel

Death of the Author (2025) by Nnedi Okorafor

Short stories

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (2023) by Tananarive Due

Prompt 21: Novel by a nonbinary, two-spirit, trans, and/or intersex author or has a main character who is

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Noopiming (2020) by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Prompt 22: Book about slavery or the afterlife of slavery by an author who is Black, Indigenous and/or part of the global majority

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Nonfiction

Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation (2023) by Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Díaz, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Rinaldo Walcott

A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction

The Marrow of Tradition (1901) by Charles W. Chesnutt

Prompt 23: Book by a Mexican or Central or South American author

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Nonfiction

Decolonial Marxism (2022) by Walter Rodney

Fiction

You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer

Prompt 24: Book: impacts of people w/power interacting w/water in a way that obstructs the flow of life

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Nonfiction

A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid

Worldmaking After Empire (2019) by Adom Getachew

Memoir/Biography

The Barefoot Woman (2008) by Scholastique Mukasonga

Novels

Noopiming (2020) by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

There There (2018) by Tommy Orange

What Strange Paradise (2021) by Omar El Akkad

You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer

Short stories

Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (2023) by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

Earlier this year when setting up this reading challenge, I shared some initial thoughts about water, and ways it is used to obstruct flow of life. 

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: Noopiming (2020) by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Recognizing the Stranger (2024) by Isabella Hammad, Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation (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.

📚🌱 Books I was reading when I completed this post: Africa Is Not A Country (2022) by Dipo Faloyin, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (2025) by Omar El Akkad, Colonizing Kashmir (2023) by Hafsa Kanjwal, Angels with Dirty Faces (2016) Walidah Imarisha, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (1935) by W.E.B. Du Bois, Build Yourself a Boat (2019) by Camonghne Felix.

Thank you for reading.

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