Reading Island Nations 2025

18 participants (42 books)

01 Jan 202531 Dec 2025

Overview

Read books by authors from island nations, preferably set there too. Diaspora counts. I am shooting for at least one per month.

The point of this challenge is to expand our reading beyond the mainstream publishing world. Therefore, the UK does not count for this challenge.

Challenge Books

All books added

178 pages paperback 2005

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

240 pages paperback

fiction short stories adventurous challenging slow-paced

96 pages hardcover 2021

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

192 pages paperback 2004

fiction contemporary magical realism dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

408 pages paperback 2022

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary magical realism challenging dark reflective medium-paced

450 pages paperback 1984

fiction classics literary magical realism challenging dark emotional slow-paced

256 pages hardcover 2021

fiction historical challenging medium-paced

210 pages paperback 2017

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced

368 pages paperback 2016

fiction historical challenging emotional medium-paced

304 pages hardcover 2015

fiction contemporary young adult emotional reflective slow-paced