2025: Historical fiction by author who is Black, Indigenous, and/or part of global majority
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:
- At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999) by Dionne Brand
- Augustown (2016) by Kei Miller
- Conjure Women (2020) by Afia Atakora
- Dominicana (2019) by Angie Cruz
- God's Bits of Wood (1960) by Ousmane Sembène
- House of Stone (2018) by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
- The Marrow of Tradition (1901) by Charles W. Chesnutt
- A Mouth Full of Salt (2024) by Reem Gaafar
- Murambi, The Book of Bones (2004) by Boubacar Boris Diop
- The Sea Speaks His Name (2017) by Leila S. Chudori
- You Dreamed of Empires (2022) by Álvaro Enrigue
Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:
1800s..
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
James (2024) by Percival Everett
1960s to 1980s..
Another Brooklyn (2016) by Jacqueline Woodson
Beneath the Lion's Gaze (2010) by Maaza Mengiste
The Birdcatcher (1986) by Gayl Jones
The Book of Not (2006) by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Root Magic (2021) by Eden Royce
Silver Sparrow (2011) by Tayari Jones
early 20th century..
Crooked Plow (2019) by Itamar Vieira Junior
A Dead Djinn in Cairo (2016) by P. Djèlí Clark
Jazz (1992) by Toni Morrison
Ring Shout (2020) by P. Djèlí Clark
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
early to mid 20th century..
Beasts of a Little Land (2021) by Juhea Kim
The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
Half Blood Blues (2011) by Esi Edugyan
The Reformatory (2023) by Tananarive Due
Sula (1973) by Toni Morrison
latter 20th to 21st century..
The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
The Lion Women of Tehran (2024) by Marjan Kamali
across millennia..
The Salt Roads (2004) by Nalo Hopkinson
multigenerational stories..
Afterlives (2021) by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Homegoing (2016) by Yaa Gyasi
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (2022) by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
The Map of Salt and Stars (2018) by Zeyn Joukhada
The Mountains Sing (2020) by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
These Ghosts are Family (2020) by Maisy Card
The Thirty Names of Night (2020) by Zeyn Joukhadar
Wandering Stars: A Novel (2024) by Tommy Orange
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Thank you for reading.
