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Reading Island Nations 2025

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17 participants (35 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 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
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

1 hour, 57 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason

On Time and Water

Andri Snær Magnason

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Kopi, Puffs & Dreams by Pallavi Gopinath Aney

Kopi, Puffs & Dreams

Pallavi Gopinath Aney

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical emotional medium-paced
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami

283 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction science fiction mysterious reflective medium-paced
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva

Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

Noenoe K. Silva

260 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
World Beyond: An Anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction by Kirsten McGavin

World Beyond: An Anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction

Kirsten McGavin

197 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories speculative fiction
True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture by Terri Janke

True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture

Terri Janke

426 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction race reference challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Black Ice Matter by Gina Cole

Black Ice Matter

Gina Cole

250 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
Friends & Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford

Friends & Dark Shapes

Kavita Bedford

215 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Den avstengte øya by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

Den avstengte øya

Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

240 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction dystopian politics thriller challenging dark sad medium-paced