Pick Two Per Month!

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16 participants (110 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

It’s simple! Go to your bookshelf! I know you have books on that shelf that you haven’t read. Let’s fix that and read two books per month that you’ve been sitting on. Digital, audio or physical - let’s finally get around to reading that book!

Challenge Books

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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

Sandy Tolan

369 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution by Julia Alvarez

Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution

Julia Alvarez

264 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm by Christopher Paolini

The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm

Tales from Alagaësia #1

Christopher Paolini

288 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories young adult adventurous medium-paced
A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 by Noam Sienna

A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969

Noam Sienna

452 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ religion challenging reflective medium-paced
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry by Joy Harjo

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Joy Harjo

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Son of the Storm

The Nameless Republic #1

Suyi Davies Okungbowa

487 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land and Other Poems

T.S. Eliot

88 pages • first pub 1934 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry reflective slow-paced
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

We Hunt the Flame

Sands of Arawiya #1

Hafsah Faizal

472 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom by James Romm

The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom

James Romm

315 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative medium-paced