Reading Island Nations 2025

18 participants (38 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

251 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction historical literary challenging dark tense medium-paced

289 pages first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced

3 hours, 41 minutes first pub 2002 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir travel reflective slow-paced

304 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance young adult hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

163 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective slow-paced

247 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction horror literary magical realism challenging dark medium-paced

274 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary science fiction dark reflective sad slow-paced

149 pages first pub 1985 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary young adult emotional reflective slow-paced

256 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction short stories reflective medium-paced

148 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced