Recs if you like Black No More (Penguin Classics)...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!

Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.

This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.

Books and poetry collections from the Harlem Renaissance, the most significant Black Arts movement in modern history.

Essential literature by African American authors that changed the world, but somehow none of us were expected to read in school. Note: Most of these are available for free from Project Gutenberg.

I tried to find the latest version (2026).

Books that explore some interesting “what if”questions

something different in terms of plot or the way the story is written

the never ending list of buddy reads