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Currently reading (4)
Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations by William Ury
The Fact Checker by Austin Kelley
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi

Mainly reads fiction books that are reflective, emotional, and dark.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Read recently
Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin
Creep: A Love Story by Emma van Straaten
Lion by Sonya Walger
The Lamb by Lucy Rose

To-Read Pile
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Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language by Roxane Gay
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Kaleidoscope City by Marcellus Hall
Body Grammar by Jules Ohman

Challenges

2025 Reading Goal

50 books

12% (6 books)

2025 Pages Goal

10,000 pages

8% (6 books), 834 pages

2025 Hours Goal

150 hours

18% (6 books), 26.45 hours

Hosted challenges
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners

36 prompts | 2 participants | 2 books added

The PEN/ Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story Winners

47 prompts | 10 participants | 5 books added

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winners

43 prompts | 11 participants | 43 books added

National Book Award Winners for Translated Literature

27 prompts | 12 participants | 28 books added

National Book Award Winners for Fiction

94 prompts | 59 participants | 108 books added

The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winners

18 prompts | 11 participants | 18 books added