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2025: Books added from recently read - prompts 2-9

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 of poetry or short stories by a Black and/or Indigenous author. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is light gray on a warm medium gray background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is black on a light gray background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is light gray on a black background. Book covers are shown. Poetry: The Body Family (2022) by Hope Wabuke. Build Yourself a Boat (2019) by Camonghne Felix. Living Room (1985) by June Jordan. Slingshot (2019) by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson.
Book of poetry or short stories by a Black and/or Indigenous author. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is dark brown, green, and warm dark blue on a light greenish gray background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is light greenish gray on a warm dark brown with reddish hue background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is green on a warm dark brown with reddish hue background. Book covers are shown. Short stories: Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (2023) by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu. The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (2023) by Tananarive Due. Everything Inside: Stories (2019) by Edwidge Danticat. Recitatif (1983) by Toni Morrison.
Historical fiction by author who is Black, Indigenous, and/or part of global majority. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is dark brown on a warm light gray background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is warm light gray on a dark brown background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is dark brown on a medium yellow-green background. Book covers are shown. early 20th century.. The Marrow of Tradition (1901) by Charles W. Chesnutt. A Master of Djinn (2021) by P. Djèlí Clark. 1500s: You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue.
Book written about or by one or more current or former prisoners. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is light yellow and light gray on a medium gray background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is medium gray on a light gray background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is red on a light gray background. Book covers are shown. both are graphic novels. Memoir: Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani (2018) by Jérôme Tubian, illustrated by Alexandre Franc. Nonfiction: Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (2020) by Sarah Mirk, illustrated by many artists.
Book written about/by an author from the DRC, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is reddish-gray and black on a warm light gray background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is warm yellow on a black background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is warm light gray on a black background. Book covers are shown. Nonfiction. Palestine: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024) by Isabella Hammad. Sudan: Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution (2022) by Willow Berridge, Alex de Waal, & Justin Lynch.
Book about impacts of US actions taken in name of “war on terror” & cost of US “freedom”. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is light gray and golden yellow orange on a dark grayish pink background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' and '..Recently Read and Recommended' are black on a light gray background. Book covers are shown. both are graphic novels. Memoir: Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani (2018) by Jérôme Tubian, illustrated by Alexandre Franc. Nonfiction: Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (2020) by Sarah Mirk, illustrated by many artists
Book by a Caribbean author. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is yellow and light gray on a warm earthy brown background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' is black on a warm brownish orange background and the text '..Recently Read and Recommended' is yellow on a warm brownish orange background. Book covers are shown. Nonfiction: A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid. Decolonial Marxism (2022) by Walter Rodney. We're Alone (2024) by Edwidge Danticat. Between Torture and Resistance (2012) by Oscar Lopez Rivera. Fiction: A Master of Djinn (2021) by P. Djèlí Clark.
Graphic novel or comic book by a Black and/or Indigenous author. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is rich reddish-brown on a soft muted lavender background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' and '..Recently Read and Recommended' are orangish-pink on a rich reddish-brown background. Book covers are shown. Memoir: When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson, illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and Iman Geddy.
Book about antiblackness and/or what it is to be Black in this world by a Black author. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Text is warm dark brown on a grayish brown with pink undertones background. Below the category title, the text 'Added..' and '..Recently Read and Recommended' are brown on a light gray background. Book covers are shown. Essays: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) by Toni Morrison. Fiction: The Marrow of Tradition (1901) by Charles W. Chesnutt.

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 1: Book written by an author from/written about Puerto Rico

No books added, find books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Prompt 2: Book of poetry or short stories by a Black and/or Indigenous author

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Short stories

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

Everything Inside: Stories (2019) by Edwidge Danticat

Recitatif (1983) by Toni Morrison

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

Poetry

The Body Family (2022) by Hope Wabuke

Build Yourself a Boat (2019) by Camonghne Felix

Living Room (1985) by June Jordan

Slingshot (2019) by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Prompt 3: Historical fiction by author who is Black, Indigenous, and/or part of global majority

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Early 20th century..

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

A Master of Djinn (2021) by P. Djèlí Clark

1500s

You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue

Prompt 4: Book written about or by one or more current or former prisoners

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Graphic novels

Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani (2018) by Jérôme Tubian, illustrated by Alexandre Franc

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (2020) by Sarah Mirk, illustrated by many artists

Prompt 5: Book written about/by an author from the Congo, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Palestine

nonfiction

Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024) by Isabella Hammad

Sudan

nonfiction

Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution (2022) by  Willow Berridge, Alex de Waal, & Justin Lynch

Prompt 6: Book about impacts of US actions taken in name of “war on terror” & cost of US “freedom”

Both books are graphic novels. More books shared on the initial prompt support page. 

Memoir

Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani (2018) by Jérôme Tubian, illustrated by Alexandre Franc

Nonfiction

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (2020) by Sarah Mirk, illustrated by many artists

Recently, I also wrote some continuing thoughts on the "war on terror." There's no closure in the u.s.' so-called "war on terror," where there is no limit to where actions supporting it will take place, until there is a new world in which such wars & the drivers of wars have no role.

Prompt 7: Book by a Caribbean author

More books shared on the initial prompt support page. 

Nonfiction

Between Torture and Resistance (2012) by Oscar Lopez Rivera

Decolonial Marxism (2022) by Walter Rodney

A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid

We're Alone (2024) by Edwidge Danticat

Fiction

A Master of Djinn (2021) by P. Djèlí Clark

Prompt 8: 2025: Graphic novel or comic book by a Black and/or Indigenous author

More books shared on the initial prompt support page.

Memoir

When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson, illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and Iman Geddy

Prompt 9: Book about antiblackness and/or what it is to be Black in this world by a Black author 

More books shared on the initial prompt support page. 

Essays

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) by Toni Morrison

Fiction

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

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. 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: Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation (2023) by Hafsa Kanjwal, Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa (2022) by Dipo Faloyin, Death of the Author (2025) by Nnedi Okorafor, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (1935) by W.E.B. Du Bois, Slingshot (2019) by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (2025) by Omar El Akkad, Build Yourself a Boat (2019) by Camonghne Felix. Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption (2016) Walidah Imarisha.

Thank you for reading.

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