The Epic but Incomplete Indie Challenge

17 participants (195 books)

01 Jan 202131 Dec 2026

Overview

A challenge to encourage readers to read and support independent publishers.

  • This list is definitely somewhat skewed toward the UK for which I'm sorry to my friends overseas! I do have a second, more general challenge in the works that'll be more inclusive while still encouraging people to read indie!
  • Every publisher on the list publishes books written or translated to English.
  • I definitely haven't tried to list every indie publisher, just to put together a mixture of bigger and smaller, well established and brand new, as well as a mix of genres and age groups.
  • That being said, if I've missed one of your absolute favourites or a blindingly obvious one, please do give me a nudge.
  • I've set this as five years starting January 2021!
  • They are listed in alphabetical order of publisher name (which is why you might occasionally see multiple prompts under the same number while I muster the enthusiasm to go through and change them all)
  • Prompt descriptions are a work in progress. Some publishers made is so much easier to quickly copy and paste than others!
  • Any questions or complaints, you can grab me @thebooksheelf on both Instagram and Twitter.

Challenge Prompts

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